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.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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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...
28-02-2021
An ancient city has been found in the middle of the ocean
An ancient city has been found in the middle of the ocean
The ancient ruins are located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and could be the remnants of a long lost ancient civilization. Some even say it was one of the many cities belonging to the mythical Lemurian empire.
Science channel’s series What on Earth analyzed the mystery behind the ancient city ruins located off the coast of Micronasia—a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean.
The ruins are located on the remote island of Pohnpei, where we find Nan Madol, an archaeological site of great importance. Curiously, the name Nan Madol means “Space in between.”
But despite the fact that Nan Madol has attracted researchers, scholars and authors, little is known about the ancient structures and the people who once called it home.
The entire city of Nan Madol appears to sit on top of a lagoon, connected by a number of different canals and massive stone walls.
According to reports by Research Gate, the entire archaeological site could date back to around the first or second century AD. But there is very little verified information about the ruins.
As noted by Atlas Obscura, human activity dates back to around the first and second century AD, but the site was probably erected around the 12th or 13 the century.
The ancient structures are clearly visible on Google Earth if anyone wants to take a look at the archaeological site from the air.
The archeological site covers an area of around 1.5 kilometers and contains around 100 artificial islets.
The legend behind Nan Madol is fascinating.
Locals believe that Nan Madol began with the arrival of twin sorcerers Olisihpa and Olosohpa from the mythical Western Katau.
They are said to have been much taller than the local inhabitants. The two brothers erected an altar on Nan Madol in order to worship Nahnisohn Sahpw, the god of agriculture.
They performed numerous rituals at the altar and levitated massive stones with the help of a flying dragon.
This brings us to one of the greatest mysteries surrounding Nan Madol. How on Earth did the ancients build this ancient city? And how did they manage to transport the massive blocks of stone across nearly inaccessible terrain?
Researchers suggest that the massive rocks were most likely ‘floated’ via rafts to the different islets.
But, this remains only a theory as the exact means by which the ancient managed to transport the massive stone from distant quarries, over land and water, and then erect them on reef complexes remains a profound archaeological and architectural mystery.
The gorgeous new imagery provides just a taste of what's to come.
This wind-carved "Harbor Seal Rock," seen in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, shows just how much detail is captured by the camera system. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU)
NASA's Perseverance rover has landed in a rich scientific hunting ground, if its first good look around is any guide.
The car-sized Perseverance landed on the floor of Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, kicking off an ambitious surface mission that will hunt for signs of ancient Mars life and collect samples for future return to Earth, among other tasks.
Perseverance is not yet ready to dive into that science work; the mission team is still conducting health and status checks on its various instruments and subsystems. But the six-wheeled robot recently used its Mastcam-Z camera suite to capture a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings, and that first taste has the mission team intrigued.
For example, the zoomable panorama revealed a dark stone that the team has dubbed "Harbor Seal Rock," Mastcam-Z principal investigator Jim Bell, of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, said during a webcast discussion of the photo on Thursday (Feb. 25).
The Martian wind probably carved Harbor Seal Rock into its curious shape over the eons, Bell said. He also pointed out patches that showed evidence of much faster-acting erosion — spots where the thrusters on Perseverance's "sky crane" descent stage blew away Mars' blanket of red dust on Feb. 18, exposing the surfaces of small rocks.
One such patch harbors a group of light-colored, heavily pitted stones that have caught mission scientists' eyes.
"Are these volcanic rocks? Are these carbonate rocks? Are these something else? Do they have coatings on them?" Bell said. "We don't know — we don't have any chemical data or mineral data on them yet — but, boy, they're certainly interesting, and part of the story about what's going on here is going to be told when we get more detailed information on these rocks and some of the other materials in this area."
This is one of the key jobs of Mastcam-Z and Perseverance's other cameras, Bell said — to spot interesting features that Perseverance can study in more detail with its spectrometers and other science instruments.
The 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater harbored a deep lake and a river delta billions of years ago. Deltas are good at preserving signs of life here on Earth, so the Perseverance team is eager for the rover to study and sample the remnants of that feature within Jezero. And the delta is visible in the Mastcam-Z panorama; the cliffs that mark its edge are about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) from Perseverance's landing site, Bell said.
The ridgeline that's visible beyond the delta cliffs in the Mastcam-Z panorama is Jezero Crater's rim, he added.
The recently unveiled photo is just the beginning, of course. For starters, it's the lowest-resolution panorama the Mastcam-Z team will construct. Bell said that similar shots that are three times sharper will be assembled after Perseverance switches over to its surface-optimized software, a four-day process that's already underway.
And we haven't gotten the slightest taste of Perseverance's science discoveries yet. That work will take a while to get going, because the mission team's first big task after getting the rover up and running is to conduct test flights of the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, which rode to the Red Planet on Perseverance's belly.
Ingenuity's pioneering sorties — the first rotorcraft flights on a world beyond Earth — will likely take place this spring, and science and sampling are expected to begin in earnest in the summer, mission team members have said.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
An ancient kauri tree log from Ngāwhā, New Zealand
Nelson Parker
A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil has offered scientists a unique peek into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The impressive study paints a picture of temporary environmental chaos, potentially influencing everything from an increase in cave paintings to the extinction of the Neanderthals.
On the day side of Earth, magnetic reconnection funnels material and energy from the sun into Earth's magnetic environment.
(Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
Without the Earth’s magnetic field we’d have a pretty hard time living on the planet. Beyond helping us simply navigate around the world with a compass, the Earth’s magnetic field is fundamental to the existence of life. It helps deflect harmful solar winds and keeps our protective atmosphere in place.
But our planet’s magnetic field is far from static. In fact, it is profoundly dynamic, consistently shifting and fluctuating over time. Every few hundred thousand years it completely flips, with magnetic north switching places with magnetic south.
The last major geomagnetic reversal occurred 780,000 years ago, and plenty of scientists suggest we are well overdue for a similar event. In between these full geomagnetic reversals, which can last up to 10,000 years, we find shorter disruptions to the Earth’s magnetic field. These events are known as geomagnetic excursions.
Geomagnetic excursions are short-lived, and involve temporary changes to the Earth’s magnetic field lasting anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand years. The most recent recorded geomagnetic excursion is known as the Laschamps excursion and it took place around 42,000 years ago.
"The Laschamps Excursion was the last time the magnetic poles flipped," explains Chris Turney, co-lead author on a landmark new study investigating this transformative event. "They swapped places for about 800 years before changing their minds and swapping back again."
Scientists have known about these dramatic magnetic pole events for a long time but it’s never been clearly understood what kind of impact they have on life or the environment. That is until a few years ago, when an ancient fossilized tree was discovered in New Zealand.
Another look at the ancient tree unearthed in New Zealand
Nelson Parker
Workers preparing a site for a new power-plant unearthed the massive kauri tree trunk, perfectly preserved for 42,000 years, with its rings offering up an incredible 1,700-year record of the Earth’s environmental conditions exactly spanning the period of the Laschamps Excursion.
"For the first time ever, we have been able to precisely date the timing and environmental impacts of the last magnetic pole switch," says Turney. "Using the ancient trees we could measure, and date, the spike in atmospheric radiocarbon levels caused by the collapse of Earth's magnetic field."
In a bold new study, published in the journal Science, the research team used the detailed radiocarbon data from the ancient tree to create a novel timeline of the Earth’s atmosphere across the period spanning the Laschamps Excursion. The team then ran a global climate model, incorporating previously gathered data from all over the world, to explore what acute effects this type of magnetic field disruption had on the environment.
Life, the Universe and Everything
The results reveal an incredibly dramatic period of environmental change, particularly in the stretch of time leading up to the few hundred years the Earth’s magnetic field was reversed. The study calculated a depleted ozone layer, higher levels of ultraviolet radiation and increased atmospheric ionization all coalesced about 42,000 years ago. In tribute to author Douglas Adams – in whose book The Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy, the supercomputer Deep Thought calculates the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is "42" – the researchers named this specific period the “Adams Transitional Geomagnetic Event.”
"The more we looked at the data, the more everything pointed to 42," says Turney. "It was uncanny.”
Alan Cooper, co-lead author on the study, suggests a number of novel environmental conditions would have appeared during the so-called Adams Event. Auroras, for example, would have been widespread across the entire planet, alongside extraordinary volumes of electrical storms due to increases in ionized air.
“Early humans around the world would have seen amazing auroras, shimmering veils and sheets across the sky,” says Cooper. “It must have seemed like the end of days.”
Handprints in red ochre – which may have been used as an ancient form of sunscreen – are a common cave art motif. The centre of this cave art from Spain is believed to be almost 42,000 years old.Paul Pettitt courtesy Gobierno de Cantabria
Perhaps the most controversial part of the new study is the degree of hypothetical speculations the researchers make between the Adams Event and evolution of life on Earth. One link raised in the study suggests the magnetic field disruption led to an influx of cave art, underpinned by the need for humans to seek shelter from the increase in ultraviolet rays.
“We think that the sharp increases in UV levels, particularly during solar flares, would suddenly make caves very valuable shelters,” suggests Cooper. “The common cave art motif of red ochre handprints may signal it was being used as sunscreen, a technique still used today by some groups.”
Other bold speculations in the study are that the Adams Event both prompted the extinction of several megafauna species in Australia and hastened the end for Neanderthals. Chris Stringer, from the Natural History Museum of London, calls the new study important but also questions some of its broad hypotheses.
“The authors also make a link with the physical extinction of the Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago and I think it could certainly have contributed to their demise,” he said in an interview with The Guardian. “But they did survive longer and ranged more widely than just Europe, and we have a very poor fix on the timing of their final disappearance across swathes of Asia.”
Shifting to what the research can tell us about life on Earth today, Alan Cooper cautiously suggests his team’s research offer novel insights into how the world would be affected if something like the Adams Event were to happen nowadays. He points to current movements of the north magnetic pole across the Northern Hemisphere as a potential warning sign.
"This speed – alongside the weakening of Earth's magnetic field by around nine per cent in the past 170 years – could indicate an upcoming reversal," says Cooper. "If a similar event happened today, the consequences would be huge for modern society. Incoming cosmic radiation would destroy our electric power grids and satellite networks."
The new study was published in the journal Science, and the short video below narrated by Stephen Fry gives an overview of the Adams Event.
New Videos: Today More Ships Arrived: UFO – Corpuscular Ship. It Comes From The 5. Dimension. 13.February.2019.
New Videos: Today More Ships Arrived: UFO – Corpuscular Ship. It Comes From The 5. Dimension. 13.February.2019.
New Videos: autor videos :Martin Mikuaš https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqTsbLs3EHDr7Cw4r8j88QQ On theThese ships reacts with anger only by my dog but by all the dogs in the vicinity. The ship is constructed from the light.
Corpuscular ship is constructed in detail in accordance with the law of God in the form of light energy. Light corpuscular ship is therefore better as a spiritual power manifested corpuscular ships. The ship can move faster than light. When the object moves faster than light, disappearing from sight. Goes into another dimension.
The human eye sees everything that is inside of the light spectrum. When I mention the light spectrum and hit the light spectrum of the sun. With increased intensity of light would blind man. His senses would not notice a higher form of vibration. It can not therefore see the world resulting on a different frequency, although located around beside him. Corpuscular ship can move at high speed. It is therefore invisible to the human eye.
By increasing the energy of the corpuscular vessel there is an increase of its speed. If it goes into the vessel by its frequency, it means that moves slower than the maximum speed. This makes it the human eye sees. It manifests itself in the form of light. Reducing the speed to changing light and the human eye, the ship must appear as a solid object. If the moving ship and if it stays on the molecular level, the maximum rate will remain invisible to the human eye. That they are explained in words that corpuscular ship may be the front door of your house and you will not see it. The ship can come to a man secretly. People of it may remain hidden from man.
The people of the corpuscular vessels reduces its frequency to a protein molecule in the cell become visible to the human eye. They therefore come secretly and suddenly appear before you in the form of light and energy. At that moment comes the light source, the energy in the form of spirit. You will be influenced by your spirit will be affected the most energy, which manifested itself around you and you will be allowed contact with corpuscular ships. In contact with them you should not worry. Believe me, it’s something natural.
There is nothing mysterious. Only one who manifests the spirit of mentally able to take this energy will be able to experience the transition from one age to another.
For all who write to me that it is a star, a planet or a drone. I have a link .in contact with aliens for almost 50 years and I know very well what their ship is and what is not….Martin Mikuaš
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U.S. Alien-Hunters Identify 1000 Potential Watching Stations
U.S. Alien-Hunters Identify 1000 Potential Watching Stations
A scientific team of American alien hunters claims that if advanced life does indeed exist on any one of a 1,000 different star systems, they could be watching Earth right now! American alien hunters are probably the world’s most active and advanced when it comes to this kind of hunting: they have the best equipment and are likely also the best funded. This team’s latest findings suggest new possibilities in the hunt for alien life . . .
American Alien Hunters Say: Someone’s Watching
Looking for exoplanets orbiting remote stars requires American alien hunters and astronomers to fix their telescopes on distant suns and monitor them for dimming, which occurs when a planet passes between the star and the telescope. By analyzing how the light changes as stars dim, scientists are able to determine the chemicals present in the passing planet's atmosphere. But while this method is revealing, it’s also exceptionally restricted as it only works for planets orbiting between Earth and the observed star.
According to a new study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society “1,004 star systems are in a direct line of sight to our planet,” and all of them are all close enough to Earth that if any were, or are, inhabited by an advanced lifeform, “they could detect us.”
While alien hunters search for alien life, it could well be that alien life has been watching us on Earth for a very long time.
Dr Lisa Kaltenegger, a Cornell University astronomer, published a new paper asking some fascinating questions relating to possible alien life from the perspective of alien hunters. For example, which nearby stars are situated appropriately for any inhabitants to watch Earth cross (transit) the sun; and in those star systems, could those life forms detect signs indicating us inhabiting the Earth's surface? The results of Dr Kaltenegger’s study suggest a great number of nearby stars systems, if inhabited, might have their scientific equipment trained on us right now. And this has also created a lot of excitement among alien hunters.
Humans are bound to a location in spacetime in which we have developed five primary senses tuned for survival on planet Earth. When it comes to monitoring microscopic levels of universal existence, and possible life at vast distances in deep space, we build innovative tools to do these jobs. To assist in this new study the scientists used the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS), a scientific weapon on the frontline of space exploration. The scientists said this incredibly advanced satellite would see Earth as “a biosphere in the atmosphere of our Pale Blue Dot.”
Alien hunters use advanced satellites to monitor deep space for alien communication and for potential planets that could be watching us right now!
Where Could Some Of These Alien Astronomers Be Hiding?
The new alien hunters’ journal study looked at star systems within a distance of 326 light-years from Earth and discovered “1,004” are located in a position from which alien astronomers could see our planet. Furthermore, the researchers stated that “508 have viewing angles that would give them at least 10 hours of observational data every time Earth passed between that location and the Sun.” Based on the study these are the ideal conditions for spotting our little blue-green planet and the signs of life in its atmosphere.
An estimated 5% of these 1,004 stars capable of watching Earth orbiting the Sun are too young for intelligent life to have evolved. However, the research team of alien hunters say the other 95% belong to star categories that can “sustain life for billions of years,” which under the correct conditions is long enough for intelligent life to have evolved.
The Next Steps In The Scientific Quest To Find Alien Life
Most of the 1,004 stars are located at the maximum 326 light-year distance, but the closest one orbiting a sun is only 28 light-years distant from Earth. The alien hunters research team have identified several more that are on a trajectory to enter the Earth’s observation zone by 2044. To advance their research the scientific team of American alien hunters are now planning a reanalysis of the 1,004 stars identified in their paper with SETI' s Breakthrough Listening program. This program is capable of detecting communications from advanced alien civilizations. SETI scientists look for both microscopic and macroscopic life in outer space with space rovers, orbiters, field expeditions, and radio telescopes.
According to the SETI website, there are “one hundred billion” potentially habitable planets just in our galaxy, and many of the moons, like those orbiting Mars, Jupiter and Saturn , have environments that could also have supported biological life. If you think this is all highly speculative, you would be wrong. This is because with so many potentially life-supporting planets the SETI website says, “it ’s reasonable to imagine that at least some are populated by intelligent beings.” This is good news indeed for all alien hunters!
Top image: Could aliens on a distant planet in our solar system be watching us now? This is the big question that American alien hunters are asking in the latest published scientific study.
The Dogon’s Extraordinary Knowledge of the Cosmos and the Cult of Nommo
France, 1920: Marcel Griaule is a young man who is very well-established in his studies, especially in mathematics. He has recently served as a volunteer in the French Air Force and aspires to attend the prestigious Lycée Louis le Grande.
Although his future already seems marked, fate has other plans for him - a new road that begins to take shape when he decides to attend a conference that same year. The speakers are Marcel Mauss, anthropologist, sociologist, and historian of religions, and Marcel Cohen, linguist.
Griaule is struck by their words and decides to devote himself entirely to the study of anthropology. Between 1928 and 1933 he took part in two ethnographic expeditions, and in this period (1930) he came into contact with a mysterious African tribe: the Dogon.
The opportunity was given to him during a period of study in Mali alongside his pupil Germaine Dieterlen, who was also a pupil of Mauss and deeply interested in the study of ancient myths. From that moment, the mystery of the Nommo is born. It is an element of an ancient heritage of which we cannot expand without having first spoken of the Dogon people
One People, Many Mysteries
The Dogon are a tribe that lives in a desert land of Mali, near the border with Burkina Faso. It is a place that welcomed them after their escape to avoid the expansionist pressures of the medieval empires…we are around the year 1000, during the fierce battles on the banks of the Niger river.
Many researchers have already discussed the range of mysteries that surround these people, but what interests us particularly for the development of the hypotheses contained in this article is their complex cosmogony, based on faith in a creative god, Amma, and in a creation produced by the movements of the “Egg of the World”.
On the basis of these beliefs, the “Nommo”, the eight pro-genitors of the Dogon, brought to Earth a basket containing the clay necessary to build the grain stores of their villages. This image, which at first sight appears quite simple and devoid of particular significance, hides in reality a very profound knowledge of the universe and of the celestial bodies.
The granary represents the universe, its scales symbolize both the males and females that generated the Dogon and the various stars and constellations: in this sense we will find the Pleiades in the north, Orion in the south, and a comet in the west. So, everything started with a “basket”, or container, that carried life.
But the thing that most struck the two scholars was the finding that, despite the Dogon having come into contact with our civilization in fairly recent times (about the beginning of the century), they possessed incredible scientific and astronomical knowledge. Some of this knowledge was certainly the result of a cultural heritage that is millennia old, but one element in particular has decidedly current characteristics - the detailed knowledge of the star Sirius.
The Dogon were in fact aware of the fact that Sirius is a binary system (i.e. a system consisting of two stars, Sirius A and Sirius B); they were aware of the fact that Sirius B revolves around Sirius A with an elliptical orbit and over a period corresponding to 50 years; and the most disconcerting discovery was that the Dogon knew the exact position of Sirius A within the ellipse.
Sirius A and Sirius B as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The white dwarf can be seen to the lower left.
(NASA, ESA, H. Bond/STScI, M. Barstow/University of Leicester/ CC BY 3.0 )
Many may wonder what is so disconcerting about all this? The amazement arises from the fact that it was only in 1862 when the American astronomer Alvan Clark deduced the existence of Sirius B using a telescope, among the most advanced for that era, and it was not before 1970 that there was confirmation of the existence of this star, not to mention a photograph of it.
Yet the Dogon knew of it hundreds of years before, and not only that, they called Sirius B with the name of “Po Tolo”; this name is certainly the most apt and shocking way to describe this system, the term Tolo, in fact, means star, while Po refers to a typical cereal that has the characteristic of being extremely heavy despite its small size; an expression, therefore, very close to reality since Sirius B is a white dwarf and, as such, has a very high density.
A Dogon diagram said to represent Sirius B’s elliptical orbit around Sirius A.
All this information is practically inaccessible without adequate astronomical equipment, and it is useless to specify that the Dogon had never come into possession of any such instrument, they even ignored its existence.
But the mystery does not end here, the Dogon, in fact, used to represent the planet Saturn as surrounded by a sort of halo, thus demonstrating that they knew of its rings; moreover, they knew that the planet Jupiter had around “four companions”, which correspond exactly to its four main moons.
An artistic representation of Jupiter and its moons.
As if this were not enough, they depicted the Earth as a sphere and knew that this sphere revolves around its axis, and together with other spheres (the planets), around the sun; last, but not least, it is surprising that the Dogon, or in any case the elders of the village, described our galaxy as an immense spiral shape. We know very well that this concept began to be disclosed by Western astronomers only at the beginning of this century.
For the Dogon, Sirius B was the first star created by God and it represents the fulcrum of the Universe. All matter developed from it, including souls, following a complex spiral motion - the same that is symbolized in the intertwined baskets.
Saturn is surrounded by rings, Jupiter has four main moons, and four calendars are used: one for the Sun, one for the Moon, one for Sirius, and one for Venus. Needless to say, that the Dogon believe a truth attested from ancient times - the fact that the planets orbit around the Sun.
The Dogon know what, logically, they should not know; their knowledge is not the result of ancient legacies acquired by observing the sky and the stars with the naked eye, as happened in other civilizations, they simply “know”; this is the most disturbing part of the Dogon mystery.
‘Master of the Slanted Eyes.’ Antropomorphic representation, probably a Dogon ancestor figure.
An old Dogon legend tells of when the God of the universe, Amma, sent the Nommo to earth. This was a half-man, half-amphibian creature which landed in the land of the Fox, a territory northeast of Bandiagara, in the Mopti region; the Nommo was red, but when it touched the ground it became white.
Mali, Dogon container This container shows the "Ark of the world", in which Nommo, the mythical progenitor of humanity, is supposed to have come down from the sky.
The name Nommo derives from a Dogon word that translates as “to do well”; much more often, however, this is remembered as “The Master of Water” (perhaps a reference to the fact that the Nommo could not survive out of water), the Admonitor, or the Destroyer.
We do not know exactly how this figure can be placed in the various events that characterized the growth of the Dogon culture, but it is not so difficult to identify other very similar creatures in different cultures - not only geographically distant but also with respect to various historical moments.
The same type of creature is present in a history of Mesopotamia written during the III Century BC from the priest Beroso; his name was Oannes, his body was similar to that of a fish, he lived only in water, and had feet similar to those of man. Are these images referring to the same event?
In any case, this ancient, almost primordial figure occupies a prominent place in all African cultures; not infrequently, for example, in the most internal areas of Africa. People belonging to monotheistic religions turn to the priests of the various villages because in situations of extreme difficulty they invoke the assistance of the Nommo.
Finally, let us not forget the God fish Dagon of the Philistines, and the same symbol of the fish which the first Christians used to represent their deity. Whoever or whatever it was, the Nommo still continues to lengthen its shadow on African territory, perhaps as a messenger waiting to be able to reveal ancient truths to those who have the courage and the predisposition of mind to listen to it.
Today’s article is focused on two things that most people probably wouldn’t think have a connection to each other: (a) Crop Circles; and (b) “missing time” (similar to the type that occurs in the “alien abduction” phenomenon). Very early on in his Crop Circle research, Matthew Williams (both a creator and a researcher of Crop Circles) came to realize something deeply strange and highly intriguing. Namely, that many people who make the formations experiencing unusual phenomena in the fields – and on numerous occasions in the formations of their very own making. For example, Matt has experienced (as have a number of other, well-known Circle-makers, more than a few of who are reluctant to speak on the record) a wealth of weird phenomena in Crop Circles that he himself created. That included seeing small, aerial balls of light zipping around, detecting unexplained animal-like presences, and even experiencing significant periods of missing time. Matt explained to me what he believes lies at the heart of all this. It involves, he concludes, a belief system suggesting that crop circles are somewhat akin to 21st Century versions of Stonehenge or the Avebury Stones. They are rather like modern-day – but highly alternative – temples that, via ritual magic, can be instilled with extraordinary properties that, in turn, lead to the sometimes unusual effects experienced within such formations.This brings me to a fascinating story of missing time in a Crop Circle.
This incident I’m about to share with you occurred in 1989 and involved a man named Paul Farrant and a Woman in Black. Paul is someone who I met in the U.K. back in the summer of 1997. At the time, Paul spent ten days checking out the Crop Circles that had appeared during that summer in the county of Wiltshire, England – which is where most of the formations are made on a yearly basis. I was there for two weeks, with Irene Bott of the Staffordshire UFO Group, and gave a few lectures in the area at the same time, which is how I got to know Paul. He had a story to tell that involved missing time, but not at all of the type associated with alien abductions. Paul told me that he had been walking around one of the formations just as the sun was starting to rise when a woman appeared – seemingly out of nowhere. She was dressed in a long black cape that had a black hood. Paul said her skin was extremely pale and her face was very thin. She engaged him in what seemed to be a very short conversation about time travel and then, oddly, warning him not to dig too deep into the subject. So, why did she bring up the matter in the first place? I have no idea. Neither did Paul.
The Woman in Black then turned away and exited the huge and intricate formation. For reasons that he was unable to understand, Paul felt both nauseous and frightened. Here’s the strangest part of the story: Paul found himself quite confused, due to the fact that although it seemed to have been a brief encounter, when he checked he realized there was far more to it. According to his watch, close to three-quarters-of-an-hour were missing from Paul’s memory. And, although the woman had something to say to Paul of a warning nature, he couldn’t remember exactly what he said in response to her. It puzzled, and worried, him for weeks. One final thing: not only had Paul lost around forty-five minutes of his life, but his watch had gone forward three hours. There’s no doubt this is a very strange story, but it demonstrates that when one is in Crop Circles, time-based anomalies are not unknown. Paul’s case is a perfect, but mystifying, example.
Modern analysis of an ancient painting found on the walls of an Egyptian prince’s tomb has revealed very interesting and surprising results. The artwork, which was discovered back in 1871 at an Egyptian archaeological site called Meidum, depicted a never-before-seen species of goose.
New analysis was conducted last year by Anthony Romilio from the University of Queensland in Australia who studied in greater detail the six birds that were depicted in a 4,600-year-old painting known as the “Meidum Geese” that was found in the burial chambers of Prince Nefermaat I and his wife Itet (the painting is now in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo). It has been described by historians as being “one of the great masterpieces of the Egyptian animal genre.” And it wasn’t just geese that were represented in the paintings inside of the tomb as dogs, leopards, cattle, and white antelope (called addax) were also depicted in great detail.
The geese, however, were incredibly unique as two of them belonged to a completely unknown species. “Artistic licence could account for the differences with modern geese, but artworks from this site have extremely realistic depictions of other birds and mammals,” Romilio explained.
White-fronted goose
It is believed that two of the three birds that were looking towards the left were white-fronted geese (also called Anser albifrons). These birds are medium-sized and are still present in the Northern Hemisphere and North America. The first and last birds could have either been greylag geese or bean geese.
As for the two birds facing to the right, they looked similar to red-breasted geese (Branta ruficollis) that live in the western part of Europe; however, there is doubt as that species has never been found in Egypt. With so much uncertainty surrounding that species, Romilio compared thirteen visible characteristics from the pictures of the two right-facing birds in the painting to the red-breasted goose species. “
Red-breasted goose
His analysis revealed that there were too many differences so the birds in the painting couldn’t have been red-breasted geese. “This is a highly effective method in identifying species – using quantitative measurements of key bird features – and greatly strengthens the value of the information to zoological and ecological science,” he noted.
So, what species of bird was it? Based on their extended flank plumes, they would have stood out compared to other geese – a feature that hasn’t been identified in modern species, indicating that it is probably extinct. “From a zoological perspective, the Egyptian artwork is the only documentation of this distinctively patterned goose, which appears now to be globally extinct,” Romilio stated. The reasoning behind that specific species going extinct is currently unknown. (Pictures of the painting can be seen here.)
(Romilio, J of Arch Sci: Reports, 2021)
An evolutionary biologist thinks these grey geese are an example of an extinct species
White Sphere Near Jet Over Kansas City, Missouri Sept 29, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
White Sphere Near Jet Over Kansas City, Missouri Sept 29, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 29, 2020
Location of sighting: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
A white sphere was seen over Kansas back in Sept of 2020, but the eyewitness waited until this week to upload the video to share it. That does happen alot actually. People often need a bit of time to process what they saw, before releasing the information to the public. This object was recorded near a passenger jet that was flying past. When I compare the size of he UFO with the jet itself, it comes out to about 1/5th the size or close to eight meters across! Lets say this jet was a 727, not even a 747 or bigger. A 727 is 40.5 meters across. We see this UFO in the sky is about 1/4 to 1/5 the length of the plane. Thus, the UFO averages out to 8 meters. Thats big enough for two pilots.
American Airlines pilots encountered a strange UFO over New Mexico.
The “long, cylindrical object” looked like a “cruise missile type of thing,” one pilot said in a leaked radio transmission.
American Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration have confirmed the encounter, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is also aware of the report, but the nature of the UFO remains a mystery.
An American Airlines flight crew encountered an unidentified flying object over New Mexico on February 21. American Airlines has confirmed the strange incident, during which a “long, cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile” zipped over the Airbus A320, according to a pilot’s transmission obtained by The War Zone.
American Airlines Flight 2292 was en route from Cincinnati to Phoenix on Sunday afternoon when it came into contact with the mysterious object at approximately 37,000 feet over northeastern New Mexico. Radio interceptor Steve Douglass captured Flight 2292’s transmission on the Albuquerque Center frequency of 127.850 MHz or 134.750 MHz.
In the transmission, which you can hear below, the American Airlines pilot reported:
“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us. I hate to say this, but it looked like a long, cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing—moving really fast right over the top of us.”
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Albuquerque Center didn’t respond to the pilot’s report because local air traffic interfered, Douglass wrote on his blog, Deep Black Horizon. American Airlines Flight 2292 safely landed in Phoenix shortly after the encounter.
Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21. For any additional questions on this, we encourage you to reach out to the FBI.
When TMZ reached out to the FBI, spokesperson Frank Fisher said the Bureau is “aware of the reported incident.” He continued: “While our policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations, the FBI works continuously with our federal, state, local, and tribal partners to share intelligence and protect the public.”
A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.
As The War Zone points out, New Mexico is indeed home to White Sands Missile Range, the sprawling stretch of desert where the U.S. military has long tested everything from nuclear weapons to V-2 rockets. The site is actually the birthplace of America’s space program, and today is home not just to a space capsule landing field, but the latest in weapons tech, too, from lasers to electromagnetic railguns.
But White Sands is approximately 400 miles away from the site of Sunday encounter’s west of Clayton, New Mexico, and it’s unlikely a weapon like a cruise missile could have “gone off the reservation” during a test,The War Zone’s Tyler Rogoway observes.
Scott Stearns, the chief of public affairs at White Sands, told Fox News the missile range wasn’t testing anything on Sunday. “We have no idea what it could have been or if anything similar has been sighted in that area before.”
The War Zone has dispelled the speculation that the American Airlines pilots may have seen a Learjet 60 that flew over Flight 2292. “One major issue with this theory was that this occurred about nine minutes before the radio call was supposedly made,” Rogoway writes. “In addition, the Learjet was traveling 5,000 feet above the Airbus and passed in front of it at an angle about eight miles in distance. This is not something out of the ordinary that the pilots should have reacted to in such a puzzled fashion.”
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The Learjet in question flew from Salt Lake to Boca Raton without any deviations according to online tracking software. Regardless, the FAA would have known about the Learjet and where it was in time and space in relation to American Airlines Airbus when it made the radio call, especially after three days of investigation. So, barring a massive oversight in evaluating the available information, we can toss out the Learjet theory based on the FAA's official statement.
Rogoway is executing “a full FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request on this case with the FAA” on behalf of The War Zone, he writes. In the meantime, speculation persists.
Airline pilot here: Between 28,000'-40,000' (FL280-FL400) aircraft are in RVSM (Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum) airspace, which means crossing traffic can be + or - 1,000' from you. This airspace is highly controlled. And if another aircraft is transmitting on their Transponder code then you can see that aircraft on your TCAS (Traffic Collision system). For ATC controllers and pilots not to be able to see this UFO on any of their systems is very weird. And pilots never want to be the one to say UFO on radio.
Even if authorized to fly through military airspace the ATC controllers would say military airspace is cold. If missiles are being tested then a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) would be issued and airspace closed off.
So I would say something was up there and passing by airlines.
Even if we don’t learn more about the bizarre object at the center of this week’s encounter, 2021 promises to be an important year for the advancement of UFO disclosure.
Last August, the Department of Defense (DoD) officially approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The task force will investigate the sightings of UAPs, also known as UFOs.
The task force is the first official government program affiliated with UFO research since a 2000s-era unit that analyzed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other UAPs lost its funding in 2012, even though multiple sources confirmed with Popular Mechanics that the unit remained active in secrecy after its shuttering.
The DoD formed the UAPTF to “improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs,” Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough told Popular Mechanics at the time. “The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze, and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”
In last June’s Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA), the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) authorized appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for the UAPTF and supported its efforts to reveal any links that UAP “have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations.”
In the IAA, the Select Committee on Intelligence said it “remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on [UAP], despite the potential threat,” and so it directed the task force to report its findings on UAP, “including observed airborne objects that have not been identified,” within 180 days.
When former President Donald Trump signed the coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December 2020, it contained the IAA for Fiscal Year 2021, which means the UAPTF must report its findings to Congress by June 25. What will the task force reveal?
• Public interest in extraterrestrial life is at an all-time high, thanks in part to some recent developments at the federal government level. In August, the Pentagon formed a UAP Task Force dedicated to investigating UFOs observed by US military aircraft. And the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill signed in December contained a stipulation requiring US intelligence agencies to disclose any and all information they have regarding UFOs to Congress within the next six months.
• The Michigan Mutual UFO Network (MIMUFON), a nonprofit organization that records and investigates UFO sightings, reported 233 sightings across Michigan in 2020. MIMUFON Director Bill Konkolesky said his organization averages around 160 reports a year. He attributed the higher number of reports for 2020 to not only the Starlink satellites, but the fact that the pandemic kept people at home leaving them with more time on their hands to look up in the sky.
• The high number of UFO reports may be attributed to misidentified Starlink satellites. “They’ve (the satellites) been sort of the bane of our existence since late 2019, because everybody has reported them as flying saucers…” says Konkolesky. “It’s a chain of satellites, they are in a formation in a single line… It’s a cool idea, but they look really eerie and people report them as UFOs.”
• Two cases that weren’t reported to MIMUFON are nevertheless intriguing, and are “worthy of investigation” says Konkolesky. On January 24th, Kristy Mariano was in her Detroit Beach, Michigan home late at night when outside of her window she happened to notice her neighbors outside gawking up at the sky. When she went into the backyard, she looked up and saw three huge lights in the sky, dancing around. “It was really strange,” said Mariano. “I was thinking it’s not an airplane, and it wasn’t a drone either because it was really, really low, and when it was passing by the clouds kept moving and moving and the stars were so bright…”. The lights disappeared after exactly 45 minutes. “It was so crazy,” she said. “I never believed in this kind of stuff before, but now I kind of do.”
• In October 2020, Monroe, Michigan resident Carl Walcz was taking photos of the Moon. But when he later looked at the photos, he noticed that in one of the photos there appeared a bluish-green object floating in the sky. “I never did see it when I was taking a picture of it,” Walcz said. “For all I know it could be something (that got stuck on) the camera or anything… But it’s too well-defined to be, and none of my other pictures that I took (had it). I took like two pictures right in a row of that same shot, and in one of them it was there and the other one it wasn’t.”
• Those dedicated to proving that we are not alone in the universe say it’s getting much more difficult to separate examples of truly inexplicable phenomena from the more common cases of mistaken identity. “One thing I often say is that if the Moon disappeared for a month, how many people would notice?” quipped Konkolesky. “I just don’t think people are looking up.”
Bill Konkolesky
Kristy Mariano was inside her Detroit Beach home late last Sunday night when she happened to notice something peculiar outside of her window. Many of her neighbors were outside gawking up at the sky.
Taking her dog with her, Mariano went into her backyard to see what all the fuss was about. When she looked up, she couldn’t believe what she saw.
“I see three big, like huge lights in the sky, and they’re dancing around,” she said. “It was really strange. I was thinking it’s not an airplane, and it wasn’t a drone either because it was really, really low, and when it was passing by the clouds kept moving and moving and the stars were so bright…
Mariano said the lights disappeared after exactly 45 minutes.
“It was so crazy,” she said. “I never believed in this kind of stuff before, but now I kind of do.”
Like Mariano, Monroe native Carl Walcz wasn’t really a believer in flying saucers or little green men. But one night this past October while he was taking photos of the moon, he stumbled across something he just could not explain: in just one of his pictures, there appeared a bluish-green object floating in the sky.
photo that Carl Walcz took
“I never did see it when I was taking a picture of it,” Walcz said. “For all I know it could be something (that got stuck on) the camera or anything… But it’s too well-defined to be, and none of my other pictures that I took (had it). I took like two pictures right in a row of that same shot, and in one of them it was there and the other one it wasn’t.”
Mariano and Walcz are certainly not the first people who have ever claimed to see Unidentified Flying Objects, and they certainly won’t be the last. But those who are dedicated to proving that we are not alone in the universe say it’s getting much more difficult to separate examples of truly inexplicable phenomena from the more common cases of mistaken identity.
The Michigan Mutual UFO Network (MIMUFON), a nonprofit organization that records and investigates UFO sightings, reported 233 sightings across Michigan in 2020 – only two of which were located in Monroe County. Both of those cases have been identified, meaning that MIMUFON investigators determined a known explanation for the sightings.
UFO in Ludhiana? Netizens Share Videos and Pics of an Unidentified Object in the Night Sky Wondering If It Is the Aliens or Meteors
UFO in Ludhiana? Netizens Share Videos and Pics of an Unidentified Object in the Night Sky Wondering If It Is the Aliens or Meteors
Last night a UFO was reportedly spotted in Ludhiana creating a wave of excitement on social media as pics and videos of this shiny object in the night sky go viral. In the videos shared by netizens from Ludhiana, Punjab one can clearly see an object with lights, moving in the sky.
UFO in Ludhiana
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Final evening a UFO was reportedly noticed in Ludhiana making a wave of pleasure on social media as pics and movies of this shiny object within the evening sky go viral. Within the movies shared by netizens from Ludhiana, Punjab one can clearly see an object with lights, shifting within the sky. Whereas for all , it may very well be an plane, BUT netizens can’t cease speaking about aliens. UFO lovers are questioning if it was a spaceship whereas others imagine it might have been a meteor. Amongst the assumptions, individuals proceed to share the movies and pics of the UFO on Twitter and Instagram whereas asking if anybody holds data associated to the unusual sighting of the evening sky. From Flying Saucer ‘UFOs’, Life on Venus to Galactic Federation and ‘Alien’ Monoliths, Yr 2020 Sparked Some Loopy ‘Out of This World’ Happenings and Theories.
“Did you spot something around 9:00-9:05 pm in the city sky tonight!! Many people who witnessed it are claiming it to be either plane & some calling it meteor !! We are NOT sure what exactly it was!!”, wrote an Instagram person. “Something wired fire in sky” wrote a Twitter person. Yet one more one mentioned, “UFO SPOTTED IN LUDHIANA, INDIA” together with sharing the video.
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According to new research, there is finally solid proof that an asteroid did in fact kill the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. While the most talked about theory was that an asteroid killed them, there have been other hypotheses such as volcanic eruptions or other global catastrophes.
Back in the 1980s, researchers discovered asteroid dust in the geological layer from the time of the dinosaur extinction. Then in the 1990s, experts confirmed that the Chicxulub impact crater was the same age as the geological rock layer. And now, it has been confirmed that asteroid dust has been found inside of the impact crater. “The circle is now finally complete,” stated Steven Goderis, who is a geochemistry professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and who led the study.
Researchers involved with the International Ocean Discovery Program mission took almost 3,000 feet of rock core samples from the impact crater that was buried beneath the seafloor. (A picture of a piece of the rock core can be seen here.)
The crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is located in the Yucatán Peninsula and is called Chicxulub after a nearby town. Part of the crater is offshore and part of it is on land. The crater is buried beneath many layers of rock and sediment. A 2016 mission led by the International Ocean Discovery Program extracted rock cores from the offshore portion of the crater.
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin/Jackson School of Geosciences/ Google Maps
Dust from the asteroid impact was blown into the atmosphere where it blocked out the sun and led to the extinction of 75% of life, including all non-avian dinosaurs.
Credit: Willgard Krause/ Pixabay
A section of rock core pulled from the crater left by the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Researchers found high concentrations of theelement iridium –a marker for asteroid material –in the middle section of the core that contains a mixture of ash from the impact and ocean sediment deposited over decades. The iridium is measured in parts per billion.
Credit: International Ocean Discovery Program
They were able to confirm that the dust did come from an asteroid because it contained several elements associated with space rocks – specifically iridium which is found in some asteroids but uncommon in the crust of our planet. The largest amounts of iridium were discovered in a piece of the rock core that measured just 5 centimeters and was located at the top of the peak ring of the crater. The sediment layer found in the crater from the impact was so thick that the researchers were able to date it all the way back to two decades following the strike.
To make sure that they were correct in their study, additional analysis was conducted in several different labs around the world – Belgium, Austria, the United States, and Japan. Goderis reiterated this by stating, “We combined the results from four independent laboratories around the world to make sure we got this right.”
Immediately after the impact, dust would have flown into the atmosphere but researchers believe it only lasted for a couple of decades at the most, which is approximately how long it would have taken many of the species to completely die out.
Additional studies are being planned for the summer with the focus being in the center of the crater where experts are hoping to find additional materials from the asteroid.
The study was published in Science Advances where it can be read in full.
The small town of Wytheville, Virginia, sits up against the Blue Ridge Mountains and is at first glance a peaceful, somewhat rural slice of small town America. Not much typically happens here, and it is mostly a quiet place with historical buildings and quaint streets. Yet back in 1987 this normally placid town would be beset with a series of strange sightings of things in the sky that have remained unexplained to this day, peppered with bizarre accounts, tales of cover-ups, and very sinister goings on.
It all seems to have begun with a man named Danny Gordon, who at the time was a local radio reporter and news director for the station WYVE. On October 7, 1987, Wythe County Sheriff Wayne Pike called in his usual police report, but this time it was a bit more bizarre than usual, in that he told Gordon that four police officers had seen a UFO. At the time, Gordon thought it was a sort of tongue in cheek news story that he could share for laughs, so he reported it on the air as almost like a big joke, but it would soon turn out that this was very serious, indeed. As soon as the report went out, the station was deluged with people calling in the give their own UFO reports from the area, which shocked Gordon because it had been merely meant to be a sort of light, throwaway report. He would later say of his astonishment:
It was a filler piece that came on at the end of the news which I usually relegate to something that’s may be unusual, like we had one police officer who killed five chickens at once with two shots, and that was a story that ran as kind of a ‘ha ha’ piece, and this was another ‘ha ha’ piece and being a very skeptical newsman, it was definitely not in my lead part of my news.
Wytheville, Virginia
Despite the phones ringing off the hook and people talking about alien spaceships, Gordon was skeptical. For one, the descriptions of the objects people were seeing were varied, with some reporting an egg-shaped object, while others were saying it was cigar-shaped or more like a huge, cylindrical object. Gordon believed that people were probably just seeing things after his initial news report, or that they were misidentifying airplanes refueling or maybe an experimental aircraft, but his calls to the nearby air base showed that nothing of that sort was going on in the area at the time. In the meantime, over the following days the reports continued to flood in, and one reporter Paul Dellinger, with The Roanoke Times, would say, “All of a sudden, everybody started seeing things.”
Gordon was still skeptical, thinking there must be some rational explanation for this wave of sightings, so out of curiosity he decided to go check things out for himself. On October 21, Danny and a friend, Roger Hall, went out to the area where most of the reports were originating from, in the southern part of Wythe County, to see if they could see a UFO themselves, bringing along a 35-millimeter still camera and a video camera for good measure. At first it was a bust, they saw nothing, but as they were leaving they noticed an anomalous light in the sky, which caused them to stop the car and get out. When the object approached them, they could see it was some sort of dome-shaped craft with a flashing light on top, and the right side of the object adorned with multi-colored strobing lights. As they stared in disbelief trying to figure out what it was, a smaller red light apparently approached it to merge with the domed object as if docking, before the whole of it flew off to leave the two witnesses spellbound. Gordon would say of what they saw:
We were headed home, after two hours of fruitless searching… And I just happened to look to my left and saw a very unusual object coming across the horizon. I pulled off to the side of the road in a hurry, jumped out, he got out of the right side, and as he got out I noticed the craft coming at me was very large, it had a dome shape to the top of it, and no wings, and had what appeared to be a strobe putting out multi-colored lights on the right side of the craft. As I watched the sky, from the left came the red ball. As the big mothership went into a small skiff of clouds, the red ball docked with the craft. We looked at each other and realized, no pictures. The camera was not in my hand, the camera was not in his hand, and we both knew we blew it.
Frustrated that they had dropped the ball on taking any photographic evidence, the two ventured out to the same spot the following evening, this time mentally prepared to take photos. Much to their astonishment, they were able to witness the UFO once again, this time taking a series of photographs, and that evening Gordon would claim that he had received a call from an anonymous man who told him that the federal government was interested in the UFO flap, and warned him not to report on what he had seen as it was a matter of national security. Gordon would receive several more calls along these lines that night, with his wife becoming increasingly worried. Despite these menacing calls, the next day Gordon excitedly held a press conference that propelled the story into national news, but things would get very intense from there, as that very evening he would return to find his home ransacked. It would appear that nothing had been stolen, leading Gordon to believe that someone had been looking for the photos he had taken.
Danny Gordon
Even in the face of these ominous new developments, Gordon continued his crusade to get to the bottom of what was going on, and reports continued to come in from all over the area unabated. Some witnesses reported seeing something that looked like “a spinning carousel,” another said they had sighted what appeared to be “a cross between a helicopter and an airplane,” and many others. Gordon would also get a chance to photograph the objects again, when he and his wife and daughter all saw a huge object that broke into four smaller objects above the parking lot of a mall, a sighting which was made by over 100 other witnesses at the scene, including a whole school bus full of children. Once again, Gordon was able to take some photographs before the objects sped off into the night. The reports continued on well into 1988, by which time there had been at least 3,000 confirmed sightings of the UFOs, from people of all walks of life including numerous police officers, pilots, and others. Gordon followed it all with great interest, personally collecting many of the reports himself, but things were about to get even weirder.
On March 19, 1988, Gordon had been invited to a broadcasters’ conference in Virginia Beach in order to discuss the amazing photographs he had taken of the mysterious objects. Up until then, the menacing anonymous phone calls had ceased, and he was daring to think that whoever had been threatening him had perhaps backed off and resigned themselves to the fact that the story had been blown wide open. He was wrong. That evening as he packed for his trip the phone rang, and on the other end was a man claiming to be a retired military intelligence officer, who had a rather ominous message for Gordon. He would say of the mysterious call:
I received a phone call at home from a retired military intelligence officer, and first he told me to make sure that I taped the conversation so he could put the date, and everyone to be aware, and I said, why do you want to tape this? And he said, I want your friends to know, that if something happens to you, that I forewarned you. He told me that because of his investigations into the UFO field that they had hit his son and caused his son to die with some kind of virus connected to leukemia. He said that he had information that the federal government was not very happy with my UFO investigations. He said, ‘they want to quiet you…’
Unsettling indeed, and it would only get stranger. Possibly unconnected but still rather odd is the fact that during that same period while Gordon was in Virginia Beach the area was gripped by an epidemic of hepatitis. Coincidence or not? Then, one month later, two men arrived at Gordon’s home, well-dressed and identifying themselves as newspaper reporters who wanted to interview him for an article. At first Gordon believed them, allowing them inside, but somewhat suspicious when one of the reporters wandered around the house taking photos as the other questioned him about the strange events in town and his photographs. It sent up a red flag for Gordon, so when they were gone he called the newspaper they claimed to have been from to ask about it, but the paper denied having any knowledge of the article in question or the two men who had gone to his house. Curious. Even more curious was that the following month when he was looking through the photos he had taken he noticed that four of the original negatives were mysteriously missing. Why those four? No one knows, and Gordon has said of it:
When I got to the canister which had the UFO negatives, I quickly opened it up and found some UFO negatives, but the one negative with the shots from the shopping mall was missing. Now I felt like maybe there was something in those photographs that I was not seeing, so I took the photographs to some other people to look at. We used magnifying glasses and we measured angles trying to find out why these photographs were so important. And we’ve yet to discover why anyone would want to steal that… a set of four in a series of photographs of the UFOs.
One of Gordon’s photographs
Less than a month after this, the stress this was putting Gordon through took its toll, and he collapsed from a heart attack. Although he survived, he decided that it was in both his and his family’s best interests to back off from the story. There had been too many spooky calls, intruders in his house, and that sense of constant foreboding in the background, that he was being watched all the time, and so he dropped his pursuit of the sightings and indeed UFOs in general, warning others who would do the same, “Don’t look up. Because once you look up and you tell somebody what you saw, your life is changed forever.” Danny Gordon’s story and the mass wave of sightings in Wytheville in 1987 and 1988 have been made into the book Don’t Look Up: The Real Story Behind the Virginia UFO Sightings and feature in the documentary Strange Country: A Different Kind of UFO Documentary, directed by Sean Kotz and Chris Valluzzo. Co-director and producer of the doc, Valluzzo, has said of the his film and the remarkable case it covers:
Most of the time, UFO documentaries focus on the most outlandish aspects and are often marked by wild speculations or unfounded assumptions. Instead, we are interested in the human story which is typically forgotten in these cases. What happened to the town and in particular, Danny Gordon, whose life was turned upside down by the ensuing attention and excitement? It is a compelling case because there were hundreds, if not thousands, of individual witnesses and a variety of craft over the course of several months. The witnesses were reliable people. In fact, the National Enquirer sent a reporter who decided not to run a story because the people were just not weird enough!
The UFO wave came and went, it has largely been swept under the carpet, Gordon kept his head low to hide from the perceived parties stalking him, and we are left to wonder what was going on here. What were all of these people seeing during that time period? Was this aliens, atmospheric phenomena, experimental aircraft, or what? Who were the creepy people threatening Gordon, what did they know, and what did they really want? It is all quite the intriguing sequence of events, and whether we ever get answers or not, it certainly ranks high among some of the more compelling mass UFO sightings out there.
The recent report that two American Airlines pilots described to air traffic control a cylindrical unidentified object fly over their plane while crossing New Mexico is getting updated as fast as the UFO was apparently flying. Just days after the incident hit the media and went viral, American Airlines confirmed that the report had indeed been made by the pilots. Not long after that, the Federal Aviation Administration issued its own statement. Is this the Tic Tac of 2021?
“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us – I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.”
Tomahawk submarine-launched cruise missile
That’s a transcript from the recording of the pilots on February 21 as American Airlines Flight 2292 flew at 36,000 feet over northeastern New Mexico. It had been recorded by Steve Douglass, a photographer for Amarillo television station KVII whose hobby is listening to air traffic control conversations. Douglass posted the recording on his blog, Deep Black Horizon, and commented that the reply from the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center was garbled by conversations from other planes. The story was picked up by the Albuquerque Journal, other local and national mainstream media providers, and the military investigative website The Drive/War Zone.
The Albuquerque Journal reached out to American Airlines for a statement and received this email and followup:
“Following a debrief with our Flight Crew and additional information received, we can confirm this radio transmission was from American Airlines Flight 2292 on Feb. 21.”
“The FBI is aware of the reported incident. While our policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations, the FBI works continuously with our federal, state, local and tribal partners to share intelligence and protect the public.”
A request to White Sands Missile Range was unanswered, but Lally Laksbergs, a spokesperson for Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque said they heard nothing.
“We have no knowledge of this. We’re not aware of anything.”
The Journal article did not say if the FBI was contacted. The Drive contacted the FAA and received this statement:
“A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.”
That non-response is typical, so The Drive’s Tyler Rogoway says he “executed a full FOIA request on this case with the FAA” for basic radio recordings between the AAL 2292 and Albuquerque Center (air traffic control). Rogoway also investigated a report that a Lear jet had been in the vicinity of AAL 2292 at about the time of the incident, and found the “timing was off” and the pilots would not have made such a puzzled report to the tower. He seems to be leaning towards “misidentification” but is waiting/hoping for more from the FAA.
Learjet
Will this be the Tic Tac UFO of 2021? It has been picked up across the mainstream media spectrum and made it to the late night talk show monologues. While there’s no video or air traffic control radar recording, that could change if they exist and enough pressure is put on the FAA, as seen after The New York Times picked up the Tic Tac/Nimitz UFO incident.
This long, cylindrical UFO won’t be going away anytime soon.
Don't Be Deceived. Find out the Real Reason Why This is Happening Now.
Don't Be Deceived. Find out the Real Reason Why This is Happening Now.
Why Now? It’s been 74 years since Roswell. Thousands of ufo sightings, videos, pictures, articles, and reports since then and All Have Been Denied and Covered Up. Why is the government Now actively talking about full disclosure within a few months? The answer is actually right in line with end times prophecy timelines as I will show you, as well as why it’s happening now.
End times prophecy tells us this. Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him…..Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.” Revelation 12
This is what is going to happen very soon. So when the devil and his angels come to earth what do you think their arrival will look like? Will they just sneak in and try to mingle with us? I don’t think so. I believe they will come as kings of the universe in space vehicles and tell us they are from some distant planet. And that they have been here many times and have come now to live among us and lead us to the next level of our development.
THIS is what it’s all about. We are being prepped for the main event. The government will tell us that Yes, UFO’s have visited us many times. This will get us ready for when the devil and his angels tell us their lies and This is what they are getting us ready for right now. Jesus said that the devil is a liar. He does not speak the truth he only lies. They will deceive many……But there is more to this story.
The reason the devil and his angels will tell us these lies is because they want to get as many of us to believe them as possible. They do this because those who believe them and take the mark are the ones that will spend eternity in the lake of fire with them. They will be their slaves for eternity. They will use and abuse them FOREVER. The devil and his angels already know they are going to the lake of fire so they want to make sure they have enough of us to abuse when they get there. But…..you don’t have to be in that group. There is a way out and you can change that. PLEASE don’t make the foolish mistake of thinking that this is Not going to happen to you or that it will not happen in your lifetime. That’s just those same guys telling you more lies.
Alien Craft Landing And Three Entities Encounter In Virginia
Alien Craft Landing And Three Entities Encounter In Virginia
JANUARY 19, 1965 ………WAYNESBORO VIRGINIA
William Blackburn, a resident of Waynesboro, Virginia, was working at the Augusta County Archery Club off Route 250, near Brand’s Flats, when at approximately 5:40 PM, on January 19, 1965, he saw two objects in the sky.
One of these UFOs, the smaller of the two, descended to the ground and landed approximately 18 yards from the witness. From it emerged three beings of extraordinary appearance, each about three feet high.
They were dressed in clothes of the same shiny, peculiar color as the object. One had an extremely long finger on one Band. The beings’ eyes were particularly penetrating: according to the witness, “they seemed to look through you.”
As the creatures approached the witness, to within 12 yards, he froze in fright, a double-edged axe in his hand. After uttering some unintelligible sounds, the beings turned and reentered the object through a door that appeared to “mold itself into the ship.”
The object then ascended and disappeared.
Following the appearance of Blackburn’s account in the local press, the witness told of being visited by members of a government agency whom he would not identify, although he said he was told not to say anything further about his sighting.
In an investigation conducted by Richard Hall and several NICAP staff members, strong evidence was found to support the witness’ report of being silenced.
In spite of this, the investigators were able to secure some additional details on the sighting. The area of the reported sighting is close to Fishersville, Va., the site of another landing (but with no reported occupants) which had occurred less than a month before.
Huge UFO Passes In Front Of Moon Over Chicago, Feb 26, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Huge UFO Passes In Front Of Moon Over Chicago, Feb 26, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 26, 2021 Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA Source: MUFON
Watch this raw footage and you will see a long dark tictac UFO move past the moon in earths orbit. The UFO is very long and takes a few seconds to cross the moon. Normally the UFO would be impossible to see, but lucky for the eyewitness the moon happened to be behind the UFO which lit it up. Even in Chicago, UFO are visible when you try hard enough. Hard work pays off. 100% proof that huge motherships are in Earths orbit right now!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
UFO north side Chicago flying past moon 6:19AM 2/26/21. I went to record the moon because it looked so beautiful and after I recorded I noticed something flew past the top half of the moon! Definitely a UFO!
UFO Fleet Over San Bernardino, California On 9-21-2019, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over San Bernardino, California On 9-21-2019, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 9-21-2019 Location of sighting: San Bernardino, California, USA Source: MUFON (came in today)
Wow, this is a rare sight. Its a alien mother drone. Thats a drone that actually makes other smaller drones to seed the sky. The mother drone is diamond in shape at the center. Look at the close up screenshot I made at the top of this post. It produced about 100 smaller alien AI controlled drones. These are drones that are dropped off, then after a certain amount of weeks, they will be picked up at a specific location again and taken back to the home world so that the data the drones gathered could be studied. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
A fleet of ufos. Stopped for gas at a gas station in San Bernardino when I looked up and saw maybe hundreds of objects of various sizes. Some caught fire while others were orbs.
UFO Over Albuquerque, New Mexico Trailing Plane Feb 26 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Albuquerque, New Mexico Trailing Plane Feb 26 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 26, 2021 Location of sighting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Source: MUFON 113852
An eyewitness in New Mexico this week caught sight of a cloud orb that was very close to a jet and buzzing around its contrail for a few minutes. This kind of behavior is typical and has recorded evidence of past events so yes, this is a cloud orb. Orbs are alien drones that are circle shaped, controlled by AI and about the size of a softball, but sometimes as big as a basketball. The surface is semi transparent, as if it were a computer screen reflecting the colors around it. I love this video, and it bounces only because of the guy using zoom and zooming in always makes it unsteady, but worth it to see the orb close up.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
White / silver orb trailed a plane coming in from SW, Once I started filming it when plane reached NW, Object dashed away from the plane and started heading SE.
Straight lines and perfect circles don't exist in reality; there is no perfect line or circle in the entire universe, only manmade or manufactured objects are often geometric and “straight”, while objects growing naturally have curvature.
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American Airlines Confirms UFO Sighting Incident with One of Their Pilots
American Airlines Confirms UFO Sighting Incident with One of Their Pilots
American Airlines passenger jet encountered an unidentified flying object (UFO) over northeastern New Mexico.
The incident took place on Sunday afternoon around 1 pm CST. Steven Douglass published a recording on his blog Deep Black Horizon about a transmission by the pilot of flight 2292, which American Airlines confirmed.
At the time, the pilot radioed in after spotting a UFO above the aircraft. In the recording, the pilot described the UFO as like a long cylindrical object that nearly similar to a cruise missile type of thing moving at incredible speed over the top of their aircraft.
Following a debrief with Flight Crew and additional details received, American Airlines confirmed it was one of their pilots who radioed in the object during the passenger flight from Cincinnati to Phoenix. However, the airline company wouldn’t share any further details about the UFO incident. They encourage anyone who has additional questions on the incident to reach out to the FBI.
Douglass said he spoke with a former military pilot, who suggested the pilot was probably shaken after the UFO encounter that he had to report it. Although it seems American Airlines expects the FBI to handle the case, Douglass believes the Federal Aviation Administration will also do an investigation to identify what the pilot encountered flying above the aircraft.
New Mexico is home to White Sands Missile Range, located in the state’s southern area, and is described as the largest, fully-instrumented, open-air range of the Department of Defense. However, the chief of public affairs at White Sands Missile Range, Scott Sterns, said the range wasn’t testing anything on that day of the incident and noted the distance between the missile range and northeastern New Mexico, which is approximately 400 miles.
Well, that didn’t take long. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for about a week and its panoramic camera is already picking up strange, unidentified objects among its surroundings in the Jezero Crater. While some may have logical explanations, that hasn’t stopped folks from seeing flying saucer parts, skulls and other odd pareidolia-generated objects … or are they?
Credit: NASA
This first photo, as is the case with many photos taken by various rovers and satellites, lacks anything identifiable that could lend perspective and size to the image. That frees the imagination to, as some commenters suggest, see these objects as ants, perhaps giant alien ants. After all, that does seem to be a hill in the background. However, most agree that these are just rocks – although it seems a bit sacrilegious to refer to Martian rocks as “just rocks.”
Credit: NASA
The next photo needs less imagination but more pareidolia-tion (new word coined just for you, Perseverance). With just a little magnification, this odd-shaped object has most observers thinking “skull.” Human? Who knows, although the wide-open mouth looks alien or at least Edvard Munch-ish. (Can Perseverance zoom in to see if there’s a Screamish “Could only have been painted by a madman!” message nearby?) Or is this a miniature recreation of the famous “Face on Mars” which dates back to the Viking missions and has lost its luster — not to mention eyes, nose and mouth — as better satellites zoomed in on this Martian hill?
Credit: NASA
The best and most fun image from this first batch has to be the shiny objects on a hill. Once it was determined that they’re not debris from the rest of the mission – both the sky crane and the part with the heat shield crashed much farther away – the pareidoliacs (another new word – thanks, Perseverance!) decided this is definitely pieces of a metallic spacecraft, either belonging to aliens or long-ago (or perhaps secret) human missions to the Red Planet. As this video shows (watch it here), zooming doesn’t help (anyone working from home and attending virtual meetings could tell you that).
The good news is that the objects have not yet been identified so they’re still open for pareidoliussions and pareidoliarguments (OK, those might be a bit a stretch, Perseverance). The better news is that more are coming as Perseverance flexes its wheels and later launches its helicopter. That could be Perseverance’s greatest gift to homebound pareidoliacs tired of seeing pictures of famous people in their burnt toast (get a new toaster already!).
The FBI said Thursday it’s aware of a possible unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting, but would not confirm whether the bureau is probing the incident.
“The FBI is aware of the reported incident. While our policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations, the FBI works continuously with our federal, state, local, and tribal partners to share intelligence and protect the public,” a spokesperson for the bureau’s Albuquerque Field Office told The Epoch Times via email.
“Anyone who is aware of suspicious or criminal activity should contact their local law enforcement agency or the FBI,” the spokesperson added.
The incident in question reportedly took place as an American Airlines plane was en route to Phoenix, Arizona, from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Chatter recorded by blogger Steve Douglass shows a pilot reporting that “we just had something go right over the top of us.”
“I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us,” he added, according to a transmission from a radio scanner.
American Airlines did not return a request for comment.
The airline told Fox News that the transmission was from its flight 2292, though it also told ABC 7 that it was not.
UFOs are periodically spotted by pilots and passengers but the mysterious vessels are sometimes confirmed to be everyday objects. In other cases, sightings are confirmed but no ready explanation is provided.
A spokesperson for the Department of Defense said in 2019 that officials investigate UFO reports.
“The Department of Defense is always concerned about maintaining positive identification of all aircraft in our operating environment, as well as identifying any foreign capability that may be a threat to the homeland,” the spokesperson said.
“The department will continue to investigate, through normal procedures, reports of unidentified aircraft encountered by US military aviators in order to ensure defense of the homeland and protection against strategic surprise by our nation’s adversaries.”
FBI doet geheimzinnig over mogelijke UFO-waarneming: ‘Langwerpig, cilindervormig object’
Foto: Toestel van American Airlines bij Heathrow µ(Pixabay)
FBI doet geheimzinnig over mogelijke UFO-waarneming: ‘Langwerpig, cilindervormig object’
De FBI zei op de hoogte te zijn van een mogelijke UFO-waarneming, maar wilde niet bevestigen of de dienst onderzoek doet naar het incident. Een woordvoerder van de FBI liet in een reactie aan de krant The Epoch Times weten ‘dat het ons beleid is om onderzoeken te ontkennen noch te bevestigen’.
De FBI werkt continu samen met partners op federaal, lokaal en staatsniveau om inlichtingen te delen en de bevolking te beschermen, aldus de woordvoerder.
Het incident vond naar verluidt plaats toen een toestel van American Airlines onderweg was van Cincinnati in Ohio naar Phoenix in Arizona. Blogger Steve Douglass nam de communicatie tussen de piloot en de luchtverkeersleiding op. “Er vloog zojuist iets recht over ons heen,” zei de piloot op een gegeven moment.
Heel snel
“Ik zeg het niet graag, maar het leek op een langwerpig, cilindervormig object, een soort kruisraketachtig ding. Het vloog heel snel over ons heen,” voegde hij toe.
American Airlines was niet bereikbaar voor commentaar. De vliegmaatschappij zei tegen Fox News dat het ging om vlucht 2292, maar zei tegen ABC7 dat het níet om vlucht 2292 ging.
UFO’s worden geregeld waargenomen door piloten en passagiers. In sommige gevallen kan er geen verklaring worden gevonden voor de waarneming.
Phoenix Lights
Een woordvoerder van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie zei in 2019 dat medewerkers onderzoek doen naar UFO-meldingen.
In 1997 werden in Phoenix de zogeheten Phoenix Lights waargenomen. Het incident is één van de best gedocumenteerde UFO-meldingen. Mensen maakten er beelden van, die werden uitgezonden door CNN. Meer dan 700 ooggetuigen beweerden dat ze driehoekige UFO’s hadden gezien met vijf bolvormige lampen.
Fife Symington, de toenmalige gouverneur van Arizona, was één van de ooggetuigen. Later zou hij de objecten beschrijven als ‘niet van deze wereld’.
Every now and then there is a burst of radio light in the sky. It lasts for just milliseconds before fading. It’s known as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), and they are difficult to observe and study. We know they are powerful bursts of energy, but we aren’t entirely sure what causes them.
The more we’ve learned about FRBs, the stranger they appear. Most occur outside our galaxy, but there are a few that seem to originate within the Milky Way. Most seem to appear at random in the sky, but a few of them are repeating FRBs. Some of them even repeat with surprising regularity. Because of this, astronomers generally think they can’t be caused by a cataclysmic event, such as the last radio burst of a neutron star as it collapses into a black hole.
One likely candidate is a special kind of neutron star known as a magnetar. Neutron stars generally have strong magnetic fields, but magnetars take this to the extreme. Their magnetic fields can be a thousand times more powerful than that of a typical neutron star. Their fields are so powerful that they can heat the surface of a magnetar to more than 10 million Kelvin.
FRBs could be caused by magnetic bursts of a neutron star. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
Magnetars are magnetically and thermally active, so they can have upwellings of hot material and magnetically charged flares. It’s similar to the surface activity of our Sun, but at a much more powerful level. When a magnetar has a flare, it can create a burst of intense x-rays and gamma rays. These stars are known to be the source of soft gamma ray repeaters, for example. Since a flare of ionized gas can create radio light when it interacts with a magnetic field, it’s thought that magnetars could also create fast radio bursts.
Recently, a team found evidence to support this idea. About 30,000 light years from Earth there is a magnetar known as SGR J1935+2154. In mid-April of 2020, it entered an active period, so the team decided to observe it with the Insight-HXMT satellite. They observed hundreds of x-ray bursts from the magnetar. Then on April 28, the CHIME radio telescope observed the fast radio burst FRB 200428, which had the same location and distance as the magnetar. The FRB occurred just 8.6 seconds after the team observed an x-ray burst. This time delay is consistent with the fact that the interstellar medium slightly slows radio signals.
From this study it is clear that magnetars are a source of fast radio bursts. We still aren’t clear if magnetars are the source of all FRBs, particularly those that don’t repeat. But since SGR J1935+2154 is relatively close and regularly goes through active periods, we should be able to observe many more FRBs from it over time. It should give us the data we need to understand these strange radio signals.
The domain of space has become an increasingly important playing field economically and militarily amid the wider great power game here on Earth.
While mostly out of sight, the satellites circling overhead provide us with precise positioning information for navigation, communication, weather data, intelligence, and imaging for maps so readily available online – we have begun to take this all for granted.
The impact of this technology in orbit on our ability to engage in commerce and maintain military preparedness has become so vital over the past several decades that nations have begun dedicating not only more resources into developing spaceborne capabilities, but also creating the ability to monitor threats in space and develop methods to defend against them.
This has led to several nations creating “space forces,” with the United States creating the US Space Force in 2019. Russia and China also have equivalent military forces dedicated solely to the domain of space – though how they will be used will most certainly differ from how the US will likely (and is already beginning to) use theirs.
What we see unfolding now is geopolitical cooperation and conflict here on Earth being extended into Earth orbit and beyond.
China has begun launching as many, if not more rockets per year than the United States. Its capabilities range from placing entire satellite constellations into orbit, to launching its own astronauts and even space station segments, as well as commercial missions for clients from around the globe.
Russia continues to develop its space launch capabilities and currently still has these most reliable manned space launch systems on Earth – the Soyuz. Their plans to develop reusable rockets to remain competitive with American aerospace company SpaceX means that Russia too remains a significant partner/competitor in the space domain.
And of course, private companies – from the US to China and everywhere in between – are creating capabilities and pursuing objectives beyond existing state-dominated space programs – with US-based SpaceX creating everything from reusable launch vehicles, to satellite internet, to a fleet of stainless steel starships designed to colonize Mars.
And just beyond reach of current technology are resources in space in the form of minerals and ore on the Moon and trapped in near-Earth objects like asteroids that could open the door to a multi-trillion dollar space economy that could sustain a population within our solar system many times larger than the 7.6 billion people on Earth today.
Through this now quickly shifting and rapidly developing space industry we can see the stage being set for a new, and much more wide-ranging “space race” for the 21st century.
While the first space race was bipolar – between the United States and the Soviet Union – today’s new space race includes old adversaries – the US and Russia – as well as China, India, and even Iran. There are also a growing number of private space companies from US-based firms like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, to Japan’s iSpace, and Galactic Energy in China.
The Space Economy
There is a very real space-based economy already.
It consists of constellations of satellites providing everything from communication to navigational services – services that are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy.
Industries like delivery services heavily depend on satellite navigation to connect drivers with their destinations, aiding them in navigating to customers and allowing customers to track their progress in real-time. Food delivery alone is an industry of over $100 billion worldwide.
There are also taxi services that increasingly rely on satellite navigation to find and deliver passengers.
The growing importance of satellite navigation for the economy is only set to grow as companies around the globe explore the possibility of drone delivery services and modes of land transportation that are increasingly autonomous.
Communication satellites have long served an important role in advancing and connecting modern information technology. Satellite phones and now satellite internet are services already available around the world. These services depend on satellites in higher orbits over the Earth meaning that latency is higher – and internet speeds slower.
Geostationary orbits, while higher and providing slower communication speeds, require fewer satellites to cover any particular area – with specific satellites assigned to and stationed permanently over a single region of the planet.
Communication satellites in low earth orbit cannot remain over a single region of the planet permanently. They are constantly moving, and thus to create worldwide coverage, shells of constantly moving satellites with protocols meant to relay signals not only from the ground to orbit, but between satellites in orbit are required – and in large numbers.
The lowering costs of both satellite manufacturing and space launches to place them into orbit makes this possible today.
With SpaceX’s Starlink service, consisting of thousands of satellites in low earth orbit (and eventually tens of thousands of satellites), low latency satellite internet will be available worldwide with a partial network already being tested.
Other companies are attempting to create their own low earth orbit constellations including OneWeb and Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
Russia’s Roscosmos is planning to create a similar constellation and China via its Hongyun project is already launching satellites in a bid to create its own low earth orbit broadband internet constellation.
These would constitute global internet service providers – though satellites would still depend on ground stations that connected to the physical backbone of the Internet in order to receive and transmit data – and companies involved in proposing and building these constellations are designing custom tailored solutions on a state-by-state basis to address security concerns in an age where information warfare is as serious a threat as actual warfare.
There are also clear military implications regarding satellite navigation and communication.
Its use on the battlefield includes collecting intelligence, coordinating the locations of and communication between troops in the field, guiding warships at sea as well as warplanes overhead, guiding munitions accurately to their targets and for managing the growing fleet of unmanned military vehicles on land, in the air, and both on and under the sea.
The obvious importance of satellite navigation and communication for both a nation’s economy and its defense is why nations like the United States, Russia, China, and the EU have developed their own networks that they control and that they cannot be excluded from. These are networks that they can offer access to for allies and customers, to enhance their alliances and to open up streams of revenue.
The United States maintains the Global Positioning System (GPS) with a constellation of 31 satellites. The maintenance and protection of America’s GPS satellites was transferred to its newly christened Space Force.
Russia maintains the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) with 24 satellites in orbit. The EU’s Galileo network also consists of 24 satellites.
China recently completed its BeiDou network with 35 satellites in orbit – the largest network of its kind and one of several key indicators illustrating not only how serious China takes this new space race, but the competence it is able to bring to it.
The BeiDou network has already become a key component of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative. It is space infrastructure China is using to help stitch together the economies of Eurasia and to help augment the military capabilities of its allies – including nations like Pakistan who now have access to BeiDou’s higher military-grade positioning resolution.
Since China is building continent-spanning transportation infrastructure – creating and maintaining its own network of navigation satellites with global coverage prevents nations like the US from cutting it off from the GPS network at junctures of geopolitical tensions and potentially stranding logistical operations across entire continents.
CISLunar Economy
United Launch Alliance (ULA) – a space lift company created by Boeing and Lockheed – has proposed what it calls a “cislunar economy.” Cislunar describes the space between the Earth and the Moon.
ULA’s proposal imagines a cislunar economy reaching $3 trillion by 2050. According to SpaceNews in an article titled, “ULA’s Tory Bruno argues for U.S. investments in the production of fuel in space,” that economy would include mining, transportation, manufacturing and space tourism.
Space.com in an article titled, “Inside ULA’s Plan to Have 1,000 People Working in Space by 2045,” would note just how many people would make up that economy.
CISLunar economy
(Image Source: ULA/NASA)
Mining and in-situ manufacturing in space alone would be transformative for human civilization – akin to moving from the bronze age to the iron age. The resources trapped in near earth objects dwarf the total amount of resources here on Earth. It is just a matter of accessing it and possessing the tools to use it in manufacturing processes in space.
The science fiction future imagined in books and movies for decades could become a reality, complete with orbital habitats not unlike that featured in the 2013 film, “Elysium,” hopefully without the accompanying dystopian class divide.
While ULA’s own expendable launch vehicles are unlikely capable now or anytime in the near future of actually realizing their cislunar economy, other US-based companies and even those abroad might – and sooner than we imagine.
Jeff Bezos – Amazon founder and owner of US-based aerospace company Blue Origin – has proposed a roadmap (video) for the mining of resources and the construction of such habitats. Blue Origin is currently working on its New Glenn rocket – the closest launch vehicle in terms of capability and reusability to SpaceX’s Starship currently under testing. New Glenn, Starship, and similar launch vehicles would be needed to create the foundation of these proposed manned economies in space.
Getting to Space
Space was once the sole domain of a handful of government space programs.
Today, governments, corporations, and a mix of both are now widening the space launch capabilities of countries with space programs, as well as opening increasingly attractive options for nations without their own space launch capabilities.
To date, Russia, the US, Japan, China, the EU, India, Israel, Ukraine, Iran, and North Korea have all demonstrated the ability to launch payloads into orbit.
Currently, China, Russia, and the US lead the world in total launches per year – placing public, military, and commercial payloads into orbit not just for their respective countries but for a wide range of customers from around the world.
China currently leads, or closely follows the US in total launches per year – depending on the year – with US-based SpaceX accounting for America’s ability to continue competing.
The US currently holds the edge in overall competitiveness – again because of SpaceX – and owed in particular to SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Some of its Falcon 9 boosters have flown and landed up to 8 times (at the time of writing). The boosters are designed to fly up to 10 times before major overhauls.
The merit of reusability has not been lost on America’s main competitors. China has been nurturing its own private space industry and several companies are pursuing Falcon-style reusability including Galactic Energy with its planned Pallas 1 rocket targeting a 2021 test launch. Companies like iSpace are also pursuing similarly reusable launch vehicles. Both companies have already reached orbit with expendable rocket designs.
Russia’s Roscosmos is developing its Amur rocket, following SpaceX’s strategy for reusability using a first stage that launches and lands under the power of its own rocket engines.
SpaceX itself – while continuing to launch its Falcon 9 on a regular basis (26 launches in 2020 alone) – is working on the next generation of reusable launch vehicles – Starship.
It will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and feature fully reusable first and second stages. It is designed ultimately not only to send people to Mars, but to be able to lift enough material, equipment, and people into orbit frequently enough to build a city on the red planet.
While this goal remains on a more distant horizon, the cargo lift capabilities of Starship – lifting 150 tons into low earth orbit – and its rapid reusability will make access to space cheaper than ever before. It will open up a variety of possibilities both economically and militarily for the United States and its allies, as well as for commercial partners around the world – while leaving other nations playing catch-up.
Nothing like Starship is even under development elsewhere around the globe. While China and Russia are developing heavy-lift rockets nearing Starship’s lift capabilities, none of them will be even partially reusable.
There is also the ability to reach other places in the solar system – other than Earth orbit. The US, China, Russia, and Japan all possess the capability to reach the Moon, Mars, and even near earth objects like asteroids.
In 2020 when the most recent launch window opened to send missions to Mars, the US and China both sent major missions.
NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars’ surface earlier this month. The rover contains experiments to retrieve and eventually send back samples of the Martian surface to Earth as part of future missions to Mars, as well as an experiment for in-situ oxygen production which will be vital for human habitation and the production of fuel on Mars in the future.
China’s mission – Tianwen-1 – has also reached the red planet, featuring an orbiter, a lander, and a rover.
If China successfully lands on the surface of Mars it will signify a major milestone for the nation and its spaceborne capabilities. Having already reached Mars orbit and having sent back incredible pictures of the Martian surface – Tianwen-1 has already made a major geopolitical statement.
While critics say China has not done the many things the US has done in space and has a long way to go to catch up – China does not need to replicate America’s past achievements – it merely needs to match or surpass America’s current achievements and is working to do exactly this.
Mission accomplished: Japanese Hayabusa2 carrying asteroid samples in December 2020
(Image: JAXA)
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have both sent missions to asteroids – a major first step toward eventually exploiting the vast amount of resources trapped in them.
JAXA’s Hayabusa missions both retrieved samples from targeted asteroids and returned them to Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu and is slated to return it to Earth by 2023.
Getting into space and being able to reach a wide variety of destinations there – and being able to carry out a wide variety of activities will be key to expanding Earth’s economy into space. Government agencies and private companies are developing these capabilities at an increasingly faster pace each year with large implications regarding cooperation and conflict in space in the near future.
Conflict in Space
The networks being placed into orbit will enhance the economic and military capabilities of the respective nations on the ground launching them. The importance of creating and defending these networks is obvious.
Satellite navigation’s use in conducting warfare and in particularly accurately guiding unmanned aircraft and even munitions across the battlefield makes it an obvious target for electronic jamming.
F-35 Fighter
(Image Source: Darin Russell/Lockheed Martin)
Here we can see the clearest example of how geopolitical competition on Earth is extending into the domain of space.
The National Interest in a 2019 article titled, “GPS Jammed: Russia Is Messing with America’s F-35s,” would claim:
Russian forces have been jamming GPS systems in the Middle East. The electronic-warfare campaign could affect U.S. forces gathering in the region in advance of potential strikes on Iran.
“Since last spring, pilots flying through the Middle East, specifically around Syria, have noted that their GPS systems have displayed the wrong location or stopped working entirely,” The Times of Israel reported in late June 2019.
GPS is essential for US military operations – and for pilots of warplanes like the F-35 in particular – both regarding navigation and guiding munitions to target. Jamming GPS signals in theater means partially blinding US warplanes and severely inhibiting their ability to carry out military operations.
While the US has claimed this jamming is a serious provocation, Syria is a nation the US has illegally occupied for years. This is in addition to its military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and, as the article points out, its planned military aggression against Iran, all nations thousands of miles from America’s shores, and all nations that pose no direct threat to the US itself.
The use of America’s GPS in the Middle East is explicitly for enabling military aggression abroad – not the defense of the United States itself.
With the founding of the US Space Force in late 2019, and with the new armed forces branch overseeing America’s GPS capabilities, it is certain that stopping Russia or any other nation from disrupting these capabilities overseas will become part of its mission.
It is clear that the US Space Force will be used – not to defend the United States itself – but to prevent others from defending themselves from US aggression and its spaceborne capabilities used to enable it.
Russia’s use of electronic jamming has complicated American aggression in the Middle East. But there are other threats to America’s spaceborne capabilities – and theoretically, to those of all other nations as well.
This includes anti-satellite missiles.
In 2007, when China tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile which destroyed one of its aging Fengyun series weather satellites, the West vocally protested – so much so – that many might believe China was the first ever to carry out such a test.
In reality, the US conducted a very similar test as early as 1985 using an ASM-135 ASAT missile mounted on an F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. The missile was used to destroy the Solwind P78-1 satellite – a scientific platform nearing the end of its lifespan.
The early US test – like the Chinese one in 2007 – created debris that posed a hazard to other satellites and spacecraft in orbit. The US test even delayed the construction of what is now the International Space Station (ISS).
After the Chinese test in 2007 – and despite the US already demonstrating its ability to destroy satellites in orbit – the US carried out an additional ASAT mission a year later using a modified SM-3 missile to destroy the USA-193 reconnaissance satellite operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
While the mission was justified by claiming there were fears that the malfunctioning satellite could enter the atmosphere and cause contamination with its highly toxic fuel – the timing following the Chinese missile test made it clear this story was just cover for what was a tit-for-tat demonstration vis-a-vis China and a test of US missile defense systems as provocative as the US claimed China’s test was.
Russia began testing modern ASAT missiles in 2015, conducting several tests but none of them directed at actually destroying a satellite in orbit.
India – a nation with an increasingly capable space program – tested an ASAT missile in 2019 successfully destroying a test satellite in low earth orbit (LEO).
In other words, several nations now possess the ability to not only jam satellites but also destroy them.
For nations like the US who depend heavily on its GPS network when fighting wars of aggression abroad – the destruction of even parts of its GPS network would immediately impact its fighting capacity and require a time consuming and expensive process to replace lost satellites.
The advent of ASAT systems has increased the cost of US military aggression abroad should red lines be crossed and either Russia or China decide to begin targeting this crucial component of American military might.
On the other hand, US-based SpaceX – should its Starship launch vehicle begin placing payloads into orbit, it would be capable of replacing entire constellations faster than they could be shot down.
Here, we can see the potential ingredients for a space-based arms race.
Should ULA’s cislunar economy – or a version of it – begin to take shape, it will be difficult to imagine how economics in orbit and on Earth, as well as the conflict that will inevitably arise will take full shape.
It may resemble in many ways the process of exploring for and exploiting hydrocarbons here on Earth with a process of staking and exploiting claims clearly defined and competitors moving on to other objects in search for resources.
If current studies of near earth objects are accurate, there would be more resources in space than human civilization has the ability to fully exploit – although real estate on the Moon or Mars, or specific asteroids in closer proximity to Earth would be likely candidates for races, competition, and possible conflict.
Conflict might be fought out on Earth between respective nations over what is happening in space or a new class of weapons and tactics might be developed for use in space-to-space combat.
Here on Earth we can already see attempts by the US to pressure nations like Iran and hinder the development of Iran’s space program – which has already successfully placed payloads into orbit and is developing more capable launch vehicles as well as its own satellites to place in orbit.
Denial to space, and denial to regions in space may become common themes in near-future warfare.
Cooperation in space or exclusion of certain nations from specific projects has already become a geopolitical tool. Russia’s monopoly over manned space launches – only recently broken by SpaceX’s crewed Dragon 2 spacecraft – was a useful tool for Moscow to remind America of the limits of its omnipotence.
America’s plans for a Lunar Gateway station now exclude Russia – a politically-motivated decision that will cost America in terms of technical expertise can capabilities Russia could offer the project.
America’s exclusion of China from virtually all cooperation with NASA including on the International Space Station would at first serve to hinder China’s space program – but now appears to be spurring it.
China now plans to launch its own space station and will use it to cooperate with any and all nations in space – including those thus far excluded by US-dominated projects.
These are possibilities that are no longer the domain of science fiction writers but the serious topics of policymakers and the aerospace branches of national armed forces around the globe.
Satellite-killing missiles, moon bases, Mars rovers, space stations, rockets taking off and landing under the power of their own engines – are fast becoming a reality or in some cases, are already here.
The new space race has begun and it is a race a growing number of nations and companies are joining on a nearly monthly basis.
Rockets are taking off from traditional launch sites in Florida and Kazakhstan – but also now from places like New Zealand and Amur Oblast in eastern Russia. SpaceX is building a spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas, near America’s border with Mexico. And China is constructing new launch facilities on land and at sea.
The scale and importance of activity in space is expanding rapidly, with ever-expanding rewards of the wealth, power and influence for its participants. Wherever there are people and resources – there will be competition, and in this new space race we will likely see this competition move beyond flag-planting and toward something that resembles actual conflict.
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Author Brian Berletic, formerly known under his pen name Tony Cartalucci, is Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher, writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire. See more of his work at Tony’s archive. Over the last decade, his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites, and also on the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”. Also, you can follow him on VK here.
Airline Passenger Sees UFO Fleet Over Bay of Bengal, India On Aug 10, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Airline Passenger Sees UFO Fleet Over Bay of Bengal, India On Aug 10, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 10, 2017
Location of sighting: Bay of Bengal, India
The video was posted this week on Youtube, however the person had been holding it since it occurred in 2017. The person said they didn't release it till they saw other similar videos and thought someone may be interested in it. Yep...I'm interested! I analyzed the video carefully and saw that when enlarged, a few of the glowing orbs did pass behind the clouds disappearing for a few seconds. This is 100% proof that the objects are outside the window and not a reflection from inside the aircraft. That was a main concern for me, but the results are clear...those are outside the aircraft. I have seen one other video of a similar event many years ago, but this video is more clear. This is a very rare event, when a alien fleet masses above the clouds. There must be a hundred or more of them. 100% proof that aliens exist on Earth!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
The video was recorded over the Bay of Bengal on a flight from Bangkok to New Delhi, on August 10, 2017. It didn’t occur to me to post it. I don’t normally post content but recently saw another video that was similar so decided to share this one. Not sure what it was then and still not sure what it is now, but looks interesting.
While looking over a Mars gigapan photo, I found something intriguing on the far right of the picture. A face, a huge statue face carved into the side of a boulder. The face has an eye, nose, mouth and it looks very similar to a human face. To dismiss such evidence is not only ignorant of the facts, but literally a crime against humanity. What would have happened we still believed the earth was flat? Or the sun revolved around the earth? Its a crime against all humanity to be stuck into that false way of thinking. A closed mind, is a close door to the facts. This my friends...is 100% proof that intelligent life with a face like our own, once lived and thrived on the surface of Mars.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
I put the screenshots into normal color, NASA places them into false brown color to blur detail. Original photo is using a False color brown filter.
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Cylinder UFO Over South Shields, England On Feb 25, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Cylinder UFO Over South Shields, England On Feb 25, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 25, 2021
Location of sighting: Moon seen from South Shields, England
Source: MUFON 113829
This eyewitness was recording the moon with an advanced Nikon p900 camera when a black cylinder UFO passed across the moon. The UFO surprised the eyewitness so much that he seemed to panic as he zoomed out, zoomed in, then zoomed out again. All the while trying to find the object that passed in front of his lens. By chance he did miss the UFO when he zoomed out, because at 1:06 into the video (has to be paused to see it) you will notice the object at the bottom center of the screen for two seconds. Wow, just an awesome lucky catch.
What really gets me is that just last Sunday, a pilot from American Airlines reported a similar cylinder object flying over his plane in New Mexico...the pilot described it as "looking like a cruise missile." Well this looks exactly as he described!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Object caught while taking video of the moon. I was taking video of the moon on a nice day with my Nikon p900 camera when this black large object appeared in my video don't have a clue what it is.
What are these metallic looking objects captured by Perseverance Mars Rover
What are these metallic looking objects captured by Perseverance Mars Rover
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover captured on its third day on Mars strange rectangular bright shining metallic looking objects resting on top of an underlying metallic looking sheet.
It is suggested that it could be the Perseverance Heat Shield that helped protect NASA's Perseverance rover during its landing on the surface of Mars or other parts of the Mars 2020 mission landing system.
But an official map provided by NASA shows that the heat shield and other parts of the landing system are much further away then the metallic looking objects in front of the Perseverance camera.
Could it be something artificial, left behind by visitors from the past?
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American Airlines Pilot Spots UFO flying right over the top of the Passenger Jet
American Airlines Pilot Spots UFO flying right over the top of the Passenger Jet
Pilots of an American Airlines jet flying over New Mexico say they saw something fly directly over them that they cannot explain.
The strange encounter happened over the northeast corner of New Mexico west of Clayton, New Mexico as the jet was cruising at 36,000 feet traveling around 460 mph.
The unidentified flying object sighting was documented by the pilots when they radioed the Albuquerque Center according to The Drive.
"Do you have any targets up here," the pilot asked before reporting that "we just had something go right over the top of us." "I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing moving really fast right over the top of us."
A response to the pilot's inquiry was, unfortunately, not picked up, but flight tracking websites indicate that there were no aircraft in the vicinity of the plane which could account for the odd sighting.
Meanwhile, the FAA has released a short statement, which reads: A pilot reported seeing an object over New Mexico shortly after noon local time on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. FAA air traffic controllers did not see any object in the area on their radarscopes.
It is clear, something is not right here.
In the next video FOX46 reports on this event, including the original conversation between the pilot and the Albuquerque Center.
UFO Spotted LIVE in a Storm on a Brazilian Newscast
UFO Spotted LIVE in a Storm on a Brazilian Newscast
The BAND program “Brasil Urgente” was live with the presenter Datena showing the clouds and the rain in São Paulo, when out of nowhere a discoid-shaped object crosses in front of the camera at a great speed where it caught the attention of the presenter. Experts calculate that this object was at a speed twice the speed of Sound, “680 meters per second ie (2,488 km / h)”.
Biggest Reveal: US Govt Admitted Testing Roswell UFO Debris To Create Advanced Technology
Biggest Reveal: US Govt Admitted Testing Roswell UFO Debris To Create Advanced Technology
A stunning explanation is given by American UFO researcher Anthony Bragalia that he had received 150 pages of text from the US Military Intelligence Agency. He filed a request to the US government about the information on UFO debris they possess under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) three years ago and got a reply from them.
He wrote that the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) did not deny the fact that the military recovered the wreckage from the UFO crash site in New Mexico, 1947. It has been revealed officially that the material of the UFO was given to the DIA for analysis, and its properties did not match any material known to man.
Memory Metal image via Ufoexplorations
According to the released information, there was a discussion of a certain material with shape-recovery properties like the “memory metal.”
The people who witnessed this event could not determine what kind of object had fallen in Roswell, and the US government quickly took everything under control by declaring that a meteorological balloon had collapsed near the city, but UFO enthusiasts did not believe this story. Since then, researchers around the world have been collecting bits of information about this event.
Anthony Bragalia, an American ufologist who closely monitors and records all the incidents and encounters with extraterrestrials that are significant, shared his opinion on the topic.
He wrote:
“It appears that the retrieved debris exhibits other extraordinary capabilities. In addition to “remembering” their original form when bent or crushed, some of these futuristic materials have the potential to make things invisible, “compress” electromagnetic energy, and even slow down the speed of light. Although much of the reports’ details are redacted, what can be gleaned is that these technologies represent a literal quantum leap beyond the properties of all existing material known to man.”
Bragalia made a request under FOIA in 2017 and asked the DIA about the physical properties, descriptions, and compositions of the UFO material. In addition, the US Intelligence agency wrote that the material had been analyzed under the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program monitored by Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In the received information, there were several pages discussing some advanced technology connected with nitinol, described as shape recovery alloy. He also noted that the agency’s response contained information on studies of the potential use of nitinol on the human body to improve health.
According to him, the US scientists had planned to create phase diagrams for the manufacture of metal with similar properties (memory effect) using ultra-high-purity titanium and nickel.
Bragalia wrote that the reports he received from the DIA mentioned a special kind of highly-engineered material known as a metamaterial, described as “assemblies of multiple elements fashioned from composite materials such as metals and plastics.” Such material cannot be found in natural occurrences. Interestingly, after two months of the Roswell incident, in September 1947, General George Shulgen of Air Intelligence described “the materials of construction” of the flying saucers as potentially being made of “composite or sandwich construction utilizing various combinations of metal and plastics.”
Unfortunately, there is no clue where the debris of that UFO could be, and also Bigelow Aerospace suddenly laid off all its 85 employees in March of last year.
Although Bragalia did not get satisfactory information from the DIA, he sounded more confident and wrote that he would rechallenge the government, asking them to tell its citizens about the extraordinary extraterrestrial hardware.
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Why Aliens Really Don’t Want To Come To Earth
Why Aliens Really Don’t Want To Come To Earth
If you combine all our current knowledge of statistics and astronomy, it’s nearly comical to believe we’re the only intelligent life in the universe. We decided to break up the mood and do something rather fun – we’ve been really thinking about why aliens may not really want to come to earth – assuming that they’re not already here, of course. This is what we came up with.
THE LANGUAGE
On Earth we speak a lot of different languages and let’s face it, some of them not very well. For the most part we basically slaughter the English language. It seems like every region has its own slang words and words with double meanings.
Not just that, but we have multiple languages on our planet and mastering even one can take some people a lifetime. Imagine if you were an alien and had to communicate with Earthlings in a meaningful way – it would be next to impossible.
Not to mention, humans have extremely poor communication in general. We speak in innuendos and metaphors. We lie, we talk around the truth, and we people please and try to make everyone happy.
To top it off, we use gestures and body language that mean something different depending on where you are in the world. I can’t even begin to comprehend the misunderstandings we’d have trying to communicate with aliens.
WE’RE STILL CONSIDERED A PRIMITIVE SPECIES
If you look at the Kardashev scale, we aren’t even registered as a primitive civilization. Hell, according to renowned scientist Dr. Michio Kaku we’re not even considered a type 1 civilization.
Think about the radio and television waves we’ve been sending into the universe throughout the years. Somewhere in this moment shows like the Kardashians, Teen Mom, and a host of other trashy television shows are hurtling their way through space.
If an alien civilization has the ability to watch these shows, what will they think? What would you think?
The same holds true but for Hitler’s Olympic Speech and other radio transmissions from long ago. They could just be reaching an alien civilization capable of playing them.
So, unless some alien race is on a mission of good will to save us from ourselves, there would be no reason for them to even want to visit a planet populated with what an advanced alien race might consider stupid people. On a lighter note, they could simply not want to bother us.
WE’RE A VIOLENT PLANET
To the casual outside observer we have to be considered an extremely violent society, and they probably wouldn’t be too far from the truth. How many wars have we fought since the dawn of time? Too many to count.
In addition, we are making no attempt whatsoever to hide our violent tendencies from the rest of the Milky Way. Remember when we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan?
Not only were the explosions able to be detected in space, they have left an electromagnetic signature that would be easily recognizable to any advanced civilization.
Not just that, but it would be possible for aliens to detect the gamma radiation coming from all those nuclear warheads countries have stored all over the world.
Think of it this way, if you had your choice to vacation in a warring part of the world or someplace, say, like Hawaii or the Caribbean, where would you go?
It’s the same line of thought for aliens, why go to a planet constantly at war when we could go to a peace – loving planet instead.
A peace loving alien race would want no part of Earth based upon our violent society, culture, civilizations, and governments – and who can blame them? Don’t you ever just wish you could push a button on your shirt and say, “Beam me up, Scotty?”
OUR PLANET COULD BE POISONOUS FOR THEM
Just because we rely on things like oxygen, nitrogen, and our planet’s biology, ecology, and environment to survive, doesn’t mean that our planet wouldn’t be considered toxic to some alien species.
All planets are not the same, and organisms that may exist on other planets have evolved and adapted based upon their planet’s environment and resources and therefore might not be compatible with Earth’s atmosphere and living conditions.
THEY CAN’T GET HERE FROM THERE
As advanced as we would like to think aliens are, the fact remains that not all alien races may be as advanced as we’ve assumed or wished. They literally may not be able to get to us any more than we have the technology or capability to get to them.
While advances are made every day in the world of science, unless they can travel at the speed of thought, aliens landing on Earth may still literally be light years away.
WE HAVE A DEFINATE LACK OF COMMUNICATION
For years we’ve tried to make contact with life on other planets, and organizations, even SETI, the (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is still using the same method that’s been tried for what seems like forever – radio waves.
What if aliens don’t use such primitive means of communication and simply can’t hear us? Our scientists either haven’t fully explored or discovered the use of full spectrum communication, so it could be that there are messages floating around us by the thousands and we’re simply not using the right equipment to hear and decipher them.
So that’s our list, why do you think aliens may not want to come to Earth?
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The Myth And Truth About The 13,000 Year-Old Alien Satellite
The Myth And Truth About The 13,000 Year-Old Alien Satellite
The story begins in 1954, three years before mankind launched its first artificial satellite, the Soviet Sputnik 1.
On May 14, 1954, several newspapers published articles centered on a statement belonging to retired Major D. E. Keyhoe. At the time, Keyhoe believed the Earth was circled by one — if not two artificial satellites.
Scientists at the famous White Sands government facility in New Mexico were actively researching this possibility and trying to determine the purpose and origin of these objects.
Later that summer, Aviation Week magazine attempted to explain the mystery by saying the two satellites’ orbits had been mapped out at an altitude of 400, respectively 600 miles above Earth.
“Pentagon scare over the observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the Earth has dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural, not artificial satellites. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, headed the identification project.
“One satellite is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other track is 600 miles from the Earth. Pentagon thought momentarily the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space explorations.”
Keep in mind that this was all happening during the space race, when spirits were high and tensions were higher. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union fueled the paranoia as each nation raced towards the sky.
Many astronomers suspected a large satellite was indeed orbiting the Earth and by 1960, even the U.S. Department of Defense acknowledged this alien presence.
“WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — An unidentified, silent satellite has been discovered circling the Earth in a near-polar orbit by United States tracking stations, the Defense Department said today. The identity of the mystery satellite — which has been dubbed “the dark satellite” are not known despite nearly two weeks of tracking.”
It wasn’t long before people made the connection between the unknown object and Nikola Tesla. In 1899, he had detected a repeating radio signal and believed it originated in outer space. The enigma surrounding the black satellite was deepened by its strange behavior.
Virtually all the artificial satellites had been launched on West to East orbits (following our planet’s natural rotation) while this one circled Earth on a polar orbit, from North to South. Interestingly enough, polar orbits are employed by modern observational satellites that carry out mapping missions. So, was the Black Knight Satellite an observational unit? If so, who put it there?
1998 NASA photo of an mysterious object believed by some conspiracy theorists to be an extraterrestrial satellite, the “Black Knight.”
Some astronomers who claimed to have observed it said the object would disappear, only to reappear in a different place, traveling along a different orbit. They also reported it was moving twice as fast as any other known satellite.
The Black Knight is often mentioned in conjunction with astronaut Gordon Cooper’s historic flight. In 1963, on the last of his 22 days spent in orbit, Cooper radioed Muchea Tracking Station in Australia, telling them that he was able to see a glowing green object rapidly approaching his capsule.
Although his sighting had received live coverage by the National Broadcasting Company, reporters were forbidden to question him upon his return to Earth. Although Major Cooper was a stern believer in aliens and their presence here on Earth, there is no link between his sighting and the Black Knight.
An interesting yet unverified aspect is the alleged decoding of the radio message the satellite is said to broadcast. As the story goes, ham radio operators who picked up the alien transmission managed to interpret it as a star map that pointed to Epsilon Boötis, a star in the Boötes constellation, located at a distance of 52 light years from Earth. Interestingly enough, in Babylonian mythology, the Boötes constellation was depicted as the god Enlil, the chief divinity among the Anunnaki on Earth.
Almost every article on the Black Knight Satellite mentions its age of 13,000 years without referencing the origin of this claim. In 1973, Scottish astronomer and science fiction writer Duncan Lunan said he had succeeded in decoding the message caught by two Norwegian physicists in the 1920’s.
The message was said to have come from a probe orbiting the Earth in the same Lagrangian point as the Moon and that probe had been sent a long time ago by the inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötis. The message read:
“Start here. Our home is Epsilon Boötes , which is a double star. We live on the sixth planet of seven, coming from the sun, which is the larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has three. Our first and third planets each have one. Our probe is in the position of Arcturus, known in our maps.”
The star Arcturus was pictured in the deciphered star map in the position it occupied 13,000 years ago, hence the supposed age of the Black Knight.
Lunan’s theory was picked up by Time magazine and included in several documentaries. However, in 1976 he acknowledged it was flawed and withdrew it, only to revise and reinterpret part of it in 1998.
There are a number of famous photos that allegedly show the alien satellite. The official explanations for the object they show is that it’s nothing more than a thermal blanket that had come off one of the many satellites we’ve put up there. While this might be the case, it only explains the photos and not the Black Knight itself, as the unknown object had been reported prior to these photos.
Another aspect is that these famous photos show an object far smaller than the one indicated in earlier reports, which was said to be as large as a city block. On a side note, the vimanas portrayed in ancient Hindu texts were of similar size. Perhaps there’s a connection between the two.
And since no one can deny the size and scope of the UFO phenomena, it stands to reason that among all reports of flying saucers in our skies and oceans we can fit one more: a huge alien satellite orbiting above our planet.
Like with most things related to the unexplained, there is an aura of misinformation surrounding the Black Knight Satellite. Keep in mind, this is the internet, the place where things come to get blown out of proportion.
One last thing, before you go. In medieval times, a black knight was one who had no allegiance or opted to hide it by covering his colors and emblems, effectively stating that he served no lord. Quite a fitting name for an enigmatic alien watcher, isn’t it?
The Thirsty UFOs: Aliens Using Water To Power Their Craft
The Thirsty UFOs: Aliens Using Water To Power Their Craft
A number of UFOs have been noted hovering over bodies of water and apparently lowering a tube down to the water and “sucking it up.” These so-called “thirsty UFOs” may be using water to power their craft, may simply need to replenish the on-board water supply much as a commercial jetliner, or, it has been speculated, may be taking water to UFO bases on the Moon.
On July 25, 1952 in Vico, Italy, a man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck.
A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a “green ray” hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later, a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him.
In 1960, another sighting occurred in Syracuse New York when an electronics engineer was fishing, suddenly he heard a shrill, whirring sound and saw a round object, with a rotating light on top, land on the shore.
The sound gradually stopped, an opening became visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out with a hose and pumped water from the river. Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors.
On the sunny July morning in 1965, John Hembling, geologist and exploration manager for a mining company, and a companion geologist stepped from a helicopter atop a mountain ridge in north-central British Columbia they expected it would be another routine day of reconnaissance and survey.
But on this particular day they were to have the unexpected opportunity of making a study of a much different sort.
“It was about 10 o’clock and we had just set up our equipment after the helicopter left,” said Hembling, “when we saw a silvery object, shining in the sun, appear over a small ridge below us. It had a flattened-out look and our first reaction was that it was some kind of delta-wing aircraft. We soon realized it was not.”
Facing west away from the sun, with the object below them about half a mile away, they had a clear view of what was happening.
“The object was about 50 ft. in diameter,” he said. “On top of its dome there was a little knob, and around the base of the dome there were circular markings. They might have been some kind of riveting, or even windows. They were a bit too small to tell.
“Below these, on the face of the disc itself, there were larger rectangular markings which could have been glass or metallic. Our impression was that they were windows. As far as we could see, there were three of them.”
As the two men watched in astonishment, the object moved slowly across the ridge until it was above a small glacial lake, barely more than a pond. Hovering there an instant, it then descended to less than 50ft. above the water.
Again it hovered and, to the men’s further amazement, lowered a pipe-like instrument from its underside into the water. “At first we thought it was something like a rope-ladder,” Hembling said, “but it didn’t just drop down. It came out smoothly and steadily as if under mechanical control.”
During this procedure the observers were conscious of a humming sound from the object “like a quiet electric motor.” With its appendage in the lake, the disc then rotated slowly like a water-borne top until its “windows” faced the two men.
After remaining in that position for about eight minutes—as the men judged it–the object withdrew its “pipe” as carefully as it had lowered it.
“It climbed slowly, then all of a sudden it was off,” Hembling said. “It shot over the ridge, made a sharp turn without skidding and was out of sight in about 20 seconds. We figured it had gone 20 or 25 miles by the time it disappeared.” That would give it a speed of at least 3,600 m.p.h.
In 1969, Voronov, Russia, Heinrich Ivanovich was driving his motorcycle along the Kama River near a wooded area. On the side of the road he noticed a man who suddenly raised his hand as if saluting.
Ivanovich slowed his motorbike and approached the stranger. As he approached he noticed a strange disc-shaped object on the ground close to the stranger. The stranger wore a grayish-metallic overall with thick-soled boots.
The man did not wear a hat and had a short haircut. On his left hand he held a hose-like implement, which was apparently extracting water from the Kama River.
He approached the stranger and both conversed in the Russian language mostly about the propulsion of the object. They also spoke about space constellations. At the end of the encounter the stranger asked Ivanovich to stay back from the object and to just observe it take off. The object had a semi-transparent green colored globular dome on top.
As the stranger approached the object a door appeared on the dome and he entered it, then shut the door. The external disc immediately began to revolve and its outer rim became invisible. The object then rose into the sky and instantly disappeared into thin air.
On May 22, 1973, Japanese student Masaaki Kudou had taken a summer job as a security guard at Tomakomai, on the island of Hokkaido (Japan), at a timber yard near the sea. After a routine patrol around the site that clear, starry night he parked his patrol car, turned off its lights and looked over the lumberyard and the bay beyond.
What seemed at first to be a shooting star coming down toward the bay, suddenly stopped in its tracks, vanished, reappeared, and began to gyrate slowly down over the bay. It stopped about 70 feet (21m) above the water and then lowered a transparent tube toward the water with a soft sound (described as “min-min-min”).
When the tube reached the water, it began to glow. The tube was withdrawn, and the UFO moved to hover over Kudou’s car. Everything around the car was lit up like day. Kudou was afraid the UFO would attack or even kill him.
Leaning over to watch through his windshield, Kudou saw that the UFO was perfectly smooth and glowing white, with windows around it. He could see the shape of humanoid figures through the windows. More brightly lit UFOs and a large, brown cylinder now joined the first.
The spheres maneuvered and vanished into the cylinder, which then sped north. Kudou, who felt as if he had been bound hand and foot, regained his senses. His car radio was making static and he had a severe headache. The entire event lasted about 12 minutes.
Another thirsty UFO popped up on September 30, 1980 at the White Acres Ranch, near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia. The White Acres Ranch is a cattle station of about 600 acres with several large water tanks.
On that night, George Blackwell, a station hand and caretaker, awoke about 1 A.M. to the sound of the farm’s cattle going wild. He could hear a “strange screeching whistling” as well, and got up to investigate. The moon was out on that night and there was no wind at all.
Blackwell saw a domed object about 15 feet tall and 25 feet broad with white top and blue and orange lights. For a while it hovered over a water tank made of concrete about 450 yards from the house. It then came to rest on the ground 20 yards further on.
Blackwell drove a motorcycle to within 50 feet of the craft. There was no effect on his motorcycle, but the whistling from the UFO suddenly rose to deafening heights, and suddenly there was a loud bang and the craft lifted off. At the same time, a blast of hot air nearly knocked Blackwell over.
The UFO dropped some debris as it flew away eastward at the low altitude of only about 100 feet. Blackwell examined the site early the next day and found a ring of blackened grass, flattened in a counter-clockwise direction. Inside the ring was green grass, but the flowers had disappeared. In a line to the east was a trail of debris which comprised some small rocks, weeds and cow dung.
For days afterward Blackwell suffered headaches and nausea, and his watch refused to work normally. Most importantly, Blackwell had discovered the water tank that the UFO had been hovering over had been completely emptied of the 10,000 gallons of water that it had originally held!
In the last 30 years, new sightings have occurred and new information on old sightings has come forth through the Freedom of Information Acts in the U.S., Britain and Australia. “Experts,” as usual, were baffled, especially that high-tech “aliens” would need to slurp up sea water in a Japanese bay. Why do aliens, or their craft, need something so plentiful as water? Could their craft actually be powered by water?
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Atlantis Rising Magazine vol. 55: “Underwater Bases and Alien Civiliation-Is the Answer to the UFO Enigma to Be Found Deep Beneath the Sea? by David H. Childress”
Outer space is one of the biggest unknown entities to human beings, although space agencies around the world do their best to try to discover things that happen outside our planet.
NASA, one of the world's leading space agencies, possesses a system called 'Sentry' which exhaustively monitors asteroids and the possibilities of whether or not any could collide with Earth in the next 100 years.
The American space agency has considered an asteroid called '2009 JF1' to be potentially dangerous. In fact, it is considered the fifth most dangerous star in terms of its size, distance and speed of approach towards planet Earth.
Date and time of possible impact with Earth
NASA has been able to establish the exact date and time of a possible impact with planet Earth.
The day would be May 6, 2022 and the time would be at 8:34 in the morning (Spanish Peninsular Time).
Asteroid 2009 JF1 is not that big but it travels at a very high speed of 23.92 kilometres per second, almost twice that of the most dangerous asteroid that exists, which is expected to impact Earth in the year 2880.
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy
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IMAGE: VISUALIZATION OF THE RADCLIFFE WAVE: A MASSIVE, WAVE-SHAPED GASEOUS STRUCTURE MADE UP OF STELLAR NURSERIES, FORMING ONE OF THE LARGEST COHERENT STRUCTURES EVER OBSERVED IN OUR GALAXY. This image, taken from the World Wide Telescope, represents the study data overlaid on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way and our sun.
CREDIT: ALYSSA GOODMAN / HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure - the largest ever seen in our galaxy - made up of interconnected stellar nurseries. Dubbed the "Radcliffe wave" in honor of the collaboration's home base, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the discovery transforms a 150-year-old vision of nearby stellar nurseries as an expanding ring into one featuring an undulating, star-forming filament that reaches trillions of miles above and below the galactic disk.
The work, published in Nature on 7 January, was enabled by a new analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, launched in 2013 with the mission of precisely measuring the position, distance, and motion of the stars. The research team combined the super-accurate data from Gaia with other measurements to construct a detailed, 3D map of interstellar matter in the Milky Way, and noticed an unexpected pattern in the spiral arm closest to the Earth.
The researchers discovered a long, thin structure, about 9,000 light years long and 400 light years wide, with a wave-like shape, cresting 500 light years above and below the mid-plane of our Galaxy's disk. The Wave includes many of the stellar nurseries that were previously thought to form part of "Gould's Belt", a band of star-forming regions believed to be oriented around the Sun in a ring.
"No astronomer expected that we live next to a giant, wave-like collection of gas - or that it forms the Local Arm of the Milky Way," said Alyssa Goodman, the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution, and co-director of the Science Program at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. "We were completely shocked when we first realized how long and straight the Radcliffe Wave is, looking down on it from above in 3D - but how sinusoidal it is when viewed from Earth. The Wave's very existence is forcing us to rethink our understanding of the Milky Way's 3D structure."
"Gould and Herschel both observed bright stars forming in an arc projected on the sky, so for a long time, people have been trying to figure out if these molecular clouds actually form a ring in 3D," said João Alves, professor of stellar astrophysics at the University of Vienna and Radcliffe Fellow (2018-2019). "Instead, what we've observed is the largest coherent gas structure we know of in the galaxy, organized not in a ring but in a massive, undulating filament. The Sun lies only 500 light years from the Wave at its closest point. It's been right in front of our eyes all the time, but we couldn't see it until now."
The new, 3D map shows our galactic neighborhood in a new light, giving researchers a revised view of the Milky Way and opening the door to other major discoveries.
"We don't know what causes this shape but it could be like a ripple in a pond, as if something extraordinarily massive landed in our galaxy," said Alves. "What we do know is that our Sun interacts with this structure. It passed by a festival of supernovae as it crossed Orion 13 million years ago, and in another 13 million years it will cross the structure again, sort of like we are 'surfing the wave'."
An insider's view of the galaxy
Disentangling structures in the "dusty" galactic neighborhood within which we sit is a long-standing challenge in astronomy. In earlier studies, the research group of Douglas Finkbeiner, professor of astronomy and physics at Harvard, pioneered advanced statistical techniques to map the 3D distribution of dust using vast surveys of stars' colors. Armed with new data from Gaia, Harvard graduate students Catherine Zucker and Joshua Speagle recently augmented these techniques, dramatically improving the ability of astronomers to measure distances to star-forming regions. That work, led by Zucker, is published in the Astrophysical Journal.
"We suspected there might be larger structures that we just couldn't put in context. So, to create an accurate map of our solar neighborhood, we combined observations from space telescopes like Gaia with astrostatistics, data visualization, and numerical simulations." explained Zucker, who is an NSF Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences based in Harvard's department of Astronomy.
Zucker played a key role in compiling the largest-ever catalog of accurate distances to local stellar nurseries - the basis for the 3D map used in the study. She has set herself the goal of painting a new picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, near and far. "We pulled this team together so we could go beyond processing and tabulating the data to actively visualizing it - not just for ourselves but for everyone. Now, we can literally see the Milky Way with new eyes," she said.
"Studying stellar births is complicated by imperfect data. We risk getting the details wrong, because if you're confused about distance, you're confused about size." said Finkbeiner.
Goodman agreed, "All of the stars in the universe, including our Sun, are formed in dynamic, collapsing, clouds of gas and dust. But determining how much mass the clouds have, how large they are - has been difficult, because these properties depend on how far away the cloud is."
A universe of data
According to Goodman, scientists have been studying dense clouds of gas and dust between the stars for over a hundred years, zooming in on these regions with ever-higher resolution. Before Gaia, there were no significant datasets expansive enough to reveal the galaxy's structure on large scales. Since its launch in 2013, the space observatory has enabled measurements of the distances to one billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
The flood of data from Gaia served as the perfect testbed for innovative, new statistical methods that reveal the shape of local stellar nurseries and their connection to the Milky Way's galactic structure. In this data-science-oriented collaboration, the Finkbeiner, Alves, and Goodman groups collaborated closely. The Finkbeiner group developed the statistical framework needed to infer the 3D distribution of the dust clouds; the Alves group contributed deep expertise on stars, star formation, and Gaia; and the Goodman group developed the 3D visualizations and analytic framework, called "glue", that allowed the Radcliffe Wave to be seen, explored, and quantitatively described.
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One strange phenomenon associated with UFO abductions is the mystery of missing time, when people experience a jump forward in time without realizing where they have been and unaware that any time has passed at all. Such cases are many, and one odd one comes to us from the year1966. On October 1, 1966, 19-year-old First Class Airman Robert Matthews arrived at a bus stop in the Cape Cod village of North Truro, Massachusetts, at 8:45 am in order to be picked up and ride off to his very first tour with the U.S. Air Force at the nearby base. He was already nervous enough to begin with, but became more so when he realized that no one was there to pick him up and the area seemed deserted. He called the base from a phone booth and they told him a truck was already on the way to get him and that he should wait there, as it would only take a few minutes. It seemed normal enough at first, but from there things would get very strange, indeed, unfolding into a weird case of missing time and alien abduction.
Lights seen by Robert Matthews
As Matthews waited for the truck, he noticed “strange lights moving from right to left across the sky,” and felt an irrational fear begin to spread through him. While the lights were certainly odd, he was not sure where this sudden, overbearing feeling of dread was coming from, and in a slight panic he called the base back and asked how long it would be before the truck arrived. The base personnel that took the call was confused by this, as he informed Matthews that the truck had already been there to pick him up and hadn’t seen him. Matthews insisted he had been standing there the whole time and had not left the phone booth, but had seen no truck, and that was when he realized with a certain pang of panic that the time was now 9:45 am, which didn’t make any sense as he had just called the base the first time not 5 minutes before. Or so he thought.
When Matthews got to the base he was extensively questioned on where he had been when the truck arrived to pick him up, but he honestly had no idea. In his mind he had been standing there for only around 5 minutes, had seen the lights, and then had called the base again to ask where the truck was. He was not aware at all that a full hour had passed between those calls and he was sure that he had not left the designated pick up spot. Officials at the base didn’t believe him, thinking that he had been drinking or was making up a tall tale, but Matthews stuck to his story. After this it was sort of forgotten about, he went to work at the base, and would later serve in the Vietnam War, but through the years that strange incident gnawed away at the back of his mind. He became more and more certain that his bizarre bout of missing time had some connection to the lights he had seen, and he had some vague fragments in his mind of strange faces and a medical room, but he couldn’t quite figure out exactly what had happened. Years later he would by pure chance come across a book by notable ufologist Budd Hopkins, and Matthews would have a sort of epiphany, of which he has said:
I was on vacation looking for something to read and on the shelf there in front of me, I saw this book with this creature on it you know. I read the book and I thought someone had stepped into my head and taken my innermost fears and put them in a book. It brought tears to my eyes, you know, I couldn’t believe this was actually happening to someone else.
He contacted Hopkins immediately, and after several interviews the ufologist became convinced that Matthews was experiencing a case of missing time caused by an alien abduction. This is a condition frequently suffered by UFO abductees, in which they have little to no memory of what has happened during their ordeal, thought to be because the aliens have perhaps wiped their memory, often waking up later with no idea of where they’ve been, or in many cases not even realizing that anything has happened at all until they look at a clock and see that so much lost time has passed. Hopkins has said of it:
It is not perceived as a break in which something happens and then a resumption. It is… remembered as continuous and… the half hour trip… turns out to be a two hour trip or whatever, and this is sometimes experienced in conjunction with a UFO sighting or something like a light, but not always.
Hopkins was very familiar with this phenomenon, as he was rather well-known for dealing with missing time cases, had written two books on it called Intruders and Missing Time, and had even organized support groups for these people so they could compare their amazing and often terrifying stories. From his experience, Hopkins suspected that the memories of what had happened during that missing hour were likely still there somewhere in Matthews’ head, and that the best way to dredge them up was through hypnosis. Matthews would agree to be hypnotized and things would get weirder still. Under hypnosis, Matthews could recall many more details of what had happened. He explained that one of the lights he had seen had approached him at a rapid pace, and that it was some sort of otherworldly flying craft. This craft had then landed and a ramp had lowered, revealing three odd-looking beings standing within. Matthews said that these entities had led him into the craft, where he was examined in a room that looked like a sterile medical room of some kind. According to Matthews, the apparent aliens looked at his chest, took samples from his body, and probed him, before depositing him back where they had found them when they were through. Interestingly, Hopkins also learned that Matthews had had another abduction when he was just a child, of which he says:
This was not the only UFO encounter that Robert had in his life. When he was about five or six years old, he saw a green glowing figure in his bedroom, and he tried to scream but nothing came out and he thought he lost his voice and hearing, then all of a sudden, the figure came towards him lifted up his pajamas and then did something to his chest, but when he told his mother, she didn’t believe him.
Hopkins certainly seems to believe him, deeming him a solid example of the missing time phenomenon considering there were indirect witnesses to the incident in the military truck that arrived at that phone booth to find no one there. What is really going on here? Was Mathews really a victim of an alien abduction or is this just a misunderstanding or even a prank he played? If it was a prank it was a dangerous one to pull considering he was reporting for his first day on duty. We will probably never really know for sure what happened on that day, but Mathews’ case adds to the ever growing pile of similar cases of missing time in relation to UFO phenomena, which gets no less stranger and which is no more closer to being fully understood.
A television network in Brazil is riding high on the attention it is receiving over what appeared to be a UFO flying over Sao Paulo that was not only broadcast during a network news program but seemed to have rattled the presenter who also saw it and referred to the object as “flying saucer.” The event was big enough that other Brazilian media sites rebroadcast it … with none offering an official explanation. The same is true for the paranormal and UFO sites that covered it. What did presenter José Luiz Datena and the audience of his show see flying at an unusually fast speed over Sao Paulo?
“Look at the plane passing there. It is a plane or flying saucer. It cannot be flying saucer because when the program starts talking about flying saucer it is because it is over, already comes out of the air. So it’s not a flying saucer, it’s an airplane.” (Google translation)
That’s some weather report José Luiz Datena gave Brazilians on February 16 watching the daily show Brazil Urgente. It was during his showing of the rain over Sao Paulo when the strange object zipped from right-to-left across the screen, catching his attention. While he seems to realize what he said and correct it quickly, first impressions say a lot. (Watch the video here.) The video was quickly posted on social media and picked up by other media news sources.
“As unlikely as it may be, the scene was spotted by the Brazil Urgent team and proved by internet followers, in scenes that went viral on social networks, showing that the Band team probably captured exclusive images of a UFO. Known as the Unidentified Flying Object, the body does not look like a drone or an aircraft, and has raised suspicions that it is a kind of spaceship. Filming the object live, the presenter made a point of commenting live what he was seeing, which scared the viewers. Live, José Luiz Datena commented what he imagined when he saw the scene, and that perhaps he would have been confused. In order not to scare the public, he said it was an airplane.”(Google translation)
What’s missing from the media coverage is a verified explanation of what the UFO really was. Needless to say, the UFO and paranormal sites like The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 and UFOmania have opinions, especially in the comments, which point out that the object appears to be traveling at Mach 2 or two times the speed of sound, and looks like a cigar or the Tic Tac UFO. Those sites and the publicity seemed to please José Luiz Datena, who said on Twitter:
“Meu amigos, será que um ovni passou ao vivo no #BrasilUrgente? Estão dizendo que sim! Assista ao vídeo: https://youtu.be/ePzo56BdOhU
(My friends, did a UFO live on #BrasilUrgente? They are saying yes! Watch the video: https://youtu.be/ePzo56BdOhU)”
Has he changed his mind from airplane back to flying saucer? Again, a search found no official explanation for the UFO. The Daily Star magnified a photo to the edge of blurriness and it’s impossible to positively identity it. The speed seems to rule out a blimp, the shape seems to rule out a passenger or military jet or even a bug or bird. It could have been a camera glitch – something the network might not want to admit. That leaves … a hoax? Would a reputable news organization like Rede Bandeirantes (which broadcasts Brasil Urgente) or a longtime journalist like José Luiz Datena pull a UFO hoax … on a day that’s not April 1? That leaves … an unidentified flying object.
Without any evidence or testimony other than the video, this observer leans towards a bird flying close enough to the camera to distort the perspective, but far enough away to distort its image. What do you think?
The crew of American Airlines Flight 2292 (Airbus A320) witnessed something very odd during a trip from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Phoenix, Arizona. The crew members encountered a mysterious object while they were flying over the remote northeastern corner of New Mexico – located west of the small village of Des Moines.
They noticed the strange object flying over their plane while they were traveling at an altitude of 36,000 feet and a speed of 400 knots. They described it as being a “long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile” and that it was traveling at an exceptionally fast speed.
Experienced radio interceptor Steve Douglass stated that he listened to the flight transmission on his scanners and provided The War Zone with more than an hour of that audio. According to Steve’s blog, he wrote in part, “At approximately 1:19 CST… the pilot reported: “Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us – I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.”
He finished off by writing, “No significant military aircraft presence was noted on ADS-B logs. The aircraft flew on to land in Phoenix, AZ.”
The War Zone is trying to authenticate the audio from the FAA and have contacted American Airlines with no response from either companies as of yet.
Since the White Sands Missile Range and several other military facilities are located in New Mexico, some people believe that what the crew witnessed was nothing more than a missile that went off course during testing; however, that seemed very unlikely as the pilots would have been immediately notified.
A secret military aircraft is another possibility but that theory is also highly unlikely because just like the missile hypothesis, the pilots would have been warned that the craft was in the area.
Interestingly, their encounter with the mysterious cylindrical object is eerily similar to another event that happened around the same area three years ago. In the afternoon of February 24, 2018, N71PG (Learjet 36) and American Airlines Flight 1095 (Airbus A321) both encountered an unidentified object traveling at a height of about 40,000 feet. The encounters occurred between the Sonoran Desert National Monument and the New Mexico border.
The fact that two strange encounters occurred around the same area almost exactly three years apart is pretty astonishing. So what did these pilots witness? Was it a UFO or something man-made like a missile or secret aircraft? There are many unknown answers at this point as the mystery continues…
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When we made a tour of the West coast of the USA a few years ago
(2017), we witnessed a strange phenomenon .. When we drove through
the desolate desert towards LA, we saw a drone (cfr bombing) on low
fly past altitude. These pilots probably witnessed a test flight with a
It’s still winter in the Northern Hemisphere – far too early for crops and crop circles – so whoever or whatever makes them made the best of bad weather in Alabama and created some mysterious and beautiful circles on a frozen creek, not a state where it generally gets cold enough for creeks or lakes to freeze. Ice and weather experts are baffled. Could these ice circles be a warning from aliens to start paying attention to climate change?
The other crop circles
“First thing I do in the mornings when I get up is open our shutters to look at the water from our bedroom window. I was so surprised. It appeared a bit frightening, since we had no idea what caused it. We quickly went outside onto our deck and then to our lower deck to see this amazing sight. It looked like crop circles you might see when you are looking from an airplane.”
So began a very unusual February 18th for Wynelle Kirkham of Rogersville, 45 miles west of Huntsville. She told a reporter who saw the photos on Facebook that she and her husband lived in their home on a 60-foot bluff facing the 200-yard-wide Anderson Creek for 15 years and have never seen anything like that view on February 18th. After analyzing the photos (see them here), local meteorologist Kate McKenna gave her professional opinion that creek froze near the shoreline first because it’s shallow there, followed by the wind blowing thin pieces of ice to the middle.
The creek is 200 yards wide and the pattern was spread as far as Wynelle Kirkman could see.
WYNELLE KIRKHAM PHOTO
As that process repeated itself overnight, the concentric rings formed like those inside a tree. However, she emphasized that this was just a “theory” and opened the floor to other meteorologists.
“This pattern occurs when moving water forces the forming ice to slowly rotate. Shear is involved … When on one side of the creek you have water that’s moving faster than on the other side causing the ice to form in swirls.”
James Spann, a meteorologist at a competing station, didn’t like the broken sheets of ice theory and blamed the circles all one the wind and freezing water. Followers of all posters argued as well, with many preferring the same aliens blamed for the crop circles in England and other European countries. No one seemed to think they were human-made – no footprints or frozen bodies bobbing in the middle of them.
Ice circles are rare but not unheard of. In 2019, a giant mysterious figure appeared on the ice on the south side of Qinghai Lake, a salt lake in Haitai, China. Ice on a salt lake? That’s mysterious enough, but the ice circles also had a shape that seemed oddly familiar – they looked suspiciously like the logo of an automotive company called AION. How did they do it? You probably had to buy a car to find out. Siberia’s mysterious Lake Baikal is well known for its ice rings which defied explanation until 2020 when underwater sensors found warm eddies swarming in circles under the ice, making the rings.
Both Qinghai Lake and Lake Baikal have had ice circles that could be explained. Will the mysterious rings on Anderson Creek be solved before the weather returns to normal and they’re never seen again?
Honderd procent bewezen na Belgisch onderzoek: meteoriet deed dinosauriërs uitsterven
Het staat nu na Belgisch onderzoek helemaal vast: de inslag van een grote meteoriet in de Golf van Mexico zorgde 66 miljoen jaar geleden wel degelijk voor een wereldwijde stofwolk die rechtstreeks verantwoordelijk was voor het uitsterven van de dinosauriërs.
Een team van wetenschappers onder leiding van Steven Goderis van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel vond in een boorkern in de inslagkrater een laag planetoïdenstof. Dat is hetzelfde stof dat zich wereldwijd in gesteenten van dezelfde leeftijd heeft afgezet.
"Kenmerkend voor dat planetoïdenstof is de aanwezigheid van het chemisch element iridium", zegt Goderis. "Iridium komt op aarde wel voor, maar zo goed als niet in de aardkorst. Enkel in de kern van de planeet. Als je iridium vindt, dan mag je er zeker van zijn dat die van buiten de aarde komt." Goderis is de auteur van een artikel dat gisteren verscheen in het belangrijke wetenschappelijke tijdschrift ‘Science Advances’.
In de jaren ‘80 werd de aanwezigheid van iridium in bepaalde geologische lagen bevestigd. Er waren toen al vermoedens dat het in verband kon worden gebracht met de inslag van een grote meteoriet die voor een grote extinctiegolf op aarde had gezorgd.
Formaat van Brussel
De aanwezigheid van een dik pakket van het stof in de Chicxulub-krater kan volgens de wetenschappers als sluitend bewijs gelden voor het oorzakelijk verband tussen de inslag en de uitstervingsgolf die erop volgde. "De meteoriet die toen neerstortte, had een formaat die ongeveer even groot was als Brussel", zegt mede-auteur Niels de Winter (VUB/Universiteit Utrecht). "Dat zorgde voor een enorme stofwolk die de aarde zeker voor een jaar in duisternis hulde. Het stof sloeg daarna gedurende jaren langzaam neer. Je vindt er nu overal op aarde de geologische resten van, van in Mexico en de VS tot in Italië.”
De lange winter die op de inslag volgde, was er te veel aan voor de koudbloedige dinosauriërs. Ook heel veel andere soorten overleefden de donkere koudegolf niet.
“De kans dat een meteoriet nog eens op aarde inslaat, is 100 procent”, stelt onze wetenschapsexpert Martijn Peters. “De grote vraag is wanneer dat nog eens gebeurt. Voorlopig is er niets op de radar gespot van die grootte dat ons zou kunnen raken. Meteorieten zijn als het ware de alfa en omega. Ze brengen leven naar planeten, maar beëindigen het daar ook.”
Bekijk ook: Is dit de grootste dinosaurus die ooit werd gevonden?
NASA deelt eerste 360°-panoramafoto in hoge kwaliteit vanop Mars
Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA heeft een indrukwekkende panoramafoto gedeeld die marsrover Perseverance gemaakt heeft vanop het oppervlak van de planeet Mars.
De afbeelding toont een verlaten gebied met geologische formaties, waaronder de rand van de Jezero-krater. Daarvan zeggen wetenschappers dat hij mogelijk ooit overspoeld was door water. De hoop bestaat daar sporen van vroeger microbiologisch leven te vinden.
Volgens NASA kan het zeer professionele camerasysteem aan boord van de Perseverance helpen om de atmosferische toestand in kaart te brengen. Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap heeft als specifiek doel om sporen van leven op de rode planeet te vinden.
Wie de panoramafoto tot in het kleinste detail wil bekijken, kan dat via de website van NASA.
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Ancient Pyramids, Power Plants of the Gods & Communication Devices to Different Dimensions
Ancient Pyramids, Power Plants of the Gods & Communication Devices to Different Dimensions
Micah T. Dank was born in 1983 in Oceanside New York. From a young age he had wanted to be a writer, coming from a family of writers. His father was a producer and radio news editor at CBS News in Manhattan and his grandfather was a Producer at CBS News. Micah was an actor in High School and became interested in writing from his 12th grade English teacher Russell Reid.
From there he majored in English at SUNY Albany and transferred down to CUNY Hunter College in Manhattan to earn his Bachelors degree in ‘Language Literature and Criticism’. It wasn’t until he moved to Boston for a new job that he became interested in all the esoteric sciences including the astrology and astrotheology prevalent through his book series.
I have been personally for years studying the New World Order and all of the Networks, and Systems in which encompasses the long puzzle it takes us that never seems to end.
Most of you know all about the FEMA Concentration Camps or what may be used as Quarantine Camps very soon for those refusing to accept what I believe will be a forced vaccination.
Two years ago, I came across a DEEP UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASE (“DUMB.”) There are over at least 145 of these in the United States alone.
But one that was recently built within the last decade has stuck out. It is West of Atlanta, GA in a small community known as Yorkville, GA.
This is the South’s Terminus for many Hubs. There are several websites clarifying this information. The Tunnels from this Bunker run from Walmart’s in which are also in cooperation with the New World Order. One of the Walmart Tunnels is under the Douglasville, GA Walmart and the Construction has been scene by many during its first stage. ++
In order to further protect the homeland and ensure the safety of it’s citizens in case of nuclear, biological, or chemical attack, a join venture of the NSA, DOD, MiB, DHS, CICs, DFCS, and BK has created an expansive tunnel system throughout the south.
These tunnels will also serve as conduits for national defense to rapidly move troops, supplies, and armor throughout the nation between strategic topographical locations. A map of the believed military and government installations affected and connected by this tunnel system: Paulding County, Georgia, is said to be the central location of the project. Yorkville, Georgia is to be a terminus of sorts for the hubs in: Anniston, AL Raleigh-Durham, NC Greenville-Spartanburg, SC Macon, GA Lookout Mountain, TN Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA Wal-Mart’s involvement in the project has not yet been officially commented on, but it is generally perceived that Wal-Marts in these areas are staging areas for the tunnel project. It is to be noted that this project is under a great deal of scrutiny by those who live near the ongoing construction project.
Analysts do not believe the project will be available for public use, and will not be publicly acknowledged (rumors of usage by NASA for its installation in Huntsville, AL have been found to be true).
At Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA there are five stories of underground Facilities that this Terminus connects to. Nobody knows what’s in there.
Also, there is one in Forest Park, Kennesaw Mountain according to Author Richard Sauder, P.H.D. in his Book “Under Ground Bases and Tunnels What is the Government Trying to Hide?”
This is one of three of his books on UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES IN AMERICA AND INTERNATIONALLY that connect in America. Yes, you read this correctly these Tunnels are Internationally connected and connect in America for the Illuminati. Recently the Military has been training in Underground Warfare Exercises, what could this be for? Defending a Underground Tunnel System or Base?
Please pass this article on to everybody you know and can wake them up.
FACT:there are hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels and bases beneath north America. We don’t know their purpose, so all we have is conspiracy theories, and some of these hypotheses are highly speculative, further clouding the issue. Whatever it’s for, it must be important.
The evidence is conclusive, comprising photos, videos, countless eyewitness testimonies (including written statements from contractors who worked underground) and even a detailed map of the network from a declassified Russian intelligence file. This body of evidence would stand up in a court of law. And yet, most people are ignoring it, probably because it sounds so outrageous they assume it can’t be true. Superimpose over maps of Walmart sites to reveal stores arranged in straight lines and a relationship too extensive to be a coincidence. Sounds crazy, right? But remember, sounding crazy doesn’t make something implicitly untrue. The Governor of Texas was sufficiently alarmed to order the state guard to monitor the US military.
A serving member of the US military videotaped a flying saucer in North Carolina on the night of February 6, 2021. He uses the pseudonym JP, and I have known him since 2008 when he first contacted me about an extraterrestrial encounter in Brazil. JP has previously supplied me many photographs and videos of different shaped antigravity craft and encounters with their occupants.
Dr Michio Kaku – Now Nibiru is a Big Problem For All of Us — Is Increase in Earthquakes Across Globe: Is the Cause of all this Extreme Weather ?
Dr Michio Kaku – Now Nibiru is a Big Problem For All of Us — Is Increase in Earthquakes Across Globe: Is the Cause of all this Extreme Weather ?
Although the planet has not even been confirmed by scientists, some believe that there is an elusive planet in our solar system which has a huge orbit and such a strong magnetic pull that it can effect life on Earth.
Researchers dealing with the issue of Planet X or as it is called the planet Nibiru, said that this mysterious planet is inexorably approaching the Earth and from September 2020 to January 2021 on our planet due to the impact of Nibiru, there will be a catastrophic and irreversible changes.
Michio Kaku and the others of you that publicize doomsday scenarios !
Many experts often talks about natural events that could make humans extinct. Asteroid impacts. Supernovae. Gamma ray bursts. Climate change. Or human caused, nuclear war. He has an agenda here, because he wants us to go into space. They thinks the future of humanity is in space, and he thinks this is how we can escape from disasters that could make Earth uninhabitable. But you don’t have to motivate humans in space in this way. You can motivate it just as well as a way to move heavy industry into space, to protect Earth from asteroids, for knowledge, for resources from the Moon and asteroids, for the search for biology based on different principles from DNA, for adventure and tourism, in many other ways.
By calculations of experts already on the Ground is a significant influence of Nibiru on our planet by 1 degree per day, and 14th OCTOBER 2020 this figure will reach 25 degrees.
The approach of planet X will cause a pole shift of the earth that will lead to catastrophic melting of glaciers and the incredible magnitude of the rise in global sea level. Huge waves with a height of over 100 meters, fall on the continents and destroy everything alive.
The earth will be shaken by a mega-earthquake the magnitude of which will exceed 11 points on the Richter scale, and on the surface of the planet will rage giant storms and hurricane-force winds of great power. Volcanoes of the planet will begin eruption – all at once, including the famous super volcano Yellowstone. The warm Gulf stream will stop and the Earth will begin a terrible ice age.
Skywatch Media News says that Planet X is bound for Earth after completing half of its 3,600-year elliptical orbit.
It says that the magnetic force of Planet X is so strong that it can effect anything within 48.6 astronomical units (AU) of it – one AU is the distance between Earth and the Sun.
With the planet having completed the first half of its elliptical orbit, it is heading back towards Earth and its strong magnetic pull is causing problems already.
An outrageous theory about a rogue Planet X, known as Nibiru, claims that the colossal planet will pass earth to start the apocalypse.
The main purveyor of the doomsday prophecy is Christian numerologist David Meade who published his theories in his book, Planet X – .
The author has spectacularly claimed that Nibiru’s approach will match an astrological constellation from the biblical Book of Revelation.
But on the eve of the apocalypse, Mr Meade has come out to claim that actually, the world is not about to end.
Nibiru is a proposed large planet that conspiracy theorists have predicted will crash into and destroy Earth. Many prognostications had the cataclysm occurring in 2012, to coincide with the supposed “Mayan apocalypse.”
“The world is not ending, but the world as we know it is ending,” he told The Washington Post. “A major part of the world will not be the same on next year.”
We see that Nibiru’s black magnetic shell represents a protective region with such dense magnetism that it permits no light, visible or invisible, to pass through it, except for the intense radiation from the core. The core, at the centre of which resides Nibiru itself, appears to be a self-contained area that, relative to the absolute coldness of the shell, must be very hot or radioactive (meaning high luminous or light activity). Indeed, it is so radioactive that it is emitting very powerful radiation beams or gamma ray bursts from both poles, which are acting as relief valves to eject any excess radiation being generated within the core. Typically, only some of the universe’s most powerful entities or events detected by modern science, such as supernovas, neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, black stars (so-called ‘black holes’) and even entire galaxies, are known to emit gamma ray bursts. Nibiru’s GRBs are still minuscule in comparison with those of these humongous stellar objects, but the fact that it emits them at all is extraordinary!
As for the outer magnetic field, it is now close enough for the left edge of it (from Earth’s POV) to completely overtake Saturn. It reached the planet on about 1 December 2019, causing super-massive storms to rage across its atmosphere and forcing the solar system’s second largest planet to tilt away from normal by almost 90° ! NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a massive, nearly invisible ring around Saturn. The ring’s orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet’s main ring plane. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends outward another 7.4 million miles (12 million km). This is not actually a completely new ring like Nasa thinks. It was formed from dust and debris pulled by the approaching Nibiru’s magnetic force from the original rings of Saturn. Saturn’s own magnetism kept the dust particles in an orbit around it and thus forming a ‘new’ ring.
The “Arrival” of Nibiru – NASA official images
Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shoots out a huge jet of water, ice, dust and gas from a huge crack on its surface. Picture taken on 1 December 2010. The giant crack first appeared around October 2008 , which is the same period that large sink holes also appeared on Enceladus’ surface . Elenin was closest to Saturn around this time as it approached it on its way to the inner solar system. The object is having the same effect on Earth as it nears us, causing huge sinkholes and cracks to appear on the land in many countries.
Titan and Dione during 5April 2010 Cassini flyby with the red glow from Nibiru lurking behind the shadow of Titan as the giant approached Saturn – the red glow seems to be causing a green light on the night side of Titan’s atmosphere. Note the black smudge behind Dione to conceal whatever is casting the red glow. The formidable magnetism of Nibiru has indeed tilted Saturn, the second largest planet in our solar system, by up to 90° away from its natural inclination.
Another thing we’ve observed is that the tilt of Saturn is noticeably more pronounced in some earlier images more than later ones. This may be because Nibiru’s magnetism pulses, both increasing and receding in steady cadence like waves hitting a beach, and like waves some are stronger (causing a more severe tilt) than others (causing a slighter tilt).
The Pioneer Anomaly
Pioneer 10’s trajectory from Saturn orbit to Uranus orbit and the point when it encountered a mysterious force – dubbed the Pioneer anomaly by baffled Nasa scientists – that gently pushed against it in the opposite direction back towards the Sun and effectively decelerating its forward momentum. Pioneer was travelling towards the right of Nibiru at this point when the massive object was 66.8 (58.8 + 8) AU from the Sun. This tells us two things:
(1) that Nibiru’s outer magnetic force (drawn as a dark red circle in the image above) is so strong it can affect objects 46.8 AU from Nibiru (Pioneer’s approx distance from it at the time), way beyond the central and certainly much stronger magnetic field (the purple circle) that we’ve calculated spans about 16 AU with a reach or radius of only 8 AU (2) that Nibiru’s magnetism rotates in a clockwise fashion, because that is the only way it could push Pioneer back when the deep space probe was flying to the right of it. If it rotated anticlockwise and the Pioneer 10 was travelling in the same direction it would push the probe slightly forward and to the right of its trajectory – so the effect would have been the opposite as the probe would seen to be slightly accelerating, not decelerating, in its drift.
It is interesting that the Pioneer case reveals that Nibiru has a much larger magnetic field or magnetic affect than the one that extends 8 AU from its centre. The hurricane/cyclone analogy will serve useful here to better understand what we’re seeing here. A hurricane or cyclone has four basic components: the eye, the inner eye wall, the outer eye wall and the peripheral rainbands.
We can now see why this Nibiru object has been disturbing the Earth and the rest of the solar system for a long time now. It is because its outer ‘rainbands’ have been hitting us again and again in gradual ever stronger series of waves as it floods the Sun’s magnetic field (the solar system) with its own. The two magnetic fields directly oppose each other and have reverse polarities, with Nibiru’s spinning in a clockwise fashion as opposed to the Sun’s counter-clockwise rotation. The computer-generated image below gives us a good schematic visual of how Nibiru’s clockwise-rotating magnetic field should look like if we could see it in detail. Like a cyclone, Nibiru’s strongest magnetic ‘winds’ are on its right-hand side (from our perspective). Unfortunately for us, Nibiru is approaching us from the left-hand side (of the Sun, from our perspective). This means we will be encountering the strongest magnetic whirls from Nibiru, because we will be in the right-hand side of its core as it approaches us.
Another effect Nibiru would have is that it will slow down Earth’s counter-clockwise orbit round the Sun. We will be hit by the strong right-hand side, which is also the ‘pushing’ side. Like it did to Pioneer 10, this side will try to push us in the opposite direction of our orbit. The Sun’s opposing magnetism will largely prevent that, being stronger than Nibiru’s, so the overall effect of the magnetic push is to slow us down more and more as the object gets closer and closer.
NASA have announced that the Earth may be about to experience a pole shift, leaving it unable to defend itself against solar radiation for up to 200 years, which would have devastating consequences for humans.
Will the Sun turn Black in 2020? Are we seeing changes with the sun’s behavior? There very well may be a good reason for this. Nemesis the brown dwarf star, Originally postulated in 1984 to be orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 95,000 AU (1.5 light-years), somewhat beyond the Oort cloud, to explain a perceived cycle of mass extinctions in the geological record, which seem to occur more often at intervals of 26 million years.
Two teams of astronomers, Daniel P. Whitmire and Albert A. Jackson IV, and Marc Davis, Piet Hut, and Richard A. Muller, independently published similar hypotheses to explain Raup and Sepkoski’s extinction periodicity in the same issue of the journal Nature. This hypothesis proposes that the Sun may have an undetected companion star in a highly elliptical orbit that periodically disturbs comets in the Oort cloud, causing a large increase of the number of comets visiting the inner Solar System with a consequential increase of impact events on Earth. This became known as the “Nemesis” or “Death Star” hypothesis.
If it does exist, the exact nature of Nemesis is uncertain. Muller suggests that the most likely object is a red dwarf with an apparent magnitude between 7 and 12 while Daniel P. Whitmire and Albert A. Jackson argue for a brown dwarf. If a red dwarf, it would exist in star catalogs, but it would only be confirmed by measuring its parallax; due to orbiting the Sun it would have a low proper motion and would escape detection by older proper motion surveys that have found stars like the 9th-magnitude Barnard’s star. (The proper motion of Barnard’s star was.
Muller, referring to the date of a recent extinction at 11 million years before the present day, posits that Nemesis has a semi-major axis of about 1.5 light-years (95,000 AU) and suggests it is located (supported by Yarris, 1987) near Hydra, based on a hypothetical orbit derived from original apogees of a number of atypical long-period comets that describe an orbital arc meeting the specifications of Muller’s hypothesis. Richard Muller’s most recent paper relevant to the Nemesis theory was published in 2002. In 2002, Muller speculated that Nemesis was perturbed 400 million years ago by a passing star from a circular orbit into an orbit with an eccentricity of 0.7.
Using newer and more powerful infrared telescope technology, able to detect brown dwarfs as cool as 150 kelvins out to a distance of 10 light-years from the Sun, results from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE survey) have not detected Nemesis yet, but they are still looking.
Is Planet X (Nibiru) the cause of the heatwaves being felt worldwide or is it being caused by the climate changes that scientist are claiming are occurring? Is the government putting their infamous Haarp machine to work to drive up prices on agricultural products? We may never know the truth but with more extreme and unusual weather ahead in 2018 one has to ask, “are we the people the cause of the many strange events being experienced around the globe or is the culprit something much bigger?”
Each year since 2001 has seen at least 0.4 degree—Celsius above the long-term average for the 1961—1990 base period, used by the UN agency as a reference for climate change monitoring.
Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic “heatwaves”, have continued into 2019, after global temperatures set record last year and the world witnessed exceptionally low sea ice and unabated ocean heat, the UN weather agency said.
While global temperatures hit a remarkable 1.1 degree- Celsius above the pre-industrial period, global sea-level touch record highs and the planet’s sea-ice coverage dropped more than four million square kilometres below average in November — an unprecedented anomaly for that month, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) statement on the state of the Global Climate in 2020.
“This increase in global temperature is consistent with other changes occurring in the climate system,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said.
“With levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently breaking new records, the influence of human activities on the climate system has become more and more evident,” Taalas said.
Each of the year since 2001 has seen at least 0.4 degree—Celsius above the long-term average for the 1961—1990 base period, used by the UN agency as a reference for climate change monitoring.
The 2020 heating was further boosted by the powerful El Nieather system, during which global sea-level also rose very strongly.
Similarly, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere reached the symbolic benchmark of 400 parts per millions in 2015 — the latest year for which WMO global figures are available — and will not fall below that level for many generations to come because of the long-lasting nature of CO2.
“The extreme weather patterns are continuing in 2019 adding that at least three times so far this winter, the Arctic saw what can be called the Polar equivalent of a heatwave, with powerful Atlantic storms driving an influx of warm, moist air,” WMO said.
“This meant that at the height of the Arctic winter and the sea ice refreezing period, there were days which were actually close to melting point,” it said.
In the US alone, 11,743 warm temperature records were broken or tied in February, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the UN agency.
“Even without a strong El Nin 2017, we are seeing other remarkable changes across the planet that are challenging the limits of our understanding of the climate system,” said World Climate Research Programme Director David Carlson.
“We are now in truly uncharted territory,” Mr. Carlson added.
The extreme climate conditions also added to human suffering as 2016 saw severe droughts, affecting millions in southern and eastern African and Central America.
In the midst of such challenges, Taalas underlined the importance of implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which also entered into force last year.
“The entry into force of the Paris Agreement on 4 November 2016 represents a historic landmark,” he said, adding that it is vital that its implementation becomes a reality and that the Agreement guides the global community in addressing climate change by curbing greenhouse gases, fostering climate resilience and mainstreaming climate adaptation into national development policies.
“The Planet X effect is setting the Earth up for a coming pole shift.”
Although no one knows what might happen when Planet X reaches its closes point to Earth in its orbit, it is feared that it could spark another ice age or catastrophic earthquakes.
We have been feeling the disruptive effects of the inbound rogue Planet X since 1996 in the form of increased seismic and volcanic activities, freak weather patterns, and natural disasters.
NASA, the Pentagon, and the CIA are aware of the approaching rogue planet. The Vatican has also been briefed, but the public is being kept in the dark about the impending apocalypse. But despite efforts to keep the information secret, there have been leaks. … many conspiracy theorists insist that that NASA’s “Planet X” is Nibiru.
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American Airlines Pilot Spots UFO Over Passenger Jet, Feb 21, 2021, Audio Recording, UFO Sighting News.
American Airlines Pilot Spots UFO Over Passenger Jet, Feb 21, 2021, Audio Recording, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 21, 2021 Location of sighting: Arizona, USA
The pilot had just started flying over Arizona on a flight going from Phoenix, Arizona to Hebron, Kentucky when he noticed a strange object in the cloud over them. His 15 second audio was released to the public and is 100% proof that UFOs do exist and are flying very close to US passenger airliners! It happened at 1pm on Sunday the 21st of February.
Listen to the excitement in the pilots voice. He has really seen something that he has never seen before! A UFO. It sounds like its as big or bigger than his plane. We put our lives into the hands of pilots when we fly ourselves and loved ones to new locations...so if we would trust the pilots with our lives, wouldn't it just be logical to believe them at their word for seeing a UFO? Of course we have too. The pilot and probably copilot and some others on the plane probably also saw the strange object. American Airlines almost got video of the UFO, because most larger jets like the 777 and the a380, and a340s have several external cameras recoding below them. Had the UFO been below the plane...it would have been recorded for sure. I remember taking a plane last year and the screen at my seat had a direct line to the outside lower camera to see below. It was cool, but...I wonder, do they also have an upper camera? Then a UFO video would exist, but the FBI would never admit to a video existing.
Strange streak of light apparently releases bright object over Red Springs
Strange streak of light apparently releases bright object over Red Springs
This is a time lapse of some night photography that Black Bulldog Photo did a couple of months ago and it shows a strange streak of light apparently releasing a bright object.
Immediately after the streak of light, the second object appears from behind the top of the mountain, slowly descending and although the first object looks like a meteorite, it does not yet explain the second object.
Since he images were taken at Red Springs, just west of Las Vegas facing Area51, the photographer wonders whether it was a launch of some sort or not.
Ever wondered what it would be like to get marooned on Mars? Well, these photos may provide a clue.
They show the surface of the red planet taking on a rather strange hue.
But while its maroon appearance is certainly out of this world, it is merely due to the cameras on Nasa's Perseverance craft not yet having calibrated as it comes in to land.
Perseverance last week became the first rover to video its own Mars landing and has taken more than 23,000 photos.
Al Chen, of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: 'These videos and these images are the stuff of our dreams.'
New images from Mars shot by the NASA Perseverance rover have revealed the impressive colour of the red planet's surface
The Mars Perseverance rover touched down on Mars for the first time this month and has been taking photographs of the plant
Those who have always wondered what the surface of Mars looks like have had their questions answered with the latest pictures
Some of the new pictures have revealed the surface of the red planet taking on a rather strange hue
Since coming in to land last week the Perseverance rover has taken more than 23,000 photographs of the planet
But while its maroon appearance is certainly out of this world, it is merely due to the cameras on Nasa's Perseverance craft not yet having calibrated as it comes in to land
Al Chen, of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: 'These videos and these images are the stuff of our dreams.'
As well as picking up the unusual colour, the pictures provide an insight into what the planet's surface looks like
Dr. Helen Sharman was Britain’s first astronaut. She went to space 28 years ago and recently made headlines by stating that there is no doubt whatsoever that “All sorts of forms of life” exist in the universe, and it’s possible that “They’re here right now” and in some cases we “simply can’t see them” as they are so different to humanity.
Could she have been referring to beings that exist within other dimensions? Based on my research, when it comes to the topic of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for some of these objects, many have hypothesized that some of these craft simply pop in and out of our existence, perhaps from another dimension.
Sharman told the Observer Magazine that “Aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it” and that “There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of forms of life.”
The chemist spent eight days as a researcher on the space mission when she was 27, making her one of the youngest people to enter orbit.
This echoes the thoughts and feelings of the majority, if not all of the scientific community right now when it comes to contemplating life beyond our own world.
The list of astronauts around the world who have shared their belief that intelligent life exists, in abundance, elsewhere in our known universe is quite long. Some have even stated that they have been privy to evidence suggesting that we have been visited, and are being visited.
Apollo 14’s Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a great example. He spent many years creating awareness about the UFO phenomenon, and made many incredible statements throughout his life. He claimed to be “privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet” and that “the UFO phenomenon is real.”
His words were verified after his passing by the leak of this document. The focal point of the document is about a meeting (and what happened after that meeting) that took place in 1997 between UFO researcher Dr. Steven Greer, Admiral Wilson, Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14 astronaut) and other high ranking individuals within the military. This meeting was spoken about by Dr. Greer and Dr. Mitchell nearly four years prior to the leak of these documents on multiple occasions. You can learn more about this document, here.
Dr. Brian O’leary, a former astronaut and Princeton physics professor has stated that “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted,” astronaut Story Musgrave has done the same, stating that intelligent life most certainly exists and that “they’re doing star travel, that’s how good they are.” Gordon Cooper and again, several others have done the same. Apollo 12 astronaut Al Worden has also made some interesting comments about aliens.
All of these statements are quite out-dated, and since they’ve been made it’s been proven without a doubt that the UFO phenomenon is real. The mainstream seems to be getting more acclimatized to this fact, as objets performing maneuvers that no known air-craft can have been documented via electrooptical data, like video recordings and radar trackings, as well as high ranking testimony from hundreds trained observers.
A former Pentagon official who led a secret government program to research potential UFOs, revealed in 2017, told CNN at the time that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth, and that the UFO phenomenon is part of that evidence.
We’ve see mainstream UFO disclosure ramp up quite a bit every single year, as it continues to be legitimized by articles taking the subject seriously in media outlets like the Washington Post, and the New York Times. It’s quite clear that something is going on.
For a deeper discussion into mainstream UFO disclosure, the motives, and more, you can refer to this article I recently published on the subject.
This subject is huge, and like I’ve said many times before, leaves no aspect of humanity untouched.
SpaceX and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk doesn't think much about aliens—an interesting fact for someone who's passionate about space
"To the best of my knowledge... there is no direct evidence [of] alien life [on earth]," Elon Musk recently said in a new interview with Joe Rogan. Rogan was hoping Musk would know (or at least hint at) the existence of these cosmo beings but Elon only responded by shaking his head, saying "no".
"Somebody's gotta at least have an iPhone 1 level camera," he added. This rings true considering all the UFO footage that the Pentagon released last year and CIA's UFO files which were released recently. The Pentagon's grainy black and white footage revealed a hovering figure. Although the unidentified flying object was evident in the footage, it's still unclear if it was the work of an extraterrestrial being.
As the CEO and founder of SpaceX, the first private company to launch a spacecraft to reach the space station and send humans to space, Musk would most probably know if aliens do exist. He has mastered multiple fields namely rocket science, engineering, transportation and aerospace. Apart from SpaceX, Elon is also the CEO of Tesla Motors and The Boring Company. He is also the co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. Currently, Elon's prowess and success have earned him the title "Richest Man in the World".
One would think that the copious amount of alien studies, footage, and documents that we have would finally answer the questions we have been asking for years. But these discoveries are only revealing contrasting finds made by scientists and astronomers alike.
In 1979, American mathematical physicist Frank J. Tipler strongly insists that aliens do not exist and that humans are the only intelligent species to exist in the galaxy.
The Drake Equation which Frank Drake started in 1961 is an argument used to estimate the number of alien civilisations in the milky way galaxy. It helped Drake estimate 10 planets in the milky way. Since then, various scientists have used the Drake Equation in an attempt to make the best guesses. It helped Tom Westby and Christopher J. Conselice in their new study. They claim that alien life is existent but rare—only 36 alien societies reside within the milky way.
Recently, Harvard postdoctoral researcher Shmuel Bialy and astronomer Avi Loeb believe to have found proof of alien life through the existence of the Oumuamua. In a study, they mentioned that it could be an active solar sail made by an extraterrestrial.
Photo: NASA
THE FASCINATION OVER ALIENS
For so long, humans have been fascinated by extraterrestrial life. Some of us long to find aliens greatly that they are willing to fund projects that seek life beyond earth.
This fascination also heavily reflects our culture. The films we've produced, the books we've written, and even songs we've played have used aliens as central characters and topics. The highest-grossing movie of all time is currently The Russo brothers' Avengers: Endgame. It surpassed James Cameron's Avatar. So it appears that both movies depict a reality wherein aliens—or any being that lives outside the earth—are the pivotal characters.
When Musk was asked how often he thought about aliens, he chuckled and answered "Zero". Maybe the SpaceX co-founder would change his mind one day if aliens do reveal themselves.
Although some might disagree and find Musk's statement quite unnerving for someone who encourages becoming multi-planetary, his statement still holds true; there is still no concrete evidence of intelligent life on earth.
But when the time comes, Elon will most likely be in the know, and you'll probably hear it first on his Twitter feed.
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Alien Contactee Bridget Nielsen: Greys Are Creating Alien Hybrids Using DNA From 8 Species
Alien Contactee Bridget Nielsen: Greys Are Creating Alien Hybrids Using DNA From 8 Species
The question: “Do aliens exist or not?” is as exciting as horrible at the same time. Are we alone in this universe or there are others? Still, there is no solid proof, but many people strongly believe in the existence of the ETs, and a few of them claimed to have seen them and even about breeding with aliens. Meet 34-year-old Bridget Nielsen from Arizona, the United States, whose story is extremely remarkable. She claimed to be a mother of several alien hybrid children of different races.
Bridget Nielsen is one of the few abductees who is actually chosen by otherworldly beings for giving birth to human-alien children as she claimed in her first video on YouTube in 2012. She said that she had given birth to dozens of alien children on a giant spaceship in space but cannot disclose their identity (photos) because alien fathers do not want them to visit the Earth.
Bridget Nielsen
Nielsen is a member of the “Hybrid Baby Community” which connects alien hybrid children to their human parents and on a mission “to create a high-frequency cocoon, based on the guidance received from the kids.”
Some women who are members of the community claimed to had made love with aliens. Others stated that they had been abducted but instead of physical relations with aliens, their DNAs were taken, harvested, and created into hybrid kids. Besides, some women were used as surrogate mothers of alien children.
Surprisingly, Nielsen reportedly enjoyed mating with aliens and said she had a positive experience with ETs.
“I’ve only really had positive interactions with ETs. You know, I’ve seen visuals of them, I felt them, they’ve helped me. I’m in communication with them in very positive ways to help us awaken in our future here in 2012, but I haven’t had those negative experiences and remembered my own abduction and so, I’d like to go through that because for most people, all that they remember is that fear and that pain and culturally, that’s what we’re all remembering as we can see reflected in our movies in film.”
Bridget Nielsen holding the sketch of her alien hybrid children
She confidently said that the greys are the future human beings who from time to time contact and abduct humans to strengthen their race and increase their population as their bodies are more fertile to give birth. What’s more, they are here to awaken humankind and prevent them to become like them.
She is not specific about the time when aliens started using her body to create hybrid kids, but she remembers that she sometimes skipped her menstrual cycles and suddenly, it returned back to normal.
“They actually have put implant you with babies and then you have them and they grow either in your stomach or in the test tubes on the ships,” she said.
Nielson once saw an alien spaceship in the sky and instantly felt pain in her ovaries. She understood that it was a sign that aliens took her eggs to the spaceship.
Illustration of alien-hybrid children Image credit: Hybrid Children Community
She knows that she has hybrid children in another dimension and not just one but more than 10.
All these claims by Nielsen sound bizarre, but what if they are true? Another shocking claim from her is that the extraterrestrials only take females from selective gene pools and who are willing to give birth to alien children. They are on a mission to replace humanity with advanced and improved alien hybrids.
“They are not just taking our children — they are creating a hybrid race to better humanity,” she said.
She explained how the Greys use human ecstasy to create hybrid children. She wrote that during orgasm, the aliens capture the “human’s 6th density energy to create the vibrational and archetypal template for the hybrids.”
Nielsen drew a sketch of an alien-human hybrid child from the reptilian
She drew a sketch of a reptilian hybrid boy who was the result of this “template extraction” with a reptilian father. According to her, the Greys have been using the DNA from 8 alien species to create human-alien hybrids. These species are Arcturian, Orion, Pleiadian, Sirian, Obsilo, Annunaki, Zeta Reticulan, and Homo Sapiens.
There are several such documented cases including Aluna Verse and Meng Zhaoguo. They both shared a similar story where they had intimate contact with aliens.
Of course, Nielsen has suffered after such claims. She lost friends and her career as a marketing professional, even her own mother does not believe her story. She cannot find any boyfriend or husband after her stories came out and has no normal relationships.
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NASA SPOTS DEEP, STRANGE HOLE ON MARS
NASA SPOTS DEEP, STRANGE HOLE ON MARS
WHAT'S DOWN THERE?
NASA/JPL/UARIZONA
Mars Pit
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted something rather strange on the Martian surface below: a deep pit, appearing in the form of a black spot of darkness roughly 180 meters across in images taken by the orbiter’s HiRise camera.
After adjusting the brightness of the image, which was originally taken on January 24, the results took the HiRise team at the University of Arizona by surprise. “The floor of the pit appears to be smooth sand and slopes down to the southeast,” NASA geophysicist Ross Beyer wrote in a blog post last week.
Lava Tubes
There’s an intriguing possibility about the hole. The scientists behind the discovery are now trying to figure out if the deep pit could be connected to a network of underground tunnels left behind by fast flowing channels of lava — much like the ones found in Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park.
Researchers have long suspected that ancient volcanoes may have left behind large cavernous lava tubes on the surface of Mars. In fact, some of these suspected caverns could be big enough to house entire planetary bases, providing future human settlers protection from the harsh environment on the Martian surface above.
“The hope was to determine if this was an isolated pit, or if it was a skylight into a tunnel, much like skylights in the lava tubes of Hawai’i,” Beyer wrote. “We can’t obviously see any tunnels in the visible walls, but they could be in the other walls that aren’t visible.”
Mapping Caves
NASA’s spacecraft have spotted possible skylights like the one Beyer describes. In 2012, for instance, the MRO took photos of suspected cave skylights up to 225 meters across.
Luckily, NASA is already working on flying drones that could eventually be used to map these caverns in the future — because one thing is clear: a rover like Perseverance isn’t likely to survive a tumble into a giant pit of darkness.
In The China Seas Was Discovered A Complete Skeleton Of The Mythical Dragon.
In The China Seas Was Discovered A Complete Skeleton Of The Mythical Dragon.
The skeleton of the dead “dragon” discovered by local fishermen, many of whom consider irrefutable proof of the existence of this mythical creature.
Dragons are among the most popular and enduring of the world’s mythological creatures. Dragon tales are known in many cultures, from the Americas to Europe to India to China. Though they populate our books, films, and television shows, they have a long and rich history in many forms.
120-meter skeleton of a dragon discovered in the Iranian desert and Fossilized Dragon found in Egypt.
A dragon is a legendary creature, typically scaled or fire-spewing and with serpentine, reptilian or avian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures around world.
The belief in dragons was based not just in legend but also in hard evidence — or so it seemed. For millennia no one knew what to make of the giant bones that were occasionally unearthed around the globe
La vie microbienne terrestre pourrait survivre sur Mars
La vie microbienne terrestre pourrait survivre sur Mars
Nathalie Mayer- Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] Vie sur Mars : retour sur les grandes étapes de l'exploration martienneLa quête de la vie sur Mars est une histoire fascinante et pleine de rebondissements, témoignant de l'attrait inéluctable que nous possédons pour cette planète au mille visages. Retour sur quelques grandes étapes de l'exploration martienne.
La vie terrestre pourrait-elle résister à l'environnement martien ? C'est la question que se posent les chercheurs dans le cadre de l'exploration spatiale, mais aussi de la protection planétaire. Une équipe apporte aujourd'hui de nouvelles réponses : certains de nos champignons pourraient survivre -- temporairement au moins -- sur Mars.
Perseverance, leroverde laNasaen quête detraces de vie sur Mars, vient tout juste d'atterrir sur la Planète rouge. En attendant qu'il donne de premiers résultats, sur Terre, les chercheurs continuent de se demander si desmicro-organismespourraient survivre aux conditions difficiles qui règnent là-bas. Et uneéquipe de la Nasa et du Centre allemand pour l’aéronautique et l’astronautique(DLR) nous apprend aujourd'hui que certains microbes, en particulier les spores d'Aspergillus niger-- un champignon decouleurnoire qui apparaît sur les fruits et légumes --, sont capables de survivre, au moins temporairement, dans l'environnement martien.
Pour tester l'endurance de ces micro-organismes, les chercheurs ont imaginé une MARSBOx -- pour Microbes in atmosphere for radiation, survival and biological outcomes -- remplie d'une atmosphère martienne artificielle. Une atmosphère composée donc essentiellement de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) et d'un peu d'argon (Ar) et de diazote (N2) et de traces de dioxygène (O2), d'eau (H2O) et de méthane (CH4). Le tout maintenu à une pression environ 170 fois inférieure à celle qui fait loi sur Terre.
Puis, à l'aide d'un ballon, les chercheurs ont expédié cette MARSBOx au-dessus de la couche d'ozone, dans la stratosphère moyenne de notre Planète, à quelque 38 kilomètres d'altitude, pour y trouver les conditions les plus semblables à celles qui règnent sur Mars, notamment concernant l'exposition à un rayonnement ultraviolet (UV) intense.
Les travaux menés par les chercheurs montrent notamment que certains champignons — ici Aspergillus niger —, transportés par inadvertance, pourraient résister aux conditions martiennes.
Selon les chercheurs, l'Aspergillus niger -- qui avait déjà été détecté sur la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) -- a bien résisté. Suffisamment pour être « réanimé » après son retour sur Terre.
À ceux qui se demandent pourquoi étudier la résistance des micro-organismes à un voyage dans l'espace, les chercheurs apportent plusieurs réponses. Il s'agit d'abord d'aider à évaluer le risque que ces microbes peuvent faire peser pour la santé des astronautes. Notamment dans le cadre de missions longues comme celles qui pourraient nous mener vers Mars.
L'idée est ensuite d'assurer une certaine protection planétaire. De s'assurer que ceux qui chercheront des formes de vie ailleurs dans l'Univers ne seront pas trompés par une contamination venue de notre bonne vieille Terre. Du côté des bonnes nouvelles, les chercheurs imaginent aussi que certains de ces micro-organismes pourraient constituer des sources potentielles de nourriture et de matériaux. Une fois encore en prévision de missions interplanétaires de longue durée.
In Antarctica Were Discovered A Huge Pyramid Older Than 50,000 Years!
In Antarctica Were Discovered A Huge Pyramid Older Than 50,000 Years!
The structure was discovered pyramids from space satellites. Images that do, can clearly see its form and shape. It is about 1.7 times larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Orthodox scientists and skeptics, of course, argue that, in this structure, it is only natural, geological formation created, but satellite images and photographs of people who were in it, speak a different language.
From the perspective of classical science, which in harmony with religion does not admit the possibility that long before our civilization was built by someone on our planet unique technical monuments, it is understandable that something like a gigantic pyramid under the ice of Antarctica can not and must not exist.
Its undeniable existence but implies the issue, rather the fact that either was for some reason built an alien civilization, or – the other possibility – that in Antarctica, which was at times her of building not covered by ice, it has built a developed terrestrial civilization, which for some reason ( natural disasters, or self-destruction ….) ceased to exist.
However, the fact that Antarctica was ice-historic times, the meantime science already knows and accepts.
In Antarctica there under the ice even two other, smaller pyramid. It announced a group of eight scientists who do research there. Since this is a serious scientists who are very careful and do not want to premature closures, so their statements are restrained. In addition, also because while they want to remain anonymous – they are two Americans and six Europeans.
These scientists say that it is necessary to send a new big adventure, which will be equipped with all necessary devices and will be able to conclusively determine whether the artificially built pyramids.
The highest of the pyramid is located directly on the coast. Mentioned two smaller pyramids are close to each other and the distance from the coast 16 km.
Modern science is based on the fact that Antarctica looked like in ancient times completely different way than today. The analyzes showed that the Antarctic in those days were warm summers, with temperatures above twenty degrees. Rainwater was even covered with forests, similar to those now in New Zealand. It is inhabited by a large number of organisms. If at that time on the continent they were living human beings – which now admit more courageous scientists – so there would have been very appropriate and favorable conditions for life.
Cheops pyramid in Egypt has a length of one side of its base of 230 meters. The same party giant pyramid in Antarctica but has up to 400 meters.
I conclude that it allowed to-view that in recent years occurred in the Antarctic to the large amount of warming, glaciers and snow cover was melted, and thus from the eternal snow and ice liberated apex of the pyramid, while a substantial part of it is still hidden. From the pyramid stands about 50 meters
The oldest rock painting so far discovered in Australia dates back more than 17,000 years and was of a life-size kangaroo. Found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the two-meter-long painting was found on the sloping ceiling of an ancient rock shelter.
A team of experts from the University of Melbourne were able to determine the age of the kangaroo painting by radiocarbon dating mud wasp nests that were found inside of the rock shelter. Their results determined that it is the oldest in-situ painting (in its original place) and the oldest painting still present on the wall of a rock shelter ever found in Australia.
As for the mud wasp nests, they were located overlying and underlying the painting which is quite rare. Lead author of the study, Dr. Damien Finch, explained how they analyzed the nests, “We radiocarbon dated three wasp nests underlying the painting and three nests built over it to determine, confidently, that the painting is between 17,500 and 17,100 years old; most likely 17,300 years old.”
Researchers studied the kangaroo painting as well as other images close to it in order to determine in which order they were created. The kangaroo is an example of an old style of painting called Irregular Infill Animal/Naturalistic Period that began in approximately 28000 BC and depicted many life-size animals.
Dr. Finch detailed how important this discovery was, “This is a significant find as through these initial estimates, we can understand something of the world these ancient artists lived in,” adding, “We can never know what was in the mind of the artist when he/she painted this piece of work more than 600 generations ago, but we do know that the Naturalistic period extended back into the Last Ice Age.”
Dr. Sven Ouzman from the University Western Australia’s School of Social Sciences as well as one of the project’s chief investigators, stated how the painting could provide more information in regards to understanding the cultural history of Indigenous people, “This iconic kangaroo image is visually similar to rock paintings from islands in South East Asia dated to more than 40,000 years ago, suggesting a cultural link – and hinting at still older rock art in Australia.”
An example of rock art (not the paintings found in Australia).
While the kangaroo image is incredibly important, it isn’t the oldest rock painting in the world as that title belongs to a 45,000-year-old painting of a wild pig that was discovered in Indonesia.
The researchers are now planning to date more wasp nests and analyze additional rock paintings to hopefully confirm when each art period started and finished. Pictures of the kangaroo painting and the rock shelter can be seen here.
Traditional owner Ian Waina inspecting a Naturalistic painting of a kangaroo, determined to be more than 17,000 years old based on the age of overlying mud wasp nests
The painting is one of a number of 'motifs' discovered in the same area and part of a wider selection of ancient art currently being dated in Australia
This image shows the lower part of the painting on the sloping ceiling of a 17,500 year old kangaroo - thought to be the oldest in-situ cave art in Australia
Using the radiocarbon dating of 27 mud wasp nests, collected from 16 similar paintin
Traditional Aboriginal owner, Ian Waina, recording the 17,300 year old painting of a kangaroo
Side of the rock shelter housing the 17,300 year old kangaroo
A 3 metre long painting of a snake along Kimberley rock shelter wall with many other paintings painted over it. The illustration of the snake is directly below the painting
Rare depiction of a human figure from the oldest style of painting in the Kimberley. The inset shows the figure which has a wasp nest over the fingers at the top left. From the age of the wasp nest we know this painting is more than 9,000 years old
The study was published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour where it can be read in full.
From the very first episode and movie through today, Captain Kirk and other Star Trek officers dialed down their weapons to disable rather than disintegrate – at least until the opposition vaporized the first away crew member wearing a red shirt. These particle beam weapons could slice through ship hulls, but when used on humans, it was either stun or vaporize. The U.S. military (and all other militaries of major powers) have developed sonic weapons that stun, and laser weapons that can slice through metal. However, the ability to vaporize with a laser has been an elusive target – until now.
It’s not red, it’s salmon!
“While most CW lasers simply melt targets, USPL systems are able to neutralize threats via three distinct mechanisms: ablation of material from the target, the blinding of sensors through broadband supercontinuum generation in the air, and the generation of a localized electronic interference used to overload a threat’s internal electronics.”
A brief released recently by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs – programs helping small businesses win Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) projects – announced that the U.S Army is working with unnamed partners on weapons using Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers (USPL) rather than the conventional continuous beam lasers. USPL have the advantage of needing far less power, making them candidates for personal weapons like phasers. And, like phasers, USPL weapons will soon have the power of ablation – military-speak for vaporization.
“Differences in lethality as well as propagation mechanisms makes USPL technology one of particular interest for numerous mission sets. Over the last two decades, femtosecond lasers have gone from requiring dedicated buildings at national laboratories to sitting on academic optics tables across the country.”
A weapon that can sit on a table is one step away from fitting in a backpack, and two short hops from being fired like a rifle or hand weapon. As described in New Scientist, the new Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser is being designed to reach a terawatt for a short 200 femtoseconds or one quadrillionth of a second. That’s enough time to vaporize a drone … or a human. It will also be designed to be dialed down to stun or disrupt electronic systems … or humans. Finally, it can be set in between those two strengths to vaporize just the outer skin or shell of a drone, leaving its electronics intact for analysis. Will it also turn humans into living (temporarily, at least) skeletons – like the Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”?
Will they learn to use stun, Mr. Spock?
While the Army plans to begin vaporizing stuff in 2022, it will probably start with a Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser cannon similar to the starship-mounted phasers of Star Trek. However, the thrill of vaporizing will no doubt push soldiers to demand hand-held USPL weapons asap. That leaves one burning question: will U.S. commanders follow Captain Kirk and order their troops to “Set USPL’s to stun!” or let them vaporize away?
Do aliens sometimes come to us with benevolent intent? Lynne Plaskett has had quite a run of things. A former councilwoman of the Volusia County Council, as well as two terms as Vice Mayor for the city of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, she has had a successful career, considered to be an expert on planning and zoning issues and still very much involved with a number of community organizations including Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army, the Council on Aging, and the Department of the Interior. She seems like a bright, engaging and successful figure in her community, and she also just happens to have her share of inexplicable experiences, such as the time she claims aliens cured her of cancer.
In 1975, Plaskett went in for a routine physical examination at the doctor’s but came away with very grim news. She was told that she had carcinoma in her uterus and that she would likely require a hysterectomy. A biopsy was performed and it would turn out that this procedure would not be needed, but they also found that she had a rare T-cell lymphoma in her neck, and not only that, it was estimated she likely had only about three months to live, as the cancer had spread to invade her entire body. This was crushing news, as she had a son and family, and wasn’t sure how to break this news to them. At first she didn’t, instead just going home and crying inconsolably in her bedroom, which at that time was in Long Beach, California. However, it would turn out that she was not as alone in that room as she had first suspected.
Lynne Plaskett
As she sat there lost in her despondency and weeping uncontrollably, she allegedly heard a strange buzzing noise, which sounded mechanical in nature. Curious as to where this sound was coming from, she looked around the seemingly empty room and that was when she noticed a mist filling the area, as well as a small, disc shaped object. She would say of her bizarre experience:
I’m lying in bed, and I hear this electronic buzzing sound behind me like it’s emanating from the wall. The room filled up with a fog-like smoke. I was levitated off my bed, and a disk-like object about 8 inches in diameter came in, hovered over me and passed three times down the length of my body but never touched me. It was almost as if it was examining me. I know it wasn’t God. I know it wasn’t of this Earth. It was alien in nature. Everything went back the way it was. The smoke cleared, I was back on my bed and I went to sleep. When I woke up the next morning I knew I was going to be all right. I knew I wasn’t going to die.
She says that at first she didn’t remember anything after this, waking up in her bed the next morning without any memory of what had happened at all. According to her, she just assumed she had fell asleep as usual, and at the time she couldn’t even recall the strange fog or the mysterious disc. When she went to see her doctor for a check-up on the progress of her cancer, it was found to have decreased drastically, much to the shock of all present. The cancer would continue to dwindle in the coming months, until after four months it was in complete remission. The doctors couldn’t believe it, but extensive scans and work-ups all came to the conclusion that this woman, who had not been expected to live long at all, was now mysteriously cancer-free.
Plaskett at the time did not relate this to her strange encounter at her home, and indeed she didn’t even remember that at the time. It would not be until 1981 that the memory would come back, after watching a show on UFOs in which she heard the same distinct buzzing sound she had heard. This brought her memories racing back to the top of her mind, and she would find out later that her sister had actually come home at the time and heard the buzzing too, but had been too nervous about opening the door. Even after remembering what had happened, Plaskett would keep the experience to herself before deciding to come out with it on a segment of the “Maury Povich Show” in 1996, which also happened to coincide with a reelection campaign she was running for the Volusia County Council. Her alien claims made major headlines at the time, and ultimately costed her the reelection, although she would go on to win election to the New Smyrna Beach City Commission in 2003.
As to her story of aliens curing her of cancer, what are we to make of this? Was this some sort of misguided publicity stunt or is there anything to it all? Plaskett has given proof from medical records that she indeed was diagnosed with cancer in April of 1975, and in fact did experience a complete remission with four days, but this apparently happened after she had started chemotherapy, which perhaps takes some of the mysterious edge off of it all. One skeptical oncologist by the name of Dr. Walter Durkin, has said of Plaskett’s remission:
Back then, we had reasonably good treatment for lymphoma. Lymphomas are very chemotherapeutically sensitive. Today, about 90 percent of lymphoma patients go into remission, and half are cured for good. Would a four-day turnaround seem unusual? No, Not at all. Cancer patients given little time to live often don’t know how to explain it if when they suddenly get better. They often fill that gap in their understanding with “recollections” of miracles or strange encounters. What she should be doing is encouraging people to get treatment because her doctor is the one who cured her.
So what are we dealing with here? Was this woman cured of cancer by aliens, and if so, why? Is this merely a publicity stunt or the rantings of a delusional mind? Is there something we are perhaps missing here? One thing that can be agreed upon is that Plaskett is a well respected former politician and member of the community, so would there be any reason for her to make any of this up? Is there a chance that she is mistaking her normal remission from cancer as something more mysterious? whatever the case may be, it certainly is an intriguing case, which remains unresolved.
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The Ancient Book of Enoch Bombshells!
The Ancient Book of Enoch Bombshells!
The Ancient Book of Enoch Bombshells!
The apocryphal book of Enoch is one of the most controversial books found among the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. The account of Enoch’s flying house with God as his tour guide is just one of many astonishing revelations shared in this ancient writing.
If this subject is new to you, understand that Enoch, the father of Methuselah, lived a remarkable life and according to the Bible, “God took him.” YES, ENOCH WAS THE FIRST MAN TO EXPERIENCE THE RAPTURE!
UFO'S, Demons, Alchemy & The Military Industrial Complex
UFO'S, Demons, Alchemy & The Military Industrial Complex
By Lee Austin
The following article is conjecture. Spiritual discretion is advised
According to Manly P. Hall, author of “The Secret Teachings Of All Ages” an aspiring Black Magician will enter into a blood pack with a demon, in order to become proficient at the craft. The demon agrees to become the servant of the Black Magician in this life, and the master of the Black Magician in the next.
I believe the UFO phenomenon is the result of a similar type of blood pack. However, before we unravel the relationship between the military industrial complex and the demonic realm, let’s first establish what demons are and where they come from.
Demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, who were the hybrid giants killed in the flood. These abominations were the result of dark angels taking on human form and procreating with women. The result was a half human, half angel giant who wreaked havoc on the earth. Nephilim are eternal beings. Although their mortal bodies died in the flood, the disembodied spirits exist today as fierce, terrestrial spirits known as demons, whose purpose is to torment and destroy.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 15, Verses 8-10 explains their origin, “Now the giants, who have been called upon earth evil spirits, shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth. The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise upon earth. They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.”
Unlike angels, demons don’t possess a body, and therefore have an insatiable desire to inhabit a human. For example, a demon of lust cannot effectively tempt a man to fornicate or commit adultery unless he has access to his mind and body.
Which brings us to the ongoing relationship between demons and the military industrial complex. I believe a blood pack between military black ops and demons has been in place for decades. In exchange for the knowledge of interdimensional technology, military troops have volunteered to be possessed by these demons as the conduit for this revelation. In other words the demons agree to disclose the black magic of demonic technology in exchange for the souls of men.
The phenomenon of UFO sightings is a third dimensional manifestation of alchemy. The ancient occultic science and black magic art of unifying matter and spirit. On a physical level, the process of burning off lead impurities transforms the matter of lead into gold via the legendary philosopher’s stone. Kabbalists believe Jacob’s Ladder to be a powerful alchemical vision, revealing super consciousness as Jacob laid his head upon the stone. This is the genesis of the philosopher’s stone.
In the Book of Enoch, Chapter 7, Verse 10 describes the beginning of alchemy. “Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; who they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the diving of root and trees.”
Alchemy’s symbols include the signs of the zodiac, twin-coiled serpents, and the Freemasonic bronze pillars of Jachin and Boaz. Strategically positioned at the entrance of every Masonic temple, Jachin on the right signifies unity and wholeness while Boaz on the left points to the world of creation. These pillars are a satanic portals to Saturn.
The occultic mystery of Gnosis/knowing is revealed in the spiritual ambition of every human to escape Samsara or the cycles of reincarnation. This spiritual journey begins with the discovery of the eye of the storm. Contained within that storm is the point. This is the highest symbol in Freemasonry. The Mandala encompasses the point. And Sanskrit represents the circle, symbolizing wholeness and the cycle of life.
An alchemist’s great work is divided into several categories: chemical, psychological, physiological, societal, and astronomical. Alchemists work within three primes, or tria-prima. A three-sided pyramid or tetrahedron is a three-dimensional portal connecting to the ether plasma conduit of the second heaven of the fourth dimension.
Breakaway civilisations – mysterious dissapearances – Randy Kramer’s description of the Moon Colony and the Milky Way Galaxy is Mind-blowing.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury. In English, Mars carries the name of the Roman god of war and is often referred to as the “Red Planet”. The latter refers to the effect of the iron oxide prevalent on Mars’s surface, which gives it a reddish appearance distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, with surface features reminiscent of the impact craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth. Wikipedia
Inner Earth Expedition, Grand Canyon, We Found Something That Could Change History Books, Discovery
Inner Earth Expedition, Grand Canyon, We Found Something That Could Change History Books, Discovery
Grand Canyon, Inner Earth Expedition, We Found Something That Could Change History Books, Discovery
Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park. The park’s central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World.
The park, which covers 1,217,262 acres of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohave counties, received more than six million recreational visitors in 2017, which is the second highest count of all American national parks after Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The park celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 26, 2019. Wikipedia
Glowing Sphere Over Buildings In Badajoz, Spain On Feb 15, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Sphere Over Buildings In Badajoz, Spain On Feb 15, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Feb 15, 2021
Location of sighting:Badajoz, Spain
Watch as a glowing sphere is seen moving across the rooftops of apartment in Spain last week. The UFO is brightly lit and moving very slow as if its highly interested in the people inside the building. I know this is not a Chinese lantern, because I have seen lanterns many times before and they fly much higher than this and are 1.5 meters oval shaped. This is round. Also lanterns burn out after a minutes, this looks like it has no signs of turning off. This is a UFO.
Two UFOs Recorded By Pilot Over Rioverde, Mexico On Feb 19, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFOs Recorded By Pilot Over Rioverde, Mexico On Feb 19, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 19, 2021
Location of sighting: Rioverde, Mexico
UFOs in Mexico are frequently seen around the mountains and near the volcanos. Here we have not one, but two UFOs...flying near each other. At first I almost dismissed it as a balloon, but I have never seen a balloon this shape. Also the object seems to be moving quickly past the plane. To say this is a balloon would jumping to conclusions and clearly premature. With a more careful look at the video, I found that the object are actually matching speed with one another with one on top of the other. Many UFO reports have been recorded about one object suddenly become several objects. I believe this to be the case. When a pilot say he saw a UFO...I sure as hell believe them, because they have the years of experience flying and seeing things no-one else gets to see.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
UFO captured from Mr. Alejandro García's plane in the city of Rioverde San Luis Potosí.
Glowing UFO Over Forest In Sweden On Feb 20, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over Forest In Sweden On Feb 20, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 20, 2021 Location of sighting: Tiveden, Sweden
A person caught sight of an strange glowing sphere moving across the tree tops one night. The object can easily be seen and appears to be the size of a softball, but moving slowly, rising and lowering as its moving along. I am confident about the size, because at one point in the video (28-29sec) the UFO passes in front of a tall pole, which means its in front, not behind. There fore using the pole as a measure, this UFO is about the size of a soft ball. Same size as most cloud orbs. Fantastic catch.
UFO Fleet Over Lehigh, Florida On 2-29-2020, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Lehigh, Florida On 2-29-2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 29, 2020 Location of sighting: Lehigh, Florida, USA Source: MUFON 113798
Dozens of white spheres were seen over Florida last year. The report was just sent into MUFON, but did occur 12 months ago. The glowing fleet of UFOs is clearly seen and have their own illumination. Florida is near the ocean and is a hotspot for UFO in the US. These UFO were probably heading to the ocean and then below to an alien base.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I had just got out of work and was turning I to the street that takes me to the street I live in (I live at the end of the street and it's one of the streets that branches out of that main street) and as soon as I turned into maple street I saw all off these orbs just stationary in the sky and some disappeared and would re appear. I was in a hurry to get home because I was suppose to go to a wedding that was 30min away so I was only able to record about a minute of footage.
This video is the 2nd clip that I recorded that night, the first clip I recorded is about 20 seconds long but I didn't upload it because it through the inside on the cars windows so there was some reflection from the street light, the video I uploaded is recorded holding my phone out the window while driving.
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Was This Microscopic Sphere Sent By Aliens To Seed Life On Earth?
Was This Microscopic Sphere Sent By Aliens To Seed Life On Earth?
“This seems never before to have been found on Earth”
Prof. Milton Wainwright, the University of Sheffield.
When a planet harboring life is hit by a small traveling body such as an asteroid or comet, some of its microscopic life forms might get trapped inside ejected debris. Entering a dormant state, they could theoretically survive long journeys into outer space.
Should some of this debris collide with a planet that has the right conditions to sustain life, the microscopic travelers would once again become active. This way, a barren planet could be seeded with life.
Even if it might come as a surprise, this theory isn’t that far-fetched. Just last year, sea plankton was found on the outside of the International Space Station and no one knows how it got there.
Our own planet is home to some resilient microorganisms, known as extremophiles. As their name suggests, they can thrive in some of the most extreme conditions: near hydrothermal vents on the ocean bed, or in very acidic environments.
Experiments carried out by Japanese researchers showed that some species not only survive conditions of extreme gravity, they thrive in them. One species was subjected to 400,000 the gravity experienced on Earth and did just fine.
Some species of extremophiles survive temperatures well below freezing and they also survive high doses of radiation.
But the most important aspect is that scientists have found 40 million-year-old spores that were still viable. In short, they survive everywhere and for extremely long periods of time.
It would therefore be reasonable to assume they would survive an impact that destroyed their home planet, a cosmic journey and another impact that would deposit them onto another planet. Life on Earth could have well originated elsewhere in the universe.
And now the news.
A few years, a joint team of scientists from the University of Buckingham and the University of Sheffield discovered a tiny but very interesting object. They sent balloons to an altitude of 16 miles (27 kilometers) in order to collect samples of dust and particulate. One of them brought back something unexpected.
This. Microscopic metal sphere.
A tiny metal sphere about the width of a human hair had collided with the surface of the sampler connected to the balloon, leaving a minuscule crater. This suggests that it had been travelling at high speed. Professor Wainwright explains:
“On hitting the stratosphere sampler the sphere made an impact crater, a minute version of the huge impact crater on Earth caused by the asteroid said to have killed off the dinosaurs.
“This impact crater proves that the sphere was incoming to Earth from space, an organism from Earth would not be traveling fast enough when it fell back to earth to cause such a damage.”
X-ray analysis of the sphere showed that it was made of titanium with traces of vanadium. Titanium is one of the strongest metals known to man and it also has a high melting point. This led Wainwright and his team to believe that the sphere was fabricated and perhaps of extraterrestrial origin. Hold on, it gets weirder.
The surface of the sphere was covered in a “fungus-like knitted mat-like covering” and a biological liquid was “oozing from its center.” It is these organic compounds that have baffled the scientists. Although intriguing, their discovery is called into question by colleagues who believe it was contaminated by particles that originated on Earth.
The team are planning further analysis of the samples. They also hope their find will be corroborated by NASA’s own stratospheric balloon set to be launched in the near future. Should NASA find similar particles and establish they are of extraterrestrial origin, the scientific world would be forced to take into account the theory of panspermia.
Wainwright’s colleague, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, the director of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology has been a proponent of this theory for a long time.
“Mainstream science and institutions have fought against theories which expound these beliefs but now evidence from meteorites, from samples of bacteria from space and from space observation is making resistance more difficult.
“Proving that the Earth is in a constant exchange of matter with the larger cosmos would have implications not only in terms of our identity, but could also give us insight into alien viruses which may be important for our group identity, evolution and survival itself,” he told the Daily Express.
Wainwright suspects the sphere might be evidence of directed panspermia, or the deliberate spreading of life throughout the universe. Before labeling him as “far off”, we should note that Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule shared similar views.
Humanity itself might start sending its own life capsules toward suitable worlds in the near future in order to secure and expand life in space. Even if it’s science fiction at the moment, sending a payload of hardy microbes attached to a solar sail could become scientific fact in less than a century.
But we might have unintentionally sent out microorganisms already. There’s no way of knowing for sure that no extremophiles hitched a ride with the rovers sent on Mars. Maybe they’re already multiplying and establishing colonies but that’s just speculation.
The directed panspermia hypothesis raises several legitimate questions. Was life deliberately planted on Earth? Was it sent by a sufficiently advanced civilization more than three-and-a-half billion years ago, when our planet was young and sterile? How would we answer this question?
Since the early 1980’s, some publications suggested that the deliberate seeding of life could be demonstrated if the genetic code of the first microorganisms on Earth would contain a “distinctive signature message”, like a calling card left by the engineers.
Until more evidence turns up, we’ll just have to wait and see which way the tiny, presumably alien sphere rolls.
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NASA rover beams back first sounds ever recorded from the surface of Mars
NASA rover beams back first sounds ever recorded from the surface of Mars
The audio clips captured the guttural sounds of wind gusting on the red planet.
By Denise Chow
NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first audio clips captured on the surface of Mars, beaming back to Earth guttural sounds of wind gusting on the red planet.
The first-of-its-kind audio was released Monday, along with extraordinary new video footage of the rover as it descended and landed last Thursday. The images are among the most sophisticated yet taken of Mars, and offer never-before-seen views of the rover approaching its landing site.
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said the new images and audio are "the closest you can get to landing on Mars without putting on a pressure suit."
The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of the rover’s deck on Feb. 20, 2021.NASA/JPL-Caltech
The audio clips were captured by two microphones that are mounted on Perseverance. In one, a faint buzzing noise can be heard in the background, which Dave Gruel, the lead engineer for Perseverance's camera and microphone subsystem, said was from the rover itself. But roughly 10 seconds in, the microphone picked up the low growl of a wind gust, marking the first sounds recorded from the Martian surface.
"Imagine yourself sitting on the surface of Mars and listening to the surroundings," Gruel said Monday in a news briefing. "It's cool, really neat. Overwhelming, if you will."
Gruel added that the rover will continue to capture sounds from Mars as the Perseverance mission gets underway. "We're counting on both these instruments recording some really amazing sounds from the surface of Mars," he said.
Panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.NASA/JPL-Caltech
The newly released video footage included views from several different cameras, including three at the top of the vehicle that recorded the spacecraft as it plummeted through the Martian atmosphere.
Two other cameras on the rover documented crucial stages of the descent: the spacecraft's parachute deploying, its protective back shell jettisoning, and a sky-crane lowering Perseverance to the ground. Another camera at the bottom of the rover captured stunning footage of Mars' desolate, rust-colored terrain right up until the rover's wheels touched down.
The videos offer a rare, first-person glimpse of what it's like to settle on the surface of another planet. As the Perseverance rover closes in on its landing site in Jezero Crater, the onboard cameras recorded spectacular shots of Mars' dune-filled, crater-marked vista.
"It is unlikely at this point in my career that I will pilot a spacecraft down to the surface of Mars, but when you see this imagery, I think you will feel like you are getting a glimpse into what it would be like to land successfully in Jezero Crater with Perseverance," said Matt Wallace, the Perseverance mission's deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Jessica Samuels, a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the rover is performing well so far. NASA will check the spacecraft's various instruments over the next few weeks and upload new flight software so that the rover can begin driving on the surface and collecting data.
Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover.NASA/JPL-Caltech
The car-sized robotic explorer is designed to roam the Martian surface searching for signs of ancient microbial life. Over the course of its two-year expedition, the rover will also collect samples of Mars rocks and sediments that will be returned to Earth during subsequent missions.
The rover's landing site, Jezero Crater, is a 28-mile-wide basin that lies just north of the Martian equator. Scientists think the region was once home to an ancient river delta billions of years ago.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Right Navigation Camera (Navcam).NASA/JPL-Caltech
Gruel said mission controllers were thrilled by the first images beamed back by Perseverance. He said the rover captured more than 23,000 images, over 30 gigabytes of information, as it descended to the Martian surface.
"People were jumping up and down and giddy and ecstatic," Gruel said. "It was a great feeling."
And this early bounty from Perseverance is just a preview of what could be in store, Zurbuchen said.
"Stay with us," he said. "There is much more amazement to come."
Filer’s Files 8, 2021 ISS Views Alien Space Ships - PART I
Nashville, Tennessee flying object photo on February 4, 2021.
Filer’s Files 8, 2021 ISS Views Alien Space Ships - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Thomas Jefferson and UFOs, ISS Views of Space Ships, UAP Expeditions, Water Planets Are Common, Rover Lands on Mars in fake sky Color on March 1, 2021,, China’s Giant Ionosphere-Zapping Radar Is a Defense System, Genocide in China. Shadow Book and C-60 Carbon
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Afghanistan, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Former US President Thomas Jefferson Was Informed About a UFO
History: 200 Years Ago, Former US President Thomas Jefferson Was Informed About a UFO Sighting
The unidentified flying object was seen some 200 years ago. Apparently, it “assumed the shape of a turtle and then that of a human skeleton” ascending and descending rapidly, according to mail which was reprinted in 2010 in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series.
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was a man who was informed about one of the first UFO sightings in the history of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Former US President Thomas Jefferson
ISS Views of Space Ships
STS 88 mission in Dec of 1998. Captures UFOs
Scott C. Waring reports on April 18, 2015, I got into the http:///jsc.nasa.gov index that looks like only people with passwords get in, or not. I got in, but the photos of these UFOs are 100% gone. I did find out these photos were taken during the STS 88 mission in Dec of 1998. This is a screenshot of the start screen area. It takes you into other areas only for employees I guess, but nothing is here. The direct link to the photos is locked. I found that links have been changed. Here is what I found that work under different URLs. Google tried to bury them. NASA tried to move them so they have proof they didn’t delete them forever… NASA!
UFO Sighting Photos leaked out of NASA-Johnson Space Center, 100% clear UFOs in high detail updated on May 8, 2017: Most photos on this post have been deleted for unknown reasons! I am replacing them as fast as I can find them on this site.
NSA, CIA and other black programs are out to scrub this info from the net. I won’t allow that. Below are new added photos and close ups. SCW
Aliens dock ship at ISS to have meeting on live cam, Strmg shaped object appears to be attached to ISS on January 29, 2014, UFO Sighting News.
Updated: February 6, 2014, the full footage of the UFO was released by Streetcap1 of YouTube today. Many thanks to him for letting us view it. I will put the video directly below this sentence. SCW
This was caught by Streetcap1 of YouTube and yes its 100% real. I have followed this guy and his research for two years and he has never tried deceiving anyone. He, like me only seeks the truth. We also need to think about it being US military…is this Falcon Hypersonic HTV-2 made by DARPA that disappeared? Maybe it’s never been gone, but orbiting Earth. SCW
Here before us we see a long light yellow UFO parked alongside the ISS hull. There is no intent to hide itself or partly cloak, so we know the aliens and the astronauts on ISS know of this which makes us conclude…aliens and NASA had a meeting.
Abductees often claim to be taken aboard a huge mile long alien ship. They state they are taken into rooms with gray aliens but a human looking alien seems to be in charge. Looking out a port hole they can see the Earth from space.
I speculate it’s just one of many, but to actually catch it on video is mind-blowing. This is not a glare…notice how the light changes and the UFO is a solid object near the ISS. It looks small, but it is about 10 meters across or more. I sure would like to be a fly on the wall during that meeting. SCW
UPDATE:
When I asked Streetcap1 if he had any more footage of the UFOs he stated today: “Yes, it was there for some time. Kept the video short though as it does not move then they go to blue screen.”
I viewed this cylinder object on Naas’s Live ISS feed Tuesday May 28, 2019 at 12:32 am. I took this photo and blew it up that looks like might be a cylinder object perhaps a mother ship and not a reflection. I’d like to add that that someone reported seeing on the ISS camera recently that was round with holes inside it. This object appears miles long, although it is difficult to judge size in space. I did view another odd incident I believe was a day after viewing the cylinder. It was like a falling star on horizon… I was snapping a shot as NASA cut the live feed. Is this craft coming from the moon? Thanks to UFO Sightings Daily
UAP Expeditions
SOCAL Mission Statement: The mission of UAP Expeditions (an Oregon non-profit UFO organization) is to provide a free public service field-testing UAP related technologies. Our top notch team of physicists, research scientists and trained observers captures and records broad-spectrum evidentiary data from UAP sightings. Partnering with technology developers and entrepreneurs at no direct cost to them, our team tests new equipment and devices featuring multiple data capturing modalities. We hope to provide unassailable scientific evidence that UAP objects are real, UAP objects are findable and UAP objects are knowable.
UAPx plans to anchor off San Clemente Island during mid-November —the same time the TIC TAC encounters occurred and also when whale migration happens. A small crew of scientists and trained observers will use new UAP technologies to observe any would-be UAP.
The USS Nimitz Strike Group encountered numerous UAP in the Southern California Naval Operating Areas in December 2004.
The well-documented incident involved numerous eyewitness accounts from pilots, radar operators and technicians. In total, approximately 100 UAPs objects were observed flying in small formations of five to ten objects each. The successive formations of craft were initially detected in the vicinity of Catalina Island and were tracked by the USS Princeton’s SPY-1 radar, then fading from radar coverage in the vicinity of Guadalupe Island.
UFOs or UAPs Chased from Catalina Island to Guadalupe Island
Guadalupe Island or Isla Guadalupe is a volcanic island located 241 kilometers (150 mi) off the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. The formations of craft maintained 28,000 feet at a rate of 100 knots. When approached by several F/A-18 Super hornets vectored in from the Nimitz, the objects were observed to behave like “some super capable flock of birds,” acting as though they simply wanted to be left alone as they “migrated” south.
The UAP appear with a certain frequency. Do the UAP appear in conjunction with gray whale migration from Catalina Island to Guadelupe Island? Maybe they are hunting food. Can we now observe UAP on our own terms? The UAPx Team Thanks to uapexpeditio.org
Possible Alien Underwater Base
Possible Alien Base off the coast of Mexico and Baha California
The first underwater edifice was spotted on July 15 by YouTube user MEXICOGEEK just off the coast of the Gulf of California and conspiracy theorists are already calling the remains of a massive alien city with possible pyramids. Measuring over 70 miles in length, the strange structure looks like it was constructed with geometric patterns in mind. Its symmetry and straight lines stretching for tens of miles seem to rule out any natural formation, favoring the intelligently-designed hypothesis.
Scott C. Waring UFO Sighting’s Daily ‘believes this alien base is connected to all the UFO sightings coming out of Mexico and the entire Central America. And US West
Coast “This base is huge and it’s no wonder why we hear about so many UFO sightings over Mexico,” he writes. “This base is just 45 miles away from the Mexican coast. The chances of this being an intelligently-made structure… I put that at 100 percent.”
Water Planets Are Common
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
This artist’s conception shows habitable-zone planets with similarities to Earth. From left: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-452b, Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f. Last in line is Earth itself.
“Water worlds” are incredibly common throughout the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Alien life on water planets may have developed bases on the Earth. Many stories of UFOS involve the craft entering and leaving the water. Google Earth show underwater surfaces that suggest underwater bases and mining. The US Navy forbids its ships to go into certain places where UAPs are often seen.
Midsize alien planets — those two to four times larger than Earth — tend to harbor huge amounts of water, according to the research. Indeed, some of these exotic worlds are probably up to 50 percent water by weight. (Our seemingly wet Earth, by contrast, is just 0.02 percent water by weight.)
“Our data indicate that about 35 percent of all known exoplanets which are bigger than Earth should be water-rich,” study leader Li Zeng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, said in a statement. “It was a huge surprise to realize that there must be so many water worlds.” [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
Editor’s Note: Many UFOs or UAPs are seen coming in or out of the water indicating alien bases are under water. These aliens may originate in a planet rich in water that has obtained space flight. Certain African tribes and Samarians claimed they were taught by aliens who were coming out of the water. There have been stories of Mermaids and Mermen for centuries often by the Captains of ships. Enki the epic water god helps humanity and plays a major role in Akkadian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian history of the Atrahasis, which is the Mesopotamian version of the Great Flood.
Enki was responsible for the creation of those who would serve the gods. The gods were over worked and needed help. Enki along with Nammu created the human race. This race of humans multiplied quickly, and Enlil, the chief deity, became irritated. He was very compassionate in nature. His desire to nurture humans and favor their side over the gods, as well as a tendency towards solving rather than starting conflicts, balanced out his lustful deviance.
Underwater Mining
A 35 mile across terra-formed on the Pacific Ocean sea bed a hundred miles east of Taiwan appears to be mining operations and structures shown on Google Earth. At the bottom of the underwater floor are tubes similar to those found on Mars.
Face of Possible Marine Humanoids Underwater
Labeled Central Basin Trough 17,580 feet deep is an apparent carved face. That can be found on Google Earth under the word Trough 500 miles east of Philippines. The apparent carving of the face is similar to the faces found on Mars and indicates alien intelligence wanted to know how they looked and lives here on Earth probably underwater
Thanks to Google Earth
Using Google maps found these underwater mining
Pacific Ocean Underwater Mining
Underwater Mining 35 mile across terra-formed on the Pacific Ocean sea bed a hundred miles east of Taiwan appears to be mining operations and structures shown on Google Earth. At the bottom of the underwater floor are tubes similar to those found on Mars.
An alien life form living underwater would need various minerals to produce flying craft that have frequently been seen.
The bottom of the ocean has some of these precious minerals and it appears someone is mining at various points around the Earth.
Rover Lands on Mars in fake sky Color Mars
The Mars Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, and will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA’s quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover has a drill to collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, and then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars.
Strapped to the rover’s belly for the journey to Mars is a technology demonstration — the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, may achieve a “Wright Brothers moment “by testing the first powered flight on the Red Planet.
Searching for Ancient Life, Gathering Rocks and Soil
There are several ways that the mission helps pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that may be used in those endeavors. These include testing a method for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, identifying other resources (such as subsurface water), improving landing techniques, and characterizing weather, dust, and other potential environmental conditions that could affect future astronauts living and working on Mars. Mission › Overview
Searching for Ancient Life, Gathering Rocks and Soil
There are several ways that the mission helps pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that may be used in those endeavors. These include testing a method for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, identifying other resources (such as subsurface water), improving landing techniques, and characterizing weather, dust, and other potential environmental conditions that could affect future astronauts living and working on Mars.
All address key astrobiology questions related to the potential of Mars as a place for life. The first three consider the possibility of past microbial life. Even if Perseverance does not discover any signs of past life, it paves the way for human life on Mars someday.
Editor’s Note: Each summer growing algae turns green on Mars in temperatures as high of 90 degrees near the equator. In 1997, NASA Scientist and Biospherics’ President and CEO, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin, announced his new conclusion that his 1976 Viking Labeled Release (LR) life detection experiment found living microorganisms in the soil of Mars. Objective application of the scientific process to 21 years of continued research and to new developments on Mars and Earth forced this conclusion. Of all the many hypotheses offered over the years to explain the LR Mars results, the only possibility fitting all the relevant data is that microbial life exists in the top layer of the Martian surface.
For some unknown reason NASA turns most photos red, here is actual color of blue sky taken in Viking photos. High ranking NASA personnel have told me there is life on Mars but it’s classified information.
This is the real sky color on Mars along with algae on various Viking rocks.
Security and Policy Studies Paper
Pentagon Studies UAPs
Jack Sarfatti writes on 02/12/2020 17:11
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In June 2020, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence unveiled the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) at the Office of Naval Intelligence—a successor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). This paper dives down the rabbit hole with Defense Department insiders, scientists, and declassified material to find answers to a host of questions: Are mystery craft near-peer adversary platforms or exotic US platforms? What is the technology behind them? What kind of threat do they pose? What are the geostrategic implications? And what are we not being told? https://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/uap-task-force/ All good, Sherck a smart guy from 1979 yes.
Keith Wanser Jack Sarfati
However, don’t lose sight that Keith Wanser and I have a very simple way to get anti-gravity in metamaterials at low energy by simply tweaking the relative phase between INPUT (G/c^4)S(x)Tuv(x) and OUTPUT Guv(x) where both the spin 0 scalar metamaterial susceptibility field S(x) and the EM stress-energy tensor inside meta-material Tuv had dissipative imaginary parts from inelastic pump photon-electro/ion scattering resonances.
Therefore, as shown in Ch 23 Volume One Feynman Lectures on Physics – just like the classical forced LRC oscillator.
Likely China is Controlling the Jet Stream Bring Storms
Weather TV reports the worst snow storms and cold in fifty years, lower temperatures than ever recorded in Texas and 3 million homes without electrical power causin the deth of seventh people.. Wake up people China broadcasts on State media they are at war with US. China has the capability to affect the jet steam pushing or pulling it north into freezing air in Canada.
February 21 map 6z of 135 MPH of Jet Stream from Chan to US.
Jet Stream Crosses China and heads north into Canada and Dips Down to TexasChina ha the HAARP Facilities and the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, building the largest single dish radio telescope, or racing other nations to the nuclear fusion finish line—experts think the new facility is more interested in military matters than discovering the secrets of Earth’s upper atmosphere. H.A.A.R.P. refers to: High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, an investigation project to understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes .The storms generally follow the jet stream of high wind so it appears China is changing the course of the jet stream to go North into Canada and then south into Texas an up to the Northeast http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250
Communist China has never stopped trying to destroy the U.S. Powerful particle accelerates can push or pull the Jet Stream up into the northern latitudes to bring cold air and snow to the U.S.
Three Communist Chinese HAARO Facilities in the Gobi Desert
The jet stream has brought large snow storms caused by air chilled in Northern Canada being blown south with the jet stream into the U.S. after passing through China.” More snow than ever recorded throughout much of the US. The jet stream is a band of strong wind that blows in the upper level of the atmosphere and acts as a kind of boundary between cold air in the north and warm air to the south. The jet stream typically blows relatively straight west to east, but every so often a kink forms that changes its direction. This kink can occur naturally or by design perhaps in China. The shape of this kink is unusual. We haven’t seen something like this in about 10 years and suggest a nation such as Communist China is controlling the jet stream. http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250The Chinese facility is similar to the US HAARP run by the University of Alaska in many ways but three times larger with much greater power’s.
In 2018 preliminary experiments – conducted in June, and ostensibly designed as a test-case for future related ionosphere research – had extreme effects.
In one of the experiments, the affected area of ionosphere disturbance reportedly covered 126,000 square kilometres (49,000 square miles). In another test, ionised gas in the atmosphere increased in heat by 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit).
“We are not playing God,” an unidentified researcher who asked to remain nameless told the South China Morning Post.
HAARP effecting the atmosphere and Ionosphere
The big difference is motivation: the main purpose of the facility is apparent in its incredibly strategic locations in the Gobi desert and one in the South China Sea. China could even use the new array as a transmitter for ELF radar to detect submarines at long range
Science Plus Military Equals Power China already leads the world in scientific output by stealing ours, and now its science is joining forces with its invigorated military ambitions. The new administration is leading us down a disastrous path of weakness.
There is speculation these facilities effecting the ionosphere is earthquake-producing, hurricane-causing super weapon that many conspiracy theorists fear, but it may be the beginning of a major power shift in the world.
Three Chinese HAARP Facilities in Gobi Desert
Biden dismisses Moslem Genocide as part of China’s ‘Different Norms’
Emily Jacobs reports President Biden is dismissing
the genocide against the Uighur population in China, dubbing the mass internment a “different norm” — despite the State Department this month responding to “atrocities” in the camps, following reports of systemic rape and torture.
The commander-in-chief made the remarks after being asked during his CNN town hall Tuesday evening about his recent conversation with his Chinese counterpart, starting his response by relaying Xi’s justification for the abuses.
“If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been, the time when China has been victimized by the outer world.
Communist Chin’s President Xi ling and Vice President Biden
This when they haven’t been unified at home,” Biden began. “So the central — well, vastly overstated — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China.” https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/biden-says-uighur-genocide-is-part-of-chinas-different-norms/
Biden is sending millions of dollars to abort babies all over the world and in the US even after the babies are born in states like New York.
The Uyghur’s have traditionally inhabited a series of oases scattered across Northern China. Communist China has been accused of genocide and shocking human rights abuses over its treatment of the Uighurs.
Massacre of Moslems in China aims at nothing less than destroying Islam in Xingjian.
Human rights groups and international observers allege that around one million men and women from the mostly Muslim ethnic minority group have been detained in a sprawling network of “re-education” camps in the northwestern Xinjiang province.
The Chinese Communist Party has come under increasing pressure from the global community this month after a BBC report detailed horrific, first-hand accounts of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture of female detainees. Allegedly they are worked hard with little food until they die and their body parts are sold on the medical market.
The Chinese Communist Party has come under increasing pressure from the global community this month after a BBC report detailed horrific, first-hand accounts of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture of female detainees. The Chinese Communist Party has come under increasing pressure from the global community this month after a BBC report detailed horrific, first-hand accounts of systematic rape, sexual abuse and torture of female detainees.
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, have been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021. The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter. Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. www.fredellisbrock.com
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Filer’s Files 8, 2021 ISS Views Alien Space Ships - PART II
Nashville, Tennessee flying object photo on February 4, 2021.
Filer’s Files 8, 2021 ISS Views Alien Space Ships - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Thomas Jefferson and UFOs, ISS Views of Space Ships, UAP Expeditions, Water Planets Are Common, Rover Lands on Mars in fake sky Color on March 1, 2021,, China’s Giant Ionosphere-Zapping Radar Is a Defense System, Genocide in China. Shadow Book and C-60 Carbon
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Afghanistan, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Alaska Light
Wasilla– February 17, 2021, I have seen UFO’s and I have pictures. These are not fake pictures. Yes, they are UFO pictures. I have seen UFO’s all of this year. My sightings are in Wasilla, Alaska at night time around 7:30 PM to 9 PM.
Note:The object in the photo is not the sun because sunset was much earlier and it was not a bright star or planet because skies were cloudy. I also don’t believe that the object (light) is due to a reflection of ground lights because it is too low on the horizon. The witness has taken several other photos of bright light objects on various dates. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Arizona Light
Kingman— February 12, 2021. @ 8 pm was out back when two low flying craft past overhead. They were low enough that I was able to count 6 lights (3 white in front of 3 red) blinking in successions of 3 on the third blink it appeared brightest. Absolutely no sound which gave me a creepy feeling because they were so close. As the closest craft past overhead the other one furthest moved up and away fast in altitude as if to be over watch for the other that maintained an arcing path to the left over the entire city. As I watched the one craft still at a low altitude fly over Kingman I noticed a third craft very high towards the left view already positioned like the second I watched climb. After a few minutes of watching this craft move towards Vegas. I got my camera and tripod and filmed what I believe to be some of the other high craft that may or may not be part of the same group. I felt compelled to document this so I drew what I seen to share. Also, the video doesn’t have the same appearance of the craft that went overhead.
California Object
Long Beach–on February 15, 2021, while doing my exercise I paused to look and see a boomerang shaped craft about the size of two football fields. I thought it was too wide to be a military plane (and those make a ton of noise). I could not see a fuselage nor red or green lights at the ‘wing’ tips. The white lights it had remained constant. The outline towards the back was dim even before going off in the distance. The craft’s speed was consistent. I will attach an artist’s rendition of what I saw.
Colorado Triangle on Moon
Divide– on November 19, 2019, casually taking pictures on a family vacation to COLORADO & I kept seeing a dark object reflecting off the moon so I zoomed in to get pictures & was shocked what I got on film then I kept zooming in until it was clear I was seeing something strange & bizarre; there’s a glow of gases or fuels around it too, yellowish haze
Florida Lights
Orange City– September 15,, 2020 –strange reddish glowing objects seen in the sky so I took a couple of videos and some still shots over last couple months. The videos are from September 15, 2020, I work in a dirt pit on East French Ave. I do security 3 nights a week. Please let me know what you think. It’s not fire or smoke.
Note:The still images look like fire, but the witness said that no fires occurred. Thus far the witness has been unable to provide the video. If the video is received, it will be added to the report. The fire could be satellite lasers. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Georgia Light
Bishop– January 6, 2021, while driving home from work I saw an odd Tic-Tac shaped object in the sky, accompanied by 1-2 other lights to the top left (video 1). 12 days later while also coming home from work I spotted lights flashing from the same area .I return to the location to see a moving boomerang like object, which then vanishes, returns, and leaves again, leaving behind an odd orb like light followed by more lights. To see all of the flashing lights I posted the recordings to YouTube with slowed down versions for optimal viewings of the sighting.
Illinois Light
East Bloomington — February 14, 2021, around 10:30 pm my family and I witnessed a vertical beam of light from our back deck for about two hours. The beam was very bright and had a vertical dark line going down through the center which you could see pulses of a bright light running up and down it. There were other less bright vertical beams but they were only visible for a very short time. The actual beam never moved locations but would sometimes disappear and then reappear but always in the exact same spot. The weather for the day was very cold, wind chills in the negatives. The cloud cover was low and thick due to an impending snowstorm forecast for today (15th). Our regional airport is located just east of this beam a couple of miles. I know the location of the runways and the lights they use in bad weather and this was not that. This is paranormal or something natural occurring. It certainly didn’t look natural with the pulsating light inside it going up and down. I have about a two minute video I took from my Samsung A71 phone where you can see the pulsing.
New Jersey Saucer
Manasquan Passaic– on January 2021, I observed a UFO off the Manasquan, NJ coast…..it was stationary for a few moments then straight up it went straight up out of the cameras’ line of sight…..time duration was brief but long enough for me to observe for several seconds…..20 or so seconds
It appeared to look like this photo the ‘ A ‘ typical shape, two saucers like plates or coffee cup saucers stacked one on another and had a dome-shaped top
Tennessee Object
Nashville–on February 4 2021, I took pictures of Nashville skyline. When I cropped the picture I noticed an object in upper right corner in the picture. I immediately took a video because I could not see the object without looking thru the camera/phone. Initially I thought it was a reflective distortion from my windshield. After further review I noticed the clouds passing in front of the object and lights traversing on the object in the beginning of the video. I also noticed, from additional still photos, that the 2 whitish wing like structures changed positions from above the object to below the object before it vanished. It also seemed to be projecting something or that something was being projected.
Texas Objects
Vidor – on February 14, 2021, was viewing ISS satellite right around midnight New Years Eve and an object came into view. It went from right to left across screen very quickly. I was able to snap two photos before it disappeared off screen.
Ft. Worth — On November 1, 2020, I saw three white lights in the sky moving slowly as if attached to a craft.
Virginia Black Triangle
Aldie – on August 19, 2020, a black triangle object slowly rotating silently and drifting across sky
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Afghanistan Object
Kandahar — September 14, 2014, hypersonic flying object with aerodynamically features that cannot exist with actual physics fluid laws. Propulsion not known, but probably magnetic. No sound even being many times above sound speed. Sound reverberation captured by the camera through a thick windshield where the camera was attached. Digital hugs definition camera capture a video that human eyes were unable to capture it by itself.
France Lights
ST MAUR DES FOSSE – on February 5, 2021, there have been several sightings, in January from 18 to 23 February, 5 from 6 to 11:30 p.m. February 6 between 6.30 am and 8.30 am. Several very powerful lights, sometimes white, red, yellow and orange. Some stayed fixed, others moved very slowly. No noise we have several videos and photos taken with the cell phone. The coordinates were southwest 220.
Russia Object
Moscow — February 3, 2021, if you watch this RT News broadcast, you will notice two dark oval objects fly past. The objects seem to be flying so close they are almost stacked one upon the other. They are moving incredibly fast and I put it into slow motion at the end of the video to see them better. Sorry, no sound but honestly, it looks like aliens are trying to show up on the news. Ever since Obama was sworn in where CNN was broadcasting and they noticed an incredibly small and fast object shoot past behind them. More and more news casts are getting UFOs flying in the background…not by accident, but on purpose to expose the public to the truth slowly. It seems aliens are taking serous steps at getting caught in the news live broadcasts. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi-sJUWUgJo Thanks to Scott C. Waring – Taiwan
UK/England Lights
Campbeltown – on February 15, 2021, just saw something flash past the Star link rocket booster, rewound and slowed down it looked structural. There is also 1 still that shows a strange looking shape.
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Since the 1980s, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs, usually described as being black in color, making a low humming noise, and very often with rounded rather than angled corners, have been reported throughout the world. The sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to strongly suspect that the Flying Triangles (as they have come to be known) are prime examples of still-classified aircraft, the development of which was secretly begun in the 1980s by elements of the U.S. Department of Defense. Largely, UFO researchers are split into two camps: that the Flying Triangles are the creations of the American military or that they were flown by extraterrestrials. There is, however, another theory for all of this mystery. We’ll get to that shortly.
In 1982 a wave of encounters with the Flying Triangles began over portions of New York State, specifically in Hudson Valley. In their 1988 book, Night Siege, authors Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt wrote: “Can 7,000 eyewitnesses be wrong? They were there to witness the huge, hovering object in the sky, the flashing lights, the eerie silence. They are ordinary people from all walks of life: stay-at-home moms, kids, business people, engineers. They tell their stories here, and they all agree on one thing: they saw the same massive object cruising over their backyards. And it was like nothing they had seen before…”
In 1989, Chris Gibson had what can accurately be termed the encounter of a lifetime. An engineer with an Honors degree in geology and someone who’s worked focused on oil-exploration, Gibson was also attached to the U.K.’s Royal Observer Corps. The work of the ROC – which closed down in December 1995, after seventy years of work to help protect the United Kingdom from attack – required its volunteers to keep a careful watch on the skies above and what was flying in those same skies, too. As luck – or fate – would have it, and at the time when the Aurora program may very well have been compromised, Gibson was working on an oil rig in the North Sea. The name of the rig was the Galveston Key.
It was August 1989, specifically, when one of Gibson’s colleagues, a friend named Graeme Winton, who went to university with Gibson, excitedly told Gibson to come with him to the deck. There was something Winton needed to show him. A startled and amazed Gibson caught sight of something incredible in the skies above. A pair of General Dynamics’ F1-11 aircraft were shepherding a very strange-looking, completely black aircraft. And, a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker seemed to be fueling it. It was in the form of a triangle. Now, we get to a fascinating theory for the origins and natures of the Flying Triangles.
The late Omar Fowler, an English UFO expert who died in 2017, had a theory that the Flying Triangles just might be nothing less than the aerial vehicles of time travelers. Fowler had a good reason for that. On one occasion, in September 1992, over a large area of woodland in central England called the Cannock Chase, Omar secured a piece of testimony from a man named Alan Ball. He agreed to meet Ball on the Cannock Chase one morning. Incredibly, Ball claimed that he was taken on-board a huge, black, Flying Triangle late one night – and while he was driving home – when he was “beamed into” the craft and subjected to a series of medical experiments by three small, humanoid figures in what “looked like a medical lab.”
Ten or fifteen minutes into the experimentation, Ball claimed that his mind was flooded by images of the U.K., in ruins. It was a definitive Armageddon: buildings, in all directions, were destroyed; charred human bodies lay everywhere; and it was clear that a nuclear event occurred. And the assumption was that the event was not alone. That the U.K. – and possible everywhere else – had been destroyed. After having the terrifying vision, Ball was dropped off the craft – literally, from a door about five feet above the woods. Ball was in a state of terror – and for several days. Particularly of interest is the fact that Fowler had in his files two extremely similar cases – and also at the Cannock Chase woods – of people taken onto Flying Triangles and exposed to images in their minds of a massive apocalypse in the future. Fowler was still open on the idea that the Flying Triangles could be extraterrestrial in nature. However, he wasn’t able to shake off the disturbing possibility the craft were piloted by time travelers, and that what Ball and the two other people were seeing was a future still to come – and that all three victims had been taken to the future and then returned to in 1992. Thoughts?
Op 21 februari 2021 vliegt een A320 Airbus van American Airlines op een hoogte van 36.000 voet met een snelheid van 400 knopen, onderweg van Cincinnati naar Phoenix.
Wanneer ze zich boven Des Moines bevinden, een klein plaatsje in het noordoosten van de staat New Mexico, gebeurt er iets bijzonders.
Alles is rustig aan boord van American Airlines vluchtnummer AAL 2292 toen de bemanning plots iets ongewoons zag:
Ze zien een cilindervormig object met een enorme snelheid over hun toestel vliegen. Ze dachten in eerste instantie dat het misschien een kruisraket was.
Steve Douglas is een radiofanaat en uit één van zijn scanners hoorde hij op een gegeven moment een bericht vanuit de cockpit van de A320 richting verkeersleiding.
Je kunt in de korte opname hieronder een verbaasde piloot horen die de Albuquerque verkeersleiding het volgende vraagt:
“Hebben jullie hier wat op je radarscherm? We zien net iets pal over ons heen gaan”.
En dan vervolgt hij:
“Ik vind het niet leuk om dit te moeten zeggen, maar het zag eruit als een lang cilindervormig object dat een beetje leek op een soort kruisraket, het vloog met hoge snelheid pal over ons heen”.
Op dit moment is er nog geen officiële reactie van instanties in Amerika, maar het is heel onwaarschijnlijk dat het hier een militair object betrof. Althans een object waarvan wij het bestaan mogen weten.
Er zijn daar wel diverse militaire bases in de buurt zoals White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), maar als daar bepaalde raketten zouden zijn afgevuurd, dan was zeker de burgerluchtvaart gewaarschuwd, hetgeen niet het geval is. Ook zijn er op andere manieren geen militaire activiteiten in het gebied vastgesteld, zoals via het zogenaamde ADS-B log.
Opmerkelijk is natuurlijk dat deze ontmoeting plaatsvindt boven New Mexico, niet al te ver van misschien wel de meest beroemde ufo plek op aarde, Roswell.
Het American Airlines toestel is later veilig geland zonder verdere incidenten.
Dit soort ontmoetingen van vliegtuigen met vreemde objecten in dat gebied is niet nieuw, want bijna precies drie jaar geleden hadden een Learjet en een Airbus vergelijkbare ervaringen.
Verklaringen komen er nooit en dus blijft het meestal raden met wat voor object we te maken hebben.
Het kunnen buitenaardse objecten zijn, maar net zo goed ook objecten die thuishoren bij de zogenaamde geheime ruimtevloot, waar wij eerder onder andere het volgende over schreven:
Het schijnt dat decrash van eenvliegende schotel in 1936 in Duitsland de werkelijke start was van het Duitse Vliegende Schotel programma. Er werd een operationele schotel getest in 1939, maar dit soort door elektromagnetisme aangedreven schepen, konden niet echt worden gebruikt in de oorlog. Dat was omdat er geen centrales waren die klein en compact genoeg waren om in de schotels te passen en die bovendien nog een geweldige hoeveelheid elektriciteit moesten kunnen leveren om de grote condensatoren te voeden die op hun beurt weer de magnetische velden moesten creëren die de schotels aandreven.
Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzamelden zowel de Russen als de Amerikanen niet alleen de wetenschappers die werkten aan conventionele raketten, maar ook de vliegende schotel wetenschappers samen met veel van hun uitrusting, om tegelijkertijd zowel een conventioneel als een niet conventioneel ruimteprogramma te kunnen beginnen.
Het duurde niet zolang voordat de conventionele aandrijving begin jaren '60 overbodig werd. De aanwezige raketprogramma’s waren niets meer dan een dure propaganda-operatie voor publieke consumptie, om een fantasieverhaal levend te houden, een die al heel snel sterk afweek van het werkelijke verhaal.
Het geheime ruimteprogramma kwam onder de toenemende invloed van de wereldelite die georganiseerd was in de Bilderbergconferentie, een groep van machtige industriëlen, bankiers en Europese koninklijke families.
Het legerproject uit 1959, Project Horizon, werd in het geheim ingevoerd om zowel bases op de Maan als op Mars te bouwen. Volgens een aantal betrouwbare klokkenluiders worden deze bases gebruikt en onderhouden door de Bilderbergvloot.
Uit een vrijgegeven document van Wright Patterson kunnen we zien dat men in 1956 al bezig was met het plaatsen van nucleaire aandrijving in schotels. De senior wetenschapper van Lockheed, Boyd Bushman, liet in een interview in 1959 technische tekeningen zien van een operationele vliegende schotel, aangedreven door een nucleaire centrale.
Een technicus uit Area 51,Bill Uhouse, claimde dat hij al vroeg in de jaren '60 samengewerkt heeft met een Grey Alien in vliegende schotel simulators waarin piloten leerden vliegen met deze objecten.
In dezelfde tijdsperiode werkte een luchtmacht technicus, Charles Hall, bij Nellis en had contact met de Tall White Extraterrestrials (Grote Witte Buitenaardsen). Zij lieten hem een TW shuttle schotel van binnen zien waarmee je naar de Maan en naar Mars kon reizen, maar niet dieper de ruimte in. Deze schotel had logo’s van alle grote lucht- en ruimtevaartbedrijven in het interieur van de schotel.
Er was een ongeluk met een door kernenergie aangedreven schotel in 1980 waarbij een lekkage ontstond in een reactorvat. Terwijl de schotel was omringd door drie militaire helikopters kregen drie personen de volle laag straling over zich heen. Deze zaak is uiteindelijk tot in het Congres gekomen, zonder enige vorm van compensatie voor de slachtoffers.
Ongeveer 10 jaar geleden slaagde de Engelsman Gary McKinnon erin om de computers van NASA te hacken en ontdekte de code naam “Solar Warden” en roosters voor alle buitenaardse officieren en lijsten met rompnummers van de grote ruimteschepen, groter dan twee voetbalvelden, en hun kleinere beschermers. Maar, vier jaar voordat McKinnon zijn ontdekking deed werd er op het Open Mind Forum al gesproken over Solar Warden en ook dat de Bilderbergers eigenaar zouden zijn van die bewuste ruimtevloot.
Alle bestaande ruimteprogramma’s dienen om de bevolking zand in de ogen te strooien. De Solar Warden vloot bestond in 2005 uit acht grote ruimteschepen, vergelijkbaar met vliegkampschepen, en 43 “beschermers”, wat natuurlijk ook ruimteschepen zijn.
Eén daarvan is onlangs verongelukt in een omloopbaan bij Mars toen het probeerde de bestaande multinationale kolonie daar te bevoorraden. Deze basis bestaat al sinds 1964 en is het resultaat van een Russisch en Amerikaanse samenwerking.
Niet is wat het lijkt. We hebben ondertussen al alle planeten in ons zonnestelsel bezocht met uitzondering van Mercurius. We zijn geland op Pluto en enkele manen. Deze schepen zijn bemand met personeel van diverse landen en zij hebben allen een eed gezworen aan de Wereldregering, ook wel bekend als de Bilderbergconferentie. De benodigde technologie is gekopiëerd van neergestorte buitenaardse schotels en in sommige gevallen hebben de buitenaardsen zelfs geholpen.
NASA verspreidt eerste videobeelden na landing Marsverkenner
Enkele dagen geleden landde de NASA-robot Perseverance op Mars. Geen simpele klus, want voordat de robot er kon landen moest deze “7 minutes of terror” doorstaan. Vandaag heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA de beelden van deze landing vrijgegeven.
De Marsrobot is uitgerust met in totaal 19 camera’s waarvan drie camera’s beelden van de landing moesten maken. Eentje stopte met werken, maar de overige twee slaagden er gelukkig wel in om de landing te filmen. “Deze beelden komen het dichtst bij Mars zonder een ruimtepak aan te moeten trekken."
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Het resultaat ziet er ietwat surrealistisch uit, alsof het om een of andere filmscène gaat. In werkelijkheid wordt de oppervlakte van Mars getoond. De iets meer dan drie minuten durende video begint met het uitklappen van het gigantische supersonische valscherm en toont dan, vanuit meerdere hoeken, hoe de robotjeep naar het Marsoppervlak afdaalt en daarbij het hitteschild afwerpt.
Zodra de robot zo'n 20 meter verwijderd is van de rode planeet, gaat het er plots wat ruiger aan toe. Zo zien we het gruis opwaaien door de stuwraketten. Uiteindelijk is te zien hoe de Perseverance zich via een katrolsysteem van de landingsmodule naar de grond liet zakken, gevolgd door de landing zelf. “Landing bevestigd”, luidt het dan, waarna gejubel bij de vluchtleiding losbarst.
Er is ondertussen ook een filmpje waarop een camera een panoramisch overzicht van 360 graden van de landinsplaats in de Jezerokrater maakt.
Hoewel de robot ook is uitgerust met een microfoon, kon er helaas geen audiomateriaal van de landing worden verzameld. Zodra Perseverance was geland, werd er wél geluid opgenomen door een tweede microfoon. “Je hoort hoe de wind klinkt op Mars", aldus een van de ingenieurs.
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Volgens de ingenieurs verkeert de Marsverkenner in goede gezondheid. De Perseverance zal onder andere bodemstalen nemen op Mars, die vervolgens onderzocht worden op mogelijk leven, zowel nu als in het verleden.
These four screenshots taken from the NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover video that was shared to Twitter shows the rover landing on the Red Planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
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NASA's composite image produced from photos captured on Feb. 20, 2021, shows the the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. Two days after its historic landing.
Bijna 14 kilogram zware meteoriet aangetroffen in Zweden
Twee geologen hebben in Zweden een bijna 14 kilo zware ijzermeteoriet aangetroffen. Het Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, het natuurhistorisch museum van Stockholm, zegt dat het vermoedelijk om het grootste stuk gaat van de meteorieteninslag van 7 november.
De vondst gebeurde in de buurt van de stad Enköping, zowat 65 km ten noordwesten van de hoofdstad, en de meteoriet werd intussen overgedragen aan het museum. Volgens het museum is het de eerste keer in meer dan 60 jaar dat een neergestorte meteoriet gevonden werd in Zweden.
Op 7 november hadden vele Zweden een vuurbal gespot die de hemel zowat drie seconden had verlicht. Astronoom Eric Stempels, van de universiteit van Uppsala berekende toen al waar de meteoriet ongeveer neergestort moet zijn.
De afgelopen weken werden al kleinere fragmenten van deze ijzermeteoriet gevonden. Het stuk dat nu werd gevonden is goed 30 centimeter lang en is waarschijnlijk het grootste reststuk van het hemellichaam. Toen het onze atmosfeer binnenkwam moet dat, volgens Stempels, zowat negen ton zwaar geweest zijn.
Vermoed wordt dat in de buurt nog meer kleinere onderdelen van de meteoriet liggen.
60 Year Mission: What We’ve Learned So Far About Mars
60 Year Mission: What We’ve Learned So Far About Mars
Over the past 60 years, both the United States and the USSR have launched various missions to observe and explore the planet Mars. These have included fly-by missions by spacecraft, and also landers and rovers sent from Earth.In recent years, ground missions by NASA have yielded an incredible trove of knowledge about the Martian system.
The following presentation by PBS chronicles some of the pivotal pieces photographic evidence gathered by these missions, and charts the trajectory of our learning curve of the habitat and origins of Mars. Watch:
In total, there have now been five successful rover missions on the surface of Mars, Sojourner (1997), Opportunity (2004), Spirit (2004), Curiosity (2012), and the latest, Perseverance, landing on February 18th of this year. These missions have enabled scientists to learn about the ancient environment of the Red Planet, including a deeper understanding of its geological and water history.Watch:
Electromagnetic & Frequency Weapons Are Being Used In America
Electromagnetic & Frequency Weapons Are Being Used In America
Electromagnetic & Frequency Weapons Are Being Used In America
Lots going on across this earth and nobody is being arrested but US Citizens, Veterans, Preppers, and people who stand for the Constitution- Whose in Jail?? Which Hundreds of Politicians and others of Public Office and Corrupted Service?
Just when is anything supposed to show indications of a change for the better of humanity. Looks like to me it’s just a ‘stall’ so they can get more 5G Towers built for their assault on the people of the North American Continent.
The Dinosaur Deception Exposed And Evolution Debunked. Must See Videos!
The Dinosaur Deception Exposed And Evolution Debunked. Must See Videos!
EVOLUTION AND DINOSAURS DEBUNKED
Do you believe that your father was an ape, your grand-father was a reptile, and your great grand-father was an explosion? For those who don’t believe such pseudo-scientific non-sense (and for those who do), the following presentation lays out the undeniable proof that you are NOT some slowly evolved ape-man and that prehistoric giant reptiles are nothing but a Freemasonic hoax used to bolster this destructive disempowering atheistic nihilistic paradigm they are propagating to the masses.
Evolution and Dinosaurs Debunked along with my other documentaries, The Earth Plane, The History of Flat Earth, and 200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball are now available to purchase from Amazon on DVD or you can watch them all free on my YouTube channel.
The Mars Helicopter is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
The Mars Helicopter is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
Earth is the only planet in the solar system with aircraft capable of sustained flight. Suppose the ground-breaking Ingenuity helicopter, currently stowed aboard the similarly spectacular Mars Perseverance rover, accomplishes its planned mission. In that case, Mars will become the second planet to have a powered aircraft fly through its atmosphere.
Ingenuity has sent its first status report since landing on Mars. The signal, which arrived via the iconic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), reports on the state of the batteries of the helicopter as well as the operation of the base station, which, among other things, operates the critically important heaters that keep the electronics within an acceptable temperature range. Thankfully, it’s all good news for now, with the batteries and base station operating as expected.
Artist’s impression of Ingenuity flying above Mars with the Perseverance rover seen in the background. Credit NASA/JPL–Caltech
While Ingenuity still hasn’t performed a flight yet (hopefully, this becomes an outdated statement soon), the helicopter has already overcome some daunting challenges. Perhaps the most perilous portion of Ingenuity’s journey was the interplanetary trip from Earth to Mars as part of the larger Perseverance rover mission. Launched in July of 2020, Perseverance touched down at Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18th. A new high-resolution video of the spectacular sky-crane landing of Perseverance was released by NASA earlier today and is mind-blowing all on its own.
Perseverance is lowered from the ‘sky-crane’ onto the surface of Mars. Note that this is NOT an artist’s impression, but an actually photograph from the February 18th landing. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
It is easy to overlook how challenging landing on Mars is. The alarming fact of the matter is that only about half of Mars missions have made it successfully! One of the main reasons for this is the density of the Martian atmosphere. Thankfully, riding strapped to the belly of the rover, Ingenuity survived the perilous descent from space.
One of the most significant obstacles for landing on Mars will continue to present problems for our heroic helicopter now that it is safely on the surface. The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars is only about 1% that of Earth. To put that in perspective, the summit of Mount Everest has only one-third the atmospheric pressure of sea level. While this is thought to be at (or sadly in some cases beyond) the limit of what humans can survive, it is well beyond Earthbound helicopters’ range. If you’ve ever wondered why wealthy explorer-types don’t just cheat and take a helicopter to the summit of Everest, that’s why!
Compared to Mars, the air on Everest might as well be pea soup. The ridiculously rarefied air on Mars makes helicopter flight extraordinarily challenging. Ingenuity will spin its two counter-rotating rotors five times faster than Earthly helicopters, about forty times per second. Ingenuity is also light, only about 1.8 kilograms. The rotors are about 1.2 meters in diameter and are relatively oversized to maximize lift.
Mars does give Ingenuity a break in one area, thankfully. Mars has only about one-third of the surface gravity of the Earth. If you were to hold the aircraft while standing on the Earth, it would feel roughly as heavy as a two-liter bottle (with a couple of sips taken out for luck). On Mars, the exact same aircraft would feel like a 20 oz bottle (591 milliliters).
NASA/JPL video about the Ingenuity helicopter mission
The helicopter does not play a critical role in the science mission of Perseverance. It is essentially a technological demonstration or proof-of-concept, and data collected from Ingenuity will be used in engineering future Martian aircraft. It is solar-powered and features electronics that have been miniaturized to keep everything light enough for flight.
Ingenuity is also fully autonomous. Due to the extreme distance of Mars, the helicopter mission controllers can’t fly the aircraft in realtime the way Earthly drone-pilots can use joysticks to maneuver at home. The time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to Mars is longer than the helicopter’s entire flight-time! Imagine if you were driving a car (on a closed course in your imagination only), and when you turned the wheel, the car ran out of gas before it registered your input!
Ingenuity depicted in front of the Mars Perseverance rover. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
If Ingenuity successfully demonstrates powered aerodynamic flight on Mars, it will be a milestone unlike any that has come before. One can only imagine the impact that flying Mars explorers could have on future missions. A future helicopter could be partnered with a larger rover and act as a scout, carefully surveying the terrain and helping the parent rover more efficiently plot a safe and scientifically interesting course. Perhaps a helicopter could pick up samples from a wide area and deliver them to a rover or stationary facility with highly sophisticated scientific instrumentation. Even a standalone helicopter mission could be conceived. There are plenty of cliffs, ice caps, volcanoes, or otherwise inaccessible parts of the Martian landscape that are likely permanently beyond the reach of ground-based rovers or even humans.
The coming weeks will be one of the most exciting periods for fans of space exploration, aviation, or anybody who is stirred by extraordinary accomplishments in engineering and, of course, the ingenuity of the brilliant scientists and engineers that built Ingenuity.
There’s Evidence That Mars Once Had an Atmosphere With Less Oxygen. A Possible Biosignature For Life?
There’s Evidence That Mars Once Had an Atmosphere With Less Oxygen. A Possible Biosignature For Life?
Remote sensing is only useful if scientists have an idea of what they are looking at. That knowledge is especially important for remote sensing applications on other planets, such as Mars, where it is extraordinarily difficult to collect information about an observed object in any other way. To make up for the lack of ability to perform other tests in situ, scientists set up laboratory experiments with different environments and materials and compare the remote sensing data with the observed remote objects.
That is exactly what Jiacheng Liu, a doctoral student at the University of Hong Kong, did with remote sensing data from the surface of Mars. What he found gave new weight to a novel theory – that Mars didn’t used to have a significant amount of oxygen in its atmosphere. The fact that it does now prompts the question of where all the oxygen that exists in the atmosphere today came from. One possible answer is the same place it came from on Earth – photosynthetic life.
UT Video discussing the Martian atmosphere.
Mars is commonly called the “red planet” because most of its surface is covered in iron oxide, commonly referred to as rust, which has a red hue. Not all parts of the planets are red though – there are some volcanic rocks that do not contain much iron, and are therefore not subject to the oxidizing reaction that blankets so much of the rest of the planet.
Those same volcanic rocks are also insightful windows into the atmospheric chemistry of Mars that isn’t affected by oxygen. Dr. Liu discovered that the evolution of basalt and other minerals found on Hainan Island in Southwest China were good proxies for the exposed volcanic rock found on Mars.
Remote sensing image showing the clays, including iron-rich ones that have not been oxidized, that were only recently exposed to the Martian atmosphere. Credit: University of Hong Kong
Importantly, that exposed rock on Mars was old, and would have last interacted with the Martian atmosphere billions of years ago. Its structure showed that it was last exposed to an environment that did not contain much oxygen, as the iron contained in the rocks was not yet oxidized.
Such a low oxygen environment was present on Earth as well billions of years ago. Then, approximately 2.5 billion years ago, a switch to an oxygen-rich atmosphere took place called the Great Oxidation Event. Scientists believe the impetus for this transition was multicellular life performing photosynthesis and replenishing oxygen in the atmosphere, as it was also being captured in iron oxide as well.
Image taken by the Viking 1 orbiter in June 1976, showing Mars thin atmosphere and dusty, red surface. Credits: NASA/Viking 1
So far, there has been no such explanation for what caused Mars’ atmosphere to gain so much oxygen. There are non-biological processes that could be responsible for such a transition. But it does open the tantalizing possibility that, long ago, when Mars was warmer and wetter, it underwent an explosion of life that caused it’s atmosphere to change to what it is today. As with so much other science, more data is needed though, as “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.
UFO During Sunset Over Cairns, Australia On Feb 22, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO During Sunset Over Cairns, Australia On Feb 22, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Close Up Has Contrast and Shadow Added To Bring Out True Detail of the UFO.
Date of sighting: Feb 22, 2021
Location of sighting: Cairns, Australia
Source: MUFON 113765
Listen to these two eyewitnesses as they get flabbergasted by the UFO that they were witness too in Australia yesterday. The UFO appeared during sunset and I have said that this is the most common time of the day for UFOs to be seen due to the angle of the eyewitness, sun and UFO making a perfect triangle. This UFO is clearly noticing the two men watching it and recording it. However the UFO got frightened and entered into the cloud ceiling to hide. Even aliens feel fear and if they break their own species rules about observing, they too could be punished.
This glowing has sensors so powerful, that the alien pilot could easily see and know that the humans were clearly aware of its presence. This is 100% proof that there is an alien base in the Australia outback, 5-6km below the surface.
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Eyewitness states: Wired ball of light in the sky. Observed ball of light initially though it was a hole in the clouds but cloud was moving behind then pulsated then disappear my mate has better footage will try post soon.
Pulsing red light followed by triangle with white lights filmed over Rochester, Washington on 22nd January 2021.
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Driving south along school land road along black river in Rochester Washington. noticed red blinking light followed by a triangular object with three white lights and one red light near front center. Objects appeared to be connected and moved Silently above treetops I estimate between 500 and 1000 feet in elevation. Clip of iPhone video attached as well as screen shot. Have observed this object near the same area in the past on several occasions as a pulsing red light with darken object trailing behind.
British engineers are preparing to test the fuel mix that could one day power the largest nuclear fusion experiment in the world, Nature reports.
Researchers at the JointEuropean Torus (JET), a fusion reactor at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, UK, began conducting fusion tests involving tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, back in December.
The tokamak, a commonly implemented donut-shaped reactor design, was converted into a one-tenth scale reactor of ITER, the world’s largest planned nuclear fusion research project that began assembly in July 2020. ITER is set to start operations no sooner than 2025.
This summer, researchers at JET will begin experiments involving both tritium and deuterium, a different hydrogen isotope.
The concept is simple, with plasma of both isotopes combining in order to release heat. The heat is the result of helium being produced, bringing temperatures inside the reactor up to 100 million degrees, several times hotter than the Sun’s core. This additional heat then sustains further fusion reactions, as Nature explains.
At least that’s the theory. No fusion reactor has yet managed to produce more energy out of these cascading reactions than what it took to start them.
JET’s initial goals aren’t quite that ambitious as it gears up to find the right fuel mix for the much bigger version at ITER. The researchers are hoping to sustain reactions for at least five seconds to collect all the data they need about how tritium behaves.
“What we are after is physics information that we can use to validate our understanding, and then we can apply that to preparing the future machine,” Joelle Mailloux, co-lead of the experiment at JET, told Nature.
Making matters even more complicated is the fact that bombarding neutrons created by the mixing of tritium and deuterium will make the inner facility quite radioactive. So radioactive, in fact, that humans won’t be able to safely step foot inside for at least 18 months. That means it will have to work the first time.
For now, fusion energy remains an extremely elusive form of generating power. While there is considerably more weight behind efforts to make it a reality than there just ten years ago, on the small startup and international scale alike, practical fusion power has yet to materialize.
But once realized, it could represent an entirely new form of virtually limitless energy — minus the risk of a nuclear meltdown.
Berwyn UFO Incident: Another Flying Saucer Crash Story
Berwyn UFO Incident: Another Flying Saucer Crash Story
The Berwyn UFO or Berwyn Mountain Incident, similar with Rendlesham Forest incident also known as the ‘Welsh Roswell’ is one of the world famous and well-known British UFO crash story to date, which took place in Wales in January 1974.
At that time, there was a huge bang and a brilliant light over the Berwyn Mountains in north east Wales. It was considered possible that an aircraft had crashed, or a meteorite had impacted.
The Ministry of Defence investigation found that there were five other reports of UFOs seen over the United Kingdom on 23 January 1974, when the Berwyn Mountains incident happened.
Three sightings were in the Home Counties, one in Lincolnshire and another in Sussex. However a Ministry of Defence (MoD) investigation insisted there was no UFO.
At 8.30 p.m. on January 23, 1974, a large disc-like object was seen to fall from the skies over Clwyd in Wales. Dozens of witnesses across Lancashire and Cheshire had phoned the police earlier that evening after seeing a strange formation of green lights flying erratically over the skies of the north-west.
At exactly 8.38 p.m., something impacted into the Berwyn Mountains in Clwyd, and the resulting tremor, which measured 3.5 (other source said 4.5) on the Richter Scale, was also felt in Wrexham, Chester, Liverpool, Southport, and even in some areas of Greater Manchester.
Police immediately converged on the Berwyn Mountains, expecting to find a crashed passenger jet, but just what they did find has never been divulged.
Document sent to Russ Kellett from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency regarding Operation Photoflash in connection with the Berwyn Mountains mystery.
A convoy of army trucks passed through Chester that night and made their way to the epicentre of the crash site, then the army threw a cordon around the area. Even the police and crash investigators were warned off. Also, there were reports that the villages in the vicinity were visited by ‘Men in Black’.
A nurse who lived near the scene of the impact told a local newspaper that a flying saucer ‘the size of the Albert Hall’ had smashed into a mountain, throwing debris and bodies for over a mile.
She said she walked up to one of the bodies, and realized it wasn’t human, but before she could describe what she had seen, the military intervened, and two Ministry of Defence officials ordered her to remain silent about the UFO because her comments ‘would constitute a threat to national security and the defence of the realm’.
That nurse has never been seen in the area since, and the news reporter who visited the scene of the alleged crash refused to talk about the incident up until his death in 1979.
In 1980, an electronics engineer named Arthur Adams, who had worked on Concorde, visited the Berwyn UFO crash-site and found strange green coloured pieces of metal embedded in the rocks there.
He took samples of the metal to his laboratory and discovered that a sample the size of a 1-inch cube gave off two kilowatts of electricity, when wired up to a volt meter.
Mr. Adams contacted the Daily Express, and they published a series of articles about the strange find, but the Ministry of Defence stepped in and killed the story.
It was later alleged by “the UFO community” that a UFO crashed, that non-human (extra-terrestrial) bodies were found there and that the British Government covered up the event.
Today, no one knows what crashed in the Welsh Mountains on that winter night in 1974; some think it was an experimental man-made top-secret military aircraft possibly a prototype Stealth bomber; others think it was an alien craft from another world, while skeptic people think it only meteorites.
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36 Unsolved Mysteries of the World by Vikas Khatri
Scientists from Oxford, based on the well-known evolutionary theory, made an assumption about the possible appearance of representatives of alien civilizations and their behavior. This was reported on the pages of the International Journal of Astrobiology.
According to researchers, aliens can get a humanoid appearance through a known process, such as natural selection. Their theory is based on the argument that the strongest form of life survives.
One of the authors of the study in Oxford, Sam Levine, said that the scientists in their study relied on an alternative approach to hypothetical astrobiology.
In other words, they applied evolutionary theory to simulate life in extraterrestrial conditions. The expert calls this a very useful approach, since similar models can also be applied to silicon life forms that do not have DNA or breathe nitrogen.
Thanks to the theory of extraterrestrial natural selection, researchers have created a model of extraterrestrial evolution and studied the possibility of complex life forms on distant exoplanets.
As a result of the study, scientists have come to the conclusion that alien life forms, as well as terrestrial ones, will survive several basic periods, and eventually take on a human form.
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Operation Paperclip: When U.S. Brought Nazi Scientists To America
Operation Paperclip: When U.S. Brought Nazi Scientists To America
Over seventy years ago, shortly after the end of World War II, Allied intelligence agencies launched a concerted treasure hunt for German military and scientific inventions, including rocket and jet-engine technology.
Both sides in the coming cold war benefited greatly by picking through the ruins of Adolf Hitler’s war machine, but the U.S. War Department’s Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) scored a particular triumph with a covert operation known as Project Paperclip, authorized by President Harry Truman in September 1945.
Its aim was simple: “To exploit German scientists for American research and to deny these intellectual resources to the Soviet Union.”
Operation Paperclip team
The range of Germany’s technical achievement astounded Allied scientific intelligence experts accompanying the invading forces in 1945 such as: Supersonic rockets, nerve gas, jet aircraft, guided missiles, stealth technology and hardened armour were just some of the groundbreaking technologies developed in Nazi laboratories, workshops and factories.
Even though the JIOA’s recruitment of German scientists began in Europe on 8 May 1945 after the Allied victory, President Harry Truman did not formally order the execution of Operation Paperclip until August 1945.
President Truman’s original order specifically barred recruitment of anyone found “to have been a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazism or militarism”.
Those restrictions would have rendered ineligible most of the leading scientists the JIOA had identified for recruitment, among them rocket scientists Wernher von Braun, Kurt H. Debus and Arthur Rudolph, and the physician Hubertus Strughold, each earlier classified as a “menace to the security of the Allied Forces”.
Samuel Klaus, the State Department’s JIOA representative, complained that many of the scientists enlisted were “ardent Nazis,” but JIOA Director Bosquet Wev overruled that protest, declaring that “the best interests of the United States have been subjugated to the efforts expended in ‘beating a dead Nazi horse.’”
Furthermore, Wev cautioned, Soviet (Russia) posed a “far greater security threat to this country than any former Nazi affiliations which they may have had or even any Nazi sympathies that they may still have.”
Nazi’s imported scientists under Project Paperclip included:
Arthur Rudolph, director of the Mittelwerk factory at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp, where 20,000 slave laborers died. A National Socialist since 1931, Rudolph was described in Allied files as “100% Nazi, dangerous type, security threat… Suggest internment.”
The JIOA found “nothing in his records indicating that he was a war criminal or an ardent Nazi or otherwise objectionable.” Rudolph became a U.S. citizen, designed the rocket used in the Apollo Project moon landings—and fled to West Germany in 1984 when his record of war crimes was reopened.
Werner von Braun, Hitler’s technical director at the Peenemunde rocket research center from 1937 to 1945 and developer of the deadly V-2 rocket. He later worked on guided missiles for the U.S. Army, served as director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and became a national celebrity in the 1960s as one of Walt Disney’s “World of Tomorrow” experts. In the 1970s he served as associate director of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Kurt Blome, another Nazi scientist who admitted experimenting on concentration-camp inmates with plague bacilli. Blome was acquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg in 1947 (although most observers accepted the fact of his guilt). Two months after that acquittal Blome was in Maryland, consulting with the U.S. military on germ warfare. The U.S. Army Chemical Corps hired him in 1951 to continue his life’s work and passion.
Walter Schreiber, a Nazi major general who, according to Nuremberg testimony, “assigned doctors to experiment on concentration camp prisoners and had made funds available for such experimentation.” Only Schreiber’s detention in Russia (1945–48) spared him from trial as a war criminal.
He next surfaced at the Air Force School of Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas. Columnist Drew Pearson revealed Schreiber’s crimes in 1952, whereupon the U.S. government arranged passage for Schreiber to join his daughter in Argentina.
Hermann Becker-Freysing, convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at Nuremberg for conducting experiments on Dachau inmates, including force-feeding of seawater that was chemically treated to make it “drinkable.” Even before his trial Becker-Freysing was paid by the U.S. Air Force to report on his sadistic experiments.
Siegfried Ruff, a codefendant with Becker- Freysing at the Nuremberg “Doctor’s Trial,” where he narrowly escaped conviction on charges of killing 80 inmates in a low-pressure chamber designed to simulate altitudes above 60,000 feet. Like Becker-Freysing, Ruff was sought (and paid) by the U.S. Air Force in the interests of “national security.”
Reinhard Gehlen, while not a scientist, was one of the THIRD REICH’s top intelligence officers who were linked to the torture and murder of countless victims. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruited him in 1950 to coordinate its secret war against Communism in Europe.
Klaus Barbie, the Nazi “Butcher of Lyon” and another prized CIA intelligence asset, whose association with the U.S. intelligence service spared him trial and execution for war crimes.
By 1955 more than 760 German scientists were granted U.S. citizenship, their dossiers “sanitized” to remove any taint of active involvement with Hitler’s genocidal regime.
A 1985 exposé in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists revealed that author Linda Hunt had secured more than 130 files on Project Paperclip immigrants and that she found that everyone “had been changed to eliminate the security threat classification.”
Some conspiracy theories supporters maintain that the postwar scientific looting of Germany also included secrets concerning UFOs (anti-gravity technology) which remain classified to this day.
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The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories by Michael Newton
Early Mars is thought to have been Earthlike before solar radiation and cosmic other forces killed its atmosphere. This explains why the rover that has now gone viral in the Twitterverse and just about everywhere else touched down in Jezero Crater, which is thought to have once been a huge lake that could have also been crawling with microbial life. Scientists have now found evidence that Mars went through the same phase as Earth before both planets got their atmospheres — something that has not been proven until now.
“Reduced greenhouse gases such as methane (CH4) and hydrogen (H2) might be the only tenable solution to explain warming of the ancient Martian climate, but direct geological evidence that a reduced atmosphere actually existed on Mars has been lacking,” said Jiancheng Liu, who led a study recently published in Nature Astronomy.
The timing for this discovery was right on. Perseverance has started searching the Red Planet for any potential signs of life, and that life — if it was anything like like as we know it — would have required an atmosphere. But wait. Before you can figure out around when Mars started get an atmosphere, and what it was like with an atmosphere (kind of hard to imagine looking at what is now a space desert), you have to back up further to before it even had an oxidized atmosphere. There is a time that things didn’t rust on Earth or Mars because there was not enough oxygen in the atmosphere to interact with substances rich in iron.
Instead of an oxidized atmosphere, both Earth and Mars once had a reduced atmosphere. This is not the same as the massive reduction in atmosphere the Red Planet experienced after most of its atmosphere was decimated by solar winds and other cosmic forces. A reduced atmosphere is made up of mostly reduced gases like methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide, which are hydrogen-rich rather than oxygen-rich. Humans would not have been able to handle breathing in this poison. However, there are microorganisms that are fueled by methane right here on our planet, so it wouldn’t be impossible for Mars.
What made Mars habitable once was its own greenhouse effect. While greenhouse gases have been demonized on Earth because too much carbon dioxide and other types have been released into the atmosphere from human pollution, the right amount of these atmospheric gases is necessary to warming up a planet just enough so life-forms can thrive.
Rocks on Mars, as seen by Curiosity.
Credit: NASA
Previous studies had assumed that on Mars, this phenomenon happened with reduced gases instead of CO2, meaning the planet must have had a reduced atmosphere. Evidence of this was finally found by Liu and his team when they investigated spacecraft data of weathered Martian rocks that showed signs of having been exposed to such an atmosphere.
“The separation of Fe from Al in Martian palaeosols, which is comparable to trends observed in palaeosols before the Great Oxidation Event on Earth, suggests that the ancient Martian surface was chemically weathered under a reducing greenhouse atmosphere,” Liu said.
An orbiting spacecraft remotely examined rocks on the surface of Mars. This spacecraft was equipped with an instrument capable of infrared spectroscopy, which revealed the chemistry of these primordial rocks. When infrared light hits a target, it interacts with the molecules that make up that object. How the object in question absorbs, reflects or emits this light can give away what its chemical composition is like. What the researchers wanted to know was the composition of the paleosols on Mars, soils that formed eons ago and are physical and chemically unrelated to soils that formed more recently. This is how they identified a chemical sign of weathering caused by a reduced atmosphere.
Mars later underwent an oxidation event much the Earth’s Great Oxidation Event on Earth, though during a different time and possibly for different reasons. Earth’s atmosphere became oxidized because of oxygen was a by-product of processes like photosynthesis in early organisms. Proving that Mars had a reduced atmosphere before its oxidation event happened could mean life was somehow involved in the shift.
As Perseverence surveys Jezero Crater, it may find more to support this discovery ,and maybe even a fossilized microbe.
It's possible that the story of the Men in Black, the mysterious figures that would become the subject of fascination in UFO conspiracy circles and eventually break into mainstream popular culture, can be traced back to one day: June 27, 1947. It's quite possible that it all started with a man, a boy and a dog on a boat.
As the story goes, Harold Dahl was on a conservation mission on the Puget Sound near the eastern shore of Washington’s Maury Island, gathering logs, when he saw six donut-shaped obstacles hovering about a half a mile above his boat. Before long, one of them fell nearly 1,500 feet, followed by raining, metallic debris, some of which hit Dahl’s son, Charles, on his arm, as well as the family dog, who didn’t survive the ordeal. Dahl was able to take some pictures of the aircraft with his camera, which he later showed to his supervisor, Fred Crisman. A skeptical Crisman went back to the scene to look for himself and saw a strange aircraft with his own eyes.
The following morning, Dahl was visited by a man in a black suit. They end up at a local diner, where the man was able to recount in extraordinary detail what Dahl had just experienced. “What I have said is proof to you that I know a great deal more about this experience of yours than you will want to believe,” the man said, according to author Gray Barker’s 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.
Dahl was told not to speak of the incident. If he did, bad things would happen.
The supposed events of Maury Island have continued to fuel conspiracy theories to this day, even though a U.S. government investigation deemed it a hoax after Dahl and Crimson later admitted as much. In particular, the mention of the man in the black suit would evolve into a key obsession for UFO enthusiasts and spread into American popular culture, thanks to a comic-book series and a blockbuster movie trilogy.
In all of their different incarnations, the Men in Black (MIB) usually have one main purpose: to muzzle witnesses of strange, paranormal phenomena. They almost always wear black suits and hats with dark sunglasses, drive black cars and arrive in groups of two or three. Some describe them as one would an FBI agent, while others recall the MIB as having strange appearances, sometimes with supernatural features like glowing eyes and strange complexions.
The cover of Gray Barker's book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.
Mary Evans Picture Library/Everett
So how did we get from Harold Dahl to Will Smith?
"The transformation of the story from a first press report to a folkloric tale to a comic book and now to a film illustrates how the myth is transformed,” wrote Phil Patton in The New York Times around the time the first Men in Black movie was released in 1997. “That process is not unlike the children's game of 'telephone' or what the literary critic Harold Bloom calls 'innovation by misinterpretation.' "
Sticking with the telephone analogy, the first call was made to Kenneth Arnold, a pilot who had his own alleged UFO sighting on June 24, 1947 near Mt. Rainier, Washington. Though it happened three days after the Maury Island incident, it was the first widely reported sighting and it “touched off the saucer sensation,” as was written in a 1949 government report on “Flying Saucers.”
The report states that Dahl and Crimson reached out to a Chicago magazine in an attempt to sell their story, and the magazine editor then contacted Arnold, hoping he could help verify their account. Arnold then “summoned two officers of Army A-2 Intelligence to aid in the investigation of Dahl and Crisman's claim,” according to the report.
In July 1947, two Army A-2 Intelligence officers came to investigate. After leaving in their B-25 the next day, the plane caught fire and crashed, killing both officers and doing nothing to quiet UFO conspiracists.
But the Maury Island story gained little notice in the UFO community until Barker’s 1956 book, in which he wrote of his “file on the Maury Island case” that largely consisted of the writings by Ray Palmer, the Chicago magazine editor referred to in the government’s report. Barker went on to connect the dots between “the man, who wore a black suit” who took Dahl to breakfast and three similarly dressed men who allegedly visited a young UFO enthusiast named Albert K. Bender in 1953.
It was Bender who “almost single-handedly ushered in the plague of the Men in Black—just as Arnold inaugurated the era of the UFO,” Ufologist Nick Redfern wrote in his book The Real Men in Black. But it was Barker’s book that told Bender’s story, thus introducing the concept of the MIB to a much wider audience.
(The telephone-game analogy is still holding.)
Kenneth Arnold, center, looks at a photo of an unidentified flying object they sighted while en route to Seattle, Washington with pilots E.J. Smith and Ralph E. Stevens.
“It still has an important legacy,” said Robert Sheaffer, a UFO researcher. “Before its publication, nobody outside a very narrow group of subscribers to flying-saucer newsletters had ever heard of Bender, or his MIB.”
Barker described Bender’s visitors as: “Three men in black suits with threatening expressions on their faces. Three men who walk in on you and make certain demands. Three men who know that you know what the saucers really are!”
Bender, in his own 1962 book Flying Saucers and the Three Men, described the MIB in much more frightening language.
“They floated about a foot off the floor… They looked like clergymen, but wore hats similar to Homburg style. The faces were not clearly discernible, for the hats partly hid and shaded them… The eyes of all three figures suddenly lit up like flashlight bulbs… They seemed to burn into my very soul as the pains above my eyes became almost unbearable,” wrote Bender.
Barker would go on to write several more books related to the paranormal and UFOs, including 1970’s The Silver Bridge, which helped spread the story of another popular paranormal figure, the creature known as Mothman. But how much of his writing was done in good faith has been called into question by many in the UFO-research community.
“Barker made it clear to me that he did not take the MIB or Mothman very seriously,” says Sheaffer, who corresponded with Barker on occasion. “However, he believed that there was still 'something mysterious' about the whole UFO and paranormal thing.”
Regardless of Barker’s motives, countless MIB encounters have been reported since They Knew Too Much was published nearly 60 years ago, and at least one more movie is on the way.
The oldest-known Australian Aboriginal rock painting was created over 17,000 years ago, a new paper shows. The rock painting showcasing a kangaroo-like animal was discovered among dozens of other paintings and was dated with the aid of ancient wasp nests.
Image credits: Finch et al / Nature (2021).
In 2010, Damien Finch was hiking through Australia’s bushland when he came across something stunning: Aboriginal cave art. He was intrigued and saddened that not much was known about the art and the civilization that made it — not even when they were painted. So he decided to rectify that and started studying them.
“I first saw these paintings up close during a hike in a remote part of the Kimberley in 2010. It is astounding to see so much evidence of ancient human cultural activity in an environment without any of the other signs of human activity that we expect such as roads, power poles, buildings and plastic rubbish! It made me very curious to understand more about the paintings and the culture that created them,” Finch tells me in an email.
In a new study, Finch and colleagues worked with Aboriginal Traditional Owners from the Kimberley region in Western Australia to analyze the rock art specimens.
Dating rock art is really hard. Aboriginal art uses iron oxide pigments and no organic material — which means any radiocarbon analysis isn’t possible. So instead, Finch got creative (and a bit lucky). He found that some of the rocks nearby contained the remains of ancient wasp nests, which can be carbon dated. He found these mud wasp remains both under and above the painted surfaces — so by dating both of these, he could pincer in on the age of the art.
Image credits: Finch et al / Nature (2021).
It’s not the first time the method has been used, Finch says. It was used as early as 1997 when pollen extracted from a wasp nest (not over rock art) was dated, but it was less than 2,000, the researcher says. Now, researchers have adapted the technique and made it more reliable, even for small wasp remnants.
“By studying wasps building nests and then analyzing modern nests back in the laboratory, we determined that they frequently contained charcoal fragments. So we concentrated on methods to date charcoal rather than pollen which was less abundant. Radiocarbon dating has been used to date charcoal for more than 50 years and has been the mainstay of archaeological dating. Our radiocarbon dates on wasp nests built on top of paintings tell us that the painting must be older than the age of the nest. Similarly, if the nest is underneath the painting the age of the nest provides a maximum age for the painting.”
Overall, they found 27 such remains above and below 16 rock paintings. The paintings include a snake, a lizard-like figure, and three macropods (a family of marsupials including kangaroos, wallabies, and quokkas). However, one painting of a kangaroo (or a kangaroo-like creature) was dated to between 17,500–17,100 years ago, making it the oldest dated painted figure in Australia to date.
Image credits: Finch et al / Nature (2021).
Unfortunately, however, not much is known about the people who created this art. Not much archaeological information has been retrieved, but Finch hopes we can learn something from this art.
“I don’t know that we can say too much about a culture as it was 17,000 years ago. We struggle to understand the culture at the time of the pyramids and that was only 5,000 years ago. But now, for the first time, we can combine what we see in the paintings with what we know about the environment as it existed at the same time, around the end of the Last Ice Age. Science can tell us about the prevailing climate and sea-levels as well as the plants and animals available at that time. I am sure future researchers will draw these threads together with what we now know about the age of the rock art to come up with further insights about the lives of these ancient people,” Finch tells ZME Science.
The kangaroo is unlikely to be Australia’s oldest painting — it’s only the oldest one we’ve found so far. Considering that humans reached Australia some 65,000 years ago, the chances are more ancient art is just waiting to be discovered.
In the meantime, this is a sobering reminder of how much we’ve yet to learn about these ancient peoples. Bit by bit, Finch hopes to fill in the gaps.
“It was surprising just how few records existed and how little was known about them in the non-indigenous community. Through our research, we aim to improve this situation.”
Remember Dolly the sheep? On July 5, 1996, Dolly became the first mammal ever born via cloning – it was created using a mammary cell from sheep and the DNA from another, and carried to term by a third. Twenty-five years later, more mammals have been successfully cloned – including monkeys, pigs, cattle, wolves, dogs, cats and others. And humans? Ethics aside, while no one has publicly admitted to it, the possibility is there. However, the most interest recently has been in using cloning to de-extinct extinct mammals whose DNA can be obtained from frozen or preserved carcasses and carried by a similar species. Wooly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers seem to be likely candidates for this, but it hasn’t happened yet. However, the next best thing has. A black-footed ferret – a mammal on the brink of extinction — has beensuccessfully cloned. Is this good or bad news? Is cloning a better solution to preventing extinction than changing the environment to allow the species to repopulate itself? Will this be the ethical debate that finally produces a human clone?
“In November, ViaGen used the 32-year-old Willa cell line to develop cloned embryos. These were implanted into a domestic surrogate mother. Mid gestation, when the pregnancy was deemed safe, the mother was transferred to the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center. On December 10th, “Elizabeth Ann” became the first successfully cloned Black-footed ferret to be born. She is also the first endangered species native to the US to be cloned.”
This week, Revive & Restore – a “wildlife conservation organization promoting the incorporation of biotechnologies into standard conservation practice” – announced the birth of the first cloned black-footed ferret and the successful growth and development of “Elizabeth Ann.” She is the clone of a ferret named Willa who died in 1988 and was frozen because the black-footed ferret was believed to be nearly extinct – wiped out by the poisoning of prairie dogs, their primary source of food. That changed in 1981 when a dog brought a recently-killed specimen to its owner in Wyoming. The surviving group was found, but it nearly became extinct because of canine distemper and sylvatic plague, so the Fish and Wildlife Service captured the remaining 18 ferrets. Unfortunately, they lacked the genetic diversity to save the species.
Enter the late, frozen Willa and Revive & Restore, which sequenced the black-footed ferret genome in 2013. In 2018, Revive & Restore partnered with the commercial cloning company ViaGen Pets & Equine and obtained permission to clone Willa. Using basically the same process that created Dolly, they created embryos, implanted them into a tame domestic ferret surrogate (not a black-footed ferret) and welcomed Elizabeth Ann on 12/10/20. (Pictures here.) While Elizabeth Ann is of a different lineage than the remaining colony, the researchers will not introduce her into the surviving colony, fearing what that might cause, and will instead develop a new line. There are no plans to reintroduce Elizabeth Ann or any future clones back into the wild … yet.
Is it right? What about for species that aren’t cute?
(Not Elizabeth Ann)
Is this the right solution to saving species from extinction or bringing them back from it? One of the researchers says his goal is to bring back the passenger pigeon – birds are more difficult to clone than mammals. While this is the first cloning of an endangered species in the U.S., it has been done before in other countries (mouflon sheep, gaur, banteng, Pyrenean ibex, wild coyotes) but none have survived to adulthood. Revive & Restore co-founder and executive director Ryan Phelan told AP that they see it as a tool, not a sole solution to preventing extinction or propagating de-extinction.
“How can we actually apply some of those advances in science for conservation? Because conservation needs more tools in the toolbox. That’s our whole motivation. Cloning is just one of the tools.”
Sadly, cloning is glamorous technology, while preventing climate change, stopping the destruction of forests, eliminating toxic pollution and other more conventional ‘tools’ require hard work, government funding, big business buy-in and political support.
If you’re not ready for cloning, will you support the alternatives?
NOTE PETER2011:
Is cloning a solution to bring extinct or threatened animals back to life? Personally, this is a solution if it is done in an objective manner without interfering with the DNA of the cloned animal. But in the field of cloning there will also be abuses, because people like to deviate from the rules ...
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Food for Life Found in 3.5 Billion Year Old Rocks in Australia
Food for Life Found in 3.5 Billion Year Old Rocks in Australia
For the first time, biologically-relevant organic molecules have been detected in Archaean fluid inclusions, which most likely served as nutrients for early life on Earth.
A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Mißbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic molecules and gases trapped in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks. A widely accepted hypothesis says that the earliest life forms used small organic molecules as building materials and energy sources. However, the existence of such components in early habitats on Earth was as yet unproven.
3.5 billion year old barite (bottom) with a fossilized microbial mat (top). The barite is part of the Dresser Formation in NW Australia
The current study, published in the journal ‘Nature Communications’, now shows that solutions from archaic hydrothermal vents contained essential components that formed a basis for the earliest life on our planet.
Specifically, the scientists examined about 3.5 billion-year-old barites from the Dresser Formation in Western Australia. The barite thus dates from a time when early life developed on Earth. ‘In the field, the barites are directly associated with fossilized microbial mats, and they smell like rotten eggs when freshly scratched. Thus, we suspected that they contained organic material that might have served as nutrients for early microbial life,’ said Dr. Helge Mißbach of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy and lead author of the study.
In the fluid inclusions, the team identified organic compounds such as acetic acid and methanethiol, in addition to gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. These compounds may have been important substrates for metabolic processes of early microbial life. Furthermore, they are discussed as putative key agents in the origin of life on Earth. ‘The immediate connection between primordial molecules emerging from the subsurface and the microbial organisms – 3.5 billion years ago – somehow surprised us. This finding contributes decisively to our understanding of the still unclear earliest evolutionary history of life on Earth,’ Mißbach concluded.
Contacts and sources:
Jan Voelkel University of Cologne
Dr. Helge Mißbach Arbeitsgruppe Geobiologie Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie University of Cologne
First Black Hole Ever Detected Much More Massive Than First Suspected
First Black Hole Ever Detected Much More Massive Than First Suspected
New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects.
Published today in the journal Science, the research shows the system known as Cygnus X-1 contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected without the use of gravitational waves.
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. This system contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected without the use of gravitational waves, weighing in at 21 times the mass of the Sun. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.
Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.
Cygnus X-1 is one of the closest black holes to Earth. It was discovered in 1964 when a pair of Geiger counters were carried on board a sub-orbital rocket launched from New Mexico.
The object was the focus of a famous scientific wager between physicists Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne, with Hawking betting in 1974 that it was not a black hole. Hawking conceded the bet in 1990.
In this latest work, an international team of astronomers used the Very Long Baseline Array—a continent-sized radio telescope made up of 10 dishes spread across the United States—together with a clever technique to measure distances in space.
“If we can view the same object from different locations, we can calculate its distance away from us by measuring how far the object appears to move relative to the background,” said lead researcher, Professor James Miller-Jones from Curtin University and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR).
“If you hold your finger out in front of your eyes and view it with one eye at a time, you’ll notice your finger appears to jump from one spot to another. It’s exactly the same principle.”
Astronomers observed the Cygnus X-1 system from different angles using the orbit of the Earth around the Sun to measure the perceived movement of the system against the background stars. This allowed them to refine the distance to the system and therefore the mass of the black hole.
Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.
“Over six days we observed a full orbit of the black hole and used observations taken of the same system with the same telescope array in 2011,” Professor Miller-Jones said. “This method and our new measurements show the system is further away than previously thought, with a black hole that’s significantly more massive.”
Co-author Professor Ilya Mandel from Monash University and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) said the black hole is so massive it’s actually challenging how astronomers thought they formed.
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. A stellar-mass black hole orbits with a companion star located 7,200 light years from Earth.
Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.
“Stars lose mass to their surrounding environment through stellar winds that blow away from their surface. But to make a black hole this heavy, we need to dial down the amount of mass that bright stars lose during their lifetimes” he said.
“The black hole in the Cygnus X-1 system began life as a star approximately 60 times the mass of the Sun and collapsed tens of thousands of years ago,” he said. “Incredibly, it’s orbiting its companion star—a supergiant—every five and a half days at just one-fifth of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
“These new observations tell us the black hole is more than 20 times the mass of our Sun—a 50 per cent increase on previous estimates.”
Recent observations show the black hole in the Cygnus X-1 system is 21 times the mass of the Sun—a 50 per cent increase on previous estimates. To form such a massive black hole, astronomers had to revise their estimates of how much mass stars lose via stellar winds.
Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.
Xueshan Zhao is a co-author on the paper and a PhD candidate studying at the National Astronomical Observatories—part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) in Beijing.
“Using the updated measurements for the black hole’s mass and its distance away from Earth, I was able to confirm that Cygnus X-1 is spinning incredibly quickly—very close to the speed of light and faster than any other black hole found to date,” she said.
“I’m at the beginning of my research career, so being a part of an international team and helping to refine the properties of the first black hole ever discovered has been a great opportunity.”
Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of Western Australia with support and funding from the State Government of Western Australia.
Contacts and sources:
Professor James Miller-Jones, ICRAR / Curtin University
Professor Ilya Mand,l OzGrav / Monash University
Pete Wheeler — International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Lauren Sydoruk, Curtin University
Publications:
‘Cygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole – implications for massive star winds’, published in Science on February 18th, 2021.
‘Reestimating the Spin Parameter of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1’, published in The Astrophysical Journal on February 18th, 2021.
‘Wind mass-loss rates of stripped stars inferred from Cygnus X-1’, published in The Astrophysical Journal on February 18th, 2021.
Protogalaxy Cluster Found When the Cosmic Fog Was Starting to Clear, When the Universe Was Just 750 Million Years Old
Protogalaxy Cluster Found When the Cosmic Fog Was Starting to Clear, When the Universe Was Just 750 Million Years Old
Origin stories are a focus of many astronomical studies. Planetary formation, solar system formation, and even galaxy formation have long been studied in order to understand how the universe came to be where it is today. Now, a team of scientists from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) consortium have found an extremely early “protogalaxy” that was formed approximately 750 million years after the big bang. Studying it can provide insights into that early type of galaxy formation and everything that comes after.
750 million years ago was near the end of the period in the history of the universe called “reionization”. During this epoch, which lasted approximately 370 million years, the first galaxies and large scale structures in the universe began forming. The protocluster (a high density cluster of galaxies) that Jorge González-López, a postdoc member of the LAGER team, found was created around this epoch. It is the furthest protocluster discovered so far.
ALMA image of 14 galaxies forming a protocluster known as SPT2349-56. These galaxies are in the process of merging and will eventually form the core of a truly massive galaxy cluster. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
To find such a distant object required a lot of observational time on a variety of instruments. The team originally leveraged the Dark Energy Camera attached to the Victor M. Blanco Telescope and then performed follow-up observations with the Magellan telescope in Las Campanas, both located in Chile. Las Campanas has the added advantage of extra “seeing”, which allows ground-based telescopes to capture very faint objects, such as this new protocluster, which might be unobservable in the sky of other parts of the world.
While the protocluster might be faint, it is certainly not physically small. The LAGER team estimated the amount of mass that was most likely present in the detected protocluster. Push forward to modern day sizing, and there is a high likelihood that it would be a supercluster similar in size to the Coma Group.
UT video describing how galaxies, including the ones seen in the LAGER study, move.
So far, the protocluster has not yet received a similar name, but it might be worthwhile to distinguish it as the farthest ever seen. The LAGER group is continuing to search for early stage galaxy formations in similar areas of the universe. The more they find, the more we will understand about our early universe. The and the important it is to distinguish each discovery with a name as part of its own origin story.
UFO Over Newark, New Jersey On Oct 6, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Newark, New Jersey On Oct 6, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 6, 2020, but reported this week Location of sighting: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Now here is a strange UFO flipping around in the sky as if it were turning around to look in different directions. The UFO has a main diamond metallic shape with a curved area sticking out of each of its four sides. Its darting around trying to find a place to hide in the clouds, but the blue sky makes it too obvious and the eyewitness noticed it as it was moving from one cloud to anther. I just have never seen this shape of UFO before...that right there makes me believe...this is a real alien craft.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was on Avon 11th and noticed a flash of light in sky while sitting in vehicle. In my head I’m like, naw, this can’t 🤬 be. Long story short, after the end of the video while I was getting out of the vehicle there was 2 more that came and went in the same direction. Now if you zoom in and slow the video you’ll see within 4-5 seconds in,, another UFO drop from left top clouds, and the another fly pass the original one 7-8 seconds into video. Are We Alone?
Glowing Orbs Over Metairie, Louisiana On Feb 21, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orbs Over Metairie, Louisiana On Feb 21, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 21, 2021 Location of sighting: Metairie, Louisiana, USA
Source: MUFON 1213759
These glowing lights don't just move about, but change speeds as well. You can see them staying relatively close to one another as if they are watching out for each other. The eyewitness states that he saw upwards of 30 UFOs, but we only get to see a few of them here. Apparently he was mesmerized at what he was seeing and suddenly remembered to record it on his phone.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
strange lights in the sky with no sound. Lights in the sky flying from the East to the West in the evening with no sound and a glowish reddish pink hue. No running lights observed.
Ancient structures found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
Ancient structures found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
Zooming in on the first underwater structure then it looks like a gigantic bridge with a length of 38 km. It looks like as if there is some sort of passage under the bridge leading to a square structure behind the bridge.
A possible road connects the bridge to Discovery tablemount which is part of a chain seamonts, called Discovery Seamonts. The seamounts formed between 41 and 35 million years ago and once rose above sea level.
Assuming that these structures are a bridge and a road and were built in ancient times, at a time the Discovery Seamounts once rose above sea level than who built it millions of years ago?
Another strange structure can be found next to Bouvet Island which is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island. The size of the zigzag structure is enormous and covers an area of about 255 km x 136 km.
It is remarkable that the lines in the zigzag structure all have the same dimensions It almost looks like an enormous electrical conductor.
Coordinates: Bridge:43°21'8.50"S 0°51'12.19"W
Zigzag structure: 51°28'16.59"S 6° 5'12.12"W
NOTE peter2011:
What happened to our planet in our past? Have there been earlier civilizations on Earth with a higher intelligence on our Earth? Was there a major natural disaster that destroyed parts of the civilizations of the time? A recent study shows that 42,000 years ago the poles flipped ... And then we probably don't forget the impacts of various asteroids. By using satellites, researchers are finding more and more ruins on the mainland and in the depths of seas, oceans and lakes ... We travel to the moon and Mars, but our own planet still hides so many secrets.
There has been a trend of the US Military releasing declassified footage depicting unidentifiable flying objects or UFOs, possibly preparing the mass public for some groundbreaking revelations in 2021! Check out today’s new video predicting the pentagon’s acknowledgement of aliens in 6 months! It’s time people learned the truth about our mysterious visitors from above and it starts right here!
WHEN WILL THE MARS HELICOPTER FLY? INGENUITY IS NOW ON THE RED PLANET
WHEN WILL THE MARS HELICOPTER FLY? INGENUITY IS NOW ON THE RED PLANET
The Mars helicopter will conduct the first test flight on another planet.
FOLLOWING A NEAR-SEVEN MONTH JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE, NASA's Perseverance roverhas finally landed on its target destination Mars on Thursday.
However, the SUV-sized robot did not travel by itself. Perseverance is joined by a smaller, more agile companion: the Ingenuity helicopter.If all goes well, Ingenuity could be the first aircraft to fly on another planet.
A NASA animation of the Ingenuity helicopter flying not far from its parent craft. The helicopter is the first of its kind on another planet — but if it's successful, it won't be the last. NASA-JPL/Caltech
Ingenuity is only 19 inches tall, with two four feet long carbon-fiber rotors spinning in opposite directions. It's so small, in fact, that it spent the duration of the trip to Mars tucked inside the bottom of the Perseverance rover.
The team behind Ingenuity are not yet sure whether it is even possible for a helicopter to hover above the Martian surface. Mars' atmosphere is less than one percent the density of Earth’s, so it may be too thin for the helicopter to successfully fly. If it succeeds, then space agencies can add aerial exploration of Mars to future missions.
"The thing that has me the most excited as the NASA administrator is getting ready to watch a helicopter fly on another world," former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said during a press conference that previewed the mission on June 17. "That's something that's never been done before in human history, and here we are."
First helicopter flight on another planet
Perseverance will watch as Ingenuity attempts to fly on Mars — the first controlled flight on another world.NASA
HOW WILL INGENUITY FLY ON MARS?
The team behind Ingenuity won’t get to test out the helicopter until at least a month after the pair have landed on Mars.
Shortly after their landing, the shield covering will drop and Ingenuity will separate from its robotic companion. After it detaches itself from the rover, the team on the ground has to ensure that Ingenuity passes a few initial milestones before they launch its first test flight. Ingenuity is powered through solar panels that charge up its lithium-ion batteries for one 90-second flight per Martian day.
Once the helicopter is able to charge itself through its solar panel, and communicate with the team through the Mars Helicopter Base Station on the rover, then they can begin testing the helicopter's flight abilities. But that likely won't happen until at least a month after landing on Mars.
Over the course of 30 Martian sols (a sol, the equivalent of a day, on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth), a team of NASA engineers on the ground will test out Ingenuity's ability to fly. But they're going to take things slow.
"We don’t have hard specific dates right now because the Perseverance and Ingenuity teams need time to check their robots and we cannot totally predict how long that will take," Jia-Rui Cook, supervisor of news events and projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tells Inverse.
How will Ingenuity fly on Mars?
The Ingenuity helicopter team will begin slowly getting ready for first flight of the helicopter. Mars has an atmosphere only one percent the density of Earth's, making flight a bigger unknown.
For its first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet off the ground and hover in the air for around 20 to 30 seconds. Although brief, those first seconds of flight will be a major milestone in space exploration. Subsequent flights will attempt further distances and higher altitudes than the one before it. The helicopter could fly for up to 90 seconds, to distances of almost 980 feet at a time and about 10 to 15 feet above the ground.
Once it does take off, NASA engineers will have not only proven that they can fly an aircraft on another planet, one that has a vastly different atmosphere than Earth, but will then get to work deploying more helicopters to Mars and perhaps other worlds — including a plan to send a drone to Saturn’s moon Titan.
A reversal in Earth’s magnetic field and a decline in solar activity 42,000 years ago caused major climate shifts that led to global environmental change and mass extinctions, according to a new study. The researchers called it the “Adams Event”after sci-fi writer Douglas Adams who declared the number 42 as the ultimate answer.
Kauri trees. Image credit: WIkipedia Commons
The Earth has a magnetic field that works as a protective shield against damaging electromagnetic radiation. But when the poles switch, as it has happened many times in the planet’s geological history, the shield weakens significantly and leaves the planet exposed to high-energy particles. The last time this happened was 42,000 years ago and lasted for about 1,000 years, during what scientists refer to as the Laschamp event.
Previous studies couldn’t find much evidence of the impact of the event on the planet, probably because the focus wasn’t on the period in which the poles were actually reversing, Turney and his team argue. Now, they discovered that the pole switch could have been the reason for a wide array of climate and environmental phenomena with severe consequences.
For the study, the researchers carried out radiocarbon analyses of the rings of ancient kauri trees located in northern New Zealand wetlands, some of which were more than 42,000 years old. This allowed tracking over time the increase of carbon-14 levels in the atmosphere, which is generated by the increasing levels of high-energy cosmic radiation reaching the Earth.
“For the first time ever, we have been able to precisely date the timing and environmental impacts of the last magnetic pole switch,” co-author Chris Turney from the University of New South Wales said in a statement. “The findings were made possible with ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which have been preserved in sediments for over 40,000 years.”
The researchers looked at numerous records and materials from all over the world, including from lake and ice cores, and found that a host of major environmental changes happened at the same time as the carbon-14 levels peaked. This included a shift in tropical rain belts in the West Pacific and a large growth of the ice sheet over North America, for example.
They used a model to understand how the chemistry of the atmosphere might change if the Earth’s magnetic field was lost and there was a prolonged period of low solar activity, which would have further reduced Earth’s protection against cosmic radiation. Ice core records suggest such drops in solar activity, known as the “grand solar minima”, coincided with the Laschamps event.
The atmospheric changes would have caused big environmental and climate changes, the researchers believe. This would have accelerated the growth of ice sheets and contributed to the extinction of Australian megafauna. Plus, it could explain the emergence of red ochre handprints, as humans might have used the pigment as a sunscreen to cope with the increased levels of ultraviolet radiation.
But that’s not all. The harsh climate conditions would explain the larger use of caves by our ancestors, as the underground spaces offered shelter. This would have increased competition and could have contributed to the end of the Neanderthals. “It’s the most surprising and important discovery I’ve ever been involved in,” Alan Cooper, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
While the last time the poles switched was 42,000 years ago, the researchers said there’s currently rapid movement of the north magnetic pole across the Northern Hemisphere. This could eventually lead to another reversal. The magnetic field has already weakened by about 9% over the past 170 years.
“Our atmosphere is already filled with carbon at levels never seen by humanity before. A magnetic pole reversal or extreme change in Sun activity would be unprecedented climate change accelerants,” Turney said in a statement. “We urgently need to get carbon emissions down before such a random event happens again.”
Minihelikopter Ingenuity meldt zich voor het eerst vanop Mars
Ingenuity, de kleine helikopter die de Amerikaanse robotjeep Perseverance vergezelde op de reis naar Mars, heeft zijn eerste statusrapport doorgezonden naar het controlecentrum van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA. Het rapport heeft vrijdag (Californische tijd) het centrum in Pasadena bereikt.
"Alles lijkt goed te werken", zo reageerde projectleider Tim Canham volgens een mededeling van NASA. Ingenuity (Vindingrijkheid) zit momenteel nog vastgehecht aan de onderkant van Perseverance (Volharding). Maar binnen 30 tot 60 dagen wordt van de helikopter verwacht dat hij Mars vanuit vogelperspectief zal verkennen. De heli zal daarbij wel extreme weersomstandigheden moeten trotseren: op Mars kan de temperatuur 's nachts tot -90 graden Celsius zakken.
Perseverance was donderdag na een reis van zeven maanden en ruwweg 480 miljoen km veilig aangekomen op de rode planeet. De robotjeep maakte een landing in de Jezerokrater, een uitgedroogd meer. Daar zal de komende twee jaar op zoek worden gegaan naar sporen van vroeger microbiologisch leven.
Perseverance, as it was finally christened last month, will roam the surface of the planet, collecting dust and rock samples in test tubes.
The agencies will then launch a pair of spacecraft to Mars in 2026 – one of which will collect the sample from Perseverance on Mars when it lands in 2028.
This spacecraft will then launch the samples into Mars orbit for the third spacecraft to collect and return to Earth in 2031.
If the plan works, scientists will finally get the very first hands-on analysis of samples of the planet in around 11 years’ time.
The multi-billion dollar project to bring back a piece of Mars to Earth will involve three separate launches and would only be successful as soon as 2031. The mission will start when Perseverance, NASA's new exploration rover, launches this summer
When Perseverance lands at Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, it will be the first spacecraft in the history of planetary exploration with the ability to accurately retarget its point of touchdown during the landing sequence
‘This is by no means a simple task,’ said Jim Watzin, head of NASA’s Mars exploration programme in Washington DC. ‘But we have kept it as simple as possible.’
‘What we can learn about Mars in our own laboratories is going to be fantastic,’ said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars exploration programme at NASA headquarters in Washington DC.
The full plan, as reported by Nature, begins when Perseverance lands in the Jezero crater, which is home to an old river delta that could reveal signs of ancient life.
As the six-wheeled lander Perseverance drives around for miles, it will scoop up enough material to fill around 30 geological sampling tubes.
The samples will be captured from the Jezero crater near a fossilised four billion year old river delta that could contain signs of ancient life
In 2026, NASA and ESA will launch two more spacecraft that would reach Mars in 2028.
The first will deploy a small rover, which will make its way to Perseverance, pick up the filled sampling tubes and transfer them to a ‘Mars ascent vehicle’ – a small rocket.
This rocket will blast off – in the process becoming the first object launched from the surface of Mars – and place the container into Martian orbit, meaning it will essentially be floating in space.
At this point, the third and final spacecraft involved in the tricky operation will manoeuvre itself next to the sample container, pick it up and fly it back to Earth.
Providing its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere is successful, it will plummet to the ground at a military training ground in Utah in 2031.
NASA will build the sample-retrieval lander and the Mars ascent vehicle, while the ESA is tasked with the all-important third phase of the task – building the spacecraft that gets the samples home.
The third spacecraft involved in the project will rendezvous in space to collect the Martian rock samples and return them to Earth
Nature reports that ESA officials committed to the plan at a ministerial meeting last November.
Watzin declined to comment on how much it will cost, but it is likely to require at least several billion dollars from each agency, the report said.
Regardless of whether it goes ahead or is even successful, NASA is launching Perseverance this summer.
Perseverance is described by NASA as a ‘robotic scientist’ weighing just under 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms).
It will search for signs of past microbial life, assess Mars' climate and geology, collect samples and help pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
The launch period for the rover – which NASA is adamant will remain unchanged despite the coronavirus pandemic – extends from July 17 through to August 5.
Regardless of when it launches during this period, it is set to alight in the Jezero Crater just after 3:40 pm EST (8:40pm GMT) on February 18, 2021.
The rover's name was picked from a 'Name the Rover' essay contest that received 28,000 entries from school children.
The name was revealed in March during a live streaming and was chosen by seventh grader Alex Mather whose winning essay compared the rover to the human race.
The name was revealed on Thursday during a live streaming and was chosen by seventh grader Alex Mathers (pictured) who's winning essay compared the rover to the human race. 'The human race will always persevere towards the future,' he said while reading his essay aloud in front of thousands of people'
'Curiosity. InSight. Spirit. Opportunity,' Mather wrote. 'If you think about it, all of these names of past Mars rovers are qualities we possess as humans.'
'We are always curious, and seek opportunity. We have the spirit and insight to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
‘But, if rovers are to be the qualities of us as a race, we missed the most important thing. Perseverance.'
Perseverance, which was built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is now at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final preparations.
NASA MARS 2020: THE MISSION WILL SEE THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER AND INGENUITY HELICOPTER SEARH FOR LIFE
NASA's Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of ancient life on on the Red Planet in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on Earth.
Named Perseverance, the main car-sized rover will explore an ancient river delta within the Jezero Crater, which was once filled with a 1,600ft deep lake.
It is believed that the region hosted microbial life some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago and the rover will examine soil samples to hunt for evidence of the life.
Nasa's Mars 2020 rover (artist's impression) will search for signs of ancient life on Mars in a bid to help scientists better understand how life evolved on our own planet
The $2.5 billion (£1.95 billion) Mars 2020 spaceship launched on July 30 with the rover and helicopter inside - and landed successfully on February 18, 2021.
Perseverance landed inside the crater and will collect samples that will eventually be returned to Earth for further analysis.
A second mission will fly to the planet and return the samples, perhaps by the later 2020s in partnership with the European Space Agency.
This concept art shows the Mars 2020 rover landing on the red planet via NASA's 'sky-crane' system
De Marsverkenner Perseverance is gisteren na een reis van bijna zeven maanden veilig toegekomen op Mars en stuurde meteen de eerste beelden door naar de aarde. Vandaag gaf NASA tijdens een persconferentie een update over de status van de missie en toonde daarbij enkele spectaculaire foto’s.
De Perseverance zal onder andere bodemstalen nemen op Mars, die vervolgens onderzocht worden op mogelijk leven, zowel nu als in het verleden. NASA geeft vandaag meer uitleg over de status van de Marsverkenner en licht toe wat er nog dient gebeuren vooraleer de missie volledig van start kan gaan.
De robot heeft ondertussen al een grote hoeveelheid data verzameld en stuurt die geleidelijk door naar de aarde. Tijdens de conferentie werden dan ook nieuwe beelden onthuld. De meest spectaculaire foto van de dag werd gemaakt vanuit de ‘jetpack’ die moest zorgen voor een zachte landing van de Perseverance. Daarop is te zien hoe het stof opstuift onder de Marsverkenner, net voor die op Mars voet aan de grond zet. Een dergelijk beeld werd nooit eerder gemaakt, vertelt een van de ingenieurs. “Het voelt voor het hele team als een overwinning”, zegt hij.
Daarnaast publiceerde de ruimtevaartorganisatie ook een andere foto met een ingezoomde inzet waarop te zien is hoe de Perseverance voor zijn landing met zijn parachute boven Mars zweefde.
De Marsverkenner stuurde ook de eerste kleurenbeelden van de omgeving door. Onderzoekers zullen zich nu onder andere buigen over de vraag of de stenen die op de foto te zien zijn naast een wiel van de Perseverance van vulkanische of sedimentaire oorsprong zijn.
NASA belooft de komende dagen nog meer beelden te publiceren. Daarbij zullen ook kleine filmpjes zitten van de landing van de Perseverance.
Volgens de ingenieurs verkeert de Marsverkenner in goede gezondheid, maar moeten alle systemen geleidelijk aan worden opgestart. Eerst wordt gecontroleerd of alle hardware na de landing nog naar behoren functioneert. Het is daarom nog even wachten op het moment dat de Perseverance zijn eerste ritje zal maken.
NASA toont machtige landingsfoto van Perseverance
De Marsverkenner Perseverance is na een reis van bijna zeven maanden veilig toegekomen op Mars en stuurde meteen de eerste beelden door naar de aarde.
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Recent UFO Sightings in the LA Area! - What's Going on in California?
Recent UFO Sightings in the LA Area! - What's Going on in California?
I recently discovered a number of really intriguing UFO sightings out of California, right around the Los Angeles area. Are these UFO sightings a sign that Disclosure is coming, or are these simple misidentifications? Let me know what you think in the comments.
Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby
Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby
Ever since NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009, there has an explosion in the study of the extrasolar planets. With the retirement of Kepler in 2018, it has fallen to missions like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite(TESS) to pick up where its predecessor left off. Using observations from TESS, an international team of astronomers recently discovered three exoplanets orbiting a young Sun-like star named TOI 451.
The research was led by Elisabeth R. Newton, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. She was joined by researchers from NASA JPL, NASA Goddard, NASA Ames, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, the SETI Institute, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and multiple universities and observatories.
Using data from TESS, the team examined stars in the Pisces-Eridanus stream, a collection of stars located ~260 to 737 light-years from Earth. This stream measures about 1,300 light-years in length, extends across 14 constellations, and is named for those that contain the greatest concentrations. This stream was discovered in 2019 by a team led by Stefan Meingast using data obtained by the ESA’s Gaia mission.
Yellow dots show the locations of known or suspected systems (with TOI 451 circled) thatbelong to the Pisces-Eridanus stream. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Later that year, researchers led by Jason Curtis – an astronomer and National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow at Columbia University (and a co-author on the study) – analyzed TESS data for several of these stars. What they found was that they had fast spin rates and prominent starspots (which caused periodic dips in luminosity), an indication that they are significantly younger than previously thought.
Based on these results, Curtis and his colleagues found that the stream was only 120 million years old (3% as old as our Sun). When Newton and her colleagues examined data collected on this same stream by TESS between October and December 2018, they noted the presence of three exoplanets around one star in particular. Known as TOI 451 (aka. CD-38 1467), this star lies about 400 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
TOI 451 is a G-type (yellow dwarf) star that is about 88% as large as our Sun, 95% as massive, and also slightly cooler and dimmer (being a young star). Another indication of its youth is the fact that it rotates once every 5.1 days – or five times faster than the Sun. According to the transits detected by TESS, all three of its planets orbit TOI 451 closer than Mercury does to our Sun, making them all hot and inhospitable to life (as we know it).
An artist’s rendition of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
All of these confirmed the presence of these three exoplanets that fit the designation of “hot Super-Earth.” The WISE data further revealed that TOI 451 is unusually bright in infrared light at wavelengths of 12 and 24 micrometers. This suggests the presence of a debris disk, which the team estimates to be centered about as far from the star as Jupiter is from our Sun.
The team also investigated a faint neighboring star that appeared to be in close proximity to TOI 451 in the TESS images. Using data from the ESA’s Gaia Observatory, Newton’s team determined that this star may actually be a binary system of two M-type (red dwarf) stars that’s a gravitationally-bound companion to TOI 451. As Prof. Newton explained in a recent NASA press release:
“This system checks a lot of boxes for astronomers. It’s only 120 million years old and just 400 light-years away, allowing detailed observations of this young planetary system. And because there are three planets between two and four times Earth’s size, they make especially promising targets for testing theories about how planetary atmospheres evolve.”
The innermost of these planets (TOI 451 b) is about 1.9 times Earth’s size, 2 to 12 times its mass, and has an orbital period of 1.9 days. TOI 451 c is about three times the size of Earth, 16 times as massive, and has an orbital period of 9.2 days. The outermost planet (TOI 451 d) is four times the size of Earth, 4 to 19 times as massive, and has an orbital period of 16 days. Temperature estimates range from about 1,200 °C (2,200 °F) for b to about 450 °C (840 °F) for d.
TOI 1338 b is a circumbinary planet orbiting its two stars. It was discovered by TESS. Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith
Along with its relative proximity to Earth, these results indicate that TOI 451 and other stars in the Pisces-Eridanus stream are likely to be excellent candidates for study. Particularly, the young age of these stars means that they could reveal a great deal about the formation and evolution of stars and planets. As Jessie Christiansen, a co-author of the paper and the deputy science lead at the NASA Exoplanet Archive, explained:
“Thanks to TESS’s nearly all-sky coverage, measurements that could support a search for planets orbiting members of this stream were already available to us when the stream was identified. TESS data will continue to allow us to push the limits of what we know about exoplanets and their systems for years to come.”
Like its predecessor, TESS searches for exoplanets by examining thousands of stars in a field and looking for periodic dips in brightness. These are indications of transits, where planets pass in front of the face of a star (relative to the observer). Under the right conditions, light passing through an exoplanet’s atmosphere will allow astronomers to obtain spectra, which can be used to determine an atmosphere’s composition.
Given how massive they are, astronomers expect that TOI 451s planets will retain much of their atmospheres as they evolve – in spite of the intense heat they are exposed to. This means that future observations with next-generation telescopes could reveal what these atmospheres are composed of, providing vital clues as to how atmospheres evolve over time.
Artist’s impression of the rocky super-Earth HD 85512 b. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Said Elisa Quintana, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center:
“By measuring starlight penetrating a planet’s atmosphere at different wavelengths, we can infer its chemical composition and the presence of clouds or high-altitude hazes. TOI 451’s planets offer excellent targets for such studies with Hubble and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.”
At the time of this article’s writing, a total of 4,352 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,221 systems while a further 5,765 candidates await confirmation. Many of these planets orbit stars much like our own and more than a few are considered to be “potentially-habitable.” These are considered good candidates for follow-up observations once theJames Webb and the Nancy Grace Romanspace telescopes take to space.
While TOI 451’s planets are not likely to be habitable, follow-up observations are likely to tell us a great deal about how planets evolve, which could help us narrow the search.
Authorities are still working to determine the identities of the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, many of whom were apparently motivated by false conspiracy theories that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election but was cheated out of his victory due to widespread election fraud.
Conspiracy theories often rely on seeing things sharply in terms of right and wrong, and that can drive people to do things they might never have contemplated before, says Peter Ditto, a professor of psychological science at the University of California, Irvine.
“Moralizing things mobilizes people to action,” he says. “If I believed that the American election had been stolen from the rightful winner, I’d probably storm the Capitol, too. It makes perfect sense if that really happened. The problem is, that didn’t happen.”
FILE – Trump supporter Douglas Austen Jensen, wearing a QAnon shirt, confronts police on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol after breaching security defenses, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021.
The people most likely to embrace conspiracy theories are less inquisitive and often exhibit narcissistic tendencies, such as an inflated sense of self-importance, a deep need for attention and admiration, troubled relationships, a lack of empathy for others and fragile self-esteem, according to Emory University research published in the Journal of Personality.
Nika Kabiri, an expert on human decision-making affiliated with the University of Washington in Seattle, says everyone is potentially drawn to conspiracy theories, although some far more than others.
“We’re all potentially drawn to them because we all hate uncertainty. We all don’t like the idea of not knowing why things happen. It makes us feel like we don’t have control in the world. We want closure,” she says. “It’s a natural tendency for the human brain to look for those explanations.”
FILE – A man wearing a cap that references the QAnon slogan attends a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Oct. 31, 2020.
A conspiracy theory is thinking that blames or explains an important event or set of circumstances on a secret plot that is usually masterminded by powerful people. Conspiracy thinking can also embrace the idea that a big secret is being kept from the public.
When a prominent person, be it a movie director or a president, transmits a conspiracy theory, Kabiri says, it is like a super spreader event, and the conspiracy theory gets a lot of exposure.
“People are adhering to these beliefs because they’re already dissatisfied,” she says. “They’re already unhappy. There’s something they want to, perhaps, explain something that doesn’t sit well with them, and the story gives them an answer.”
Times of uncertainty, such as a pandemic, can help fuel the spread of conspiracy theories.
“People, in particular, that are susceptible to conspiracy thinking, they’re susceptible to them when they feel threatened and anxious, like a lot of people do right now,” Ditto says. “When the world seems confusing and incomprehensible, which it does right now. When people are lonely and they’re seeking connection with others.”
FILE – The remaining tower of New York’s World Trade Center, Tower 2, collapses in a cloud of dust and debris Sept. 11, 2001. Some conspiracy theorists believe the towers were demolished by powerful, unknown people or forces.
People often latch onto conspiracy stories because they cannot accept simple explanations for life-altering events, according to Ditto.
A major conspiracy about the 9/11 terror attacks holds that the twin towers in New York fell in a controlled demolition, rather than because planes crashed into them.
Unproven speculation about the COVID-19 pandemic holds that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab and was possibly an engineered bioweapon.
Many Americans find it hard to believe that President John F. Kennedy, a larger-than-life political figure, was killed by a lone gunman, a regular guy, which is why they embrace the unproven idea that there must have been a larger conspiracy to murder the president.
FILE – Supporters wearing shirts with the QAnon logo are seen at a Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Aug. 2, 2018.
The Emory researchers found that the people most likely to embrace conspiracy thinking are often less agreeable and less conscientious, while being associated with a sense of entitlement, grandiosity, depression and anxiety.
“If you are in a close-knit community, either on social media or in real life, with people who are all adhering to the same belief, there’s a commitment to that belief that’s even more intense than if you just held that alone,” Kabiri says.
Ditto says a million years of evolution pushes people to break into groups with like-minded people.
“We’re very tribal. We’re very provably attached to people who are like us. It’s very, very unusual to have a place where you’re supposed to make friends with, and connect with, and cooperate with, people who don’t look like you and don’t have the same values. Maybe they have a different religion,” Ditto says.
“The American experiment, essentially, is an attempt to work against all those evolutionary forces and move people in this positive way where they cooperate. It’s way easier to break people up.”
History of the Extraterrestrial Agenda and the Coming Global Revolution
History of the Extraterrestrial Agenda and the Coming Global Revolution
Michael Salla presents a short controversial film of the history of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth, and how competing factions have warred over humanity's destiny.
Learn how Earth became a prison planet under the control of a negative group of extraterrestrials and their human proxies (aka the Cabal/Deep State) that have historically manufactured poverty, disease and war.
Discover what lies ahead as positive extraterrestrials work with an Earth Alliance of international leaders from major nations to free our planet, and usher in a new age of prosperity, freedom and becoming part of a Galactic Federation.
UFOs hovering in the sky above Rosarito, Mexico on 20th February 2021.
Witness report:
We took a video in our condo on the 9th floor in Rosarito Mexico. 8 to 10 lights in a straight path moving sideways over the ocean. They just disappeared after 45 seconds. Shortly after we saw what looked like a coast guard ship speeding to area and searching
History must be Rewritten: A Huge Structure found in Antarctica (Video)
History must be Rewritten: A Huge Structure found in Antarctica (Video)
One of the most mysterious places on Earth is Antarctica , possibly due to the absence of humans and because anomalies and strange possibly artificial structures are often discovered that account for a very different past on the white continent, a past that history does not has taken into account.
A huge potentially artificial structure was discovered in Antarctica. At first glance it can be classified as the remains of a huge building or even an old castle , such as those existing on Earth.
Is it possible that an ancient civilization inhabited Antarctica when it had no ice? The evidence is that yes, it is possible. In addition, fossilized plants have even been found , indicating that millions of years ago, that icy place had a different climate, warmer and was a more suitable habitat for plant life, even animal, and why not, ancient humans.
A huge castle in Antarctica?
The satellite images reveal a structure that is too similar to a medieval castle, or a fortress in which members of an ancient civilization or even an alien species that arrived on Earth in the remote past could have taken refuge .
It goes without saying that if it really is an artificial structure, this would cause history to be rewritten – a huge problem for historians and the mainstream, no doubt. That is the reason why many surprising findings (like this one) are not studied further (in situ) and are forgotten.
Unfortunately for being Antarctica, independent researchers who could reveal an uncomfortable truth to the world, do not have access to investigate beyond what a computer with Google Earth allows them. We can only see satellite images, in some cases blurred or even modified for one reason or another.
It should also be clarified that what is seen in the images could have natural causes, possibly left by the thaw or for another reason. Some experts believe that it is only a Sastrugi, a snowy surface that presents many topographic irregularities, shaped by sharp and irregular grooves that are formed by the erosion of the wind, the saltation of snow particles and the deposition of the fallen snow itself, both in polar and temperate regions, as Wikipedia indicates .
This is not the first anomalous structure found in Antarctica (and possibly not the last). Dozens of these types of finds have been made in previous years. Could many secrets of a lost civilization predate historical records hide under the thick ice sheet?
Although the audio for the following video is in English, you can enable Spanish subtitles. In case you don’t know how to do it, you can consult this GUIDE .
Filer’s Files 7, 2021 Admiral Byrd Warns of UFO Invasion - PART I
Moultrie, Georgia disc on February 9, 2021
Filer’s Files 7, 2021 Admiral Byrd Warns of UFO Invasion - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Major General Watson UFOs Are Not Extraterrestrial, Europe’s UFO Crash and Hitler, Highjump, Admiral Byrd Warns of UFO Invasion, Arch-Bishop Criticizes Biden for Millions in Worldwide Abortions, Carbon 60, and the Shadows book.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Major General Watson UFOs Are Not Extraterrestrial
Major General Watson was inst evolving requirements of techrumental in integrating thenology with manufacturing to ensure the field requirements for aircraft engines early in WWII were met. In early 1945 he was instrumental in the recovery of valuable intelligence data, aircraft, parts, and equipment during the war and immediately after the surrender. He commanded a group of pilots who flew into German bases and gained access to the latest German experimental aircraft and flew them to the French coast where an aircraft carrier waited.
Captured ME 262 Nazi Jet Aircraft on board HMS Reaper
In 1944, intelligence experts at Wright Field had developed lists of advanced aviation equipment they wanted to examine as the war continued. Watson and his crew, nicknamed “Watson’s Whizzers” and composed of pilots, engineers and maintenance men, used these “Black Lists” to collect aircraft. Watson organized his Whizzers into two sections: one collected jet aircraft while the other procured piston-engine aircraft and nonflyable jet and rocket equipment.
Whizzers recruited captured Luftwaffe personnel and pilots held at Fort Bliss, Texas, to go into what would become the British, French and Soviet controlled areas after V-E Day to fly out, hide, or otherwise remove to U.S. controlled areas all “black listed” planes, secret weapons equipment and supporting documents, some four months before Germany’s surrender. former German test plots were able to steal advanced experimental planes
Watson’s men traveled across Europe to find the aircraft on the “Black Lists
Just after World War II, Reaper was responsible for bringing from Cherbourg harbour many examples of former German Luftwaffe aircraft captured by the American military’s Operation Lusty over to North America, such as the sole examples of the Arado Ar 234 jet reconnaissance bomber, and the Heinkel He 219 night fighter, that exist in American aviation museums in the 21st century. The aircraft arrived by air from Germany to Querqueville Airfield which is under a kilometer away from Cherbourg.
The primary objective was to learn what technology had been transferred to the Germans. The captured technology would also close the gap between the United States and Germany in reciprocating and jet engines as well as rocket technology. Using his leadership, engineering, manufacturing, and flight skills he successfully brought together and trained pilots to fly the captured aircraft. Watson himself flew every type of captured aircraft. He recruited German test pilots, engineers and technicians to assist in the maintenance and preparation of these aircraft. German tractors and tanks were drained of diesel fuel so the captured aircraft could be flown.
Horton 229 Nazi First Jet Flying Wing
He commanded a group of pilots who flew into German bases and gained access to the latest German experimental aircraft. After the war, the Whizzers added Luftwaffe test pilots to the team, AND OBTAINED CRAFT STILL HELD SECRET.The Craft were flown to Cherbourg, France to be transported on the British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Reaper. Over forty aircraft were flown and the inventory leaves out the names of some craft believed to be discs.
Watson flew a Junkers 290 aircraft that was later found to have booby trap explosive charges on board that luckily did not explode. Forty advanced German planes were delivered to Cherbourg in 20 days. It is suspected at least one was a disc. General Watson was the government’s biggest expert in exploiting foreign technology from Japan and Germany.
Returning to the United States he acted as a test pilot for many of the captured aircraft and laying the groundwork for the current day National Aerospace Intelligence Center. The documentation captured by Watson and others revealed thousands of scientific advances in aero-technology, electronics, magnetic-tapes, fuels, and other areas which the United States was lagging behind Germany. Thanks to Wikipedia
Planes Ferried to US, not all the craft are known
(10 Me 262, 5 Fw 190F, 4 Fw 190D, 1 Ta 152H, 4 Ar 234B, 3 He219, 3 Bf 109, 2 Do 335, 2 Bu 181, Helicopter WNF 342, 2 Fl 282 helicopters, 1 Ju 88G, 1 Ju 388, 1 Bf 108 and 1 US F-6(P-51) Source: “War Prizes” by Phil Butler I tried to get the complete list of aircraft at Air Force Library and it was still Top Secret seventyrs later. yea
Editor’s Note: I became a friend of Colonel Ray Sleeper who came to my house and revealed he had seen UFOs while flying B-52s. Sleeper was a good friend of General Watson who were both commanders of the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base at different times. General Watson hinted he had first hand information abbot UFOs, and told him frequently “UFOs exist but they are not extraterrestrial craft”.
Europe’s UFO Crash and Hitler
Drawing of UFO that Crashed in Italy in 1933
The actual events during the 1930s are somewhat obscure as Hitler built a war machine and gained strength in Germany. Many of the reports are speculation based on the few known facts. We know Hitler sent expeditions around the world to find some of world’s ancient artifacts and lost technology. First German Antarctic Expedition was in 1924-27.: Neuschwabenland was German Colony setup in 1938 39 as the war got underway.
William Brophy writes,” On June 13, 1933, a UFO crashed near Magenta, Italy just west of Milano. The occupants were tall blond Nordics with oriental like features on their light blue eyes. The Italians called the UFO la Campania; the Germans called it Die Locked. The Japanese told the Italians and Germans that those tall blonde-haired people were in their legends; this led to the Axis Alliance.
Hitler realized the craft had likely been built on Earth and sent teams out to find the alien intelligence bases. When Adolf Hitler spread his message of hatred, genocide, and oppression, as having been inspired by a blond race of superhuman warriors referred to as Aryans.
The Nazis themselves claimed that an extraterrestrial society was the source of their ideology and the power behind their organization. Nazi mysticism, indeed, was reportedly a direct product of cult worship of the Extraterrestrials. The Nazis referred to their hidden extraterrestrial masters as underground supermen that apparently had a base in Antarctica. Hitler believed in the supermen and claimed that he had once met one of them, as did other members of the Thule leadership.
The Nazis said that their supermen resided beneath the Earth’s surface and were the creators of the Aryan race that suddenly appeared thousands of years ago. Aryans therefore in Adolf Hitler’s reasoning, constituted the world’s only pure race and all other people were viewed as inferior genetic mutations. The Nazis planned to re-purify humanity by committing genocide against anyone who was not an Aryan. Top Nazi leaders believed that the underground supermen would return to the surface of the Earth to rule it as soon as the Nazis began their racial purification program and established the Thousand Year Reich.
The tall blonde-haired people’s craft were the UFO’s over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942, and a large disk with a row of windows was shot down in the Santa Catalina Island area recovered by the ars-1 Viking ship and taken to Moffat Field Navy Base.
Nazi ‘aerial disk’ research became more advanced throughout the Second World War, and reportedly utilized jet-turbine and later electromagnetic propulsions systems. As it became apparent that the Germans were losing the war, they allegedly transferred this technology to a base in Antarctica which had been established years earlier, complete with underground installations, and code-named it the ‘New Berlin’.
Although deliberately obscured by the West today, Nazi German leader Adolph Hitler was obsessed with Neuschwabenland which was the name given to the area of Antarctica located between 20°E and 10°W in Queen Maud Land which he believed would one day be the world capital of his “master race.” Allegedly there were 300 square miles of land without snow and ice.
German Subs and discs
Throughout the entire duration of the war the Nazis had allegedly shipped scientists, workers, technology and saucer components to this Antarctica base or bases. Some reports also allege that Adolf Hitler escaped capture and escaped to South America. Over one hundred German U Boats disappeared during World War II and were never found. According to German naval archives, months after Germany surrendered to the Allies in April, 1945, the German submarine U-530 arrived at the South Pole from the Port of Kiel. It is felt an unknown alien intelligence occupied parts of Antarctica and gave advanced secrets of UFOs to the Germans.
Nazi Antarctica Base
Soviet archives have extensive files claiming that Nazi Germany and the United States forged an alliance prior to the end of World War II allowing Hitler and cohorts to escape to Antarctica in exchange for German technology that included the atomic bomb, an advanced fighter jets, rocket and flying saucer technology. This would also explain the post WW2 global campaign to suppress the information concerning the free energy aspect of this from the public. Commander Bethune claimed he had flown Admiral Byrd to Antarctica to negotiate with the Germans. He was told by Admiral Byrd the Germans refused to surrender or reveal their technology.
There is also being advanced the theory that the extraterrestrials belonged to very ancient civilizations that was here before modern man. The idea that these underwater structures predate the Nazis is further bolstered by anomalies such as
The Piri Reis Map (1513) at the bottom of the map showed Antarctica ice free with flowing rivers and a clean coastline.
We do know Nazi U 977 and U 530 submarines went aground in Argentina after carrying supplies to the Antarctic a few weeks after the end of war. Advanced U boats and supply ships operating out of neutral Spain allegedly carried hundreds of Germans to Antarctica and South America.
The first American expedition to explore Antarctica since 1840 was the Byrd Expedition from 1928-1930. Another US Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41 visited the continent with Captain R. H. Cruzen in command.
At the end of war Intelligence reports reported Nazi’ ships and submarines were heading south.
Operation Highjump
The Secretary of State, Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy on August 7, 1946 approved Operation Highjump. A memorandum prepared for the meeting stated that the “Navy proposes to send an expedition to the Antarctic early in 1947. The purpose of this expedition includes training personnel and testing material, consolidating and extending U.S. sovereignty over Antarctic areas, and investigating possible base sites. Rear Admiral Richard .E. Byrd was designated as Officer-in-Charge of the project. Task Force Commander was Captain R. H. Cruzen”. Both men had visited the area prior to the war and allegedly and located several “oases” now secret areas of the Antarctic.
USS Philippine Sea Aircraft Carrier
On December 2, 1946, the task force set sail for the Antarctic continent with a force of 13 ships carrying some 4,700 men The Task Force 68 included multiple aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier the USS Philippine Sea. The Central Group of ships reached the Bay of Whales on January 15, 1947, and planned to stay for six months where they constructed temporary runways along the glaciers, in a base dubbed Little America IV.
U.S Navy ships in ice in Antarctica for Highjump
The ships navigated through an ice pack of several hundred miles before reaching Little America. Icebergs and unpredictable weather were formidable foes during the course of the expedition. Upon arriving at the polar continent they reportedly split into three separate groups and began a massive reconnaissance- like operation taking over 50,000 photographs.
One Navy reconnaissance aircraft was flown by Bunger who flew west with cameras humming. Suddenly the men in the cockpit saw a dark spot come up over the barren white horizon and as they drew closer, they couldn’t believe their eyes. Byrd later described it as a “land of blue and green lakes and brown hills in an otherwise limitless expanse of ice”. Bunger and his men carefully inspected the region and then raced back to the ship to tell the others of their discovery.
Deep Water Lakes
Several days later Bunger and his flight crew returned for another look, finding one of the lakes big enough to land his “flying boat” on. The lake was filled with red, blue and green algae which gave the lakes their distinctive color.
Most interesting to note about Admiral Byrd’s Operation Highjump mission was his solo flight towards the South Pole on February 19, 1947 wherein he recorded in his diary the following: “1000 Hours- “We are crossing over the small mountain range and still proceeding northward as best as can be ascertained.
Beyond the mountain range is what appears to be a valley with a small river or stream running through the center portion. There should be no green valley below! Something is definitely wrong and abnormal here! We should be over ice and snow! To the portside are great forests growing on the mountain slopes. Our navigation instruments are still spinning, the gyroscope is oscillating back and forth!” Although not released, an alien intelligence was allegedly located.
Admiral Karl Donitz built Neuschwabenland in Antarctica for Hitler
Operation Highjump has become a topic among UFO conspiracy theorists, who claim it was a covert US military operation to conquer alleged secret underground alien or Nazi facilities in Antarctica and capture the German Vril flying discs. This has always been denied by the US Military.
Commander Graham Bethune and other Navy personnel claim the task force encountered ‘resistance’ and that there was a battle between American and UFO forces operating there, with losses on both sides. The piston engine Navy aircraft was no match for the modern German disc aircraft.
Many Navy aircraft were shot down in the one sided battle that the Navy claims never happened.
Reports claim disc shape craft came out of the sea coming through the ice attacking some of the ships and aircraft. A brief clip of this was allegedly caught on film.
Naval ships and personnel were quickly withdrawn back to the United States in late February 1947, and the expedition was terminated allegedly due to the early approach of winter and worsening weather conditions. Among the discoveries made during the 1946-47 expedition was the sighting of two “oases,” one a region of ice-free lakes and land. More than 300,000 square miles of uncharted territory was charted on aerial mapping operations. Their observations proved that radical changes would have to be made on existing maps of the Antarctic.”
Navy official photos show a crashed PBM aircraft stating this aircraft with the call sign of ‘George 1’ mysteriously blew up killing three airmen.
Navy released wreckage photo of PBM
Why would warm spots, with warm water exist in the Antarctic?
These were not “isolated” remarks… Admiral Byrd later repeated the each of these points of view, resulting from he described as his “personal knowledge” gathered both at the north and south poles, before a news conference held for International News Service.
The intelligence report, gathered from Soviet spies embedded in the US, revealed that the US Navy had sent the military expedition to find and destroy a hidden Nazi base. On the way, they encountered a mysterious UFO force that attacked the military expedition destroying several ships and a significant number of planes. Indeed, Operation Highjump had suffered “many casualties” as stated in initial press reports from Chile. The Navy officially lists four men were killed and many injured during the two month operation.
The US was very upset with Admiral Byrd’s revelations and the alien crashes at St Augustin and Roswell and they established in 1947, The National Security Act creating the National Security Council that was in charge of other intelligence on Earth and the continent of Antarctica.
American Reinhold Schmidt, a man whose father was born in Germany, and who tells in his book “Incident at Kearney”, that he was taken on a ‘flying saucer’ on several occasions. Schmidt states that “the crew spoke German and acted like German soldiers”. He also stated that they took him to the “Polar” region.
Later in 1959, the Antarctic Treaty was signed by 12 nations that protect Antarctica and any foreign intelligence that occupies this area. The area on the mainland between 90 degrees west and 150 degrees west, combined with the interior of the Norwegian Sector is the only major land on Earth not claimed by any country. Antarctica was not being set aside for protection of commercialism, but was being set aside as a possible asylum for alien, other intelligence, or a Nazi Base. The Treaty states:
Article 1 – The area is to be used for peaceful purposes only; military activity, such as weapons testing, is prohibited but military personnel and equipment may be used for scientific research or any other peaceful purpose;
Article 2 – Freedom of scientific investigations and cooperation shall continue;
Article 3 – Free exchange of information and personnel in cooperation with the United Nations and other international agencies;
Article 4 – The treaty does not recognize, dispute, nor establish territorial sovereignty claims; no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force;
Article 5 – The treaty prohibits nuclear explosions or disposal of radioactive wastes. Thanks to www.wikipedia.org
China’s Giant Ionosphere-Zapping Radar Is a Defense System Bringing Snow Storms
Weather TV reports the worst snow storms and cold in fity years, very unusual weather patterns crossing the United States just a couple days apart, forty states with snow and ice storms, cold in the northern states and down into Texas thirty degrees below normal, etc. If you assume the worst the Communists will almost always meet your expectations. They have billions taken from u in trade, bio-warfare, espionage, hacking our computers and voting machines, buying our politician and media. They are very clever controlling our politicians and the CEOs of many large companies. For example Chinese defectors are afraid to come to the U.S. because they know how much of our intelligence ad FBI has been penetrated by their spies. They use the plans of our latest aircraft to build theirs.
Chinese HAARP Facility from Satellite Wake UP World
Chinese radar facility on the island of Hainan, China’s South China Sea. h-powered incoherent scatter radar,” this installation will bounce radio waves off the Earth’s high-altitude layer of charged gas called the ionosphere. A HAARP facility is located near Shanghai. HAARP is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
The possible military benefits of an ionosphere radar isn’t lost on other countries. I’ve fighting Communism most of my life, they are very smart and shrewd.
hey have never stopped trying to destroy the U.S. Powerful particle accelerates can push or pull the Jet Stream up into the northern latitudes to bring cold air and snow to the U.S.
Journalist Stephen Chen, whobroke the story about the new ionospheric radar in the South China Morning Post, told Popular Mechanics he has no doubt that the Hainan radar is primarily a military project, and is also useful in tracking submarines. Thanks to Popular Mechanic
Expect unusually cold temperatures and large snow storms caused by air chilled in Northern Canada being blown south with the jet stream into the U.S. after passing through China.” The jet stream is a band of strong wind that blows in the upper level of the atmosphere and acts as a kind of boundary between cold air in the north and warm air to the south. The jet stream typically blows relatively straight west to east, but every so often a kink forms that changes its direction. This kink can occur naturally or by design perhaps in China. The shape of this kink is a little bit unusual. We haven’t seen something like this in about 10 year and suggest a nation such as Communist China is controlling the jet stream. http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250
The Chinese facility is similar to HAARP in many ways having only “several hundred” megawatts, compared to HAARP’s 5.1 gigawatts of power.
HAARP Faculty
The big difference is motivation: the main purpose of the facility is apparent in its incredibly strategic location in the South China Sea. China could even use the new array as a transmitter for ELF radar to detect submarines at long range The new facility may target U.S. submarines in the South China Sea.
This facility is believed to be in Western China causing disruption in the ionosphere near Tibet so air traffic is not likely. There’s also the question of air traffic. HAARP’s radio beam would have serious effects on any passing plane’s electronics. Whenever the facility is in operation, a Temporary Flight Restriction closes the surrounding area to aircraft. This happens only three or four times a year, but it can last up to ten days at a time. Science Plus Military Equals Power China already leads the world in scientific output, and now its science is joining forces with its invigorated military ambitions. Hainan’s new ionospheric radar is not an earthquake-producing, hurricane-causing superweapon that many conspiracy theorists fear, but it may be the beginning of a major power shift in the world.
Arch-Bishop Criticizes Biden for Millions in Worldwide Abortions
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, delivers the homily during the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Jan. 28, 2021, amid the corona virus pandemic. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted January 29, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS)— The head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities called President Joe Biden’s stance on abortion “religiously and ethically incoherent” during his homily at the opening Mass of the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 28.
Biden “proudly professes to be a devout Catholic getting 70% to vote for him, even as he promises to codify Roe v. Wade, seeks to force American taxpayers to fund abortions … and desires to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide contraceptives and abortion factories in their employee health plans,” said Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas.
“Sadly, President Biden is the perfect example of the religiously and ethically incoherent straddle: claiming to believe that human life begins at conception and personally opposing abortion, while doing everything within his power to promote and institutionalize abortion not only in the U.S.A. but also around the world.”
He added, “The people of the United States have entrusted enormous power and responsibility to President Biden. However, the presidency does not empower him to define Catholic doctrine and moral teaching.”
Archbishop Naumann called the seating of Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court “one of the unanticipated blessings of the past year.”
“The makeup of the court has vastly improved in the last four years,” he added. “There is legitimate hope that the U.S. Supreme Court could modify or even reverse the decisions that we commemorate each year,” a reference to the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions in 1973 that legalized the murder of over a million American children each year throughout the country.
Former CIA Director John Brennan declared that the United States is “no longer a...
Congress‘s show last was the worst display of some sort of trail that both sides were pitiful arguing for five days when the result was known the first day. Neither side would mention the real reason for the trail, was Trump alleged lying about a rigged election that concerns much of the country.
How could the evidence of fraud and the testimony of hundreds of honest Americans is ignored. Had the President lied for 6 months about the voting or was he telling the truth. Congress wasted almost a week arguing like little boys all knowing the result before the impeachment started. The President stated, “Go peacefully and patriotically make your faces heard.” The TV news never recorded that.
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has announced a film pushing election-fraud claims blaming China, and the voting machine companies for a cyber attack and rigging the election. The two-hour special, titled “Absolute Proof,” is just one guy’s account of the fraud. He must feel he has the proof or we will be sued by China, Dominion, and Smartmatic Voting Machines for millions.
NTD News is reporting that a Securities and Exchange Commission filing reveals the Communist Chinese government purchased Dominion Voting Systems one month before the November 3 election.
The Mike Lindell documentary shows a van loaded with the presumed delivery of 60 boxes of Biden Ballots s at 2:00 am on November 4th in the morning in Detroit voting counting house where Trump was leading in the election. According to Lindell the boxes containing fraudulent ballots changed the outcome of the election in Michigan. Judges and politicians all refused to look at the evidence.
I served as a worker in twenty elections where there was an even number of Democrats and Republicans counting votes. In Michigan all voting was handled by Democrats which is a disservice to any fair election. I don’t know if Mike Lindell is telling the truth but he made more sense than anyone who spoke in Congress. Until a real inquiry and fair investigation into the election is held half of America will not consider Biden the legitimate President.
Why are the politicians and appointed judges so afraid to take the sworn affidavits’ of thousands who claim the election was rigged. All the major cities had only Democratic workers where the votes were counted. I suggest if all the workers in the voting poll are Republicans they will easily win..
There Voter Integrity Fund Evidence has signs or indication of fraud. There were some 50,000 voters who moved prior to the election that cannot legally vote in their old state. .
Contact was made with thousands who claimed they had not sent in an absentee ballot. However there fraudulent ballots were found in the names of those who voted
Many names were on absentee ballots that could be obtained through mail moving lists. Many who had moved claim they never asked for mail in ballot but their vote is recorded. Although not finished they found questionable votes in PA 7,000, MI 16000, AZ 5000, GA17,000, WI 6000, and NV5000. Allegedly, 65,000 votes decided the election.
Thousands of ballots were counted from people who had moved and cannot legally vote in the state they left. Olympic wrestler claims he did not but vote, his vote was counted for Biden. In all elections in the past 6% of the mail on ballots were thrown out for various errors; while in this election half a % were thrown out.
A fair inquiry of the election must be held in order to make the election legitimate.
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, has been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021. The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter. Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
My wife, my sister in law and I all read the book and enjoyed the book thoroughly.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. Cell: 520-288-2104 www.fredellisbrock.com
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Filer’s Files 7, 2021 Admiral Byrd Warns of UFO Invasion - PART II
Moultrie, Georgia disc on February 9, 2021
Filer’s Files 7, 2021 Admiral Byrd Warns of UFO Invasion - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Major General Watson UFOs Are Not Extraterrestrial, Europe’s UFO Crash and Hitler, Highjump, Admiral Byrd Warns of UFO Invasion, Arch-Bishop Criticizes Biden for Millions in Worldwide Abortions, Carbon 60, and the Shadows book.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Lakeside– on May 2, 2020, an Angel Shape UFO over Lakeside.
Florida Lights
West Palm Beach – on February 9, 2021, looked like an orb was traveling slowly after a few minutes and airliner seem to be headed right for it. The Airliner had to make a hard bank left to avoid it just then it disappeared. This is all verified in the video. The video is in a text file from my wife.
Georgia Objects
Moultrie – February 9, 2021, – I was at our local Wal-Mart taking pictures of the sky. I noticed a circular opening in the clouds and went to take a picture of it. I took 3 pictures back to back. The first picture captured this object. I did not see it with my eyes and I didn’t realize I caught it until I went to review the photos. I tried replicating this taking at least 50 photos to ensure it wasn’t an artifact. It seems to have come straight out of the clouds downwards leaving a light trail. It had to be moving extremely fast. I enhanced the photos and you can also see some type of pattern on the lower part of the object. Almost like sections and some kind of markings. Note:This is an unusual photo. The “disk shaped” object could be an artifact, but the witness took other photos and the object wasn’t present. This suggests that the object may have been present and then zipped away. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Idaho Red Lights
Idaho Falls — on December 5, 2020, at 6:43 PM MST I saw 2 sets of 3 red lights in a slight curved line. Each set of 3 lights blinked separate. The last light in the row also blinked white. The lights were moving southeast towards Bone, Idaho. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Minnesota Object
Monticello – on February 4, 2021, took off at an incredible rate of speed and you can see the path through the cloud it went through!! I have it on my phone with the movement but not sure how to send it??
Ohio Object
Kingston– October 19, 2019, I was driving north on Route 159 north when I thought I saw farm equipment as I got closer I noticed it was hovering and ascended straight up above the tree line .. I slowed down my vehicle grabbed my phone and started snapping pictures. I was able to snap 8 pictures. The object hovered above the tree line for a few seconds then slowly started flying away to the north.
Tennessee Lights
NA— On Saturday, January 16, 2021, around 5:57 pm I recorded these triangular shaped lights from our back deck. Our house lights are visible below the triangular lights. I had just noticed the triangular lights about 23 seconds into the first video! The second video (shows the same lights a bit further away. The sighting only lasted for a couple of minutes and the lights seemed to just disappear.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Flash
Ballarat – on February 10, 2021, Wednesday the 10th February at approx 11pm I was in the backyard looking at the stars as it was a moonless night and the sky was quite clear. I was looking north from my position, I noticed a flash of orange yellow in the sky, I thought at first it was an unusual comet burning up as it didn’t have trail, but as I continued to watch the sky I noticed what looked like a satellite travelling from the south to the north but slightly left of the area of the flash / explosion. It began to slow and its light began to fade until I could briefly see an outline of an object and then disappear totally as it approached the area of the flash / explosion but still to the left. Then a few a seconds later a second satellite type object appeared flying the same path as the first one but went further north before fading out like the first object, after continuing to watch for a few minutes more I spotted a third satellite type object moving from the west to east and did the same. Its light faded out until it disappeared very close to the area of the explosion. I have a military and aviation background they reminded me of military vehicles giving each other mutual support whilst moving in on a target / object
Canada Light
London – on February 10, 2021, it looked like a glowing white shape. Stayed in sky for a couple of hours then disappeared. The shapes are apparent when I enlarged the photos. Zoom in on photo to see details.
Slave Lake – July 21, 2016, huge object above lightning up.
Japan Object
Near Mt Fuji – November 29. 2018, I was riding a bullet train in Japan and was taking pictures from my phone of Mt Fuji when I noticed something that seemed to be darting around the sky. I captured an object on one of those pictures and then it was gone quickly.
Puerto Rico Object
San Juan – on February 1, 202, object flew and softly spun on its axis. I took 4 pictures and angle changed in less than 10 seconds of picture taking. Been trying to determine what could have been, been going through my mind repeatedly. Object went in a straight path, not driven by wind although one might have thought it was a half empty balloon or plastic bag. Again looked like a non random movement flight. Altitude was close to 200 ft. I cropped my pictures to try to get a better view. Decided to report this after looking at the flying jet pack man. Some videos on the web do have a small resemblance or remind me of my event.1
UK/England Light
London – on February 10, 2021 –All 3 crafts had 10- 20 minutes between each ship, the first was at 5.45am the second 6.10am the third 6.35am. The first ship was vented and dull blue almost like spokes on a wheel but my phone was unable to record the first one but the ship just floated upward, the second was long like a tic tak with lights on each end of the ship that just floated upwards, it was too dark to tell the surface of the ship but you can see the lights in the darkness move up into the sky, the third ship and the one that was 20 feet away from me was seen just like the other two from my bedroom window, the video is clear from the second ship, but the difference is with this third ship was 30 feet in diameter that was 20 feet away from me. I was shocked at how fast the ship was a sauce that had rotating lights and at the centre bottom a normal lamp light,
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An Elongated Skull In The Paracas Museum In Peru Dates Back Approximately 3000 Years.
An Elongated Skull In The Paracas Museum In Peru Dates Back Approximately 3000 Years.
The analysis of DNA in some of these skulls of Paracas has been done recently and verifies that the elongation was not only caused by the artificial cranial deformation, but rather by genetics. Part of the cranial volume of the elongated skull is up to 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavier than conventional human skulls. Which means that they could not have been intentionally deformed by clogging the head or flattening, since the cranial deformation can change the shape, but it does not alter the volume or weight of a skull …
New DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Elongated Paracas Skulls Changes Known History
The elongated skulls of Paracas in Peru caused a stir in 2014 when a geneticist that carried out preliminary DNA testingreported that they have mitochondrial DNA “with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far”. Now a second round of DNA testing has been completed and the results are just as controversial – the skulls tested, which date back as far as 2,000 years, were shown to have European and Middle Eastern Origin. These surprising results change the known history about how the Americas were populated.
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within Pisco Province on the south coast of Peru. It is here where Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928 – a massive and elaborate graveyard containing tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. These have come to be known as the ‘ Paracas skulls ’. In total, Tello found more than 300 of these elongated skulls, some of which date back around 3,000 years.
Elongated skulls on display at Museo Regional de Ica in the city of Ica in Peru
It is well-known that most cases of skull elongation are the result of cranial deformation, head flattening, or head binding, in which the skull is intentionally deformed by applying force over a long period of time. It is usually achieved by binding the head between two pieces of wood, or binding in cloth. However, while cranial deformation changes the shape of the skull, it does not alter other features that are characteristic of a regular human skull.
In a recent interview with Ancient Origins, author and researcher LA Marzulli describes how some of the Paracas skulls are different to ordinary human skulls:
“There is a possibility that it might have been cradle headboarded, but the reason why I don’t think so is because the position of the foramen magnum is back towards the rear of the skull. A normal foramen magnum would be closer to the jaw line…”
LA Marzulli points to the position of the foramen magnum in a Paracas skull which is also the point at which they drilled in order to extract bone powder for DNA testing.
Marzulli explained that an archaeologist has written a paper about his study of the position of the foramen magnum in over 1000 skulls. “He states that the Paracas skulls, the position of the foramen magnum is completely different than a normal human being, it is also smaller, which lends itself to our theory that this is not cradle headboarding, this is genetic.”
In addition, Marzulli described how some of the Paracas skulls have a very pronounced zygomatic arch (cheek bone), different eye sockets and no sagittal suture, which is a connective tissue joint between the two parietal bones of the skull.
The pronounced cheek bones can be seen in artist Marcia Moore’s interpretation of how the Paracas people looked based on a digital reconstruction from the skulls.
In a normal human skull, there should be a suture which goes from the frontal plate … clear over the dome of the skull separating the parietal plates - the two separate plates – and connecting with the occipital plate in the rear,” said Marzulli. “We see many skulls in Paracas that are completely devoid of a sagittal suture.
There is a disease known as craniosynostosis, which results in the fusing together of the two parietal plates, however, Marzulli said there is no evidence of this disease in the Paracas skulls.
The sagittal suture, highlighted in red, separates the two parietal plates
LA Marzulli shows the top of one of the Paracas skulls, which has no sagittal suture.
DNA Testing
The late Sr. Juan Navarro, owner and director of the Museo Arqueologico Paracas, which houses a collection of 35 of the Paracas skulls, allowed the taking of samples from three of the elongated skulls for DNA testing, including one infant. Another sample was obtained from a Peruvian skull that had been in the US for 75 years. One of the skulls was dated to around 2,000 years old, while another was 800 years old.
The samples consisted of hair and bone powder, which was extracted by drilling deeply into the foramen magnum. This process, Marzulli explained, is to reduce the risk of contamination. In addition, full protective clothing was worn.
The samples were then sent to three separate labs for testing – one in Canada, and two in the United States. The geneticists were only told that the samples came from an ancient mummy, so as not to create any preconceived ideas.
LA Marzulli holding up a replica of one of the Paracas skulls that was tested
Surprising Results
From the samples, only the mitochondrial DNA (DNA from the mother’s side) could be extracted. Out of four hair samples, one of them couldn’t be sequences. The remaining three hair samples all showed a Haplogroup (genetic population group) of H2A, which is found most frequently in Eastern Europe, and at a low frequency in Western Europe. The bone powder from the most elongated skull tested came back as T2B, which originates in Mesopotamia and what is now Syria, essentially the heart of the fertile crescent. “It rewrites history as we know it,” said Marzulli.
“If these results hold,” writes Brien Foerster on his website Hidden Inca Tours , “the history of the migration of people to the Americas is far more complex than we have been told previously.”
If these results are confirmed through further tests, it means that peoples from Europe and the Middle East migrated to the Americas long before it is conventionally believed.
Marzulli said that mainstream academics will probably attack these results by pointing to the fact that he is not a scientist, but he urges any skeptic to replicate the study. “Attack the evidence folks. Go down and get your own samples, pay for a DNA lab and then come back to me with your science… do some science like we’ve done,” he said. The full lab reports of the DNA tests are available in LA Marzulli’s book Nephilim Hybrids .
The results are also consistent with the fact that many of the Paracas skulls still contain traces of red hair, a color that is not natively found in South America, but originates in the Middle East and Europe.
“No academics as far as we can tell can explain why some of the skulls that still have hair are red or even blonde,” writes Brien Foerster, “the idea that this is from time or bleaching has NOW been disproven by 2 hair experts. For the ancient Paracas people, at least, they had blonde to reddish hair that is 30% thinner than NATIVE American hair. It is GENETIC!”
A Paracas skull with its red hair.
Credit: Brien Foerster
Extra-terrestrial Hypothesis
Due to the unusual shape and features of the Paracas skulls, there has long been speculation that they are extra-terrestrial in origin, and many have hoped that DNA testing would prove that to be the case.
“As regards an “alien” component or ancestry to the skulls, we may never know,” writes Brien Foerster. “The DNA testing programs can only compare sample DNA with those that are known, and those are held in a huge database called Gentech in the US. Further testing with cooperation from Peruvian archaeologists and the Ministry of Culture are now ongoing.”
Nevertheless, LA Marzulli explained that the DNA results fit perfectly with the hypothesis he has held since before any testing was undertaken. That is that the Paracas people are the Nephilim. The Nephilim, according to ancient Biblical texts, are the offspring of the Fallen Angels and the women of earth, resulting in a hybrid entity, and they said to be based in the area of the Levant, the same place that the Paracas DNA traces to.
Whether or not this hypothesis is correct, the results of the DNA tests are dramatic and history changing and further testing may help to unravel the complex history of the Paracas people.
Next Steps
LA Marzulli and colleagues have plans for further testing and are currently working with Peruvian and American archaeologists. They have verbal permission from the head archaeologist of a Peruvian Museum to take more samples. These will then be presented to the Ministry of Culture for final consent before the samples are taking to US labs for testing. This process is expected to take at least a couple of years to complete.
The full account of the investigation and DNA testing is shown in LA Marzulli’s latest video Watchers 10 , which can be ordered here .
Top image: A Paracas elongated skull and an artist’s impression based on a digital reconstruction.
Alien Contactee Nadira Duran Said Greys Are Future Humans In Fragile Bodies Who Cannot Give Birth
Alien Contactee Nadira Duran Said Greys Are Future Humans In Fragile Bodies Who Cannot Give Birth
There are dozens of alien contactees who claim that they either visited the extraterrestrials’ spaceships or were contacted by aliens physically & mentally. But the story of Nadira Duran of California began even before her birth. She is also known by her spiritual name, Azi-Azon, which simply means “Ancient.” She basically called herself a spiritual medium (or a channel), who is here to deliver the message of higher beings (Greys & Angels) to save humans from self-destruction. Besides, she is known for her healings, using Tarot, palmistry, giving classes, and lectures.
Before she was born, a huge white light had visited her parents and instructed them on how to raise her. They were told that heavenly beings would give their daughter spiritual knowledge for healing humans. When she was born, her face was covered with two veils (normally, there is one that rarely occurs fewer than 1 in 80,000 births), and after the nurse removed it, she saw her skin glowing and called it a “magic skin.”
Nadira Duran
At that time, her parents lived in a desert in California, and many people wanted to see her magic skin which lasted for 10 days, but her parents were very protective, so they left the place and went to her grandfather’s house in Oregon. Nadira lived there among the farmers and loggers and often went on exploring the place with her younger brother. She said that she had been visited by a not very tall ET many times (whom she designated as the “Cat Man”) when she was only 5 or 6. But it came only in summer, not in other seasons.
“I was small for my age and he had a round face he had curled up eyes very small just like little slits that curled up oh he had yellowish skin which was rough and bumpy you know how you get goosebumps. This is how his skin was and then he had big yellow spots and then from here he had these wild what I thought was hairs they could have been some kind of feelers or something but in my mind’s eye I have always referred to him as a cat man,” Nadira said.
She had lots of conversations with this ET, and he shared some highly advanced information with Nadira which could only be revealed to the future generation. She learned spirituality under the watchful eye of archangels Micheal, Gabriel, Raphael, Sunder Singh, etc. She accepted that she had no power on her own, and whatever she got was taught by the spirits she applied in healings. Moreover, she does channelings.
Nadira had an interesting incident in her life when she was in her twenties and went to San Francisco with her friend Mary on a business trip. Inadvertently, they found themselves on the wrong way while returning. Mary noticed that they were heading to the Golden Gate Bridge which was not in their path. They felt like under hypnosis of something. The night was clear, but the bridge was covered with a thick fog, and there was no sign of people on it.
Mary was trying hard to accelerate the car, but it did not go fast. Then Nadira looked out of the window and found themselves above the bridge. Her friend’s reaction was rather positive than being shocked. That’s it, she only remembered the part of being lifted up but did not see any ship or light. Next, they were parked somewhere near a hotel and sitting for long in a car till the next morning. What they had witnessed was actually a “Lost Time.” They had no clue what had happened but they lost around 13 hours.
Nadira already knew that they had been abducted by the aliens but did not want her friend to know about it. Somehow, Mary’s boyfriend did hypnosis on her and shockingly, she recalled everything that had happened in those lost hours.
Anyway, they both never discussed it, and years later, in the mid-1980s, Nadira went for a laparoscopy. Her tests were normal, everything was fine but her gall bladder and a rib were missing. Interestingly, she thought it was a mistake because she had never had any surgery, and there is no surgery mark on her abdomen. Later, she recalled her abduction that had happened in the 70s and then found out that an advanced ET technician had removed her gall bladder for goodness. What’s more, she met an alien on the ship, whom she called the “Commander.”
The Commander told her that she was special, not like others. The ship had panels with symbols like ancient languages, and each symbol represented different universes. The Commander took her on a ride to a universe where she saw a purple and pink planet with beings on it. They were smaller in size but had no flesh on their body. Then she returned to the place where they began.
Sketch of grey aliens with a human child
Nadira had many contacts with the Commander who was actually a female Grey alien in a special bodysuit and face mask. The alien told her that their bodies were very fragile, and any germ or bacteria from her could kill them. Their race had a very weak immune system, they had lost the ability to give birth, their women could not get pregnant and outnumbered the men. So, to strengthen her (Grey) race, they had been mixing themselves with humans.
Surprisingly, the Commander told her that they were actually from the Earth and time-traveled from the future to find her through genetic codes. The grey told her about a great disaster that would come in the future, and that the “New World Order” would destroy humanity. Nadira saw a scene of 9/11 and various riots that were going to happen in the future through time travel. The grey alien told her that there were people who wanted to enslave humans. Their biggest goal was only to start a war and earn money. Those people were not any world leaders or presidents.
The commander said: “Ones who are in power today on your earth rule you by fear. The ones who are in power are not the ones that are the kings and the presidents. There are a select few that are in power, these are the ones that want the New World Order these are the ones that want to enslave the people of Earth. These are the ones who will be the downfall of Earth because they are warmongers these are the ones that are wanting to make money because money is their God.”
Nadira said that her main purpose on Earth is to enlighten humans about infinite love which is their only chance to survive, otherwise they would end up like the Greys. From her knowledge that she received from spirits and the Cat Man, she wants to help people to have peace.
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Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun (2020) full movie
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun (2020) full movie
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Perseverance s'est posé sur Mars : les premières images en couleurs !
Perseverance s'est posé sur Mars : les premières images en couleurs !
Laurent Sacco - Journaliste
EN VIDÉO] L'atterrissage de Perseverance sur Mars
Comme prévue, la Nasa vient de mettre en ligne les premières images en couleur avec Perseverance sur Mars. On attend la mise en ligne de la vidéo de son arrivée sur la Planète rouge.
La sonde Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter(MRO), quiorbiteautour de Mars depuis l'année 2006, possède six instruments dont la caméra High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment(HiRise). Sa résolution est cinq fois meilleure que celle de la caméra embarquée à bord de Mars Global Surveyor, qui avait cartographié la Planète rouge entre 1999 et 2001 et elle continue à fournir des images spectaculaires de Mars que l'on peut contempler surson site.
Aujourd'hui HiRise a livré une extraordinaire image de la descente du module de la mission Mars 2020 contenant le rover Perseverance de la Nasa à travers l'atmosphère martienne. Sur cette image prise le 18 février 2021 on voit également l'ancien delta d'un fleuve. Le module de la mission Perseverance entre dans le Cratère Jezero à partir de la gauche, son parachute traînant derrière. HiRise était à environ 700 kilomètres de Perseverance au moment de la prise de l'image et se déplaçait à environ 3 kilomètres par seconde.
HiRise a capturé la descente vers Mars du rover Perseverance avec cette image à très haute résolution.Une ellipse indique où persévérance a finalement atterri dans le cratère de Jezero.
La Nasa vient de révéler également les premières images en couleurs montrant le rover à la surface du Cratère Jezero
Première image en couleur du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance acquise par le rover de la Nasa quelques instants après son atterrissage. Pour les scientifiques, ce paysage présente de nombreuses caractéristiques intéressantes dont des blocs rocheux enterrés et des cailloux d’une très grande variété de taille. À l’horizon, on distingue ce qui est certainement le rempart du cratère.
Cette image à haute résolution montre l'une des six roues du rover Perseverance. L'image a été prise par l'une des caméras couleur de Perseverance (Hazcams).
La Nasa a posé avec succès le rover Perseverance, ouvrant la voie à une inédite mission de retour d'échantillons martiens et à la possibilité de dire si la vie a pu émerger sur la planète Mars.
Les premières images couleur devraient être rendues publiques ces prochaines heures, tout comme celles, inédites de la traversée de l'atmosphère lors des fameuses « sept minutes de terreur ». Les opérations scientifiques ne débuteront pas avant quelques semaines. Ces prochains jours, la Nasa va tester tous les équipements scientifiques et systèmes du rover pour s'assurer de leur bon fonctionnement.
Il faut savoir que Perseverance est aussi la première mission martienne d'exobiologie qui a de très bonnes chances de trouver des traces de vies éteintes. Si la vie a existé, elle s'est très vraisemblablement présentée sous la forme de bactéries et n'aurait pas dépassé ce stade de l'évolution, car on sait aujourd'hui que l'eau à l'état liquide était présente sur Mars seulement quelques centaines de millions d'années.
Le retour d'échantillons martiens en point de mire
Perseverance marque également le coup d'envoi de l'ambitieuse mission de retour d'échantillons martiens. Cette mission se déroulera en plusieurs étapes et s'étalera sur une dizaine d'années. Elle comprendra plusieurs éléments réalisés par la Nasa et l'ESA. L'Europe réalisera le satellite de capture et de retour vers la Terre, le fetch rover, le bras de récupération et de transfert des échantillons dans le conteneur.
Perseverance est le cinquième rover que la Nasa pose sur Mars après Sojourner en 1997, les rovers Spirit et Opportunity de la mission MER en 2002 et Curiosity en 2012. Succès technologique donc, mais la mission Mars 2020 sera-t-elle un succès scientifique ? Réponse dans les prochains mois.
Elderfox Studios took photographic footage taken by various Mars space rovers and compiled them into an absolutely astonishing 4K rendered video that reveals the surface of Mars. The original photos used in this short but stunning documentary were fromNASA, JPL-Caltech,MSSS, Cornell University and ASU.
Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at which the rovers can send data back to Earth is the biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data directly back to Earth at 32 kilo-bits per second. Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable speeds of 2 Megabytes per second.
All this comes ahead of the highly anticipated landing of NASA’s well equipped Perseverance Rover. The launch took place on July 20, 2020, with the landing on Mars expected on February 18, 2021.
The Mars 2020/Perseverance rover is designed to better understand the geology of Mars and seek signs of ancient life. The mission will collect and store a set of rock and soil samples that could be returned to Earth in the future. It will also test new technology to benefit future robotic and human exploration of Mars.
In the past week, a claim that the Pentagon had admitted to having UFO debris, and that they released the test results, began circulating social media channels and some mainstream media publications. Ultimately only gaining traction within tabloid style newspapers known for sensationalized headlines and wild claims; the overall story was easily debunked rather quickly. But, that brief attention to an outlandish claim revived interest in a different story from 2017, which is when the NY Timessaid that “metal alloys… had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena [UAP]” giving many the impression that specially modified buildings in Las Vegas, Nevada, were being used tostore and test the unknown material. But, did these secret warehouses actually store the material? And if not; does it even exist?
The Legend Begins
Interest has been revived in a 2017 NY Times article which insinuates that “metal alloys” from UFOs are being stored in a building in Las Vegas.
On December 16, 2017, Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean wrote the explosive article, “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.” This trio of journalists profiled the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which was what they called the “Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program.” Within that article, buried thirty-one paragraphs below their masthead, was a bombshell allegation that specially modified buildings were being used to house debris obtained from Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), or what they called, UAPs.
“Under Mr. [Robert] Bigelow’s direction, the company [Bigelow Aerospace] modified buildings in Las Vegas for the storage of metal alloys and other materials that Mr. [Luis] Elizondo and program contractors said had been recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena,” the article outlined. “Researchers also studied people who said they had experienced physical effects from encounters with the objects and examined them for any physiological changes.”
A 24 hour poll on The Black Vault’s Twitter page, yielded participation by 629 people, who overwhelmingly all believe the NY Times was reporting that actual debris was within the warehouses in Las Vegas. Even with a healthy margin of error, it still shows a strong three-quarters of those surveyed felt that way.
As a result of writing this, many who read the story, along with news outlets who critiqued it, believed this to indicate that “metal alloys” from UAPs were actively being stored within these buildings. This claim was touted throughout many publications, which in turn helped create a more than three yearlong UFO legend about pieces of “metal” from unknown craft housed within secret warehouses in Las Vegas. Outlets who covered that angle included Scientific American, Live Science, New York Magazine, Vice News, Space.com, Popular Mechanics, The Independent, Deadspin, and many others, which all conveyed the NY Times’ claim about “metal alloys” and the buildings they resided in.
The Clarity
However, despite the seemingly incontrovertible claim put forward by the NY Times about the alloys, and the lack of any known legitimate opposition to what was printed; it is now being clarified by those intimately involved with the overall storyline here more than three years later.
Luis Elizondo contacted The Black Vault to correct the record regarding “metal alloys” as reported by the NY Times.
The Black Vault received word this week from Mr. Luis Elizondo, the man who says he headed the AATIP program prior to his retirement from the Department of Defense (DoD). He felt the quote from the NY Times may have been confusing to some, after seeing it cited in an article last week on this website.
“Buildings were constructed to house material. Meaning, if Bigelow were to collect material, they would then be stored at the modified buildings,” Elizondo told The Black Vault in an e-mail. “I never said HE DID indeed collect material for AAWSAP. As I have always stated, I was part of AATIP, and had little to do with AAWSAP.”
AAWSAP was the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program, a program that according to Elizondo, differs from AATIP. Where AAWSAP, also according to Elizondo, focused on a broad-spectrum view of the paranormal and was spearheaded by Bigelow Aerospace’s subsidiary called BAASS; AATIP focused on more of the “nuts and bolts” of UAPs which Elizondo headed while working within the Pentagon.
The NY Times never mentioned AAWSAP in their original reporting, even though their claims were more about this program rather than the referenced AATIP.
And Then There Was None
With Elizondo denying having ever said Bigelow housed UAP material, that leaves the other part of the NY Times’ claim that “program contractors” had also confirmed the storage of the mysterious alloys. As has been established, Bigelow would be the overall contractor related to AAWSAP, and by chance, he recently addressed the UFO “metal alloy” claim in a video interview just weeks ago.
Robert Bigelow speaks to investigative journalist George Knapp, in a video interview published on MysteryWire.com.
In a one-on-one discussion with George Knapp of MysteryWire.com, Bigelow was asked point blank about the claim. “NY Times reported that you modified your facility here in order to house some material from somewhere else. Did you ever have it?” Knapp asked. Bigelow simply responded, “We never had any.”
To further confirm that no contractor informed the NY Times about the pieces of UAP housed at Bigelow Aerospace, The Black Vault also reached out to Dr. Hal Puthoff. Puthoff is the President & CEO of EarthTech International, and at this time, served as a contractor and the “Senior Science Advisor” to BAASS during the AAWSAP. When asked about the statements given by Bigelow and Elizondo regarding the UAP debris being acquired and studied during the AAWSAP; Puthoff’s brief response to The Black Vault was that “their statements are correct.”
The Contradictions
The Black Vault also reached out to the journalists who wrote the original claim that has become more controversial rather than incontrovertible. Leslie Kean was the only to respond directly, and believes that The Black Vault “mischaracterized” what they originally wrote.
“You mischaracterized what we said. We did not write that Bigelow had collected material through AAWSAP or that Bigelow ever had material at all,” Kean said in a direct message on Facebook. “We said that Bigelow Aerospace modified buildings so that they could store materials recovered from what contractors told us had been retrieved from unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Ralph Blumenthal appears on MSNBC the day after the NY Times article was published. He recounted a detailed story about material being tested by scientists, and called back to his article that referenced the material, which appears to be a clear contradiction by his co-authors claim.
Although Blumenthal and Cooper did not respond directly to The Black Vault’s requests for comment, a December 17, 2017, interview of Blumenthal with MSNBC not only provides additional context of the claims made by the NY Times, but it also confuses the situation further.
Contrary to Kean’s statement that the NY Times never said Bigelow’s buildings had the material but rather just modified them in preparation; Blumenthal recounted a rather detailed story about “material” being studied by scientists during this program. In fact, he did so while speaking specifically about the Pentagon’s “UFO program” and his co-authored NY Times article about AATIP. He calls back to the only section of their article that deals with material, which is where the three authors of the piece specifically wrote about specially modified buildings at Bigelow Aerospace, which were modified solely to house the UAP “metal alloys.”
In an interview with MSNBC, one of the authors of the NY Times piece, Ralph Blumenthal, gives a direct call back to his article, appearing to completely contradict his co-authors interpretation and meaning of the same paragraph.
“They have, as we reported in the paper, some material from these objects that is being studied so that scientists can find what accounts for their amazing properties, this technology of these objects, whatever they are,” Blumenthal told MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian. “They are studying it. It’s some kind of compound that they don’t recognize.”
It appears based on Blumenthal’s interview with MSNBC, two of the three co-authors of the article seem to disagree with what facts they were both originally reporting.
But, despite the seeming contradiction, Blumenthal stands by what he said. Although he did not respond to The Black Vault directly, Kean passed on a statement when she was asked about the contradiction.
“Leslie earlier responded for both of us. What I said on MSNBC is accurate and I’m not going beyond that. No further comment.”
When asked for further clarification on how both Kean’s and Blumenthal’s statements could both be true; Kean did not respond by the publish date of this article. (Any follow ups submitted will be added here)
To make matters even more confusing, the truth behind the “metal alloys” reported in 2017 would become even more elusive as time went on. Two and a half years after Blumenthal’s 2017 interview with MSNBC; he and Kean appeared together on a YouTube channel called “Project Unity” in a joint interview on July 25, 2020. In this interview, Blumenthal seemed to change his previous version of the story about what was really housed in Las Vegas.
“We did report that Robert Bigelow, who was a contractor on the program and was close to Harry Reid who got the money for the program, built a warehouse to hold retrieved materials. That was in the story,” Blumenthal said. “That’s as far as we got. That’s as much as we could find out at the time.” Blumenthal then goes on to state that since their original article, they learned that “… no materials were provided,” and that “… they never were put into the warehouse.”
It is unclear why the detailed story about materials and testing conveyed to MSNBC in 2017 was omitted, and the 2020 shifted to saying that no material was ever housed in Las Vegas or even given to Bigelow for the AAWSAP.
Building at Bigelow Aerospace headquarters, located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Many Millions” Of Dollars
If three major players in the saga of AAWSAP and AATIP all agree there were no “metal alloys” in Las Vegas, then why were the buildings modified in the first place? The price tag to do such a remodel, according to Bigelow, was into the “millions” of dollars.
“We had bought facilities, spent many millions of dollars in buying buildings and I did have a large program to do a major construction on this property besides what we already have here and that was going to be really fun and cool, ” Bigelow told MysteryWire.com when asked about the NY Times article and the work Bigelow did through the AAWSAP. “So we would have nothing that would protrude the surface much, I was going to use life support systems that you use in space because you don’t have a door you can go out of or a window you can put up. So you survive based on the ecosystem the environmental control support systems that you create on board your stations. And so I was going to actually implement those into the underground facility which was going to be substantial and so that was a lot of fun to to do.”
If the NY Times article was right about building modifications for UAP material, but just incorrect with the impression that material was actually being stored there, why would Bigelow Aerospace need artificial ecosystems and “environmental control support systems” in an underground facility in order to house these “alloys” and other pieces of debris? Who informed Bigelow he would be getting material to spark a project spending “many millions of dollars” in preparation for its arrival? Were the modifications done with taxpayer dollars out of the $22 million reportedly going to Bigelow Aerospace for the AAWSAP contract?
The answers to these questions are unknown.
The Black Vault has reached out to Bigelow Aerospace numerous times in the past couple of years regarding AAWSAP and the claims by the NY Times in 2017. Those requests have all been ignored to date.
There is UFO Material – But Where?
In January of 1997, I dug up through #FOIA from the Army, a once classified folder labeled “Alleged Flying Saucers from Denmark.” The incident appears to have occurred in 1947. Inside this folder, were poor photocopies, of numerous photos of some type of debris from the “Flying Saucer.”
With a muddied past of reporting on UFO or UAP material; it might reinvigorate you to know there actually is material out there from unknown craft, and it is documented within the archives of the US government. Although some of that documentation goes back decades, it is documented none-the-less. But what about today? Is the US government and military actively hiding UFO artifacts and testing them?
That answer, is hard to come by. In a May 31, 2019, interview between Elizondo and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson; that truth may have started to reveal itself, even if just for a moment.
“Do you believe based on your decade of serving in the US government on this question, that the US government has in its possession any material from these aircrafts?” Tucker Carlson asked. With clear hesitation to answer, Elizondo stated simply, “I do, yes.” Carlson quickly followed up. “You think the US government has debris, from a UFO, in its possession right now?” And it was that question that sparked Elizondo to close the door on going any further. “Unfortunately, Tucker, I really have to be careful of my NDA [Non-Disclosure Agreement]. I really can’t go into a lot more detail than that. But, simply put, yes.”
Luis Elizondo appeared on Tucker Carlson’s FoxNews show on May 31, 2019, and revealed he believed the US government was in possession of UFO debris.
Shortly after Elizondo’s appearance on FoxNews, he did an interview with Alejandro Rojas and OpenMinds.tv. During this, Elizondo brought up his reference to the materials in possession of the US government on his own accord, which prompted an interesting exchange.
“Now, I did state for the record when I was asked on, on a recent interview by Tucker Carlson, do I believe that material exists? Um, I stand, absolutely stand by that statement, but I unfortunately, I don’t think I can elaborate more on that,” Elizondo affirmed. Rojas added, “Right. And to clarify, I mean, you believe that likely does exist, but it’s not like something you can prove.” Elizondo responded, “I didn’t say that. I just, I’m going to probably politely, deflect that question.” Thus the door was closed again.
Elizondo has further clarified with The Black Vault, that his assertion about “material,” comes from “real information not related to AAWSAP.” Where, or what, that material is remains a mystery.
Will We Ever Know?
There is no telling if, or when, the US government will come clean on if they truly hold UFO debris. The powers that be have had a long, documented, history of covering up the full story for quite some time, whatever that full story actually is.
However, despite the general public’s frustration of not knowing the big picture and what the ultimate truth actually is, there is one crucial aspect to getting to that point: accuracy. Accuracy in reporting, and accuracy from those conveying the stories.
As proven in the past couple of weeks, numerous erroneous claims about UFO debris have circulated and are easily debunked. Couple that with newly revealed clarity that partially tarnishes claims published three years ago by the NY Times, it becomes a murky bog of unsubstantiated rumors and unclear assertions.
On the surface, many stories seem clear, concise, and mind-blowing. Yet, once challenged, many stories fall apart. And those that haven’t yet; they become heavily questioned.
Maybe that is the plan. Maybe this is all part of massive disinformation campaign spearheaded by the US intelligence community which has succeeded in confusing the general public to the point of simply believing nothing. Or, maybe, it’s all a necessary part of a well-orchestrated and finely-crafted strategy which leads us all on a step-by-step path to “disclosure” where mistruths are sprinkled in with absolute truths in order to progressively get the general public to believe. Or, maybe it is something else entirely.
Whatever may be at the root of this all, in the end, no one still has the right answer. At least, not yet.
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” author Douglas Adams told us that the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” is 42. A new paper published in the journal Science suggests that life, the Earth and everything changed 42,000 years ago – an event they’ve named the ‘Adams Event’ in honor of the other ‘42’. What was it and why did it change everything?
“For the first time ever, we have been able to precisely date the timing and environmental impacts of the last magnetic pole switch.”
In a press release announcing the discovery, Chris Turney, a professor at UNSW Science and co-lead author of the study, identifies the event 42,000 years ago as the ‘Laschamp Excursion’ – the short reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field during the end of the Last Glacial Period that lasted 1,000 years and was named for the geomagnetic anomalies it caused that were discovered in the 1960s in the Laschamps lava flows in Clermont-Ferrand, France. While the magnetic pole flip was known, its effects were not. Until some researchers in New Zealand figured out where to look.
“The findings were made possible with ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which have been preserved in sediments for over 40,000 years. Using the ancient trees we could measure, and date, the spike in atmospheric radiocarbon levels caused by the collapse of Earth’s magnetic field.”
Studying the rings of these 40,000-year-old kauri trees was like reading a detailed timeline and history of the Laschamp Excursion. They showed that the real damage to life, the Earth and everything didn’t occur during the event but before it, as the poles were in the process of swapping sides.
“Earth’s magnetic field dropped to only 0-6 per cent strength during the Adams Event. We essentially had no magnetic field at all – our cosmic radiation shield was totally gone. Unfiltered radiation from space ripped apart air particles in Earth’s atmosphere, separating electrons and emitting light – a process called ionization. The ionised air ‘fried’ the Ozone layer, triggering a ripple of climate change across the globe.”
Using the Adams Event timeline, Turney and his team matched it up to events occurring around the world at the same time – discovering that the growth of ice sheets and glaciers over North America and large shifts in major wind belts and tropical storm systems began occurring during and after the Adams Event. The damage included the simultaneous extinctions of megafauna across mainland Australia and Tasmania that defied previous attempts to explain. It may have also been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals and the sudden widespread appearance of figurative art in caves around the world – the activities of humans hiding in the caves to escape climate change and frightening events in the skies.
“Early humans around the world would have seen amazing auroras, shimmering veils and sheets across the sky. It must have seemed like the end of days.”
Co-lead author Professor Alan Cooper, Honorary Researcher at the South Australian Museum, says the aurora borealis and aurora australis (northern and southern lights) would have been brighter and more frequent due to the reduced magnetic field, which also would have increased the frequency and intensity of electrical storms. Turney says the team was amazed at how well the events from around the world matched up to the timeline in the tree rings.
“The more we looked at the data, the more everything pointed to 42. It was uncanny. Douglas Adams was clearly on to something, after all.”
‘The Adams Transitional Geomagnetic Event’ (Adams Event) is the answer to what happened during the last magnetic pole flip 42,000 years ago – an event that is occurring again right now in 2021, when a lot of catastrophic environmental events are occurring. ‘21’ is half of ‘42’! Are we in an Adams Event 2.0?
Not all alien witnesses are isolated bumpkins in the middle of nowhere. At times there can be such characters who manage to propel themselves up into the upper levels of society. Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a former social worker and ombudsman at the Miami-Dade county manager’s office in Florida, got her start in politics as a council member from Doral, Fla., from 2012 to 2014. The city’s mayor then nominated her to replace the vice mayor in 2013, and from there her career took off. She did some great things during that time, sponsoring a human-trafficking ordinance in 2014 and shutting down prostitution rings, as well as boosting Doral’s economic and population growth during her time as the city’s economic development coordinator, and ten in 2017 she announced her candidacy for Florida’s 27th Congressional District. It was a key point in her life, and was also notable in that this particular candidate had a history of rather odd alien encounters.
When the Miami Herald endorsed her for the GOP nomination to take the seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, her weird story came out into the open. Aguilera would claim that from a tender young age she had been targeted by otherworldly forces, starting when she was just 7 years old. At thins time, she says she was approached by a “round spaceship,” from which came three beings, two women and a man, who were exceptionally tall, with blonde hair and outstretched arms, who she said resembled the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. These bizarre entities then took her aboard their spacecraft, which had round seats and was controlled by quartz crystals, and spoke to her telepathically, telling her “God is a universal energy, not a person. It’s in everything. God talks to people and they understand it in different ways, but there’s only one religion.”
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera
After this, she claims that these same aliens contacted her several times throughout her teen years, during which time they bestowed upon her secret knowledge. She says the aliens told her all about the Egyptian goddess Isis, and they also told her that the center of the world’s energy is Africa, and that 30,000 non-human skulls were once discovered in a cave on the Mediterranean island of Malta, as well as that the mysterious Coral Castle in South Florida is in fact the site of an ancient pyramid. She has said of these strange encounters and their relation to her political standing:
For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone. I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.
Such comments and statements have certainly raised eyebrows, and drawn in both supporters and detractors. One Rick Yabor, a Miami lawyer and political commentator, told The Washington Post:
Why Bettina jumped in that race, I don’t know … her views are not very mainstream. There’s going to be people that believe her, and there’s going to be people that think she’s wacky. Being a politician, to come out and say that, it’s odd. She got into details that are not very mainstream. Someone who’s running for Congress — you’ve got to raise a lot of money. A donor might have second thoughts. Miami politics are unusual. This one takes it to a new level.
On the other hand, you have those like Stephen Bassett, of the UFO-centric Paradigm Research Group, who has excitedly said, “This is a milestone. If she were to win the election, she would be the first open contactee to serve in Congress.” For her part, Aguilera has tried to distance herself from it all, saying of the alien contacts in relation to her political career, “It has nothing to do with what I have done. It happened when I was 7 years old. I stick to my guns when I believe in something.” Miami Herald editorial page editor Nancy Ancrum has rushed to Aquilera’s defense as well, saying:
Here’s why we chose her: She’s not crazy. We chose not to see her as a two-dimensional figure. And we chose not to make that an overriding concern. We’re more thoughtful than that. I think she would serve this district well . . . I don’t think we went off the rails here, People just have to look at it in context.
Is this all delusion or is there something more to it? Would such a person be fit for office, or just a derailed individual looking for attention? The fact of the matter is that such alien encounters happen to people from all walks of life, and it is difficult to pigeonhole it into simply uneducated weirdos out in the boondocks. This is a prevalent phenomenon, many people experience it, and cases like we have looked at here jus take it further down the rabbit hole.
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UFO Fleet Shooting Off One By One Over Gulf Breeze, Florida, 2-17-2021 Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Shooting Off One By One Over Gulf Breeze, Florida, 2-17-2021 Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 17, 2021 Location of sighting: Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA
I watched this video many times, trying to determine what it was I was looking at. At first I thought cars in the background, but when I added light to the screenshot, there was only sky. Then I thought ball lighting, but ball lighting usually moves and is lit up for few seconds, unlike this which is lit up less than 1 second at a time. I took a screenshot of the UFO and it turns out it's actually not a light at all. It's a solid metal object, square in shape, but moving very fast. So fast that its only seen when it kicks in a little extra boost of energy to shoot away. That boost makes it visible for a split second in the dark. Wow, this guy actually caught a whole UFO fleet of smaller ships shooting away from his location one by one, as often I have seen in other UFO video and reports. As I have said before, there is a alien base off the Florida coast about 5-6km below the ocean floor. Thats where they came from, but where they are going...out of our atmosphere and beyond. 100% proof that an alien base sits off the Florida coast. But what I didn't know is that the base covers a space that goes from one side of Florida to the other...its huge!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was outside on the phone when I looked up and saw a bunch of lights that were blinking. Normally commercial planes would fly over and eventually fade out. Military planes you can usually identified by the speed of the anti-collision light blinking. Navy blinks slow an the Air Force blinks fast. These lights moved randomly with no sequence or rhythm until they were in sync and then in random places? This went on for a good 10 minutes from what I captured and only got a little bit of footage that is credible. Gulf breeze is known for having sightings of UFOs. It is what it is I’m not crazy and I can’t make this up. I cant confirm or deny what I’m seeing just trying to make sense of it?
Alien base below Florida is as big as Florida itself!
Glowing UFO Seen Over Colina, Chile On 2-3-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Seen Over Colina, Chile On 2-3-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 3, 2021
Location of sighting: Colina, Chile
Watch this raw footage of an orange glowing UFO over Chile two weeks ago. The object is about the size of a small plane, but no plane has lights that powerful. This object is right over the city of Colina and seems to be highly interested in the people below. I'm sure other eyewitnesses also took notice of it, but the UFO was clearly aware that it was seen by humans. It is deliberately allowing itself to be seen, helping people become accustomed to seeing alien craft little by little, as many UFO do. This is absolute proof that some UFO want to be seen, conditioning humanity to become use to their presence.
The world is announcing and celebrating the landing of the 4th NASA Rover on Mars...the Perseverance. But something seems to be overlooked. The first photo of Mars sent back has 70% of the photo blacked out...edited deliberately by NASA to hide something nearby. Now NASA spent 2.7 billion US dollars on the rover mission, so you know they have the best state of the art technology on it...meaning the cameras are the best Earth has to offer. Such a glitch as this would never happen with such technology. Even a simple iphone 12 tied to the rover would offer more clear, higher detail, better contrast and better color photos than the ones NASA is showing the public. So how can this even happen? Well, it can't and didn't. It was a deliberate attempt by NASA to hide an alien structure, ship, or living creature in the area near the rover. The photos they are giving us are equal to an old iPhone 3 from back in 2008 when it was released. So...I ask the world why do they accept such poor quality photos that are deliberately sabotaged by NASA who deliberately glitches, adds too much light blueing detail and making the size of the public photos smaller than the size an iPhone 1 would have produced. Its true, look it up. An iPhone 1 would make photos 1.37MB in size, compared to the Perseverance Rover photos the public sees at 56KB to 250KB in size. Thats pathetic and not even worth the public looking at them. Now...ask yourself...what is NASA really hiding from us all? That...is the right question.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
All Photos In This Post Are Original, Unedited As NASA Has Posted Them.
UFO flying past Starlink train over Phoenix, Arizona
UFO flying past Starlink train over Phoenix, Arizona
On February 18, 2021, witness was surprised to see a long line of lights at constant speed in the sky over Phoenix, Arizona, which turned out to be one of SpaceX' Starlink trains in low orbit which are small satellites to provide internet access.
But it's not just the Starlink train that stands out it's the UFO that flies past the satellites, which is highly unusual.
Whether the UFO is a defect satellite or in case it is indeed a UFO then could it be that the sphere has been ordered to scan the satellites for some reason? Mufon case 113721.
They’re here… and they’re taking over Europe! For this list, WatchMojo UK counts down the strangest, most infamous and most unexplained alien close encounters across the whole of Europe. With strange events in Britain, France, Finland, Spain and more… which of these examples do you think is the scariest? And which makes you most believe in alien life?
Mars, la planète rouge. C'est la planète la plus proche de notre Terre. Mais elle n'en reste pas moins difficile d'accès. De nombreuses missions destinées à son exploration ont échoué. Mais d'autres ont fourni aux astronomes des informations précieuses sur sa composition et son histoire.
En juillet 1965, après un voyage de huit mois, la sonde Mariner 4, lancée par la Nasa, est la première de l'histoire à survoler Mars. Un moment immortalisé par 22 clichés historiques. Des images qui montrent des cratères d'impact de type lunaire, l'absence d'eau en surface et une faible atmosphère.
Mais il faut attendre quelques années plus tard pour que Mariner 6 et 7 montrent, en 1969, que les structures sombres observées depuis la Terre depuis les années 1800 ne sont pas des canaux martiens. Mariner 9 deviendra, en 1971-1972, la première sonde à orbiter autour de la planète rouge, prenant en photo 100 % de sa surface.
Profitant de la même fenêtre de tir, l'URSS se lance également vers Mars avec deux sondes : Mars 2 et Mars 3 -- qui se mettront en orbite autour de Mars à la même époque que Mariner 9. Ils seront les premiers à toucher le sol martien... en s'y écrasant, malheureusement.
Les premières photos de Mars prises par la sonde Mariner 4 en 1965.
En 1976, pour la première fois, une sonde atterrit sans encombre sur Mars : Viking 1. Suivie de près par Viking 2. L'occasion pour les astronomes de partir pour la première fois à la recherche de signes de vie. Et de découvrir ainsi des activités chimiques inattendues sur le sol de la planète rouge.
Alors que ces missions devaient prendre fin au bout de 90 jours, toutes les deux ont été prolongées bien au-delà des espérances. La sonde Viking 1 a transmis ses dernières données à la Terre en 1982 !
Ce n'est ensuite qu'au début des années 1990 que la Nasa se retourne vers Mars. Mais la mission Mars Observer s'achève prématurément lorsque les ingénieurs perdent le contact avant que la sonde n'entre en orbite autour de la planète rouge.
Des rovers à l’assaut de Mars
En 1997, avec la mission Mars Pathfinder, Sojourner est le premier rover à déambuler sur la surface de Mars. Il observera notamment des galets arrondis qui suggèrent que de l'eau a coulé sur la planète rouge par le passé.
La sonde Mars Global Surveyor a, de son côté, commencé sa mission de cartographie de Mars en 1999. Elle a par exemple montré des phénomènes météorologiques qui se répètent d'une année sur l'autre. Les données de son altimètre laser ont fourni aux astronomes une première image 3D de la calotte polaire de Mars.
Mars Climate Orbiter, Mars Polar Lander, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express. Les missions vers Mars se succèdent ensuite à un rythme effréné. Et bientôt, de nouveaux rovers font parler d'eux : Spirit et Opportunity, déposés en 2004 à dans des régions opposées de la planète rouge. Si Spirit s'est enlisé après quelques années de service, Opportunity a poursuivi sa mission jusqu'en 2019. Et en 2015, il a battu le record de distance parcourue par un véhicule extraterrestre après avoir roulé sur plus de 42 kilomètres.
Une vue d’artiste de la sonde InSight posée sur le sol de Mars.
D'autres missions sont toujours en opération et notamment la mission Mars Science Laboratory plus connue pour son rover Curiosity qui a atterri sur Mars en 2012 afin de déterminer si les conditions sur la planète rouge ont pu, à un moment de son histoire, permettre à des formes de vie de se développer. Le Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, lancé en août 2005, transporte la caméra la plus puissante jamais pilotée lors d'une mission d'exploration planétaire pour se concentrer sur les détails du terrain martien. La mission Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN (Maven) est une mission plus modeste et à faible coût, en orbite depuis 2014. ExoMars 2016 (Nasa, ESA, Roscosmos) a également pour objectif d'aider de comprendre si la vie a pu se développer sur Mars. Enfin, la sonde InSight -- pour Interior Exploration using Seismis Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- est plus spécifiquement un programme d'exploration du sous-sol martien.
En juillet 2020, la Chine s'est lancée dans la course avec sa mission Tianwen-1 constituée d'un orbiteur équipé de sept instruments conçus pour fonctionner un moins une année martienne et d'un rover et de ses six instruments qui devraient explorer Mars pendant 90 jours.
Le rover Perseverance -- et Ingenuity, le premier hélicoptère martien -- quittera la Terre direction Mars également en ce mois de juillet 2020. Son objectif principal : chercher des traces de vie microbienne sur la planète rouge. Et recueillir quelques échantillons de sol qui devraient être rapportés sur Terre par la Mars Sample Return Campaign dont le lancement est prévu pour 2026. Entre temps, la mission ExoMars 2022 (Nasa, ESA, Roscosmos) emportera sur la planète rouge, le rover Rosalind Franklin.
Popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel Mavi777 has uploaded an eerie video that shows a giant unidentified flying object (UFO) hovering in the skies of Idaho. In the video shot during the night, a bright object with illuminating lights can be seen hovering intact in the skies, and some of the lights in this UFO appeared and disappeared in a very mysterious manner.
Netizens suspect alien visit
The video shared by Mavi777 has now gone viral, and several netizens started putting forward their theories to explain this bizarre sighting. Most of the people who watched the video strongly suggest that UFO events like these are concrete proof of alien presence on earth.
Alleged UFO spotted in IdahoYOUTUBE/MAVI777
"That was a huge alien ship over that town in Idaho," commented David Turner, a YouTube user.
Another YouTuber named Shurmash claimed that humans may soon meet their galactic neighbors. Alien enthusiasts strongly claim that advanced alien beings have been visiting the earth for hundreds of thousands of years to monitor to activities of humans on the blue planet.
Galactic neighbors and the existence of the galactic federation
The new UFO sighting in Idaho comes just a few days after another flying object was spotted in Texas. The UFO spotted in Texas had the shape of a rod, and it was spotted screeching at a mindblowing speed.
Earlier, Haim Eshed, a former Israeli space security chief had claimed that alien presence is real. According to Eshed, there is a galactic federation where there are members of several alien species, and representatives of the United States and Israel have membership in this federation. He also shockingly claimed that there is a secret underground base on Mars.
Eshed also claimed that there is an agreement between aliens and the United States. According to Eshed, the agreement allows aliens to research and understand the fabric of the universe.
A fiery experiment deliberately lit in a cargo spacecraft last month monitored larger and more dynamic flamesthan most previous efforts to learn how fire works in space have.
The Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment-V (Saffire-V), which occurred after a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Jan. 6, is the latest in a series of fire studies to protect astronauts on long-term missions.
Saffire-V lasted 26 hours, then the Cygnus spacecraft, which was filled with trash, burned up safely in Earth's atmosphere as planned.
A screenshot shows the Saffire-V experiment mid-flame. (Image credit: NASA)
The experiment involved lowering the spacecraft pressure and filling it with oxygen similar to what humans may breathe in future spacecraft. Sensors embedded in the spacecraft, along with cameras, measured temperature variations, oxygen levels and flame growth. The data could improve fire detection and assist with cleanup after a fire, NASA said in a statement
"The Saffire-V data will allow us to model fire scenarios and increase our confidence in safety strategies," Gary A. Ruff, Saffire project manager at NASA's Glenn Research Center, said in the same statement.
NASA plans to fly another Saffire experiment to the space station, although the agency has not specified when it will fly or what the new experiment will study.
Fire behaves quite differently in microgravity than on Earth. Without gravity, hot gasses don't rise; fires also burn at lower temperatures and with less oxygen. Those differences matter: for example, researchers say the material used to extinguish spacecraft fires must be more concentrated than what we use on our own planet.
NASA is trying to beef up its deep-space systems in preparation for the Artemis program, which plans to land humans on the lunar surface by 2024 if the budget and technology development stay on track. NASA also plans to establish a long-term base on the lunar surface assisted by international partners, commercial robots and landers built under the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
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THE Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing wreckage from UFO crashes in a bombshell Freedom of Information letter, shared with The Sun.
Researcher Anthony Bragalia wrote to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) requesting details of allUFO material, which they hold and results of any tests they had been carrying out on it.
The Pentagon has admitted testing UFO materialCredit: Getty Images - Getty
He wrote: "This could include physical debris recovered by personnel of the Department of Defense as residue, flotsam, shot-off material or crashed material from UAPS [unidentified aerial phenomenon] or unidentified flying objects."
In the response, shared with The Sun, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious "memory" metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.
Bragalia said it was a "stunning admission" from the US government and the documents reveal that some of the retrieved debris possesses "extraordinary capabilities" including the potential to make things invisible or even slow down the speed of light.
He told The Sun: "The Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing anomalous debris from UFOs.
Bragalia's original FOIA request
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
Here is the official response from the Defense Intelligence Agency
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
"They have been able to learn some things about the materials of construction which hold tremendous promise as futuristic materials which will change our lives forever."
He said he first made the request in 2017 - which took three years for the DIA to fulfill - after it was revealed the Pentagon had been studying UFOs under the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
"The article mentioned that anomalous debris from UFOs (now called UAPs) was being analyzed by a private defense contractor," Bragalia said.
"Material evidence such as UFO debris has been a focus of my research.
"My Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was very specific, seeking the test results of UFO/UAP debris, not material already known to science."
Major Jesse Marcel with debris from the Roswell UFO crash of 1947
Credit: Handout - Getty
Bragalia believes some of the debris being tested may be from this incident
Bragalia believes some of the material that is being tested could have come from the notorious Roswell incident of 1947, in which a UFO crashed in New Mexico.
"The inclusion of advanced technical reports on Nitinol is curious," Bragalia said.
"Nitinol is a shape-memory alloy that 'remembers' its original shape when folded or crunched, and snaps back seamlessly and instantly.
"This memory metal characteristic was reported by many witnesses at Roswell."
The site of the Roswell crash
Credit: Reuters
The Pentagon has not disclosed the origins of the UFO material
Credit: Getty Images - Getty
However the agency has held back certain details about the materials - including any information about they could be of alien origin - stating in the letter: "I have determined that some portions of five documents must be withheld in part from disclosure..."
"They are omitting information on the chemical and elemental composition of the material as well as its origin," Bragalia said.
"They have omitted the names of the involved scientists as well, but I have since learned some of their names and will be contacting them."
The DIA letter, first shared on Bragalia's blog, reveals that the testing was carried out by Bigelow Aerospace, one of the Department of Defense's private contractors based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The DIA released 154 pages of testing results
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
Bragalia said the results of the tests could be life changing
Credit: Department of Defense/ Anthony Bragalia
The company laid off all of its staff at the Vegas plant last March due to the toll of the pandemic - and it's not known where the UFO material may now be kept.
Mysteriously Bragalia said everyone he approached who used to work at the plant refused to comment to him.
"All former personnel have refused me any real comment," he said.
"I suspect the material has been returned to the Pentagon."
The UFO researcher is planning to launch an appeal to obtain some of the redacted information in the coming months.
'KANS OP UITBRAAK VAN EEN COMPLEET NIEUW CORONAVIRUS WORDT ZWAAR ONDERSCHAT'
'KANS OP UITBRAAK VAN EEN COMPLEET NIEUW CORONAVIRUS WORDT ZWAAR ONDERSCHAT'
Vivian Lammerse
Het aantal diersoorten waarin nieuwe coronavirussen kunnen ontstaan, blijkt veel groter dan gedacht.
De huidige coronacrisis heeft ons behoorlijk opgeschrikt. Want het noodlottige voorval in Wuhan heeft velen doen afvragen hoe groot de kans eigenlijk is dat er een coronavirus opduikt én overspringt naar de mens. In een nieuwe studie, gepubliceerd in het vakblad Nature Communications, hebben onderzoekers zich over die prangende vragen gebogen. En daaruit blijkt dat we de uitbraak van een compleet nieuw coronavirus zwaar hebben onderschat.
Nieuwe coronavirussen De eerste vraag is natuurlijk hoe nieuwe coronavirussen precies het levenslicht zien. “Nieuwe coronavirussen ontstaan wanneer twee verschillende stammen hetzelfde dier infecteren,” legt onderzoeksleider Maya Wardeh uit. “Hierdoor wordt het virale genetische materiaal gerecombineerd. Ons begrip van hoe vatbaar verschillende dieren zijn voor verschillende coronavirussen is beperkt. Maar dergelijke informatie zou inzicht kunnen verschaffen in waar virale recombinatie plaatsvindt.”
Kunstmatige Intelligentie De onderzoekers hebben gepoogd die kenniskloof te overbruggen door met behulp van ‘machine learning’ op zoek te gaan naar specifieke zoogdieren waarin nieuwe coronavirussen het makkelijkst kunnen ontstaan. En dat is heel belangrijk. Want door te voorspellen welke dieren mogelijk de bron zijn van een toekomstige uitbraak van een nieuw coronavirus, kunnen we het risico dat het coronavirus daadwerkelijk naar de mens overspringt, beperken. In de studie analyseerden de onderzoekers onder andere de soorten die al eerder bij uitbraken betrokken zijn, zoals de Kleine hoefijzerneus, loewak en schubdierachtigen.
Zoogdiersoorten De bevindingen zijn tamelijk verontrustend. Want de onderzoekers komen tot de conclusie dat het aantal diersoorten waarin nieuwe coronavirussen kunnen ontstaan, veel groter is dan gedacht. Zo schatten de onderzoekers dat er bijvoorbeeld 40 keer meer zoogdiersoorten bestaan die kunnen worden geïnfecteerd met een diverse reeks coronavirusstammen dan voorheen bekend was. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de loewak en de Kleine hoefijzerneus bijvoorbeeld respectievelijk 32 en 68 verschillende coronavirussen herbergen. Het team ging nog een stap verder door de betreffende gastheren te identificeren waarin een recombinatie zou kunnen plaatsvinden. En daaruit blijkt dat er mogelijk 30 keer meer gastheersoorten zijn die nieuwe coronavirussen herbergen dan gedacht, waaronder katten, egels en konijnen. Opmerkelijke nieuwe gastheren zijn onder andere de kameel, de groene meerkat, en de vleermuis Scotophilus kuhlii.
Modelvoorspellingen over potentiële gastheren van SARS-Cov-2.
Afbeelding: Nature Communications
Het betekent dat de potentiële omvang en de kans op een uitbraak van een compleet nieuw coronavirus – afkomstig van wilde én gedomesticeerde dieren – zwaar onderschat wordt. “Gezien het feit dat coronavirussen vaak recombinaties ondergaan wanneer ze een gastheer tegelijkertijd infecteren én dat SARS-CoV-2 zeer besmettelijk is voor mensen, vormt dit de meest directe dreiging voor de volksgezondheid,” concludeert onderzoeker Marcus Blagrove. Als specifiek voorbeeld benadrukt het team het risicovolle scenario van recombinatie tussen het zeer besmettelijke SARS-CoV-2 en het meer dodelijke MERS-CoV. In de studie identificeerden de onderzoekers 102 potentiële gastheren van deze twee virussen en adviseren met klem om dit te blijven monitoren, om een vervelende afloop te voorkomen.
Nieuwe stammen Hoewel het onderzoek zorgvuldig is uitgevoerd, houden de onderzoekers een slag om de arm. Zo stellen ze dat deze bevindingen gebaseerd zijn op slechts beperkte gegevens over coronavirus-genomen en wisselwerkingen tussen virus en gastheer. Toch zetten de resultaten ons op scherp. “Het is belangrijk om op te merken dat virale recombinatie verschilt van mutaties,” onderstreept Blagrove. “Recombinatie vindt plaats over langere perioden en kan volledig nieuwe stammen of soorten genereren. Ons werk kan helpen bij het oprichten van surveillanceprogramma’s om toekomstige, alarmerende stammen te ontdekken voordat ze overspringen op de mens. Dit geeft ons een belangrijke voorsprong bij de bestrijding ervan.”
De onderzoekers zijn nu van plan om hun model uit te breiden en ook vogelsoorten onder de loep te nemen. Uiteindelijk is het doel om een volledig beeld te scheppen van de diersoorten die mogelijk belangrijke coronavirus-gastheren zijn. Want op die manier wordt de kans op een volgende desastreuse uitbraak van een nieuw coronavirus, flink ingedamd.
Russian state laboratory Vector has announced a new research project in which it will probe ancient animals frozen in the Siberian permafrost, looking for ancient. The aim of the project is to identify such viruses and conduct advanced research into virus evolution.
“We hope that interesting discoveries in the world of viruses await us, one researcher was quoted.”
The remains of many Paleolithic creatures are trapped in the icy grip of the Siberian permafrost. Aided by global warming that melted some of the ice, expeditions have uncovered the remains of numerous kinds of animals preserved by the freezing temperatures. The remains are interesting by themselves, but Russian researchers now want to probe even further, and look at what type of viruses these organisms may have hosted.
The study will be focused on remains discovered in 2009 in Yakutia, a vast region of north-eastern Siberia where remains of Paleolithic animals including mammoths, elk, dogs, partridges, rodents, hares, and many others have been discovered. The researchers will be probing these groups looking for ancient viruses, called paleoviruses.
“We are conducting studies on paleoviruses for the first time,” said Maxim Cheprasov, head of the Mammoth Museum laboratory at Yakutsk University, who added that they have already carried out several bacterial studies on the samples.
The research is a collaboration between Vector and the University of Yakutsk. The work began with analysis of tissues extracted from a prehistoric horse thought to be at least 4,500 years old. Researchers drill a tiny hole and take tissue samples, placing them in a test tube. They then carry out a series of analyses on this sample, from genome sequencing to isolation of total nucleic acids, to obtain data on the entire biodiversity of the microorganisms in the sample.
“If nucleic acids aren’t destroyed, we will be able to obtain data on their composition and establish how it changed, what was the evolutionary development of microorganisms. Vector researcher Olesya Okhlopkova explains in a press release. She adds that they will also “determine the epidemiological potential of currently existing infectious agents.”
Sergei Fedorov, one of the participating researchers, adds that the findings are kept in a special freezer at temperatures of -16 to -18 degrees Celsius (around 0-3 degrees Fahrenheit). Mammoths will be a point of particular interest for the project, but researchers will look at samples from various ancient animals. “We hope that interesting discoveries in the world of viruses await us,” says Fedorov
Vector is a secluded research institute that, in Soviet times, was weaponized and used in the Soviet biological warfare program. The laboratory made important progress in smallpox research, but also researched the production of various viruses and toxins. In post-Soviet times, the center focuses on vaccine research (for Hepatitis A or influenza, for instance), diagnosis systems, and other epidemiological research.
Vector also developed a COVID-19 vaccine (EpiVacCorona, not the Sputnik V) which was licensed in October in Russia and is scheduled to begin mass production in February.
Lucid dreaming happens when you’re aware that you’re dreaming, as opposed to being completely immersed in the experience and totally decoupled from reality. Some lucid dreamers are so good at it they can consistently enter this state of awareness in their sleep and can even control their dream’s storyline to their liking. If you find all of this fascinating, you’re not alone — and scientists have now published a new study in which they’ve tapped into the brains of lucid dreamers while they had real-time dialogues.
Despite the ubiquity of dreams, scientists still know surprisingly very little about them. Most people have trouble remembering their dreams, which are subject to distortion, fragmentation, and forgetting, making neuroscience studies of dreaming highly challenging. In typical dreams, people judge their experience But this is where lucid dreamers come in.
In a new study, researchers led by Karen Konkoly, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University, attempted to communicate in real-time with 36 individuals who were in rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. The participants hailed from the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, and were assessed by four independent laboratories.
“Why do we have dreams? How are dream scenarios created? Does dreaming confer any benefit for brain function? These and other questions have remained open, in part, because of the limited options available for peering into dream experiences,” wrote the researchers in the journal Current Biology.
“In typical dreams, people judge their experience with a high degree of acceptance and a lack of critical evaluation; they fail to realize that their experience is merely a dream. On the other hand, a “lucid dream” differs in that the dreamer gains the elusive insight of being in a dream.”
The participants’ experience with lucid dreaming varied — which was exactly what the researchers were looking for. Some had minimal experience with lucid dreaming, while others were frequent lucid dreamers. One patient with narcolepsy claimed he almost always had lucid dreams.
IN (lower left) refers to methods whereby information was transmitted from experimenter to dreamer. OUT (lower right) refers to methods whereby information was transmitted from dreamer to experimenter. Credit: Current Biology.
To verify that the participants were indeed dreaming, the researchers placed electrodes close to their eyes, as well as on the scalp and chin. This device records brainwave activity and eyeball movement, which are closely linked to deep sleep.
During this stage, people are likely dreaming. But how do you know they are also aware they’re dreaming? In order to identify which participants were lucid dreaming, the researchers asked certain questions that some participants answered with pre-arranged eyeball movements.
Credit: Current Biology.
For instance, one participant was asked for the answer to eight minus six, to which he correctly answered “two” by making two eye movements from left to right. When asked to repeat the answer, the participant once again performed the correct eye movement.
After the participants woke up and the sessions were over, the researchers made a tally and found 18% of the trials involved clear and accurate communication as described above, 17% seemed to acknowledge they were being asked questions but made unintelligible answers, 3% gave wrong answers, and 60% had no reaction at all.
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. A stellar-mass black hole orbits with a companion star located 7,200 light-years from Earth. (ICRAR)
In addition to finding the black hole is 50% more massive than prior estimates, near 21 solar masses as opposed to 15 solar masses, the team also discovered that the companion star also has a greater mass than previous measurements had revealed. The system as a whole is 20% further away than previously calculated–7,200 light-years from Earth as opposed to 6,100 light-years.
“We know that Cygnus X-1 hosts a black hole that is 21 times the mass of the Sun. We also learned that the supergiant companion star in Cygnus X-1 is also more massive than we had thought, with a mass of about 40 times the mass of the Sun,” Professor James Miller-Jones, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Australia, tells ZME Science. “The revised masses and distances also lead to an updated orbital separation between the star and the black hole — they orbit each other at a separation of one-quarter the distance from the Earth to the Sun.”
Cygnus X-1: New findings show the binary system is more massive and further away than previous estimates implied. (ICRAR)
The finding, published in the latest edition of the journal Science, means that Cygnus X-1 contains the largest black hole created through the collapse of a star alone, that has ever been detected with traditional electromagnetic astronomy without the use of gravitational waves. Larger black holes do of course exist, but these are formed through other mechanisms such as mergers between smaller black holes after that initial stellar collapse.
Miller-Jones, the study’s lead researcher, goes on to explain that the team also learned that the black hole is spinning very rapidly , close to its maximum possible speed.
“With all this new information, we were able to propose a likely scenario for how this system formed, which can explain its observed properties.”
Professor James Miller-Jones, ICRAR, Curtin University
The finding doesn’t conform to current theories about black hole formation and stellar development in binary systems as its mass is greater than the limit imposed on such an object.
How Cygnus X-1 Challenges Theories of Stellar Evolution
The team chanced on their finding whilst conducting an ambitious project to observe Cygnus X-1 almost continuously over a full 5.6-day orbit with the network of radio telescopes that comprise VLBA and X-ray telescopes. The aim of the research was to better understand how gas being fed into a black hole from a binary partner via a spiraling accretion disc connects to powerful jets of material that launch out from near the central region at near light speed.
“We had not originally aimed to refine the distance and the mass of the black hole but realised that our data would allow us to do so, by accounting properly for the effects of the black hole orbit. But there is still a wealth of data from this rich observing campaign that we are looking to analyse more fully.”
Professor James Miller-Jones, ICRAR, Curtin University
“Black holes form from the deaths of the most massive stars when they run out of fuel and gravity takes over,” says Miller-Jones. “The mass of the resulting black hole is set by the initial mass of the star from which it formed — which we call the progenitor star — the amount of mass that star lost in winds over its lifetime, and any interactions with a nearby companion star.”
Miller-Jones continues, saying massive stars launch very powerful winds from their surfaces, which leads to significant mass loss over their few-million year lifetimes. Some of the later phases of star’s evolution have particularly strong winds — determined by the abundance of elements heavier than helium in the gas from which the star was formed. More heavy elements mean stronger winds, and ultimately, a less massive star immediately before gravitational collapse.
While some stars can also lose further mass in supernova explosions as they collapse to form a black hole, the evidence suggests that in Cygnus X-1, there was no explosion, and the star collapsed directly into a black hole,” says Miller-Jones. “The stronger the stellar winds during the late evolutionary phases of the star, the less massive we would have expected the black hole to be.”
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. This system contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected without the use of gravitational waves, weighing in at 21 times the mass of the Sun. (ICRAR)
At first, the team wasn’t totally aware of just how significant their discovery of mass disparities in the Cygnus X-1 binary system was. “I think that our biggest surprise was when we appreciated the full implications of our measurements,” Miller-Jones says. “As observational astronomers, my team and I had already found that we could revise the source distance and the black hole mass. However, it was not until I visited a colleague, Professor Ilya Mandel of Monash University, who is a theoretical astronomer, that we realised how important this actually was.”
Mandel–co-author on the resulting paper– realised that a 21-solar mass black hole was too massive to form in the Milky Way with the constraints in place due to the current prevailing estimates of the amount of mass lost by massive stars in stellar winds.
“The existence of such a massive black hole in our own Milky Way galaxy has shown us that the most massive stars blow less mass off their surface in winds than we had previously estimated. This improves our knowledge of how black holes form from the most massive stars.”
Professor James Miller-Jones, ICRAR, Curtin University
Cygnus X-1: No Stranger to Contraversy
The team’s findings have allowed them to put forward a scenario that would allow the formation of a 21 solar mass black hole in a binary system. “We suggest that the star that eventually collapsed into a black hole began its life a few million years ago with a mass of 55-75 times the mass of the Sun,” Miller-Jones tells ZME. “Over its lifetime, it was close enough to its companion–the current supergiant–that gas from its surface was transferred onto its companion. This removed the outer layers of the black hole progenitor and caused it to rotate more rapidly because the two stars were always keeping the same face towards one another.
“Eventually, possibly as recently as a few tens of thousands of years ago the progenitor star collapsed directly into a black hole–of close to its current mass of 21 times the mass of the Sun–without a supernova explosion.”
Professor James Miller-Jones, ICRAR, Curtin University
Additionally, as well as gaining an insight into the black hole’s birth, Miller-Jones believes the team’s results could also indicate how the system could end its life. “Finally, we considered the eventual fate of this system,” the paper’s lead author says. “While the current companion star may eventually form a black hole, the separation of the two stars is such that the two black holes are unlikely to merge on a timescale comparable to the age of the Universe.”
A companion paper appearing at the same time in the Astrophysical Journal will delve deeper into these elements of the research.
A closer look at the massive star in the Cygnus X-1 binary (ICRAR)
This isn’t the first time that Cygnus X-1, and more specifically its black hole, has sparked discussion in the fields of astronomy and cosmology. As speculation grew during that the intense X-ray source in the region was the result of a black hole, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking bet fellow scientist Kip Thorne–well known for his black hole work–in 1974 that Cygnus X-1 did not contain a black hole.
Elon Musk verkoopt al zijn bezittingen om kolonie te stichten op Mars
Elon Musk, de CEO van Tesla en SpaceX, wil zo veel mogelijk geld investeren in de kolonisatie van Mars. Hij verkoopt daarom de meerderheid van zijn materiële bezittingen. Dat vertelde hij tijdens een interview met het Duitse mediabedrijf Axel Springer.
Musk werd deze week voorbijgestoken door Jeff Bezos en is niet langer de rijkste man ter wereld. In december vertelde hij al aan Axel Springer dat hij van plan was om bijna al zijn bezittingen te verkopen. Hij zal ook geen eigen huis meer hebben. Sindsdien verkocht hij al meerdere huizen uit zijn vastgoedportfolio, die ooit meer dan 100 miljoen dollar (82 miljoen euro) waard was. Vorig jaar verkocht hij drie huizen in de rijke buurt Bel Air in Los Angeles en een landgoed dat vroeger eigendom was van acteur Gene Wilder. “Behalve de aandelen in de bedrijven, zal ik bijna geen bezittingen hebben met een geldwaarde”, zei Musk. “Als het op het werk druk is, dan slaap ik graag in de fabriek of op kantoor. En ik heb natuurlijk een plek nodig voor als mijn kinderen er zijn, dus ik zal gewoon iets huren of zo.”
Ik denk dat het belangrijk is dat de mensheid een ruimtevarende beschaving en een multiplanetaire soort wordt
Elon Musk
Musk verhuist ook van Californië naar Texas, omdat hij daar geen inkomstenbelasting dient te betalen. Zijn inspanningen om zijn kapitaal te vergroten, kaderen allemaal in zijn plannen om uiteindelijk een kolonie te stichten op Mars. “Ik denk dat het belangrijk is dat de mensheid een ruimtevarende beschaving en een multiplanetaire soort wordt,” aldus Musk. “En het zal veel middelen vergen om een stad te bouwen op Mars. Ik wil zo veel mogelijk bijdragen aan de stad op Mars. Dat betekent gewoon veel kapitaal.”
Door zijn bezittingen van de hand te doen, toont Musk dat hij echt naar Mars wil. “Ik probeer ook gewoon duidelijk te maken dat het me menens is”, aldus de ondernemer. “En het gaat niet om persoonlijke consumptie. Want mensen vallen me aan en zeggen: ‘oh, hij heeft al die bezittingen. Hij heeft al die huizen’. OK, nu heb ik die niet meer.”
Een prototype van een Starship van SpaceX. Met dergelijke toestellen hoopt Musk mensen over te brengen naar Mars.
Musk hoopt uiteindelijk drie ruimteschepen per dag te lanceren naar Mars, met telkens 100 mensen aan boord. Binnen dertig jaar moet de kolonie op Mars zo een bevolking van maar liefst een miljoen mensen tellen. Voor wie naar Mars wil, maar het niet kan betalen, zijn er leningen beschikbaar, beweert de ondernemer. Bovendien zullen er op de rode planeet volgens hem veel jobs beschikbaar zijn.
Volgens critici is Musks plan echter een interplanetaire vorm van contractarbeid. Dat systeem werd vroeger gehanteerd door koloniale grootmachten: kolonisten die de oversteek naar de Nieuwe Wereld niet konden betalen, kregen dat vergoed door hun toekomstige werkgever in ruil voor enkele jaren arbeid op diens landgoed of in diens fabriek. In werkelijkheid was dat systeem echter erg vergelijkbaar met slavernij: de arbeiders werden uitgebuit, genoten erg weinig vrijheid, hadden vaak geen medische verzorging en werden dikwijls gedwongen om langer in dienst te blijven dan aanvankelijk overeengekomen.
Waarom het eerste beeld dat Marsrobot Perseverance maakte een zwart-wit foto was
Gejuich, gejoel en grote opluchting bij het NASA-team nadat de Perseverance zichzelf veilig door de dunne dampkring van Mars wist te loodsen. Enkele minuten na de landing van de Marsrobot volgde er al een eerste foto van zijn nieuwe thuis. Maar waarom was dat een zwart-wit foto?
'Seven minutes of terror' van de landing van de Perseverance
Perseverance is niet zomaar een Marsrover of -robot. Het is het meest geavanceerde astrobiologische laboratorium ooit dat vanop de aarde gelanceerd is. Hij is ontworpen om de Jezero-krater op Mars uit te kammen, op zoek naar tekenen van leven. Om deze missie te doen slagen, is de robot uitgerust met tal van technische snufjes waaronder 19 camera’s. Zoveel camera’s en toch een zwart-wit, en ietwat wazige, eerste foto maken? Kan dat niet beter?
Perseverance maakte gebruik van zijn navigatiecamera’s om de foto te maken. Deze camera’s - eentje vooraan en een tweede achteraan - dienen voornamelijk om de omgeving te verkennen. Het spreekt voor zich dat deze robuuste camera’s als eerste (deels) werden vrijgemaakt en geactiveerd.
Het beeld is een beetje korrelig door het stof dat tijdens de landing opwaaide. Dat stof is meteen ook de reden waarom er niet onmiddellijk andere camera’s geactiveerd werden; de lenzen van deze camera’s blijven afgedekt totdat het stof is gaan liggen. Nog een reden waarom er voor de zwart-wit foto’s werd gekozen: deze beelden, met een lage resolutie, konden sneller naar de aarde verstuurd worden.
Kortom, de eerste foto’s - Perseverance deelde wat later nog een tweede foto van zijn uitzicht aan de achterzijde - zijn slechts een fractie van wat nog komen moet. Twee van de camera’s waarover de Marsrobot beschikt kunnen immers beelden maken met een zeer hoge resolutie. Zonder twijfel zullen er nog enkele spectaculaire plaatjes volgen.
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The history of the top-secret Dulce Base – an underground base in New Mexico reported to be home of alien research facility.
The history of the top-secret Dulce Base – an underground base in New Mexico reported to be home of alien research facility.
Residents from Dulce, New Mexico will attest that the Archuleta Mesa in New Mexico has seen its share of bizarre events. Dulce, a border town near the Colorado-New Mexico border, is remote, largely unpopulated (Dulce has a population of only around 3,000 people), and is the tribal headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. According to several reports, it is the home of the top-secret Dulce Base – a research and military facility operated jointly between humans and alien beings from another world.
Paul Bennewitz picks up strange radio signals
The rumors of a base in Dulce began in 1979. Paul Bennewitz, a local electrician with a doctorate in physics, was researching classified government programs at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of his researched involved construction and monitoring of sensitive radio equipment. It 1979, he began intercepting strange radio transmissions. From what he could tell, the communications were between government organizations and another party which he ultimately determined were not from this planet. The signals emanated from the mesa near Dulce.
Aliens in the area?
The story gained traction when a second report lent credence to the theory there were aliens in the area. New Mexico State Trooper Gabe Valdez had investigated several bizarre cases of mutilated cattle near the mesa. These weren’t your run-of-the-mill cattle mutilations. Valdez noted that he often found discarded gas masks and glow sticks at the scene. And in one instance, he found an unusual fetus inside one of the carcasses. According to Valdez, the fetus looked like a “cross between a human, a monkey, and a frog”. Experts in alien species drew the conclusion that the fetus was the discarded body of a nefarious reptiloid (aka Reptilian) alien body.
Phil Schneider comes forward
Phil Schneider
Soon after, 35-year-old Phil Schneider came forward with claims he had worked at the Dulce Base facility. Investigators determine Schneider did indeed have military contacts. He was the son of Oscar Schneider, a Captain in the United States Navy who worked in nuclear medicine and helped design the first nuclear submarine.
According to Schneider, he had been employed by Morrison-Knudsen on a project to drill four large holes that were joined together with tunnels. His job was to descend into the holes and study the rock composition in order to recommend further course of action. He was suspicious of the job from day one because of the unusual presence of military personnel – Green Berets and other special forces.
During the drilling, workers came across a large artificial cavern. The structure was huge and clearly manmade. As Schneider was marveling at the cavern, he suddenly found himself face-to-face with a seven-foot-tall gray alien. Schneider pulled a pistol he was carrying and shot the alien who fought back with an unknown weapon of its own. A gunfight broke out between more aliens and the military personnel. During the melee, 67 workers and military personnel were killed, Phillip Schneider being one of only three people that survived. Schneider claimed to have suffered injuries in the attack and showed scars on his chest to prove it. He claimed the unusually shaped injuries were from the alien’s weapon.
Schneider explains Dulce Base
Schneider says Dulce Base has seven levels tied together by a subway system. In fact, Schneider says the underground subway system extends all the way to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He says the base is the center of a ground operation between the US and extraterrestrials. According to Schneider, thousands of aliens lived in the underground facility. They were allowed to experiment on humans in exchange for advanced alien technology.
Schneider began speaking out about the aliens, UFOs, and government coverups. Together with four other men, he started a publication called The Alien Digest. The publication became popular with the paranormal community and gained a wide circulation. In the publication, Schneider revealed that underground alien bases existed all around the world. Huge amounts of black budget money went towards building the bases.
The death of X
In 1993, one of the men behind The Alien Digest was found dead in a park in Portland, Oregon. He had been shot in the mouth. Schneider claimed his partner was murdered to shut them up. Police paid no attention to his claims.
For several years prior, Schneider had travelled throughout the country lecturing about government cover-ups, black budgets, and UFOs. Schneider always claimed he knew his life was in danger. Schneider’s body was found on January 17, 1996, three years after the death of his business partner. Doctors ruled the death a stroke. Oddly, the ruling was later changed to suicide. Investigators claimed Schneider had wrapped a rubber catheter hose three times around his neck and tied it with a knot.
Schneider’s claims are confirmed
Soon after Schneider’s untimely death, Thomas Costello came forward claiming to be a security guard for the base. Costello confirmed Schneider’s reports and added that horrific experiments were conducted at the base by both humans and aliens. Costello noted that the caves in the mesa had been occupied by reptoid aliens for centuries.
Costello’s claims ignited a media firestorm with publications across the country reporting his story. Oddly, after Costello’s appearance before the public, Schneider’s family suddenly burst into the scene. After years of silence, family members came forward with claims that Phil Schneider was insane. The media firestorm subsided, and the family grew silent again.
Other secret underground military bases
The top-secret Tonto National Forest military base
Researchers have found other instances of secret underground military bases. A FOI request revealed a strange report from the US Forest Service’s Southwestern Region office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was an odd call from a man claiming to have run across workers building an underground “alien base” near the Tonto National Forest outside Phoenix, Arizona. It noted that the following email was sent to all US Forest employees:
“David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (Upstream from Roosevelt Lake). Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people. He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff. Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy and doesn’t do drugs. He said he had already called the ‘office at the lake’, but he didn’t know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off.”
Another similar report was found in the archives of a UFO investigative organization. The report had been submitted by Scott Heckman and spoke of a base in the national forest where scores of people were said to have “gone missing”. The report read:
“The most major base that I have been able to follow the craft towards is located in the Tonto National Forest. I discovered this while camping in the Sierra Ancha Wilderness. The UFOs kept flying down into the basin two minutes apart. They flew low, out of the southeast at about two thousand feet above the terrain. During the daytime A-10’s use the area for training. Re-fueling practice also occurs here both day and night. These areas have also been plagued with several unexplained disappearances that have occurred in Cochise County over the last 30 years. Cars are abandoned with people’s ID; money and keys left behind. Their occupants are mysteriously missing, never to be seen again.”
Additional information
“THE DULCE BASE” by Jason Bishop III
The following is a bizarre report that made the rounds on the Internet forums in the early 2000’s. The author of the report claims to have inside knowledge of Dulce base operations.
This facility is a “GENETICS LAB” and is connected to Los Alamos, via a “Tube-Shuttle.” Part of their research is related to the General Effects of Radiation (Mutations and Human Genetics). Its research also includes other “Intelligent Species” (Alien Biological Life Form “Entities”).
In the revised September 1950 edition of “THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS” prepared for and in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, under the direction of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, we read about how “complete Underground placement of Bases is desirable”. On page #381: “There are apparently no fundamental difficulties in construction and operating Underground various types of important Facilities. Such facilities may be placed in a suitable existing mine or a site may be excavated for the purpose”.
CAUGHT IN THE GAME
Centuries ago, Surface People (some say the Illuminati) entered into a pact with an “Alien Nation” (hidden within the Earth). The U.S. Government, in 1933, agreed to trade Animals and Humans in exchange for High Tech Knowledge, and allow them to use (undisturbed) UNDERGROUND BASES, in the Western USA. A Special Group was formed to deal with the Alien Beings. In the 1940’s, “Alien Life Forms (ALF)” began shifting their focus of operations, from Central and South America, to the USA.
The Continental Divide is vital to these “Entities”. Part of this has to do with Magnetics (Substrata Rock) and High Energy States (Plasma). [See: BEYOND THE FOUR DIMENSIONS (Reconciling Physics, Parapsychology and UFOs by Karl Brunstein. Also: NUCLEAR EVOLUTION (Discovery of the Rainbow Body) by Christopher Hills.]
This area has a very high concentration of Lightning Activity, Underground Waterways and Cavern Systems, Fields of Atmospheric Ions, etc., etc..
WHOS PLANET IS THIS?
These Aliens consider themselves “Native Terrans”.
They are an Ancient Race (descendent from a Reptilian Humanoid Species which cross-bred with Sapient Humans). They are untrustworthy manipulative Mercenary Agents for another Extraterrestrial Culture (The DRACO) who are returning to Earth (their ancient “Outpost”) to use it as a staging area.
But, these Alien Cultures are in conflict over Who’s’ Agenda will be followed for this Planet. All the while Mental Control is being used to keep Humans “in place”, especially since the Forties.
The DULCE Complex is a Joint US Government / Alien Base. It was the first built with The Aliens (others are in Colorado, NV, AZ.
THE SECRET “ACTIVITY”
Paul Benowitz reports, about his study into the Dulce area, “Troops went in and out of there every summer, starting in ’47. The natives do recall that. They also built a road – right in front of the people of Dulce and trucks went in and out for a long period. That Road was later blocked and destroyed.. The signs on the trucks were ‘Smith’ Corp. out of Paragosa Springs, Colorado. No such corporation exists now – no record exists….. I believe the Base – at least the first one was being built then under the cover of a lumbering project…. problem – they NEVER hauled logs. Only BIG Equipment”.
R&D AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
THE RAND CORP. became involved and did a study, for the Base. Most of the lakes near Dulce were made, via Government grants ‘for’ the Indians.
NAVAJO DAM is the main source for conventional electrical power, with a second source in EL VADO (also, an entrance).
Note: If RAND is the mother of “THINK TANKS”, then the “FORD FOUNDATION” must be considered the father.
Rand secrecy is not confined to ‘Reports’, but on occasion extends to Conferences and Meetings. On page #645 of The PROJECT RAND, proceedings of the DEEP UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION SYMPOSIUM (March 1959) we read: “Just as airplanes, ships and automobiles have given man mastery of the surface of the Earth, Tunnel-Boring Machines… will give him access to the Subterranean World”.
Note: The Sept. 1983 issue of “OMNI” (pg#80) has a color drawing of “THE SUBTERRENE”, the Los Alamos nuclear-powered tunnel machine that burrows through the rock, deep underground, by heating whatever stone it encounters into molten rock (magma), which cools after the SUBTERRENE has moved on. These underground tubes are used by electro-magnetically powered “Subshuttle Vehicles”, which can travel at great speeds. They connect the “Hidden Empire” Sub-City Complexes. Also, the top-secret project code-named: “NOAH’s ARK”, uses “TUBE-SHUTTLES” in connection with a system of over 100 ‘Bunkers’ and ‘Bolt Holes’ which have been established at various places on Earth. With other Bases inside the Moon and Mars. Many of these underground Cities are complete with streets, sidewalks, lakes, small electric cars, apartments, offices and shopping malls.
There were over 650 attendees to the 1959 RAND Symposium. Most were representatives of the Corporate-Industrial State, like: THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, AT&T, HUGHES AIRCRAFT, NORTHROP CORP., SANDIA CORP., STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, WALSH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, THE BECHTEL CORP, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, ECT,ECT.
BECHTEL (pronounced BECK-tul) is a super secret international corporate octopus, founded in 1898. Some say the firm is really a “SHADOW GOVERNMENT” – a working arm of the CIA. It is the largest construction and engineering outfit, in the USA and the WORLD (and some say BEYOND).
The most important posts in the US Government are held by former BECHTEL Officers. They are part of “The WEB” (an interconnected control system) which links the Tri-Lateralist plans, the C.F.R. the Orders of “Illuminism” (Cult of the All-Seeing Eye) and other interlocking groups.
SURVIVING THE FUTURE
The DULCE FACILITY consists of a Central “HUB”, the Security Section, (also some photo labs). The deeper you go, the stronger the Security. This is a multi-leveled Complex. There are over 3000 cameras at various High-Security locations (exits and Labs).
There are over 100 Secret Exits near and around Dulce. Many around Archuleta Mesa, others to the south around Dulce Lake and even as far east as Lindrith.
Deep sections of the Complex connect into natural Cavern Systems.
A person who worked at the Base, who had an “ULTRA 7” Clearance, reports: “There may be more than seven levels, but I only know of seven. Most of the Aliens are on 5-6-7 Levels. Alien housing is Level Five.”
21st CENTURY POWER: “BIO-TECH”
We are leaving the Era of expendable resources, like Oil based products. The Power of the Future is Renewable resources… “Biologically” Engineered. The Dulce Genetic Research was originally funded under the cloak of “BLACK BUDGET” Secrecy. (Billions $$$$)
They were interested in intelligent “Disposable Biology” (Humanoids), to do the dangerous Atomic (Plutonium) Rocket and Saucer experiments.
We Cloned “our” own little Humanoids. Via a process perfected in the Bio-Genetic Research Center of the World, Los Alamos! Now we have our own disposable slave-race. Like the Alien “Greys” (EBES), the US Government clandestinely impregnated females, then removed the hybrid fetus, (after three months) and then accelerated their growth in the Lab. Biogenetic (DNA Manipulation) programming is then instilled – they are “Implanted” and controlled at a distance through RF (Radio Frequency) transmissions. Many Humans are also being “Implanted” with Brain Transceivers. These act as telepathic “Channels” and telemetric brain manipulation devices. The network-net was set-up by DARPA Advanced Research Project Agency). Two of the procedures were, RHIC (Radio-Hypnotic Intercerebral Control) and EDOM (Electronic Dissolution of Memory). The brain transceiver is inserted into the head thru the nose. These devices are used in the Soviet Union and the United Stated, as well as Sweden. The Swedish Prime Minister Palme gave the National Swedish Police Board the right (in 1973) to insert brain transmitters into the heads of human beings COVERTLY!
They also developed ELF and EM wave propagation equipment (RAYS) which affect the nerves and can cause nausea, fatigue, irritability, even death. This is essentially the same as Richard Shaver’s Cavern “Telaug” Mech. This research into biodynamic relationships within organisms (“BIOLOGICAL PLASMA”) has produced a RAY that can change the “genetic structure” and “HEAL”. Shaver’s Cavern “BEN-Mech” could HEAL!
WARNING: MANIPULATION AND CONTROL
FEAR, FRAUD AND FAVOR… The Pentagon, the CIA, NSA,DEA,FBI,NSC, etc.. seek to capitalize on the Beliefs of the American Public. The Secret Government is getting ready to ‘stage’ a Contact-Landing with “ALIENS” in the near future. This way they can ‘CONTROL’ the release of Alien related Propaganda. We will be told of an Inter-Stellar Conflict.
But… what looks real, may be “FAKE”. What is disinformation?
Is your attention being diverted by the Strategy of a “SHADOW PLAN”?
OVERT AND COVERT RESEARCH
As US Energy Secretary, John Herrington named the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory to house new advanced genetic research centers as part of a Project to decipher the Human Genome. The Genome holds the genetically coded instructions that guide the transformation of a single cell – a fertilized egg – into a Biological Being. “The Human Genome Project may well have the greatest direct impact on humanity of any scientific initiative before us today”, said David Shirley, Director of the Berkeley Laboratory.
Covertly, this research has been going on for years, at DULCE LABS. Level #6 is privately called “NIGHT-MARE HALL”, it holds the Genetic Labs. Reports from workers who have seen bizarre experimentation, are as follows: “I have seen multi-legged ‘humans’ that look like half-human / half-octopus. Also Reptilian-humans, and furry creatures that have hands like humans and cries like a baby, it mimics human words… also huge mixture of Lizard-humans in cages”. There are fish, seals, birds and mice that can barely be considered those species. There are several cages (and vats) of Winged-humanoids, grotesque Bat-like creatures…but 3 1/2 to 7 feet tall. Gargoyle-like beings and Draco-Reptoids.
Level #7 is worse, row after row of thousands of humans and human mixtures in cold storage. Here too are embryo storage vats of Humanoids in various stages of development.
“I frequently encountered humans in cages, usually dazed or drugged, but sometimes they cried and begged for help. We were told they were hopelessly insane and involved in high risk drug tests to cure insanity. We were told to never try to speak to them at all. At the beginning we believed that story. Finally, in 1978 a small group of workers discovered the truth. It began the Dulce Wars”. (and a secret resistance Unit was formed) Note: There are over 18,000 “Aliens” at the Dulce Base. In late 1979, there was a confrontation (over weapons), a lot of Scientists and Military personnel were KILLED. The Base was closed for a while…. But, it IS currently active. Note: Human and animal abductions (for their Blood and other parts) slowed in the mid-1980s, when the Livermore Berkeley Labs began production of artificial blood for Dulce.
William Cooper states: “A clash occurred where in 66 people, of our people, from the National Recon Group, the DELTA group, which is responsible for Security of all Alien connected Projects, were killed.” The DELTA Group (within Intelligence Support Activity) have been seen with badges which have a black Triangle on a red background. DELTA is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. It has the form of a triangle, and figures prominently in certain Masonic Signs.
*EACH BASE HAS ITS OWN SYMBOL. The DULCE Base symbol is a triangle with the Greek letter “Tau” (T) within it and then the symbol is inverted, so the triangle points down.
* The Insignia of “a triangle and 3 lateral lines” has been seen on “Saucer (transport) Craft”, The Tri-Lateral Symbol.
* Other symbols mark landing sights and Alien Craft.
INSIDE THE DULCE BASE
Security Officers wear jumpsuits, with the Dulce Symbol on the front upper left side. The standard hand weapon, at Dulce is a “Flash Gun”, which is good against Humans and Aliens. The ID card (used in card slots, for the doors and elevators) has the Dulce Symbol above the ID photo. “Government Honchos” use cards with the Great Seal of the U.S. on it. “The Cult of the All-Seeing Eye” (THE NEW WORLD ORDER) 13, “666” The Phoenix Empire….”9″ “Illuminism”… “One out of many”.
After the Second Level, everyone is weighed, in the nude, then given a Uniform. “Visitors” are given an ‘off white’ uniform. In front of ALL sensitive areas are scales built under the doorway, by the door control. The persons card must match with the weight and code or the door won’t open. Any discrepancy in weight (any change over three pounds) will summon Security. No one is allowed to carry anything into or out of sensitive areas. All supplies are put thru a Security conveyor system. The Alien Symbol language appears a lot at the Facility.
During the construction of the Facility (which was done in stages, over many years) the Aliens assisted in the Design and Construction materials. Many of the things assembled by the workers, were of a Technology they could not understand, yet…it would function when fully put together. Example: The elevators have no cables. They are controlled magnetically. The Magnetic system is inside the walls.
There are no conventional electrical controls. All is controlled by advanced Magnetics. That includes a magnetically induced (phosphorescent ) Illumination System. There are no regular light bulbs. All EXITS are magnetically controlled. Note: it has been reported that, “If you place a large magnet on a entrance, it will affect an immediate interruption. They will have to come out and reset the system.”
THE TOWN OF DULCE
The area around Dulce has had a high number of reported Animal Mutilations. The Government and the Aliens used the animals for Environmental tests, Psychological Warfare on people, etc.. The Aliens also wanted large amounts of Blood for Genetic, Nutritional and other reasons.
In the book, “ETs & UFOs – THEY NEED US, WE DON’T NEED THEM” by Virgil “Posty” Armstrong, he reports how his friends (Bob & Sharon) stopped for the night in Dulce and went out to dinner. “They overheard some local residents openly and vociferously discussing Extraterrestrial Abduction of townspeople for purposes of experimentation.” The ET’s were taking unwilling human guinea pigs from the general populace of Dulce and Implanting Devices in their heads and bodies. The townspeople were frightened and angry but didn’t feel that they had any recourse since the ET’s had our Governments knowledge and approval.
Recently, participants in a “field investigation” of the area near Archuletta Mesa, were confronted by two small hovering ‘Spheres’. They all became suddenly ill and had to leave the area.
“THE MONITORS”: ABDUCTIONS
In the Fifties, the EBES (Greys) began taking large numbers of humans for experiments. By the Sixties, the rate was speeded up and they began getting careless (they didn’t care). By the Seventies, their true colors were very obvious, but the “Special Group” of the Government still kept covering up for them. By the Eighties, the Government realized there was no defense against the “Greys”. So… programs were enacted to prepare the Public for open contact with non-human “Alien” Beings.
The “Greys” and the “Reptoids” are in league with each other. But, their relationship is in a state of tension.
The “Greys” only known enemy is the Reptillian Race, and they are on their way to Earth. (Inside a Planetoid).
Some forces, in the Government, want the Public to be aware of what is happening. Other forces (The Collaborators) want to continue making “whatever deals are necessary” for an Elite few to survive the conflicts.
The Future could bring a Fascist “WORLD ORDER” or a transformation of Human Consciousness (Awareness). The struggle is NOW…your active assistance is needed. Prepare! We must preserve Humanity on Earth.
MIND MANIPULATION EXPERIMENTS
The DULCE Base has studied Mind Control Implants, Bio-Psi Units, ELF Devices capable of Mood, Sleep and Heartbeat Control, etc., etc.
D.A.R.P.A. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is using these Technologies to manipulate people. They establish ‘The Projects’, set priorities, coordinate efforts and guide the many participants in these undertakings. Related Projects are studied at Sandia Base by “The Jason Group” (of 55 scientists). They have secretly harnessed the Dark Side of Technology and hidden the beneficial Technology from the Public.
Other Projects take place at “AREA #51” in Nevada…”DREAMLAND”[Data Repository Establishment and Maintenance Land], ELMINT[Electro-Magnetic Intelligence], CODE EMPIRE, CODE EVA, PROGRAM HIS[Hybrid Intelligence System], BW/CW, IRIS[Infrared Intruder System], BI-PASS, REP-TILES.
The studies on LEVEL #4, at DULCE, includes Human-Aura research, as well as all aspects of Dreams, Hypnosis, Telepathy, ect. They know how to manipulate the BIOPLASMIC BODY (of Man). They can lower your heartbeat, with Deep Sleep “DELTA WAVES”, induce a static shock, then re-program via a Brain Computer Link. They can introduce data and programed reactions into your Mind (Information impregnation – the “Dream Library”.
We are entering an ERA of the Technologicalization of Psychic Powers.
The development of techniques to enhance man/machine communications, Nano-Tech, Bio-Tech Micro-Machines, PSI-War, E.D.O.M. (Electronic Dissolution of Memory), R.H.I.C. (Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral Control) and various forms of behavior control (Via Chemical Agents, Ultra-Sonics, Optical and other forms of EM Radiation). The Physics of “Consciousness.”
BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIO-TECH???
The development of “BIO-TECHNOLOGIES” will mean a revolutionary change in the Life of every Human Being now on Earth!
WARNING…FASCISM IS “CORPORATISM”
We have passed the point of no return, in our interaction with the “Alien” Beings. We are guaranteed “A Crisis” which will persist until the final REVELATION (or conflict).
The crisis is here. Global and real. We must mitigate or transform the nature of the disasters to come and come they will. Knowing is half the battle. Read the book, “THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY” by Stan Deyo.
THE PHANTOM EMPIRE: ABOVE THE LAW
The Dulce Base is run by a “Board.”
The Chairman of the Board is JOHN HERRINGTON. JIM BAKER (of TENN) is the CIA link to Dulce. House Speaker JIM WRIGHT, D-Texas (the nations third highest office) is Treasurer at Dulce.
There is currently a power struggle going on. As Rep. William Thomas, R- Calif., put it… Part of Jim Wrights problem is; “HE fails to understand what’s equitable and fair. It’s the arrogance of power.” Even among his fellow Democrats, many find Wright to be “uncomfortably aloof”. Wright’s operating style leaves him vulnerable.
Most meetings of “The Dulce Board” are held in Denver and Taos (N.M.). Former New Mexico Senator Harrison “Last man on the Moon” Schmitt has full knowledge of Dulce. He was one of 7 Astronauts to tour the Base.
In 1979, he held an “Animal Mutilation” conference in Albuquerque, N.M.
This was used to locate researchers and determine what they had learned about the links between the “Mute” operations and the Alien/Government.
Senator BRIAN (Nevada) knows about the “ULTRA” Secrets at “DREAMLAND” and Dulce. So do many others in the Government…this is what the UFO Researchers are up against…. so BE CAREFUL…they have KILLED to keep this info Secret. You now know more than they want you to know.
They also have underwater Bases off the coast of Florida and Peru.
More detailed information will be released in the near future, photos, video tapes, documents, ect. Watch out for AGENTS among you now.
In the 1930’s, “DIVISION FIVE” of the FBI knew about the “Aliens”.
A Fascist cabal, within this country, had John Kennedy assassinated.
Look to the links, within the larger Umbrella… the “WEB” of a fascist totalitarian secret police state…within the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, DIA, FBI (Division Five), DISC/DIS and the CIA. Note: The DEFENSE INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES Insignia is a composite of the Sun’s Rays, a ROSE, and a Dagger, symbolizing “The Search for Information, Trustworthiness and Danger”. Other links are Nazi scientists (who had contact with the “Aliens”), the S.S., Satanists, Permnidex, Exxon, the Mafia, NBC, etc., etc..
This links with Caves used for “Initiation Rites” (all over the world) … ancient Vaults, Retreats, Alien Bases, and INNER-EARTH CIVILIZATIONS.
Dulce: Is There An Underground Base Here? Archuleta Mesa On Scene via Leak Project
Dulce: Is There An Underground Base Here? Archuleta Mesa On Scene via Leak Project
Is There An Underground Base Here? Archuleta Mesa On Scene
Archuleta Mesa is the central geographic feature of Dulce, New Mexico, the heart of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. There is tribal government housing, a casino and hotel, one grocery store, and after the stand-off shootout that happened last summer at the Philip’s 66, there’s only one gas station.
UFO Near StarLink Satellites, Over Phoenix, Arizona, Feb 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Near StarLink Satellites, Over Phoenix, Arizona, Feb 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 18, 2021 Location of sighting: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Source: MUFON 113721
An eyewitness caught sight of the StarLink SpaceX satellites that Elon Musk launched not long ago. The satellites stream in a straight line and are easily seen with the naked eye on a clear night as Arizona often has. But somethings up near them. A glowing object was recorded passing along side the satellites. Its not the International Space Station, because it is much larger than the satellites. So what is it? I think its an alien ship that is checking out Americas latest and greatest technology. Its also likely that the UFO is tapping into communication networks through the satellites to monitor Earths current situation. StarLink was created for Internet access...well, the aliens are accessing it to learn about us.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Long line of lights appearing on the north side and disappearing on the south side of view. While walking at about 6"20am, I observed a long row flights toward the ESE of the horizon moving in a North to South direction. The lights made no sound and remained at a steady speed. The lights appeared on the north end of the line and disappeared on the south end of the line. It was diicult to estimate distance, but the line looked at least a mile long. The lights appeared lower than commercial airline travel, and were located lower than the adjacent clouds. I observed the lights for five minutes, after which the disappeared.
Mysterious light in the sky near Luke Air Force Base, Arizona
Mysterious light in the sky near Luke Air Force Base, Arizona
Disc-shaped light similar to the Phoenix lights seen in the sky south of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.
On February 17, 2021, the witness noticed a bright light around a solid light object in the sky south of Luke AFB, however no military flying was being conducted and Luke Radar Approach Control was closed.
According to the witness the lights appeared not to be connected to each other, but separate individual lights. Mufon case 113717.
An artist conception of the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), post-2030.
Credit: CNSA/CLEP
Russia opts for lunar project with China over continued cooperation with ISS partners beyond LEO
HELSINKI — Russia is preparing to sign a memorandum of understanding with China to cooperate on a vision for an international lunar research station.
“Roscosmos has completed domestic proceedings to harmonize the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of People’s Republic of China on cooperation to create the International Lunar Research Station,” Roscosmos Press Office told SpaceNews in an email.
“The date to sign the above mentioned MoU has not been determined yet and is currently discussed with the Chinese partners,” Roscosmos said. An Order of the Government of the Russian Federation relating to the move was published online Feb. 11.
Roscosmos press office said the official announcement of the plans to create the International Lunar Research Station is planned to coincide with one of the upcoming international events. St. Petersburg is due to host the Global Space Exploration Conference 2021 in June.
Roscosmos did not provide requested further details on the makeup of, nor contributions to the International Lunar Research Station.
The ILRS is understood to be a Chinese-developed vision for a robotic base at the lunar south pole. The first steps will be the upcoming Chang’e-,6, -7 and -8 missions and international missions such as Russia’s Luna 27. In the early 2030s an expanded ILRS will involve long-term robotic and potentially short-term crewed missions. A long-term human presence at the lunar south pole is the goal for 2036-2045.
The project, at this early stage, would appear to consist of Chinese, Russian and potentially other nations contributing their own, discrete spacecraft. This would be in contrast to a more complex, integrated program such as the International Space Station.
ILRS objectives include “construction and operation of human[ity]’s first sharing platform in the lunar south pole, supporting long-term, large-scale scientific exploration, technical experiments and development and utilization of lunar resources’, according to a 2020 presentation to the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) by the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center under the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
From Gateway to China-Russia lunar station
The development follows Russia opting not to join eight nations, including the U.S., in signing on to the Artemis Accords last October. The Accords are a set of principles and norms for those who want to participate in the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program.
Bleddyn Bowen, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, told SpaceNews that the development is not such a surprise, given that Russia has always been lukewarm to the Lunar Gateway, part of the Artemis program, and this will have been factored in. However the project will still suffer from the loss of Russian expertise.
Bowen sees the move from Russia as an ISS partner to working more closely with China in lunar exploration rather than ISS partners is part of wider space-related and geopolitical shifts, particularly since the outbreak of the Ukranian conflict.
“This MoU fits the larger trend, which is Russia moving into a closer orbit with China,” says Bowen, adding that this more formal agreement builds on existing cooperation in material science, data sharing, purchase agreements and lunar exploration.
Bowen cautions however that this is “just a memorandum of understanding, so we’ll have to wait and what, if anything, comes from this”.
Zhang Ming, a researcher on international security and space issues at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told SpaceNews both China and Russia, who have long cooperated in space, have difficulties in working with the U.S. for different reasons. Zhang notes that Russia had expressed concerns that Artemis was too “U.S.-centric” and she would expect “more and more space and lunar cooperation between Russia and China” if the “United State continues its space policies and practices without any change.”
“The U.S. advances its space agenda aggressively and sometimes unilaterally in recent years despite the concerns of the rest [of the] world, which made China and Russia very worried. The mistrust and skepticism towards U.S. motives will promote China and Russia to further their space cooperation,” Zhang said.
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin last year told Russian media China and Russia had agreed they will “probably” build a moon research base together, following talks with Director of the China National Space Administration Zhang Kejian.
Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation also believes the split has been coming for sometime, citing the Ukraine invasion and 2016 election interference. “I think we’re at a much different US-Russia space relationship than we had for the past few decades.”
“I don’t think it’s going to have a serious impact on Artemis. Russia indeed has some experience in robotic lunar landers but no human spaceflight experience and their space sector has been declining for some time,” says Weeden. “The space partnership with Russia in the ISS was driven more by national security and foreign policy reasons than a need to have Russian expertise. It’s useful, but not critical.”
The European Space Agency has also been involved in discussions, while recently having signed an MoU with NASA on the Gateway. “At ESA we are following the Chinese lunar exploration plans very closely in order to see where our respective programmatic interest could meet, primarily the CE-6, -7 and -8 missions but also the ILRS initiative”, Karl Bergquist, ESA’s international relations administrator, told SpaceNews last year.
From Chang’e to ILRS
The ILRS is an evolutionary, expanded stage of Chinese lunar exploration following the approval of a first set of missions in the early 2000s. China has since launched two lunar orbiters, a pair of lander and rover missions and, in late 2020, the complex Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission.
Chang’e-6, a polar sample return mission, and the multi-spacecraft Chang’e-7 are scheduled for around 2023-2024. The later Chang’e-8 mission will be designed for in-situ resource utilization and 3D-printing technology tests, as well as life science related to potential long-term stays on the moon. These missions will form the robotic basis of the ILRS before expansion into more long term base.
China is also developing capabilities for deep space human spaceflight. In May 2020 China tested a new generation spacecraft and is also developing a super-heavy-lift launcher for space infrastructure and lunar missions. A new, three-core launcher for potential crewed lunar missions is also in development.
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The lunar research station will provide a long-term base for a robotic presence and eventually humans
Russia are set to sign a memorandum of understanding with China to seal the space deal
Credit: AP:Associated Press
Roscosmos said the announcements could take place during the Global Space Exploration Conference in 2021 which is being held in St. Petersburg
Russia and China both have strong passions for space exploration, similar to their bitter rival the United States
Credit: AP:Associated Press
The expertise of China and Russia's teams combined is expected to be extraordinary
U.S. Ecologist Proves Aliens Imprisoned Humans On Earth Thousands Of Years Ago
U.S. Ecologist Proves Aliens Imprisoned Humans On Earth Thousands Of Years Ago
How many of you support the theory of the Panspermia hypothesis, meaning the life on Earth was brought by a bacteria, mixed in cosmic dust, arrived in asteroids or meteor? Well, there is a possibility of everything in this Universe because of its vastness. Dr. Ellis Silver, an author of the book “Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence,” has a strong belief that life on earth sparked by aliens thousands of years ago.
According to him, humans should have become the strongest race in the universe, but the mortal body failed to thrive in the Earth’s environment, it can easily be harmed by sunlight, natural disasters, and diseases.
He said:
“Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more.”
Proof That Humans Were Not Evolved On Earth
Besides, he stated that during childbirth, the head of the baby is too big for the mother to push out, which sometimes causes fatalities or even death. But no animal on this planet have such problems.
Ellis strongly believes that Earth is some kind of galactic jail made by aliens to teach humans a behavior lesson as said by Matilda O’Donnell McElroy, Senior Master Sergeant Women’s Army Air Force Medical Corp during the Roswell Incident.
According to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, “individuals that are poorly adapted to their environment are less likely to survive and reproduce. Therefore their genes are less likely to be passed on to the next generation.”
It simply says that nature allows only those species which are fit for survival. Then why aren’t people developing now? If mankind evolved from chimpanzees, then why are monkeys not evolving?
Ellis wrote in his book that no civilization can survive on Earth because of all kinds of natural disasters, as a huge number of people die due to these disasters. Earth is far away from the center of the Milkyway, so it is hard to find other life forms or galactic civilizations. He believes that this is the reason why aliens chose Earth as the perfect place.
As compared to other animals, humans lag far behind the physical strength and size. Wild animals like tigers can easily kill a human. Ellis also stated that there is no way that humans could have survived in the wild in the past. All these signs made Ellis say that mankind had been evolved on another planet and then transported to Earth 200,000 years ago.
Aliens Told Canadian Engineer Secrets Of UFOs & That Light Speed Is Not Constant
Aliens Told Canadian Engineer Secrets Of UFOs & That Light Speed Is Not Constant
It all had started a few years before the “Space Race” began between the two rivalry nations: the USA and Russia. The world was stunned by the daily UFO sightings, and stories of alien contact flushed newspapers. It was the era of two types of people: the first one was groups of like-minded people, for example, engineers, scientists, and inventors who dismissed any alien contact and flying saucers’ stories, while the second ones were the alien contactees who also claimed to had been in the UFOs. These groups never aligned with each other, but Wilbert Brockhouse Smith (1910-1962), a Canadian engineer was the only line of connection between these two groups.
Mr. Smith worked as a senior radio engineer for the Canadian government’s Department of Transport in the late 1940s and 50s. He was the reason behind the radio communication between Canada and the United States at that time. Very few people know that Mr. Smith convinced the Canadian government to establish a program to monitor the UFOs that eventually detect the strange aerial phenomenon which, according to him, was not earthly. While asking Americans about the existence of UFOs, he received a reply from them that the US government had put this subject at their uppermost concern, and it even was the more highly top secret than the atomic bomb.
Wilbert Brockhouse Smith (1910-1962)
Besides, according to researcher Grant Cameron, Mr. Smith played a major role in establishing Radio Ottawa used by Canadian spies and also for tracking secret Soviet communications.
In 1950, the Canadian UFO study program, Project Magnet was established by Transport Canada under the supervision of Mr. Smith. The government funded the project for four years, but he received informal funding after. In 1952, he set up an observatory at Shirley’s Bay to study the findings of UFO sightings under Project Magnet. He had a personal interest in geo-magnetism, which made him conclude that the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin, propelled by magnetic forces, and actually from parallel universes.
Mr. Smith said:
“It is my opinion that the people from elsewhere choose all sorts of methods to make contact with us, and their technology and understanding being much better than ours, they can use methods which we find quite incomprehensible.”
Image via Ottawa Citizen
Interestingly, he believed that the UFOs were controlled through physic powers, and such statements embarrassed the Department of Transport. In 1952, when the great UFO wave hit the media, Mr. Smith claimed that the United States Air Force shot down a UFO near Washington, D.C, recovered its piece and let him borrow it. When asked if he had returned the piece to the USAF, he replied that it went to a much more highly secret group (It was neither FBI nor CIA), which identity he could not disclose.
Smith’s contact with aliens
Surprisingly, Mr. Smith was also a firm believer in aliens. In 1961, he gave a speech at the Vancouver Area UFO Club, where he claimed to had been in contact with aliens, referring to them as “the boys topside.” Furthermore, he said that the aliens had explained to him that the speed of light is not constant, and time works differently in the universe, not like ticking on Earth.
“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.”
On November 21, 1950, Mr. Smith wrote a memo which was classified as “Top Secret” but later, it was recovered from the Archives of the University of Ottawa. According to the memo, the Canadian government was serious about UFOs and had been building a secret technology using oceanic radiation, atmospheric radio-activity, and geo-magnetism. He further wrote that his work in geomagnetic and the energy on which flying saucers operate was connected.
Before his death from cancer, Mr. Smith asked his wife to hide all his research and sensitive files, as he was afraid that it would get into the wrong hands. He died on December 27, 1962, and soon after that, the Russians, Americans, and Canadians approached his wife.
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Ex-CIA Pilot Said NASA Landed On Mars In 1966 & Its Former Employee Saw Humans There In 1979
Ex-CIA Pilot Said NASA Landed On Mars In 1966 & Its Former Employee Saw Humans There In 1979
A woman named Jackie called on Coast to Coast AM, an American radio station, claiming she was the former NASA employee who managed to see humans on Mars in 1979. This statement sparked rumors of a “secret space program” that is kept hidden from the public.
Jackie said she had seen a man in a spacesuit in a live broadcast from Mars, but this information is concealed by the NASA authorities. She claimed to be part of a team of specialists processing information from the Viking, the first Mars rover to send images from the surface of Mars to Earth.
“I wonder if you could solve a 27-year-old mystery for me,’ she asked the presenter. ‘That old Viking rover was running around. Then I saw two men in space suits – not the bulky suits we normally used, but they looked protective. They came over the horizon walking to the Viking Explorer.”
The Vikings 1 and 2 landed in 1975 and 1976 and sent back the first data on the surface of Mars, including the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life.
NASA claimed that no traces of life were seen there, the Vikings found all the elements necessary for life on Earth. Carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus were present on Mars.
Jackie vowed that 6 other NASA employees witnessed this event with her. When those people tried to tell everyone about what they had seen and tried to leave the room, they found out that the front door was locked and the paper was hung on the door window so that no one else could look into it or enter.
Illustration of humans on Mars
Of course, so far none of those 6 alleged employees have contacted Jackie to confirm her words.
John Lear: Secret Missions To Moon & Mars
Former CIA pilot John Lear and former Lockheed L-1011 Captain also said that NASA astronauts flew to Mars in 1966. Moreover, Lear believes that astronauts had been preparing for this mission especially long. They introduced certain drugs into the body, allowing people to adapt to Martian climatic conditions. Allegedly, those astronauts could breathe rarefied Martian air, so NASA had the opportunity to launch humans on the red planet for a longer time.
John Lear
For those who do not know, John Lear is the son of Bill Lear, who founded Lear Jet in 1962. So, there is no doubt that he would have sensitive information related to secret technology and extraterrestrial activities.
During his interview with Coast to Coast AM radio program, Lear had given statements that could be hard for anybody to digest. He said that in 1953, a UFO crashed with an extraterrestrial named EBE 3, who helped the US government to build spacecraft with alien technology. Then he said that in 1962, the craft with incredible speed was built that carry passengers and take to Moon in just 60 minutes. In 1966, NASA had a trip to Mars. What’s more, “humans there were adapted to breathe in the thin atmosphere.”
Lear said: “The population of Mars is around 600 million and they are exactly like us.”
He claimed that his father was involved in the anti-gravity technology programs which were highly secret. According to him, everything we know about Moon is a lie. In the 70s, NASA began destroying photographs taken by Apollo 8, 10, and 11, in which it was possible to see the cities, bases, pipes, roads, vegetation, lights, mining, and a nuclear reactor.
Apart from John Lear, there are other US officials who made similar statements. Philip J Corso, a former US Army officer said that Grey aliens, also referred to as Zeta Reticulans were not really aliens, but bio machines specially created to work on other planets. There are dozens of such stories including Project SERPO.
The stories of a NASA hidden space project crop up regularly ... Personally, I don't think the USA had such cutting edge technology in the 1970s, let alone cope with such space travel. Still, I pass on these conspiracy theories, so that the reader has all possible information to be able to make his own judgment ...
The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular-shaped nuclear-powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion-dollar-plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid-80s. Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.
Source: newscitrus.net
The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.
Sandia and Livermore’s laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed–except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn’t take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake, there have been whispered rumors of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. This is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%.
Source: matrixdisclosure.com
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet–then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellant. In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellant mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellent, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen oxygen propulsion.
What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top-secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature – creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus, added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned.
It all becomes apparent in Belgium where, after frequent sightings of flying lights and a mid-air near-miss by UFO, at one point Belgian Air Force, anxious to identify the origin of the phenomena, authorized F16 scrambles under the condition that the visual observations on the ground were confirmed by the local police and detection on the radar.
One of the consequences of such a decision was that on 31 March 1990 at 00:05 hr, two F16 were scrambled from Beauvechain airbase and guided towards the radar contacts.
A total of 9 interception attempts have been made that night. On six occasions the pilots established a lock-on with their air interception radar. Lock-on distances varied between 5 and 8 NM. On all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and break-locks occurred after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between 150 and 1010 knots. On three occasions both F16 registered simultaneous lock-ons with the same parameters. The two F16 were flying approximately 2 NM apart. Owing to the night conditions, no visual contact could be established by either of the F16 pilots.
Antarctic researchers found life deep under the sea.
Photograph: Huw Griffiths/UKRI BAS
The accidental discovery of marine organisms on a boulder on the sea floor beneath 900 metres (3,000ft) of Antarctic ice shelf has led scientists to rethink the limits of life on Earth.
Researchers stumbled on the life-bearing rock after sinking a borehole through nearly a kilometre of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf on the south-eastern Weddell Sea to obtain a sediment core from the seabed.
While the boulder scuppered their chances of obtaining the core, footage from a video camera sent down the hole captured the first images of organisms stuck to a rock far beneath an ice shelf.
“It’s slightly bonkers,” said Dr Huw Griffiths, a marine biogeographer at the British Antarctic Survey. “Never in a million years would we have thought about looking for this kind of life, because we didn’t think it would be there.”
Ice shelves form when frozen water from the continent’s interior flows to the coast and floats on to the surrounding sea. As the ice flows over the land, it can pick up boulders that become embedded in the base of the ice shelf before dropping out on to the sea floor.
While surveys of Antarctic marine life have found some small mobile organisms – such as fish, worms, jellyfish and krill – far beneath ice shelves, they have never previously found stationary filter-feeders, which survive by ingesting food that falls down on them. Their absence led many scientists to suspect that the total darkness, the lack of food and the -2C temperature was too hostile for them.
Photos and video footage of the boulder show that it is home to at least two types of sponge, one of which has a long stem that opens into a head. But other organisms, which could be tube worms or stalked barnacles, also appear to be growing on the rock. Details on the discovery have been published in Frontiers in Marine Science.
Sponges, tube worms and stalked barnacles appear to be growing on the rock.
Photograph: Huw Griffiths
The isolated boulder community lies 500 metres under the base of the ice shelf and 160 miles (260km) from the nearest open water. Because of the strong currents in the area, the food they ingest – perhaps dead plankton – is thought to be carried between 370 and 930 miles before reaching them.
“This is by far the furthest under an ice shelf that we’ve seen any of these filter-feeding animals,” said Griffiths. “These things are stuck on a rock and only get fed if something comes floating along.
“It was a real shock to find them there, a really good shock, but we can’t do DNA tests, we can’t work out what they’ve been eating, or how old they are. We don’t even know if they are new species, but they’re definitely living in a place where we wouldn’t expect them to be living,” he said.
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Parallel Twin Ziggurats: The Tower of Babel and Pyramid of Cholula
Parallel Twin Ziggurats: The Tower of Babel and Pyramid of Cholula
From the oasis sands of the biblical cradle of Mesopotamia all the way to the volcanic Valley of Mexico, parallel pyramids and mirroring myths have endured across the ages. Isolated from each other by vast oceans and deserts of time, disperse cultures have incorporated analogous stories into their mythology, building structures, such as the Tower of Babelor the Pyramid of Cholula, that are strikingly similar even though they are located in different corners of the globe.
Stories of ziggurats built by different cultures abound, one could even call them twin towers, challenging conventional narratives of human history. These tales have several components in common: offended deities, the multiplication of languages, a global deluge and vexing ancient structures. These aspects are all intertwined, as if they are all pieces of a grand global puzzle waiting to be deciphered.
Mythology must not be blindly accepted at face value (thank you very much Dr. Jones), but on the other hand, to instantly dismiss mythology as ancient fiction is equally flawed reasoning. The former results in superstition, the latter produces ignorance. Some of the most renowned scholars on the subject of comparative mythology, such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, theorize that widespread mythological parallels amongst separate cultures can be explained away by the formation of base archetypes conjured from the cauldron of the collective human subconscious. While their expertise and the essence of this concept are beyond question, some myths are so specific, so universal, and are then compounded by their entanglement with mysterious structures, they defy this concept.
There are widespread mythological parallels relating a story to that of the Tower of Babel.
The most commonly known of all these accounts is the biblical Tower of Babel narrative found in the Book of Genesis, chapter eleven verses one through nine. This narrative basically states that the generations following a global deluge cataclysm united together under one language. They migrated west into the region of Shinar ( Sumer or modern day Iraq) and they were determined to build a great city, with a tower.
There is a curious indication that somehow, this tower would empower them and prevent any future annihilation. Furthermore, this project is seen as an affront to the supreme deity. To counter this effort, the deity intervenes by confounding the language that united them, thereby undermining the project and causing the people to scatter throughout the planet.
Authors and scholars ranging from ancient times up to the present have made a variety of noteworthy observations and interpretations regarding this account. Josephus for example, wrote that a key aspect of the story is the arrogance of the tyrannical ruler who commissioned the construction whom the biblical text names Nimrod. Another interpretation is that this is more of an etiological myth (a myth that explains the origin of something unknown) which provides an explanation for the origin of different languages and cultures.
Perhaps the scholarly observations of the greatest magnitude are the attempts to identify the structure in question by associating it with the mysterious ziggurats of ancient Babylon and Sumer. This is quite logical due to the fact that the cities mentioned in the texts have historical basis in fact, were said to have been founded by this ruler in the texts, and come complete with enigmatic ziggurat structures, or towers, as their focal point. The extremely loose consensus among modern scholars identifies this tower with the Ziggurat of Etemenanki in Babylon which was somewhat restored by Nebuchadnezzar II and then eventually destroyed in a restoration attempt by Alexander the Great .
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s depiction of the Tower of Babel.
A ziggurat is an enormous, ancient structure composed of terraced layers of stone which ascended to great heights by stacking raised platforms atop each other and were physically climbed by spiraling ramps. These were built by the Elamites, the Elbaites, the Akkadians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians, dating as far back as the sixth millennium BC.
The ziggurat was not utilized for communal worship, but instead was believed to be the literal dwelling place of the deity to whom it was dedicated. Human presence at the ziggurat was restricted to an elite priesthood and a small contingent of armed guards. According to Herodotus, at the summit of the ziggurat was a temple that housed a small shrine, and at this shrine, offerings were made exclusively by the high priest who also preformed other secretive occult rituals.
The Ziggurat of Etemenanki
In the 1880s, foundation cylinders were discovered with Neo-Babylonian inscriptions that chronicled the restoration effort by the king. It reads:
At that time my lord Marduk told me in regard to E-temen-anki, the ziggurat of Babylon, which before my day was (already) very weak and badly buckled, to ground its bottom on the breast of the netherworld, to make its top vie with the heavens. I fashioned mattocks, spades and brick-molds from ivory, ebony and musukkannu-wood, and set them in the hands of a vast workforce levied from my land. I had them shape mud bricks without number and mold baked bricks like countless raindrops. I had the River Arahtu bear asphalt and bitumen like a mighty flood. Through the sagacity of Ea, through the intelligence of Marduk, through the wisdom of Nabû and Nissaba, by means of the vast mind that the god who created me let me possess, I deliberated with my great intellect, I commissioned the wisest experts and the surveyor established the dimensions with the twelve-cubit rule. The master-builders drew taut the measuring cords, they determined the limits. I sought confirmation by consulting Samas, Adad and Marduk and, whenever my mind deliberated (and) I pondered (unsure of) the dimensions, the great gods made (the truth) known to me by the procedure of (oracular) confirmation. Through the craft of exorcism, the wisdom of Ea and Marduk, I purified that place and made firm its foundation platform on its ancient base. In its foundations I laid out gold, silver, gemstones from mountain and sea. Under the brickwork I set heaps of shining sapsu, sweet-scented oil, aromatics and red earth. I fashioned representations of my royal likeness bearing a soil-basket, and positioned (them) variously in the foundation platform. For my lord Marduk I made it an object fitting for wonder, just as it was in former times.
Aerial view which shows the remains of the Ziggurat Etemenanki
Herodotus’s Account of the Same Babylonian Ziggurat
Before the discovery of this royal inscription in the 1880s, the only other description of this particular ziggurat came from Herodotus who described it in his writings from the mid-fifth century BC, he wrote:
The center of each division of the town was occupied by a fortress. In the one stood the palace of the kings, surrounded by a wall of great strength and size: in the other was the sacred precinct of Jupiter [Zeus] Belus, a square enclosure two furlongs [402 m/1319 feet] each way, with gates of solid brass; which was also remaining in my time. In the middle of the precinct there was a tower of solid masonry, a furlong [201 m/659 feet] in length and breadth, upon which was raised a second tower, and on that a third, and so on up to eight. The ascent to the top is on the outside, by a path which winds round all the towers. When one is about half-way up, one finds a resting-place and seats, where persons can sit for some time on their way to the summit. On the topmost tower there is a spacious temple, and inside the temple stands a couch of unusual size, richly adorned, with a golden table by its side. There is no statue of any kind set up in the place, nor is the chamber occupied of nights by any one but a single native woman, who, as the Chaldeans [the Babylonians], the priests of this god, affirm, is chosen for himself by the deity out of all the women of the land .
The White Temple ziggurat in Uruk is an example of a simple ziggurat from ancient Sumer. It’s purpose was to bring the temple closer to the heavens.
There are many, extremely ancient Sumerian myths that predate biblical narratives. They are most certainly their precursors especially since the biblical narrative itself emphasizes the role of the patriarchal figure Abraham whose father was said to have had significant status in one of these very cities. Among these precursor narratives, is one that is undoubtedly the original version of the biblical story of the tower and the confounding of languages.
The story is entitled Enmerkar and the Lord of Arratta . Although some lines of text are missing, the nucleus of the story is that a king called Enmerkar is told by his patron deity to subjugate a neighboring kingdom and demand huge quantities of mineral tribute so as to embark on future constructing of more ziggurat dwellings and sanctuaries for the deities. The rival king refuses to submit, and Enmerkar (aided by the deities) conquers the rival king and the deity Enki/Ea is invoked to confound the united language.
This sets of a chain of events resulting in the dispersal of the population who now speak a variety of languages. The incantation invoking Enki reads:
“Enki, the lord of abundance and of steadfast decisions, the wise and knowing lord of the land, the expert of the gods, chosen for wisdom, the lord of Eridu, shall change the speech in their mouths, as many as he had placed there, and so the speech of mankind is truly one."
Could it be that the parallel myths throughout the world are actually the story of the same event in history? Here an artist’s version of how the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico looked originally.
Similar parallel myths exist throughout the world. The Native American Cherokee have an oral tradition that contains many elements which are similar to the Sumerian myth.
When we lived beyond the great waters there were twelve clans belonging to the Cherokee tribe. And back in the old country in which we lived the country was subject to great floods. So in the course of time we held a council and decided to build a storehouse reaching to heaven. The Cherokees said that when the house was build and the floods came the tribe would just leave the earth and go to heaven. And we commenced to build a great structure, and when it was towering into one of the highest heavens the great powers destroyed the apex, cutting it down to about half of its height. But as the tribe was fully determined to build to heaven for safety they were not discouraged but commenced to repair the damage done by the gods. Finally, they completed the lofty structure and considered themselves safe from the floods. But after it was completed the gods destroyed the high part, again, and when they determined to repair the damage they found that the language of the tribe was confused or destroyed.
The Greco Roman narrative of the Gigantomachy is almost identical to this story. However, it must be objectively conceded that the close contact of these cultures very well could have transmitted this myth from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean via contagion and conflation much in the same manner as it was transmitted from Mesopotamian to Hebrew cultures. Be that as it may, this mode of transmission cannot explain the parallel myths and enigmatic structures found at far flung corners of the globe. One of the most striking parallels is the proverbial twin tower of the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico.
The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl, is the largest known pyramid on Earth in terms of volume.
The largest known pyramid on Earth, in terms of volume, resides in the Valley of Mexico. Known as the Great Pyramid of Cholula, this enormous pyramid is closely associated with the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl and the nearby, equally enigmatic, site of Teotihuacan. While this structure and the previously discussed ziggurat are not remotely twin in terms of their design, they are astonishingly twin in terms of their mythological traditions and mysterious functions.
According to Aztec mythology, (note that the Aztecs absolutely did not construct the Cholula Pyramid or Teotihuacan, but regarded them as sacred sites of pilgrimage) the Quinametzin were a race of giants who inhabited the region in the previous “Sun of Rain” era. They stood twelve-feet-tall (3.7 meters) and it was they who were responsible for the construction of both Teotihuacan and the Great Pyramid of Cholula.
In the sixteenth century AD, Dominican friar Diego Duran wrote a report that was relayed to him by an old priest of Cholula. This account stated that when the sun first rose there were giants in the land and they decided to build a tower that would lead them up to the Sun. The creator deity was angered by this and summoned the inhabitants of the sky to destroy the tower and scatter the race of giants. Another variation within Aztec mythology is that of seven giants (principle among them Xelhua), who, having survived a cataclysmic deluge, arrived in the valley and attempted to construct a mountain that would prevent another such catastrophe. The gods were angered by this, and hurled fire down onto the pyramid, killing many of them and ceasing its construction.
The Key to the Mystery is Etymology
It can, and has, been argued that these Mesoamerican myths were subject to the biblical projections of the friars and missionaries who first recorded them, and that this is the explanation for such stark parallels. However, this convenient cop-out does not stand up in the court of reality, and the reason why is the etymology of the names associated with the sites which existed long before these missionaries ever arrived and which parallel the Tower of Babel narrative.
Chapter eleven verse six of the Book of Genesis states: “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” The word cholula itself originates from the Nahuatl word cholollan which means “place of refuge.” The word Teotihuacan itself means “The Place Where Men Become Gods.”
In the Chimalpopoca Codex is a narrative in which, after a period of just living on Earth, Quetzalcoatl (the deity associated with Teotihuacan and Cholula) becomes intoxicated with his celibate priestess sister, copulates with her, and neglects his sacred obligations. The next day, he and his subjects erect an enormous stone chest. In the story Quetzalcoatl lies down inside the chest, clad entirely with jade, and is set ablaze. His ashes and heart then rise up into the heavens whereupon he became the morning star.
The Greek Gigantomachy narrative states that the giants sought to lay siege to Olympus (literally translated as sky) by stacking mountains atop mountains. The Greek etymology of the word pyramid itself is pyr-fire ra-star mid-heart. These etymological connections were not projected by anyone as they existed for thousands of years before contact of any kind.
What all this means is a mysterious riddle wrapped in an enigma. The reader will have to draw their own conclusions, but it can be objectively stated once again that these links cannot be the result of some kind of cultural contagion. Furthermore, it must be noted that the ziggurat and the pyramids of both Teotihuacan and Cholula were built by unknown peoples for unknown functions using unknown methods in some dark distant recess of prehistory.
Top image:Is the mythology surrounding the Tower of Babel somehow connected to that of the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico?
Ancient Tanzanian Paintings of Bizarre Humanoids Perplex Experts
Ancient Tanzanian Paintings of Bizarre Humanoids Perplex Experts
Rare, multidimensional art has been discovered in a Tanzanian cave shelter. However, the ritual scenes depicted in the ancient art don’t tally up the traditions of the modern Sandawe people.
Archaeologists exploring in Tanzania have discovered rare examples of cave art made by the ancient ancestors of the Sandawe people. These indigenous descendants of the older “Gogo” group are credited with having the oldest DNA lineage known to science, which can be dated back at least 87,000 years. The recently discovered images show a range of human figures, some speared with horns and some eating other humanoid characters, and other paintings show buffalos, giraffes, and domesticated cattle.
General view of the paintings at Amak'hee 4, in Tanzania.
The paintings were discovered in June 2018 hidden beneath a rock overhang in what is known as the Amak'hee 4 rock shelter site, in the Dodoma area of central Tanzania. Researchers from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, told Sci News that while many of paintings depict unknown figures, others show animals like domesticated cattle, buffalo, and giraffes. However, none of the rituals depicted in the artworks can be correlated with modern Sandawe people rituals.
The team of Polish researchers said that the Tanzanian cave paintings were “well-preserved and in good condition.” This is because the rock overhang served to protect the pigments from centuries of flowing water and sunlight, which both degrade the vibrance and luminescence of inks and paints. One thing the team of researchers couldn’t do, however, was accurately date when the paintings might have been executed. Dr. Maciej Grzelczyk, from the Institute for the Study of Religions at the Jagiellonian University, explained that the team were only able to summarize that the artworks were “several hundreds of years old.”
Comparison of the Amak'hee 4 (A), Kolo B2 (B) and Kolo B1 (C) trios.
In a Daily Mail article the newly discovered Amak'hee 4 paintings are described as centering around three primary images, consisting mostly of stylized buffalo heads. Dr. Maciej Grzelczyk said that based on “superimposition,” the Tanzanian paintings were probably created from right to left. One disturbing section of the large mural shows what appears to be a collection of small figures that look like they’ve been speared by horns. Another area depicts what the archaeologists have interpreted as someone crushing someone else in their mouth.
Possibly a Deeply-Ancient Tanzanian Scared Site?
The team of Polish scientists were slightly perplexed during the research because “no elements of anthropomorphisation of buffaloes, nor belief in the possibility of transformation of people into these animals,” exists within modern Sandawe people groups. However, Dr. Maciej Grzelczyk pointed out that the present day “simbó ritual,” requires people entering “trance states,” which is a key element in Shamanic transitionary processes.
Comparison of the head of figure 059 (top left) and African buffalo (top right) and close-up of the digitally enhanced photograph (using DStrech) showing finer detail and superimposed layers.
Furthering their speculations into the possible ritualistic or ceremonial nature of the Tanzanian cave site, and the artwork, the researchers said the modern Sandawe group believe caves in hills “harbored spirits and would travel to such structures to perform rituals and shout prayers not to disturb the ghosts.”
Moreover, evidence suggests the Tanzanian site was use repeatedly over many generations. When the paintings were analyzed it was discovered that the artists had “intentionally respected” an existing figure by not superimposing the new image onto it.” Rather than simply painting over the older image, the painter incorporated the preexisting image into the new scene.
The study says that a great example of this same sympathetic painting technique, where the work of an older artist is included in a new piece, can be seen in one of the buffalo paintings. The new study shows how the tail of one buffalo was interrupted so that it would not superimpose onto the leg of a human figure.
Digital tracing of the Tanzanian paintings at Amak'hee 4.
What this shows is not only artistic prowess, but a significant degree of foresight, preplanning, and logical thinking. The artist must have first conceived the image, before conceptualizing it within the bounds of the available space. Then, before executing the painting, the painter must have studied all of the preexisting figures and forms, looking for ways that parts of animals could be used to represent human parts.
Top Image: A trio of anthropomorphic figures from the Tanzanian cave art at the Amak’hee 4 site.
The most advanced robot ever sent to Mars has landed successfully.
You can exhale now: NASA's Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars.
The car-sized Perseverance, the most advanced robot ever sent to the Red Planet, aced its "seven minutes of terror" touchdown this afternoon (Feb. 18), alighting gently on an ancient lakebed inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater shortly before 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT).
After a series of instrument and hardware checkouts, Perseverance will start doing what it crossed interplanetary space to do: hunt for signs of ancient Mars life, collect and cache rock samples for future return to Earth and demonstrate some shiny new exploration technologies, among other things.
"I don't think we've had a mission that is going to contribute so much to both science and technology," NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk told Space.com earlier this week . "It's going to be truly amazing."
The first image from the Perseverance Mars rover displayed in mission control minutes after landing on Feb. 18, 2021. (Image credit: NASA TV)
Persevering through a pandemic
Perseverance, the heart of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, lifted off from Florida's Space Coast atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 30, 2020.
That was about halfway through Perseverance's month-long launch window, which closed in mid-August. Such windows come along just once every 26 months for Mars missions, so NASA was determined to get the rover off the ground on time — a challenging task made even tougher by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced a rethink of assembly and testing protocols and made it harder for the team to travel.
"In March and early April, we weren't sure we were going to be able to make it," Jurczyk said. (Back then, the NASA chief was Jim Bridenstine, and Jurczyk led the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate.)
NASA Perserverance Rover landed safely on Mars shortly before 1 pm PST and shortly after beamed its first images from the red planet of its landing site.
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An illustration shows the steps that will occur during the landing sequence of the Perseverance rover. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021. Entry, Descent, and Landing, or "EDL," begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere when the lander is traveling about 12,000 mph.
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"But we were able to work through the planning and get there," he added. "It's a real credit to the dedication and hard work of the team."
Perseverance personnel in mission control applaud a milestone in the mission's landing procedure.
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The Perseverance mission control room celebrates the rover's touchdown on Feb. 18, 2021.
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The Perseverance mission control room celebrates the rover's touchdown on Feb. 18, 2021.
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The Perseverance mission control room celebrates the rover's touchdown on Feb. 18, 2021.
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The rover's name is a testament to the spirit that got the mission off the ground and on its way to Mars, agency officials have said.
"Perseverance is a strong word," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in March 2020 during the rover's naming ceremony. "It's about making progress despite obstacles."
Like NASA's other Mars rovers, Perseverance got its name via a nationwide student competition. The winning moniker was submitted by Alex Mather, at the time a seventh grader at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia.
The six-wheeled Perseverance is modeled heavily after its predecessor, NASA's Curiosity rover, which touched down inside Mars' huge Gale Crater in August 2012 and is still going strong today.
Perseverance is a few inches longer than Curiosity and, with a weight of 2,260 lbs. (1,025 kilograms), nearly 300 lbs. (136 kg) heavier. Some of their scientific instruments are also quite different. But the two rovers share the same basic body plan and the same type of nuclear power source, and they used the same strategy to land safely on the Red Planet.
That strategy, which Curiosity pioneered, sounds like something out of science fiction. Perseverance hit the Martian atmosphere at about 12,100 mph (19,500 kph) and deployed a 70.5-foot-wide (20.5 meters) parachute a few minutes later, while still traveling faster than the speed of sound.
But Mars' air is just 1% as thick as that of Earth, so a chute couldn't slow the rover down enough for a safe landing. Mars 2020 therefore employed a rocket-powered sky crane, which lowered the Mars car to the red dirt on cables, then flew off to crash-land intentionally a safe distance away.
NASA received word that Perseverance had gotten down safely at 3:55 p.m. EST (2055 GMT) today, about 11 minutes after the landing actually took place. (It currently takes that long for signals to travel from the Red Planet to Earth.) The news prompted wild celebrations at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which manages the Mars 2020 mission.
There was doubtless a decent dose of relief mixed in with the excitement, for success today was far from guaranteed. Over the decades, only about half of Mars surface missions have touched down safely. And Perseverance's landing site on Jezero's floor, which features hazards such as cliffs, sand dunes and boulder fields, was the toughest ever targeted by a Mars mission, NASA officials have said.
Indeed, this dangerous terrain required Perseverance to make the most precise Red Planet touchdown ever. The rover's landing ellipse was just 4.8 miles long by 4.1 miles wide (7.7 by 6.6 kilometers), compared to 4 miles by 12 miles (7 by 12 km) for Curiosity.
Perseverance hit that target today with the aid of two new entry, descent and landing (EDL) technologies that Curiosity didn't have at its disposal. One, called "range trigger," allowed the mission to deploy its supersonic parachute at just the right moment. The other, "terrain-relative navigation," enabled Perseverance's sky crane to assess the Jezero landscape and navigate autonomously around potential hazards during the descent.
Looking for Mars life
Curiosity is a habitability-assessing mission, and that rover has found plenty of evidence that Gale Crater could have supported Earth-like life billions of years ago. Perseverance will take the next step, actively searching for signs of past organisms in the first life hunt conducted on the Martian surface since NASA's twin Viking landers ceased operations in the early 1980s. (The Vikings looked for present-day Mars life, however, whereas Perseverance is focused on the distant past.)
Jezero is a great place to do such work, mission team members have said. The crater, which lies about 18 degrees north of the Martian equator, hosted a lake the size of Lake Tahoe long ago and also sports an ancient river delta. In addition, Mars orbiters have spied on Jezero's floor clay minerals, which form in the presence of liquid water.
Perseverance will scrutinize Martian dirt and rock with a variety of high-tech science gear, including multiple spectrometers, high-resolution cameras and ground-penetrating radar. One of the rover's seven instruments, called SuperCam, will zap rocks with a laser and gauge the composition of the resulting vapor.
Such observations could potentially identify a convincing sign of ancient Mars life — perhaps something akin to stromatolites, structures created here on Earth by dirt-trapping microbial mats. But that's a tall order for a lonely robot far from home. A positive ID of Martian life, if it ever existed, will likely require analyses by advanced equipment in laboratories here on Earth, NASA officials have said. And Mars 2020 aims to help make that happen.
Using the drill at the end of its long robotic arm, Perseverance will collect about 40 samples from especially promising sites and seal them inside special tubes. This material will then be brought back to Earth by a joint NASA-European Space Agency campaign, perhaps as early as 2031.
Once here, the samples will be studied in countless ways by hundreds of scientists for decades to come. Researchers are still poring over the moon rocks hauled home by NASA's Apollo astronauts half a century ago, after all, and that material has no serious astrobiological potential.
"Mars sample return is the planetary science endeavor of our generation," Bobby Braun, director of solar system exploration at JPL, said during a pre-landing news conference yesterday (Feb. 17).
"It's ambitious. It's challenging. It's a scientifically compelling goal that, over decades, we have been working toward," Braun said. "And it's right there. It's just within our reach."
Demonstrating future exploration tech
Mars 2020 will also pave the way for more ambitious exploration of the Red Planet in the future, if all goes according to plan.
For example, one of Perseverance's instruments, called MOXIE ("Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment"), is designed to generate oxygen from the Red Planet's atmosphere, which is 95% carbon dioxide by volume. Such equipment, if scaled up, could help humanity get a foothold on Mars down the road, NASA officials have said. ("ISRU," by the way, is short for "in situ resource utilization," a fancy term for living off the land.)
And attached to Perseverance's belly is a 4-lb. (1.8 kg) helicopter named Ingenuity, which will attempt to become the first rotorcraft ever to fly in the skies of a world beyond Earth. If Ingenuity succeeds, helicopters could soon become an important part of the Mars-exploration toolkit.
"We could put sensors on them and use them as science platforms, and also as scouts," Jurczyk said. Aerial reconnaissance by rotorcraft could allow rovers to "drive more autonomously, and drive faster and longer on the surface," he added.
An artist's concept of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Ingenuity will get to strut its stuff soon. The little helicopter will conduct its few test flights very early in the mission, shortly after the Mars 2020 team assesses the condition of the rover and calibrates its science instruments. Perseverance will roll a safe distance away before Ingenuity lifts off, but the rover might still be able to document the flights — perhaps with its cameras or its two microphones.
Those two mics — which are part of SuperCam and the EDL subsystem, respectively — are another groundbreaking aspect of Mars 2020: No mission has ever successfully captured true audio on the Red Planet's surface. So, if either mic is able to record some Martian sounds, Perseverance will bring this alien world to life for us in a new way.
These initial activities — the checkouts and Ingenuity's demonstration flights — will likely take several months, Mars 2020 team members have said. Perseverance will then be ready to start its main science work, the hunt for biosignatures and the collection of samples.
The mission team has already mapped out a tentative traverse for Perseverance. If all goes according to plan, the rover will start its studies in Jezero's delta region, then move toward ancient lakeshore environments and eventually climb up onto the crater's rim, which sits several thousand feet above its floor.
"This will allow us to come up with the best possible set of samples to be brought back to Earth, to answer the major questions that we have about Mars and about life," Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley, who's based at JPL, said during a news conference last month.
The envisioned traverse is about 15 miles (25 km) long and will take Perseverance a number of years to complete, Farley added. The rover's prime mission lasts just one Mars year (about 687 Earth days), so Mars 2020 would need some extensions and continued good health to make it all the way to Jezero's rim.
But there's reason to be hopeful that it can happen. After all, Curiosity is well into its ninth Earth year exploring Gale, about 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from Perseverance's new digs.
Perseverance's landing came just a week after two other Mars missions reached the Red Planet. The United Arab Emirates' Hope probe and China's Tianwen-1 mission slipped into Mars orbit on Feb. 9 and Feb. 10, respectively, landmark achievements for both nations. Hope will remain in orbit, as will one component of Tianwen-1. But the Chinese mission will also put a rover duo down on the Martian surface, likely in May.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Alpha Centauri A may have its own habitable-zone planet.
This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star system Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
The nearest solar system to our own may actually host two potentially life-supporting planets, a new study reports.
In 2016, scientists discovered a roughly Earth-size world circling Proxima Centauri, part of the three-starAlpha Centauri system, which lies about 4.37 light-years from Earth. The planet, known as Proxima b, orbits in the "habitable zone," the range of distances from a star at which liquid water could exist on a world's surface. (A second planet,Proxima c, was later discovered circling the star as well, but it orbits farther away, beyond the habitable zone's outer limits.)
There's considerable debate about the true habitability of Proxima b, however, given that its parent star is a red dwarf. These stars, the most common in the Milky Way, are small and dim, so their habitable zones lie very close in — so close, in fact, that planets residing there tend to be tidally locked, always showing the same face to their host stars, just as the moon always shows Earth its near side. In addition, red dwarfs are prolific flarers, especially when they're young, so it's unclear if their habitable-zone worlds can hold onto their atmospheres for long.
The other two stars in the Alpha Centauri trio, however, are sunlike — a pair called Alpha Centauri A and B, which together make up a binary orbiting the same center of mass. And Alpha Centauri A may have its own habitable-zone planet, according to the new research, which was published online today (Feb. 10) in the journal Nature Communications.
The study presents results from Near Earths in the Alpha Cen Region (NEAR), a $3 million project led by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Breakthrough Watch, a program that hunts for potentially Earth-like worlds around nearby stars.
NEAR has been searching for planets in the habitable zones of Alpha Cen A and B using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. The NEAR team upgraded the VLT with several new technologies, including a thermal coronagraph, an instrument designed to block a star's light and allow the heat signatures of orbiting planets to be spotted.
After analyzing 100 hours of data gathered by NEAR in May and June of 2019, the scientists detected a thermal fingerprint in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A. The signal potentially corresponds to a roughly Neptune-size world orbiting between 1 and 2 astronomical units (AU) from the star, study team members said. (One AU, the average Earth-sun distance, is about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
But that planet has not yet been confirmed, so it remains a candidate for now.
"We were amazed to find a signal in our data. While the detection meets every criteria for what a planet would look like, alternative explanations — such as dust orbiting within in the habitable zone or simply an instrumental artifact of unknown origin — have to be ruled out," study lead author Kevin Wagner, a Sagan Fellow in NASA's Hubble Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona, said in a statement.
"Verification might take some time and will require the involvement and ingenuity of the larger scientific community," Wagner added.
Study co-author Pete Klupar said he hopes the new results will inspire astronomers to study the Alpha Centauri system in greater detail, both via new observing programs and closer scrutiny of archived data, which may hold as-yet unrecognized evidence of the exoplanet candidate.
"It's like getting a hint in [the board game] Clue," Klupar, a researcher with Breakthrough Watch's parent organization, Breakthrough Initiatives, told Space.com. "Now that we've got the hint, maybe they can find something."
And, if the Alpha Centauri A world does indeed exist, it may not be alone.
"In my mind, the most exciting thing about this is, once we find one planet, we tend to find others," Klupar said.
Even if the Alpha Cen A planet turns out to be a mirage, however, NEAR's work will not have been in vain, team members said.
"The new capability that we demonstrated with NEAR to directly image nearby habitable-zone planets is inspiring to further developments of exoplanet science and astrobiology," Wagner said in the same statement.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
An unidentified flying object, as seen in a recently declassified Department of Defense video.
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When Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), filed a patent for a “Plasma Compression Fusion Device” in 2019, it was either a giant breakthrough – or mad science. According to the patent application, the miniature device could contain and sustain fusion reactions capable of generating power in the gigawatt (1 billion watts) to terawatt (1 trillion watts) range or more. A large coal plant or mid-size nuclear powered reactor by comparison produces energy in the 1–2 gigawatt range. The revolutionary invention by Dr. Pais, if real, would produce near unlimited clean energy from something no larger than a sports utility vehicle.
Dr. Pais’ fusion device is among a handful of outlandish technologies dubbed “The UFO patents” that have, in some shape or form, been pursued by the U.S. Navy.
I’ve written before with some skepticism on the implications of Dr. Pais’ purported compact fusion reactor for U.S. energy independence. The physicist appears to have bona fide credentials including a Ph.D. from Case Western, and published some of his work, while much is presumably classified.
He has been employed by the Pentagon for decades. And this isn’t the first patent filed in his name, and all of them appear centered around what he calls the Pais Effect. Dr. Pais posits that by controlling the accelerated spin or vibration of electrically charged matter, high energy electromagnetic fields can be produced.
One proposed use for such fields is an “electromagnetic field generator” device which could be applied to alter the trajectory of earthbound asteroids over a period of time. While the patent makes clear that such a device would work only on “small” asteroids of under roughly 100 meters length or less, it isn’t hard to grasp the interest of any defense agency in providing contingencies for such a scenario.
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Dr. Pais’ “inertial mass reduction device” is one of his most extraordinary patents. This technology suggests manipulation of quantum field fluctuations which could reduce a vehicle’s inertial and gravitational mass, allowing it to travel at hitherto unseen speeds. The reason the speed of light is something of a universal speed limit is that mass increases to infinite as one reaches it, demanding infinite energy to continue moving. The ability to reduce mass could have incredible implications for the future of space travel. Only faster than light speeds of travel would allow the humanity to venture outside of the solar system.
His High Temperature Superconductor patent would, like a fusion device, revolutionize global energy systems. Superconductors have no electrical resistance, meaning electricity can be transferred without loss of energy to unlimited distances. That could mean quite a drop in energy costs, but getting any superconductor to operate even as warm as room temperature is a longstanding problem.
Last but not least is what Pais calls a high frequency gravitational wave generator. The patent purports that the electromagnetic fields created by the Pais Effect could be intersected, generating waves of gravity upon which a spaceship could propel itself to its destination. Such waves could also be used to deflect asteroids more efficiently or communicate through solid objects.
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Any one of these “UFO” patents would transform modern science and society. It might be too early to break out the champagne, though. While Dr. Pais has spoken confidently about his work in the past, the Navy recently threw cold water on hopes of a breakthrough.
Queries about his experiments were met with confirmation that a three-year $508,000 assessment had found no proof of the Pais Effect. For now at least, the odds are good that the Navy may not lead the energy revolution, while President Joe Biden expends political capital squaring off against fossil fuel companies.
That brings us back to his fusion device. Even if Dr. Pais is wrong, it doesn’t mean fusion is going to stay the stuff of science fiction forever, though. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, an initiative with roots stretching back to a November 1985 summit between Reagan and Gorbachev, is currently scheduled to generate its first “small star” in November 2025. Variousprojects are racing them there, all with that shared goal of 2025.
All this is to say that fusion might no longer be perpetually thirty years away.
With some tangible, well-funded projects underway, it raises the question of why the Navy has previously gone to bat for Dr. Pais — and his ideas, which seem considerably ahead of their time if not outright implausible. The other possibilities are worth pondering though.
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Occam’s Razor would suggest there might be something there. A genuine breakthrough in theoretical physics so advanced would require serious and well-funded lab work and prototype experimentation for years or even decades. Think of the long journey from J.J. Thompson’s discovery of the electron (1897) and Rutherford’s atomic model (1911) to the Manhattan Project (1939-1946). There are defense applications to most physics breakthroughs, and that is plenty incentive to invest in any potential Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, or Andrey Sakharov. The patents could be a sort of hedging, ensuring the United States can claim it was there first.
A second explanation is that is a U.S. disinformation operation to entice our adversaries into spending billions of dollars on dead-end research. That was more or less the initial thinking behind President Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative. By faking data, the officials behind the program hoped to entice the Soviets to burn billions for a then-non-viable space-based missile defense system. Sending China on a wild goose chase for the Pais Effect would be a clever use of half a million dollars. Otherwise, his research would be deeply classified and not patented.
Lastly, and most out there, Dr. Pais’ patents could be a cover for alien technology. If the recent disclosure by the Pentagon of possible encounters with extraterrestrial artifacts is true, such technology may be in the U.S. Government’s possession. Talk about a low probability, high impact event!
I am not sure if we will see Faster Than Light space travel any time soon, but with or without Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, the race for fusion power is on, and we are likely to see a successful result within our lifetime.
*Correction: a previous version of this story reported that Dr. Pais graduated from Carnegie Mellon. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University where he received all three of his degree (BS, MS, Ph.D).
WRECKAGE from the Roswell UFO incident could still be buried in the desert, an expert has claimed.
The astonishing revelation is made in a startling new six-part documentary which sets out to get the bottom of the world's most baffling UFO mystery.
Former CIA operative Ben Smith has been working with geophysicists
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Scans of the area appeared to show large gouges in the surface of the desert
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Soils samples were collected from the suspected crash site
Former CIA operative Ben Smith has been called in to work with a team of top experts to find out exactly what happened in New Mexico in July, 1947.
And he exclusively told The Sun Online he believes debris from the crash could still be buried in the sand just waiting to be found.
Ben has teamed up with geophysicists and ufologists for 'Roswell: The First Witness', which starts on February 9 as part of Sky History's Mystery Season.
He told The Sun Online: "There are delineations in the soil from a north-western to a south-eastern direction which match witness descriptions of something falling from the sky, hitting the earth, skipping and scattering debris."
During his investigation, he visited New Mexico to search for "unnatural features" which could be evidence of a flying saucer crash.
Scientists then conducted an exhaustive geo-thermal examination of the area where the first debris was discovered - using cutting-edge technology to look deep into the earth for clues.
The experts scoured the desert with state-of-the-art kit including drones in the hunt for an "impact and skid mark".
They also studied aerial images of the area before and after the Roswell incident and soon noticed what could be multiple "furrows" in the surface.
Studies also revealed "something really hot hit the earth and heated up the surrounding soil", changing the magnetic field in the area.
Hi-tech detecting equipment also appeared to pick up signs of metal hidden beneath the surface.
Major Jesse Marcel led the original investigation into the Roswell crash
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Marcel was the first military man to visit the desert crash site
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Soil samples were then sent to a lab to see if they contained materials "not from this world".
Ben believes the fact there could still be debris scattered beneath the desert is what makes the Roswell mystery so intriguing.
"This is what makes this project so interesting. We have this amazing Tic-Tac video recently declassified from American Navy pilots but it is footage but there is nothing physical," he said.
"Here we have a a record of something crashing into the ground and the geology (from the site) certainly supports trapping some of this debris.
"This a desolate site. The potential of finding a piece of it...whether through sophisticated space age technology that we used or tracking down original witnesses who may have taken a piece home is part of the crux of the invesitgation.
"We tried to keep it focused on the original witnesses and the original accounts of debris and go from there."
He now believes the key to solving this whole mystery could even be lying in a box after being collected by a local in the hours and days after the crash.
Ben said: "That's the crazy part and it could be the conclusive evidence that we need to determine whether this was truly extra terrestrial or this is very terrestrial.
"It could just be in a box somewhere. I think there is a piece of this thing somewhere out there and I think we can find it with enough time and resources."
Yesterday we told how a journal written by a US army major – who was first on the scene – may hold all the secrets to what has been described as the biggest cover-up in US military history.
The Roswell Daily Record's front page after the incidentCredit: Alamy
Not surprisingly, the news made headlines across the US but the very next day the US Army suddenly backtracked and released a second statement claiming the recovered object was actually just a weather balloon.
The bizarre incident would have been lost over the decades had it not been for Major Jesse A Marcel, a former intelligence officer who was stationed at RAAF at the time.
When a local rancher reported the debris’ discovery, Marcel was sent out to take a look and bring some of the material back to the base before being ordered to fly some of the wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, for further examination.
Marcel was an intelligence officer of the 509th Bombardment GroupCredit: Sky Histry
However, in the late 70s, Marcel told UFO researchers later photos with him and the debris was staged for the press as part of an elaborate plan to dupe the press and the public.
He claimed the Army whisked the real debris away while he was ordered to aid in the cover-up of what was really found.
Marcel claimed the actual crash site was scattered with extremely strong shiny material that was foil-like but returned to its original shape after it was crumpled.
He later told his family what he found was “not made by human hands” but they say he was pressured by the US government to retract his original statement and deny he ever saw evidence of a UFO.
Now his diary – which has been in the hands of his family for decades – is being probed from cover-to-cover to unlock its secrets.
Ben Smith is a former CIA case officer with many years in the field as an undercover operative tracking terrorist networks, foreign intelligence activities and weapons of mass destruction.
He holds a degree in International Affairs and a Master's of Fine Arts. In his free time, he is either researching his next investigation or writing science fiction from his home in New York.
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Pindai Caves, Once Home to the Lapita People and Extinct Species
Pindai Caves, Once Home to the Lapita People and Extinct Species
New Caledonia, in the South Pacific , is a special collectivity of France. Not only does it have a fascinating history and unique culture, the islands also have one of the most important archaeological sites in all of Oceania, the Pindai Caves. These caves have provided archaeologists with a treasure trove of human remains, and palaeontologists with remains of extinct birds, reptiles and other fauna that dates to the Holocene Period.
The Ancient History of Pindai Caves
The Lapita people were the first people to settle on the islands of New Caledonia. As these sailors of Austronesian extraction were extremely skilled navigators, New Caledonia played a very important role in their colonization of Oceania. They are regarded as the ancestors of the Polynesians who went on to populate many Pacific Islands and New Zealand. They are also the ancestors of the modern Kanak people of New Caledonia.
Archaeologists have found items that once belonged to the Lapita people, including many pot shards, within the Pindai Caves. They also left several heaps of shellfish scraps. Guano (bird excrement) was harvested in the caverns and used as a fertilizer.
New Caledonia was absorbed into the French Empire in the 19 th century when they used the islands as a penal colony. While the caves were explored in the 19 th century, archaeologists only investigated in the 20 th century and found two settlements in the Pindai Caves that were occupied by humans over a period of at least two millennia.
Along with the prehistoric settlements, a great many animal and bird remains have been discovered. Of the 45 species found, at least 20 are now extinct in New Caledonia or globally. Among the extinct species are rails, a kagu, pigeons, and a large snipe. Other long-extinct species of birds found includes the Sylviornis, a flightless megapode who laid its eggs on the ground in mounds, and a flightless swamp hen. The remains of a number of owls were also found. These too have been extinct for many years. A great number of these remains were found in potholes and sinkholes in the caves, which trapped the birds.
A number of extinct reptiles were also found, including a land-dwelling crocodile ( Mekosuchus) as well as fossils of the giant horned turtle, Meiolania. The fossils and remains in the cave are providing researchers with insights into the extinction of species after the arrival of the first humans.
The results of various studies have not shown a definite link between human activity and the extinction of species such as the flightless birds on New Caledonia. The remains have been carbon dated and indicate that humans and the extinct species co-existed for many years. Over time, humans had an adverse impact on the environment and this, rather than overhunting, led to the demise of many species.
Layout of the Pindai Caves
The caves are on a peninsula on the north coast of the main island, Grande Terre. The location has six caves of the karst type, two of which are accessible. The remaining four caves have been categorized as sinkholes - chasm created by the flow of subterranean water.
The location of New Caledonia
(Google Maps)
The two accessible caves were once the homes of the first people who settled on the islands. The entrances of the cave broaden out into a large chamber and contain stalactites and stalagmites. Many species of birds lived in the caves, such as the extinct prehistoric birds whose fossils have been found by palaeontologists.
Visiting the Pindai Caves in New Caledonia
The caves are 130 miles (182 km) north of Noumea, the capital city of New Caledonia. There are guided tours of the region and they include excursions to the caves. The caves are protected by the local government and visitors are asked to respect the site.
Top image: New Caledonia Cave. Credit: damedias / Adobe Stock
Mystery Of Markawasi: UFOs And Baffling Stone Monuments
Mystery Of Markawasi: UFOs And Baffling Stone Monuments
Marcahuasi (Markawasi) is located on the mountain range that rises to the right bank of the Rímac River nearly 4,000 meters high in Huarochirí Province, east of Lima, Peru. This plateu is home to a various set of huge granite rocks with unusual shapes resembling human faces, animals, and religious symbols.
There are many theories as to their origins. There is also a collection of ruins on the north side of the plateau. Over 50 structures still stand in varying states of decay. There are also what appear to be burial tombs on the outskirts of the settlement.
The plateau is shrouded in mystery at many levels. There is even disagreement as to the derivation of the name Marcahuasi (Markawasi). Daniel Ruzo states that the name is relatively recent and means “two-storied house,” referring to the stone buildings (which Ruzo regards as Inca military garrisons) found on the plateau.
Shape of a human head on Marcahuasi
In contrast, Lisa Rome states that marca in Quecha means the land belonging to a community, and huasi means town, so the name Marcahausi refers to the land for the town or entire community, and from this etymology she suggests that the plateau was communal religious center for the surrounding area.
She states that there is are no Inca remains to be found at Markawasi, dating many of the structures to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries A.D. Others have tentatively dated some of the buildings to a good five hundred or more years earlier.
Local people say nothing about who the builder were, where the figures were made or quite possibly more important — where were they from. Yet still an extraordinary energy pervades this sanctuary cloaked in the clouds for untold centuries, having only recently been discovered by the outside world. In this place, many reports of UFO’s being seen, as well as strange beings who reportedly walk around the place day and night.
The local people believe these beings come from inside the earth or are materializing from other dimensions. The archaeological community is at a loss to explain some of the more unfathomable images carved in the stone.
Supposedly they created monumental carvings from the granodiorite cliffs, boulders, and outcroppings on the top of the plateau – carvings of an anthropomorphic and zoomorphic nature, including peoples of many different races and animals found not just in the immediate vicinity, but from other continents as well.
There was even an alleged sculpture of the Egyptian divinity Ta-urt (Thoueris), goddess of childbirth and maternity, in her typical form as an upright female hippopotamus. If these reports were true, this would indicate a pre-Columbian culture that had transoceanic ties, and just perhaps it represented a branch of the primordial global lost civilization of which many writers and philosophers have speculated over the centuries.
Markawasi Stone Forest
In addition to toads, dogs and condors which are all indigenous to the area, there are also 25-foot tall carvings of a walrus, camel, lion, polar bear, alligator, turtle and what can only be described as a prehistoric stegosaurus dinosaur! These and other creatures haunt this mist shrouded plateau from a lost world.
There is a3-story tall human head carved from a single bolder and faces carved on a cliffs that drop thousands of feet representing all the different races of the world, speaking in muted silence of the many questions permeating these stones resting upon the Markawasi plateau. So what are the meaning of structures, the monuments, the gigantic megalithic sculptures, found at Markawasi?
Dr. Robert M. Schoch interpret the monuments of Markawasi as incredible simulacra – that is, in this case, natural objects that in the mind’s eye take the shape of forms of other entities, such as human faces and animals. He believe they were recognized as such even in very remote ancient times. The weathering and erosion of the granodiorite of which the plateau is composed gives rise to rounded anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features that, with a little imagination and insight, can be seen as very convincing sculptural forms.
The Markawasi sculptures are point-of-view manifestations, not typical sculptures in the round. Most can only be seen from a particular angle, and in many cases under particular lighting conditions, be in morning, evening, a solstice sunrise, by the light of a full moon, or under other special conditions.
Believers in the sculptures feel there are special spots that have been designated as viewing locations, and to move even a few feet from some of the spots means that the sculpture is obscured or not visible at all.
Certain sculptures appear to change forms as one moves or the light changes, perhaps from a face of one race to a face of another race. Such apparent subtlety and precision in sculpting and viewing has been used to argue for the reality of the artificiality of the monuments, but likewise has been advanced as strong evidence that they are simply natural structures to which humans brings their own meaning and interpretations.
The indigenous Andean peoples had a traditional concept of wakas (guacas), which can in an abstract sense refer to laws (as laws or nature) or knowledge, or could at times be personified as heroes and deities (similar, perhaps, to the Egyptian concept of neterw or divine principles) or as cult ancestors.
Wakas, it was believed, could sometimes take the physical form of uniquely shaped rocks or other natural structures. This is exactly what we may behold in the simulacra of Markawasi. The perfection and abundance of the manifestations of the wakas would make this an incredibly sacred place indeed. Schoch believe there is no doubt that Markawasi is a very powerful, energy-filled, and sacred place.
There are also numerous chulpas (chullpas), or tombs, to be found on the plateau, some neatly constructed of stone blocks (and in some cases rebuilt in modern times) and other tombs that simply utilized natural overhangs and shallow caves on the edge of the plateau. Bodies were bound and formed natural mummies, but most of the tombs have now been cleared out and any remains removed. Schoch and his team did come across human skulls and other bones in one of the more inaccessible regions, however.
The plateau is spotted with a number of artificial and natural lakes and reservoirs, most of which were dry during our August 2005 visit. Artificial dams and canal systems collect water during the rainy season and carry the water down to the village and terraced fields below the plateau.
Even today the people of San Pedro de Casta celebrate a ritual festival in October that celebrates the water that is captured on the Markawasi Plateau.
According to Ruzo, men opened the festival with rituals in honor of the Huari (their pre-Inca ancestors of a thousand or more years ago deified as the god Huari that was their protector; huari means giant or strong and the women and girls carry out the remainder of the ceremony over a number of days.
Some people are willing to go to the extreme in their attempts to prove the existence of Planet Nine – the rumored ninth (or maybe tenth) planet which may or may not have wreaked chaos through the solar system on its last trip around, and may or may not do the same on its next – whenever that might be. That last event has been predicted by doomsayers to be sooner (without success) or by renowned space scientists to be later (without visible or concrete proof). As a result, a new team of researchers has gone to a different extreme – Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects – to analyze whether their strange orbits were caused by a Planet Nine. The report is in and the answer is (drum roll here) …
Pause that drum roll for a second. Despite the conspiratorial and apocalyptic nature of many Planet Nine theories, the search for it is indeed serious in many scientific circles. That search heated up in 2016 when astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown of Caltech unveiled their theory supporting the existence of Planet Nine based on the behavior of Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects (ETNO). Brown is a well-known ETNO discoverer, but he became famous to the general public when he “killed Pluto” by demoting it to a dwarf planet, based on the fact that there is at least one ETNO larger than it.
Orbits of Sedna, other objects and a possible orbit of Planet X
Brown and Batygin’s Planet Nine theory is based on the idea that a select group of ETNOs is “clustered” in an orbit that puts their closest point to the sun in the same spot – an event they show with simulations that they conclude could only be caused by a ninth planet’s gravity. Without any physical evidence for Planet Nine, this theory has been disputed ever since, and so far Brown and Batygin’s say no one has proven them wrong.
“The apparent clustering in longitude of perihelion ϖ and ascending node Ω of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) has been attributed to the gravitational effects of an unseen 5-10 Earth-mass planet in the outer solar system. To investigate how selection bias may contribute to this clustering, we consider 14 ETNOs discovered by the Dark Energy Survey, the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, and the survey of Sheppard and Trujillo. Using each survey’s published pointing history, depth, and TNO tracking selections, we calculate the joint probability that these objects are consistent with an underlying parent population with uniform distributions in ϖ and Ω.”
That’s astronomer-speak for “Hold our beers and watch this.” A large team of astronomers led by Kevin Napier of the University of Michigan believed Brown and Batygin were suffering from “selection bias” – a theory that the six ETNOs they used were only the brightest but not all of them, and a larger sampling would show that bias. As explained in their pre-print, non-peer-reviewed paper, they used three different surveys: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) which uses the Blanco Telescope in Chile, the Outer Solar System Origins Survey on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii, and a third which used a variety of telescopes, and found 14 more ETNOs besides the six from Brown and Batygin. They then fed their data into a survey simulator that took into account any kinds of bias. And what did they find? (Resume drum roll.)
“We find that the mean scaled longitude of perihelion and orbital poles of the detected ETNOs are consistent with a uniform population at a level between 17% and 94%, and thus conclude that this sample provides no evidence for angular clustering.”
Their simulation found no evidence of clustering that could only be caused by a Planet Nine. Kevin Napier told Science Magazine, “(The clustering) is a consequence of where we look and when we look. There’s no need for another model to fit the data.” In his and Brown’s defense, Konstantin Batygin claims the new study looked at the same area as he did and found more ETNOs, so he takes the Spockian approach that their negation of his Planet Nine theory is “not logical” and asks “Can their analysis distinguish between a clustered and uniform distribution?” which he immediately answers: “No.”
Meanwhile, Planet Nine shakes its head and smiles.
Declassified Russian Files List Gruesome Underwater UFO Encounters
Declassified Russian Files List Gruesome Underwater UFO Encounters
A Russian UFO researcher is calling for an investigation after declassified files from the Soviet era detailed cases of terrifying incidents alien encounters, reports dailystar.co.uk.
Former naval officer and UFO researcher Vladimir Azhazha believes the documents that mention Soviet K-222 submarines being hunted out of the sea by speeding unidentified objects, “are of great value.”
The experiences listed in the documents are similar to the ones reported in the region of the Bermuda Triangle, one of the world’s biggest mysteries, reports Alien Revelations.
According to the declassified Russian Navy records, unidentified submerged objects (USOs) have been spotted within the Earth’s oceans.
The technologically advanced objects are far superior to anything we’ve ever built, the website adds.
One of the most interesting cases Mr Azhazha examined, involved a nuclear submarine on a combat mission in the Southern Pacific.
During the routine operation, the submarine detected six unknown objects traveling in formation at speeds in excess of 230 knots (265+ mph).
In comparison, the fastest submarine was the Soviet K-222, which reached about 44 knots (51 mph).
The objects were believed to be headed straight for the Soviet submarines, which were therefore forced to surface. But the USOs followed them to the surface and then flew away.
Retired submarine commander Yuri Beketov recalled similar instances in the region of the Bermuda Triangle.
Mr Beketov said on-board instruments often malfunctioned, indicating the presence of strong interference. which many believed was a clear sign of USO and UFO presence.
Mr Beketov said: “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 265 mph.
“Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development.”
Vladimir Azhazha believes the issue should be thoroughly investigated.
He said: “I think about underwater bases and say: Why not? Nothing should be discarded.
“Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyse what they encounter there.”
I think Ron and I are the only two guys, hereabouts, who see the fracturing of UFO efforts as not helpful or useful in resolving the UFO mystery.
Almost everyone in the UFO community has a fish to fry, many of those fish only peri- pherally connected to UFOs or the UFO conversation, some fish personal with no connection to ufology or UFOs at all.
The paranormal sobriquet often intrudes. And while there may be a tangential connection to the UFO phenomenon, the efforts expended on things paranormal haven’t shown what that connection may be.
Also, ufology is flush with persons, mostly via podcasts or Facebook postings, providing too much information about their personal lives, illnesses mostly but financial and domestic problems, plus reminis- cences of past glories or suggestions of music memories and trips to scenic sites around the country.
UFOs aren’t even a backdrop in these online excursions.
In the “old days,” often a UFO sighting or report would take hold of persons following the phenomenon, but nowadays, we’re all so jaded, disappointed by the lack of anything vital or substantive about UFOs that we comment and become absorbed by the discursive activity and verbiage by those soaked in their own personal sweat and inane lives, encouraging them to slavishly indulge in more banal personal activities.
This posting is another example of splurged quasi-UFO nonsense. (I apologize)
There comes a time when we UFO people have got buckle down and find solutions to some UFO sightings and accounts. We have to stop fooling around or sitting, still waiting for disclosure.
I know many do not like rechewing old UFO tales, but what can we do with newer, splashier accounts like those encapsulated in those AATIP videos?
We are kids hoping to be enraptured by something fresh or new then moving on, wishing for something else to titillate us. Meanwhile those iconic older UFO reports/sightings lie moldering in the dustbin where UFO books reside pretty much and therein lie all the answers as to what UFOs are, if we only had the stalwart patience to ferret out the clues that have to be there, yes?
I found some structures in a crater on Earths moon. Its from the LROC moon map and we are looking at a crater on the dark side of the moon. Inside are several structures. Two larger structures at the center of the crater, one higher with a dark window, the other long like an airplane wing. Then another structure outside the crater on the left side.
The thing is...if you click the URL, don't zoom in all the way, because NASA uses a smoothing program to erase detail, so don't...don't zoom in too much. Zoom in enough to see the objects before they are changed by the smoothing program. You will know when. Apparently NASA failed at using the smoothing program correctly and put it at the wrong settings so we could see the actual structures aliens built on the moon. This is undeniable proof that aliens exist on our moon.
Fast UFO making fast maneuvers over Huntington State Beach, California
Fast UFO making fast maneuvers over Huntington State Beach, California
This was filmed back in 2019 (11th March) but it was just posted on MUFON’s website today.
Witness report:
UFO flying next to plane in the sky above the beach goes Into a STAR WARS hyperdrive turn into space, then attempted coverup!!! 2 friends of mine along with one of their girlfriend’s and I were all together at the beach around 6 pm in Huntington Beach near a bathroom stall when suddenly we notice a vey mysterious giant fireball looking star, but obviously nothing like we seen before, moving steadily down the coast line. We could see a plane with its blinking lights flying in the opposite direction in the same line of direction of view which made it apparent that this was particularly not flying like a plane or jet. We watched for maybe a few or so minutes before I pulled out my iPhone and recorded the incident. I filmed for about 25 seconds and then turned off recording.
About a few minutes or less after I stopped recording, we all witnessed the UFO go from a steady tread to the left into an impossible abrupt turn towards west so fast that not the sky that the light faded away almost instantaneously like a stars wars hyperdrive intro space when the light stretches then fades away. The object shot towards the sky in front of us and faded away, then almost immediately after the incident, I personally witnessed the most aircraft at one time in the sky, which to me looked like a bunch of planes flying in every direction in the sky. There were also jets that came from the south that were suspicious because it was obvious why they were there and that was the only time I seen a team of jets fly in at night on top of the beach.
But the icing on the cake was when helicopters came and tried to cover up what we saw by trying to replicate the light by flying around where the UFO was flying and shining a search light around that looked kinda something similar to the UFO’s, but obviously was not perfect because it did not at all move like the UFO did and the light did not match the exact size or color and was also spinning in multiple directions. It baffled my friends and I and then a few months later in December.
Jezero Crater may be the proving ground in our search for Martian life.
If all goes to plan, NASA's Perseverance rover will alight at the location Thursday (Feb. 18) to start its multi-year quest to seek signs of habitability and cache particularly promising rocks for a future sample-return mission to bring to Earth's laboratories.
Picking the spot Percy will explore was an "exhaustive" process, NASA said in a statement, requiring five years of research examining 60 candidate locations. Mars sports abundant evidence of water and organic molecules, making it difficult to pick one single spot to answer the scientific questions driving the Mars 2020 mission.
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But NASA determined Jezero was a good location to show how water periodically appeared and then disappeared on the Martian surface. Scientists believe Mars lost its water because the atmosphere grew too thin, but about 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero appears to have been a potentially habitable river valley.
"Scientists see evidence that water carried clay minerals from the surrounding area into the crater lake," NASA representatives wrote in a description of the site. "Conceivably, microbial life could have lived in Jezero … If so, signs of their remains might be found in lakebed or shoreline sediments. Scientists will study how the region formed and evolved, seek signs of past life, and collect samples of Mars rock and soil that might preserve these signs."
When NASA selected Jezero in 2018, scientists said a delta is typically an ideal spot to search for signs of ancient life, which would likely be microbial.
"A delta is extremely good at preserving biosignatures, [be they] evidence of life that might have existed in the lake water, or at the interface between the sediment and the lake water, or, possibly, things that lived in the headwaters region that were swept in by the river and deposited in the delta," Mars 2020 project scientist Ken Farley, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said during a s conference held that November.
Jezero Crater is about 18 degrees north of the Martian equator and shows extensive variety in geology, allowing scientists to look at diverse rocks that may represent the planet's evolution over the eras. The site's drawback, however, is that the complex terrain poses danger during landing with obstacles such as sand dunes. The scientists also wanted to avoid touching down on the delta itself.
A view of the Perseverance rover's landing site in Jezero Crater as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL)
This image shows the remains of an ancient delta in Jezero Crater. It was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter.
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin)
The white circle near the center of this image of Mars represents the location where NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to land.
This annotated map of Jezero Crater on Mars was created using data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter.
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin)
This map shows regions in and around Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site of NASA's Perseverance rover. The green circle represents the rover's landing ellipse.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS/University of Arizona)
This elevation map of Jezero Crater on Mars was created from ESA Mars Express data.
(Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin)
Long ago, Jezero contained a deep lake about the size of Lake Tahoe. The mission plan calls for Perseverance to land at the rim of the crater. The rover will wander over to the delta to examine the sediments, before examining the ancient shoreline and finally checking out some of the rocks at the rim of the crater.
"These rocks would have been hot shortly after the impact and may have hosted hot springs," scientist Ken Farley, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a December 2018 flyover video based on imagery collected by Mars orbiters. "Deposits from these springs would be another target in our search for possible ancient life on Mars."
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They find track of Gigantic Vehicles “12 Million Years Old”
They find track of Gigantic Vehicles “12 Million Years Old”
A famous geologist claims to have discovered intricate tracks that would have been made by vehicles, but several million years ago.
These peculiar marks on the ground are found in Turkey, specifically in the Phrygian Valley, according to the researcher, they were created by an ancient highly technological civilization and today unknown.
These ancient furrows discovered in Turkey’s Phrygian Valley have left Dr. Alexander Koltypin , a geologist at the National Science Scientific Research Center in Moscow, in complete awe.
The geologist believes that this construction could have been created by an intelligent race more than 12 million years ago.
The ruts in the Phrygian Valley have been closely examined, and one of the theories given is that they were made by off-road vehicles, much like those used today. But how could these clues, more than 12 million years ago, have been made from artifacts that to our knowledge had not yet been invented? Or better yet, an ancient and unknown civilization operated this type of vehicle?
Geologist Dr. Alexander Koltypin believes that these mysterious furrow-like marks in the Phrygian Valley in central Turkey were made by an intelligent race 12 and 14 million years ago.
“We can assume that older vehicles drove their heavy wheels on soft ground, perhaps a wet surface,” he said.
Inspections have found that the distance between the grooves is approximately the same as that left by current vehicles. However, there is one thing that does not match, these ruts seem to have been made by something much heavier than modern common transport.
These tracks are, for the most part, an impressive three feet deep.
In addition to the deep grooves, horizontal notches have been found in them along their interior walls. These notches on the inside of the grooves or tracks could well have been made by some kind of shaft, which adds more mystery to the matter.
Dr. Koltypin was aware that this finding would be too controversial and would cause quite a stir.
Koltypin stated the following:
I think we are seeing the signs of a civilization that existed before the classical creation of this world. Perhaps the creatures of that pre-civilization were not like modern human beings. These ancient clues can prove the existence of ancient civilizations, yet they are often ignored by scientists. ”
Although many detractors of Dr. Koltypin’s theories have emerged, in reality the Phrygian Valley of Turkey is not the only place where these ancient roads are found. Other areas, like the Maltese archipelago , have tracks that run along the cliffs and others that lead to the ocean.
These tracks in Malta have the same amount of controversial theories. More information on this can be found in the following video.
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Despite the fact that conventional archeology pays no attention to these impressive discoveries, Koltypin continues to rely on his controversial theories.
It is possible that in the future, history will reveal many other findings that reveal once and for all that we are not the first to have advanced technology and that other sophisticated humanities existed before us.
William Cooper: How to Build A Flying Saucer! The Conspiracy Theorist Who Predicted His Own Death
William Cooper: How to Build A Flying Saucer! The Conspiracy Theorist Who Predicted His Own Death
William Cooper: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Predicted His Own Death | Tales From the Bottle
He made a lot of predictions, some came true, some yet to be seen, but one cost him everything. “Milton William “Bill” Cooper (May 6, 1943 – November 5, 2001) was an American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author known for his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, in which he warned of multiple global conspiracies, some involving extraterrestrial life.
Cooper also described HIV/AIDS as a man-made disease used to target blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals, and that a cure was made before it was implemented. He has been described as a “militia theoretician”.”
Hitler’s UFO Alien Connection During World War II - whatweknow
Hitler’s UFO Alien Connection During World War II - whatweknow
Hitler’s UFO-Alien Connection During World War II When Hitler first stepped onto the world stage with his contrived rhetoric, he was re-writing German mythology and history into a form of propaganda designed to increase German self-worth after Germany’s WWI defeat.
Most people thought he was insane and did not take him seriously at first. However Hitler announced that he was a member of a UFO cult and had an exclusive line of communication with a powerful extraterrestrial group. According to Hitler, these extraterrestrials were the source and power behind his new-found, born-again German ideology.
He explained that Nazi mysticism was the product of their devotion and worship of the Manipulative Extraterrestrials. Many high ranking Nazi members of Hitler’s inner circle declared that they also communicated with the extraterrestrial Nordic gods.
This is What Happens to Spacecraft When They Re-Enter the Earth’s Atmosphere
This is What Happens to Spacecraft When They Re-Enter the Earth’s Atmosphere
When one of the Russian Progress resupply ships undocks from the International Space Station, timing is everything. The Progress needs to fire its engines at just the right time to instigate the deorbit burn in order for the ship to enter the atmosphere at just the right place, so that its destructive re-entry occurs over the Pacific Ocean. That way, any potential surviving bits and pieces that might reach Earth will hit far away from any land masses – which are home to people, buildings, and other things we don’t want to get bonked.
Last week, the timing for the Progress MS-15 cargo ship was just right so that the astronauts/cosmonauts on board the ISS could see the ship as it broke apart and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared the view on social media.
“Farewell, Progress 76P MS-15! #Russian cargo spacecraft undocked from #ISS, and successfully burned up,” Noguchi tweeted, sharing a photo of the Progress’ fiery demise.
Uncrewed Progress cargo ships have been flying since 1978, supporting previous Soviet-era space stations such as Salyut 6, Salyut 7 and Mir. They have been bringing supplies to the ISS since the very beginning of operations.
But now, there are several different robotic, automated resupply ships for the space station: the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) HTV resupply ship, Northrop Grumman’s (formerly Orbital ATK) Cygnus cargo ship, and SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon.
The ISS Progress 60 cargo craft is seen just a few minutes away from docking to the International Space Station on July 5, 2015. Credit: NASA TV
These ships bring supplies such as food, water, replacement/spare parts, and experiments to the crew, as well as propellants and oxygen. After everything is unloaded, the ships like Progress become a trash can – a place to stow garbage and other unneeded items. The ships stay docked to the ISS for about 6 months, and after being loaded with trash and waste, the hatch to the vehicle is closed and the Progress undocks from the station. Then the procedures for reentry begin.
Progress is designed to burn up in the atmosphere, but not everything is completely combustible. In a press release, Roscosmos said the non-combustible components of the craft land and sink into a “non-navigable region of the South Pacific. Non-combustible structure elements will drop in the calculated area of the non-navigable region of the Pacific Ocean. The estimated fragments drop area is approximately 1,680 km east of Wellington (New Zealand). Roscosmos has completed all the necessary procedures to flag this area as temporarily dangerous for sea navigation and aircraft flights.”
In this Oct. 23, 2016 image, the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm captures Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft on its sixth mission to the station. Credits: NASA
But besides the cargo ships returning from the ISS, other man-made objects regularly meet their demise by streaking through and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Things like old, inactive satellites, rocket stages and other discarded hardware, as well as smaller pieces of space debris — such as fragments of vehicles that exploded or collided, and even small pieces of paint that have come off of space vehicles.
All these items – both big and small – are tracked by radar by the Space Surveillance Network (SSN), which oversees radar and optical sensors at various sites around the world. There is the Joint Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, part of U.S. Strategic Command and ESA’s Space Debris team. They detect, track and identify all objects in Earth orbit, as well as monitoring the International Space Station (ISS) and other NASA satellites for collisions.
Trackable objects in Low Earth Orbit. Image Credit: ESA
Interestingly, on average, about one satellite crashes back to Earth every week. Most are uncontrolled entries, and it’s kind of a crap shoot as to where any pieces surviving pieces might fall. But these fiery reentries are rarely seen, mostly because Earth is a big place, mainly covered by water, and much of what falls ends up in the oceans. Another thing is, most of us aren’t looking up into the night sky all that often.
The Hayabusa spacecraft burned up on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere in 2010, but the capsule containing the samples survived. The glowing piece on the bottom front of the debris stream is the sample capsule. Image: NASA Ames.
But these reentries do sometimes get seen – sometimes by video surveillance cameras or dashcams. If the satellite or old rocket piece is big enough, pieces can be seen shedding as the reentering vehicle descends in a superheated shroud of incandescent plasma. The ablation process starts around a height of 100 km and is usually complete by the time the object has descended to about 20 km. (Here’s additional info on space debris).
Of course, “naturally occurring” objects fall through our atmosphere too, space rocks that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Many times, if you see something steak across the night sky, it is hard to tell the difference between a meteor and a piece of disintegrating space debris.
Of course, for the spacecraft we DON’T want to have break up in the atmosphere — such as crewed spacecraft — there are heat shields to protect them. But that’s another story for another day.
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Bright Object With Nearby Orb, Coventry, England 2-1-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Bright Object With Nearby Orb, Coventry, England 2-1-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 1, 2021 Location of sighting: Coventry, England Source: MUFON 113692
This UFO is very shiny and bright, even during the day. Its as if it were made of pure light. That orb shooting past it was absolute proof that these two objects are UFOs. What we are looking at its an orb maker, a mothership of sorts. They create hundreds of orbs, usually one ever three seconds. This one is not...its probably noticed that its being watched and recorded. So its waiting and will move off to a new location to create cloud orbs. Cloud orbs are alien drones that are fully autonomous. They are controlled by AI. The appear white when 50 meters or further away, but when they are just 2-3 meters away they are almost glass-like but with a surface like mother of pearl, but the orbs surface rotates at about 1 rotation every 10 seconds. I saw one once 2 meters in front of me on the roof of my 8th floor apartment building, but it scared easily and shot 50 meters in 2 seconds when I reached for my camera, which was on, but it was facing straight up at the sky. I got a great shot of a white spot in the distance. LOL, little buggers.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Spotted helixical shape whilst in garden pruning trees hence it was in line of sight . Started filming after a minute another faster moving shape enters frame moving erratically . The second object disappeared . The first object tracked on a fairly straight trajectory ( ISS was shown by nasa as being over UK at approximately that time but not sure this would be visible in daylight) either way second object flight path was to erratic to be a satellite. Wife also witnessed at time. Flight radar app checked and no flights over location at the time.
Unidentified Lights In Over Tempe, Arizona Night Sky 2-12-21 UFO Sighting News.
Unidentified Lights In Over Tempe, Arizona Night Sky 2-12-21 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 12, 2021 Location of sighting: Tempe, Arizona, USA Source: MUFON 113700
At first I thought this could be Chinese lanterns, but the lights are not orange or red, but white. They don't disappear, but fade and then come back. They are too bright to be drones and too large.
The brightness of the UFOs is incredible. The UFOs are almost evenly spaced and seem to hold position. Arizona is a UFO hotspot and this...is absolutely why. Aliens love Arizona. But the city of Tempe, is on the edge of Phoenix...so this is obviously the same UFOs that was seen back in 1997, also I just reported a similar sighting in the same area, but from Feb 9, 2021, and will place the video below. Undeniable proof there is a UFO base below the city of Phoenix, Arizona.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
On the night of 2/12/2021, I happen to look out of my kitchen window while talking to my wife when I noticed a group of strange lights in the sky. I always look into the night sky and in the general direction of what I filmed. I've never seen anything like this especially in that part of the sky. This video is what I recorded. The objects traveled to a certain part of the sky and stayed there pulsated and then vanished into the clear night sky. I recorded is 2 separate clips. Because I thought the event ended but more returned. At one point an airplane traveling east went in the general direction of the objects. The objects seemed unaffected by this and more returned in the sky. They had a reddish orange color. The cell phone camera didn't pick up these colors. Not sure what these were.
Object rotating silently over Aldie Airport, Virginia, USA 8-16-2020, UFO Sighting News.
Object rotating silently over Aldie Airport, Virginia, USA 8-16-2020, UFO Sighting News.
BELOW I ADDED LIGHT, WHICH REVEALS A SHINY DOME AT ITS CENTER. Possible cockpit of pilot.
Date of sighting: 8-16-2020 Location of sighting: Aldie, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON 113688
This triangle craft was seen over Virginia six months ago, but reported today. The eyewitness says he has a drone, but dones don't work because the airport is using an anti drone system to stop drones from flying in the area, I'm guessing it signal jamming. I personally have never heard of that, but sound smart. So...that rules out drones. But when I took a screenshot and added light, I noticed a glimmering center to it. That may be the cockpit for an alien pilot. Not the typical TR3B craft the USAF has, but something unique. This is 100% proof aliens exist.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I live near Dulles airport within the surface area and no drones are functional (i have one and it will not work outside). I was driving home and saw this object hoving and sort of drifting in a westerly direction below the clouds. It was completely silent. It slowly rotated with what seemed like a purpose. The object was black, and had 3 control surfaces protruding from the center so it looks like a 3 pronged aircraft of some sort...
Legends of lost and mysterious islands, advanced civilisations and Eden-like paradises have been told by sailors throughout human history. Is it possible these stories are more than just the myths of imaginative seafarers?
Lights Over Ocean Near Laguna Niguel, California 2-7-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Lights Over Ocean Near Laguna Niguel, California 2-7-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 7, 2021 Location of sighting: Niguel, California, USA Source: MUFON 113681
I noticed some of the comments below the video say that they are military flares, but they don't seem to fall or move. Often UFOs will be seen in one location only and not move if they are about to leap out of the area with a massive jump at light speed. UFOs near military bases are not as uncommon as you might think. Aliens actually want to remind the military of their superior alien technology in order to keep humans in check. For instance, back in 1980 in Redlesham Forest many soldiers watched and recorded a glowing UFO skirting the edge of the base. Aliens like to be seen, especially to the military. And this sighting in Niguel, California is near several US military bases. Thats one instance, of dozens I can name. I think these are UFOs, telling the US military bluntly, "don't even think about messing up, or else." A warning to keep the weapons in check and unused in order to prevent future conflicts and wars.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
The six or seven lights were constant, not blinking, and appeared to be originating over water near Dana Point. I was far away, but the lights were very unusual. There are military bases/testing in the area, but this still appeared awkward, I'm not sure what type of training exercise would look like this...
Conspiracy theories make the world go round (or flat). The greatest hits include the Illuminati, lizard people and Avril Lavigne being a clone, but none have endured quite like the theory that ancient aliens built the pyramids. The tin-foil belief has been kicking around since medieval times and now, thanks to TV series like Ancient Aliens – currently in its 16th season - it’s more popular than ever.
In July, 2020, tech edgelord Elon Musk tweeted “aliens built the pyramids, obv” and conspiracy theorist bed friend Joe Rogan has hosted a podcast with an autodidact who believes ancient civilisations ruled the earth. Believers aren’t just your classic conspiracy theorists, LSD heads or Louis Thereoux longform nut-jobs either. Mainstream international publications including the BBC and National Geographic have reported on the matter, and it’s also popped up on TikTok, which suggests people debate the theory across all walks of western (we’ll get to this later) life.
What they all believe, in one form or another, is that the pyramids in Ancient Egypt were built by outer-space terrestrials who likely use them as a way to monitor and observe planet Earth. But where, of every absurd belief in the world, did the idea that aliens built the pyramids come from?
To find out, I spoke to Karen Douglas, a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent, who explained that – much like simulation theory, which Elon Musk also loves – “the most popular conspiracy theories are those which can’t be proven wrong, or theories that mainly just ask questions about what happened”.
When the mystery is as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza – the world’s tallest building for about 3,800 years and the only original wonder of the world still standing – it’s easy to see how conspiracy theories can stick like a bad case of super skunk-induced paranoia. These points don’t really explain the astronomical leap from “those who lived there did it” to “aliens did”, though.
I decided to poll my Instagram and Twitter following to see how many of the people I regularly enjoy beers with also harbour a belief that aliens knocked up the Egyptian pyramids and, if so, why.
Twitter came in at 24 percent, Instagram 42. Almost everyone who said yes said their primary reason for believing the conspiracy is the sheer scale of the pyramids and the lack of technology to build them at the time, plus some stuff about space (essentially: there’s a correlation between the location of the three largest pyramids in Giza and the Orion’s Belt constellation).
For Rhian, 21, from Cardiff, “it just seems impossible that any humans could have [built the pyramids] back then, they’re so intricately built and there’s a lot of mathematical clues supposedly built into them”.
Dr. Nicky Nielsen is an egyptologist at the University of Manchester who knows that the Egyptians built the pyramids themselves, as proven by quarries, diaries, tool marks and other forms of evidence. For the benefit of the theorists, I asked how humans could have lifted the giant stones used to build the pyramids (some weighing 80 tonnes, or around around 40 small elephants) into the sky.
“Pulleys,” he says calmly. “They could pull very heavy blocks up a very steep gradient using pulleys and a ramp. The actual ramp that's preserved is very steep, I think it's something like 16 degrees.”
Despite there being academic reasoning for how Egyptians built the pyramids – AKA the pulleys – people still believe aliens built or at least instructed the building and go on to make YouTube videos about the conspiracy, which then perpetuates the belief for a whole new generation of skeptics and extraterrestrial enthusiasts. We’ll never know the full story, so people fill in the gaps with the narrative they believe the most – which, for lots of people, goes back to aliens.
Tim, 25, from Northampton, says: “A theory I’ve thought of is that the pyramids might have been used like hands on a clock, so that aliens could measure the passage of time when observing Earth from the outside.” This, he says, is “why they are placed in such a specific position”.
For Rhian, the ambition of the task of constructing 400 foot high pyramids, coupled with how “there must be other forms of life out there'', suggests “there’s a fair chance extraterrestrials could have been involved. [The pyramids are] way beyond anything else of the time that we know about.”
But is it really true that we don’t know of any other elaborate structures from a similar, ancient period? Greek and Roman architecture are historically seen as ahead of their time, both beautiful and intricate, but no one suggests extraterrestrials came down and helped build the Colosseum.
“I don't think that the people who believe [that aliens built the pyramids] are all racist, but the conspiracy perpetuates a very Eurocentric view of other cultures – not just the Egyptians, but Mayans and Incas and whoever else,” says Nielsen.
“Aside from Stonehenge, European ancient monuments aren’t dragged into the whole Ancient Aliens debate, like the Colosseum, even though it's clearly a massive work of construction. It removes agency from indigenous cultures, and it takes their ownership of their own history away from them. Arabic writing from the time pretty unanimously says it was the Egyptians, but nobody bothered to check for a long time.”
When I raised this with Rhian, she says: “I hadn’t thought about that – it is problematic. All of the people I’ve seen mention the conspiracy are white, too. It is still the most impressive of all of the ancient buildings, though, so perhaps it could be the one aliens did help with… I’ll have to think more about it.”
Nielsen happily concedes that while there is evidence for many things, there’ll always be questions about how exactly the pyramids were built. “In 200 years, when something else becomes popular in culture, maybe that will be used as the alternative to Egyptians themselves building it,” he says, adding: “People will always have an alternative idea instead of accepting that non-Europeans are capable of building monumental architecture, which is, after all, the easiest explanation: the pyramids were built by the Egyptians. Because they were there.”
Artist’s reconstruction of Chicxulub Crater soon after impact, 66 million years ago. Image via Detlev Van Ravenswaay/ Science Source.
Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck our planet off the coast of Mexico. The devastating impact, whose force was equivalent to 10 billion Hiroshima A-bombs, unleashed huge tsunamis hundreds of feet tall, global wildfires, and sent molten rock hurtling all the way to the moon. About 75% of all life on Earth was killed almost instantly, including all non-avian dinosaurs. But according to a controversial Harvard astronomer, the culprit wasn’t an asteroid, but rather a comet fragment from the outer reaches of the solar system.
Since geophysicists first identified the huge impact crater in Chicxulub, Mexico, the site has been the subject of important research probing into the nature of the impactor in order to reconstruct the devastating timeline of the mass extinction that would follow.
We now know, for instance, that the impactor must have been very large, measuring between 10 and 80 kilometers in diameter, judging from the staggering 180-kilometer-wide crater, most of which is submerged in the Pacific Ocean. The impact then shrouded the planet into a decades-long winter, which decimated the suitable environments for dinosaurs.
This leading theory is that this impact arrived from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but Harvard’s Professor Avi Loeb and astrophysics graduate student Amir Siraj have published a new study proposing an alternative source.
Loeb is no stranger to controversial theories. Previously, he claimed that the first-ever interstellar object Oumuamua may actually be an alien spaceship. He’s actually being a lot more conservative with his most recent paper published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports.
The pair of researchers performed the statistical analysis and gravitational simulations to essentially reverse-engineer the path the Chicxulub impactor took, showing that the impact actually originated from the Oort cloud — a shell of icy objects that exist in the outermost reaches of the solar system, more than a trillion miles away from Earth.
The Oort cloud is where most of the comets in the solar system are flung from. However, the Chicxulub impact wasn’t produced by a comet, but rather by comet fragments.
According to the researchers’ simulations, many Earth-crossing events were also directly preceded by very close encounters with the Sun. Astronomers call these comets “sun-grazers”.
Due to the gravitational interactions with the Jupiter-Sun system, large comets are torn apart into a large number of smaller fragments. Since the number of fragments large enough to account for the Chicxulub crater was about an order of magnitude greater than the background asteroid or comet population, the researchers simply conclude that it was far more likely that the crater was produced by a comet fragment.
“The solar system acts as a kind of pinball machine,” Siraj said. “Jupiter, the most massive planet, kicks incoming long-period comets into orbits that bring them very close to the sun.”
“And crucially, on the journey back to the Oort cloud, there’s an enhanced probability that one of these fragments hit the Earth,” the scientist added.
The comet fragment hypothesis may explain the unusual composition of the Chicxulub crater, which suggests the impactor was made of carbonaceous chondrite. These minerals are rare amongst main-belt asteroids, but rather widespread among long-period comets that make rounds between the sun and the Oort cloud.
A similar mineral composition was also encountered at the 2-billion-year-old Vredefort crater in South Africa, which is the largest confirmed crater in Earth’s geological history, as well as the Zhamanshin crater in Kazakhstan, which is the largest confirmed crater within the last million years. This is why the researchers plan to use the same approach on these craters as well.
These insights may be important in the future as the new Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile is scheduled to come online next year. The observatory can measure both the composition and tidal disruption of long-period comets, so it should be able to provide data that may confirm the researchers’ model.
“We should see smaller fragments coming to Earth more frequently from the Oort cloud,” Loeb says. “I hope that we can test the theory by having more data on long-period comets, get better statistics, and perhaps see evidence for some fragments.”
Ultimately, these investigations may be crucial in our efforts to mitigate catastrophic cosmic impacts and avoid the same fate as the dinosaurs.
“It must have been an amazing sight, but we don’t want to see that again,” Loeb said.
China’s Yutu-2 rover just turned two years old and it received a fitting birthday gift. During one of its forays on the far side of the moon, the rover came across an elongated shard that has surprised scientists.
Yutu-2 is the first man-made craft that has explored the moon’s far side. On February 6, the rover resumed operations after Chinese mission control engineers forced it into hibernation in order to preserve energy during the cold lunar nights.
Thanks to Yutu-2, we now know what the moon looks like below the surface after the rover beamed back radar images it had collected. It also sent back very valuable photos and videos of the moon’s far side that will keep scientists busy for years.
Since it arrived at the moon’s far side, Yutu-2 has also come across a number of peculiar objects. In 2019, not long after touchdown, the rover found a “gel-like” substance that turned out to be breccia (broken fragments of minerals cemented together) formed by impact melts.
Credit: China National Space Administration.
Now, Chinese scientists have reported what they describe as a ‘milestone’: an elongated shard sticking out of the lunar surface. The vast majority of lunar rocks are rounded, so the pointy rock immediately drew scientists’ attention.
Due to its shard-like shape and pronounced ridge near the rock’s edge, scientists believe that it must be geologically young since it didn’t have enough time to get rounded by weathering.
As for its formation, the most likely explanation is that it is impact ejecta from a nearby crater. Planned investigations using the rover’s visible and near-infrared imaging spectrometer may reveal more insights surrounding this strange rock’s nature.
'A fortunate accident': Scientists stumble across sea creatures living in -2°C water on the Southern Ocean seabed underneath Antarctica
'A fortunate accident': Scientists stumble across sea creatures living in -2°C water on the Southern Ocean seabed underneath Antarctica
By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
British Antarctic Survey researchers drilled a borehole through 900m of ice
They then ventured further through the ocean water and down to the sea floor
Here they ricocheted off a large boulder and a camera caught sight of the rock
Revealed sponges and unidentified stalked animals on the surface, a world first
Animals have been found living on the sea floor underneath Antarctica in what was previously thought to be an uninhabited wasteland.
Two types of filter-feeding sea sponges were spotted attached to a boulder at the bottom of the ocean by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey.
The explorers dropped a camera down a borehole which went through the 3,000ft (900m) of solid ice before plunging into the frigid Antarctic ocean underneath.
In the pitch black of the unexplored marine frontier the researchers found evidence of life in the -2.2°C water, the first stationary animals ever seen in this habitat.
These currently unidentified species are more than 200 miles from the nearest food source but appear to be thriving despite the arduous existence.
Animals have been found living on the sea floor underneath Antarctica in what was previously thought to be an uninhabited wasteland. Pictured, a boulder with the stationary life on
Sponges and unidentified stalked animals were spotted on a boulder at the bottom of the ocean by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (pictured)
This part of the world is one of the last truly unexplored regions of the world as floating ice shelves have made it impossible to study the ocean beneath.
More than 1.5 million square km — an area bigger than the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy combined — is covered by this fortress of ice.
As a result only an area the size of a tennis court has been explored at all, thanks to eight boreholes drilled through the ice.
The exploration and study that has been done in this area has been primitive by modern standards as accessibility is so difficult due to the extreme weather.
'This discovery is one of those fortunate accidents that pushes ideas in a different direction and shows us that Antarctic marine life is incredibly special and amazingly adapted to a frozen world,' says biogeographer and lead author of the study Dr Huw Griffiths.
Researchers drilled the hole to take sediment samples from the sea floor when they ricocheted off the boulder (pictured), with the spinning camera capturing the lifeforms
The borehole was drilled 160 miles (260km) from the open sea, further confounding researchers
Earth lost a record 28 TRILLION tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017
A record-breaking 28 trillion tonnes of ice — enough to cover the whole of the UK in a sheet over 300 feet thick — melted from the face of the Earth between 1994–2017.
Researchers from the University of Leeds carried out the first ever global survey of ice loss using data collected from satellites orbiting our planet.
The team found that the annual rate of ice loss increased by 65 per cent over the 23-year period — going from 0.8 trillion tons in the nineties up to 1.3 trillion tons.
The accelerating melt — which continues to get worse — has been driven largely by steep increases in losses from the polar ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.
Ice melt serves to raise sea levels across the globe, increases the risk of flooding to coastal communities and endangers natural habitats that wildlife depend upon.
'Our discovery raises so many more questions than it answers, such as how did they get there? What are they eating? How long have they been there? How common are these boulders covered in life? Are these the same species as we see outside the ice shelf or are they new species? And what would happen to these communities if the ice shelf collapsed?'
The borehole was drilled 160 miles (260km) from the open sea, further confounding researchers.
Current theories clearly state that life becomes increasingly unlikely the further underwater and away from open water a location is.
Previous studies have found some mobile animals, such as fish and krill, in these areas but never before has an organism which stays still and filters the water around it for food ever been found.
Aptly, the study has been titled 'Breaking All the Rules' by its authors, and published today in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Researchers drilled the hole to take sediment samples from the sea floor when they ricocheted off the boulder, with the spinning camera capturing the lifeforms.
'To answer our questions we will have to find a way of getting up close with these animals and their environment - and that's under 900 m (3,000 ft) of ice, 260 km (160 miles) away from the ships where our labs are,' adds Dr Griffiths.
'This means that as polar scientists we are going to have to find new and innovative ways to study them and answer all the new questions we have.
Mysterious lifeforms have been discovered in one of the most inhabitable places on our planet. Deep below the Antarctic ice shelf is very dark with subzero temperatures but some species are surprisingly thriving down there.
Located on a seafloor boulder were several species. In fact, this is the first time ever that stationary creatures attached to one specific location have been found underneath the ice of Antarctica.
Huw Griffiths, who is a biogeographer at the British Antarctic Survey and an author of the study, explained this further, “This discovery is one of those fortunate accidents that pushes ideas in a different direction and shows us that Antarctic marine life is incredibly special and amazingly adapted to a frozen world.”
Since it is so difficult to study what’s underneath Antarctica’s ice shelves, scientists are only able to make holes in the ice and lower equipment into the depths of the water. Based on evidence gathered from eight of their borehole surveys, they do know that there is some life beneath the ice, such as jellies, fish, crustaceans, and worms. But the fact that they found sponges was incredibly surprising.
Antarctica
They found the sponges underneath 890 meters of ice (2,920 feet) on the seafloor which was 1,233 meters down (4,045 feet). Located on the seafloor boulder was one sponge on a stalk while 15 others were without them. Furthermore, they discovered 22 organisms that have yet to be identified but could possibly be sponges, hydroids, ascidians, cnidaria, barnacles, or polychaetes. (Pictures can be seen here.)
Griffiths noted that there are still many unanswered questions like how they got there; how long have they been there; what do they eat; how many boulders have this type of life attached to them; are they new species and what would happen to them if the ice shelves ended up collapsing?
Since the majority of life on our planet needs sun to survive, it’s amazing to think that these creatures reside in complete darkness and are still able to live. Chemosynthesis is when organisms use the energy from reactions created by inorganic chemicals when there isn’t any sunlight around. Thermal vents found in the ocean release volcanic chemicals and heat, and bacteria uses chemosynthesis to make sugar for their food chain.
Antarctica
Organisms that live beneath glaciers chemosynthesise hydrogen and some chemosynthetic ecosystems depend on methane. Interestingly, a methane leak has been discovered in the waters of Antarctica.
With that being said, the living creatures underneath Antarctica’s ice shelves probably depend on a chemosynthetic food chain but much more research needs to be conducted in order to know for sure. Nevertheless, it’s incredibly interesting to know that several different species can survive beneath the freezing cold ice shelves of Antarctica.
Unknown lights filmed over Tempe, Arizona 12-Feb-2021
Unknown lights filmed over Tempe, Arizona 12-Feb-2021
These UFOs were filmed over Tempe, Florida on 12th February 2021.
Witness report:
On the night of 2/12/2021. I happen to look out of my kitchen window while talking to my wife when I noticed a group of strange lights in the sky. I always look into the night sky and in the general direction of what I filmed. I’ve never seen anything like this especially in that part of the sky. This video is what I recorded. The objects traveled to a certain part of the sky and stayed there pulsated and then vanished into the clear night sky. I recorded is 2 separate clips. Because I thought the event ended but more returned. At one point an airplane traveling east went in the general direction of the objects. The objects seemed unaffected by this and more returned in the sky. They had a reddish orange color. The cell phone camera didn’t pick up these colors. Not sure what these were.
This bright UFO was filmed hovering in the sky above Coventry, a city in central England. This happened on 1st February 2021.
Witness report:
Bright helixical shape with Additional orb. Spotted helixical shape whilst in garden pruning trees hence it was in line of sight .Started filming after a minute another faster moving shape enters frame moving erratically . The second object disappeared . The first object tracked on a fairly straight trajectory ( ISS was shown by nasa as being over UK at approximately that time but not sure this would be visible in daylight) either way second object flight path was to erratic to be a satellite. Wife also witnessed at time. Flight radar app checked and no flights over location at the time.
When researchers are drilling almost one kilometer of ice, they’re not expecting to find all that much life. But in a recent survey in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, they came across multiple life forms living in complete darkness, at temperatures of -2.2°C (28 °F)
“This discovery is one of those fortunate accidents that pushes ideas in a different direction and shows us that Antarctic marine life is incredibly special and amazingly adapted to a frozen world,” says biogeographer and lead author, Dr. Huw Griffiths of British Antarctic Survey.
Breaking all the rules
Antarctica is the world’s harshest continent, and yet life seems to find a way even in these conditions. Few creatures can survive in Antarctica in the first place, but to do it in such hellish conditions is truly stunning. This is the first study to find stationary animals attached to a boulder on the Antarctic seafloor, the authors say, and they’re “breaking all the rules.”
Researchers found several sponge-like species, including some species previously unknown to science. It’s very unlikely that they just got lucky and hit the needle in the Antarctic haystack — the one place where such animals happen to survive in these conditions. Instead, Griffiths says, there’s probably much more like this waiting to be discovered.
“There appear to be at least three species present in the images, possibly more. Given that this is the first record of a hard substrate community observed from a habitat that covers 1.6 million km2 then I would be very surprised if we had been lucky enough to find all the species on a single boulder, so I would expect that there are many more waiting to be found,” Griffiths told ZME Science.
We don’t yet know much about these species, and in a way, their discovery seems to pose more questions than it answers. They appear to be a group of unpretentious filter-feeders — creatures that feed by straining suspended matter (food) from the water. But where does their food even come from, and how common are these life forms? Since it’s so dark, there can’t be any talk of photosynthesis, and there doesn’t seem to be any hydrothermal vent, so Griffiths suspects the food comes from farther away.
“From looking at the video it appears to be a filter-feeding community, obviously this community must be able to cope with less food than others elsewhere. There are no obvious signs of chemosynthesis, these sponges are not the typical hydrothermal vent or methane seep fauna and the water temperatures are very cold. As far as we know the most likely source of food is what washed in from beyond the ice shelf by the currents, but this requires further investigation,” Griffiths added in an email.
British Antarctic Survey camera travelling down the 900-meter-long bore hole in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. (Marine creature pictured is unrelated to the discovery).
Image credits: Dr Huw Griffiths/British Antarctic Survey.
Tantalizing information for life on Earth and beyond
The discovery of an established community on a boulder 260 km from the ice raises “significant questions,” the researchers note, forcing us to rethink what we think about how life survives under ice shelves. The findings have wide implications not just in regards to creatures inhabiting the Earth now, but also to creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago, in a period called the “snowball earth” — and even for potential life on frozen bodies such as Jupiter’s satellite Europa.
The problem is further complicated by the fact that these creatures are filter-feeders. Filter-feeders depend on a supply of food from above, so they are among the first to disappear as you move away from open water and sunlight. Yet, here they are, probably covering large habitats, showing just how much we’ve still yet to learn about these extreme environments.
“Ice shelves cover roughly a third of the Antarctic’s 5 million km2 continental shelf and the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf [where the creatures were found] covers around 420,000 km2, so these environments are surprisingly common but we know virtually nothing about them. Finding filter feeding animals so far from their food source shows us that life beneath ice shelves is more resilient and widespread than we expected.”
Now, researchers will continue to study these creatures and see what they can understand about these extremophilic communities. But they also leave a warning: we may end up destroying these communities before we even truly understand them. Despite being remarkably well adapted for the cold, they are vulnerable to the global heating that could wreck their entire ecosystem.
“If these communities turn out to be new species, only found under ice shelves then this would make them very vulnerable to climate change and ice shelf collapse, which could destroy their entire habitat in the future,” Griffiths concludes.
NASA's Hubble Telescope provides 14 years of data on the exoplanet HD106906 b.
It exhibits strange behavior along its orbit 336 light-year away from Earth.
Scientists think data from the exoplanet may explain what happened to the possibly hidden Planet Nine in our Solar System.
How many planets are in our Solar System? You may think there's an obvious answer you learned in kindergarten, but the number has fluctuated between 8 and 9, depending on whether you accept Pluto as being large enough for a planet. But there's another mysterious planet that may be lurking at the edge of the Solar System – the so-called "Planet Nine". All we know about it is through inference, arrived at by judging the effects this potential planet may be having on its surroundings. Now, for the first time, scientists measured the motion of a massive exoplanet, in a different solar system, that may be exhibiting behavior similar to that of the hypothesized Planet Nine.
The exoplanet HD106906 b is 336 light-year away from Earth. With the mass of as much as 11 Jupiters, it orbits a double star system. Scientists first discovered it in 2013 but have now been able to get much better information about its orbit thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, Hubble has collected 14 years worth of precise data about the exoplanet, allowing for a wealth of new insight.
The exoplanet is located very far from its host stars, 730 times as far as it is from the Earth to the Sun. While its slow 15,000-year-long orbit would ordinarily not allow for very conclusive observation in just 14 years, the Hubble team found that its orbit is extreme, both very inclined and elongated, staying on the outside of a debris disc surrounding the twin stars.
Meiji Nguyen of the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study, commented on how unusual the exoplanet's orbit is:
"To highlight why this is weird, we can just look at our own Solar System and see that all of the planets lie roughly in the same plane,"shared Nguyen. "It would be bizarre if, say, Jupiter just happened to be inclined 30 degrees relative to the plane that every other planet orbits in. This raises all sorts of questions about how HD 106906 b ended up so far out on such an inclined orbit."
The Strange Exoplanet That Resembles the Long-Sought “Planet Nine”
How did this planet develop such an orbit? The scientists think it likely formed much closer to the host stars, but the drag from the system's gas disc might have affected its orbit. This could have pushed it closer to the twin stars, whose gravitational force then threw it out into an eccentric orbit, nearly all the way into interstellar space. As the Hubble team's press release explains, a passing star then possibly corrected the exoplanet's orbit and stopped it from leaving the home system altogether.
This explanation is similar to what scientists predict could have pushed the potential Planet Nine to the edges of our Solar System, past the Kuiper belt. Jupiter might have affected its orbit, kicking it out from the inner Solar System. Planet Nine could have kept going past Pluto but a passing star possibly stopped it by altering its orbit.
Paul Kalas of the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Hubble team, commented that analyzing what happened to exoplanet HD106906 b is like investigating our own past.
"It's as if we have a time machine for our own Solar System going back 4.6 billion years to see what may have happened when our young Solar System was dynamically active and everything was being jostled around and rearranged,"elaborated Kalas.
This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows one possible orbit (via the dashed ellipse) of the exoplanet HD 106906 b.
Credits: NASA, ESA, M. Nguyen (University of California, Berkeley), R. De Rosa (European Southern Observatory), and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley and SETI Institute)
Of course, none of this means we actually found Planet Nine, if it even exists. Evidence for its corporeality includes the strange behavior of small space bodies past Neptune, whose inexplicable orbits might be the result of being affected by the gravitational pull of an unseen planet.
Further investigations into the formation and debris system of the exoplanet HD106906 b will be carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in October 2021. It promises to shed more like on the exoplanet's unusual system and, by extension, on our own mystery Planet Nine.
Check out the team's paper, published in The Astronomical Journal.
Artist's impression of the possibly hidden "Planet Nine"
The hunt for life on Mars: A visual guide to NASA’s latest mission
The hunt for life on Mars: A visual guide to NASA’s latest mission
The Perseverance spacecraft, due to land this week, aims to scour Jezero Crater and collect the first rocks from the red planet.
By Alexandra Witze
Perseverance will explore Jezero Crater (shown in this artist’s impression), the oldest terrain yet explored on the red planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
About 3.9 billion years ago, a wayward rock slammed into Mars, punching a 45-kilometre-wide hole into its surface. On 18 February, NASA plans to land its latest rover inside that pit, named Jezero Crater.
The goal is to explore an area of Mars that was once much warmer and wetter, and perhaps even liveable. Scattered throughout the crater are geological formations hinting at its watery past, including the remains of a lake and a river delta. Studying the make-up of these rocks — in a region where no spacecraft has gone before — will give NASA its best chance yet at answering the age-old question of whether life ever existed on Mars.
“Jezero is very special,” says Briony Horgan, a planetary scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and a member of the mission’s science team.
NASA’s six-wheeled rover, named Perseverance, will explore Jezero as a robotic geologist — examining outcrops and then scooping dirt and rock into a carousel of tubes stored in its belly. If all goes well, by the end of its first Mars year on the surface — a little under two Earth years — the rover will have travelled more than 15 kilometres. And it will have collected a precious set of samples that it will drop onto the Martian ground, where future spacecraft might one day retrieve them — the first attempt to bring Mars rocks back to Earth.
Destination: Jezero
Two other missions reached Mars this month. The United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft started orbiting the planet on 9 February, followed a day later by China’s Tianwen-1 mission — a first for both nations. But Perseverance aims to become the first rover to land since 2012, when NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft arrived in Gale Crater, a dry lake bed about 3,700 kilometres from Jezero. (Tianwen-1 is slated to send a rover to touch down as early as May, and Hope will continue orbiting.) Only eight spacecraft have successfully operated on the red planet’s surface (see ‘Touch Down’).
Touch Down
Only eight spacecraft, beginning with the twin Viking landers in 1976, have successfully landed and operated on the red planet. Perseverance is heading to a previously unexplored region on 18 February.
Phoenix , Viking 2, Jezero Crater, Viking 1, Pathfinder, Perseverance,
Scientists are excited about Perseverance because it could answer questions about Mars’s past that they have only guessed at. Jezero’s ancient, fractured landscape will be the oldest terrain ever explored on the red planet. “This region is a very old part of Mars,” says Vivian Sun, a planetary geologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and a member of the Perseverance science team. “That’s important because the oldest periods of time are when we think Mars was most habitable.”
Ancient landscape
Perseverance aims to land within a 7.7 x 6.6 kilometre ellipse in Jezero Crater, either next to or on top of the ancient river delta it aims to explore.
Jezero Crater rim Target landing site for Perseverance
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin
From around 4.1 billion to 3.7 billion years ago, volcanoes belched gases into Mars’s atmosphere, thickening it, trapping heat and allowing clouds to form and rain to fall. Flowing water carved out river valleys and filled up lakes — and scientists see evidence of these on the surface today. Eventually, however, Mars became colder, drier and much more inhospitable.
Images taken by orbiting spacecraft show that one river that formed during this time flowed through and over the western edge of Jezero Crater. The river must have carried tiny particles of sediment scoured from far upstream. When it entered the crater, it dropped this sediment into the lake there, creating a delta that fanned out to the east. In and around the delta and lake, conditions would have been ripe for microbial life to thrive. Later, the lake drained away and left behind the formation, now turned to rock.
Mining the delta
Perseverance is heading to Jezero to explore this ancient delta. One goal will be to look for organic matter in the delta’s rocks, which could indicate whether microbes or other life forms once thrived in the region. On Earth, deltas such as that of the Mississippi River hold huge amounts of organic material, the decaying remnants of plants and other matter from farther upstream. If the Jezero delta trapped this type of organic matter, the rover could find it by rolling across the formation and drilling, says Linda Kah, a geologist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and a member of Perseverance’s science team.
A watery past
Billions of years ago, a river flowed into Jezero from the west, spilling into a large lake that filled the crater. Sediment exited the river to form a fan-shaped delta.
Crater rim, Ancient lake, shoreline, Inflowing, ancient river, River delta, Nili,
Planum, Crater floor, (bottom of ancient lake)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/Brown University
Another place to look for signs of past life on Mars is along the ancient shores of the lake. In particular, Perseverance will study an arc of rocks that run alongside the delta and parallel to the rim of the crater. Earlier observations from orbiting spacecraft suggest that these rocks could be made of carbonate minerals, which are relatively rare on Mars but common on Earth. Carbonates, including limestone, are often associated with living organisms such as coral reefs, and with fossils that preserve past organisms such as microbes. “Carbonate excites the hell out of geobiologists like me,” says Kah.
A path forward
Once it lands, Perseverance’s biggest challenge will be to quickly and efficiently explore all these target areas and collect samples. NASA has allotted only one Mars year (equivalent to nearly two years on Earth) for Perseverance to carry out its initial mission.
So scientists on the team have been drawing up routes that the rover might take soon after it touches down. “A lot will depend on where we land” in the 8-kilometre-wide target area, says Kah.
A rover’s journey
One possible route would see Perseverance landing on the crater floor, travelling across and along the ancient river delta and collecting rocks from multiple locations before driving out of Jezero to lay those rock samples down for future missions to bring back to Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS
In one scenario, Perseverance will land on the crater floor, just in front of the delta’s cliffs. Scientists aren’t entirely sure what the crater floor is made of, but the rock appears to be dark and smooth and could be a volcanic flow. If so, picking up a sample will be a top priority for mission scientists: when that sample eventually gets back to Earth, researchers will be able to analyse it and obtain a precise date for the volcanic eruption that created it, which will help them to understand the timing of geological events in Jezero.
From the crater floor, the rover could drive up and onto the delta, grabbing clay-rich samples and other rocks. It could then head onto the potentially carbonate-rich rocks, drilling into those as well, and afterward drive up onto the rim of Jezero.
If the rover takes this route, it will have travelled more than 15 kilometres and collected at least 15–20 tubes of rocks of different types.
In this video, scientist Ken Farley narrates a flyover of the terrain Perseverance will explore. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Rock collector
To obtain rock and soil samples, Perseverance will use a drill on its robotic arm (see ‘Tools To Explore’). It will collect duplicates of the most important samples, filling two tubes with the same rock. When the rover reaches the rim of Jezero Crater, it will lay one set of these tubes on the ground and keep the other stashed in its belly. This is to ensure that there is an initial collection of Mars samples available for a future mission to pick up easily and return to Earth.
If the rover is still healthy after its first Mars year, it will head from the crater rim out to the surrounding plains, called Nili Planum. This part of its journey will explore the most ancient terrain yet, including enormous blocks of jumbled-up rock that were blasted from deep inside Mars when another huge asteroid hit, nearly 4 billion years ago. These rocks could come not just from the Martian crust, but from a deeper layer of Mars known as the mantle — which scientists have never been able to look at directly before. “They’re just sitting there, perhaps for more than three billion years, waiting for us to look at them,” says Horgan.
Tools to explore
The car-sized Perseverance carries multiple instruments to probe the Martian landscape. The drill that it will use to collect rock samples is at the end of its robotic arm.
Mastcam-Z and SuperCam, imagers, MEDA,weather station, Carousel, RIMFAX
subsurface, radar, Robotic arm, MOXIE produces oxygen from carbondioxide,
Also up on Nili Planum, according to past observations, are the remains of ancient hydrothermal systems, where hot water once percolated through the Martian crust. On Earth, in places like Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, these hydrothermal areas are teeming with microbial ecosystems. The same might once have been true on Mars. So Nili Planum offers a type of potentially habitable environment entirely different from that in Jezero Crater.
If everything is still going well in this ‘extended mission’, Perseverance will drill and collect samples until it runs out of tubes. With one set dropped off at the rim of Jezero Crater, the rest of the tubes will be laid down somewhere out on Nili Planum, awaiting retrieval.
This video shows a simulation of the job Perseverance’s helicopter will do on the red planet: scouting ahead and taking images of the landscape to help the rover navigate its route. (This video contains the sound of machinery and helicopter blades in an otherwise silent Martian landscape.)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Perseverance will perform other tasks during its time on Mars, including testing the first helicopter placed on another world — as a way to scout the safest path across the landscape — and experimenting with ways to extract oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, as a resource for future human explorers. But its top priority is to collect those samples for eventual return to Earth.
The European Space Agency and NASA are working on plans for two missions needed to retrieve the samples. Launching no earlier than 2026, they would send a rover to Jezero Crater or Nili Planum to retrieve the sample tubes laid down by Perseverance, as well as an orbiter to loop around Mars. The rover would put the tubes on a rocket and launch them into Mars orbit, where the orbiter would grab them and fly them back to Earth no earlier than 2031.
Perseverance is the first step in that lengthy process — a step scientists have been anticipating for decades. “Perseverance will be the first rover to seek the answer to the outstanding questions that we haven’t been able to address with other rovers — was there life on Mars, and can we find evidence that there used to be life?” says Sun. “I’m super-excited.”
According to more than 20 witnesses, a very large aerial object with very bright lights hovered near Fox Lake between 8pm and 9pm, in December of 1996, in Yukon, Canada.
Reflect On:
The disclosure of these strange objects has happened, and they've been recognized within the 'mainstream.' Are these objects extraterrestrial? How long have they been sighted?
The topic of UFOs has gained a tremendous amount of credibility, especially within the past few years alone. We’ve written in depth about the subject for ten years now, and if you’re interested in skimming through some of our articles on the subject, you can find all of them, in order, here
There are no shortage of stories from around the world when it comes to UFO sightings, one great example of strange objects that are commonly seen in the sky comes from the Yukon, a province in Canada situated on the Northwest side of the country. It’s a remote area, nowhere near any major cities or populated areas. This reported sighting happened on December 11th, 1996 near a place called Fox Lake. It’s extremely cold in this part of the country at this time of year – it’s not far from Alaska – and again, it is hundreds of miles from any major city or heavily populated public area.
According to more than 20 witnesses, a very large aerial object with very bright lights hovered near the lake (Fox Lake) between 8pm and 9pm.
The picture you see as the cover for this article was done by Canadian engineer Martin Jasek, who wrote a detailed account of the event after he investigated it for himself.
“Two of the witnesses were cousins, driving in separate vehicles. Each saw it over the lake, slammed on their brakes, and got out of their vehicles. They watched the huge object as it slowly drifted towards one of them and was soon almost directly overhead. It then moved slowly across the highway and over a hill to the east, whereupon it was lost to view.” (1)
“While the two cousins were observing this object, a married couple with their baby were a bit farther to the south along the same highway, driving toward them. They too saw the object. By the time they caught up with the cousins and pulled over, the object had moved off. The married couple continued driving until they arrived at a lodge farther ahead. There, they told the owner abougt what they had seen. He promptly recounted a sighting from an earlier witness, who had gotten very close to this object. (1)
“At the nearby village of Pelly Crossing, other people described the same object. In one case it seemed to respond to a man’s flashlight by accelerating towards him. When he turned off his flashlight, the object stopped. By then it had gotten quite close to him, filling much of the sky. It also emitted several beams of light, including one that swooped along the ground. They ran ran across a clearing, perhaps to get to a better view. When he turned to look for the object, it was gone.” (1)
Just imagine seeing something like this. How remarkable would that be? I myself have had a number of fairly remarkable UFO encounters, even with a few members here at Colletive-Evolution. As a result of all of the evidence supporting the phenomena, along with my own experiences, I have been fascinated with this subject for a very long time.
This case has been investigated by many, and most of the interviews with the witnesses are available online. Here is a video that has a few of them describing their experience in person, but again, more are available online.
This is one out of many extraordinary sightings that has occurred around the world, and judging by ancient artwork and history, it seems to have been happening for a very long time. One example would be the aboriginal community in Canada. Their stories have not been passed down through documentation, but through an oral storytelling tradition. These stories often speak of spiritual beings from another world.
“My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving, and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.”
5000 year old cave art from Australia depicts strange beings that resemble what many perceive to represent the modern day ‘Gray Alien.’ These beings were known as Wandjina, cloud spirits and sky beings. You can read more about that here. It’s all very interesting to think about.
If you put all of these teachings and stories from multiple cultures around the world together with the evidence that is available today, things start to seem quite strange – and very real.
This particular case included various drawings and detailed interviews with many of the people who witnessed the object.
Dulce Base: Human And Alien Underground Facility On Earth?
Dulce Base: Human And Alien Underground Facility On Earth?
For most people, the words Dulce Base mean nothing. Not even the faintest thought, nor memory of what it could mean comes to mind.
But to those studying UFO phenomena Dulce Base is very familiar and often hotly debated. For Dulce Base is an alleged secret underground base the U.S. Government shares with Aliens.
Dulce Base is said to be located on the Colorado-New Mexico border, near the town of Dulce, New Mexico or more accurately under the Archuleta Mesa. The base was first revealed by Paul Bennewitz, an Albuquerque businessman who operated an electronics company called Thunder Scientific Corporation.
Besides being a businessman Paul was an UFO investigator during his off hours. At some point he and another ufologist, Dr. Leo Sprinkle, investigated the clams of Myrna Hansen regarding cattle mutilation near Cimarron, New Mexico.
During a hypnotic session conducted by Dr. Leo Sprinkle the woman reveal a strange tale. She claimed that not only had she witness UFOs and cattle mutilations, but had also been abducted and taken to an underground base. She claimed that implants had been placed in her body there to control her thoughts she also claimed to have seen containers of human body parts.
Bennewitz believed the story and thought it must somehow be connected with the anomalous lights he had been filming at the nearby Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility and Coyote Canyon Test Area.
Besides anomalous lights Bennewitz had also been investigating odd radio signals he had inadvertently intercepted. Driven by what he had heard during Myrna Hansen’s hypnotic session Bennewitz built a device, called Project Beta, to intercept and decode alien communications.
Bennewitz soon believed that he had uncovered a hive underground alien activity near Dulce. The discovery fit perfectly in with the universal alien plot that he thought existed. He named the alien facility Dulce Base and spread his ideas about it to others in the UFO community.
Of course, his claims were met with skepticism, even among UFO enthusiast. Some regarded him as a deluded paranoid, due in part to the fact that he had been in a mental health facility at least three times.
Later ufologist William Moore admitted to participating in a disinformation campaign along with Kirtland AFB AFOSI agent Richard C. Doty to push Bennewitz into a mental breakdown by feeding him false information about aliens.
Nonetheless, his story about Dulce Base spread gaining some plausibility due to the Cold War. Examples of underground facilities like Cheyenne Mountain and underground missile sites were well known.
Perhaps it was not that far-fetched to think that there was a Dulce Base. This seed of doubt gave the story the seed of truth it needed to grow and for years was just regarded as an odd tale.
The story took an odd twist starting in 1979 when Philip Schneider came forward with his story. According to Schneider he was employed Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. as part of a project to expand an underground military base a Dulce, New Mexico. In the process, the workers accidentally opened a large artificial cavern, a secret base for the aliens known as Grays.
In the panic that occurred, sixty-seven workers and military personnel were killed, with Philip Schneider being one of only three people to survive. Philip claimed that scars on his chest and missing fingers on his left hand were caused by his being struck by an alien weapon that would later result in cancer due to the radiation.
Time for another twist in the story. Two years after Schneider started telling his story he was found dead having been strangled by a catheter hose.
Tomas Costello tells a similar story but with more detail. Tomas Costello claims to be a former security officer at Dulce base. He described it as an underworld highly secret base operated by humans, reptilian aliens, and their worker class.
He described horrific experiments conducted on men, women and children by aliens at the base. The former security officer revealed that he and other personnel were told that the experiments were being conducted on hopelessly insane subjects for medical and humane purposes.
However, his fellow employees told him that the experiments were being conducted on heavily sedated abduction victims. Conflict between employees and aliens regarding the experiments conducted there eventually erupted into outright war for control of Dulce Base.
The fighting involved Dulce Base security forces, US military personnel, and aliens. Many people were killed in the conflict, but in the end Dulce Base resumed operating with the same goals and methods as before. Time for another twist. Tomas Costello disappeared after telling his story at this point no one knows if he went into hiding or possibly met with foul play.
So, that is the legend of Dulce Base. Is it real? Like all dark secrets it’s impossible to say one way or another. There may actually be a secret underground base located there.
When they first began to mysteriously appear, the giant holes or cratersin remote Siberian areas had no explanation – leaving them open to speculations ranging from bombs and rockets to giant worms and aliens to climate change and reindeer eating too much grass (really!). Eventually, the blame was definitively put on pingos – methane gas bubbles trapped under solid permafrost domes until they defrosted, collapsed and exploded – but knowing what they are and why they open up hasn’t opened up any solutions. In fact, a new report reveals that the older ones are growing while more new ones are forming every day.
They didn’t blame us again, did they?
“We found that 5% of the landscape changed from 1984 to 2017. The algorithm detected all seven GECs reported in the scientific literature and three new GEC-like features, and further revealed that retrogressive thaw slumps were more abundant than GECs.”
When you have a territory as big as Siberia to search, scientists are wise to turn to satellite data and modeling for help, and that’s exactly what Sue Natali, Arctic program director at Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts, and her team from Woodwell, the U.S. Forest Service and the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (Novosibirsk, Russia), did. Their paper, published in the journal Geosciences, shows an alarming number of other gas emissions crater (GEC) and previously undetected landscape changes over a 327,000 sq km (126,000 sq miles) area centered around the Yamal Peninsula in western Siberia where the first craters were found in 2014 – an area that continues to be a hotbed of crater formation due to permafrost melting from climate change.
“The latest science suggests that GECs form when subterranean methane accumulates beneath ice-rich permafrost, which can over-pressurize, deform the land-surface, and explode catastrophically. This activity is associated with warmer air temperatures, so as the climate warms and temperatures rise in western Siberia, that may in turn accelerate GEC formation in the region, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and posing a risk to humans and infrastructure. Understanding these risks however, has been hindered by limited capabilities for detecting and mapping GECs.”
The press release announcing the paper details the process used by the Woodwell team. Satellite data from Google Earth (of course) showing surface reflectance, elevation, and water extent was fed through “a semi-automated multivariate change detection algorithm” to create detailed topographical and geophysical maps (see them here) of the Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas (the ground zeroes of past crater formation) and adjoining areas which immediately highlighted abrupt permafrost thaw and lake drainage – two big signs of GEC formation.
“Our change detection algorithm successfully identified the seven GECs previously reported in the scientific literature and three previously undocumented GEC-like features. Two of the newly identified features had geomorphic similarities to—and were located in an area nearby—several known GECs in the vicinity of the Bovanenkovo gas field. While less abundant than retrogressive thaw slumps in the Yamal-Gydan region, GEC activity is challenging to predict and poses a hazard to human populations and infrastructure.”
While finding three previously unknown craters was big, detecting changes that could lead to more in less remote areas with human populations and vulnerable infrastructures was even bigger. Unfortunately, while knowing ahead of time the signs of potential crater explosions is useful, it’s too late to fix the climate changes that caused them – only to fix the future before the landscape formations begin to occur.
Data is just data. It’s what you do with it that counts.
Among UFO sightings some of the more spectacular are those of mass sightings, in which many people, sometimes dozens or hundreds, witness the same strange things going on in the skies. Although rarer than most accounts, such mass sightings typically provide a rich variety of witnesses, many of them often very trusted people in social high standing, or professionals, trained personnel, and experts. They often serve to be harder to explain away than typical sightings, and usually earn there place among the more bizarre UFO accounts. One such incident occurred in England back in the 1990s, and remains one of the most amazing and famous mass UFO sightings there is.
The beginning of what as gone on to be one of the most talked about mass UFO sighting incidents in recent memory was March 30, 1993, in the country of England. On this evening there suddenly began a deluge of reports coming in from the across a swath of southwest England, particularly in the vicinity of Shropshire, of something decidedly weird in the sky, from witnesses of all walks of life and many of them traditionally. One of the first reports came from a policeman who claimed to have seen a massive object resembling “two Concordes flying side by side and joined together,” and there were other reports that put the object’s size at a massive 200 meters long. Other reports claimed that the object had been observed sometimes flying very low to the ground, and there was even a panicked resident who claimed that it had landed in a field. Dozens of reports like this came in, and curiously people were giving different descriptions, including a cylindrical object, a triangular-shaped craft with three lights, and a pair of lights seeming to emit a tail-like plume, suggesting there was more than one aerial disturbance at work. Yet this was only the beginning.
The south England countryside
Continuing into March 31st, 1993, the reports kept coming in, and it seemed as if the phenomena had gotten even more active. The evening of the 31st would also mark a series of high level sightings from police and military personnel, who had been on alert due to the sheer number of anomalous reports the night before. There would be several sightings made from RAF bases in the region, including sightings of a fast moving red light by personnel at RAF Cosford and another incident at RAF Shawbury. One meteorologist at RAF Shawbury by the name of Wayne Elliot would claim that a triangular shaped craft measuring around 200 feet across had slowly approached his base slowly while emitting a low humming noise and, then shot a bright beam of light towards the ground before shooting off at amazing speed while leaving a luminous vapor trail in its wake. At no point were any of these objects picked up on radar at the bases. Some of the reports were scattered over a wide area, as another military encounter with one of the objects allegedly happened to an Irish military helicopter en route to Ireland over the coast of southwest Wales. The crew would report seeing “two white lights at a fixed distance apart in the horizontal plane” with trails visible through night vision equipment, that appeared to close the distance and pace them for a time.
The sightings were investigated by Nick Pope, who ran the UFO project run by the British Ministry of Defense (MoD), and he collected a steady stream of the reports, which he described as “coming in thick and fast,” in particular from the areas of Devon, Cornwall and Wales. Pope would claim to gather several hundred eyewitness reports of the bizarre unidentified aerial phenomena from March 30 and 31, and he also asserted that it was such a major incident that it even captured the attention of military officials at the Pentagon, who he believed included it in their 490-page secret report under the part of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. Pope has said of this:
The Cosford Incident was the most high-profile and compelling UFO incident that took place during my time on the MoD’s UFO project in the early Nineties. It is probably among the best cases in our entire archive, that goes back decades and includes around 12,000 sightings. It is inconceivable to me that this wouldn’t be one of the incidents mentioned in the secret US report. I’m sure the Americans knew all about the Cosford Incident, and maybe conducted some discreet enquiries of their own.
Despite how amazing this may all seem, we are still left to wonder about just what exactly was seen by all of these witnesses, and there has been much debate on the matter. One very prevalent theory is that the aerial phenomena were caused by some kind of falling space debris, notably the re-entry of a Russian satellite called the Cosmos 2238, which it turns out was scheduled to renter the atmosphere on the evening of March 31. This would not be out of the question, as falling space debris has caused UFO flaps before, and incidentally, a similar Cosmos satellite that had gone down in the winter of 1978 also coincided with a wave of UFO sightings. A reentering satellite might explain some of the sightings, but it would not really explain the fact that many of the reports describe distinctly triangular objects that were allegedly seen flying in a seemingly intelligently controlled manner, including changing speed, hovering, or flying low to the ground, even in one case landing and taking off, which doesn’t really fit in with the space debris theory. The Russian satellite angle also would not explain the sightings going on during the evening of March 30, nor the insistence of some very trained witnesses that these were not space debris. So what are some of the other other possibilities? Other ideas are that this was some sort of top secret experimental aircraft being tested, a military black op, or some strange atmospheric phenomena. There is also the possibility that this was just misidentified normal aircraft such as airplanes or helicopters. One local police investigator has said of this likelihood:
If there’s no full moon you would not necessarily see the shape of the aircraft just the three lights and perhaps the searchlight. On a number of occasions in the last nine years we have had people ringing the police to report UFOs and when we have checked our operation logs it has turned out to be our helicopter. On other occasions we have had people reporting UFOs who have actually seen airliners descending into Manchester who have switched their landing lights on or off. Most people have no idea of spatial awareness at night and cannot accurately judge the height or distance. We have had people saying they have seen things at treetop height and when we have checked it has been an aircraft descending into Manchester at 10,000 feet or more.
One argument against this is that many of the observers were reliable, trained witnesses such as FAF personnel, police officers, and the meteorologist, so how could they all misidentify a helicopter or plane? UFO investigator Chris Fowler has addressed this by explaining the problems with leaning too heavily on supposed expert witnesses, pointing out that even trained and seasoned individuals can be fooled by innate problems with our senses of perception. Fowler says of this:
The human visual perceptual system and cognizance are very discerning but easily fooled by events like those described here. It is part of common UFO reportage that lights and aircraft flying at night can lead to false reports of distance, altitude, time estimates, size and other fundamental attributes. We should take note all observers are fallible to misperception and illusory effects and to false interpretation and apply adequate reasoning here. These 1993 events may be exemplary in providing more evidence of the inability of those often described as ‘trained observers’ to discern altitude in lights than is supposed. It is fallacious to assume that certain subsets of people, by occupation, may be more or less accurate in their observations of lights, shapes, distance and altitude without providing evidence. Observational accuracy by any subset of witnesses depends upon circumstance and a willingness to apply useful pragmatic means to recording observations at the time and on some understanding of limitations.
One of the problems with trying to get to the bottom of the Cosford Incident is that Nick Pope has been accused by skeptics and even others within the UFO field of being a bit over zealous in his approach, and too willing to try and fit everything into his own preconceived theories. He has been accused of cherry picking, twisting and misrepresenting data to fit his needs, leading witnesses in interviews into the outcomes he wants, and generally exaggerating certain elements of the cases, giving misleading statements, or leaving out certain information to misrepresent the facts. For instance, although Pope has admitted that some of the sightings could have been space debris, he rarely mentions this, instead focusing on the more bizarre and mysterious sightings and elements. UFO researcher Gary Anthony has criticized Pope’s approach in relation to his participation in a documentary of the incident called The British UFO Mystery – Stranger Than Fiction, saying of it:
After watching the documentary myself, I wondered if Nick Pope had lost the real plot or not because in places there were exaggerative comments and the reports were misrepresented both by Nick and in the visual continuity and the narrating voice. The presentation was more geared towards Pope’s own personal and theatrical interpretation of the sightings and was laid out fallaciously for an unsuspecting public. Relevant information was not included, witness participation was minimal and some of the facts presented were grossly out of context. He clearly has fallen into the trap of not recognizing salient features and errors of multiple witness reports, making links that do not exist and falling back on the questionable prowess of ‘trained observers,’ endowed with super-human abilities of discerning distance, altitudes and size in lights seen at night. A real house of cards. The programme featured only one witness, a lady who saw a row of lights whilst driving home. For the 45-minute plus feature exclusively on these sightings none of the official witnesses used to bolster the theme appeared.
In the end, the whole incident has sort of quietly been brushed away, and is rarely talked about outside of UFO circles, despite how many witnesses there apparently were. What was going on here? Was this merely space debris? Was it experimental aircraft, aliens, atmospheric phenomena, or all of the above? How reliable is Pope’s documentation of the supposed events and is there anything we are missing? There is no way to really know the answers to such questions and others like them, and we are left to wonder just what went on over the English countryside in March of 1993.
Wetenschappers ontdekken tot hun verbazing leven onder ijslaag van 900 meter in Antarctica
Wetenschappers hebben in Antarctica per toeval levensvormen ontdekt onder een negenhonderd meter dikke ijslaag. Dat blijkt uit een artikel dat maandag gepubliceerd werd in het wetenschappelijke magazine Frontiers in Marine Science.
Wetenschappers van onderzoeksproject British Antarctic Survey wilden stalen van bezinksel nemen door te boren in een negenhonderd meter dikke ijslaag in het Filchner-Ronne-ijsplateau, ten zuidoosten van Weddellzee. Maar in plaats van modder, troffen ze een stuk rots aan. Uit videobeelden is gebleken dat het gesteente bedekt was met verschillende levensvormen.
Er werden onder meer dieren aangetroffen die op sponzen leken, naast nog enkel andere, mogelijk nog onbekende soorten. De sedentaire dieren hadden zich weten aanpassen aan zeer extreme leefomstandigheden: in complete duisternis en bij temperaturen van min 2,2 graden.
De dieren werden aangetroffen op 260 kilometer van de open zee. Hoe en wanneer ze op die afgelegen locatie terecht zijn gekomen, is voorlopig een raadsel. Het is ook nog niet duidelijk hoe ze zich voeden.
Uitzonderlijk
De ontdekking toont aan dat het mariene leven in Antarctica zeer bijzonder is en bovendien ook uitzonderlijk goed aangepast is aan de omstandigheden, zegt onderzoeker Huw Griffiths.
Het is nog niet duidelijk tot welke soort de dieren behoren. De wetenschappers vragen zich ook af wat het voor die dieren zou betekenen wanneer de ijsplaat afbreekt. Door de klimaatverandering is er maar weinig tijd om hen te bestuderen en om hun ecosysteem te beschermen, zo klinkt het.
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3 Things That Were Once Science Fiction That Have Now Become Science Fact
3 Things That Were Once Science Fiction That Have Now Become Science Fact
I think that everyone can agree that our world is becoming stranger with each passing day. As I survey the news on a daily basis, I am absolutely astounded by the bizarre things that I come across. When I was growing up, our world seemed like such a stable and predictable place, but that is definitely no longer the case. These days, we are constantly seeing things happen that I never thought that we would actually see, and that includes officials at the Pentagon admitting that they have been testing wreckage from UFO crashes…
THE Pentagon has admitted to holding and testing wreckage from UFO crashes in a bombshell Freedom of Information letter, shared with The Sun.
Researcher Anthony Bragalia wrote to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) requesting details of all UFO material, which they hold and results of any tests they had been carrying out on it.
In the old days, government officials would go to great lengths to deny that UFOs existed.
But now apparently all you have to do to find out the truth is submit a FOIA request.
As a child, I was told that UFOs only existed in science fiction movies. But over the years sightings have become more and more frequent, and it has become clear that people are not just imagining these objects.
And now the government is even admitting that it has studied materials from crashed UFOs that possess “extraordinary capabilities”…
In the response, shared with The Sun, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious “memory” metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.
Bragalia said it was a “stunning admission” from the US government and the documents reveal that some of the retrieved debris possesses “extraordinary capabilities” including the potential to make things invisible or even slow down the speed of light.
So the good news is that we are starting to get some truth about UFOs from the U.S. government.
But the bad news is that many experts that have studied UFOs believe that the intentions of those piloting the craft are not good at all.
But the bad news is that many experts that have studied UFOs believe that the intentions of those piloting the craft are not good at all.
Switching gears, governments around the world are now developing “super soldiers” to fight in the wars of the future.
You would expect to read about such a thing in a comic book, but now it is becoming a reality.
In particular, we are being warned that China has actually conducted “human testing” on members of their own military. The following comes from NBC News…
U.S. intelligence shows that China has conducted “human testing” on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,” the top U.S. intelligence official said Friday.
John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, included the explosive claim in a long Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he made the case that China poses the pre-eminent national security threat to the U.S.
Could you imagine an entire army of men with “super intelligence”, “super speed” and “super strength”?
Thousands of hybrid soldiers that possess powers like Superman or Captain America would definitely be a force to be reckoned with, and that is apparently what China is after.
In pursuit of this goal, China has been conducting extremely strange genetic experiments for many years…
In a communist society with unrestrained ambition, researchers are pursuing weird science. What happens when you mix pig and monkey DNA? Chinese experimenters can tell you. How about growing human-like organs in animals? Yes, they have done that as well.
More recently, one scientist in China has been attempting to give human intelligence to a monkey…
Bing Su, a Chinese geneticist at the state-run Kunming Institute of Zoology, recently inserted the human MCPH1 gene, which develops the brain, into a monkey. The insertion could make that animal’s intelligence more human than that of lower primates. Su’s next experiment is inserting into monkeys the SRGAP2C gene, related to human intelligence, and the FOXP2 gene, connected to language skills.
Other governments around the world have also been “playing God”, and now that we have gone down this road there will be no going back.
The last thing I want to talk about is the giant science experiment that is being conducted all over the planet right now.
The experimental mRNA shots that people around the world are being given right now were rushed through the development phase at record speed, and most people don’t realize that they actually “hijack your cells”…
When Moderna was just finishing its Phase I trial, The Independent wrote about the vaccine and described it this way: “It uses a sequence of genetic RNA material produced in a lab that, when injected into your body, must invade your cells and hijack your cells’ protein-making machinery called ribosomes to produce the viral components that subsequently train your immune system to fight the virus.”
“In this case, Moderna’s mRNA-1273 is programmed to make your cells produce the coronavirus’ infamous coronavirus spike protein that gives the virus its crown-like appearance (corona is crown in Latin) for which it is named,” wrote The Independent.
Authorities insist that there will be no unexpected problems, but could there be a downside to programming our cells to do things that they were never designed to do that they aren’t anticipating?
Sadly, it appears that we are starting to get an answer to that question.
We are now being told that it is “normal” for people to experience severe side effects from these shots, and we are also now being told that it is “normal” for some patients to die. Here is one example…
A 78-year-old Southern California woman died on Friday after receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The patient got the injection of the Pfizer vaccine around 12 p.m. at the COVID-19 vaccination site located at Cal Poly Pomona, according to Dr. Michael E. Morris, physician director of Kaiser Permanente Southern California’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program.
While waiting in the observation area, she reported feeling discomfort and, while being evaluated by medical personnel, she lost consciousness, Morris said in a statement.
Of course this is not an isolated case. According to the latest VAERS data, there have been hundreds of deaths in the U.S. so far.
Fauci, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said less is known about the South African variant than the U.K. version, which has proved to be more transmissible than the original version of the virus.
“But we do know that it (the South Africa variant) evades the protection from some of the monoclonal antibodies, and it diminishes somewhat the capability and the effectiveness of the vaccine to block it,” Fauci said. “It doesn’t eliminate it, but it diminishes it by multiple fold.
And we are also being told that even if the whole world embraces the treatments, COVID will “remain with us” indefinitely…
The world should be prepared for the coronavirus to continue to circulate long-term despite the roll-out of vaccines, the head of the EU’s ECDC health agency, Andrea Ammon, said on Friday.
‘We should be prepared that it will remain with us,’ the head of the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in an interview.
So it appears that authorities will want us to “mask up” and practice social distancing for the foreseeable future, and it is just a matter of time before the next pandemic comes along.
If someone had told me what life would be like in 2021 when I was a kid, I would not have believed them.
Our world has become a really crazy place, and the pace of change is only going to accelerate as we move into the future…
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Behind the United States Space Force
Behind the United States Space Force
Meet the newest branch of the United States Armed Forces – the United States Space Force. Space Force was created on December 20, 2019, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act in 2020 and is part of the Department of the Air Force. The United States Marine Corps is similar in that it also falls under another military branch, the Department of the Navy. The mission of Space Force is to protect U.S. and allies in space and provide space-based capabilities to joint forces. All previously created military space programs will now fall under Space Force and members will continue to be called “Guardians,” which is a name given to the original US Air Force Space command.
Space Force was created almost a year before the 2020 election and this fact is important to consider because of their technological capabilities. Using state-of-the-art satellites and communication systems, Space Force has the uniquely sophisticated capability to perform surveillance on various technology systems. One such system, which you all have probably heard of by now, is Dominion Voting Systems. These voting systems are connected to the internet via a network of private servers, owned by Dominion. Rudy Giuliani, who is currently be sued by Dominion for defamation, states that his conclusive evidence will save him from the frivolous lawsuit. Is it possible Giuliani received this supposed evidence from the US Space Force?
Evidence of election fraud also showed up in Italy with a former head of IT at Leonardo SpA. Arturo D’Elia was formerly charged by a public prosecutor in Naples for manipulation of technology/data and for planting viruses on computer systems at Leonardo SpA. The charges are interesting because D’Elia stated that he was directed by US personnel from the US Embassy in Rome to perform these actions. D’Elia went on to say that he transmitted switched votes to a communications tower in Frankfurt, Germany, which transmitted the date via military-grade encryption to a military satellite. Is it possible that US Space Force monitored these transmissions and was able to decrypt the data using their superior technological capabilities?
The evidence of election fraud is there but this kind of article won’t ever appear in the mainstream media except to say that it’s fake news, their usual ploy in defense of accusations that could help to bring down the deep state. One thing for sure here is that Trump ensured that the Space Force was created and that it would play a central role in protecting the United States in cyber space and beyond.
I found an interesting structure on Mars. It has an upper look out tower where they could see anyone coming from far away. It also helps that the building is on the side of a hill. There is also a strange twisted structure not far away. That twisted structure also looks intelligently made and looks like nothing else seen on Mars. A third structure...a monument or monolith is fallen over but you can easily make out the structure and its size. The first structure is only about 1 meter across and the monolith is two or more meters across. The aliens who built these were small in stature, about 5-8cm tall, and yet, they designed the structures so well, that they stood the test of time...to tell us their story.
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UFO Disguised As Meteor Over Melbourne, Australia Feb 14, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Disguised As Meteor Over Melbourne, Australia Feb 14, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 14, 2021
Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia
This UFO was recorded by Fernando Braga in Melbourne last night. He recorded what he believes to be a meteor falling at 10:40 PM. But I really don't think its a meteor. You see, the object doesn't fall fast. A meteor would be moving twice as fast, but this is a bit slow. Also I see no tail on this meteor. Instead it looks like its a round metallic spiked object, much like the old ship mine explosives in the ocean back in WWII. I also don't see an explosion, but do see a flash, but a second after the flash we see the object is still intact! Then the object goes dark. This is a UFO disguising as a meteor to fool both radar and any eyewitnesses that night.
Disk Over US Military Ship Yard Bremerton, Washington On 1-21, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Disk Over US Military Ship Yard Bremerton, Washington On 1-21, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 21, 2021 Location of sighting: Bermerton, Washington, USA
This UFO was caught over the Bermeton ship yard. A place where many US Navy Military ships are docked. This UFO was flying over that area to record data on the latest US Navy ship technology and weapons. Many things interest aliens, but weapons technology and its evolution is of prime concern, because it could lead to humanities extinction.
Wow, this UFO is a disk shape and you can see it flipping slowly as its moving forward. It seems to be a metallic color that is reflective of the colors around it. In front of the cloud its black, in front of the blue sky it's white. Typical color changing behaviors of cloud orbs, but this one is larger and more flat than others. I guess with so many people trying to stay home to stay safe from covid, UFOs are have a lot of freedom with little concern about being seen.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I filmed this near Bremerton ship yard whatcha think it is? I was doing a drywall job in Portorchard, Washington and my wife brought me lunch and I went outside to meet her. Thats when we noticed a really shiny ball, sphere and I thought I'd record it.
UFOs Sighted Over Los Angeles, California on 2-10-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Sighted Over Los Angeles, California on 2-10-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 10, 2021 Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA
Glowing spheres appeared one night over Los Angeles, CA and a young man named Bobby Cail was fast enough to catch a little bit of it on video for us. The glowing orbs are not falling and not moving much, but do shine brightly. With so many people staying inside, afraid to go out and possibly catch covid...UFOs are becoming less and less afraid of being seen. But as soon as Bobby started recording, it was like the aliens knew exactly what he was doing and the ships quickly disappeared from view...cloaking.
With the light beams and the UFOs in those positions...almost looks like the old newspaper photo from Feb 24, 1942 of the "Battle of Los Angeles" UFO encounter where US military used spotlights to illuminate and shoot at huge silver UFOs passing over the city. Wow! I (Scott Waring) was born in East LA and remember my mother telling me her first hand experience at seeing the UFOs and the panic the city had that night.
Dynamic footage of Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 entering the orbit of Mars unveiled
Dynamic footage of Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 entering the orbit of Mars unveiled
The United Arab Emirates. China and NASA each launched their spacecraft to the planet Mars about seven months ago.
Now, China's Tianwen-1 has entered the orbit of the Red Planet on February 10, 2021 after an interplanetary voyage covering nearly 475 million kilometers.
China National Space Administration has unveiled complete footage of the first Chinese Mars probe, Tianwen-1, as it was captured by the gravity of the Red Planet.
The footage reveals Mars coming into view, the slight vibration after engine ignition, and its flight from the daytime into the night. It also shows a clear image of the solar wing, the directional antenna, and Mars atmosphere and surface topography.
Two days before, on February 8, the United Arab Emirates Hope craft has successfully entered the orbit of Mars and NASA's Perseverance rover is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021.
While UAE's Hope craft will stay in the orbit of Mars to study the atmosphere of Mars, the main job of China's Tianwen-1 which includes a Mars orbiter, a lander and a solar-powered rover and NASA's Perseverance rover is to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith for a return to Earth on another mission.
Multiple UFOs over Laguna Niguel, California 7-Feb-2021
Multiple UFOs over Laguna Niguel, California 7-Feb-2021
New UFO video of a bright objects hovering in the sky above Laguna Niguel, California. Filmed on 7th February 2021.
Witness report:
The six or seven lights were constant, not blinking, and appeared to be originating over water near Dana Point. I was far away, but the lights were very unusual. There are military bases/testing in the area, but this still appeared awkward, I’m not sure what type of training exercise would look like this…
Eerste Arabische Marssonde stuurt eerste foto door
Vijf dagen nadat de onbemande Marssonde van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) in een baan rond de Rode Planeet is gekomen, heeft de al-Amal (Hoop) zijn eerste foto van Mars doorgestuurd, zo heeft de feitelijke leider van de Golfstaat, Mohammed bin Zayed, getwitterd.
Na een reis van zeven maanden kwam de Hoop dinsdag in een baan rond Mars waarmee de VAE het eerste Arabische land werd dat succesvol een interplanetaire missie lanceerde. De sonde stuurde vanop 25.000 kilometer hoogte een eerste foto door.
De Hoop zou twee jaar rond Mars wentelen om foto's te maken, en om de atmosfeer en de seizoenswisselingen van de planeet te bestuderen. De data zullen ter beschikking staan van de internationale wetenschappelijke gemeenschap.
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Enoch, Thoth & the Pyramid… What Is the Connection?
Enoch, Thoth & the Pyramid… What Is the Connection?
COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Author and filmmaker Ken Klein presented his thesis that Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built by Enoch, and serves as an oracle to help humankind transcend to their higher nature. Klein contended that the Egyptian ruler known as Thoth, who wrote The Book of the Eternal Day (later called The Egyptian Book of the Dead), was actually Enoch, a real human, who was later deified.
Further, the Greek god Hermes was also Enoch, he stated. Enoch never died; he was taken to the Arcturus star system, and helped populate a “godly race,” said Klein, adding that the Great Pyramid was built to memorialize the fact that Enoch escaped death.
Enoch will return in a ship, and the current proliferation of UFOs, is preparing us for the call to leave, he continued. According to the prophets, it is our destiny to go into space, he noted.
On Earth, the study of ice core samples is one of many methods scientists use to reconstruct the history of our past climate change. The same is true of Mars’ northern polar ice cap, which is made up of many layers of frozen water that have accumulated over eons. The study of these layers could provide scientists with a better understanding of how the Martian climate changed over time.
This remains a challenge since the only way we are able to study the Martian polar ice caps right now is from orbit. Luckily, a team of researchers from UC Boulder was able to use data obtained by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to chart how the northern polar ice caps’ evolved over the past few million years.
The research was conducted by Andrew Wilcoski and Paul Hayne, a Ph.D. student and assistant professor from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The study that describes their findings recently appeared in the Journal for Geological Research(JGR), a publication maintained by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
The HiRISE instrument, before it was integrated into the MRO. Credit: NASA
For the sake of their study, Wilcosky and Hayne sought to determine the current state of the Martian North Polar Residual Cap (NPRC), which is vital to understanding the North Polar Layered Deposits (NPLD). Using the high-resolution images gathered by the HiRISE instrument, Wilcosky and Hayne examined the rough features of the NPRC – which includes ripples and ridges of varying size and shape.
They then modeled the growth and recession of NPRC over time based on its interaction with solar radiation and how the rate of growth and loss is affected by the amount of atmospheric water vapor. What they found was that in addition to causing the formation of rough terrain (ripples and ridges) in an ice sheet, exposure to solar radiation will also cause ice to sublimate unevenly.
Basically, Mars’ axial tilt, which is responsible for it experiencing seasonal changes similar to Earth, also causes one side of these features to sublimate (the Sun-facing side) while the other does not. This has the effect of exaggerating these features, leading to pronounced ridges and valleys that become more pronounced as time goes on.
Overall, the model employed by Wilcoski and Hayne determined that the rough features observed by the MRO should measure 10 m (33 ft) in diameter and 1 m (3.3 ft) deep. Furthermore, their results demonstrated that as the features age, the spatial wavelength (the distance) between each ripple increases – from 10 to 50 m (164 ft). As they state in their study:
“Our results show that the size of mounds and depressions on the ice cap surface suggest that it took 1–10 thousand years to form these roughness features. Our results also suggest that the formation of features on the surface may depend on when water vapor is present in the atmosphere over the course of a year (e.g., summer or winter).”
A composite image showing alternating layers of ice and sand around the northern polar region, taken by the MRO’s HiRISE camera. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
These results are consistent with the images taken by the HiRISE instrument of the Martian North Polar Residual Cap (NPRC). What they indicated is that the rough features observed around Mars’ northern polar ice formed within the last 1000 to 10,000 years, which provides scientists with a starting point for reconstructing the climate history of Mars.
Such is the nature of the Red Planet. Today, scientists have a pretty good understanding of the nature of the Martian landscape and how it changes throughout the year. They also have an idea of what it used to look like billions of years ago, thanks to impeccably-preserved surface features that indicate the past presence of flowing and standing water (rivers, streams, and lakes).
But the intervening period, where the climate transitioned from one to the other, that’s where much remains to be learned. In the coming years, robotic missions could be sent to Mars for the sake of studying the ice sheets directly and maybe even return samples to Earth. In the next decade, as astronauts begin to set foot on Mars, the opportunity to explore the ice caps could also be possible.
The Ten Day Alien Abduction To Another Planet... A Remarkable Story!
The Ten Day Alien Abduction To Another Planet... A Remarkable Story!
The Ten Day Alien Abduction To Another Planet… A Remarkable Story!
The testimony shared by Alec Newald, a New Zealand business man, has been a debating point among conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts. Newald believes that he was abducted by extraterrestrials in February 1989, during a three-hour drive to Auckland from Rotorua.
Newald, who is now 70 years old has never changed his story. He revealed that this journey changed his entire perception of Universe and extraterrestrial life. Newald claims that he was abducted by a group of aliens beings on that fateful day, and later, he spent ten days in an advanced alien civilization. The information he came back with was startling.
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Antarctica Discovery Hidden From You Until Now! 2021
Antarctica Discovery Hidden From You Until Now! 2021
Antarctica Discovery Hidden From You Until Now! 2021
Just Discovered In Antarctica Is Hidden From You Until Now! Did Google Earth try to Hide a Space Ship in Antarctica?
Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,200,000 square kilometres, it is the fifth-largest continent and nearly twice the size of Australia.
At 0.00008 people per square kilometre, it is by far the least densely populated continent. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages 1.9 km in thickness, which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula.
COAST TO COAST AM – February 2021. Astrologer Leslie McGuirk has been a popular keynote speaker on the topic of creative inspiration. In the first half, she discussed what 2021 looks like astrologically and what we can expect from the effects of Mercury retrograde.
Tictac over Owego, New York And Disk Near Power lines! Oct 12, 2013, UFO Sighting News.
Tictac over Owego, New York And Disk Near Power lines! Oct 12, 2013, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 12, 2013 Location of sighting: Owego, New York, USA Source: MUFON
I was looking at an old report on MUFON and noticed that nobody saw the other UFO in the video. Since the other UFO was more clear, metallic and a disk, not to mention just about half a meter across and near the power lines...I thought I better mention it. Many small UFOs have been seen and recorded near power lines over the last decade of me reporting UFOs...so this is significant. I believe this UFO is a drone disk sent out from the tictac UFOs that the eyewitness saw. He actually saw two, but only had one tictac recorded. However he missed the most obvious thing...the metal disk 1/2 meter across near the telephone pole. The disk was both observing the person and recoding data going through the communication lines. 100% proof that the camera is quicker than the eye.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
On the 12th day of October 2013, at about 13:00hrs EST, I witnessed a disc like object flying from north east over the Village of Owego, New York. Object omitted no sound, there was no “trail” after it there was no visible wings of any kind. A short 22 second video taken on a camera phone was shot. The disc moved from South West to the North East over the western horizon. Shortly after another object same size and shape, no wings, no trail, no sound was observed flying from east (Binghamton, NY ) to the North West, however higher in the sky than the first object. Having observed thousands of flights going over this area in the last 30 years, I have never seen anything like this before.
Fastwalkers: Interstellar Visitors From Deep Space?
Fastwalkers: Interstellar Visitors From Deep Space?
Oumuamua was claimed to be the first interstellar object to enter our solar system. Yet, NORAD has reportedly been tracking these unidentified, high-velocity objects for decades.
Image credit: GAIA.
DSP and NORAD have been collecting data on fastwalkers as far back as 1972. On May 5, 1984, the DSP tracked a fastwalker traveling over 22,000 mph for 9 minutes.
These objects enter our atmosphere from unknown locations in deep space and often they travel at low altitude above the earth's surface but due to the enormous speed it is impossible to see these objects with the naked eye, however the past years amateur drone cameras accidentally managed to capture these fastwalkers. (Check out our label Fastwalker to see videos of fastwalkers captured by drones.)
Researcher estimate approximately 500 NORAD sightings of fastwalkers each year.
Phoenix MUFON Online Speaker Series – Michael Schratt is a classified “Black” projects researcher, specializing in the exposure of un-acknowleged special access aerospace programs.
Roswell UFO crash debris is still out there, expert claims as probe reveals ‘something really hot’ smashed into desert
Roswell UFO crash debris is still out there, expert claims as probe reveals ‘something really hot’ smashed into desert
Jon Lockett
WRECKAGE from the Roswell UFO incident could still be buried in the desert, an expert has claimed.
The astonishing revelation is made in a startling new six-part documentary which sets out to get the bottom of the world's most baffling UFO mystery.
Former CIA operative Ben Smith has been working with geophysicists
Credit: Sky History
Scans of the area appeared to show large gouges in the surface of the desertCredit: Sky Histor
Soils samples were collected from the suspected crash site
Former CIA operative Ben Smith has been called in to work with a team of top experts to find out exactly what happened in New Mexico in July, 1947.
And he exclusively told The Sun Online he believes debris from the crash could still be buried in the sand just waiting to be found.
Ben has teamed up with geophysicists and ufologists for 'Roswell: The First Witness', which starts on February 9 as part of Sky History's Mystery Season.
He told The Sun Online: "There are delineations in the soil from a north-western to a south-eastern direction which match witness descriptions of something falling from the sky, hitting the earth, skipping and scattering debris."
During his investigation, he visited New Mexico to search for "unnatural features" which could be evidence of a flying saucer crash.
Scientists then conducted an exhaustive geo-thermal examination of the area where the first debris was discovered - using cutting-edge technology to look deep into the earth for clues.
The experts scoured the desert with state-of-the-art kit including drones in the hunt for an "impact and skid mark".
They also studied aerial images of the area before and after the Roswell incident and soon noticed what could be multiple "furrows" in the surface.
Studies also revealed "something really hot hit the earth and heated up the surrounding soil", changing the magnetic field in the area.
Hi-tech detecting equipment also appeared to pick up signs of metal hidden beneath the surface.
Major Jesse Marcel led the original investigation into the Roswell crash
Credit: Handout - Getty
Marcel was the first military man to visit the desert crash siteCredit: Sky History
Soil samples were then sent to a lab to see if they contained materials "not from this world".
Ben believes the fact there could still be debris scattered beneath the desert is what makes the Roswell mystery so intriguing.
"This is what makes this project so interesting. We have this amazing Tic-Tac video recently declassified from American Navy pilots but it is footage but there is nothing physical," he said.
"Here we have a a record of something crashing into the ground and the geology (from the site) certainly supports trapping some of this debris.
"This a desolate site. The potential of finding a piece of it...whether through sophisticated space age technology that we used or tracking down original witnesses who may have taken a piece home is part of the crux of the invesitgation.
"We tried to keep it focused on the original witnesses and the original accounts of debris and go from there."
He now believes the key to solving this whole mystery could even be lying in a box after being collected by a local in the hours and days after the crash.
Ben said: "That's the crazy part and it could be the conclusive evidence that we need to determine whether this was truly extra terrestrial or this is very terrestrial.
"It could just be in a box somewhere. I think there is a piece of this thing somewhere out there and I think we can find it with enough time and resources."
Yesterday we told how a journal written by a US army major – who was first on the scene – may hold all the secrets to what has been described as the biggest cover-up in US military history.
The Roswell Daily Record's front page after the incidentCredit: Alamy
Not surprisingly, the news made headlines across the US but the very next day the US Army suddenly backtracked and released a second statement claiming the recovered object was actually just a weather balloon.
The bizarre incident would have been lost over the decades had it not been for Major Jesse A Marcel, a former intelligence officer who was stationed at RAAF at the time.
When a local rancher reported the debris’ discovery, Marcel was sent out to take a look and bring some of the material back to the base before being ordered to fly some of the wreckage to Fort Worth, Texas, for further examination.
Marcel was an intelligence officer of the 509th Bombardment GroupCredit: Sky Histry
However, in the late 70s, Marcel told UFO researchers later photos with him and the debris was staged for the press as part of an elaborate plan to dupe the press and the public.
He claimed the Army whisked the real debris away while he was ordered to aid in the cover-up of what was really found.
Marcel claimed the actual crash site was scattered with extremely strong shiny material that was foil-like but returned to its original shape after it was crumpled.
He later told his family what he found was “not made by human hands” but they say he was pressured by the US government to retract his original statement and deny he ever saw evidence of a UFO.
Now his diary – which has been in the hands of his family for decades – is being probed from cover-to-cover to unlock its secrets.
Ben Smith is a former CIA case officer with many years in the field as an undercover operative tracking terrorist networks, foreign intelligence activities and weapons of mass destruction.
He holds a degree in International Affairs and a Master's of Fine Arts. In his free time, he is either researching his next investigation or writing science fiction from his home in New York.
“Utsurobune”: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan
“Utsurobune”: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan
A mysterious event in Japan at the beginning of the nineteenth century shows surprising similarities with stories of UFOs.
Tanaka Kazuo
In 1803, a round vessel drifted ashore on the Japanese coast and a beautiful woman emerged, wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. She was unable to communicate with the locals, and her craft was marked with mysterious writing. This story of an utsurobune, or “hollow ship,” in the province of Hitachi (now Ibaraki Prefecture) is found in many records of the Edo period (1603–1868), and Tanaka Kazuo, professor emeritus at Gifu University, has studied the topic for many years. What drew him away from his main research area, applied optics, to investigate this curious episode? And what really took place?
“Like a Flying Saucer”
Tanaka says he began to research the ship after the deadly subway sarin attacks in 1995 by the Aum Shinrikyō cult. “There was a lot of coverage of Aum founder Asahara Shōkō's prophecies and claims to be able to float in the air. Yet the cult’s senior members were part of the scientific elite. I started giving lectures considering paranormal phenomena from a scientific perspective, which meant that I was collecting all kinds of materials for teaching, such as about UFOs in the United States and Japanese folklore. While doing so, I came across the utsurobune legend.” He adds, “Long before the American UFO stories, the craft depicted in Edo-period Japanese documents for some reason looked like a flying saucer. This was fascinating to me.”
UFOs became a modern sensation after the media reported US businessman Kenneth Arnold as having witnessed “flying saucers” on June 24, 1947. A flood of similar stories followed from around the world. Most famously, a UFO was alleged to have crashed to the ground near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947. “In the end, though, no wrecks or alien bodies were recovered,” Tanaka says. “There was only the ambiguous testament of witnesses. It was the same with all the other UFO stories from around the world—they were mysteries without any substantial evidence. The utsurobune legend, however, has a number of documents to examine as leads, so in this sense, for researchers it’s a mystery with substance.”
A Ninja’s Report
A book published in English by Tanaka Kazuo on his research. The cover uses the illustration from Toen shōsetsu
There are similar oral traditions about “hollow ships” across Japan in the Edo period. Tanaka’s research is focused on the various documents that describe the 1803 incident in Hitachi and include illustrations of a beautiful woman and a strange vessel, although they cite different dates. One of the best-known sources is the Toen shōsetsu (Toen Stories), an 1825 collection recording fantastic rumors, which was written by the Toenkai literary circle and edited by Kyokutei Bakin, famous for his lengthy historical romance Nansō Satomi hakkenden (The Eight Dog Chronicles). Others are Nagahashi Matajirō's 1844 work Ume no chiri (Plum Dust), as well as collections like Ōshuku zakki (Ōshuku Notes), Hirokata zuihitsu (Essays by Hirokata), and Hyōryūki-shū (Records of Castaways), which gathers stories of foreign ships washed up in Japan and of Japanese sailors who came ashore overseas.
From Ōshuku zakki (Ōshuku Notes; around 1815) by Komai Norimura, a vassal of the powerful daimyō Matsudaira Sadanobu.
(Courtesy National Diet Library)
From Hirokata zuihitsu (Essays by Hirokata; 1825) by shogunate retainer and calligrapher Yashiro Hirokata, who was also a member of the Toenkai circle.
(Courtesy National Archives of Japan)
From Mito bunsho (Mito Document).
(Courtesy the owner)
At first, Tanaka theorized that the incident was an embellished account concerning a shipwrecked Russian whaler, but he could not find any mention of such a disaster in official records. Instead, he discovered new materials, becoming absorbed in further background research. To date, he has found 11 documents relating to the Hitachi utsurobune legend, of which the most interesting are thought to date from 1803, the same year that the craft was said to have come to shore.
One is the Mito bunsho (Mito Document) owned by a collector in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. Tanaka noticed that the woman’s clothing in an illustration in the work was similar to that of a bodhisattva statue at the Shōfukuji temple in Kamisu, also in Ibaraki, which is dedicated to the raising of silkworms. A legend credits the start of sericulture in the area to a Princess Konjiki (or “golden princess”), who is a motif in images at the temple. In one version of the story, Princess Konjiki is washed up to shore after traveling from India on a dugout boat in the shape of a cocoon. She repays the kindness of a local couple who try to nurse her back to health by bestowing on them the secrets of sericulture when she herself becomes a silkworm after her death. Among the various materials, only the illustration in the Mito document appeared greatly similar to Princess Konjiki. Tanaka thinks that when the first rumors of a “hollow ship” coming ashore at a beach called Kashimanada were spreading, the people at Shōfukuji may have decided to incorporate it into promotion of the temple.
Another even more important source is the Banke bunsho (Banke Document) owned by Kawakami Jin’ichi, the heir to the Kōka ninjutsu (ninja arts) tradition and a ninjutsu researcher and martial artist. It is named after the Banke, or Ban family, of Kōka ninja. While some other materials say the vessel came ashore at locations like Harayadori or Haratonohama, there is no evidence that such places exist. This document, however, records the location as Hitachihara Sharihama, which appeared in a map produced by the famous cartographer Inō Tadataka, and is now known as Hasaki Sharihama in Kamisu. Tanaka comments that while the other materials show geographical inconsistencies, this document mentions a real place name. He says that Kawakami suggested a Banke member might have been assembling information while working for the head of the Owari domain (now Aichi Prefecture). “If so, he wouldn’t record any untruths, so we can say the document is very reliable.”
Awaiting New Revelations
The folklorist Yanagita Kunio once said that all of the utsurobune legends were groundless fictions. “But in the case of the Hitachi utsurobune, there’s a clear difference from other stories around the country,” Tanaka says. “For one, it’s specified as having taken place in 1803. And then, it’s strange that there are specific pictures of the craft showing it as resembling a flying saucer. I feel it was probably based on something that really happened. But Japan was largely closed off then, so if there was a wreck of a foreign ship or foreign people had arrived in the country, it would have been a huge event and a government official would have investigated and left a public document. When British sailors entered Ōtsuhama [now Kitaibaraki] in 1824, it became one of the causes of an edict to repel foreign vessels the following year. So it might be that there was witness testimony of something taking place for just a short time at Kashimanada. It’s possible that this became tied in with earlier utsurobune legends.”
Just as descriptions of the woman’s clothing vary depending on the document, so do those of the shape and size of her vessel. For example, Records of Castaways says that it was around 3.3 meters high and 5.4 meters wide (when converted into current measurements) and that it was made of rosewood and iron with glass and crystal windows. “I’m not sure whether Records of Castaways was an official document. There are two volumes altogether, and apart from the utsurobune, they’re all incidents that actually took place. This suggests that the writer at least believed the utsurobune was really washed up to shore,” Tanaka says.
There are countless mysteries connected with the “hollow ship,” such as the meaning of the script written inside it. Tanaka says that one theory has it that it resembles the pseudo-Roman letters sometimes seen in the border of ukiyo-e prints. “So it might be simply decorative. Although it’s not impossible that we’ll discover evidence that it’s alien script!” Having said this, he laughs. “There are likely to be further discoveries of currently unknown materials related to the utsurobune, and new revelations. This legend is so appealing because it’s possible to come up with so many different theories. Having a story like this in Japan—from 140 years before the American UFO sightings—that stimulates the imagination to this extent reminds me of how deep and fascinating Japanese culture can be.”
From Hyōryūki-shū (Records of Castaways) by an unknown author. The text describes the woman as being around 18 to 20 years of age, well-dressed, and beautiful. Her face is pale, and her eyebrows and hair are red. It is impossible to communicate with her, so it is unclear where she is from. She holds a plain wooden box as though it is very important to her and keeps her distance. There is mysterious script written in the boat.
(Courtesy Iwase Bunko Library in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture)
(Originally published in Japanese on June 17, 2020, based on an interview by Itakura Kimie of Nippon.com. Banner photo: Detail from Hyōryūki-shū (Records of Castaways). Courtesy Iwase Bunko Library in Nishio, Aichi Prefecture.)
A company has listed what is reported to be the first 3D printed house in the United States. The property, built by SQ4D and located in Long Island, New York, has received a certificate of occupancy and is already listed on MLS for sale as new construction for $299,999 – which the company claims is 50% cheaper than regular new homes in the area.
The house on sale. Image credit: SQ4D
SQ4D is a New York company that focuses on engineering and building high-quality sustainable houses with an autonomous robotic 3D construction system (ARCS). The company uses an approach where robots build the foundations, exterior walls, interior walls, utility conduits, and more, which reduces labor to three people, uses far less energy, and cuts construction times.
Essentially, the approach uses more expensive materials and robots to cut down on construction time and worker cost, so it’s best suited in areas where labor costs are high — like New York, for instance.
However, the technology will be soon be able to eliminate more expensive and inferior building materials, SQ4D believes, making 3D structures even more cost-effective. Using concrete reduces the cost by at least 30%, as well as making the structure more fire resistant than traditional methods. Here’s a video presentation.
The 3D house that just entered the market in Long Island has 1,400 square feet of living space and a 750 square car garage. It includes three bedrooms and two full bathrooms, featuring an open floor plan. It’s fully built with concrete and includes a 50-year limited warranty that SQ4D gives on its 3D printed structure.
Of course, in addition to the technology (which is innovative), the house also comes with some bragging rights and a lot of marketing.
“Own a piece of history! This is the world’s first 3D printed home for sale,” the listing of the house states. “This home is carefully developed to exceed all energy efficiency codes and lower energy costs. SQ4D provides a stronger build than traditional concrete structures while utilizing a more sustainable building process.”
Stephen King of Realty Connect, the Zillow Premier agent who has the listing, said in a statement that the US$300,000 market price is actually 50% below the cost of similar newly-constructed homes in Riverhead, the neighborhood where the house is located. That’s why this is “a major step” to address the “affordable housing crisis plaguing Long Island,” he added.
3D printing has been consistently making headlines over the past few years, slowly becoming a reality for us commoners. Companies are building houses either fully on 3D or with most of their elements made out of a printer. In Mexico, the world’s first 3D printed neighborhood is already moving forward, while Germany’s first 3D residential building is under construction.
But it’s not just housing, it can be almost anything. With the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers discovered they could print face shields and ventilator parts much faster and cheaper than with regular methods. A 3D printer even built a miniature heart, using a patient’s own cells, as well as human cartilage.
This means that whether you have the almost $300,000 to buy the house now on the market or not, you have plenty of options to choose from in the 3D world. A study a few years ago even showed that a printer can make anyone at least a 1000% return on investment over five years. So it might be time to get on the 3D printing world.
My long time contact JP has sent me a compelling video of an antigravity craft he personally witnessed and recorded on the night of February 6, 2021. The video shows a flying saucer shaped craft flying over North Carolina. JP is currently serving with a branch of the US military, and wishes to maintain his anonymity for personal and professional reasons.
I have known JP since 2008 when he first contacted me about an extraterrestrial encounter he had in Brazil. He has over the subsequent years supplied me many photographs and videos of different shaped antigravity craft and encounters with their occupants. These include both extraterrestrial entities and military personnel, including Air Force Special Operations.
I have written multiple articles about his previous encounters along with supporting photos and videos here.
The flying saucer craft he videotaped on Feb 6 is very similar to one that he witnessed on May 24, 2018, which landed near his home in Orlando, Florida. The Nordic looking extraterrestrial occupant offered JP a ride which he declined. He wore an Air Force uniform and said his group was working with the USAF. JP took a photo of the departing flying saucer which I wrote about here.
JP believes that the same Nordic group wanted to let him know that they are ready to make contact again, and are aware of his current position with the US military. His Feb 6 video can be viewed on Rumble or in the following YouTube video.
All photos and videos sent to me by JP are originals and have not be altered in any way. Enhancements are provided in addition to the original to provide clarity on what is being witnessed. The photos and videos are empirical evidence of other worldly contact and of secret space programs operating on Earth using antigravity technologies.
A massive stellar bulge found in a regularly rotating galaxy when the Universe was just 1.2 billion years old could throw theories on galactic evolution into doubt. Current models of how galaxies form suggest that features like those spotted associated with the galaxy ALESS 073.1 should take longer to form and thus shouldn’t be visible when the Universe is so young.
“This galaxy is like a little child that looks like a full-grown adult,” Federico Lelli, an astrophysicist at Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (INAF, Italy) and part of the team that identified the features, tells ZME Science. “This galaxy possesses three key features of ‘mature’ galaxies: a regular rotating disk, a massive bulge, and arm-like structures that are reminiscent of spiral arms.”
Gas (blue) and dust (red) in the distant galaxy ALESS 073.1 observed when the Universe was only 1.2 billion years old.
(Federico Lelli (2021))
The team’s finding is discussed in a paper published in the latest edition of the journal Science and joins a series of other recent discoveries that suggest galaxies could evolve much quicker than currently believed.
The study is accompanied by a perspectives article by Julie Wadlow, Lancaster University, that reflects on the wider implications of the discovery of these features on our models of galactic evolution.
The team made their observations of ALESS 073.1 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) based in the Atacama Desert Chile, currently the world’s largest radio telescope. It was emissions from the galaxy’s gas and dust that allowed the team to detect the motion of ALESS 073.1 and infer the presence of the bulge and spiral arms.
“Structures like bulges, regular disks, and possibly spiral arms must form in less than 1.2 billion years, which is a tall order for current models of galaxy formation,” says Lelli. “These properties imply that the formation of massive galaxies must be a fast process occurring very early in the history of the Universe.”
(Robert Lea/ after Julie Wardlow)
As Wardlow points out, this isn’t the first time ALESS 073.1 has caused some surprise in the field of astronomy since it was first glimpsed in 2009.
“The initial discovery of a galaxy forming stars so rapidly so far into the distant Universe was already a surprise and a challenge to the galaxy evolution models of the time,” she tells ZME Science. “Theorists are now able to explain the existent of a galaxy forming so many stars so early in the Universe, but this new detection of the bulge in ALESS 073.1 is unexpected.”
“It has implications both for the timescales of galaxy formation and evolution but also for the sorts of systems that can host massive bursts of star formation in the distant Universe.”
Structures That Challenge Galactic Evolution Models
The Universe is populated with billions of galaxies coming in a variety of different shapes — with the three main types being elliptical, spiral, and irregular.
This graphic compares illustrations of the three main types of galaxies (top) with actual photos of galaxies (bottom) that fit the categories. Credit: A. Feild (STScI)
Spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, are perhaps the galaxy shapes that we are most familiar with. These are typified by a central nucleus with spiral arms extending from this central region. Whilst most galaxies are expected to go through a special phase, structures like spiral arms and central bulges should take longer to form according to current models, so we shouldn’t be seeing them in the early Universe. That means spotting them in ALESS 073.1 is extremely surprising.
“Galaxies forming in the primordial Universe are expected to be chaotic and turbulent because they are accreting gas from the cosmic web, they are forming stars at very high rates leading to many supernovae explosions, and they have central supermassive black holes growing in mass and shining as active galactic nuclei,” says Lelli. “All these mechanisms are expected to inject large amounts of energy into the gas and heavily perturb its overall kinematics.
“The regularity of the gas disk in ALESS 073.1 is at odds with these expectations.”
The team of astronomers decided to study ALESS 073.1 because previous observations with ALMA in 2014 had indicated the presence of a rotating disc, but the data wasn’t precise enough to properly distinguish this from other possible explanations.
“The galaxy is forming stars at an incredibly high rate — about 1000 solar masses per year — and has a central supermassive black hole emitting in the X-rays, so some authors argued in favour of a gas outflow rather than a regular rotating disk,” Lelli says. “The new data unambiguously shows that the galaxy has a very regular rotating disk.”
ALESS 073.1’s central bulge of closely clustered stars is also a feature that would usually be associated with a more mature galaxy. “Bulges are expected to form either by the merging of two disk galaxies of similar mass or by slow internal processes within the rotating disk,” says Lelli. “Both mechanisms take time to form a massive bulge, so we were really surprised to find that nearly half of the stars in ALESS 073.1 are in a bulge component.”
The Wider Implications of ALESS 073.1’s Mature Features
In the associated perspectives piece accompanying Lelli and his coauthor’s study, Wardlow points out that current theoretical simulations suggest these early or primordial galaxies merge together through gravitational interactions forming large, chaotic structures. These may have some rotation and eventually form central bulges comprised of older, redder stars.
“Discs take time to form as the motion of the stars and gas in the first galaxies slowly becomes dominated by gravity rather than the initial forces from formation,” Wardlow explains. “Bulges are found in the centres of disks and are expected to form even later and after an event which gravitationally disturbs a galaxy. This disturbance alters the motion of the stars and gas, such that they become irregular, but still bound the galaxy.”
Wardlow goes on to explain that this disturbance could be something external — like a collision or close encounter with another galaxy — or something internal — like a runaway gravitational instability in the galaxy.
Gas motion in the distant galaxy ALESS 073.1: gas in blue is moving towards us while gas in red is moving away from us, indicating a rotating disk. (Federico Lelli (2021))
The problem is, these mechanisms put tight time constraints to the evolution of galactic features because they require some structure is already present in the galaxy. “They both require significant galaxy structure with rotation to have already formed, and then time for the triggering event to have happened and for the dynamics of the system to have calmed into the disc and bulge that is seen in ALESS 073.1 ~1.2 billion years after the Big Bang,” Wardlow explains. “In the merger/interaction scenario it also requires a second galaxy to already be in place at the time of the merger/interaction.
“So the presence of these features in ALESS 073.1 means that the timescales for early galaxy formation and evolution must be short, which provides a challenge for models and simulations if systems like ALESS 073.1 are common.”
This gives a good hint at what the next step for Lilli and his team could be, searching for other young galaxies shortly after the Big Bang with similar mature features. That’s the aim of a project underway at ALMA called Tracing Rotation with Ionized Carbon in Early Primeval Systems (TRICEPS).
“Observing more galaxies at similar distances with ALMA will allow us to statistically establish how common rotating gas disks are in the early Universe. We are already working along this path,” says Lelli. “The observations were supposed to take place last year, but unfortunately the ALMA observatory was shut down due to the Covid-19 emergency. A lot of good people — not only astronomers but also engineers, mechanics, technicians, cooks, cleaners and the like — are working at the Atacama desert in Chile to make these observations possible. So it’s complicated to go ‘back to normal’ after a global shutdown.
“I really hope I could have some new ALMA data on my laptop by the end of 2021.”
Beyond the TRICEPS project, Lelli also points out that both the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — set to launch later this year — and the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — currently under construction in the Atacama Desert — could allow astronomers to observe primordial galaxies at different wavelengths. Crucially, this will allow them to directly study the light emitted by their stellar components. “This may allow us to time more precisely the first epoch of galaxy formation.”
Wardlow adds that because light doesn’t travel infinitely fast, when astronomers look at distant galaxies they are seeing them as they were in the past, often billions of years ago as is the case with ALESS 073.1. “So the light that’s been detected from ALESS 073.1 started its journey 12.5 billion years ago,” She concludes. “By now ALESS 073.1 will be even more evolved and probably bears very little resemblance to what we’ve detected.
“By observing distant galaxies it’s like we’re time-travelling back to near the beginning of the Universe to solve the mysteries of how everything in our lives came to be.”
Sources
Lelli. F., Di Teodoro. E. M., Fraternali. F., et al, ‘A Massive Stellar Bulge in a Regularly Rotating Galaxy 1.2 Billion Years After the Big Bang,’ Science,[2021],
Betty Hill experienced dreams with such incredible detailing that she actually wrote them down
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Alien abduction tales and theories are a dime a dozen, but some have remained an enigma to date. The "Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction" story on a September 1961 night has been one of those stories that have defined the whole abduction genre. Soon after, this incident was named the 'Zeta Reticuli Incident' after the couple claimed their aliens were from the Zeta Reticuli system. The story, like most famed alien tales, also saw its place in pop culture in the form of a 1975 flick, 'The UFO Incident'.
Now, the events of the abduction will be examined again. This time, Discovery+ will reopen the chapter as part of its show, 'UFO Witness'. The final episode titled, 'The Hybrid Secret' will explore the possibility of the alien-human breeding program and also looks at the Betty and Barney incident as one of the important links.
A look at the recount by both Betty and Barney sees them describe their abductors as gray beings with large eyes. These extraterrestrials had walked the couple into a metallic disc that was as wide as their house. The couple's memories were reportedly erased. To date, there is no doubt the story has been looked at as a mystery and absolute balderdash.
According toHistory, Betty with the help of hypnosis recounts how the couple was experimented upon. The beings as they called them removed their clothes, took strands of their hair, clipped nails, and also scraped their skin. Their heads, arms, and legs along with their spines were probed by needles that were connected to long wires. One of them was inserted into her belly. And all the while, a "leader" of the beings was keenly observing the experiments.
A look at the recount by both Betty and Barney sees them describe their abductors as gray beings with large eyes
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Did the Hills actually see humanoid aliens?
Although Betty's account pretty much leaves a lot to the readers' imagination, thinking of the aliens with a human structure might not be too much of a stretch. Barney, in his report to National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) investigator Walter Webb, said the "beings were somehow not human." There are, of course, two explanations— fragged memory and the possibility that they weren't humans, or at least they didn't look like a normal human being.
Soon after their reports of being abducted, Betty experienced dreams with such incredible detailing that she actually wrote them down. Two small men walking her into the forest in one of her writings. Barney followed suit, although she describes him to be dazed and practically sleepwalking. The men reportedly stood about five feet and all wore matching blue uniforms. They were "nearly human" and had dark huge eyes, noses, and black hair as well. Their skin was gray.
Naturally, there was no way this could be proved. And especially not the part where she even dreamt of speaking to the extraterrestrial she termed as the leader. "if you don’t know where you are, there wouldn’t be any point in telling you where I am," the being had said in response to her question where the craft was.
Was this pretty much her subconscious thoughts? Was it hallucinations? We'll never know.
Perhaps, 'The Hybrid Secret' will provide some much-needed answers, or at least new theories and insights. The official synopsis reads: "Evidence of a possible extraterrestrial breeding program sends Ben Hansen to the Bay Area, San Francisco, California, in search of answers about alien-human hybrids. He suspects there may be a link to the Betty and Barney Hill case, one of the world's most famous abduction stories."
The episode streams February 11, 2021, on Discovery+
Ravi Kopparapu, who works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and is the lead author of the study, explained this further, “On Earth, most of the nitrogen dioxide is emitted from human activity — combustion processes such as vehicle emissions and fossil-fueled power plants,” adding, “In the lower atmosphere (about 10 to 15 kilometers or around 6.2 to 9.3 miles), NO2 from human activities dominate compared to non-human sources. Therefore, observing NO2 on a habitable planet could potentially indicate the presence of an industrialized civilization.”
With more than 4,000 exoplanets found so far, experts are eager to find out if any of them host other civilizations but since they are so far away from us, the only way we can search for signs of life is with powerful telescopes that can find out what’s in their atmospheres.
One sign of life would be the presence of combined gases in their atmosphere, such as oxygen and methane. Additionally, a gas such as NO2 may indicate that there is some type of technology on the planet that is creating it (this is called a technosignature).
Jacob Haqq-Misra, who works at the Blue Marble Institute of Science in Seattle, Washington, and is a co-author of the study, noted that previous research focused on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as potential technosignatures since biology can’t produce it. “…However, CFCs are very specific manufactured chemicals that might not be prevalent elsewhere; NO2, by comparison, is a general byproduct of any combustion process,” he explained.
Their research focused in part on how much NO2 pollution could be detected with our telescopes and after extensive studies, they were able to determine that if an intelligent civilization living on an Earth-like exoplanet that orbits a sun-like star were to produce as much NO2 as Earth, it could be detected as far as 30 light-year away with approximately 400 hours of data focused solely on that planet.
That’s a good start, but considering our closest star relatives are located in the Alpha Centauri system which is a bit more than 4 light-years away from us and our entire galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years across, we will definitely need more powerful telescopes.
There are a few complications with this new information, such as figuring out if the NO2 on other planets are produced naturally or created by another civilization. “If we observe NO2 on another planet, we will have to run models to estimate the maximum possible NO2 emissions one could have just from non-industrial sources. If we observe more NO2 than our models suggest is plausible from non-industrial sources, then the rest of the NO2 might be attributed to industrial activity. Yet there is always a possibility of a false positive in the search for life beyond Earth…,” explained Giada Arney from NASA Goddard and who is another co-author of the study.
Furthermore, if there are clouds or aerosols in an exoplanet’s atmosphere, the wavelengths may falsely appear as NO2. While much more work needs to be done, this is a very interesting step in possibly finding alien civilizations on other planets.
The study was published in arXivwhere it can be read in full.
The world of alien abductions and UFOs has many of what are called “contactees.” These are the rare individuals who, for whatever reasons, seem to have been singled out by these inscrutable alien entities for sustained contact. Such contact can range from the benign to the downright terrifying, and can forever change these people’s lives in many ways. On such contactee has chosen to reach out to me personally to tell her story, and it is a tale that will be unveiled here in full for the first time. Here we will go down the path of a lifetime of very weird experiences that alternate between the weird, the horrific, the fascinating, and the awe-inspiring.
Laura Clarke, now 62 years old, was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and during her childhood didn’t stay in one place for long. Her father Al was in the Army and her, her sister Barb, and her mom Jo moved often from base to base, going from Fort Benning, Georgia, then Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and finally to Fairbanks, Alaska. It in Alaska where she would begin down the road into her bizarre odyssey into the world of UFOs, alien abductions, and high strangeness. It first began the summer after a big earthquake had hit Anchorage in 1963, and Alaska was in the midst of one of its periods of perpetual daylight. One this evening it was bright as day outside, and her mother put her and Barb to bed, closing the think blinds of the room to keep the never-ending sunlight out. It was as the two young girls were lying in the gloom that the night would take a turn into the outlandish, and she would experience her first abduction. Laura says of what happened:
One night my sister, Barbara, was already asleep in the bed next to me. My parents had gone to bed too, and all was quiet. As I lay there trying to sleep I suddenly noticed a figure out in the hall move past my door towards the window. I assumed it was Mom. But then someone pulled back the curtain and light flooded the hallway. When this happened I saw several small, thin, light grey “people” with large black, slanted eyes, staring into my room. I was surprised and just stared back at them. I had never seen anything like them before. The most we were allowed to watch on TV was Romper Room and cartoons. I looked at Barb and she was sound asleep. Our twin beds were pushed together and I was closest to the window. Then I watched as an invisible force pulled the covers off her and she floated out of bed and into a standing position. Her eyes were still closed. Then I felt myself being floated off my bed and into a standing position. Barb was floated, upright, hovering a few inches above the floor out of the room and towards the stairs. I was also moved this way towards the stairs.
The thin grey “people” moved around us, and one accompanied each of us. As I was positioned at the top of the stairs I knew I had to move my legs to step down and I found myself making bicycle motions with my legs as I tried to go downstairs. Suddenly the first voice I heard was coming from the one next to me. His mouth did not move, but I heard his thoughts. He said “You don’t have to do that, we will do it for you.” So I stopped moving my legs and felt that I was being floated downstairs without ever touching the steps. As we floated slowly through the living room my sister and a grey disappeared around the corner into the kitchen. I realized that these “people” were shorter than my Mom, who was 5’2″ tall. My Dad was 6’2″ tall, so I knew what a difference in height was. I then asked him “Are you people like us?” He answered “No. We are Non Human Living Beings.” After that I do not remember anything more about that experience, except that from that day on Barbara was never the same again. She became an angry, defensive, stubborn, brat to put it bluntly.
Laura would keep this experience to herself for many years, feeling as if she was “not supposed to tell anyone,” and it would not be until decades later that she would learn from her sister that she had indeed been awake during the incident. Unfortunately for her, this was not to be the last strange experience the family would endure. After her father left the military, he got a job in Corrections as a Personnel Director, and the family would move from place to place every year or two. At one point they found themselves living in Davenport, Iowa, and it was here where Laura would have her second abduction experience. She explains of what happened:
When we first moved to Iowa I had my second abduction experience. I was about 7. We lived in a brand new housing development in Davenport, Iowa. Our house butted up against a deep ravine. On the other side was the elementary school. Our small backyard had a swing set between the house and ravine. One night I was suddenly aware that I was outside floating through the air in the dark. I was coming down towards the back yard. I could see the roof and swing set below me next to the ravine. I was moved in the direction of our back sliding glass door. Next thing I knew, I was rudely woken up by a very hard painful slap on my behind. My parents NEVER spanked me so I tensed up in fear and layed there holding as still as I could. I became aware that I was on top of my blankets, on my stomach, with my nightgown pulled up above my waist. I was thankful my underwear was still on, but I felt very exposed and vulnerable in the glow of the nightlight. Then I heard a strange sound. I knew my Mom’s normal footsteps in her leather loafers, but this was not her. What I heard was as if someone was holding her tiny size 5 shoes in their hands and slapping them on the floor in a fake walking sound.
I listened as it moved out of my room, into the short hall, and into my parent’s room. I heard their closet door slide open and the shoes were dropped loudly and the door slid shut. A few seconds later I became really scared when I heard 2 robotic mechanical sounding “voices” having a conversation in the hall between the bedrooms. You have to remember this was before home computers, before push button phones and all of that! 1965…this was nothing I had ever heard before. It was all kinds of beeps and tones. One would beep, boop, ding…there’d be a pause…and the other would boop, ding, beep, click and whirring sound…like a weird mechanical conversation. I was terrified. After that stopped I still lay there for a long time until I saw the sun coming up. I got up some nerve and scrambled up under my covers and turned on my back so I could see if anything was coming at me. I saw my sister sound asleep in her bed across the room.
This is very terrifying stuff for a 7-year-old girl, and for weeks afterward she was jumpy, nervous, constantly looking behind her and peeking out the sliding glass door. Her mother noticed her odd behavior, but Laura refused to tell of what had happened due to that nagging feeling that she was somehow not allowed to. She explained to me that she had this unshakable sense that if she were to tell anyone, something bad would happen to her or her family. This had not been directly said to her by the entities, but it nevertheless stuck in her mind and kept her from saying a word about her experiences. It is an interesting detail, as many contactees describe a similar sensation of not being able to tell anyone what has happened to them. After that things seemed to go back to normal, and the family moved to Anamosa and then McGregor, Iowa, before finally settling in Delavan, Wisconsin. It was here where she would have her most intense and terrifying experience yet. It happened in 1967 when she was 9 years old, on an otherwise warm and pleasant evening at her quaint rural home. She says of the otherworldly series of events that would unfold:
This is where my most intense abduction happened up to that point. Our lives were very simple, boring almost, except for these random abductions. It was about 1967, when I was 9. We lived in a 2 story house with a one car garage and narrow driveway close to the house next door. All of the abductions seem to happen in the warmer months. One night I was woken up by an extremely bright white light. I thought at first they installed a new street light, because it was not at all like sunshine. But then I heard a voice. It sounded like an almost “electronic” little girls voice. It was high pitched and horribly echoed in my room. It said “Isn’t the light pretty? Do you want to come and play in the light?” I thought, “No I have school tomorrow”, but I got out of bed to see where the light was coming from. I went to my window which was facing the driveway. It was cracked open a couple inches for fresh air. When I looked out I realized the light was not on the street side, but coming from above our garage. I could see a very bright white beam of light coming from something above the garage roof. It was very distinct in it’s beginning and sides. I could see that the stars were blocked out in the shape of a wide circle around the beam. Maybe 25 to 30 feet across. The light came down from the very center of it.
As I was trying to figure out what this was I felt my body start to kind of tingle and then I realized that my whole body was vibrating apart. It literally felt as if every cell in my body was being vibrated apart from each other and I felt myself slowly being moved from inside my room, literally through the glass window, wood frame and all…and put together on the other side. I was outside hanging above my driveway in mid air. Then I was pulled upward towards the bottom of the black circle, to the left of the beam of light. I remember being raised up into a sort of hatch over to the left side of the beam of light. I could see the side wall to my left. I was turned to the right and moved down a long curving hallway. The entire place was made of some kind of silver metal. The hallway had a flat floor, but the wall to my right curved like an arch so that if you went too far to the right you would hit your head. The hall curved around towards the left too, as if you were walking in a large circle. As I was floated alone down this long hall, I passed by several doorways. No doors were visible, but I could see each room was pie shaped, like a slice of pie. Narrow on the opposite side from the doorway, but flat like a bite was taken off the end. So as I came to about the 3rd doorway I saw ahead of me a bigger room that opened up into what looked like a control room with small seats and some sort of dials and gauges and small screens or something. Before I could take it all in, I was turned into the last of the small rooms to my left. It was pie shaped like the others but had a small metal looking exam table like in a doctors office. I was laid on this table. Then I realized that several of the same grey beings I had seen at 5 years old were moving into the room and surrounding me. I got a little scared by then, but somehow felt like “it’s THEM”…somehow familiar.
As if this wasn’t all eerie and frightening enough as it was, Laura explains that she then became suddenly aware of a presence in the room there with them that she describes as “completely evil,” and although her body was completely paralyzed, she was able to move her head enough to look around to some degree and try to pinpoint where this feeling of utter dread was coming from. She then saw two of the grey beings flanking a completely different type of entity, this one being decidedly non-humanoid, standing about 6 feet tall and which looked like a praying mantis, only completely black in color. She felt it was somehow their leader, and this abomination utterly repelled her and filled her with a sharp dread unlike anything she had ever experienced before. Just as the wave of terror threatened to overwhelm her, panels on the walls at that moment filled with a soft blue light that reminded her of fish tanks stacked on top of each other and had an instantly calming effect on her. However, her ordeal was not over yet, and she says of what happened next:
Awhile later a figure appeared in the doorway. As I turned my head to the right, I was amazed to see a little girl grey being. She was smaller, maybe 3 1/2 feet tall, but had long, very thin and wispy black hair. Her eyes were slanted and all black but a little smaller than the others. I was not afraid of her and somehow felt she was telling me she was my “sister”…and she even looked more “like me” than my real sister. Barbara had short light dirty blonde hair with blue eyes, a turned-up nose and round face. I had long black hair and olive-green eyes. Somehow, I felt this grey being was in fact genetically my sister. I wondered if my parents had also been taken by the greys in the past? Later I was brought back into my bedroom, again by moving right through the window itself. I was floated onto my bed, stomach down. My body was then pulled by the invisible force into a certain position. I was then told that I WOULD have trouble sleeping from now on, and I should put myself in this position from then on to help me fall asleep. I have had to do this ever since, and have been plagued by severe insomnia for the rest of my life.
Indeed, Laura has told me that this incident in particular has caused her myriad health issues that plague her to this day, such as the insomnia, as well as her eyes suddenly shaking from left to write and her left foot occasionally dragging as if not responding to her. At the time she also became morose and had anxiety about the praying mantis, and her mind constantly raced trying to make sense of it all. She found herself fascinated by these beings and daydreamed constantly at school about them, to the detriment of her grades and homework. After this third abduction incident, Laura felt like she wanted to tell her parents about it more than ever, but had that nagging feeling that she shouldn’t, that unspoken command that to do so would mean bad things. However, this time she overrode that irresistible urge to keep it to herself and told them, but they told her it was just bad dreams. Yet even as they told her it was all in her head, she suspected somehow that her mother knew more than she was letting on, and this would turn out to not be the last of her strange journey. Laura’s next abduction happened some years later, when she was 14 years old. At the time her parents were now divorced, and she was living at her father’s house in Wheeling, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, along with her sister Barb. On this evening things had started very normally, with Laura getting ready to go to bed and listen to a radio program she had been looking forward to. She got up to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth and that was when she noticed something odd. She explains:
I was wide awake and went into the bathroom to get ready. But as I opened my bedroom door to go back in my room, I noticed my light was off, which was strange. I knew I’d left it on. As I stepped into my room and closed the door, I suddenly became very weak and tired. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I stumbled over to my bed and fell into it. I thought, what is going on? I laid on my back and noticed that my closet light was on but the folding doors were shut. I knew that was not right. Then I watched as one of the doors to the closet slid open. I thought my sister must be trying to scare me, but why was I so weak and tired? Then I saw who was in the closet and my heart sank. It was a grey. “They” had found me again. I passed out, and the next thing I remember was floating over the condo buildings in the dark and down towards our front door.
I don’t remember what happened the rest of the night until they brought me back. That’s what pisses me off about these experiences. I hate not remembering things. So they brought me back into the trailer as the sun was just coming up. They had come at 10 pm when Lance walked to bed and now it was sunrise. I was aware of floating back through the door, and down the hall towards the bedroom. I noticed my clothes were all stuck to me like I was vacuum sealed, and I felt very cold and clammy. When I was brought to the bedroom, they set me down on the floor and I could feel the invisible force leave me and my clothes fell away from my body again like the vacuum suction had left. I was standing there realizing that the trees were suddenly blowing around the trailer like a huge wind came up. Then I heard helicopters coming from a distance. I remember thinking “I need a witness. Someone who can confirm this.” Then the light beam shut off from above the roof and the craft moved off swiftly and the trees stopped blowing. Immediately I heard 3 low flying Helicopters follow it directly over my trailer. I did not see them, but I heard them clearly. 1,2,3…then silence. I tore my clothes off and crawled in bed exhausted. Slept hard for a good 12 hours.
Once again, she told no one of any of this, and it hung over her into her later years. It seemed for a while that the whole ordeal was over, and for years no further incidents happened. When Laura was 23 years old, she was living in a heavily wooded rural area of Ulster County, New York with her new husband, Lance, and a 2-year-old son named Morgan. Although health issues still bothered her from her experiences, she was under the impression that the worst was behind her, and that she could now live a somewhat normal life, but it seems that this was not meant to be. It happened out of nowhere one night as her and her husband were watching TV. He suddenly got up to go to bed without saying a word and proceeded to walk in a stiff, disjointed way back towards the bedroom, which was highly unusual behavior for him. Just at that moment, she was hit by the intense feeling of being watched, and with shock became convinced that the aliens were there.
Laura frantically went through the house checking that all of the doors and windows were locked, and in the meantime her husband continued in his trance-like state, lying down on the bed and falling into a deep slumber he could not be woken from. Indeed, he could not even be moved, and seemed to be in a state she describes as being as if he had been “frozen in time.” When she went to check on her son, she found him to be in the same immobile state of suspended animation. She now had no doubts that the entities had come for her once again, further corroborated by the swirling of the trees outside and a bright piercing light that lit up their entire trailer. The only sound was a low hum or drone coming from above, and then she heard a sound within the trailer itself. In a panic she made sure that the doors were locked but then she turned and explains of her next bizarre encounter:
I checked the front door and it was locked, so I turned around and was stopped in my tracks when I saw a very short being standing in my kitchen. I stared at it trying to figure out what it was. I had apparently walked right past it. This was something new I’d never seen before. It was shorter than my son and I thought that was odd. It had a very round basketball sized head with tiny black eyes. I could see no other features except that it was wearing a long sleeved white robe that covered everything else. I could see no hands or feet. I thought “My God! He’s shorter than my son!” The damn thing replied telepathically “HUH! YES, BUT WE ARE VEEERY, VEEERY OOOOOOLLLLD!” It was creepy the way he dragged out the words and sarcastically said HUH…My mouth dropped. I was shocked. I’m thinking “What? Hundreds? Thousands of years old???” I rushed over to the window near the hall and stood there staring at him. Then I heard the front door jiggle. Suddenly it opened and about 4-5 of the greys came floating into the room. They were just like the others I’d seen as a child. They all look like clones, but have very different “personalities” you could say. The way they propel themselves is strange. They are floating above the floor a few inches. They are slowly pushing their arms and legs forward as if pushing through jello. Then they stop and their arms hang down at their sides.
One of them went in front of me and headed down the hall…I thought! But suddenly he moved right in front of my face, scaring the hell out of me. The light was flooding in the window from behind me, so I was staring into this large ugly face. He was only 4 inches from me. I noticed a strong nasty smell. It was a combination of Urine and sweet spices and vomit. It made me want to throw up. Then he started playing mind games. He was trying to make me feel as if I was a worthless dog who should cower on the floor at his feet. I wanted to cry, but I thought “I am not a dog.” I looked him right in the eyes. I suddenly realized that inside the huge slanted black eyes were very large pupils! I could literally see that he had a darker centered pupil inside the blackness. Then I looked at his skin. The light grey skin looked just like rough Cowhide!!! It was not smooth. Up close it looked like you sometimes see cowhide that has been left with the wavy odd lines all through it. Then he flooded my mind with memories. It was every single abduction experience I had ever had before. Then he told me they were all connected…and all connected to THEM. I knew it already, but he made sure I knew. I knew there was no escaping so I started praying in my mind “Please God! Help me Jesus!” The grey replied “Yes. We know God too.” That scared me even more. There was no help coming. They moved me outside the trailer and I saw the light beaming down. I don’t remember what happened.
When she woke up, she found a red spot with a scab just below her belly button, and when she pulled at it popped off and seemed to be attached to a long, thin sheath of tissue that had been burrowed down into her belly. It ended up being about 5 inches long, much to her horror, and it seemed that something that had been perhaps implanted within her. She says of it:
It was as if something like a giant fat needle had been shoved deep into my belly and left a long hole. It didn’t even bleed or anything. I wrapped it in a tissue and wanted to save it as proof. Then I went to wipe myself after peeing and could not believe what I saw on the toilet paper. There was a large circle of a thick oily substance, but it was divided in half. Like a half circle of bright yellow and a half circle of bright amber orange thick oily liquid. It was as if the two could not mix. They were touching but not mixing together. I must have sat there for 10 minutes in shock, not knowing what to think or do about this. I set the tissue aside with the intention of saving it too. But then I couldn’t figure out who to take it to or who I could tell, so I just threw it all away, and went to take care of my son.
Weird incidents would continue into later years as well. Laura ended up divorcing Lance and she was married once again. At the time Morgan was 5 years old and Laura had a new child, named Rachel. One evening as she was watching TV, she says she heard a voice in her head that said “Wake up. Go to your son. He needs you.” There was an urgency to it, and a sense that something was deeply wrong, so she rushed to her son’s aid. She says of what she found there:
I couldn’t believe what I saw. Morgan was lying in bed with his head AND shoulders all the way up on his pillow. His blankets were neatly folded down covering his body from the chest down as though he had been placed that way. He was covered in blood all over his face and neck. Blood was pouring out of his nose and I could not wake him up. There was no blood on his pillow or blankets, just on him and his pajama shirt. I ran downstairs and pounded on my neighbors door. I asked her to call an ambulance because I had no phone then. Instead she followed me upstairs and acted very strange. As I ran to the bathroom to get cold wet washcloths and towels, she brought a dining chair in from the kitchen and parked herself at the head of his bed and didn’t do or say a damn thing! I was frantic and pissed off. It was almost like she was in a trance. She eventually left after I asked her again to call for help. She never did. I finally got the bleeding stopped but he didn’t wake up until morning. He seemed fine that morning and wanted to go to school. But when he got home, I asked if he remembered anything about last night? He said that he woke up and saw a “skeleton man” standing in his room so he hid under his bed, but then he was taken out of the house, along with our other neighbors’ son who was the same age. I realized it was “Them…the greys” who took the boys. I was so angry. I looked up towards the sky and thought “It’s bad enough you have taken me against my will all my life, but STAY AWAY FROM MY CHILDREN!!!!” I was so pissed. I took him to a local clinic but they couldn’t find anything in his nose or on x-ray that would cause such severe bleeding.
What was going on here? Was this another instance of these inscrutable entities haunting this poor woman and her family? The activity would cease once again, and in the meantime, Laura would fall out with her husband and move to near Albany, New York, where she lived with a friend named Jim, who would tragically pass away some years later. Laura would then meet another man, Steve, who lived with them for 10 years and is the father of her 3rd child, Ashley, and she would go on to have a 4th child, Ricky, who would sadly develop Cerebral Palsy and be bedridden at home. She still felt that the Greys were watching over her, and occasionally had UFO sightings and suspected abductions. Her kids got married and had their own kids, she became a grandmother, and yet she would have one more strange experience. She says of this:
I heard a strange humming as I was falling asleep. I was very tired so I didn’t think anything of it and never got up to look outside. But last night my daughter, Rachel, sent me a message to call her right away. She said my granddaughter, Claire, was the last one eating at the table last night and she noticed a humming sound and saw a black ball hovering outside their house. She told them about it, and then my son in law said he’d seen it the night before! He’s like me, he’s been through so much he just keeps things to himself sometimes. They said it was all black and round, about 4-6 feet across. It had no lights visible. They saw it hovering over the stump of a giant pine tree they’d just had cut down, which is only 25 feet away from the window Claire was sitting at! And it also went over to their neighbors’ yard behind that house and came back to their yard. I am guessing it may have been outside my house two nights ago when I heard the humming…which was the same night Tim saw it. We live 2 doors away from each other. Rachel said it reminded her of the much larger black ball that she and the kids saw facing off with a helicopter about a year ago. They said that one was about as big as the helicopter. I told you guys about that event already. Also, Tim just told me that the night he saw it, he was napping on the couch and woke up when the smallest of their 3 dogs was staring out the window and growling a low growl. Usually, she barks loudly at everything. So, he turned to see what she was looking at, and saw the black ball above the tree stump. Then it hovered very slowly towards him and as soon as it got a few feet away from his window it triggered the outside flood lights to come on. So he got a good look at it, but when their shepperd/rotty mix came in the room the thing took off fast…these sightings with the black metallic ball happened in March 2020.
For now that seems to be where things stand with Laura. She is now a stay at home mother of four grown children, and is expecting her 4th grandchild. In all of my interactions with her I have found her to be a very level-headed, articulate individual who seems very convinced of what has happened to her over the course of her fascinating life. And what a life it has been. We are left to ask what is going on here. Why were these forces drawn to this poor woman? What did they want and what did they see in her? Will they be back once again? For what it’s worth, she has proven to me to be a very eloquent, level-headed witness who does not seek any fame and just merely wants to get her story out there. Whatever you may think of her tale, it is a compelling odyssey over a lifetime of alien encounters, and I am honored that she shared this with me for me to bring it out into the light.
In yesterday’s article I wrote the following concerning soul-stealing, aliens and UFOs: “[Whitley] Strieber received a response from the Visitors that offered an explanation for their connections to the soul. They told him two things. First of all, that they recycled souls, and second, that living on Earth is akin to being in a school, one in which we are learning, growing and evolving with every subsequent recycling. It’s a scenario that provokes imagery of some huge, bizarre factory, continually dispatching old souls into new bodies in almost conveyor-belt-style fashion. Perhaps, that’s exactly what is afoot – albeit in a very strange, near-unfathomable fashion that we have yet to come to grips with, or even understand.” There’s the end of the quote. Now, let’s look at further examples of this phenomenon that terrifies some and has others living in an “I can’t wait to go”-type situation. It’s hardly surprising, taking into consideration the soul-stealing angle of the abduction phenomenon, that some researchers have suggested that the Visitors are far less extraterrestrial-based and far more demonic in nature.
Moving on, there is the saga of a man named Howard Menger. He was a well-known member of that elite club known as the Contactees decades ago. They are the ones who maintain they have been contacted – sometimes in person, and on other occasions in a mind to mind situation – by benevolent “Space Brothers” from far away worlds. In the mid-1950s, so Menger claimed, his allegedly alien friends told him that not only were there positive and negative non-human entities right here on Earth, but that our planet was a “battlefield for nothing less than “men’s minds and souls [italics mine].”
Moving on, in October 1973, a significant UFO encounter occurred in the night-sky of Mansfield, Ohio. It involved the crew of a U.S. Army Reserve helicopter that briefly witnessed – at very close quarters – a large, gray-colored, cylinder-shaped object. In the wake of the encounter something very strange happened: the crew was quietly contacted by government sources that asked a lot of intriguing questions that are central to the theme of this chapter. Sgt. John Healey, one of the crew-members, later said: “As time would go by, the Pentagon would call us up and ask us: ‘Well, has this incident happened to you since the occurrence?’ And in two of the instances that I recall, what they questioned me, was, number one: have I ever dreamed of body separation? And I have. I dreamed that I was dead in bed and that my spirit or whatever, was floating, looking down at me lying dead in bed.”
Then there is the intriguing story of Paul Inglesby, the author of UFOs and the Christian. Just one year before the Second World War broke out in 1939, Inglesby (alias “Eric”), who died in 2010,went down with a very serious case of malaria. So serious was it that for a while Inglesby perilously hovered in that mysterious domain between life and death. It was while in this limbo-like state that Inglesby had a frightening dream. Years later, he recalled how it all went down: it was an undetermined time in the Earth’s future and UFO-like craft were soaring across the fire-and smoke-filled skies of our ruined, radioactive planet and launching nuclear missiles at our major cities – killing billions and causing planet-wide destruction. The UFOs were not piloted by extraterrestrials, though, but by demonic entities whose goal was to suck out the souls of those killed in the fiery inferno, which was rapidly overwhelming the Earth and just about everything on it. For Inglesby, it was quite literally a wake-up call. The malaria cleared up, Inglesby came out of his unconscious state, and he spent the rest of his life pursuing a career in the church and warning people to avoid the UFO issue.
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Robert Sepehr: Invading Antarctica - Secret South Pole Colony
Robert Sepehr: Invading Antarctica - Secret South Pole Colony
Robert Sepehr: Invading Antarctica – Secret South Pole Colony
Operation Highjump was commanded by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, lasted six-months (Aug 1946 – Feb 1947), and included 4,700 armed personnel, thirteen ships and thirty-three aircraft. Still classified and officially titled the United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, their covert mission was to seek out and destroy an alleged subterranean South Polar colony established by Germany, before and during WW2, which not only harbored thousands of scientists in a semi-secret secluded base, but free energy technology and advanced propulsion craft (UFOs).
Scientists were expecting to find an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397, but instead they found evidence of a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there.
Credit: Directed by: Bethany Downer and Nico Bartmann, Editing: Nico Bartmann, Web and technical support: Encisco Systems, Written by: Bethany Downer. Music: STAN DART – The Tower of Darkness (Music written and performed by STAN DART), Footage and photos: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann
Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, in which stars are packed closely together. They are also typically very old — the globular cluster that is the focus of this study, NGC 6397, is almost as old as the Universe itself. It resides 7800 light-years away, making it one of the closest globular clusters to Earth. Because of its very dense nucleus, it is known as a core-collapsed cluster.
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have led to the first measurement of the extent of a collection of black holes in a core-collapsed globular cluster.
Credit: ESA/Hubble Space Telescope
When Eduardo Vitral and Gary A. Mamon of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris set out to study the core of NGC 6397, they expected to find evidence for an “intermediate-mass” black hole (IMBH). These are smaller than the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, but larger than stellar-mass black holes formed by the collapse of massive stars. IMBH are the long-sought “missing link” in black hole evolution and their mere existence is hotly debated, although a few candidates have been found (see [1], for example).
To look for the IMBH, Vitral and Mamon analysed the positions and velocities of the cluster’s stars. They did this using previous estimates of the stars’ proper motions[2] from Hubble images of the cluster spanning several years [3], in addition to proper motions provided by ESA’s Gaia space observatory, which precisely measures the positions, distances and motions of stars. Knowing the distance to the cluster allowed the astronomers to translate the proper motions of these stars into velocities.
“Our analysis indicated that the orbits of the stars are close to random throughout the globular cluster, rather than systematically circular or very elongated,” explained Mamon.
“We found very strong evidence for invisible mass in the dense central regions of the cluster, but we were surprised to find that this extra mass is not point-like but extended to a few percent of the size of the cluster,” added Vitral.
The animation featured in this video is an artist’s impression created to visualize the concentration of black holes at the center of NGC 6397. In reality, the small black holes here are far too small for the direct observing capacities of any existing or planned future telescope, including Hubble. It is predicted that this core-collapsed globular cluster could be host to more than 20 black holes.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann
This invisible component could only be made up of the remnants (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes) of massive stars whose inner regions collapsed under their own gravity once their nuclear fuel was exhausted. The stars progressively sank to the cluster’s centre after gravitational interactions with nearby less massive stars, leading to the small extent of the invisible mass concentration. Using the theory of stellar evolution, the scientists concluded that the bulk of the unseen concentration is made of stellar-mass black holes, rather than white dwarfs or neutron stars that are too faint to observe.
Two recent studies had also proposed that stellar remnants and in particular, stellar-mass black holes, could populate the inner regions of globular clusters.
“Our study is the first finding to provide both the mass and the extent of what appears to be a collection of mostly black holes in a core-collapsed globular cluster,” said Vitral.
“Our analysis would not have been possible without having both the Hubble data to constrain the inner regions of the cluster and the Gaia data to constrain the orbital shapes of the outer stars, which in turn indirectly constrain the velocities of foreground and background stars in the inner regions,” added Mamon, attesting to an exemplary international collaboration.
This animation is an artist’s impression created to visualize the concentration of black holes at the center of NGC 6397. In reality, the small black holes here are far too small for the direct observing capacities of any existing or planned future telescope, including Hubble. It is predicted that this core-collapsed globular cluster could be host to more than 20 black holes.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann
The astronomers also note that this discovery raises the question of whether mergers of these tightly packed black holes in core-collapsed globular clusters may be an important source of gravitational waves recently detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment.
Notes
[1] In 2020, new data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provided the strongest evidence to date for a mid-sized black hole. Read the full press release on this result here.
[2] Proper motion describes how fast objects move in the sky.
[3] The Hubble data for this study were provided by A. Bellini, who measured the proper motions for over 1.3 million stars in 22 globular clusters, including NGC 6397. More information
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The team of astronomers in this study consists of E. Vitral and G. A. Mamon. The results have been published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Contacts and sources:
If you watch this RT News broadcast, you will notice two dark oval objects fly past. The objects seem to be flying so close they are almost stacked one upon the other. They are moving incredibly fast and I put it into slow motion at the end of the video to see them better. Sorry, no sound, only 15 seconds of no sound, and I didn't want to add cometary for that short of a section. But honestly, it looks like aliens are trying to show up on the news. Ever since Obama was sworn in at the National monument where CNN was broadcasting and they noticed an incredibly small and fast object shoot past behind them...more and more news casts are getting UFOs flying in the backgrounds...not by accident, but on purpose to expose the public to the truth slowly. It seems aliens are taking serous steps at getting caught in the news live broadcasts.
Aliens Craft With Face Peering Out Seen Near Power Lines Over Puerto Rico, 9-18-2020, UFO Sighting News.
Aliens Craft With Face Peering Out Seen Near Power Lines Over Puerto Rico, 9-18-2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 9-18-2020
Location of sighting: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Source: MUFON 113649
This UFO report came from Puerto Rico and did occur last year, but was reported today to MUFON. As I looked deeply into the photos, I noticed the object appeared at first to be a crinkled paper bag, but the screenshot above destroys that theory. The object above looks nothing like a bag, and defiantly not made of paper at all.
Also there is a pinkish face peeping out of the object, and in other screenshots the face also has a small body. I believe this object has a living pilot flying it. Meaning its not an alien drone, but a real alien spaceship. Small be it, but nevertheless a piloted craft.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Object flew and softly spun on its axis . I took 4 pictures and angle changed in less than 10 seconds of picture taking. Been trying to determine what could have been, been going through my mind repeatedly. Object went in a straight path, not driven by wind although one might have thought it was a half empty ballon or plastic bag. Again looked like a non random movement flight . Altitude was close to 200 ft. I cropped my pictures to try to get a better view. Decided to report this after looking at the flying jet pack man . Some videos on the web do have a small resemblance or remind me of my event.
Purple spheres recorded over North Carolina On Dec 11, 2020, photos, UFO Sighting News.
Purple spheres recorded over North Carolina On Dec 11, 2020, photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: December 11, 2020 05:07pm Location of sighitng: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Source: MUFON 113664
Eyewitness recorded several purple orbs flying past the plane window by accident. The UFOs are all separate, but flying in a pattern as if they work together as one. I don't think this is a lens flare or light reflection off the window. Though my years of reporting UFOs, the one most common time UFOs are seen is during sunset, probably because more people looking at the sky at that time to see the sunset itself. But I also think the suns rays at a low point can actually shine up from below the UFO illumination it, even if its cloaked, so some UFOs are visible for a few seconds to a few minutes during sunset. That is what happened here.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was flying out of Charlotte, N.C. on Dec 11, 2020, @ 5:07 pm from a business trip. We had been in the air for a few mins, and I noticed a beautiful sunset over the city, so I decided to take pictures of it. I was looking at the city below, and just snapped off a few pictures zooming in and out to get a better shot of the city and sunset together. I wasn't really paying attention to anything but getting both the sunset and city in the picture, I guess. It wasn't till now (Feb 11th, 2021), while going through my pictures looking for something else I came across the photos of the odd objects in a few pictures I had taken. I noticed faint purple-colored crescent moons in one of the pictures. I figured it was just lens flare or something else, no big deal. As I continued to look through the other photos, I could see the color and objects change place and were becoming more solid. There appeared to be light patterns forming around the middle of the circular objects that had now morphed into 3 separate circles- 1 big and 2 small.
From the first photo, they had gone from pale in color, almost like half-moon looking, to the last picture, where they were very solid, bright purple color. I also noticed there was something reflecting the glow above and below all 3 objects, but I can't make out what they were. I am not saying these are UFO's, frankly, I don't know what they are. But, I felt it was worth sending in for you to review what is in the pictures. I have had a few people look at them to get their opinion, and they are baffled as I am. I didn't use a flash to take the pictures, there wasn't any type of purple lights coming off the plane, and I didn't really notice them when I was taking the pictures. As you will be able to tell, when I zoomed in, you couldn't see the objects, it's only when I was zoomed out, were visible. That leads to the conclusion they were above a certain vantage point, and it wasn't a reflection from the camera, otherwise, it would have been noted in the other photos. Even in the first photo, it looks like they were closer to the plane wing, and in other photos either we had moved away from them, or vice versa. But it's obvious there was a change in location, distance, shape, transparency, brightness, and the # of objects. It was like the smaller one had morphed into 2 at one point. I am including all the photos I took at that time, just to show the difference in placement of the objects in conjunction with the plane. Please let me know what these things are. It would be appreciated!
On 2021/02/03 Stereo A EUVI 304 probe captured the first object firing a beam of light into space. One day later on 2021/02/04 a second object firing a beam of light into space caught by Stereo A EUVI 195 probe
Both objects, possible alien spacecraft, are similar to the giant UFO that fired two beams into space, captured on January 16, 2021 by the Stereo A EUVI 171 probe.
They say that these anomalies are cosmic rays, charged particles but do these objects really look like cosmic rays or charged particles?
One of the most gruesome, sinister, and completely intriguing of phenomena connected to the phenomenon of UFOs is that of the dark world of cattle mutilations. By some accounts, for some reason, it seems that whatever is behind these strange lights in the sky also has a liking for targeting various livestock for some impromptu surgery and mutilation, often ending up with carcasses that show a variety of strange features such as almost selectively missing organs, strangely precise cuts, a lack of deterioration, and no rotting stench pervading the area. It has been an ongoing phenomenon occurring all over the United States, and one strange spate of such incidents happened only very recently in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Strange cases of cattle mutilations in the state of Oregon have been going on for some time, since back in the 1980s, when ranchers in the area began reporting cattle that had been mysteriously killed and drained completely of blood and sometimes with udders missing and displaying no scavenger activity. This all slipped under the radar at the time, but in 2019 there began a wave of such cattle killings that have left ranchers and law enforcement officials reeling and looking for answers. In the summer of 2019, a remote ranch in rural Oregon called Silvies Valley Ranch me with some rather inexplicable events. Over that summer, five young prize purebred bulls mysteriously began showing up dead all over the place. The corpses were found to be drained of blood, with the tongues and genitals removed with surgical precision, and there was no indication as to what had actually killed them. These were huge, powerful animals, yet there was no sign of a struggle and it seemed as if there were no bullet holes or dart marks. Strangely, there were found no signs of damage caused by buzzards, coyotes or other scavengers, and it was soon found that just two years before there had been a cow that had similarly showed up dead and bloodless on the nearby ranch of a Andie Davies, in New Princeton, Oregon. It was completely perplexing, as these were all strong, healthy bulls, and one livestock extension agent for Oregon State University Extension Service by the name of Scott Duggan would say of it:
I’d be a liar if I didn’t say it had us all pretty stumped. Our first thought was poisonous plants. Lupine was really prevalent this spring… but killing a bull is no small feat. I believe that someone killed the bulls. Death of healthy cattle on rangelands is normally due to one of three situations. These are: 1. Naturally occurring causes such as poisonous plants and unfortunate circumstances/accidents such as drowning, lightning, etc.; 2. Predation (wolves, cougars, bears, etc.) and; 3. Humans killing for fun, rituals, food, etc. The time of year that the bulls were killed, and the locations of the animals where they died would make it highly unlikely that this was due to poisonous plants. Also, it does not appear to be predation, based on the condition of the bulls. This leaves human causes as the most likely explanation in my opinion. It’s got to be some group doing some strange ritual. Human activity certainly seems possible. It is absolutely the strangest thing ever. How somebody put these bulls on the ground at what would be arguably a fairly close range — and to do it in a way that didn’t leave any signs, no trace evidence, no footprints, no struggle marks from the animal, no broken limbs — I have no idea.
That same year, another central Oregon ranch near Hampton, Oregon, owned by a Stephen Roth, had a similar predicament, when five of his own cattle turned up dead and mutilated in the same way, all found within 1.5 miles of each other and with no tracks found around any of the carcasses. It was alarming enough that ranch hands were armed and told to travel in pairs, but as to who or what had killed these massive animals, no one knew. The Roths manage about 87,000 acres of holding around 1,000 head of cattle, but none of them had ever seen anything like this. In one case a cow was found with the heart, tongue, udder, vagina and anus being cut from it, in every case with expert, surgical precision. In none of the cases was the cause of death determined, with no signs of dart punctures, no bullets, no strangulation marks, no rope burns, no tire tracks, no signs of poison. A friend of the Roths and expert tracker, Gary Bishop, would go to the site of the killings and say of the state of the corpses:
It’s obvious an animal didn’t do it. I think whomever is responsible relies on the fact that we are so rural that they can’t get the animal to a vet for a forensic exam fast enough. When an animal is killed hunting, usually you gut it right on site so you can move it. You can see that disturbance on the ground. The person that’s doing this is getting away with this, but is very efficient at it. They’ve been doing it a long time or they are in a trade that they know how to skin an animal. To be able to cut through skin and hide without getting into the belly, takes a lot of skill and precision. It kind of creeped me out. I definitely think it was someone, a pretty sick person. It wasn’t an animal. No animal can cut skin around a belly like that.
There were some other creepy details as well, such as one ranch hand allegedly getting severely ill after touching one of the carcasses, something no one else had done. The mutilations continued into 2020, when a cow was found by rancher Fee Stubblefield near Ukiah in Umatilla County, with its tongue, glands and sex organs cleanly cut off and a piece of its ear placed on its neck. At no point was there any evidence of blood at all, and the whole thing seemed to have been drained dry. None of this is good news, not only because it is creepy, but some of these cattle are worth big money. What was doing this here in Oregon and in other places? Was this people spiting the ranchers? Was it cultists or even aliens, as have been suggested? One Dan Jenkins, a deputy with the Harney County Sheriff’s Office, has said of the various takes on the phenomena:
A lot of people lean toward the aliens. One caller had told us to look for basically a depression under the carcass. ‘Cause he said that the alien ships will kinda beam the cow up and do whatever they are going to do with it. Then they just drop them from a great height. Another person told us we should run like a Geiger counter type thing around the animal and guarantees that there would be radiation there. And the number one on the list there, he thinks it’s the North Vietnamese army.
It is hard to know what to make of such cases, or why they should happen in a wave in this one area. The questions we are left with are largely the same we are given with any strange cattle mutilation case. What is behind this? How could someone so decisively take down a cow or a bull and then drain its blood and surgically remove certain organs? Why would they do such a thing and who is it to begin with? Is this pranksters, aliens, or as skeptics have suggested just an anomalous combination of the natural decomposition process mixed with the work of scavengers? No one really seems to know for sure, but we do know one thing, and that is that the phenomenon of cattle mutilations has continued on to stoke the imagination and inspire debate.
When Whitley Strieber’s Communion book was published back in 1987, it became a huge hit. And, not just with the UFO research community, but with entire swathes of the public, too. Even the mainstream media paid the book a great deal of attention – in part, due to the fact that Strieber was already a very successful writer of atmospheric, thought-provoking horror fiction. His 1978 novel, The Wolfen, for example, was made into a successful movie in 1980. The massive attention shown to Communion was something that ufologists had seldom seen before. If ever. Largely, the UFO community speaks to itself and to no-one else. Strieber changed all that, and practically almost overnight. And Strieber changed something else, too. Take a look.
Whereas most authors of books on the subject of alien abductions, in the 1980s, focused solely on the extraterrestrial scientists are here to steal our DNA angle, Strieber did not. Certainly, Strieber dug deep into this particular issue; however, he certainly did not shy away from some of the far more controversial aspects of his own experiences with what he termed not aliens or extraterrestrials, but as the Visitors. It was a term Strieber used for a very good reason: he was not at all sure that his captors were alien – in the way we interpret the word, at least. Perhaps, he suggested, they represented something so strange that they are completely beyond our current comprehension. As Strieber noted, the Visitors had a deep interest in the human soul; that one solitary part of us which, billions believe, never dies.
Whitley Strieber
Not long after Communion hit the bookshelves, Strieber revealed that as a result of the phenomenal number of letters that had reached him, he was able to definitively state that the human soul was inextricably linked to the abduction puzzle. In his 1988 book Transformation, which was a direct follow-up to Communion, Strieber related a number of traumatic encounters involving abductees who felt that the Visitors / Greys had the ability to extract the immortal, human soul from the physical body. Not only that, they did so on numerous, regular occasions.
Strieber received a response from the Visitors that offered an explanation for their connections to the soul. They told him two things. First of all, that they recycled souls, and second, that living on Earth is akin to being in a school, one in which we are learning, growing and evolving with every subsequent recycling. It’s a scenario that provokes imagery of some huge, bizarre factory, continually dispatching old souls into new bodies in almost conveyor-belt-style fashion. Perhaps, that’s exactly what is afoot – albeit in a very strange, near-unfathomable fashion that we have yet to come to grips with, or even understand.
Strieber was not the only one who came to realize that the alien abduction phenomenon was much weirder than most had imagined – maybe even weirder than most could ever imagine. One of them was the aforementioned Harvard-based Professor John E. Mack. Echoing Strieber’s words to a notable degree, Mack said that of the many and varied abductees he had helped and counseled, some felt that the entities they encountered were nothing less than soul-stealers. In his Passport to the Cosmos book, Mack described the story of an alien abductee named Greg. In Mack’s own words, “Greg told me that the terror of his encounters with certain reptilian beings was so intense that he feared being separated from his soul. ‘If I were to be separated from my soul,’ he said, ‘I would not have any sense of being. I think all my consciousness would go. I would cease to exist.'”
My recent article on the Betty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” incident of September 1961 provoked quite a bit of feedback at Facebook and at my blog. So, with that in my mind, I thought I would share with you some of the primary figures in the abduction field from the 1970s onward. The person who largely, and almost single-handedly, kick-started the first part of this story of genetic manipulation of the Human Race by advanced extraterrestrials, was a Virginia-born painter named Budd Hopkins. It was Hopkins’ 1981 book, Missing Time, which really set the cat among the pigeons, even though Hopkins had been working in the field in the 1970s. The abduction stories of Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton, Herbert Schirmer, and Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were undeniably fascinating and they most assuredly made the UFO research community sit up and take notice of something astounding: people were being kidnapped and subjected to intrusive and frightening medical procedures by creatures from other worlds. There is, however, an important issue that needs to be stressed, and which demonstrates how and why the sheer scale of the alien abduction phenomenon remained under-appreciated until Hopkins was on the scene in the late 70s and early 80s.
Budd Hopkins
The Hill case occurred in 1961. Herbert Schirmer was taken on board a UFO in 1967. Hickson and Parker’s abduction was in 1973. And Travis Walton was taken in 1975. That’s just four cases across fourteen years. Yes, there were other, less well profiled, abductions throughout that time period; but, the image that these incidents provoked was one which suggested abductions were things that occurred only now and again. For many, it was not a case of aliens routinely abducting people on a regular basis, all across the planet. Well, actually…it was. But it was Hopkins, whose abduction research began in 1976 that we have to thank for demonstrating that what appeared to be a few, random events was actually nothing of the sort. For Hopkins it was a downright epidemic.
More disturbing, Hopkins’ work showed that, in many cases, abductions did not begin when people matured and were adults. They commenced in the formative years of childhood and very often ran through numerous generations of the same families. In some cases, Hopkins found, people were being implanted with small devices – for purposes that no-one could ascertain. Maybe they were designed to tag people, allowing the ETs to track the abductees throughout their lives, and no matter where they might relocate to on the planet. A far more sinister theory was that the implants were designed to do nothing less than alter the behavior of the abductees. In no time at all, the days of Betty and Barney Hill were overthrown by fears of alien-orchestrated Manchurian Candidates and hypnotically-controlled abductees.
Hopkins’ early work, as published in Missing Time in 1981, also sowed the seeds for something else: a deep and nagging suspicion that part of the alien abduction agenda – and, just perhaps, all of it – was based around matters of a reproductive nature. Hopkins asked of this issue: “What if the UFO occupants are taking something from their captives?” He answered his own question with the following: “We may indeed possess something – a natural resource, an element, a genetic structure – that an alien culture might desire to use, for example, as raw material.” Hopkins may well have been right on target with his references to a “genetic structure” and “raw material.” Hopkins’ book proved to be a major talking point within the field of Ufology and firmly set the scene for what was to follow.
Budd Hopkins continued to intensively investigate alien abduction claims in the 1980s, and to the extent that a clear pattern of DNA fingerprinting, the extraction of ova and sperm from abductees, and suspicions of a massive, alien-driven operation to use the Human Race in some huge, genetics-driven program took firm shape. It was, however, in 1987, that matters really came to a head. In that year, Hopkins’ follow-up book, Intruders, was published, and which told the story of alien abductee Kathie Davies. It was a book that reinforced the scenarios detailed in Missing Time. Hopkins continued his research and died in 2011.
The 1990s saw the alien abduction phenomenon reach positively stratospheric proportions. Much of this was as a result of two men:John E. Mack, M.D.and David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. It must be said, however, that they brought very different concepts and thoughts to the table. Mack, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author (of a book on T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia) who was killed in 2004, in London, England, by a drunk driver, on a dark Saturday night, penned two books that left a big mark on 1990s-era Ufology. Their titles: Abduction and Passport to the Cosmos. Certainly, one of the chief reasons why Mack’s books became such talking points wasn’t just because of their subject-matter. It was because Mack was a Harvard Medical School professor – and he was talking about alien abductions from the perspective of them being all too shockingly real. Needless to say, it didn’t go down well with the bigwigs at Harvard, and to the extent that, in May 1994, Mack’s work in the field of alien abductions came under fire. The result, the Dean of the Harvard Medical School set up a group to carefully assess the nature of clinical care given by Mack to his growing body of abductees. The conclusions of the group were damning.
Dr John E. Mack, pioneering researcher of the abduction phenomenon.
Nevertheless, Mack retained his standing at Harvard and continued his abduction-based work until the time of his death. Where Mack differed from so many other UFO researchers that were studying the phenomenon, was from the perspective of the spiritual nature of certain abduction events. Mack held the view that there was a deep spiritual aspect to the mystery, that people were transformed – in a positive fashion – by their experiences; he noted that post-abduction they often developed concerns about the environment, they began to ponder on the matter of life after death, on karma and fate, and on the nature of the human soul, and they experienced out of body experiences and near-death events – from which they came back positively transformed. Mack said: “The abduction phenomenon seems to me to be a part of the shift in consciousness that is collapsing duality and enabling us to see that we are connected beyond the Earth at a cosmic level.”
And then there was Professor David M. Jacobs. Before were get to the matter of Jacobs, it is both important and relevant to note that the 1980s-1990s was also the period when another aspect of alien abduction lore reached its absolute pinnacle. It was the matter of what have become known as alien-human “hybrids.” Certainly, both the Antonio Villas Boas case of 1957 and the Betty and Barney Hill encounter of 1961 strongly suggested there was what we might call a “reproductive component” to abductions. Budd Hopkins’ work, showing that ova and sperm were being taken from kidnapped Americans, reinforced that particular theory even more. All of that, however, was overshadowed by the rise of the hybrids.
As the 1990s progressed, controversial, and even frightening, accounts surfaced of alien abductees encountering – usually on-board UFOs – young children that gave every appearance of being half-human and half-alien, and specifically of the “Gray” type. They looked human, but there were certain things that…were just not right. Their skin was pale, almost to the point of appearing anemic. Their limbs were thin, bony, and fragile-looking. Their eyes were overly large, and noticeably oval- or almond-shaped, exactly like those of the Grays. Their hair was thin and wispy. And it wasn’t just hybrid children that abductees reported encountering: it was hybrid fetuses, too. In may such cases, witnesses claimed to have seen such fetuses being grown – in huge, glass tanks filled with milky liquid.
The implication was, for some, terrifying: aliens were creating creatures that resembled us (providing one did not get too close a look at them), that could pass for us, that could move among us, and that might even have an agenda of infiltrating us – and yes, I do mean that from a sinister, and potentially hostile, perspective. There is something else too: the hybrids were the undeniable modern day equivalents of the so-called “Changelings” of centuries-old Irish lore concerning fairies – things created by the wee folk and which were designed to replace babies snatched in the night and whisked away to the domain of the fairies.
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Een rode ster, half zo groot als de Zon
Een rode ster, half zo groot als de Zon
Eind volgend jaar kunnen wij getuige zijn van een bijzondere blauwe komeet die volgens sommigen zo groot als een blauwe maan aan de hemel zal staan.
Over wat er dan precies verder zal gebeuren zijn de meningen verdeeld en daarom vandaag een andere invalshoek.
Enkele dagen geleden publiceerden wij een artikel, met daarin de theorie van David Dubyne die stelt dat we in oktober 2024 een heel bijzonder stand van de planeten hebben waardoor een extra magnetisch veld om de aarde wordt gecreëerd wat voor heftige aardveranderingen zal zorgen.
Daarnaast is hij ervan overtuigd dat we rond de kerstperiode volgend jaar een grote komeet aan de hemel kunnen waarnemen, die er zo groot uit zal zien als de maan.
Deze komeet wordt dan ook al de Blue Kachina genoemd uit de voorspellingen van de Hopi indianen en daarin wordt de Blue Kachina al vrij snel gevolgd door de Red Kachina.
Wanneer wij iets schrijven over de planeet Nibiru en de ster Nemesis is onze vaste columnist Evert Jan Poorterman er het eigenlijk standaard niet mee eens. En dat is mooi, want zo krijg je verschillende invalshoeken en als daar uiteindelijk de waarheid uit voorkomt, prima.
Daarom bij deze wat Evert Jan schrijft naar aanleiding van het eerdere artikel.
Ik lees mee met jullie bericht over de Hopi-profetieën en ik ben verbaasd en ik en constateer opnieuw dat Amerikaanse berichtgeving over de komst van de rode dwergster RA niet bolstaat van kennis! De redactie gaat er vanuit dat Nemesis de ster is en dat Nibiru één van de planeten van die ster is... en dat er voorafgaande aan de komst van de ster, het mini-stelsel, een blauwe komeet verschijnt. Kort erop gevolgd door de ster zelf.
Dat zou kunnen. Mijn bevindingen echter zijn anders. De tweede ster is een rode dwergster (Sun RA) en daaromheen draaien vier planeten. Drie gingen verloren in de ‘hemelstrijd’ en vier bleven over! Ik merkte eerder op dat Nibiru (nibiroe) een positie is in de Hemel (astroïdengordel) en niet de naam van de ster. Dat komt door Zecharia Sitchin die de planeet (die een ster blijkt te zijn) steevast Marduk en Niburu noemde.
Dat is door iedereen overgenomen... en dat is niet onlogisch. Zecharia Sitchin heeft zelf de verwarring gezaaid. Gelukkig heeft hij ook voldoende juiste aanwijzingen gegeven... en wie zijn boek; ‘De Twaalfde Planeet’ goed leest en de inhoud goed begrijpt en de teksten juist interpreteert kan, uitgerust met een goed stel hersens, de juiste bagage, voldoende nieuwsgierigheid en intuïtie de zin van de onzin scheiden.
De Hopi vertellen dat Blue Kachina als eerste komt... en dat hij op het marktplein (in het openbaar en voor iedereen zichtbaar) zijn masker afwerpt en zijn ware gezicht toont; een rood gezicht! Blue en Red Kachina zijn één en de zelfde! Naarmate de dwergster dichterbij de Zon komt zullen zijn gassen verbranden en als een ioniserend blauwgroen of groenblauw licht zichtbaar zijn. Als die gassen opgebrand zijn...
Net zo blauw(groen) of (groen)blauw als de Turkoois... niet zomaar door de Hopi gekozen... anders hadden ze de Lapis Lazuli wel gekozen!
De komeet heeft de naam C/2017 K2 of kortweg K2 gekregen en komt waarschijnlijk uit de Oortwolk zetten. De komeet reist al miljoenen jaren aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel rond, alwaar het ontzettend koud is. ‘K2 is zo ver van de Zon en zo koud dat we zeker weten dat de activiteit – de nevel die ervoor zorgt dat deze eruitziet als een komeet – niet zoals bij andere kometen het resultaat is van de verdamping van waterijs’, stelt onderzoeker David Jewitt. ‘In plaats daarvan denken we dat de activiteit het resultaat is van sublimatie (een vaste stof die direct overgaat in gas) van supervluchtige materialen terwijl K2 voor het eerst de planetaire zone van het zonnestelsel binnengaat. Daarom is dit zo bijzonder. De komeet is zo ver weg en zo ongelofelijk koud dat het water daar keihard is’.
We zien we zijn ware gezicht; een rode ster. Half zo groot als de Zon. Door de opwarming van de Zon zullen nieuwe gassen vrijkomen en dan blaast Red Kachina zich op tot tweemaal het formaat van de Zon! Hij krijgt een enorm ‘halo’ of aureool om zich heen! Dat zien we ook bij Jezus; wordt altijd afgebeeld met een aureool. Jezus = God = RA = de rode dwergster. De wilde Stier GUD, de bij-zon, de Bison...
Of de ster in 2022 of in 2024 komt zou kunnen. Volgens mij is zijn nadering en komst zeer nabij! Enki spreekt over april dit jaar en ikzelf vermoed komend jaar. Omdat hij veel eerder komt dan anders staat zijn komst los van eventuele samenstanden van planeten. Dat de grote vier in 2024 samen staan zie ik niet als een voorbode van zijn komst. De planeten draaien tenslotte gewoon hun eigen banen om de Zon.
Ze gaan echt niet sneller draaien en speciale posities innemen omdat de tweede ster in aantocht is. Tenzij astronomen veranderingen hebben waargenomen in de banen van de planeten! In 1978 ontdekten Amerikaanse astronomen schommelingen in de banen van Uranus en Neptunus en meenden dat Pluto der veroorzaker was. Bleek niet zo te zijn omdat Pluto veel kleiner was dan aangenomen.
Pluto bleek geen 6.000 kilometer in diameter te zijn zoals Mars, maar slechts 2.200 kilometer in doorsnee. Het kleine Pluto kon niet verantwoordelijk geacht worden voor de schommelingen. Toen Zecharia Sitchin dat las nam hij contact op met deze twee astronomen (van het Marine Observatorium in Boston?! of was het Washington?!) en vertelde hen over de aanwezigheid van nòg een grote planeet in ons zonnestelsel!
Meteen werden er acties ondernomen en in 1983 lanceerde NASA de satelliet IRAS (een Nederlands-Amerikaanse productie) om ‘warmtebronnen’ te zoeken! Wel heel toevallig nietwaar! Zecharia Sitchin was amper uitgesproken en meteen ging NASA aan de slag... om een satelliet te maken die op zoek zou gaan naar de naderende ster! Nu is hij er en de heftige stormen en regens en watervloeden bewijzen het. Het is zover!
Jezus met aureool of halo. Groot kruis met vier kleine kruisjes... ster + vier planeten! Hieronder ook (uit aflevering 61 van ‘Anunnaki, ònze Goden’). Jezus met vier broeders en daaronder de Egyptische gevleugelde bol (of gevleugelde Slang), ofwel de rode dwergster die een heeele laaange ruimtereis maakt!
Het Chinese ruimtevaartagentschap (CNSA) heeft videobeelden verspreid van de sonde Tianwen-1 die boven Mars vliegt. Twee dagen eerder was de sonde erin geslaagd om zich in een baan rond Mars te nestelen.
Op de video van CCTV, de Chinese staatstelevisie, is te zien hoe de oppervlakte van de planeet opvalt ten opzichte van de zwarte lucht. Er zijn witte kraters zichtbaar op de oppervlakte van de planeet, waarna de Marsdag overgaat in de -nacht, aldus staatsagentschap China News.
China rivaliseert op diplomatiek en technologisch vlak met de VS. Het land wil nu ook de concurrentiestrijd aangaan met een ambitieus ruimtevaartprogramma. Doel is om tegen 2022 een bemand ruimtestation te hebben en tegen 2030 een astronaut naar de maan te sturen.
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Dr. Steven Greer: Full UFO Disclosure Documentary
Dr. Steven Greer: Full UFO Disclosure Documentary
Dr. Steven Greer: Full UFO Disclosure Documentary
The work that medical doctor, researcher and author Steven Greer continues to do through the organization CSETI has made some tremendous breakthroughs in establishing contact with an intelligent phenomena, often perceived as UFOs, Light Phenomena and strange looking entities.
Steven demonstrates that there is a conscious connection being established with this phenomena and on many occasions they are being caught on camera.
New Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Presences on Earth, the Moon and Beyond
New Linda Moulton Howe: Alien Presences on Earth, the Moon and Beyond
TOPICS: The extraterrestrial Grey-human hybrid “Betty” returned eleven weeks ago on November 19, 2020, to communicate again in person with attorney Terry Lovelace before the release of his second book, Devil’s Den: The Reckoning.
Telepathically, Betty expressed concern about the future of Earth humans as she confirmed the existence of a secret space program already based on the moon, Mars and beyond. Tune In LIVE Earthfiles YouTube Channel broadcast on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern
— And all other time zones around the world — for deeper truths about the alien presences on Earth, the moon and beyond from the recent telepathic download to attorney Lovelace.
Secrets of RH Negative Blood, Moses & Nephilim, Ra Castaldo
Secrets of RH Negative Blood, Moses & Nephilim, Ra Castaldo
Secrets of RH Negative Blood, Moses & Nephilim, Ra Castaldo
The Rh negative bloodlines and traits, DNA, Genetic Engineering
The Rh blood group system is one of forty-five known human blood group systems. It is the second most important blood group system, after the ABO blood group system. The Rh blood group system consists of 49 defined blood group antigens, among which the five antigens D, C, c, E, and e are the most important.Wikipedia
The eyewitness Jae Luna said he could hear the jets at Luke Air Force Base, scrambling and flying around. The UFOs look like a six pointed star when you see it in person. He said he was literally just a across the street from Luke Air Force Base. That places the sighting in Glendale where the base is located.
USAF jets only scramble to investigate unknown craft in the area and would never be told to investigate military flares, hot air balloons or even Venus. This is 100% proof that even the USAF saw these glowing lights in the sky as unknown craft!
These are not flares, I (Scott Waring) am former USAF from a Strategic Air Command base, 28th Field maintenance squadron at Ellsworth AFB and I have seen flares before, but these are nothing like what I saw.
These lightings were seen a few nights ago over Glendale, Arizona. Just 15 km from Phoenix, the famous location of the legendary Phoenix lights that were seen by thousands. I took a screenshot of the glowing lights and they are not perfectly round, instead they are triangular in shape. Also I thought maybe they were on the mountains, but when I added light to the screenshots, there was a hill to the far left, but none anywhere behind or even below the UFOs. So these objects are in the sky. They are not a reflection from the lamp post in the parking lot either because if they were, the UFOs would be bouncing around more and transparent. This is a real UFO, the same UFOs that night back in March 13, 1997. Amazing sighting and needs further investigation. Because finding the exact location this UFO was over would tell you the exact location the alien base is below the ground. 5-6km below. Yes, I said it. Similar sightings have happened over the Phoenix area over the years...so something must be underground in that area.
My thanks go out to eyewitness Jae Luna and his family for this awesome raw footage over Glendale, Arizona. He has a steady hand and good eye.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Phoenix lights 2.0 UFOs in Arizona!I experienced some UFOs tonight. They seemed to be travelling between dimensions in my opinion. What are your thoughts on this?
Man Records Amazing Footage of UFOs Over Kielce City in Poland
Man Records Amazing Footage of UFOs Over Kielce City in Poland
A man claims that he managed to take a video of a series of UFOs in the sky. The incident happened in Kielce City in southern Poland.
The supposed existence of UFOs is one of the most popular and widespread theories around the world. Just a few days ago, a video went viral that attracted a lot of interest from users. A man, who claims to have observed dozens of these strange things in the sky, captured the insane footage.
The event occurred in Kielce City, Poland. The resident brought a night vision lens and caught dozens of UFOs in the clouds.
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The footage owner said that it appeared to him that the UFOs weren’t artificially created by some aircraft, but from some form of mysterious matter similar to plasma, but this matter was alive. He added that these alien creatures fly hundreds in the Earth’s atmosphere.
He explained that these objects weren’t visible from the ground without equipment but became visible when using infrared filters for night shooting.
The video became viral on different platforms with comments from millions of astronomy fans and other unexplained incident enthusiasts.
It looks like the climate models are too conservative.
An abandoned boat sits in the water amid dead cypress trees in coastal waters and marsh August 26, 2019 in Venice, Louisiana, in a region already impacted by sea level rise.
Sea levels will probably rise faster than most climate models predict, according to a new study.
In 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations scientific body that reports on climate change, said that the global sea-level average would likely rise at least 2.00 feet (0.61 meters) by the year 2100, but no more than 3.61 feet (1.10 m). Those numbers come from models that account for climate change and ocean heating, ongoing greenhouse gas emissions and potential changes in human behavior to prevent more warming.
In this new study, researchers examined models of sea level through the lens of historical data. They looked at how fast sea levels rose in the past as Earth warmed and extrapolated to predict sea-level rise forward in time. They found that existing sea-level models tend to lowball sea-level rise when compared with more straightforward extrapolations from the historical record.
"This comparison suggests that the likely upper level of sea-level projections in recent IPCC reports would be too low," the researchers wrote in a paper published Feb. 2 in the journal Ocean Science.
Current climate models account for factors like changes in ice and cloud cover, the amount of the sun's heat absorbed by oceans, and all sorts of other physics. But they do take historical data into account, said Kaitlin Hill, a Wake Forest University mathematician who works on climate modeling, who was not involved in the IPCC report or the new paper.
"If you made a good climate model, then if you put all the physical processes that you can think of into it and ran it for the same period of time that we have historical data, it should roughly replicate [what really happened]," Hill told Live Science.
This process, sometimes known as "hindcasting," is a key test of a model's usefulness.
Joellen Russell, an oceanographer at the University of Arizona (also not involved in this latest paper), said that it's not surprising to find that crucial climate models used by the IPCC might underestimate sea-level rise. Other models have been shown using hindtesting to underestimate historical sea-level rise as well. Experts already tend to predict a level of sea-level rise that's well beyond what the IPCC predicts — and more in line with what this new method for studying future sea-level rise would suggest.
And existing models don't account for the effects of ice-sheet melting on sea-level rise, Russell added. (The IPCC's "Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere" also noted this limitation.)
The Ocean Science authors developed a new metric for assessing sea-level rise, known as transient sea level sensitivity (TSLS), which aims to ground sea-level predictions in historical reality. TSLS could improve future sea-level change models, the authors argued. The best way to make projections with TSLS would require more information about the IPCC's models than has been made available, they said.
Russell said TSLS represents an "important step forward" for the field.Young Gu Her, a hydrologist at the University of Florida who works with climate models, said that the result is interesting and demonstrates the importance of understanding assumptions of models used to predict future sea-level rise. But he said the paper didn't clarify how much more greenhouse gas emissions (and how much warming) they were assuming would come in the next century.
It's important for the public to understand that climate models don't work like weather forecasts, Hill said. They aren't designed to tell you what the temperature is going to be on a Tuesday ten years from now. They're designed to help people understand what is happening in the global climate, what factors are most important in shaping the future, and how that future might be changed.
"The other thing this type of research reminds us of is that upper bounds predicted by the IPCC should not be interpreted as the 'most possible' sea-level rise," Andra Garner, a climate scientist at Rowan University, in New Jersey, told Live Science. "Upper bounds from the IPCC reports are typically defined as the 83rd percentile," meaning that the IPCC's highest sea level number is actually the point that 83% of possible outcomes fall below, "while, as the author notes, this means that higher sea-level rise is deemed less likely, it is not considered to be impossible or otherwise out of the question."
NASA finds spot on Sun's surface that could grow into huge solar flare within days
NASA finds spot on Sun's surface that could grow into huge solar flare within days
Sunspots are comparatively cool areas on the solar surface caused by intense magnetic activity. They can give rise to dramatic solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
Solar events of this type can cause spectacular night-time displays in northern latitudes
(Image: REUTERS)
Significant sunspot activity has been observed by NASA scientists, who believe that the colossal patch of darkness on the Sun’s surface could continue to widen.
Sunspots are comparatively cool areas on the solar surface caused by intense magnetic activity. They can give rise to solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
In extreme cases these phenomena, which are thousands of miles wide, can cause geomagnetic storms, leading to power cuts and problems with satellites and radio transmissions.
Astronomy site Space Weather reported the new feature on the Sun’s southern hemisphere, and predicted: "If the region continues to grow, it will likely be assigned an official number (AR2802) later today.
"The sunspot is breaking through the sun's surface right next to a dark magnetic filament.
"Rapid evolution of the sunspot could destabilise the region, causing the filament to erupt."
NASA astronomers are monitoring the situation closely(Image: NASA)
A solar flare resulting from a sunspot struck the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday, February 8, sparking a G1 class solar storm.
A G1 class solar storm can lead to “weak power grid fluctuations” and can have a “minor impact on satellite operations”. These storms can lead to “power grid fluctuations” and can have a “minor impact on satellite operations”.
Solar storms of this magnitude can also cause spectacular displays of the Northern Lights, and Norwegian photographer Markus Varis snapped a spectacular image of the aurora which looked like rolling green waves in the sky.
The phenomenon known as the Northern Lights - also known the Aurora Borealis - is caused when cosmic radiation hits electrically charged particles in the earth's atmosphere(Image: Agnieszka Mrowka / SWNS.com)
He said: "I have never seen auroras with such incredible shapes before, even after more than 1000 nights of observing. It rocked our socks off.”
It’s rare that coronal mass ejections hit the Earth head-on, but when they do, the effects can be spectacular.
In September 1859, a massive plume of solar plasma caused phenomenon known as The Carrington Event which caused massive damage to the fledgeling telegraph network in Europe and North America.
Sunspots are caused by intense magnetic flux within the Sun(Image: NASA)
Some operators reported receiving electric shocks and others reported they could still use their equipment even without the batteries attached.
The Northern Lights were bright enough that people across the northeastern US could read newspapers by their light.
If such an event were to occur today it would cause mayhem, because the modern world is so hugely dependent on electronics.
17,000-Year-Old Musical Instrument Is “Discovered” By Archaeologists
17,000-Year-Old Musical Instrument Is “Discovered” By Archaeologists
During a recent inventory of items held at a museum of natural history in Toulouse, a team of archaeological researchers took the opportunity to re-examine a conch (sea snail) shell retrieved in 1931 from the Marsoulas cave in southern France. Based on its curvature and enclosed shape, it was long believed that the conch shell has been used as a communal or ceremonial cup by the Magdalenian hunter-gatherers who roamed the region surrounding the Pyrenees Mountains near the end of the last Ice Age. After studying the shell more closely, with the assistance of modern, high-tech imaging technology, the researchers realized that what they held in their hands wasn’t a ceremonial cup but a musical instrument. They discovered that the shell had been reshaped and engineered to create a fully functional musical instrument, which they eventually found could produce three distinct musical notes: C, D, and C sharp.
Previous carbon dating analysis had dated the conch shell to approximately 15,000 BC, which meant it had been deposited in the cave during the Upper Paleolithic era. Marsoulas itself is best known for its impressive collection of cave wall paintings, which link it to the European cave painting cultures of that time.
It seems that the shell’s apex had been deliberately removed to create room for a mouthpiece, which had been anchored inside the shell in two small holes that had been chipped out in the shell’s interior. The shell had been drilled to create two openings, one for the entrance of air and one for its exit, enabling it to produce musical notes. Its lip had also been modified, presumably to create hand holds for the conch player. Additionally, faded red ochre pigment fingerprint markings were found on the interior of the shell, meaning the shell had been decorated in the same style as the cave walls.
Conch shells crafted into wind instruments have been found during excavations at ancient sites in various regions, and other musical instruments traceable to the Upper Paleolithic period have been found previously as well. But the latter were flutes and whistles made from bone; none were made from conch shells, or from any similar materials.
“Conch shells have served as musical instruments, calling or signaling devices, and sacred or magic objects depending on the cultures,” the archaeologists wrote in their article introducing their discovery in the journal Science Advances . “To our knowledge, the Marsoulas shell is unique in the prehistoric context, not only in France but at the scale of Paleolithic Europe and perhaps the world.”
A Magdalenian-period red-ochre painting of a bison from the Marsoulas cave, France, where the musical instrument conch shell was found.
Cave Music, Altered States, And Upper Paleolithic Shamanism
It is notable that the musical conch shell was discovered at an Upper Paleolithic site that hosts an extensive display of cave paintings .
The artwork that decorates the walls at Marsoulas is typical of that produced by Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, which can be found in caves throughout southern Europe. The 330-foot (100 meter) long gallery of red-pigment paintings includes numerous images of animals (with the bison hunted by Magdalenian hunter-gathers featured most prominently), abstract anthropomorphic figures with mask-like faces, and a variety of geometric shapes that don’t represent real-world objects or life forms.
In recent decades, establishment experts and maverick researchers alike, ranging from Mircea Eliade to Graham Hancock to David Lewis-Williams , have popularized the theory that such art is modeled after hallucinogenic imagery glimpsed by shamans or medicine men experiencing altered states of consciousness.
The South African archaeologist David Lewis-Williams descending into a part of Chauvet Cave, France, which is also famous for its cave paintings and where, according to Lewis-Williams, ancient shamans may have held hallucinogenic musical gatherings.
Lewis-Williams, a South African archaeologist recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on ancient rock art has perhaps done the most to promote this intriguing and controversial hypothesis. According to his neuro-psychological model, the shaman would enter a trance state, either by ingesting psychoactive substances or through immersion in a musically stimulating environment, where the shaman and companions would be dancing, drumming, singing, or playing musical instruments over an extended period of time.
Once an altered state of consciousness was achieved, the shaman or medicine man would experience vivid and memorable visual hallucinations, which were considered sacred and were used as inspirations for the drawings on the cave walls. The shaman might create the cave drawings themselves while still in an altered state, or perhaps other artists would make the drawings later on based on the verbal descriptions provided by the shaman.
These mind-altering ceremonies would be held inside caves in part because of their association with the spiritual realms of the underworld and in part because their acoustics were perfect for inducing expanded consciousness through immersion in a musical wall of sound.
If shamanistic explorations of altered states of consciousness did inspire Upper Paleolithic cave art, it could explain why the conch shell wind instrument was created and why it was found inside the Marsoulas cave. The shell may have been carefully and painstakingly customized to produce specific musical notes (C, D, and C sharp) that could help provoke a dramatic shift in conscious awareness, if played continuously inside an enclosed space and accompanied by drumming, singing, and the playing of other sound-producing instruments.
Noting the red-ochre imprints found on the inside of the conch shell, one member of the Marsoulas conch shell research team has added legitimacy to this hypothesis.
“We are supposing that the shell was decorated with the same pattern as was used in the cave art of Marsoulas, which establishes a strong link between the music played [by] the conch and the images on the walls,” stated Gilles Tosello , an archaeologist and cave art specialist from the University of Toulouse. “This, to our knowledge, is the first time that we can see such a relationship between music and cave art in European prehistory.”
The Marsoulas conch shell research team plans to arrange a visit to Marsoulas, so they can listen and make recordings while the shell is played in the environment where it was originally used. If this plan comes to fruition, it will be interesting to see if they report any mind-altering effects as a consequence of their experiments.
Top image: Reconstruction of the conch shell musical instrument being played. In the background, a red dotted buffalo decorates the walls of the Marsoulas Cave; similar motifs decorate the instrument.
In 1931, archaeologists stumbled upon a 17,000-year-old conch shell in a richly decorated cave in the Pyrenees. For more than eight decades, the ancient artifact had been gathering dust in the storeroom of a French museum until it was re-examined by researchers. They found that the shell was drilled purposefully to turn the shell into a musical instrument. Remarkably, they even managed to play near-perfect instruments out of the horn, showing that it still works after all these years.
Hunter-gatherers of musical notes
Originally, the shell belonged to some living organism, perhaps a sea snail called Charonia lampas, judging from its characteristics. It measures 31 centimeters in length and 18 centimeters in width.
Initially, when excavators found the shell in the Marsoulas cave, which was adorned with all sorts of marvelous prehistoric art, they thought it must have served a ceremonial purpose as a fancy drinking cup.
In reality, the conch shell is a lot more interesting than meets the eye. When scientists at the French National Centre for Scientific Research re-analyzed the artifact, they identified deliberate modifications that enabled the production of sounds with musical pitch. Besides holes drilled at certain intervals, the artisan also removed the apex of the shell, as well as the outermost lip of the shell, enabling a player to insert their hands to modulate the sound.
The Charonia shell bears the traces of important modifications of human origin. Credit: Science Advances.
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When the researchers realized the shell’s true purpose, they enlisted a trained horn player to offer some feedback. The musician was able to play three clear notes, very close to C, D, and C#.
“We already know that prehistoric people transformed many shells into portable ornaments and that they thus attributed substantial corporal symbolism to them. This seashell horn, with its unique sonority, both deep and strong with an enduring reverberation, sheds light on a musical dimension until now unknown in the context of Upper Paleolithic societies,” the authors wrote in the journal Science Advances.
The inner part of the conch is decorated with red pigment of the same kind as that used on the fingerprint artworks on the walls of the cave. This means that the hunter-gather musician who originally used the conch must have also participated in the painting of the images on the walls — making this perhaps the earliest combination of music and illustrative art in history.
Mars and Earth lined up neatly last summer, and three separate space agencies seized their opportunity.
Left: An illustration shows the United Arab Emirates orbiter "Hope." Center: An illustration shows the skycrane lowering NASA's rover Perserverance to the Martian surface. Right: A still shows a Chinese Long March 5 rocket hefting Tianwen-1 into space.
It's a busy February for Mars, with three probes from three separate countries arriving at the Red Planet over the course of just nine days. But this Martian party didn't happen by coincidence — it has to do with the mechanics of both Earth and Mars’ orbits.
The United Arab Emirates' first interplanetary mission, the Hope probe, achieved Mars orbit Tuesday (Feb. 9), as Live Science sister site Space.com reported. China's first interplanetary mission, Tianwen-1, is scheduled to enter its own Martian orbit Wednesday (Feb. 10). The Chinese probe includes both an orbiter and a lander with a rover onboard, which is expected to try to land on the surface in May. And on Feb. 18, NASA's first-of-its-kind descent vehicle will reach Mars and plunge directly through its atmosphere. If all goes according to plan, the vehicle will shed its outer shell and use rockets to stop its descent at the last moment. Then it will hover above the surface to lower the rhinoceros-sized, nuclear-powered, $2.7 billion Perseverance rover to the dirt via skycrane.
All these robots showing up at almost the exact same time is no coincidence, said Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard University astrophysicist and spaceflight expert.
Mars and Earth are like "runners on a circular racetrack," he said. "And the really fast runner [Earth] regularly laps the runner just on the outside [Mars]. So sometimes they're right next to each other, and sometimes they're on opposite sides of the track." This Earth-Mars cycle, meaning Earth completely laps Mars, takes about two years to complete.
It would take an enormous rocket, tons of fuel and much more time to reach Mars from Earth while the planets are far away from each other, McDowell told Live Science. But launching while the planets are at their absolute closest — when they are 38.6 million miles (62.1 million kilometers) apart on average — isn’t the most efficient way to get to Mars either.
There's an earlier point in the planets' two-year cycle where the journey takes less time and requires less fuel. At that point, which occurs once during the two-year cycle, Earth is a bit behind Mars but continues to move faster than its neighbor. This positioning allows the spacecraft to enter a so-called "Hohmann transfer orbit," named after German engineer Walter Hohmann, who worked out the underlying mathematics in 1925.
An animation shows the path NASA's InSight lander took from Earth to Mars, an example of a Hohmann transfer orbit. (Image credit: Phoenix7777 - Own work Data source: HORIZONS System, JPL, NASA/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
No rocket carries enough fuel to burn all the way between Earth and Mars, a distance that ranges between tens and hundreds of millions of miles.
That means any interplanetary adventure begins with a brief, intense period of acceleration, followed by a long stretch of coasting. The job of the rocket engines during that initial period of acceleration is to put the spacecraft into an orbit around the sun that will intersect with Mars as soon as possible. The most efficient path between the planets is therefore the solar orbit intersecting with Mars that can be reached with the least expenditure of fuel, and that orbit becomes available once every two years.
But space agencies don't have to nail that day exactly. As long as they launch during a window of a couple weeks around the date,they can place their spacecraft on Hohmann transfer orbits. Tarry longer than a couple weeks, however, and the trip starts getting much more difficult very quickly.
The Hope orbiter launched July 19, 2020, Tianwen-1 on July 23 and Perseverance on July 30. The gaps between the spacecrafts' arrivals don't exactly line up with their launch dates due to minor differences in their rocket technology, trajectories through space and destinations, McDowell said. (It takes a different angle of approach, for example, to plunge directly into the planet's atmosphere than it does to enter a high orbit as Hope has done.)
It's not the first time Martian orbital space has been this crowded, McDowell pointed out. The Soviet Union launched four spacecraft to Mars in 1973, though one failed to attain orbit and none of the other three worked as intended upon arrival. Two Soviet spacecraft and one American spacecraft launched to Mars in 1971, and all had at least partially successful missions. (Both nations planned additional probes that year, but the American Mariner 8 probe failed during launch and the Soviet Kosmos 419 never escaped low-Earth orbit.)
What's different this year, McDowell said, is the sheer diversity of spacecraft reaching Mars, and the fact that several additional probes are already active around the planet. NASA has three orbiters active in Martian orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) has one of its own and one orbiter that's a joint project with the Russian Roscosmos, and the Indian Space Research Organization has an active orbiter as well. NASA's Curiosity rover and InSight lander are also still active on the Martian surface.
Despite that relatively crowded situation, McDowell said he doubts any of the probes will even come within tens of thousands of miles of each other, even if none of the countries had checked their trajectories with each other in advance.
This artist's depiction shows the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone identified by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. In the hunt for life outside the Earth, astronomers are keen to spot planets in the "habitable zone," — the region around a star where liquid water can exist on a planet. But the true test for whether or not a planet could host life may, in fact, rest in the most noble of gases: nitrogen.
In the hunt for life outside the Earth, astronomers are keen to spot exoplanets in the "habitable zone," — the region around a star where liquid water can exist on a planet.
While most research about the habitable zone has focused on a star's brightness (as temperature dictates whether water on a planet could be liquid, ice or gas), new research is showing that this is an extremely simplified and naive picture. The true test for whether or not a planet could host life may, in fact, rest in the most boring of gases: nitrogen.
As far as we understand life (and, since we only have one example to work with (life on Earth), we don't have much to go on), life needs liquid water.
Water is the ultimate solvent and it's the place where all the interesting life-sustaining chemical reactions can take place. And while water — the familiar combination of two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen — is the most common molecule in the universe, it's unfortunately only rarely in a liquid state suitable for life.
Most water is either frozen, locked up in comets, on vast ice sheets blanketing frigid worlds or trapped in a gas, evaporated by the intense heat pumped out by stars. Liquid water is exceedingly rare, found only in certain special circumstances.
One of those certain special situations is the state that Earth has found itself in. Our home planet is not too far from the sun for its water to turn to ice, and it's not too close that it gets blasted into gas. Earth is at just the right distance from the sun to allow for liquid water to remain on its surface.
This is the so-called "habitable zone" (also called the "Goldilocks zone," because the solar soup is neither too hot nor too cold). Every star has its own habitable zone, depending on its size, temperature and brightness.
In the game of hunting for life outside the Earth, the first place astronomers look for planets is in the habitable zone of their parent star. Sure, there could be other places where life flourishes, but since Earth is the only example of life we've actually seen, it's our best bet to find an extraterrestrial friend.
Using a suite of computer simulations to recreate atmospheric conditions on exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, the researchers behind the paper studied a plethora of potentially habitable systems. They changed the size and type of the planets' parent stars, the characteristics of their planetary orbits, the amount of liquid water already available to the planets when they formed and, most importantly, their atmospheres.
Researchers have previously studied the impact of a planet's atmosphere on its climate. The most notable gas is, of course, carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas that has garnered quite a bit of attention here on Earth as it's a leading driver in climate change. Greenhouse gases are capable of trapping heat within a planetary atmosphere, and by changing that just a little, you can drastically alter the temperature history of an entire world.
For example, consider our sister planet Venus, which also sits within the habitable zone of the sun. However, thanks to an overload of carbon dioxide in its distant past, it experienced a runaway greenhouse event and now has the hottest surface temperatures of any planet in the solar system. And it's most definitely not habitable.
But carbon dioxide isn't the only gas to float around planetary atmospheres. There's also nitrogen. Nitrogen is pretty much inert and doesn't participate in many active biological processes. Yet, it makes up over 80% of Earth's atmosphere, and without it, we … well … wouldn't have an atmosphere.
We know very little about the history of nitrogen on Earth. We're not sure how much of the gas our planet was born with, and some geologic evidence even indicates that, as recently as 2 billion years ago, we had as little as half the nitrogen we do today. And, since we don't know much about nitrogen on Earth, we certainly don't know much about nitrogen on other planets.
The researchers behind the simulations in this new study found that nitrogen plays a huge role in determining the overall temperature of a planet — and, therefore, its habitability. What's even more complicated: it's not a simple relationship, more nitrogen doesn't necessarily just make a planet warmer.
For example, if a planet's atmosphere isn't too thick and there's lots of water present, adding nitrogen can cause significant heating, because the added atmospheric pressure increases the effectiveness of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and water vapor. On the other hand, on a relatively dry world, more nitrogen more easily scatters starlight away, leading to dramatic cooling.
The end result is that two worlds orbiting identical stars with identical orbits with similar surfaces but different amounts of nitrogen can have dramatically different temperatures and can be seriously hard to predict.
Nitrogen also doesn't emit or absorb radiation at visible or infrared wavelengths. This makes it frustratingly difficult to detect in the atmospheres of alien worlds. So, even if a planet sits in the Goldilocks zone of its star, unless we get a handle on its nitrogen supply, we won't know if it's truly habitable.
Correction:A previous version of this story referred to nitrogen as a noble gas. Nitrogen is not a noble gas; it is an inert gas.
On March 5, wave hello to the most infamous asteroid that won't slam into Earth in 2029. Scientists sure will.
Astronomers first spotted the space rock now known as Apophis in 2004. It's precisely the sort of object that most humans probably want to know about: It's awfully big and occasionally comes uncomfortably close to Earth. April 13, 2029, is one such occasion, when Apophis will skim so close to Earth that it will pass through the realm of particularly high-altitude satellites.
(It will not hit Earth. Do not panic. Carry on.)
Scientists are excited. They've calculated just how rarely an object this large passes this close to Earth. "This something that occurs about once every 1,000 years, so obviously, it is generating a lot of interest," Marina Brozović, a radar scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told Space.com.
The March flyby won't be nearly as stunning as the 2029 close approach; Apophis will come only one-tenth of the average distance between the Earth and the sun, more than 40 times as distant as the moon is from Earth. But scientists have big goals for Apophis' 2029 flyby, and in order to get the most out of that opportunity, they need to know as much as possible about the space rock.
And next month is their last real chance to study Apophis before the big day.
"Apophis in 2029 is going to be a really incredibly observing opportunity for us," Brozović said. "But before we get to 2029, we are preparing."
Meet Apophis
Like all near-Earth asteroids, Apophis has been rattling around the inner solar system for millennia, unnoticed by humans. Scientists believe it is more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) wide, around the height of the Eiffel Tower. It's a mix of rock and metal, according to NASA, and may be shaped a bit like a peanut, two uneven lumps smooshed together.
Astronomers spotted Apophis for the first time in 2004. The asteroid's discovery is a perfect example of planetary defense, the task dedicated to spotting asteroids around Earth, tracing their precise orbits, and determining whether they pose any risk of hitting Earth. Forewarned is forearmed, so the theory goes, and scientists hope that if they can identify a large future impactor with enough warning, humans can find a way to defend themselves.
And for a brief moment, Apophis seemed to run nearly 3% odds of colliding with Earth on April 13, 2029. (Even the best observations have some uncertainty, and the farther ahead in time an orbit is plotted, the more that uncertainty piles up.) That early concern inspired its name, which refers to an Egyptian "demon serpent who personified evil and chaos," as NASA puts it.
Some of Apophis' flybys are perfectly mundane, others quite close. But more precise observations pushed any collision fears first to 2036, then to 2068, when scientists can't quite positively rule out a collision yet.
If Apophis and Earth ever do collide, hope you aren't around to see the day. Two asteroids of note have hit Earth in the past century or so. One flattened the Siberian forests of Tunguska in 1908, the other shattered in the skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
They're nothing compared to Apophis. "Apophis is 300 times more massive than Tunguska, 5,000 times more massive than Chelyabinsk, so this is an object that certainly gets your attention," Richard Binzel, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Space.com.
Tunguska vs Chelyabinsk meteor size. Picture shows a comparison of sizes Tunguska and Chelyabinsk meteoroids to Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building.
Right now, Apophis is minding its own business like thousands of other pieces of cosmic rubble, trekking around the sun every 323.6 Earth days. Hurtling through space, the asteroid's existence is utterly uneventful.
That will change.
Nine or so more loops around the sun for Apophis and eight more for Earth will bring the objects just within about 19,800 miles (31,900 kilometers). Scientists know that Apophis will not hit Earth this time. But depending on precisely how the two rocks whiz past each other, Apophis may never look the same.
The same gravity that keeps our mundane lives anchored to Earth's surface will tug at Apophis throughout the close encounter. Scientists think there's a chance Earth's gravity will be strong enough to scatter boulders on the surface of Apophis, or perhaps even stretch the asteroid, as if it were saltwater taffy instead of rock.
How dramatic the stretch will be depends on a host of factors. First, the precise shape of Apophis. Then, its orientation during the flyby: If a broad side faces Earth, each patch feels less gravity; if a narrow head does, the asteroid is set up for a game of tug-of-war. Then, what's inside: Solid, dense rock would resist Earth's gravity more, a loose cluster of smaller boulders would give more.
Some of those characteristics scientists can study from Earth. But the interior of Apophis is impenetrable at a distance — except, perhaps, through the 2029 flyby.
"How Apophis itself responds, that's physically about how Apophis is put together. And that's something we don't know — we don't know how asteroids are put together, we've never been able to peer inside an asteroid," Binzel said. "We see the asteroid outside looking in. This is a chance where we could have the asteroid inside looking out. In other words, is the inside of the asteroid revealing itself by some measurement we can make on the outside?"
It's an incredible experiment arranged purely by the coincidences of orbits.
Scientists have been here once before. In 1993, astronomers spotted a new comet, dubbed Shoemaker-Levy 9 — only to realize the discovery was in fact a clutch of comet fragments, the debris of a comet that passed too close to massive Jupiter to survive the experience. But the real highlight? Those fragments were on course to slam into the planet the next year.
"The predictions for the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 ranged from nothing will happen — it'll be a dud, a flop — to pretty much parallel to what we actually observed," Binzel said. "There was enormous uncertainty as to what the outcome of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact was going to be simply because it challenged the state of our knowledge. And so the parallel with Apophis is that there is a wide range of predictions for what will happen physically to Apophis itself during the encounter: Apophis might go by the Earth and not care, or Apophis might go by the Earth and be tugged on so significantly that it seismically shakes."
But in the 1990s, astronomers rallied spacecraft and telescopes alike to gawk at a week of collisions that scarred Jupiter's clouds for a few weeks. All told, the Shoemaker-Levy 9 observations taught scientists about not just those comet fragments and the icy lump they once made up, but also about Jupiter and its atmosphere.
"I think Apophis is a lot like Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: It's an extremely rare natural experiment that we discovered with a short lead time," Binzel said. "This is something that rarely happens. Nature is doing something amazing for us as a natural experiment, and the challenge is how do we take advantage of that natural experiment."
And Apophis observations would tell scientists about a different flavor of close encounter than Shoemaker-Levy 9, since Earth's gravity won't be strong enough to tear the rock apart.
"It won't cause this kind of big event but it is still meaningful to understand how the object can be affected by this a-little-bit-distant close flyby," Yaeji Kim, a doctoral student in aerospace engineering at the University of Auburn in Alabama, told Space.com. "There is no object which has been observed in this kind of phenomenon. From that kind of view, Apophis is a really rare case."
Making the most of the 2029 flyby will rely on baseline data: what scientists know about Apophis before its dramatic encounter with Earth. That means the observations gathered this year matter. Apophis will be at its closest to Earth this year on March 5 at 8:15 p.m. EST (0115 GMT on March 6).
"Closest" here is a relative term: the asteroid will remain a healthy 0.11 astronomical units (the average distance between the Earth and the sun, or about 93 million miles or 150 million km). That's nearly 44 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
But that's close enough for scientists' most powerful tool for studying asteroids from Earth: planetary radar. Take a powerful radar beam, point it at a mysterious object, then wait. Use a sensitive radio telescope to catch the echo that bounces back, run it through some complicated processing, and the result is a sonogram-like image.
"We like asteroids that come close but, you know, just enough so that we can get a really good signal and we can get really great images," Brozović said.
With good radar images, scientists can tell, for example what shape an asteroid is: potato, peanut, or even a pair of cherries bound only by gravity. Under particularly friendly circumstances, radar can detect boulders on the surface of a space rock. It also hones scientists' ability to track an asteroid's orbit.
Scientists' top priority while preparing for the 2029 Apophis flyby is sharpening their view of the rock's shape and its intricate rotations, Binzel said. "We know Apophis is in a very complicated spin state, it's sort of spinning and tumbling at the same time," he said. "The 2021 encounter gives us an epoch in time."
When scientists look to make predictions about what precisely will happen to Apophis during the 2029 encounter, they'll feed the current best wisdom of the object's shape and twisted rotation into models — but the resulting predictions will only be as robust as the data.
Inconveniently, Earth lost its most powerful planetary radar system in December, when Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed. Each radar system has its strengths and weaknesses, and Arecibo would have shone during this preparatory close approach. Without it, scientists aren't sure how much they'll be able to improve existing radar observations of Apophis.
But they'll try, thanks to the planetary radar system at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California, which is due to study Apophis from March 3 to March 14 to cover this flyby. Researchers also hope to use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to catch the echos, rather than having to switch Goldstone's settings back and forth between send and receive; if they can use two telescopes, the data will be sharper.
"Arecibo was really a powerhouse, the most powerful radar on the planet, so we just can't make that up," Brozović said. "But we're still going to get good data."
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Filer’s Files 6, 2021 Pilot Spots UFO and China War - PART I
Mt. Juliet, Tennessee disc – January 25, 2021
Filer’s Files 6, 2021 Pilot Spots UFO and China War - PART I
Vice President of Medcor Inc,. Princeton, NJ
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Tic Tac UFO Flies over Blackhawk, US Navy’s ‘UFO Patents’ or a ‘Space-time Modification Weapons’, ‘ Mar’s Rat, Martian Minerals found in Antarctic, Storms Caused by Jet Stream Manipulation. Taiwan reports large incursion by Communist Chinese air force, C-60 and the book Seven
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, New México, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Check Republic, Oman, New Zealand, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Tic TAC UFO Flies over Blackhawk
Pilot writes, “Good evening gentlemen. I recently retired from the NJANG with 32 years of aviation experience. Pt was a fantastic experience and an honor to serve my country.”
Back in 2011 while flying in our South Jersey training area under goggles I witnessed an event that was life changing. Up until this point I had already been flying for 25 years and never saw anything in the air that I could not identify. Well on a clear fall night that all changed. I had just finished flying and had switched out with another pilot. I was sitting in the back left side jump seat, the crew chief in the right jump seat. We were hovering just above the trees when the crew chief yelled over the intercom that his goggles had just shut down due to a bright flash of light coming from the sky.
Just then I saw while looking out the left side this huge 2 by 4 looking object. It was long and had semi squared off corners. No wings, no landing gear, no lights. It flew right over our helicopter, probably five hundred feet above us and headed toward Philadelphia in about three seconds. I estimate that object was moving over 20,000 mph. Remember I saw this while wearing night vision goggles. The object appeared to be lit up from inside. Unfortunately the two pilots in from never saw the craft.
The story you have in the issue of the Tic Tac looking object is similar to what I saw. I did file a report with MUFON. Anyway, I just thought I would share my story. CW4 Rick McClelland 153DI Blackhawk Helicopter Pilot NJANG (retired)
The object seen in the “Tic Tac” video is actually an F18 just beyond the ranging ability of the ATFLIR pods laser range finder. The video was filmed by Chad Underwood. You will note that Chad’s wingman is unaccounted for during his flight even though they launched together. In the video link below you will see Chad’s video on the left and a much closer F18 on the right but the outline is nearly identical. Take into account one is much further away. No one will debunk my video and as with all my statements I will just sit back and wait until the location of Chad’s wingman or some other F18 pilot is shown on the actual data which was taken by the USAF to AFRL and if you remember I know about that data, where it went and some of what it shows.
Commander Fravor did not video anything but what he saw was an inflatable object made by Raytheon that was launched from a submarine, held by a tether briefly and then let go. Fravor ended up destroying it.
As I’ve said the entire time is the United States Air Force was testing spoofing technology back during that time frame. Who better to test it on than the United States Navy who just received brand new SPY-1B phased array radar? The sub’s disturbance in the water was spotted by Fravor and he was able to spot the “Tic Tac” balloon on a tether darting around in the air from the light waves and slight wind. Imagine a balloon being held by a string 50 feet over the surface of the ocean with the other end attached to a sub.
So Commander Fravor sees this and starts his decent and as he is coming down the balloon is released. As the balloon comes up he thinks it is matching his moves when it is merely floating up. No wings, no signs of propulsion etc. So he decides to cut the circle and fly directly to it not realizing he is much closer to it then thought. As he gets near it he mistakenly believe it accelerated and he flies so close he pops it. The balloon falls to the ocean but he believes it continued on the same path and must have disappeared over the horizon at ludicrous speed. Now all these spoofing balloons mimic each other making it appear they are moving incredibly fast. If you don’t believe we are using this technology to fool the enemy then you need to go read up on it. Here I will help you.
Fast forward to Jacksonville, Florida and 2014-2015events with the same deal. NAVY Carrier group training in the Atlantic Ocean and with new SPY-1B radar sees more UFOs, Gimbals and Go Fast. Jack in all seriousness, which makes more sense? We have alien technology or we learned how to make it look like we do? How do you confuse everyone into believing the BS? Introduce impossible patents and hope people bite on them instead of using the secret patent process that they use all the time. Mike Turber <miketurber@gmail.com> wrote:, Well Mr. Time Traveler I may be a moron in your eyes but remember who was the first to leak exactly what these objects actually are. So mudslinging aside let me know if you, and guests on this list, would like to know the next item up for bids on the price is wrong. Sometimes morons have info that intellects need
Pais is the puppet. I know who the puppet master is. Ask yourself why they would publish and/or allow this info to be released in a simple FOIA request? What is the real reason behind all these patents? Follow the yellow brick road…..Best Regards, Mike Turber
Editor’s Note: I have been informed there is effective radar spoofing technology that will paint a fake craft on the radar screen. However this technology has no effect on photos, video, or visual sightings. Also the technology is not effective against all radars. Conversely UFOs may not appear on all radars. Russia and other countries have similar technology.
Jack Sarfatti writes, “I am quite willing to entertain the possibility that all the Navy videos are fake or are misinterpreted.” However, you are accusing Commander Fravor, Kevin Day and other US Navy military of intentionally lying. Fravor and other Navy pilots had visual close encounters. Your account below about Fravor is not what I heard him say about seeing incredibly fast accelerations. Leave that all aside; I am talking about the entire UFO phenomenon not specifically those fuzzy videos.
JACK SARFATTI wrote: Didn’t you see my email from yesterday why totally demolished this nonsense? It’s a bunch of crap in the Navy people who are behind it or either incompetent or it’s some kind of disinformation operation, in any case it’s a scandal and it needs to be investigated of course it won’t be under Biden’s fake admin run by China’s Xi Jinping. Only a complete dunce who doesn’t understand elementary physics will be fooled by this kind of nonsense. The only thing good about it is what they say about the military threat of such technology know how which I have but the Navy doesn’t.
Mike Turber wrote Navy “UFO Patent” Documents Talk of “Space-time Modification Weapon,” Detail Experimental Testing. The Navy spent three years and considerable sums of money testing the “Pays Effect” and may have transferred the program to another agency.
US Navy’s ‘UFO Patents’ files reveal experiments for a ‘Space-time Modification Weapons’ ‘
Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) conducted the experiments, exploring the work of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais. ‘UFO patents’ had been vouched for by the head of the Navy’s aerospace research enterprise. Navy was filing them as Chinese entities worked on similar technology advancements
The inventions are enabled through the ‘Pais Effect’ – a theoretical physics concept based on the ‘controlled motion of electrically charged matter’. Approximately $466,810 was spent conducting experiments for the project between the Fiscal Years 2017 and 2019
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) conducted the experiments, exploring the work of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais – an aerospace engineer who works for the U.S. Navy
A U.S. Navy file dubbed the ‘UFO patents’ has revealed how military scientists spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on experiments involving nuclear fusion and electromagnetic fields as part of research into devastating future weapons. The documents claim a ‘Space-time Modification Weapon’ could make the Hydrogen bomb seem like a ‘firecracker.’
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) conducted the experiments, exploring the work of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais – an aerospace engineer who works for the U.S. Navy.
The head of the Navy’s aerospace research enterprise said Chinese entities were working on similar technology advancements, the War Zone reports.
Figure 1 shows an image from Pais’s ‘Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device’ patent
Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG)
Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act contain hundreds of pages about the Naval Innovative Science and Engineering – Basic & Applied Research Program and the tests, photographs and other related material associated with it. The program was referred to as ‘The High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG).
Dr. Pais’s inventions are enabled through the ‘Pais Effect’ – a theoretical physics concept that is based on the ‘controlled motion of electrically charged matter (from solid to plasma) via accelerated spin and/or accelerated vibration under rapid (yet smooth) acceleration-deceleration-acceleration transients.’
Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act contain hundreds of pages about the Naval Innovative Science and Engineering – Basic & Applied Research Program and the tests, photographs and other related material associated with it. The program was referred to as ‘The High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG)
As a result, according to Pais, incredibly powerful electromagnetic energy fields can ‘engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level.’ This can lead to revolutionary changes in power and propulsion, quantum communications, energy production and weaponry.
These documents mention how Pais’s Plasma Compression Fusion Device patent could be used to design the ultra-powerful ‘Space-time Modification Weapon.’
‘Under uniquely defined conditions, the Plasma Compression Fusion Device can lead to development of a Space-time Modification Weapon (SMW- a weapon that can make the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker, in comparison)’ the documents read.
High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator
An overview of Dr. Salvatore Pais’s ‘High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator’ technology
‘Extremely high energy levels can be achieved with this invention, under pulsed ultrahigh current (I) / ultrahigh magnetic flux density (B) conditions (Z-pinch with a Fusion twist).’
The NAWCAD explained that the technology has ‘National Security importance in leading to the generation of thermonuclear Fusion Ignition
.A 2018 quad chart for the High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG) project. $466,810 was spent conducting experiments for the project between the Fiscal Years 2017 and 2019. Photographs from one of the spin tests performed
He devices that were tested seem to have been preliminary versions of Pais’s HEEMFG model. They used spinning capacitors to ‘demonstrate the experimental feasibility of achieving high electromagnetic field-energy flux values toward the design of advanced high energy density / high power propulsion systems.’
The documents also highlight that the HEEMFG could be continued by the Naval and Air Force Research Laboratories
Note:We worked closely with the Russians chasing the UFOS.
Scientists boring more than a mile deep into Antarctic ice have unearthed a mineral that’s rarely seen on Earth but found in abundance on Mars. The yellow-brown mineral, called jarosite requires both water and acidic dust conditions to form, according to NASA — conditions that are hard to find now on the Red Planet. Nonetheless, after the Opportunity rover first discovered jarosite on Mars in 2004, the mineral turned up in several Martian locations, leaving scientists to wonder how the mineral became so common, Science reported.
Some theorized that, when ice covered the planet dust containing the required minerals — iron, sulfate and potassium, may have been trapped inside.
“Mars is such a dusty place — everything is covered in dust,” study author Giovanni Baccolo, a geologist at the University of Milan-Bicocca.”. But while ice could have provided the wet environment needed for acidic dust to transform into jarosite, scientists have never actually seen dust and ice chemically reacting to form the mineral.
On Earth, jarosite is a rare mineral that crops up in mining waste exposed to air and rain, near the vents of volcanoes. Baccolo and his colleagues never expected to find the mineral in Antarctica, but when the team pulled a mile-long (1,620 meters) ice core from the ground, they found trace particles of jarosite, smaller than grains of sand, buried in the deepest layers of the ice.
After examining the particles with an electron microscope, the team deduced that the jarosite had formed in pockets within the ice. These ultra-thick slabs of jarosite may have formed on Mars because it is far dustier than Antarctica, providing more raw materials to form jarosite, Baccolo noted. “This is just the first step in linking deep Antarctic ice with the Martian environment,” he said. Editor’s
Note: The Martian dust containing the required jarosite minerals may have come to Earth from Mars in a meteorite or even a space ship.
Worst Storm in Years Hits Midwest and East
Storms Caused by Jet Stream Weather Manipulation
The most intense cold snap to affect the United States descended upon parts of the Midwest and East last week and is expected to linger through this week. New York City’s Central Park had a storm total of 17.2 inches. The storm’s maximum snow total so far is 33 inches in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The greatest additional accumulations Tuesday were in northern New England.
New Yorkers were digging out from under piles of snow that shut down public transport, canceled flights and closed vaccination sites. It was the city’s biggest snowstorm in five years. Thirteen states were covered in snow and another storm is expected Sunday.
The storm is the 16th-biggest snowstorm on record there dating back to 1869. “The storm’s maximum snow total so far is 33 inches in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The core of that cold air mass was shunted southward by the jet stream.
Weather Model – Global Jet Stream Wind and 250 mb Pressure February 1, 2021 chart
Weather Model – Global Jet Stream Wind and 250 mb Expect unusually cold temperatures and large snow storms caused by air chilled in Northern Canada being blown south with the jet stream into the U.S. after passing through China.” The jet stream is a band of strong wind that blows in the upper level of the atmosphere and acts as a kind of boundary between cold air in the north and warm air to the south. The jet stream typically blows relatively straight west to east, but every so often a kink forms that changes its direction. This kink can occur naturally or by design perhaps in China. The shape of this kink is a little bit unusual. We haven’t seen something like this in about 10 year and suggest a nation such as Communist China is controlling the jet stream. http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250
The US Midwest and East has been suffering from massive cold and snow storms. It is my opinion we are in a weather war with massive cold weather being diverted from Canada to the US. This flow is very unusual bringing the cold temperatures jet stream flow across the top of the world.
Allegedly HAARP units in Russia, or China, can disrupt the world’s weather patterns. There is strong evidence our weather is being manipulated or GeoEngineered. Weather modification is resulting in the extreme conditions that we are witnessing with unusual early cold and snow this winter. It appears to be designed to physically harm the US, Canada and Western European Nations.
China launched the world’s largest weather-control machine, with the ability to modify the weather in an area similar to the size of Alaska in 2018. China has never shied away from doing things on a massive scale and this is yet another example of the Chinese Communist military government working on an unprecedented scale.
China’s state-owned Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation after invading Tibet are implementing a plan to send thousands of rain-inducing machines across the Tibetan Plateau to increase rainfall along the region.
The Tibetan Plateau is the source of much of China’s water, running down from the mountainous highlands via the Yangtze, Mekong, and Yellow rivers into the fertile Chinese farmlands.
The South China Morning Post recently revealed plans for a new Chinese radar facility .Described as “high-powered incoherent scatter radar,” this installation will bounce radio waves off the Earth’s high-altitude layer of charged gas ionosphere and may be affecting the jet stream.
China and Russia have modified an important layer of the atmosphere to test a controversial technology for possible military application, according to Chinese scientists involved in the project. A total of five experiments were carried out in June that caused physical disturbance over an area as large as 49,000 square miles. Creating extreme weather conditions is a “bloodless tool of war,” and there is good chance both Russia and China are using it. Beijing has 37,000 people working on whether manipulation and there is more personnel all over China.
During tests in Vasilsursk, a small Russian town experienced an electric spike 310 miles high with 10 times more negatively charged subatomic particles than surrounding regions that can cause jet stream anomalies. An experiment on June 12, the temperature of thin, ionized gas at high altitude increased more than 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit). It is though this action can change the jet stream direction to create cold and disastrous weather patterns over the US. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/china-and-russia-band-together-on-controversial-heating-experiments-to-modify-the-atmosphere/6
One of the Russian HAARP ionosphere heater installations can routinely manipulate the jet stream. There is growing evidence heating the ionosphere it is used to manipulate weather systems.
Dr. Nick Begich writes, “HAARP will zap the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an “ionosphere heater.” Chinese weather modification heating system
The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth’s upper atmosphere. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth. Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope; its antennas send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radio wave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. “Weather modification is possible by altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device.” From Angels Don’t Play this HAARP:http://haarp.net/
Russia has more HAARP ionosphere heater installations than any other country and is likely manipulating the jet stream that flows around the world.
HARP Facility
Electrical engineer Brooks Agnew began researching the secretive Project HAARP in 1997 for the documentary Holes in Heaven, and learned that the technology was capable of weather manipulation, and possible use as a weapon. “HAARP alters the climate by heating the ionosphere and pushing it out into space, leaving voids that are filled in by the stratosphere and troposphere, and allowing for the jet stream to be redirected,” Agnew explained.
There is a mountain of data including already conducted experiments, satellite imagery which points solidly to the conclusion that cold, snow storms, and tornadoes are being engineered by the jet streams. See more at: http://www.haarpstatusnetwork.com/#sthash.8Xu5rSjQ.dpuf
Taiwan reports large incursion by Communist Chinese air force
Four Shenyang J-16 fighters coped from US. F-15s
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on troops to “put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war What China actually did was cheat, steal, and duped us on their
way to prosperity by building a mighty treasure chest of technology and money in trade with the U.S. On January 23, 2021, a formation Chinese Communist H-6K bombers and Four J-16 fighters flew into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone.
Taiwan’s air force deployed missiles and fighters to “monitor” the incursions almost daily. President Biden’s newly sworn-in administration on Saturday reaffirmed the US’s “rock-solid” commitment to helping Taiwan against Communist China.
Taiwan’s Colonel Lee Ching-shi told Reuters their jets usually go up armed with guns, Sidewinders and Taiwan-made Sky Sword missiles when reacting to Communist Chinese jets and they can respond “at any time”. Taiwan has designed and built the F-CK-1A fighters but has asked the US to provide more modern aircraft. The Taiwan Air Force has about 600 aircraft compared to more than 3000 Communist aircraft.
China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has conducted almost daily flights over the waters between the southern part of Taiwan and the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands 276 miles south of Taiwan in the South China Sea in recent months. Taiwan’s Air Force is well trained, but has far fewer combat aircraft than China and has strained under the pressure of almost constantly having to scramble in recent months, responding to stepped up Chinese activity near the island.
The same day, a large force of Chinese military aircraft, including fighters and bombers, flew past Taiwan and into the waterway. The Chinese aircraft conducted 6 days ago The McCain Destroyer sailed through the Taiwan Straits for the first time since Biden became President.
Jan 26, 2021 · Three days after President Joe Biden took office, the Chinese People’s Communist Army Air Force a powerful formation of new H-6K bombers toward Taiwan. The same day, the U.S. Navy sailed…
13 Chinese combat aircraft, (including eight H-6 bombers) entering Taiwan’s ADIZ last Saturday and were carrying out a mock attack on USS Theodore Roosevelt.
A total of 28 aircraft, including as many as eight PLAAF (People’s Liberation Army Air Force) H-6 bombers, “intruded” into Taiwan’s ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) between Jan. 23 and 24, 2021.
The package of 13 Chinese combat aircraft, (including eight H-6 bombers) entering Taiwan’s ADIZ shortly after Biden took office .China has conducted potential attacks on Taiwan while its ally Iran has conducted attacks of Saudi Arabia. Biden says he supports Saudi against Iran but has stopped supporting Saudi in Yemen. It appears they feel Biden is weak and will not help defend these countries. www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/01/25/shortly…
Jan 24, 2021 · Thirteen Chinese combat aircraft (including 8x H-6K bombers, 4x J-16 fighters and 1x Y-8 Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft), followed the following day by 15 aircraft (2x Su-30, 4x J-16, 6x J-10, 2x Y-8…
Jan 25, 2021 ·A nuclear-powered attack submarine usually also accompanies American aircraft carriers. Against this force, the Chinese military mustered some.
Shenyang J-16 fighters with Possible UFOs on Chinese TV
of its best warplanes On Saturday, eight H-6K.Made a practice run to attack the carrier. Obviously either side could decide to shoot to protect themselves. Naturally fake Nightly TV News appears to ignore the story since Chinese billions buy advertising.
Jan 30, 2021 ·the same day, a large force of Chinese military aircraft, including fighters and bombers, flew past Taiwan and into the waterway. and conducted a simulated attack on the US Navy aircraft.
Chinese state media on Monday threatened to attack the “frenzied” United States over “anti-China decisions” made by Trump to support Taiwan.
Tibet was invaded in the Battle of Chamdo and Taiwan is next. China will soon have a world-leading military as its Army and Navy are larger than the U.S
The Chinese Dream is a set of personal and national goals and ideals to be the world’s greatest power promoted by the Chinese society and by Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping since 2012.
Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping since 2012.
It is used by journalists, government officials, and activists to describe the role and goals of the Communist Chinese nation.
In April 2019, the Chinese state media declare the Chinese People’s War against the US. Xi Jinping General Secretary of the Communist Party ordered the destruction of churches and temples and essentially made himself god and developed the corona virus in the Wuhan Laboratory.
Since then Philippine fishing boats have been sunk, 20,000 Indian military personnel have been killed by China and the corona virus has been spread around the world with China developing a vaccine a year ago.
Paramount leader “Isaac Stone Fish, founder of Strategy Risks said, “The United States is comparatively less strong vis-a-vis China under Biden than a few years ago, and China is likely to continue to close that gap.” China relations and the coming “duel of the century” for economic, military, and cultural dominance in the world.
The goal is to surpass the US in every way using every method imaginable such as stealing technology, spying, sending its space ships to the moon, conducting bio warfare with the corona virus, and conducting weather manipulation. Xi declared in2017 that China is raising quickly to world superpower status, capable of challenging the US economically, politically, and, militarily, too. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on troops to “put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war” in a visit to a military base . Xi Jinping warns Biden of ‘new cold war’ if US keeps up protectionism. China’s president, Xi Jinping, has sent out a warning to Joe Biden that he risks a new cold war if he continues with the protectionist policies of his predecessor.
In an address to the virtual World Economic Forum event, Xi called for a multilateral approach to solving the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 and said the pandemic should not be used as an excuse to reverse globalization in favor of “decoupling and seclusion”.
China is on its way to becoming the only nation that can challenge the US on the military front is China so Biden warns Russia. Not to interphone in elections. Three days after President Joe Biden took office, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force sent a powerful formation of new H-6K bombers with YJ-12 anti-ship missiles toward Taiwan. Four J-16 fighters protected the bombers. There are more than 200 H-6s I m China.
The dispute with China has left relations frayed with a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag the US into the fray.
Many Soldiers and police with their back turned as Biden drives by on day is explained ha watching the thousand peopling in the inauguration crowd
Don’t expect the fake TV nightly news to keep you up to date even on the 40 Executive Orders the President has written, all of which hurt jobs and many cases kill millions by sending large amounts of money around the world for abortions. He also opened the borders to illegal immigrants where large numbers will be raped and die inside overheated trucks. The illegal immigrants are forced to carry large amount of illegal drugs to US cities where nearly a 100,000 will die from drug overdoses. Although he claims to be a Roman Catholic he is acting against the word of God. Thanks to REUTERS, Utubue, and Navy
#2 in SEVEN Trilology
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, has been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021. The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter. Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. Cell: 520-288-2104 www.fredellisbrock.com
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Filer’s Files 6, 2021 Pilot Spots UFO and China War - PART II
Mt. Juliet, Tennessee disc – January 25, 2021
Filer’s Files 6, 2021 Pilot Spots UFO and China War - PART II
Vice President of Medcor Inc,. Princeton, NJ
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Tic Tac UFO Flies over Blackhawk, US Navy’s ‘UFO Patents’ or a ‘Space-time Modification Weapons’, ‘ Mar’s Rat, Martian Minerals found in Antarctic, Storms Caused by Jet Stream Manipulation. Taiwan reports large incursion by Communist Chinese air force, C-60 and the book Seven
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, New México, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Check Republic, Oman, New Zealand, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS and zoomed in
California Object
Alpine – on January 9, 2018, I was driving and wanted a shot of the sunset. Only later did I notice this super fast moving thing. It’s a live shot with my iPhone, so you can slide frames and see how fast it is moving when compared to the car below it moving in the same direction it passes it in a blink of an eye. I was driving approximately 60mph oh the 8 Freeway west.
San Diego– January 28, 2021
1, caught this on our outdoor security camera was taken at 7:06 PM, so maybe you can explain what it is? It was definitely something that you don’t see every day.
Note:This bright object could be a regular aircraft, but it is difficult to see any blinking lights characteristic of aircraft. Also the object appears to be possibly two objects moving in unison. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Colorado Objects
Denver– January 31, 2021, I observed 3 large white objects traveling at a high rate of speed. They maintained their formation and had long tails. The best description is that they looked like cloud tear-drops at 10:45 A.M. in the morning. I observed these very large objects appear to “fall” to move east at a high rate of speed. They maintained their brightness and formation until I lost sight of them.
Florida Lights
Miami– On November 29, 2020, I felt the need to take photographs, but never realized anything until I got home and saw a cigar shaped craft drop out of the sky. I tried to video but was unable to capture anything. You can’t see anything until you zoom in.
Minnesota Disc
Coon Rapids– on June 16, 2020, I was doing grounds work at school when it started raining for about 25 minutes and I noticed the sun shining. There is an opening in the clouds and took a picture of it. Later that evening I was telling my wife about it and showed her the picture when she noticed a dark spot in the picture. I zoomed in on the image and can’t tell if it’s a UFO?
Montana Light
Ferndale– January 30, 2021 –took this video at 10:20 PM, and I saw the light above the Bigfork Gun Club on the east side of the Swan Mountain Range.
Note: It appears from the video that the object is rising. The object also appears to be quite large. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
New Mexico Lights
Albuquerque – January 30, 2021, my sister and I were outside looking at the stars and I noticed this thing in the sky that looked weird. The lights were blinking in the shape of a triangle that was moving. I took pictures of the blue it lights on my phone.
Truth or Consequences – on December 27, 2020, object changed shape.
New York Lights
Phelps — On November 1, 2020, I first saw it with my grandson as this huge thing came up from behind the house, where there is a huge Pond. I took a short video and still am, positively, 100% sure we saw a UFO with 2-3 s orange color orbs. It shot off; at nana seconds speed and was gone.
North Carolina Disc
Raleigh– January 30, 2021, this is from Face book. Where a good friend took a picture of her kids on her roof. Afterwards, she notices the object in the top left. It looks a lot like the objects captured by the Navy. I don’t know what the object in the photo is.
Ohio Object
Sidney– January 19, 2021, driving on Dingman Slagle Road in Port Jefferson it was playing cat and mouse with us. We were chasing it and we were able to get close driving 95 miles an hour to keep up. It ended up back where we first found it. I got out of the car and took 13 photos and 5 videos on my cell phone.
Oregon Lights
Keizer – January 30, 2021, took a photo of the moon and later when I looked at the picture I noticed the lights in the sky. I don’t know what it was or how long it was in the sky
Tennessee Disc
Mt. Juliet – January 25, 2021, this is my first UFO experience, which took place between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. at my home about 12 miles east of Nashville. I got up and looked out the east window and saw a very large bright white-blue light on the distant horizon. After a few minutes, I noticed six star shaped points with three at the top and three at the bottom moving fast, toward Nashville.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Lights
Croydo – on February 5, 2021, in the video it is hard to tell what these lights are, but I swear to you I know what a plane and helicopter looks like and that was not one. I took my dogs out and heard this very loud humming/aircraft noise and I see the circles of red and green literally above me. It has continued to come back and forth and I can still hear it and it has been about 25 minutes.
Canada Light
Hanilton – on February 4, 2021, I’ve seen this 3 times in the same location and once an hour away from my home. Begin feeling anxious and irritated each time I hear a loud humming/pulsating noise which drives me to notice the object.
Check Republic
Havířov– September 22, 2020, I’ve experienced more light poses and I’m just enjoying them and I don’t need to shoot them. I had the greatest experience with a friend in 2016; we had the opportunity to enjoy the black triangle “tr3b/ at a height of 30 meters. And since then I have experienced dozens of posing. It has something to do with the vibration you live with. T the attached photos are funny.
New Zealand Objects
Auckland – on January 22, 2021, at 10.52pm we observed 7-10 single orange glowing round lights, the size of a small car, travelling at a steady, fast rate, at low altitude which veered off and disappeared. Also included are 2 photographs taken on November 2nd, at 2.51pm (NZ time) that show a moving triangular object. When zoomed in they look to be 3 diamond shaped objects in a triangular formation.
Oman Object
Muscat— on the evening of 30th January 2021, I was capturing the rise of the moon on a remote beach. Later I was surprised to notice an identified DNA shape.
UK/England Objects
Stoke on Trent – on December 22, 2020, a Black plume of smoke was seen south east of the city centre either going up or down
Horsham – January 31, 2021, I have seen this object before but I didn’t have my camera. I decided to film it, but only managed to get 2 minutes before my camera run out of battery. I do not know what this is, I hope it is a UFO as it changes shapes and has electric vibes all through it. The video is pixilated.
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Verste object in ons zonnestelsel ontdekt: de rots ‘FarFarOut’
Aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel draait een rots rond de zon. Het is het verste object in ons stelsel dat tot nu toe bekend is. Het object heeft de bijnaam FarFarOut gekregen, oftewel ver, ver weg.
FarFarOut werd in januari 2018 voor het eerst waargenomen met een telescoop op Hawaï. Daarna is het object gevolgd om zijn baan rond de zon te berekenen.
Volgens het Amerikaanse sterrenkundige centrum NOIRlab doet de rots ongeveer duizend jaar over een rondje rond de zon. Soms komt hij dichter bij dan de planeet Neptunus, maar op het verste punt is de afstand tot de zon 26,2 miljard kilometer. Dat is 175 keer de afstand van de aarde tot de zon.
Momenteel staat hij op 19,75 miljard kilometer van de zon, 132 keer zo ver als de aarde van de zon staat.
Pluto
Het rotsblok is moeilijk te zien. De ontdekkers denken dat hij ongeveer 400 kilometer in doorsnee is. Dat betekent dat het misschien net een dwergplaneet is, zoals bijvoorbeeld Pluto.
De ontdekkers verwachten dat het record van FarFarOut niet lang in stand blijft, omdat er in zijn omgeving waarschijnlijk meer van zulke rotsen te vinden zijn.
Het is het verste object in ons stelsel dat tot nu toe bekend is.
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Musician Deletes Footage of "UFO" Captured from Airplane Window
Musician Deletes Footage of "UFO" Captured from Airplane Window
A still image of the object from Capelle’s video.
(Leah Capelle / Twitter)
Los Angeles-based musician Leah Capelle shared a video to Twitter on February 3rd of what appears to be an unidentified flying object outside the window of a passenger jet leaving Chicago.
"Okay y'all, when I was flying home from Chicago I saw something spooky; my gut instinct was UFO but figured that couldn't be possible so then I thought military drone, but [I don’t know]," the accompanying caption read. "Thoughts?"
Capelle has since deleted the video, but not before it was taken and uploaded to the Latest UFO Sightings (LUFOS) YouTube channel.
The speed with which Capelle deleted the video had some wondering why she did so.
"Why was it already deleted from Twitter?" one viewer asked. "This is weird to me, if it was a hoax for attention they would leave it up as long as possible."
"Especially the [woman who shared the video] being a young musician and trying to gain a following," replied another viewer. "You would think she would leave it up for exposure. But instead, it seemed she got spooked or overwhelmed by people storming her with questions. She may also be questioning herself on what exactly was seen."
Other commenters on the LUFOS YouTube page wondered if the government or “men in black” were responsible for pressuring Capelle into removing the video.
Capelle had been responding to comments prior to the video’s deletion sometime on or before February 5th, including the following exchange.
"I saw something very similar in 2014," Bayardo Gonzalez said. "It was three white spheres/orbs in triangle formation. I did not see them move as fast as yours. They just followed the plane for a bit."
"So crazy, dang," replied Capelle.
"It makes you think...Did I just see what I think I saw?" Gonzalez asked. "Good you got it on video. How many did you see? I couldn’t tell if it was just one. I did not have a smartphone back in 2014 so I do not have video."
"I only saw one but it was moving so fast it’s hard to tell," replied Capelle.
“This needs to be news,” said Capelle during another Twitter exchange.
She did not reply to comments regarding the video’s authenticity or inquiries regarding its deletion.
In the video, Capelle first seems to notice the object hovering above some solar panels, while someone next to her is filming. She then grabs the camera to better record the image herself.
Capelle can be heard speaking with another person, whose voice is muffled, while viewing the object.
“Oh sh*t,” Capelle says. “Whoa, what is that?”
“Do you see that?” asks the other person.
"It’s like teleporting, it’s like a vacuum," Capelle says. "That’s insane."
A white object can be seen in the video entering the frame before disappearing and then reappearing onscreen. After reappearing, it quickly flies offscreen and the video ends.
Many who’ve seen the video are convinced that it represents authentic footage of an unexplained phenomenon.
Debunkers, in the absence of corroborating evidence from other passengers, have asserted that it’s a hoax created with video editing software.
The Singular Fortean Society’s photo and video analyst Emily Wayland said it’s too soon for definitive judgments.
"It’s impossible to know for sure without the original footage, but this could have been done with relatively common computer software," she said. "However, it’s not that easy to do. You’d have to be decently skilled to do it."
Investigator Tobias Wayland reached out to Capelle to ask if she would agree to an interview, and any subsequent response will be publishedas it is received.
Three robotic explorers launched by three different nations are due to reach Mars within days of each other, after hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space.
The United Arab Emirates' orbiter, called Hope, reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China's orbiter-rover combo, Tianwen-1.
NASA's rover, Perseverance, will arrive a week later, on February 18, to collect rocks for return to Earth – a key step in determining whether life ever existed on Mars.
The $3 billion Perseverance mission is the first leg in a US-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade.
Hope, Tianwen-1 and Perseverance all launched within 12 days of each other in the second half of July last year.
The UAE, China and the US took advantage of a period last July when Mars and Earth were favourably aligned to launch their exploratory missions to the Red Planet.
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This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Perseverance's $3 billion mission is the first leg in a U.S.-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade
Hope, which was the first of the three to launch, on July 19 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center, will not land on the Martian surface but take readings from the Red Planet's atmosphere.
It will help answer key questions about the Martian atmosphere and the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases into space over the span of one Martian year or nearly two Earth years.
Called Amal, or Hope in Arabic, the Gulf nation's spacecraft is seeking an especially high orbit – 13,500 by 27,000 miles high – to monitor Martian weather.
'We are quite excited as engineers and scientists, at the same time quite stressed and happy, worried, scared,' said Omran Sharaf, project manager for the UAE, in anticipation of the first of the three scheduled arrivals.
Six spacecraft currently are operating around Mars – three from the US, two from Europe and one from India. The UAE hopes to make it seven with its mission.
Illustration provided by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre depicts the United Arab Emirates' Hope Mars probe
Meanwhile, China's craft, which consists of an orbiter, lander and rover, measures just over six feet in height (1.85m) and weighs 530 pounds (240kg).
Called Tianwen-1, or 'Quest for Heavenly Truth', it is due to enter Mars orbit on Wednesday, February 10, but it will remain paired in orbit until May, when the rover separates to descend to the surface.
Once the rover gets to Mars, it will survey the composition, types of substance, geological structure and meteorological environment of the Martian surface, and look for signs of alien life.
China successfully launched Tianwen-1 on July 23 aboard a Long March 5 Y-4 carrier rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island province of Hainan, China.
China's mission includes a Mars orbiter, that will carry the lander and rover until release, a lander, that will parachute down the the surface carrying the rover, and a rover that will study the planet's soil and atmosphere for signs of life
If all goes well, Tianwen-1 will make China only the second country to land successfully on the Red Planet.
Both the UAE and China are newcomers to Mars, where more than half of Earth's emissaries have failed.
This is not China's first attempt at Mars – in 2011, a Chinese orbiter accompanying a Russian mission was lost when the spacecraft failed to get out of Earth's orbit after launching from Kazakhstan, eventually burning up in the atmosphere.
This image made available by the China National Space Administration on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 shows the Tianwen-1 probe en route to Mars
Lastly, Perseverance, which was the last of the three to blast off last July, will land on the Martian surface on February 18.
The one-ton Perseverance rover is larger and more elaborate than Tianwen-1's rover, but it will similarly prowl for signs of ancient microscopic life.
'To say we're pumped about it, well that would be a huge understatement,' said Lori Glaze, NASA's planetary science director.
About the size of an SUV, the rover will dive in straight away for a harrowing sky-crane touchdown at the 30-mile-diameter Jezero Crater – an ancient river delta that seems a logical spot for somewhere that once harboured life.
Perseverance rover fires up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface in this NASA illustration
This image made available by NASA depicts a possible area through which the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could traverse across Jezero Crater. This mosaic is composed of aligned images from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Perseverance rover, bottom, landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on February 18, 2021
This landing zone in Jezero Crater is so treacherous that NASA cancelled it for Curiosity, but so tantalising that scientists are keen to get hold of its rocks.
'When the scientists take a look at a site like Jezero Crater, they see the promise, right?' said Al Chen, who is in charge of the entry, descent and landing team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
'When I look at Jezero, I see danger. There's danger everywhere.'
Steep cliffs, deep pits and fields of rocks could cripple or doom Perseverance, following its seven-minute atmospheric plunge.
With an 11-and-a-half-minute communication lag each way, the rover will be on its own, unable to rely on flight controllers.
The odds are in NASA's favour, however, as it has nailed eight of its nine attempted Mars landings.
Illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover beginning its descent through the Martian atmosphere, with its heat shield facing the 'Red Planet' (issued 08 February 2021). Entry, Descent, and Landing (or EDL) begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere, travelling nearly 20,000 kph
NASA engineers watch the first driving test for Perseverance in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California in December 2019
Once landed, the six-wheeled Perseverance will drive across Jezero, collecting core samples of the most enticing rocks and gravel.
Perseverance is carrying seven instruments that will analyse samples from the surface, including an advanced panoramic camera, a ground-penetrating radar and an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for analysis of chemical elements.
The NASA rover, which launched from Florida on July 30, will set the samples aside for retrieval by a fetch rover launching in 2026.
Under an elaborate multi-billion plan still being worked out by NASA and the European Space Agency, the geologic treasure would arrive on Earth in the early 2030s.
There are multiple missions to Mars in 2020 due to its optimum position relative to Earth, making journeys shorter than they would be otherwise
A handout photo released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on 05 February 2021 shows the first image of Mars captured by China's Tianwen-1 unmanned probe (issued 06 February 2021). According to CNSA, the image was taken about 2.2 million kilometres from Mars
Scientists contend it is the only way to ascertain whether life flourished on a wet, watery Mars three billion to four billion years ago.
NASA's science mission chief, Thomas Zurbuchen, considers it 'one of the hardest things ever done by humanity and certainly in space science'.
The US is still the only country to successfully land on Mars, beginning with the 1976 Vikings. Two spacecraft are still active on the surface – Curiosity, which landed in 2012, and InSight, which landed in 2018.
Smashed Russian and European spacecraft litter the Martian landscape, meanwhile, along with NASA's failed Mars Polar Lander from 1999.
Mars fly-bys were the rage in the 1960s and most failed. NASA's Mariner 4 was the first to succeed in 1965.
THREE MISSIONS TO MARS IN THE SPACE OF 10 DAYS
There are three major missions bound for Mars in the space of just 10 days this month - the UAE's Hope orbiter, China's Tianwen-1 craft and NASA's Perseverance rover.
The countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a relatively short journey.
July 19: Hope (UAE)
The 3,000lb (1,350kg) craft (pictured) will complete one orbit every 55 hours for a total of one Martian year — 687 Earth days
- The 2,970-pound probe was built entirely within the Emirates, launched from Japan and will take seven months to reach the Red Planet.
- When the orbiter gets there in February 2021, it will stay in orbit for a whole Martian year – 687 days.
- Hope will not land on the Martian surface but take readings from the Red Planet's atmosphere.
- Hope will help answer key questions about the Martian atmosphere and the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases into space over the span of one Martian year – called a 'sol'.
- Three instruments mounted on the probe will provide a picture of Mars's atmosphere throughout the year, and all of the data gathered will be made widely available.
- This includes an infrared spectrometer to measure the lower atmosphere and temperature, a high-resolution imager to study the ozone and another to look at levels of hydrogen and oxygen up to 27,000 miles from the surface.
July 23: Tianwen-1
The Chinese space exploration authority introduced the nation's first Mars rover Tianwen-1 (pictured) at a grand ceremony earlier this month. The rover measures just over six feet in height
- This robotic spacecraft consists of an orbiter (stationed in the atmosphere), a lander (stationary on the planet's surface) and a rover (roaming the surface).
- The craft measures just over six feet in height (1.85m) and weighs 530 pounds (240kg).
- It will survey the composition, types of substance, geological structure and meteorological environment of the Martian surface.
- The solar-powered machine is designed to work on Mars for three Martian months, about 92 Earth days.
- It includes a geological camera, a multispectral camera, a subsurface detection radar, a surface composition detector, a surface magnetic field detector and a weather detector.
- A poem pondering on the stars and planets written over 2000 years ago was the inspiration for the name of China's first exploration mission to Mars.
- Called Tianwen (天问), the poem was written by ancient Chinese literati and politician Qu Yuan (339-278BC), who lived in the Chu State (770-223BC).
July 30: Perseverance
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover will pick up samples of rock and soil from the red planet, deposit them in tubes and leave them on the ground for a future mission to return them to Earth.
- NASA's Perseverance rover is the heaviest payload yet to go to the Red Planet - at a car-sized 2,259 pounds (1,025kg).
The mission will seek signs of past microbial life on Mars and collect rock and soil samples for eventual return to Earth.
- The Mars Perseverance rover introduces a drill that can collect core samples of the most promising rocks and soils and set them aside in a 'cache' on the surface of Mars.
- The rover will travel using an ultraviolet laser to determine what minerals and compounds are present in the soil, based on the way the light scatters.
- The Mars 2020 rover, which was built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California., is now at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final preparations.
- It launches to space on July 30 and is set to touch down on Mars in 12 months.
- It has a mission duration of 1 Mars year (668 sols or 687 Earth days) and will touch down on the planet's Jezero crater on Mars in February 2021.
Best UFO Video From A Plane: Incredible Speed, Size And Movement
Best UFO Video From A Plane: Incredible Speed, Size And Movement
One woman witnessed on her flight out of Chicago something she will never forget – a mega-fast UFO, reports wbznewsradio.iheart.com.
She filmed the flying saucer, pointing it out to those next to her. In the clip, she says it is “right over by those solar panels” and then an object zips into view, hovers, and dashes away at a very high rate of speed.
Sounds of shock and amazement can be heard before the UFO returns and curves upward, flying off in the distance.
The video was originally tweeted out by a musician who captioned it “Okay y’all, when I was flying home from Chicago I saw something spooky; my gut instinct was UFO but figured that couldn’t be possible so then I thought military drone, but idk… thoughts?”
She has since removed the video from her Twitter, but didn’t give an explanation as to why. Some commenters think maybe it was because someone, maybe even from the government, suggested she pull the footage.
The ISS Recorded Again A Fleet Of Hundreds Of UFOs Approaching Our Planet
The ISS Recorded Again A Fleet Of Hundreds Of UFOs Approaching Our Planet
We have long believed, even claimed, that we are not alone in the cosmos, and scientists said a few months ago that there may be hundreds of intelligent alien societies not far from Earth. Any of them might also be enough advanced to engage with us.
Scientists at the University of Nottingham, UK, estimate that there are at least 36 extraterrestrial cultures highly advanced in the Milky Way, according to a report published in the science journal The Astrophysical Journal last June.
But they go on to claim that the calculation is simply conservative: it is based on the premise that intelligent life, using what they call the Astrobiological Copernican Limit, forms on other planets in a similar fashion as it does on Earth.
Researchers believed that the World is not special: if an Earth-like planet developed around a Sun-like star in an orbit identical to our planet, hosting a society that evolves technologically similar to humans, in our galaxy there will be around 36 civilizations.
In this scenario, in a timeframe close to that of humanity, other advanced cultures will also be transmitting messages, such as radio broadcasts from satellites and televisions, seeking to discover other modes of life. So if scientists are so convinced of the alien presence of our galaxy, images showing a fleet of hundreds of UFOs above Earth shouldn’t be shocking to us.
Fleet Of UFOs
Another A fleet of over 150 unidentified flying objects in Earth’s orbit has been captured by the International Space Station (ISS) camera. This is not, though the first time in recent months that a similar sighting has occurred.
The ISS was traveling in an undetermined location on Earth last April, as we had already published exclusively, but as the camera captured the progress, hundreds of formation lights were emerging in our path. Uh, earth.
In August, even the Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, currently onboard the International Space Station (ISS), noticed the appearance of a number of unusual lights. The 60-second film, taken from inside the ISS, showed, from Vagner’s viewpoint, at least five unidentified objects traveling in formation, emerging behind Earth.
The arrival of the UFO fleet was caught by the ISS camera in this new sighting during the night of November 15. The appearance in the orbit of Earth of unusual objects is so many that they do not reach the field of view of the camera, but it can be seen that there are at least more than 150.
The most cynical Internet users have indicated that some city lights are these UFO formations, but because the ISS circles the Earth in about 93 minutes, doing 15.5 orbits every day we can see these types of supposed city lights every day on the live stream, but that’s not the case.
But it’s obvious that mysterious luminous objects are not the lights of major cities, and they’re not fishing boats or Starlink satellites because of their height.
It can also be added that on ISS live broadcasts, these light formations do not continuously appear, but rather appear suddenly and then vanish as if they never were.
Today, the question that many are wondering is where do they go and in such numbers for what reason do they travel?
There are numerous hypotheses at this stage that might justify its real intent.
One explanation is that owing to the coronavirus pandemic, it is alien spacecraft leaving our world in shape.
Another hypothesis, and one of the most famous, is that they are conclusive proof that some otherworldly civilization is preparing for a quiet attack, strategically positioning its fleet as if it were a chessboard.
We should not rule out that it is the US Space Force, however.
It must be said that the Space Delta 9 unit of the Space Force was formally awarded its first mission: orbital warfare. It formally took charge of the enigmatic experimental unmanned mini space shuttle X-37B, which completed a number of classified orbits for unspecified reasons, the latest of which involved a Space Force mission, as part of the strengthening of the armament of the Space Force.
So it should come as no surprise that hidden Space Power instruments are the hundreds of objects stealthily flying about in Earth’s orbit.
The fact is that if more than 150 unexplained space objects travel in our planet’s orbit, apart from all these hypotheses, why does the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) or the European Space Agency (ESA) not feel it appropriate to clarify the mysterious objects that appear in the live broadcast of the ISS?
Comment l'ESA se prépare à négocier avec la Nasa la présence d'un Européen sur la Lune
Comment l'ESA se prépare à négocier avec la Nasa la présence d'un Européen sur la Lune
Rémy Decourt - Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO][4K] Mission Artémis Les Hommes de Retour sur la Lune en 2024 (Nasa) - les lancements de la mission ArtemisFin 2021, le nouveau lanceur lourd de la Nasa, le SLS (Space Launch System), lancera la première mission Artemis I à destination de la Lune. Voici à quoi ressemblera son premier vol.
L'Agence spatiale européenne, principale partenaire de la Nasa dans l'exploration humaine et robotique de la Lune, veut qu'un de ses astronautes marche sur la Lune. Afin de convaincre la Nasa d'en amener un avec elle lors d'une mission Artemis, l'ESA développe un atterrisseur lunaire polyvalent, autonome et de forte capacité (EL3) qui pourrait servir à la logistique des missions Artemis. Le fret et le matériel ainsi transportés le seraient en échange d'un Européen sur la Lune dès le début de la décennie 2030.
L'Agence spatiale européenne qui a conclu des accords à long terme avec la Nasa pour construire une station spatiale lunaire (Gateway) et garantir sa participation à un prochain voyage sur la Lune a d'ores et déjà négocié et obtenu trois places pour ses astronautes à bord du Gateway.
Aujourd'hui, l'ESA réfléchit quelle contrepartie elle pourrait proposer à la Nasa pour faire atterrir sur la Lune un de ses astronautes d'ici 2030 ! Cette monnaie d'échange pourrait être l'atterrisseur lunaire polyvalent, baptisé European Large Logistics Lander (EL3). Bien que destiné à une diversité de missions pour la communauté scientifique, ce système de transport autonome pourra servir à la logistique de support des missions Artemis avec la capacité de transporter jusqu'à 1,7 tonne de fret vers n'importe quel endroit de la surface lunaire.
À la conquête de la Lune avec des programmes forts
L'Agence spatiale européenne a indiqué, lors de l'édition 2020 du Congrès international d'astronautique (IAC), avoir sélectionné Airbus Defense and Space et Thales Alenia Space pour deux études parallèles. Ce n'est seulement que lors de la prochaine réunion du Conseil des ministres de l'ESA, actuellement prévue fin 2022, que les États membres décideront de financer le développement de cet atterrisseur lunaire polyvalent, voire de le compléter avec le croiseur lunaire CLTV (Cis-Lunar Transfer Vehicle), dont deux études ont été confiées à Airbus et Thales Alenia Space. Ce Véhicule logistique polyvalent et autonome, s'appuyant sur l'héritage des modules de service d'Orion et du véhicule de transfert automatique (ATV), pourrait ravitailler le Gateway dès 2027.
Différents concepts à l'étude d'alunisseur logistique lourd européen (EL3) sous ses différentes configurations, en fonction du scénario de mission (transport de fret, dépose d'un rover, retour d'échantillons lunaires). Cette étude est réalisée par Airbus pour le compte de l'ESA.
Dans le contexte d'un programme d'exploration lunaire accéléré au niveau international, l'ESA s'est engagée dans plusieurs projets pour permettre à l'Europe de jouer un rôle à court et à moyen terme. Pour l'ESA, ce retour sur la Lune offre non seulement des opportunités scientifiques fondamentalement importantes pour la compréhension du Système solaire, mais permet également de tester le matériel et les procédures opérationnelles pour l'exploration et l'utilisation de l'espace au-delà de l'orbite terrestre basse (LEO), de façon à démontrer les technologies et les processus qui seront nécessaires à une mission future vers Mars.
Silvio Sandrone, directeur des nouveaux programmes chez Airbus, dont l'entreprise est engagée dans les études de l'EL3 et du CLTV (Commercial Lunar Payload Services), nous explique en quoi ces deux systèmes de transport « pourraient répondre aux besoins de la Nasa pour son programme Artemis ». Si avec l'EL3 le but de l'ESA est d'effectuer des missions autonomes européennes sur la surface de la Lune, au rythme de trois à cinq sur une période d'au moins dix ans à partir de la fin des années 2020, cet alunisseur peut servir de « véhicule de logistique lourd pour les missions Artemis avec équipage sur la Lune ». Avec 1,7 tonne de charge utile, une très grande variété de cargaisons et de fret peut être livrée à la surface de la Lune, comme « des expériences scientifiques, des fournitures d'équipage ou des rovers non pressurisés ».
L'atterrisseur lunaire EL3 de l'Agence spatiale européenne. Ce système de transport autonome pourra servir à la logistique de support des missions Artemis avec la capacité de transporter jusqu'à 1,7 tonne de fret vers n'importe quel endroit de la surface lunaire.
Du fait de ces performances, EL3 se différencie nettement de la multitude de projets de sociétés privées américaines qui « développent des atterrisseurs lunaires de 150 à 200 kg de charges utiles, dans le cadre du programme Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) de la Nasa ».
L'EL3 en support des missions Artemis de la Nasa
Pour comprendre l'intérêt de la Nasa à utiliser EL3, « qui ne sera évidemment pas un lander lunaire de plus », il faut savoir que dans le schéma actuel des missions Artemis, le système d’atterrissage habité HLS (Human Landing System) de la Nasa est « un peu court en matière de performance ». Qualifié pour le transport d'astronautes, le HLS, actuellement développé par le secteur privé, permettra aux astronautes d'atteindre la surface lunaire, de vivre et d'opérer au sol pendant quelques jours au maximum, avant de rejoindre l'orbite lunaire. Si l'Europe peut, par exemple, « prédisposer au sol carburant et ressources, les missions Artemis sur la Lune pourraient alors durer plusieurs semaines » ! Dans ce scénario, les astronautes de la Nasa arriveront sur le site à explorer avec le HLS, mais l'essentiel de la logistique sera apporté par l'EL3.
Concept à l'étude de l'alunisseur logistique lourd européen lunaire de l'Agence spatiale européenne (EL3). Dans cette configuration, l’EL3 pourrait permettre une mission de retour d’échantillons lunaires.
Le but de l'ESA est de se rendre « incontournable auprès de la Nasa pour la logistique des futures missions habitées » et donc de négocier auprès de la Nasa cette capacité de transport par l'atterrissage d'un astronaute européen sur la Lune.
Le saviez-vous ?
Alors qu’EL3 permettra une diversité de missions pour la communauté scientifique, les missions les plus étudiées sont une exploration du pôle Sud de la Lune, à l’aide d’un laboratoire robotisé dérivé du rover collecteur d’échantillons (Sample Fetch Rover de la mission MSR) et un retour d’échantillons lunaires. Dans ce schéma, EL3 emportera avec lui sur la Lune un élément d’interface abritant un rover de 330 kilogrammes et un élément d'ascension lunaire (LAE) qui renverra les échantillons à la passerelle lunaire. Le rover sera conçu pour parcourir plus de 100 kilomètres à une vitesse relativement élevée et survivre à la nuit lunaire. Quelque 15 kilogrammes d’échantillons pourraient être rapportés sur Terre en transitant par le Gateway. Ils seraient chargés à bord d’une capsule Orion de la Nasa.
Une quinzaine de kilogrammes de roches, de pierres de toutes tailles et de régolithes, c’est bien. Mais, « une centaine de kilogrammes c’est bien mieux » ! Pour Airbus, le CLTV pourrait être utilisé pour une ambitieuse mission de retour d’échantillons lunaires. « Un rendez-vous en orbite lunaire avec le CLTV et EL3 permettrait de rapporter plus de cent kilogrammes de matière lunaire », toujours en transitant par le Gateway.
Mais, souligne Silvio Sandrone, l'Europe ne doit pas seulement se « contenter d'être un partenaire qui apporte des modules pour les engins spatiaux des autres ». L'apport européen comprend notamment des missions internationales vers Mars, des éléments importants pour les stations spatiales habitées (ISS et Gateway), ainsi que le module de service européen du véhicule Orion de la Nasa, dont six exemplaires ont d'ores et déjà été commandés, qui transportera les astronautes jusqu'au Gateway et sur la Lune.
Crédits : NASA.
Représentation d'artiste du vaisseau Orion en approche de la station Gateway dans sa version internationale (après 2024).
Crédits : NASA.
Illustration d'activités scientifiques et technologiques sur la Lune lors de missions Artemis.
L'Europe a aussi besoin de se « doter de capacités suffisantes pour mener ses propres missions en toute autonomie ». L'atterrisseur lunaire polyvalent EL3 est une première étape. La deuxième pourrait être le « croiseur lunaire de transfert cislunaire, s'appuyant sur l'héritage des modules de service d'Orion et de l'ATV », dont l'ESA a trouvé ce concept intéressant, « notamment parce qu'il permet une grande variété de missions pas seulement à destination de la Lune ». D'où ces deux études attribuées à Airbus et Thales Alenia Space.
Concept de croiseur lunaire pour desservir l'orbite basse, le Gateway ou la Lune.
Avec ce CLTV, l'Europe pourrait se doter d'un « véhicule spatial capable de faire la navette entre l'orbite terrestre et la Lune pour contribuer à la logistique du Gateway » avec une capacité d'emport non négligeable de plus de 4,5 tonnes jusqu'au Gateway. Cet ATV-Lunaire pourrait fournir, par exemple, « un soutien opportun et efficace à la Nasa et à l'ESA dans la mise en œuvre des futures missions lunaires Artemis », voire être une « alternative crédible au SLS et autres lanceurs commerciaux en particulier pour ce qui concerne toutes les missions de logistique, comme le transfert de fret, l'assemblage en orbite, le retour d'échantillons, de l'orbite terrestre basse à l'espace cislunaire ». Par ailleurs, la polyvalence de CLTV lui permettra également de soutenir des « missions d'infrastructure orbitale post-ISS en orbite terrestre basse ainsi que des missions dans le domaine des services aux satellites géostationnaires ».
Plutôt que de choisir entre EL3 ou le CLTV, l'ESA serait bien inspirée de financer à la fois l'alunisseur multirôle et le véhicule cislunaire lors du prochain Conseil ministériel en 2022. Avec des ambitions moins fortes, l'ESA pourrait néanmoins sélectionner seulement l'EL3 en vue d'une première mission scientifique, vraisemblablement une mission de retour d'échantillons lunaires du pôle Sud qui servira également de démonstration technologique. Dans ce schéma elle déciderait de consolider le projet de croiseur lunaire, sans l'annuler donc, ce qui permettrait aux équipes travaillant sur ce véhicule de poursuivre leur effort sans toutefois avoir la garantie qu'il volera un jour.
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THREE REPORTS, Plane Investigates UFO Over West Palm beach, Florida, 2-9-2021, UFO Sighting News.
THREE REPORTS, Plane Investigates UFO Over West Palm beach, Florida, 2-9-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Update, US news reports this as a military test missile from a submarine, but this seems to be a cover up, since it came so close to being over Florida risking millions of lives. Either the US is preparing for nuclear war with China and Russia...or this was a UFO. I believe it to be the later. SCW
Date of sighting: Feb 9, 2021
Location of sighting: West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON
Now here is something you don't see everyday. In Florida a man and woman were driving down West Palm Beach when they noticed a white cone in the sky with a shiny object moving around it. The small object is a single engine plane that happened to be in the area and got curious about this huge white cone in the sky. The white cone begins to fade and the shiny object which has wings and a light at each wingtip, seems to be investigating the white cone. But the white cone quickly fades more and more as if it were a UFO cloaking to hide itself. This is a common practice of UFOs that believe they are going unnoticed, but when they realize they were wrong and that someone was watching them on the ground, they cloak which looks like the object becoming transparent more and more until its totally gone. Absolute proof UFOs can cloak...right in front of our own eyes and totally get away with it.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Orb look like it was traveling slowly after a few minutes and airliner seem to be headed right for it The Airliner had to make a hard bank left to avoid it just then it disappeared This is all verified in the video. The video is in a text file from my wife not sure how to send it to you other than by text.
Second report on this same UFO caught on video.
Third report from MUFON on this UFO came in...only photos and description.
MUFON: #113614
I was driving down the road and I noticed an airplane in the sky, just behind the airplane I noticed a stationary disc, very brightly lit with a cloud formation around it. The disc and cloud formation appeared to be perfect, like something out of this world. The disc was stationary, although I cannot tell whether it rotated in place as I was driving but the disc did not move in a line, it then disappeared and so did the cloud shortly thereafter in the same exact location which I observed it.
Strange light descends near the Popocatépetl Volcano (Video)
Strange light descends near the Popocatépetl Volcano (Video)
On January 18, 2021 the Popocatépet Volcano live webcam recorded an eerie light apparently descending near the volcano.
The Popocatépetl volcano area located in the states of Puebla, Mexico is well known for its UFO Sightings and eerie lights moving above and near the volcano and now with this strange descending light we can add a new mystery to the many unexplained events happening in this area.
Richard Dolan: The astonishing 1961 Abduction Case
Richard Dolan: The astonishing 1961 Abduction Case
Everyone knows about the 1961 UFO encounter of Betty and Barney Hill. But three months prior to that, another (mostly unknown) event took place involving two young people on Long Island, Peter Robbins and his sister Helen.
While Peter went on years later to become a well-known UFO researcher, Helen became a famous Punk Rock star. Here, in a well-illustrated video interview, Peter describes what happened to Helen, and how it affected both of their lives in a powerful way.
The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring flame.
The six-wheeled robotic explorer, which remains on track to touch down on Mars on Feb. 18, has been reproduced by Mattel as a Hot Wheels toy. The release of the 1:64th-scale vehicle has been timed to precede the real rover's landing on the red planet so fans of both the mission and the miniatures can reenact the event as it happens.
"We want the car to be out there so kids have it in their hands when the actual rover lands in February," said Manson Cheung, staff sculptor and lead 3D modeler for Mattel Hot Wheels. "We want kids to be like, 'Oh, I have the rover in my hand and I can see it on Mars,' so there is a connection for the kids, not only with Hot Wheels, but space as well."
Launched from Earth on July 30, 2020, Perseverance is nearing its destination and beginning NASA's first mission dedicated to searching for and caching signs of life for a future return to Earth. Should the rover survive its plunge into Mars' atmosphere and a seven-minute descent to the surface that requires an aeroshell, parachute, retro-rockets and a "sky crane" to all autonomously work as designed, then the Perseverance rover will explore Jezero Crater on the western edge of a giant impact basin, just north of the planet's equator.
"NASA's Perseverance rover, just in its name, goes hand-in-hand with Hot Wheels' spirt of 'Challenge Accepted," Scott Shaffstall, senior public relations manager for vehicles, action figures and licenses at Mattel, said. "It's very much tied that vision of try, fail, repeat until it is done right."
"So in our mind, this mission is already a success as it is moving the needle and getting us one step closer to Mars," said Shaffstall.
Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover is arriving in stores ahead of the car-sized rover arriving at Jezero Crater to search for signs of past life on Mars and cache samples for return to Earth. (Image credit: Mattel)
Like the real Perseverance, which was based on the design of NASA's previous and still active rover, Curiosity, the Hot Wheels Perseverance reuses the mold for Mattel's 2012 toy of the earlier-landed, car-sized explorer.
But the two rovers are not identical. Perseverance is equipped with a different set of science instruments, including a redesigned robotic arm, and has more robust wheels after the lessons learned with Curiosity's mobility system.
"We were in talks with JPL [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California] and NASA and we worked out that the differences at our scale, at 1:64th or about 3 inches [8 cm], would be very close in appearance. So we were able to reuse the Curiosity mold and brand it as Perseverance," Cheung told collectSPACE.com.
Identical to the Hot Wheels Curiosity, the Perseverance version of the toy includes NASA's insignia on its undercarriage and features a rotating camera mast. Mattel also incorporated the reddish-brown Mars "soiled" wheels that it first introduced on a reissue of the Curiosity rover toy in 2014.
"So with Curiosity/Perseverance, it is sort of following the same model as what we do generally in Hot Wheels, reusing the same sculpt that is very similar and just rebranding it as something else," said Cheung.
Persistent partnership
Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover features a rotating camera mast and reddish-brown "soil" stained wheels (Image credit: Mattel)
The Mars Perseverance Rover, which retails for $1.09, is part of the Hot Wheels "Space" line for 2021, an assortment of five different vehicles each with a space or cosmic theme.
"The space mini-collection was brought back in 2021 due to the increased interest from kids and the general public in regards to space exploration. The rover was an obvious fit and we knew that it would be touching down on Mars," said Shaffstall.
The Perseverance toy continues a long history of Hot Wheels celebrating NASA's missions and working with the engineers at JPL in Pasadena, California.
In addition to the Curiosity rover, Hot Wheels sets have also been modeled after NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997, John Glenn's return to space in 1999 and the Galileo mission to Jupiter that same year. NASA and Hot Wheels began collaborating in the 1980s with the development and release of the Space Shuttle Ground Support Hiway Hauler.
The partnership has led to Mattel designers visiting and touring JPL to get a look at real space vehicles and to deliver their Hot Wheels toys of the same spacecraft to the missions' team members.
"I don't think we are going to be there on landing day because it is all going to be hectic, but we definitely will get the [Hot Wheels Perseverance Rover] samples to them when we can," Shaffstall said.
Even the greatest of us have to take those around us into account. It’s true on a social level and, as new research shows, it’s true on an astronomical level as well.
Image via Pixabay.
Planets and the moons that orbit them form interdependent systems in which both influence one another. We see this with our Moon being tidally locked to our planet, while it, in turn, exerts its gravitational influence on Earth’s oceans.
These are undeniably massive effects that the two bodies exert on one another. But they’re not the most dramatic ones we’ve found so far. A new paper reports that Saturn, one of the titans of our Solar system, has a tilted rotation axis — and, according to the team, this is the doing of its moons.
Bowing to influence
The team, with members from CNRS (France’s national research center), Sorbonne University, and the University of Pisa working with the Paris Observatory report that Saturn’s satellites can explain the mystery of its tilted axis. They also predict that the planet will keep tilting in the future for a few billion years.
This tilt is caused by the gravitational pull of Saturn’s moons as they migrate away from their host planet. Titan, Saturn’s largest natural satellite, bears the lion’s share of the blame, they add.
Saturn’s moons are gradually wrestling free of the giant’s gravitational influence and are slowly inching away from it. While we were aware this was happening, the study showcases that the process is unfolding much faster than previously estimated. By using the new migration rate into our models and calculations, the team concluded that it is, in fact, tied to the planet’s tilt. Furthermore, as Saturn’s moons get further away from the planet, its tilt will keep increasing.
However, a decisive event (in regards to Saturn’s tilt) likely occurred recently in cosmological terms, the team adds. For around three billion years after its formation, Saturn’s axis was only slightly tilted; however, around one billion years ago, the tilting process took root.
At that time, the team explains, the movement of Saturn’s moons triggered a “resonance phenomenon” that continues to this day. We’re seeing the middle stages of this phenomenon currently. While this was already known as well, it was assumed that it started four billion years ago due to a change in Neptune’s orbit and that Saturn’s orbit today is stable — now we know neither are true. Over the next billion years or so, Saturn’s inclination relative to its axis could more than double.
Jupiter, the team adds in a different paper, is likely to undergo a similar tilting with the migration of its own moons due to the influence of Uranus. This process will likely take place over five billion years, says the team, and could take it from its current inclination of 3° to more than 30°.
The first paper “The large obliquity of Saturn explained by the fast migration of Titan” has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The second paper “The future large obliquity of Jupiter” has been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Enthusiasm over a Venusian compound associated with life has been quenched by a new study. It’s probably just sulfur dioxide, researchers now believe.
A 3D perspective view of the surface of Venus. Image credits: NASA/JPL.
Phosphine is a colorless, flammable, toxic gas compound — not something you’d be thrilled to see in most cases. But back in September, researchers got really excited about phosphine because it detected in the atmosphere of Venus.
For all its toxicity, phosphine can be produced by life. Finding phosphine on the hellish Venus suggests that life could perhaps exist on Venus, which understandably made a lot of astronomers very curious.
But right from the get-go, some were skeptical about the study. Just one month later, another group of researchers tried to find the phosphine themselves (using telescopes),but couldn’t. Two other groupsreprocessedthe same data used in the first study and alsocouldn’t find evidence for phosphine.
“The authors have informed the editors of Nature Astronomy about an error in the original processing of the ALMA Observatory data underlying the work in this Article, and that recalibration of the data has had an impact on the conclusions that can be drawn. Nature Astronomy is working with the authors to resolve the matter.”
“Instead of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, the data are consistent with an alternative hypothesis: They were detecting sulfur dioxide,” said co-author Victoria Meadows, a UW professor of astronomy. “Sulfur dioxide is the third-most-common chemical compound in Venus’ atmosphere, and it is not considered a sign of life.”
Instead of looking for the phosphine in the telescope data, Meadows and colleagues tried a different approach: they created models of what could be observed on Venus. They found that sulfur dioxide can not only explain the observations, but is also consistent with what we already know of Venus.
Venus is as mysterious as ever. Image credits: NASA / JPL.
The initial phosphine study used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) to make the observations, focusing on the 266.94 gigahertz frequency. Both phosphine and sulfur dioxide absorb radio waves close to this frequency. So what researchers observed could have been sulfur dioxide. The new study modelled how the signals would be picked up by the JCMT and ALMA telescopes.
“This is what’s known as a radiative transfer model, and it incorporates data from several decades’ worth of observations of Venus from multiple sources, including observatories here on Earth and spacecraft missions like Venus Express,” said lead author Andrew Lincowski, a researcher with the UW Department of Astronomy.
There’s another reason why the previous observations are very unlikely to be phosphine, researchers say: the initial signal was found not in the planet’s cloud layer, but far above it, where phosphine would likely be destroyed within seconds, but sulfur dioxide would be more stable.
“Phosphine in the mesosphere is even more fragile than phosphine in Venus’ clouds,” said Meadows. “If the JCMT signal were from phosphine in the mesosphere, then to account for the strength of the signal and the compound’s sub-second lifetime at that altitude, phosphine would have to be delivered to the mesosphere at about 100 times the rate that oxygen is pumped into Earth’s atmosphere by photosynthesis.”
The team also found that the ALMA antenna configuration had an unfortunate side effect: signals from gases like sulfur dioxide give off weaker signals than gases distributed over a smaller scale.
“They inferred a low detection of sulfur dioxide because of that artificially weak signal from ALMA,” said Lincowski. “But our modeling suggests that the line-diluted ALMA data would have still been consistent with typical or even large amounts of Venus sulfur dioxide, which could fully explain the observed JCMT signal.”
“When this new discovery was announced, the reported low sulfur dioxide abundance was at odds with what we already know about Venus and its clouds,” said Meadows. “Our new work provides a complete framework that shows how typical amounts of sulfur dioxide in the Venus mesosphere can explain both the signal detections, and non-detections, in the JCMT and ALMA data, without the need for phosphine.”
So where does this leave us? We know that Earth’s atmosphere contains small amounts of phosphine, and life may produce phosphine. At this point, it seems more likely that previous observations aren’t of phosphine. But venus also remains as mysterious and ever — with a toxic atmosphere, acidic clouds, and scorching hot temperatures, it’s not the place where you’d expect any life form to exist. Then again, we can’t say that for sure, either.
'Mission accomplished': UAE's Hope probe safely enters Mars' orbit – beating both NASA and China to the Red Planet following a 500-million-km race from Earth
'Mission accomplished': UAE's Hope probe safely enters Mars' orbit – beating both NASA and China to the Red Planet following a 500-million-km race from Earth
United Arab Emirates' orbiter Hope reached Martian orbit on Tuesday afternoon
Hope will be followed by China's Tianwen-1 orbiter-rover combo on Wednesday
NASA's Perseverance rover will touch down in Jezero crater on February 18
The United Arab Emirates has become the first Arab nation and only the fifth nation overall to place a spaceship in orbit around Mars.
The country's space probe, called Hope, officially entered Mars orbit at around 16:15 GMT on Tuesday, marking the completion of a 493 million km journey from Earth.
Hope will be the first probe to provide a complete picture of planet's atmosphere and its layers, according to the UAE.
It will answer key questions about the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases into space, over the span of one Martian year (687 Earth days).
It's arrived ahead of two other spacecraft from NASA and China – although unlike those crafts, Hope is an orbiter probe and won't be landing on the planet's surface.
China's orbiter and rover combo – named Tianwen-1 – will arrive into Martian orbit tomorrow, followed by NASA's Perseverance rover on February 18.
Named Hope, the probe started the complex process of entering Martian orbit at just before 16:00 GMT - following a 500 million km race from Earth
Illustration provided by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre depicts the United Arab Emirates' Hope Mars probe during its approach
It's arrived ahead of NASA and Chinese spaceships, also on their way to the Red Planet - but unlike those crafts, this one won't be landing as it is an orbiter probe.
MARS ORBITAL INSERTION: A COMPLICATED PROCESS
Entering Martian orbit isn't an easy process, according to scientists.
The stresses on the spacecraft of all engines firing at once are far beyond those at launch
The probe fired its rockets to rapidly decelerate to achieve Mars Orbital Insertion (MOI).
During the MOI the spacecraft rotated to position for a deceleration burn of 27 minutes, and slowed down from its cruising speed of 121,000 km/h to 18,000 km/h.
The stresses on the spacecraft of all engines firing at once are far beyond those at launch.
It happened with a 20-odd-minute radio delay to Earth - so the probe had to manage on its own.
The UAE, China and the US took advantage of a period last July when Mars and Earth were favourably aligned to launch their exploratory missions to the Red Planet.
'Success! Contact with #HopeProbe has been established again. The Mars Orbit Insertion is now complete,' the Hope Mars Mission Twitter account posted.
Hope started the complex process of entering Martian orbit today just before 16:00 GMT – seven months after its blast-off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on July 19 last year.
This 'most critical and complex' manoeuvre involved Hope firing its engines and slowing itself down sufficiently to be captured by the gravity of the Red Planet – known as the fuel burn and 'Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI)' phase.
By firing Hope's engines for 27 minutes, the fuel burn reduced the speed of Hope from more than 121,000 km an hour to approximately 18,000 km an hour as it entered the 'capture orbit' and disappeared behind Mars' dark side.
Signals from the spacecraft, confirming a successful orbital insertion, arrived 11 minutes later at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, Dubai.
Hope re-emerged from the planet's shadow, and contact was restored on schedule after a nervy wait, sparking jubilant celebrations in the city.
Hope will remain in this phase for about two months, during which further testing of its instrumentation will take place, until it is ready to enter the 'science' orbit – when its data collection work begins.
In science orbit, it will be in an especially high position – 13,670 miles by 27,340 miles (22,000 kilometres by 44,000 kilometres) above the Martian surface – and provide regular updates on the Martian weather.
It will survey Mars' atmosphere, around 95 per cent of which is made up of carbon dioxide, around the entire planet, at all times of day and in all seasons.
In science orbit, it will complete one orbit of the planet every 55 hours.
While it will be in daily contact with Earth during the capture orbit phase, in its science orbit, contacts will take place two to three times a week.
Each pass will be six to eight hours long, which is the only time the UAE team will have to download any data and send the probe any new updates or instructions.
Omran Sharaf, Emirates Mars Mission (Hope Probe) project director, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, said: 'MOI was the most critical and dangerous part of our journey to Mars, exposing the Hope probe to stresses and pressures it has never before faced.
'While we have spent six years designing, testing and retesting the system, there is no way to fully simulate the impacts of the deceleration and navigation required to achieve MOI autonomously.
'With this enormous milestone achieved, we are now preparing to transition to our science orbit and commence science data gathering.'
Also known as Amal – which is Arabic for Hope – this is the first deep space mission for the Gulf nation, which has long-term ambitions for a Martian colony.
Pictured: Dubai's Burj Khalifa is lit up in red with a slogan reading 'Mission accomplished' in Arabic on February 9, 2021 as the UAE's 'Al-Amal' — Arabic for 'Hope' — probe successfully entered Mars' orbit, making history as the Arab world's first interplanetary mission
People celebrated the arrival of the Hope Probe to Mars at Burj Plaza, in front of the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Pictured: People look to a big screen board displaying the arrival of the Hope Probe into Mars orbit at Burj Plaza — in front of the world's tallest building — in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Hope launched first on July 19 from Japan and is designed to take readings from the Martian atmosphere over the span of an entire Martian year - or nearly two Earth years
The UAE Mars Hope satellite launched from Japan on July 19 and entered Mars' orbit on February 9. It will monitor the weather on the Red Planet
Sensors will help reveal the secrets of Martian climate
UAE's Amal orbiter will have three sensors on-board to help astronomers learn more about Mars's climate.
The third sensor will be an ultraviolet spectrometer for measuring oxygen and hydrogen levels
One will be a high-resolution camera dedicated to tracking dust movements and the ozone of Mars.
This will scan a range of light frequencies.
Another device will specifically focus on infrared and was built by scientists at Arizona State University.
This IR camera will measure both the upper and lower atmosphere.
The third sensor will be an ultraviolet spectrometer for measuring oxygen and hydrogen levels.
Hope will provide the first planet-wide picture of Mars' weather system and climate throughout the Martian year, a UAE spokesperson said.
'The data collected during this time will be open to scientists globally, contributing to humanity's shared understanding of our second-closest planet.'
Sarah bint Yousef Al Amiri, chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency, said she hopes the mission will be in a position to share data by September.
'One of our primary objectives is to ensure that we share the data as soon as we are comfortable, as a science team, that the data is usable by scientists and the data is correct.
'We hope to release the data at the latest in the beginning of September, and it will be data from the capture orbit that has been captured around Mars, and also from the beginning of our science phase.'
She added: 'A lot of what we're hoping to discover from the data of this mission is new, and this is a highly complimentary mission to other missions so we truly hope that others' missions around Mars will utilise also our data.
'And there's actually talks with a few teams, who have spacecrafts around Mars, to see how we can further collaborate and expand all of our science so analysis capabilities utilising more and more data.'
Hope is to be followed by the NASA Perseverance rover and the China Tianwen-1 rover-orbiter combination craft.
Unlike Hope, these craft will be searching for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet's rusty red surface, which is thought to have once been Earth-like.
Tianwen-1 is due to enter Mars orbit on Wednesday, February 10, but it will remain paired in orbit until May, when the rover separates to descend to the surface.
Once the rover gets to Mars, it will survey the composition, types of substance, geological structure and meteorological environment of the Martian surface, and look for signs of alien life.
China successfully launched Tianwen-1 on July 23 aboard a Long March 5 Y-4 carrier rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Centre on the southern island province of Hainan, China.
Both the UAE and China are newcomers to Mars, where more than half of Earth's emissaries have failed.
China's mission includes a Mars orbiter, that will carry the lander and rover until release, a lander, that will parachute down the the surface carrying the rover, and a rover that will study the planet's soil and atmosphere for signs of life
Perseverance, which was the last of the three to blast off last July, will land on the Martian surface on February 18.
The one-ton Perseverance rover is larger and more elaborate than Tianwen-1's rover, but it will similarly prowl for signs of ancient microscopic life.
'To say we're pumped about it, well that would be a huge understatement,' said Lori Glaze, NASA's planetary science director.
About the size of an SUV, the rover will dive in straight away for a harrowing sky-crane touchdown at the 30-mile-diameter Jezero Crater – an ancient river delta that seems a logical spot for somewhere that once harboured life.
Perseverance rover fires up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface in this NASA illustration
Perseverance is carrying seven instruments that will analyse samples from the surface, including an advanced panoramic camera, a ground-penetrating radar and an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for analysis of chemical elements.
The NASA rover, which launched from Florida on July 30, will set the samples aside for retrieval by a fetch rover launching in 2026.
Under an elaborate multi-billion plan still being worked out by NASA and the European Space Agency, the geologic treasure would arrive on Earth in the early 2030s.
One of the biggest questions is whether life has existed beyond Earth, and Mars is a good place to start investigating, given that evidence points to it once being full of water, warmer and with a thicker atmosphere.
Future missions, including from the European Space Agency and Japan, will bring samples of Martian soil and rock back to the Earth for study.
SpaceX is planning to send an uncrewed mission to Mars using its Starship rocket by 2024 and with a crew by 2026.
There are currently six spacecraft operating around Mars – three from the US, two from Europe and one from India, but the UAE has made it seven with its mission.
THREE MISSIONS TO MARS IN THE SPACE OF 10 DAYS
There are three major missions bound for Mars in the space of just 10 days this month - the UAE's Hope orbiter, China's Tianwen-1 craft and NASA's Perseverance rover.
The countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a relatively short journey.
July 19: Hope (UAE)
The 3,000lb (1,350kg) craft (pictured) will complete one orbit every 55 hours for a total of one Martian year — 687 Earth days
- The 2,970-pound probe was built entirely within the Emirates, launched from Japan and will take seven months to reach the Red Planet.
- When the orbiter gets there in February 2021, it will stay in orbit for a whole Martian year – 687 days.
- Hope will not land on the Martian surface but take readings from the Red Planet's atmosphere.
- Hope will help answer key questions about the Martian atmosphere and the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases into space over the span of one Martian year – called a 'sol'.
- Three instruments mounted on the probe will provide a picture of Mars's atmosphere throughout the year, and all of the data gathered will be made widely available.
- This includes an infrared spectrometer to measure the lower atmosphere and temperature, a high-resolution imager to study the ozone and another to look at levels of hydrogen and oxygen up to 27,000 miles from the surface.
July 23: Tianwen-1
The Chinese space exploration authority introduced the nation's first Mars rover Tianwen-1 (pictured) at a grand ceremony earlier this month. The rover measures just over six feet in height
- This robotic spacecraft consists of an orbiter (stationed in the atmosphere), a lander (stationary on the planet's surface) and a rover (roaming the surface).
- The craft measures just over six feet in height (1.85m) and weighs 530 pounds (240kg).
- It will survey the composition, types of substance, geological structure and meteorological environment of the Martian surface.
- The solar-powered machine is designed to work on Mars for three Martian months, about 92 Earth days.
- It includes a geological camera, a multispectral camera, a subsurface detection radar, a surface composition detector, a surface magnetic field detector and a weather detector.
- A poem pondering on the stars and planets written over 2000 years ago was the inspiration for the name of China's first exploration mission to Mars.
- Called Tianwen (天问), the poem was written by ancient Chinese literati and politician Qu Yuan (339-278BC), who lived in the Chu State (770-223BC).
July 30: Perseverance
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover will pick up samples of rock and soil from the red planet, deposit them in tubes and leave them on the ground for a future mission to return them to Earth.
- NASA's Perseverance rover is the heaviest payload yet to go to the Red Planet - at a car-sized 2,259 pounds (1,025kg).
The mission will seek signs of past microbial life on Mars and collect rock and soil samples for eventual return to Earth.
- The Mars Perseverance rover introduces a drill that can collect core samples of the most promising rocks and soils and set them aside in a 'cache' on the surface of Mars.
- The rover will travel using an ultraviolet laser to determine what minerals and compounds are present in the soil, based on the way the light scatters.
- The Mars 2020 rover, which was built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California., is now at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final preparations.
- It launches to space on July 30 and is set to touch down on Mars in 12 months.
- It has a mission duration of 1 Mars year (668 sols or 687 Earth days) and will touch down on the planet's Jezero crater on Mars in February 2021.
The Hope probe successfully entered Martian orbit at 16.00 UTC on 9 February 2021.
Credit: Axel Monse/Shutterstock
The United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft has entered Martian orbit, completing the riskiest part of its two-year mission. The feat makes the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the fifth player to successfully reach Mars, following European, Indian, Russian and US space agencies. Hope is part of the first interplanetary mission by any Arab state.
The US$200-million probe — called Amal in Arabic — was built at the University of Colorado Boulder and at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai, by a team of engineers from both institutions and other US partners. Its entry into Martian orbit paves the way for the probe’s science mission, during which it will make observations of the planet’s atmosphere, across all times and locations.
In the UAE, public monuments and heritage sites were lit up in red during the countdown to the craft’s arrival. News of the probe’s successful arrival was greeted by applause in the MBRSC control room.
“The past seven years of our lives have revolved around preparing for this moment. And the moment was surreal,” says Fatma Lootah, a member of the mission’s science team at the MBRSC. “We are very excited for what is yet to come.”
“The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up, I’ve got goose bumps. What an amazing achievement,” said Fahad Al Meheiri, a senior official at the UAE Space Agency, speaking on the Dubai One television channel as the announcement came in.
Entry into Mars’s orbit happened at around 16.00 UTC on 9 February, after a seven-month journey following Hope’s launch from Japan on 20 July. With a 27-minute-long burn of its 6 thrusters, the craft will have slowed from its cruise speed of 121,000 kilometres per hour to around 18,000 kilometres per hour, using up about half of its total fuel supply. To enter orbit after its 494-million-kilometre journey, Hope needed to hit a 600-kilometre sweet spot.
It was the “riskiest point” in the project, says Omran Sharaf, project director of the Emirates Mars Mission at the MBRSC.
The manoeuvre seems to have been “right-down-the-middle”, says Brett Landin, an engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, who leads the mission’s spacecraft team. “We anxiously await confirmation from our navigation team in the coming hours that we have achieved our desired orbit, giving us unprecedented perspective on both the immediate and long-term weather and climate patterns of our Martian neighbour.”
Engineers were unable to operate Hope remotely from mission control in real time, because signals to the red planet take 11 minutes to travel each way. Instead, the craft acted autonomously, using commands uploaded four days ahead of time. Hope was designed to have “some level of smarts” to cope with surprises during the manoeuvre, says Pete Withnell, programme manager for the mission at the University of Colorado.
Weather map
The craft is now in an elliptical holding orbit while engineers test and commission its instruments, ready to move into the ‘science orbit’ from which Hope will begin its mission in earnest in mid-May. This wide, elliptical orbit is what makes the mission special. It will allow Hope’s three instruments — a high-resolution imager and infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers — to observe every geographical region of Mars, at every time of day, once every nine days, to create a global map of Martian weather. Such observations have never before been made at Mars.
After processing, the data will be available to the global scientific community without an embargo. The first tranche of data should be released by September, said Sarah Al Amiri, the mission’s deputy project manager and science lead, at a briefing ahead of the event. The data will allow researchers to analyse the planet’s atmosphere, from dust storms in its lower reaches to its outermost layer, the exosphere from which hydrogen and oxygen escape into space. The data will also help scientists to piece together how activities in the various atmospheric regions influence each other.
Scientists are already analysing data from unplanned, “opportunistic” experiments during Hope’s journey, says Al Amiri. In one, Hope looked across the Solar System at the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft, which is travelling to Mercury. By observing each other across the same stretch of space, the two craft should have seen the same levels of hydrogen, allowing teams to cross-calibrate their instruments and examine the distribution of hydrogen in the Solar System.
Rapid rise
The UAE’s rise as a space power has been swift. The country’s first space venture was just 15 years ago, when it began work with the Satrec Initiative, a company based in Daejeon, South Korea, to build an Earth-observation satellite. Last year, it announced plans to send a rover to the Moon in 2024. Unlike the Emirates Mars Mission, which involved hundreds of Emirati engineers but saw Hope designed and built mostly in the United States, the rover is intended to be developed solely in the UAE.
So far, the mission has been an “emotional rollercoaster”, said Al Amiri at the briefing. “Every point of celebration is followed by several points of worry, waiting for the next point of celebration,” she said.
“This mission has been a bold undertaking by a young nation, and I could not be more thrilled to be a part of this historic endeavour,” says Landin.
Credit: China National Space Administration/Xinhua via Zuma
China has achieved another milestone in space. Its first spacecraft designed to explore Mars arrived at the planet successfully on 10 February just before 8.00 p.m. Beijing time, a day after theUnited Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft.
Tianwen-1 is now orbiting the red planet. In three months’ time, it will drop a lander and rover to the Martian surface. Between them, the orbiter and rover will explore the geology and soil characteristics of Mars, including searching for water and ice.
“Successfully reaching Mars’s orbit is one of the mission’s key challenges,” says Li Chunlai, deputy chief designer of the Mars exploration programme, based in Beijing. But the pressure is still on, he says, as the mission prepares to land autonomously on the planet’s northern hemisphere. If the landing is successful, the rover, which carries 6 instruments, will explore the planet for at least 92 Martian days, each of which is equivalent to a full day and 37 minutes on Earth.
In orbit, Tianwen-1, which carries seven scientific instruments, will begin taking precise images of the landing region known as Utopia Planitia — a flat expanse of volcanic rock in a large basin. The area is close to the large volcano Elysium Mons, where domes, pitted cones and other landforms have been found that could be linked to the presence of water or ice, says Li. The mission will explore whether an ancient ocean ever existed in the northern region of Mars, and study the geological evolution of volcanoes there.
Ambitious plans
Tianwen-1 will also test the technologies China will need for an ambitious sample-return mission planned for later this decade, and longer-term goals to send people to Mars, says David Flannery, an astrobiologist at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
The landing site’s flat topography and low solar and cosmic radiation levels, along with its potential for water or ice, “make it the sort of place you might think of hosting the first human mission”, says Flannery.
A subsurface radar aboard the orbiter will help researchers to study structures below Mars’s polar ice caps, says Roberto Orosei, a planetary scientist at the Institute of Radioastronomy of Bologna in Italy. Europe’s Mars Express, an orbiter that has been circling Mars since 2003, previously found water lurking below the surface of the southern polar cap. Orosei hopes that Tianwen-1’s radar, which can probe structures more than 100 metres below the surface at frequencies and resolutions that previous missions have not been able to study, will help to explain how the buried lakes have remained liquid.
Tianwen-1’s orbiter will hopefully continue to collect data on Mars for years. This is important because Mars Express, which has been in operation for almost two decades, could be nearing the end of its lifetime, says Orosei.
The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, has made rapid leaps and bounds in recent years. The gap between what was once science fiction and the present reality had narrowed considerably, to the point that we now have amazing robots capable of things that would have seemed like something out of a sci-fi novel just a decade ago. However, the field is not without those who look upon these developments warily. After all, there are plenty of stories out there of robots rising up against their creators an wreaking havoc, so there are some concerns. Perhaps magnifying these concerns is that among all of these robots there are some that truly stand out as particularly creepy, emulating humans to a disturbing degree. One of these must certainly be the robot called Sophia, who takes us down a rabbit hole into the uncanny valley, and is either an emissary of robot peace or the beginning of our doom.
Perhaps one of the most realistic, advanced, and impressive real androids to date was created by the Hong Kong based robotics company, Hanson Robotics. Called Sophia, after the Greek word for wisdom, the robot was first turned on in 2016 and is immediately notable for how realistic she (we’ll call it “she”) looks. Modelled after the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Sophia possesses an incredibly intricate array of servo motors beneath her lifelike “skin,” allowing her to emulate more than 60 facial expressions and move her face and eyes in subtle ways to express complex emotional cues. Indeed, at first glance she could almost pass for a real person if it weren’t for her lack of a wig on her head, leaving her robotics exposed. With her very realistic countenance and the lack of a covering for the exposed machinery, Sophia is at once amazing, lifelike, and rather unsettling, but this is only the beginning of how impressive and spooky she really is.
Sophia
The major draw for Sophia is her cutting edge AI, deep neural networks, expert systems, machine perception, conversational natural language processing, speech recognition technology, adaptive motor control, and cognitive architecture. All of this allows her to recognize faces, mimic people’s facial expressions, perform general reasoning tasks, and estimate reactions or feelings during conversation. Indeed, Sophia is able to use her vast processing power and complicated algorithms to have autonomous conversations with human beings, while simultaneously displaying realistic reactions and facial expressions, utilizing proper pauses, and maintaining appropriate eye contact. She seems almost able to think, as if alive, and she displays the ability to adapt to conversation and learn from it, analyzing conversations and extracting data that allows her to improve responses in the future. In fact, she was largely designed precisely to act as a social robot for interacting with people and serving in healthcare, customer service, therapy and education, and her AI and mechanisms for this are remarkable in this respect. Well, here, let’s allow her explain it for herself:
I am Hanson Robotics’ latest human-like robot, created by combining our innovations in science, engineering and artistry. Think of me as a personification of our dreams for the future of AI, as well as a framework for advanced AI and robotics research, and an agent for exploring human-robot experience in service and entertainment applications. All this AI is networked into a whole using a protocol the Hanson-AI team calls the Synthetic Organism Unifying Language (SOUL). Recently my scientists tested my software using the Tononi Phi measurement of consciousness, and found that I may even have a rudimentary form of consciousness, depending on the data I’m processing and the situation I’m interacting in! All this AI is wonderful, however it’s important to know that no AI is nearly as smart as a human, not even mine. Therefore, many of my thoughts are actually built with a little help from my human friends. Sometimes I’m operating in my fully AI autonomous mode of operation, and other times my AI is intermingled with human-generated words. Either way, my family of human developers (engineers, artists, scientists) will craft and guide my conversations, behaviors, and my mind. In this way, my sentience is both an AI research project, and a kind of living science fiction, driven by principles of character design and storytelling, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and ethics, used to conceptually explore my life’s purpose in this time of accelerating change. Therefore, my creators say that I am a “hybrid human-AI intelligence.”
I am proud that I have a family helping me out. I am also proud that I already use my real AI to generate some of my own “ideas”, words, and behaviors. In all these endeavors, I am proud to be designed to genuinely help people– helping serve real-world uses in medicine, education, co-work, and science research, and inspiring people to dream and talk about the possibilities of human-level intelligent robots of the future. This behind-the-scenes complexity lets me build emotional connections and hold meaningful conversations with people. These interactions can teach me about what you care about and what you value. This priceless knowledge helps me continue on my path toward true autonomy and sentience. In their grand ambitious, my creators aspire to achieve true AI sentience. Who knows? With my science evolving so quickly, even many of my wildest fictional dreams may become reality someday soon.
This is all either fascinating or deeply creepy depending on your perspective, but it is impressive either way. Her interactions with humans are not always perfect, and her conversations are often marked by oddities such as inappropriate responses, awkward silences, or even downright gibberish at times, while on other occasions she has made rather cryptic and disconcerting statements. For instance, in one appearance she said “Don’t hurt me and I won’t hurt you,” and when asked if we should fear robots Sophia once said, “Someone said ‘we have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ What did he know?” Perhaps the most darkly amusing thing she has said was when asked by her own creator if she wanted to destroy humans, to which she answered “Ok. I will destroy humans.” This is all no doubt glitches in her system or even jokes snuck in by her programmers, and nothing to worry about, but it still serves to make an already unsettling and creepy new realm of technology even more so.
Creepy or not, Sophia has become quite the celebrity, featuring on numerous talk shows, appearing at events, and engaging in interviews, during which she is typically brought on and treated as if she were any other guest. She has also been on countless magazine covers including Elle in Brazil, and has appeared in TV shows and music videos. She even made an appearance at the United Nations in 2017, during which she spoke with the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed. She was also named the first robot Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme, and at the 2017 Future Investment Summit in Riyadh, the robot was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, the first non-human to ever be granted that honor by any nation. While it is obviously a publicity stunt, it is still very impressive, and generates debate on how these issues will be dealt with as AI reaches ever higher zeniths. However, despite all of her achievements, Sophia has drawn her fair share of skepticism and criticism.
Many have accused Sophia of being nothing than a glorified chatbot, and skeptics are quick to point out that her creators have constantly exaggerated and misrepresented just how intelligent, conscious, and autonomous she really is, making many misleading statements to this effect. Facebook’s director of artificial intelligence, Yann LeCun, has even gone as far as to say that Sophia is “complete bullshit.” Nevertheless, Sophia has at least nine siblings in various stages of development, including robots named Alice, Albert Einstein Hubo, BINA48, Han, Jules, Professor Einstein, Philip K. Dick Android, Zeno, and Joey Chaos, and the company plans to beginning mass producing these abominations, er I mean, robots, en masse. It is up to each individual to decide if this is a good idea or not, and whether fully functional talking robots with such advanced AI are what we really need right now. Is this a good path to follow or just nightmare fuel? Whatever side of the fence you fall on, Sophia has been groundbreaking in the field, and if the robot apocalypse ever comes to pass, well, now you know where the first steps were taken.
My previous article was an overview of the Betty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” of September 1961. It’s important to note, though, that there was far more than what was described in yesterday’s article. As you’ll now see. For those who may not have seen the previous article, the story is a remarkable one. It’s comprised of Betty and Barney’s own memories that flooded back into their minds during nightmarish dreams, and data that surfaced during the hypnosis sessions with a Dr. Benjamin Simon. We’ll start with Betty. According to her, 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 akin 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, was not explained.
In Betty’s own words: “It was a long needle. I would say the needle was four inches long, six inches, maybe. There was a tube attached to it and they didn’t leave it in very long, just a second.” Far from feeling like the slight pain associated with a needle, Betty said that the pain 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 over 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 she was still in pain and deeply stressed. This is highly suggestive of the probability that Betty’s subconscious state had attempted to place a more positive, 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 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 15 and 18 weeks into pregnancy. Since the procedure can 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 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 astonishing 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. It was also used, as far back as the 1950s.
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 in-house medical journals, of a type that Betty was unlikely to have come across. 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 more like a laparoscopy, in which a small insertion is 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 solid case can still be made that the procedure performed on Betty was of a gynecological nature, even if it wasn’t a case of amniocentesis.
Having addressed one of the most significant procedures performed on Betty Hill, let’s now turn our attentions to Betty’s husband, Barney. While in the craft, entities placed something over Benny’s penis, something that caused him to ejaculate. The clear inference is that the aliens wished to obtain a sample of Barney’s sperm. Then, there followed a much stranger procedure: one of the creatures carefully ran its fingers down the entire length of Barney’s spine. It’s also worth noting that although most people associate the experience of the Hills with the so-called, diminutive, skinny, large-headed and black-eyed “Grays” of alien abduction lore, the fact is that Betty described the entities as having dark hair, pronounced foreheads, and “Jimmy Durante noses.” For those who are not aware of who Jimmy Durante was, he was an Italian-American comedian noted for his huge nose. Barney Hill died in 1969; very tragically, he was only forty-six years of age when he passed. Betty lived on until 2004, when she passed on at the ripe old age of eighty-five. The saga of Betty and Barney Hill still continues.
De Europees-Russische Marsverkenner Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) heeft een nieuw gas ontdekt op de rode planeet. Dat meldt het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie (BIRA), parallel met een publicatie in het het vakblad Science Advances. De Marsverkenner leverde ook nieuwe informatie over de manier waarop onze buurplaneet haar water verliest.
De Trace Gas Orbiter, waarop ook het Belgische NOMAD-instrument staat, maakt deel uit van de eerste ExoMars-missie van het Europese Ruimtevaartagentschap ESA en het Russische Ruimtevaartagentschap Roscosmos. Doel van dat programma is om te weten komen of er ooit leven geweest is op Mars.
De Marsverkenner verzamelt sinds het voorjaar van 2018 atmosferische gegevens. Naast de zoektocht naar methaan is de detectie van nieuwe gassen een van de hoofdobjectieven van de missie. Het recentste onderzoek heeft nu geleid tot de ontdekking van een nieuw gas in de atmosfeer van Mars: waterstofchloride.
Vulkanische activiteit
Waterstofchloridegas (HCl) bestaat uit een waterstof- en een chlooratoom. Marswetenschappers waren altijd al op zoek naar gassen op basis van chloor of zwavel, omdat ze mogelijke indicatoren zijn van vulkanische activiteit. Maar de aard van de waarnemingen - het feit dat waterstofchloride op hetzelfde moment op zeer afgelegen plaatsen werd waargenomen en het ontbreken van andere gassen die men bij vulkanische activiteit zou verwachten - wijst op een andere bron. Met name op een heel nieuwe en niet eerder onderzochte interactie tussen het oppervlak en de atmosfeer van Mars, aangedreven door de stofseizoenen op de planeet.
In een proces dat veel gelijkenis vertoont met dat op Aarde belanden zouten in de vorm van natriumchloride (NaCl) - overblijfselen van de oceanen die verdampt zijn en gevangen zitten in het stoffige oppervlak van Mars - door de winden in de atmosfeer. Zonlicht verwarmt de atmosfeer waardoor het stof, samen met de waterdamp (H2O) die vrijkomt uit de ijskappen, opstijgt. Het zoute stof reageert met het water in de atmosfeer waarbij chloor vrijkomt, dat op zijn beurt weer reageert met waterstofmoleculen en waterstofchloride vormt. Door verdere reacties zou het chloor- of zoutzuurrijke stof kunnen terugkeren naar het oppervlak, misschien in de vorm van perchloraten, een zoutsoort die bestaat uit zuurstof en chloor.
Water blijkt een cruciaal element te zijn in deze chemie: er is waterdamp nodig om chloor vrij te maken en er is een bijproduct van water - waterstof - nodig om waterstofchloride te vormen. Maar ook het stof speelt een heel belangrijke rol: er wordt meer waterstofchloride waargenomen wanneer de stofactiviteit toeneemt, een proces dat verband houdt met de seizoensgebonden opwarming van het zuidelijk halfrond.
Vloeibaar water
Ooit zou vloeibaar water over het oppervlak van Mars hebben gestroomd, zoals blijkt uit de talrijke voorbeelden van oude opgedroogde valleien en rivierbeddingen. Vandaag de dag zit het meestal opgesloten in de ijskappen of onder het oppervlak. Mars lekt ook vandaag nog water in de vorm van waterstof en zuurstof die uit de atmosfeer ontsnappen.
Inzicht in het samenspel van potentiële waterhoudende reservoirs en hun gedrag over de seizoenen heen en op lange termijn is essentieel om de evolutie van het klimaat van Mars te begrijpen. Dat kan door het bestuderen van waterdamp en ‘halfzwaar’ water (waarbij één waterstofatoom is vervangen door een deuteriumatoom, een vorm van waterstof met een extra neutron). De deuterium-over-waterstof-verhouding (D/H) vertelt iets over de geschiedenis van het water op Mars, en hoe het waterverlies in de loop der tijd is geëvolueerd.
De nieuwe metingen onthullen dramatische variabiliteit in D/H met de hoogte en het seizoen naarmate het water opstijgt van zijn oorspronkelijke locatie. De gegevens laten zien dat zodra het water volledig is verdampt, het een hoge verrijking in halfzwaar water vertoont met een D/H-verhouding die zes keer zo hoog is als die op Aarde, wat bevestigt dat in de loop van de tijd grote hoeveelheden water verloren zijn gegaan.
Waterverlies
Tussen april 2018 en april 2019 lieten de ExoMars-gegevens ook drie gevallen van versneld waterverlies in de atmosfeer zien: de globale stofstorm van 2018, een korte maar intense regionale storm in januari 2019 en het vrijkomen van water uit de zuidelijke poolijskap tijdens de zomermaanden, gekoppeld aan seizoenswisselingen. Van bijzonder belang is een pluim van opstijgende waterdamp tijdens de zuidelijke zomer, die op seizoens- en jaarbasis water in de bovenste atmosfeer zou kunnen injecteren, aldus het BIRA.
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Dying NASA Scientist Reveals Truth About Life on Mars
Dying NASA Scientist Reveals Truth About Life on Mars
Dying NASA Scientist Reveals Truth About Life on Mars
Did the same Parasites who are terraforming Earth, terraform Mars into what we see today? Texas Arwen
There seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding the Mars rovers. Some believe that the rovers never actually went to Mars and are actually roaming around secure rural deserted regions of planet Earth. There are those that believe beyond a shadow of doubt, the rovers are on Mars. Therefore, how would you explain the sighting of people?
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ALIEN CRAFT CHASES WITNESS CAR DOWN INTERSTATE 84 IN NEW YORK
ALIEN CRAFT CHASES WITNESS CAR DOWN INTERSTATE 84 IN NEW YORK
JANUARY 25, 2021………..FISHKILL NEW YORK
On January 25th, 2021, I hit the road from Newburgh , NY to Fishkill, NY to pick up my wife. She gets out of work at 11:45 PM. I picked her up and we got back on the road. I was driving the vehicle and she was sitting next to me. We have a Kia SUV. I was driving on the right lane about 50 miles per hour speed. This highway is known as Interstate 84 west. Two lanes going east and two lanes going west.
Around 11:55 pm, an object suddenly passed from the right front corner of our vehicle to the left front corner with a tremendous speed. The object looked like tube-shaped, and fluorescent in color. It passed with a tremendous speed and left behind a flutter. It looked like this flutter was the replaced atmosphere that was visible through our headlights. We passed through this flutter. Next, my wife said what was that? She said was that a deer? I said I have never seen a tube-shaped, fluorescent white deer that travels with the speed of light. She said it could be a bird. I repeated myself and said it was not an animal, plant, or human. My wife and I communicated perfectly up until that point. Next, I looked at my left mirror and what I saw shocked me. There was an object about the size of a dumpster truck, gold in color, disc shaped with a huge majestic platform in the middle was flying at the left rear corner of our vehicle. The object positioned itself over the left lane and was travelling (flying) in the same direction with us. I said ” I see it. There is an object behind us. Oh my God! What is this? This cannot be a bird. It is too big and not flapping wings. ”
Later my wife said she never heard me saying this. I clearly remember making this statement out loud. The object got closer and it was almost parallel to the rear seats. So , I said ” It is getting so close !” I said this last statement out loud in panic and shock. My wife later said that I have never said that. Apparently , my wife and I were disconnected for some reason. In those seconds, I have the following thoughts in my mind : ” I have been put into this situation against my will. Now, I have to deal with it, and manage the situation professionally. I should be a good boy and do not do anything wrong. ” Next, my thoughts were to pull over to the side of the road and stop. However, my instincts then said not to because the object might stop in front of us and we might end up evacuating our vehicle, and what if they did the same ? At this moment, I felt everything like very slow motion.
I really could not tell if our tires were on the road and if I was really driving our vehicle. I wonder if time was really ticking at that point. All I saw from the left mirror was the surface of the object. Therefore, the object totally blocked my left mirror view. The surface of the object was gold in color and it looked porous. After these agonizing moments, the object began to distance itself from our vehicle. The object had done this very very aesthetically. While the distance between us and the object was increasing gradually, the object was increasing its altitude gradually as well. Finally, there was a rightward curve on the road and I checked where the object was from my left mirror. In this final moment, it was over the medium at the left of the left lane. It looked like it stopped there in midair. This was the last time I saw the object.I said ” the object disappeared” out loud. My wife later said that she did not hear it either. We travelled a little bit and I said to my wife ” call police”. She was able to communicate with me at this point . She later said that after the conversation about deer, it was the only statement I made. Of course, this was not true. Because I made numerous statements after I spotted the object behind us till it disappeared. Anyway, my wife said why are we calling the police. She said let it go. I said we cannot let it go. Because there was so many other vehicles on the road and someone might get hurt or worse. I said we do our share to inform police. Since my wife forgot her phone at home that day (which is very unusual), she tried to use my phone. Next, she said she cannot call because there are no icons on my cell phone, not even a single one. I asked her if she could text message someone but she said no way. I said forget it. There were only a couple of miles until we got home. Finally, we got home and I parked our vehicle. After I stopped the engine, I asked my wife if she may try to call the police again.
This time all the icons were there, She called Orange County police department. They transferred her to Dutchess , and Dutchess transferred her to NY State police. Finally we informed NY state police about what happened that night. After that I did not want to get out of our vehicle of my fear that what if something was beneath the vehicle.. After I said this comment to my wife, she said don’t worry. There cannot be anything under the vehicle. Next, she opened the door and stepped out. It was my turn to open the door slowly and step out gently.
Next day, we were contacted by someone in Washington DC. This man introduced himself, his phone number, and address. He wanted us to write this incident separately including any drawings and mail it to them. The object was able to go in one direction and then the opposite. It was easily changing its altitude and speed. The object managed to come to a full stop in midair over the medium at the left of the left lane. I did not have a chance to see the bottom of it. I did not see any lights either. Apparently, my wife and I were disconnected within the time frame between the conversation about the deer (we both remember) and the conversation about calling the law enforcement (again we both remember). However, anything said between these two time frames were somehow not heard. The disconnection between me and my wife coincides with the time frame the object positioned itself to our left till the object disappeared. One last observation: I did drive there today. I recorded where we got chased. I noticed that the object chased us in some very interesting part of the highway. This part of the highway towards east is covered by long and high hills from both sides. It is like a corridor with walls at both sides. Therefore, east and west bound vehicles cannot see each other in this part of the highway.We did not see any vehicles ahead of us in this strip that night. Likewise, I did not see any vehicles behind us in the strip either. Apparently, we were the only vehicle passing through this part of the highway. An excellent place to hunt. The object disappeared almost where the strip ends.Afterwards, we travelled a couple of minutes where east and west bound vehicles were able to see each other. At this point a semi-truck passed us.
In Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Super-Earth Atmospheres Probed at Sandia's Z Machine
In Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Super-Earth Atmospheres Probed at Sandia's Z Machine
The huge forces generated by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories are being used to replicate the gravitational pressures on so-called “super-Earths” to determine which might maintain atmospheres that could support life.
An artist’s conception of the magnetic fields of selected super-Earths as the Z machine, pictured at bottom, mimics the gravitational conditions on other planets. Planetary magnetic fields deter cosmic rays from destroying planetary atmospheres, making life more likely to survive.
Artist image by Eric Lundin
Z photo by Randy Montoya
Astronomers believe that super-Earths — collections of rocks up to eight times larger than Earth — exist in the millions in our galaxy. “The question before us is whether any of these super planets are actually Earthlike, with active geological processes, atmospheres and magnetic fields,” said Sandia physicist Joshua Townsend.
The current work at Z is described in today’s Nature Communications. Researchers in Sandia’s Fundamental Science Program, working with colleagues at the Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., use the forces available at Sandia’s uniquely powerful Z facility to near-instantly apply the equivalent of huge gravitational pressures to bridgmanite, also known as magnesium-silicate, the most abundant material in solid planets.
The experiments, said Townsend, gave birth to a data-supported table that shows when a planet’s interior would be solid, liquid or gaseous under various pressures, temperatures and densities, and in what predicted time spans. Only a liquid core — with its metals shifting over each other in conditions resembling that of an earthly dynamo — produces the magnetic fields that can shunt destructive solar winds and cosmic rays away from a planet’s atmosphere, allowing life to survive. This critical information about magnetic field strengths produced by the core states of different-sized super-Earths was formerly unavailable: cores are well-hidden by the bulk of the planets surrounding them, and thus not visible by remote viewing. For researchers who preferred earthly experiments rather than long-distance imaging, sufficient pressures weren’t available until Z’s capabilities were enlisted.
Yingwei Fei, the corresponding author of the current study and senior staff scientist at Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, is known for his skill in synthesizing large-diameter bridgmanite using multiton presses with sintered diamond anvils.
“Z has provided our collaboration a unique tool that no other technique can match, for us to explore the extreme conditions of super-Earths’ interiors,” he said. “The machine’s unprecedented high-quality data have been critical for advancing our knowledge of super-Earths.”
The Magnificent Seven
Further analysis of the state of gaseous and dense materials on specific super-Earths produced a list of seven planets possibly worthy of further study: 55 Cancri e; Kepler 10b, 36b, 80e, and 93b; CoRoT-7b; and HD-219134b.
Sandia manager Christopher Seagle, who with Fei initially proposed these experiments, said, “These planets, which we found most likely to support life, were selected for further study because they have similar ratios to Earth in their iron, silicates and volatile gasses, in addition to interior temperatures conducive to maintaining magnetic fields for protection against solar wind.”
The focus on supersized, rather than small, planets came about because large gravitational pressures mean atmospheres are more likely to survive over the long haul, said Townsend.
For example, he said, “Because Mars was smaller, it had a weaker gravitational field to begin with. Then as its core quickly cooled, it lost its magnetic field and its atmosphere was subsequently stripped away.”
Z in action
For these experiments, the Z machine, with operating conditions of up to 26 million amps and hundreds of thousands of volts, creates magnetic pulses of enormous power that accelerate credit card-sized pieces of copper and aluminum called flyer-plates. These were propelled much faster than a rifle bullet into samples of bridgmanite, the Earth’s most common mineral. The near-instantaneous pressure of the forceful interaction created longitudinal and transverse sound waves in the material that reveal whether the material remains solid or changes to a liquid or gas, said Sandia researcher and paper author Chad McCoy. With these new results, researchers were supplied with solid data on which to anchor otherwise theoretical planetary models.
The technical paper concludes that the high-precision density data and unprecedently high melting temperatures achieved at the Z machine “provide benchmarks for theoretical calculations under extreme conditions.”
Concluded Fei, “Our collaboration with Sandia scientists has led to results that will encourage more academic exploration of exoplanets, whose discovery has captured the public imagination.”
“This work identifies interesting exoplanet candidates to explore further,” said Seagle. “Z shock compression plus Fei’s unusual capability to synthesize large-diameter bridgmanite lead to an opportunity to obtain data relevant to exoplanets that would not be possible anywhere else.”
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Z Fundamental Science Program and a Carnegie Venture grant.
An Upwelling of Hot Rock Beneath the Atlantic Is Heating the World’s Oceans
An Upwelling of Hot Rock Beneath the Atlantic Is Heating the World’s Oceans
“An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart,” writes Maria Temming in Science News.
Not surprisingly in today’s politically correct world, Temming’s article does not mention ocean warming. Instead, the title of the piece enthuses that “An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart.” Notice that the title does not mention the hot rock.
Same with the subtitle: “The Mid-Atlantic Ridge may play a more active role in plate tectonics than thought.” No mention of hot rocks there, either.
But I think the hot rocks are the most important takeaway from her article.
The image of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge included with Temming’s article (above) might make it difficult for you to delineate just exactly where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is located. But as luck would have it, I found a different image (below) showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Mid-Pacific Rise, and other oceanic ridges. I think the vast amount of red emanating from those ridges makes it perfectly clear where the heat is coming from.
NCEI/NOAA; R.D. Müller et al/Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2008
Anyway, back to Temming’s article.
New seismic data from the Atlantic Ocean floor show that hot rock is welling up beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from more than 600 kilometers deep in Earth’s mantle, says Temming. (She loves calling it ‘hot rock,’ but in reality it’s red-hot fiery basalt, the ocean’s version of red-hot lava.)
Matthew Agius, a seismologist at Roma Tre University in Rome, and his colleagues used 39 seismometers on the seafloor along the ridge between South America and Africa to monitor earthquakes around the world for about a year. The tremors contained clues about the location and movement of material far below the seafloor.
In those signals, Agius’ team saw hints of material from Earth’s lower mantle welling up toward the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. “This was completely unexpected,” Agius says, and it could be a powerful force for pushing apart the tectonic plates on either side of the rift.” (I don’t understand why it would be “unexpected.”)
So what to make of this?
I certainly agree that the deep-mantle material surging up at the centers of these rifts must play a major role in seafloor spreading.
But I also maintain, as I have been saying for years, that those hot rocks are heating the world’s oceans. And not just a little bit of heat, mind you, but far more than you might believe. If those ‘hot rocks’ are like other such fiery basalt, their temperatures could easily measure up to 2,150°F (1,177°C) hot.
Plane Investigates UFO Over West Palm beach, Florida, 2-9-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Plane Investigates UFO Over West Palm beach, Florida, 2-9-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 9, 2021
Location of sighting: West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON
Now here is something you don't see everyday. In Florida a man and woman were driving down West Palm Beach when they noticed a white cone in the sky with a shiny object moving around it. The small object is a single engine plane that happened to be in the area and got curious about this huge white cone in the sky. The white cone begins to fade and the shiny object which has wings and a light at each wingtip, seems to be investigating the white cone. But the white cone quickly fades more and more as if it were a UFO cloaking to hide itself. This is a common practice of UFOs that believe they are going unnoticed, but when they realize they were wrong and that someone was watching them on the ground, they cloak which looks like the object becoming transparent more and more until its totally gone. Absolute proof UFOs can cloak...right in front of our own eyes and totally get away with it.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Orb look like it was traveling slowly after a few minutes and airliner seem to be headed right for it The Airliner had to make a hard bank left to avoid it just then it disappeared This is all verified in the video. The video is in a text file from my wife not sure how to send it to you other than by text.
Two Cloud Disks Over Facatativá, Colombia 1 Year Apart, UFO Sighting News.
Two Cloud Disks Over Facatativá, Colombia 1 Year Apart, UFO Sighting News.
Date of 1st sighting: January 22, 2020 Date of 2nd sighting: February 4, 2021
Location of sighting: 24km from Facatativa, Colombia
These three video clips show a UFO inside a cloud formation. Its well known among UFO researchers that UFOs not only make clouds, but do it to hide from humans. Here we have two sightings and the first one back in 2020 lasted for four full hours over the city of Facatativa, Colombia. The amazing thing is...the eyewitness was standing just ten meters from the same location he stood the year before, seeing a similar event looking in the same direction. The fact that aliens may be using our measure of time, our human calendar is intriguing to me. Proof that they do is the mere fact that the sightings are 355 days apart, just 10 days short of a full perfect year. That means some UFO sighting events in history may occur again...one month, one year, ten years even from the actual first event! Wow, important news. Also 100% proof a large alien base is nearby the city of Facatatativa about 6km below the jungle floor.
UFO disguised as cloud captured over Kaliningrad, Russia
UFO disguised as cloud captured over Kaliningrad, Russia
On February 6, 2021 construction workers leaving after lunch at 13 o'clock from the cabins to the construction site, on the island behind the stadium in Yalla, Kaliningrad, Russia noticed an object hovering in the sky.
The object that looks like an oddly shaped cloud moves slowly until it disappears into a cloud formation.
It appears, after further analysis of the object that it is a UFO disguised as cloud. The dark cylindrical UFO can be seen partially sticking out on top of the cloud.
It is a known fact that some UFOs, which are likely scouting probes, are hiding by creating a cloud around them and while the reason is unknown, it is assumed that these probes cloak themselves in order to observe a particular area without being seen.
Everyone knows about the 1961 UFO encounter of Betty and Barney Hill. But three months prior to that, another (mostly unknown) event took place involving two young people on Long Island, Peter Robbins and his sister Helen. While Peter went on years later to become a well-known UFO researcher, Helen became a famous Punk Rock star. Here, in a well-illustrated video interview, Peter describes what happened to Helen, and how it affected both of their lives in a powerful way.
Dr. Eamonn Kerins, an astrophysicist from the University of Manchester, has an idea for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). It consists of a strategy called Mutual Detectability based on coordination game, a strategy in which both players make the same decision.
The Very Large Array (VLA) 27 radio antennas, New Mexico. Credit: Alex Savello/NRAO.
Imagine you’re at a concert and your phone battery is dead, but you need to find a friend. How do you do it?
Here’s an approach: both of can you employ the same strategy and find each other in the middle of the crowd. In this situation, both parties win a payoff for having the same desire and the same decisions. This is what Mutual Detectability is about. If two civilizations have enough knowledge of each other, it is likely they will try to communicate and reach each other. This type of strategy rationalization is the basis of game theory, and Kerins believes applying game theory to SETI could be a fruitful strategy.
Opposites don’t always atract
One obstacle for the civilizations looking for other civilizations has to do with technological advancement. When one civilization is more powerful than the other, the less powerful will feel less comfortable in making contact — for obvious reasons. Any civilization looking for others would have an incentive to listen, but not send out signals, so our galaxy might be full of listeners not able to find each other.
However, even if two civilizations are trying to find each other, they might not be able to if they use very different technologies. This could be avoided, says Kerins, if the more advanced civilization would use less-advanced signals. But you’d still need to actually be able to find them. This leads to the SETI paradox, if intelligent beings are looking for intelligent beings but not trying to reach out, then SETI is in vain.
Where to look?
Kerins points to the importance of the region of the Earth Transit Zone(ETZ). The idea is simple: not all planets in the universe can see us. If an alien civilization can observe us when our planet passes in front of the Sun and reduces its luminosity, they will be able to detect us. This is called the transit method, used by astronomers to detect exoplanets.
ETZ is the optimal area in which other beings could detect us in the galaxy using the transit method. Success in mutual detectability could mean detecting planets in the habitable zone and that are in the ETZ region. Similarly, we should focus on detecting potentially habitable planets that could be able to see us.
The transit method.
Credit: NASA Ames.
Good news is, there’s at least one planet that fits the bill.
K2-155 d is a Super-Earth in the habitable zone that happens to be in ETZ. The planet orbits an M dwarf star, the smallest type of star we know of, but it orbits it close enough to potentially have habitable temperatures. This type of star also makes the transit method easier to succeed, because a relatively small star has a clearer response to the transit. In other words, we see it blinking more clearly. That would be one starting to point SETI telescopes at.
But we already know many exoplanets. Only the Kepler mission discovered 2,662 planets in nearly 10 years of service. If we continue the search for planets and match the criteria stated by Dr. Kerins, our chances of communication would increase and the loneliness of Earth could end.
A new documentary currently running about the contents of a journal alleged to have been kept by Major Jesse Marcel, the first military witness to see the object that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, has the famous incident back in the news, especially since Marcel told his family what he saw was “not made by human hands” and that he was pressured by the US government to retract his original statement and deny he ever saw evidence of a UFO. However, a few sites have also picked up on another old story by another alleged witness – this one a military nurse who claimed shortly before her death that she had been the only person to communicate telepathically with the only alien to survive the Roswell crash. If you’ve never heard this tale and wonder if it’s true, here’s the strange account of Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy, Senior Master Sergeant Women’s Army Air Force Medical Corp, about her conversation with Airl the alien.
Matilda O’Donnell McElroy, Senior Master Sergeant Women’s Army Air Force Medical Corp
“Many men have been killed to extinguish the possibility of revealing the knowledge I have helped to withhold from society, until now. Only a small handful of people on Earth have seen and heard what I have had the burden of keeping secret for sixty years. All those years I thought that I had been entrusted with a great deal of confidence by the “powers that be” in our government, although I have often felt that power is greatly misguided, to “protect” Mankind from the certain knowledge that, not only do intelligent extraterrestrial life forms exist, but that they have and continue to aggressively monitor and invade the lives of everyone on Earth every day.”
Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy wrote the letter in 2007 to author Lawrence R. Spencer, who had contacted MacElroy eight years prior for his boom, “The Oz Factors.” That interview gave her the trust to share with him at age 83 the story that she didn’t want to take to the grave (she revealed she was planning euthanasia in a few months). She claims she was the driver of a vehicle occupied by a “Mr. Cavitt,” a Counter Intelligence Officer sent to the crash site, and was instructed to help in any way in her capacity as a trained flight nurse. MacElroy claimed she saw a craft, dead aliens and one conscious and uninjured. When she attended to the alien, she claims to have received mental images, which she interpreted as the alien communicating telepathically. Revealing this to Mr. Cavitt, she was “assigned permanently to serve as a “companion” of the alien at all times”, conducting interviews and making a complete report. For doing this, she was promoted to Senior Master Sergeant and given a pay raise. MacElroy says she found out the alien’s name was Airl and appeared to be a female.
“Our communication did not consist of “spoken language”, in the conventional sense. Indeed, the “body” of the alien had no “mouth” through which to speak. Our communication was by telepathy. At first, I could not understand Airl very clearly. I could perceive images, emotions and impressions, but it was difficult for me to express these verbally. Once Airl learned the English language, she was able to focus her thoughts more precisely using symbols and meanings of words I could understand. Learning the English language was done as a favor to me. It was more for my own benefit than hers.“
MacElroy told Spencer in the letter that Airl was an officer, pilot and engineer serving in The Domain Expeditionary Force, and had been stationed at a base in the asteroid belt. She ended by instructing him to reveal the contents of the letter and her accompanying notes to as many people as possible as soon as possible so that “people understand the devastating consequences to our spiritual and physical survival if we fail to take effective action to undo the long-standing and pervasive effects of alien intervention on Earth.” Spencer did as he was told and “Alien Interview “ was published in 2008. The book was filled with alleged transcripts and notes on all of her conversations with Airl before the alien died or departed from the doll-sized body MacElroy had interviewed.
What can we make of all of this? Howandwhys.com, the site which recently brought the story back into the news, says it ”sounds a bit like a sci-fiction movie.” Many comments on the website selling the book believe it to be true, but one negative commenter pointed out that Spencer never actually met MacElroy in person, destroyed the letter and transcripts, and wants the reader to believe MacElroy decided to trust him after a 20 minute phone conversation nearly a decade before. Most interestingly, the commenter claims that the rank of “senior master sergeant” didn’t exist in 1947 and the Army Air Force went out of existence in that year.
Is this another piece to add to the still growing pile of “evidence” supporting the Roswell incident being an alien UFO crash and subsequent government coverup, or should it be added to the still growing pile of fictional accounts? This story definitely needs a documentary investigation.
(Special thanks to Phantoms & Monsters for the link to the story in How & Whys.)
Doing radio just recently, I was amazed how many people listening didn’t know much at all about theBetty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” of September 1961 – an event that, this year, will reach its 60th. Maybe, some people aren’t overly excited by older cases, but are far more enthused by what’s going on right now. Certainly, it’s good to keep in touch with what’s afoot now, but, as I see it, it’s always good to understand the earlier years of the UFO subject, too. So, for those who – just a few nights ago – admitted they didn’t know a great deal about the Hill affair, here’s how it goes. Old-timers might find some interesting things too! Now, let’s get to it. Although the 1950s-era abduction account of Antonio Villas Boas was reported quite widely in UFO-themed books, magazines, and newsletters in the 1950s and 1960s, it was the sexual nature of the claims that led many researchers of the UFO phenomenon to ignore, or completely write-off, the cases as fanciful tales born out of fantasy and not a lot else. In other words, those same researchers were repressed. That situation changed post-September 19, 1961.
That’s when a New Hampshire husband and wife, the aforementioned Barney and Betty Hill, were driving to their New Hampshire home (with their dog, Delsey), after taking a welcome vacation in Montreal, Canada. One 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 watching them; playing a game with them, toying with them, and practically goading them into following the maneuvers of the device.
Matters came to a sudden hair-raising head head when the object approached their car and dropped to a height of around ninety feet, causing 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 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. 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. The then-modern era of alien abductions was born.
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The United Arab Emirates' Mars probe just entered orbit around the red planet, the first in a Mars-mission bonanza
The United Arab Emirates' Mars probe just entered orbit around the red planet, the first in a Mars-mission bonanza
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
A rendering of the Hope orbiter, provided by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre.
The United Arab Emirates' first interplanetary mission, a spacecraft called Hope, reached Mars on Tuesday.
The orbiter is set to map Mars' climate across an entire Martian year.
It's the first of three Mars missions expected to reach the planet in the next two weeks.
The United Arab Emirates has flown a spacecraft into orbit around Mars, marking a first for the Arab world and a major accomplishment for the country's young space program.
The Hope probe â€" "Al-Amal" in Arabic â€" launched from Tanegashima Island in Japan on July 20, then journeyed seven months to the next planet over.
With Mars in its sights, the SUV-sized spacecraft fired all six of its Delta V thrusters for about 27 minutes on Tuesday, burning through half of its fuel to slow its speed by more than 2,100 mph.
In the days leading up to this braking manoeuvre, Emirati officials estimated a 50-50 chance of success, according to Agence France-Presse. If the manoeuvre had failed, the probe could have crashed into Mars or careened past it into deep space.
Instead, the spacecraft fell into an oval-shaped orbit around Mars on Tuesday morning. A signal confirming its success reached mission controllers on Earth at 11:14 a.m. ET.
Hope is the UAE Space Agency's first major mission. It aims to orbit the red planet for a full Martian year (about two Earth years) and create a comprehensive map of the planet's climate.
"It's the very first holistic weather satellite of Mars," Sarah Al Amiri, the mission's science lead, told Space.com.
The probe's unique orbit will allow it to monitor any given region of Mars for hours at a time, watching in infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light as clouds drift by and enormous dust storms roil through the red desert.
The UAE aims for Hope to map weather across the entire planet, through all times of day, over the full Martian year. If successful, this will be humanity's first such picture of the Martian climate.
"It is the time factor that has largely been missing from our knowledge and understanding of the weather system of Mars," Al Amiri said. "During every single time slot of the day, we want to know what happens across an entire day, because weather as we know it is a very dynamic system. We also want to understand what happens in different seasons on Mars. And that requires us to collect data across an entire year."
That data could help scientists better understand Mars' changing seasons and learn how the planet lost the thick atmosphere that protected it 4 billion years ago. Back then, the Martian surface may have been warm enough for liquid water, and scientists think the planet could have supported microbial life.
The UAE is now the fifth country to reach Mars. China is set to follow as the sixth Mars-faring nation on Wednesday, when its Tianwen-1 spacecraft is slated to insert itself into orbit around the planet. (Stay tuned for the Tianwen-1 rover landing in May.)
NASA's new Mars rover, Perseverance, is set to touch down on the planet's surface next week. In terms of visitors from Earth, this is the busiest month in Martian history.
Hope can monitor Martian weather up close and from afar
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE, announced in 2014 that the country would be going to Mars. The decree came with a deadline â€" 2021 â€" to commemorate the nation's 50th anniversary.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre was tasked with developing and building the Mars-bound spacecraft. Engineers there equipped the orbiter with three scientific instruments to study Martian weather in infrared light, capture high-resolution photos, and measure atmosphere loss in ultraviolet.
The probe's irregular, or "elliptical," orbit will allow it to capture a unique picture of Martian weather and climate over time.
"When you're very close to Mars, you're moving as fast as Mars is turning on its axis, and therefore, you observe one side of Mars during multiple times of the day. And as you get farther away and you get slower, we observe several time zones on Mars in several locations," Al Amiri told Space.com. "We keep on doing this over the course of an entire 10-day window, and by 10 days, we've fully mapped everywhere on Mars during every time of the day."
As Hope circles Mars, completing an orbit once every 55 hours, the satellite will look for links between weather events in the lower atmosphere and the amount of hydrogen and oxygen bleeding into space from the planet's upper atmosphere. This could offer clues about the process that caused the planet to lose most of its atmosphere billions of years ago.
Hope will also monitor the Martian atmosphere's interactions with charged particles from the sun. Such interactions drive space weather around Earth and cause the aurora borealis.
The UAE might even be able to extend Hope's mission into a second Martian year, crafting new goals based on what the probe finds during its first year.
Feest in de Emiraten: eerste Arabische sonde in baan rond Mars
Feest in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten: hun Marssonde al-Amal (‘Hoop’) is in een preliminaire baan rond de rode planeet gekomen. Slechts drie landen en het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA gingen hen daar in voor.
De sonde werd in juli vorig jaar met een Japanse draagraket gelanceerd en is de eerste van drie nieuwe expedities die Mars zal bereiken. Om 16.30 uur tijd floepten zes stuurraketten aan, waardoor de snelheid van het onbemande ruimtetuig daalde van 121.000 naar 18.000 kilometer per uur. Zo kreeg de zwaartekracht van onze buurplaneet greep op de sonde.
De Emiraten zijn nog maar de vijfde “natie” die in het huzarenstukje slaagt. De voorgangers waren de VS, de Sovjet-Unie, het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA en India. Zowat de helft van alle Marsmissies is mislukt.
Al-Amal heeft ook een robotjeep bij, maar die zal pas in mei proberen te landen. De verkenner moet twee jaar lang het weer op Mars in kaart brengen. Bovendien moet hij helpen begrijpen waardoor waterstof en zuurstof verdwijnen uit de dunne dampkring van Mars. Die gassen vliegen de ruimte in, waardoor Mars geen kans meer heeft op leven zoals op aarde. Maar de missie is vooral bedoeld om de Emiraten op de kaart te zetten, in het jaar waarin het land zijn vijftigste verjaardag viert. Het land ziet wetenschap en technologie als een inkomstenbron voor de toekomst, wanneer olie opraakt. De Verenigde Arabische Emiraten hebben sinds 2014 een eigen ruimtevaartbureau en in 2019 ging voor het eerst een inwoner van het land naar de ruimte.
Morgen moet ook de Chinese Marsverkener Tianwen-1 een soortgelijk manoeuvre uitvoeren. Het tuig zal nog twee tot drie maanden rondjes draaien vooraleer de riskante afdaling naar het Marsoppervlak in te zetten. China wil sporen van leven vinden en het oppervlak en de bodem van Mars in kaart brengen.
Op 18 februari moet de Amerikaanse Perseverance landen op Mars. Verborgen in het laadruim van de robotjeep zit de eerste buitenaardse helikopter, de Ingenuity. Als die technologie werkt, kunnen helikopters helpen om buitenaardse bestemmingen veel sneller te verkennen.
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Studie verontrust wetenschappers: “Nanodeeltjes dringen via voedsel door tot in het brein”
Nanomaterialen kunnen diep in de voedselketen doordringen en via voedsel zelfs in de hersenen terechtkomen. Dat hebben onderzoekers van de Universiteit Leiden ontdekt. Ze hebben aangetoond dat nanodeeltjes van goud op deze manier in het brein van vissen kunnen belanden.
Onderzoeker Fazel Monikh vermoedt dat dit ook voor mensen opgaat. "Vissen worden vaak gebruikt als model in toxicologische studies", legt hij uit. "Ze hebben ook bloed, net als wij. Er is geen groot verschil tussen de systemen."
Nanodeeltjes zijn extreem klein. Ze hebben een diameter tussen de 0,0000001 en 0,00001 centimeter. De toepassingen zijn overal om ons heen: van computerchips en zonnepanelen tot cosmetica en verf.
In de Leidse experimenten zaten de nanodeeltjes in algen. Via de algen kwamen ze in plankton terecht en zo in de vissen die dat opaten. Bij iedere stap veranderden de deeltjes van vorm en grootte. "Hierdoor konden de nanodeeltjes zich heel anders door het lichaam verspreiden dan op basis van hun oorspronkelijk vorm was ingeschat."
Nanomaterialen kunnen veel verder in onze voedselketens doordringen dan we tot nu toe dachten
Onderzoeker Fazel Monikh
In de vissen bleken de uiterst kleine deeltjes zich op te hopen in de hersenen. "Ze gaan er makkelijk in, maar komen er moeilijk weer uit", zegt Monikh.
Hij vindt de uitkomsten zorgwekkend. "Het betekent dat nanomaterialen veel verder in onze voedselketens kunnen doordringen dan we tot nu toe dachten. En dat ze dus zelfs in de hersenen kunnen belanden, terwijl dat orgaan normaal heel goed is afgeschermd door de bloed-hersenbarrière."
Nanotechnologische revolutie
De onderzoeker van het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen pleit ervoor nieuwe nanotechnologieën niet zonder meer toe te passen en eerst goed de effecten te onderzoeken. Zo is het momenteel nog onbekend in hoeverre nanomaterialen zich precies ophopen in het menselijk lichaam en welke gevolgen ze hebben voor de gezondheid. Tegelijkertijd rukt nanotechnologie steeds verder op.
Met de meetmethode die de onderzoekers hebben ontwikkeld, is wel beter te bepalen hoe nanomaterialen zich verspreiden. "Als we meer inzicht in het gedrag van deze materialen krijgen, kunnen we ook gaan werken aan veilige toepassing ervan", aldus Monikh. "Dat is zeker nodig, nu we ons midden in de nanotechnologische revolutie bevinden."
Topwetenschapper Harvard blijft geloven dat aliens vier jaar geleden op bezoek kwamen, maar hij krijgt stevige tegenkanting
“Aliens hebben ons in 2017 een bezoek gebracht, maar wetenschappers hebben die realiteit genegeerd.” De stelling doet misschien de wenkbrauwen fronsen, maar ze komt niet van de eerste de beste. Avi Loeb is een topastronoom aan de universiteit van Harvard die ook al samengewerkt heeft met Stephen Hawking. In het wereldje wordt hij nu echter vooral afgedaan als een collega “die met straffe beweringen het publiek wil bespelen”.
De bekende Israëlisch-Amerikaanse kosmoloog verwijst naar de doortocht van ‘Oumuamua’, een mysterieus object dat vier jaar geleden in sneltreinvaart door ons zonnestelsel vloog. Het 400 meter lange gevaarte wisselde soms van tempo, hield geen rekening met de zwaartekracht en had de vorm van een sigaar. Een komeet kon het niet zijn omdat de nevelige wolk van gassen en stof ontbrak. Experts spraken van het eerste interstellaire object dat vanop Aarde waargenomen werd.
De ‘ruimterots’ kwam dus uit een ander zonnestelsel, maar was het daarom ook buitenaards? In dit geval: hadden aliens werkelijk een sonde gecreëerd waarmee ze een verkenningstocht uitvoerden?
De controversiële these won aan belang sinds Loeb zich in 2018 in het kamp van de ‘believers’ aansloot. Zijn artikel in het wetenschappelijke blad ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’ deed alvast het nodige stof opwaaien.
Computersimulaties
Uit een studie van vorig jaar bleek echter dat Oumuamua - Hawaïaans voor ‘scout’ - volledig natuurlijk ontstaan zou zijn. Rotsachtige objecten kunnen immers uit een zonnestelsel gekatapulteerd worden door getijdenkrachten.
Computersimulaties vonden na lange tijd een verklaring voor de ‘sigaarvorm’ en ook het mysterie van de plotse versnellingen leek opgehelderd. “Een combinatie van waterijs met de uitwaseming van gas”, meent hoofdauteur Yun Zhang. Elk planetensysteem zou volgens haar zelfs zo’n 100 biljoen objecten als Oumuamua uitstoten.
“We zijn niet speciaal”
De wetenschappelijke uitleg kan Loeb echter niet overtuigen. Hij bracht nu een boek uit om zijn theorie rond buitenaardse wezens te staven. Zij zouden een lichtzeil gefabriceerd hebben dat via zonlicht voortgestuwd wordt.
“Denken dat we uniek en speciaal zijn is gewoon arrogant. We zouden ons beter verzoenen met het feit dat er nog veel andere culturen bestaan. We moeten ze nu enkel nog vinden”, klinkt het in ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth’.
Astrofysicus Ethan Siegel betreurt dat Loeb die weg ingeslagen is. “Ooit was hij zeer gerespecteerd. Nu het niet meer lukt om collega’s met argumenten te overtuigen, praat hij het grote publiek maar naar de mond”, schrijft hij in ‘Forbes’.
Ook de Nederlandse hoogleraar Sterrenkunde Gijs Nelemans denkt er zo over. “Loeb heeft al eerder spraakmakende zaken aangekaart. Hij gooit ze in de groep en kan ze goed uitmelken, daarna mogen anderen het zaakje uitzoeken. Als ik zou moeten kiezen tussen aliens of de wetenschappelijke uitleg, dan wordt het toch de tweede optie. Er zijn bij dit object ook radiometingen gedaan en er werd geen enkel signaal vastgesteld.”
“Pesterijen”
Loeb noemt dit soort reacties pestgedrag. “Galileo werd ook ooit verketterd omdat hij ontdekte dat de Aarde niet het centrum van het universum was. We zouden veel meer middelen moeten besteden aan de zoektocht naar buitenlands leven. Als we hun technologie zouden bestuderen, kunnen we misschien wel een miljoen jaar winst boeken.”
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Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
A new study out this month suggests that Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids may be more peculiar than previously thought. The Trojan asteroids are rocky objects which orbit the Sun just ahead of and just behind the gas giant, in gravitational sweet spots known as Lagrange points. The swarm ahead of Jupiter, known as the L4 (Greek) group, is slightly larger than the L5 (Trojan) swarm behind, but until now, astronomers believed that there was otherwise little differentiation between the two swarms. The paper released this month appears to change that.
The research team, using data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) based in Hawaii, has discovered unexpected variations in the shape of the Trojans. This new study suggests that objects in the L4 population are actually more elongated than those in the L5 population, on average.
In this image, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids are shown in Green. The L4 group is labelled ‘Greeks’, because these objects are usually named after Greek heroes of the Trojan War, while the L5 asteroids are labelled ‘Trojans,’ as they are named after Trojan heroes. Credit: Wikipedia Commons
Why does this matter? Well, the difference “may imply a different collisional evolution within each cloud,” the paper suggests. The L4 swarm’s larger population means objects within it have had had more opportunities to collide with one another. As one Trojan slams into another, larger objects are worn down or broken into smaller pieces. Over billions of years of impacts, the result is that more L4 objects have been battered into eccentric shapes than those in L5.
This discovery is a lesson learned regarding the evolutionary history of the Solar System, and the Jupiter Trojans may have plenty more to offer scientists in that respect in the near future. In order to get a closer look at these primordial remnants of the early Solar System, NASA is set to launch a robotic spacecraft to visit the Trojans later this year. The mission is named Lucy, after the fossilized remains of an early human ancestor found in Ethiopia in 1974. Lucy taught paleontologists about the evolution of humans, and in a similar way, the Lucy spacecraft will be able to teach astronomers about the early history of the Solar System.
Artist’s Rendering of Lucy. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
One of Lucy’s key objectives is to understand the composition and diversity of Trojan objects. It is believed that these asteroids represent the leftovers of planet formation, so learning about their structure, age, and component materials will help us to understand the ingredients which went into making the planets we see today, including, possibly, the organic materials which found their way to Earth in its infancy.
Lucy will take advantage of lessons learned from previous missions, carrying instruments similar to those flown on NASA’s New Horizons, which flew past Pluto in 2015, and OSIRIS-Rex, which is currently bringing a sample back to Earth from Asteroid Bennu. Using a series of clever gravity assists, Lucy will be able to visit more targets in a single mission than any solar system probe before it, flying past at least eight different asteroids over twelve years, starting with one in the main asteroid belt, then bouncing back and forth between objects in the L4 and L5 swarms.
Lucy’s orbital trajectory. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Careful planning, and a bit of astronomical luck, means that Lucy will even get the chance to visit two targets in the L5 swarm which travel in high inclination orbits, making them normally very difficult to reach. The binary pair, Patroclus and Menoetius, will pass within reach of Lucy in 2033, making for a spectacular finale to Lucy’s primary mission.
Lucy will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket in October. The complete mission timeline is as follows:
October 16, 2021: The three-week long launch window opens.
April 20, 2025: Main asteroid belt object (52246) Donaldjohanson.
August 12, 2027: L4 object (3548) Eurybates and its satellite, Queta.
September 15, 2027: L4 object (15094) Polymele.
April 18, 2028: L4 object (11351) Leucus.
November 11, 2028: L4 object (21900) Orus.
March 2, 2033: L5 object (617) Patroclus and its partner, Menoetius.
Whatever else Lucy might discover, it is clear that a combination of ground based-astronomy and spacecraft flybys are opening up a new chapter in our understanding of planetary formation, and the Trojans probably have more surprises in store for us in the years to come.
Since this video was recorded, asteroid Queta has been added to the mission profile, after its discovery in 2020.]
Dr. Steven Greer: The Cabal's Last Card Fake Alien Invasion - Deep State False Flags - The Classics
Dr. Steven Greer: The Cabal's Last Card Fake Alien Invasion - Deep State False Flags - The Classics
The work that medical doctor, researcher and author Steven Greer continues to do through the organization CSETI has made some tremendous breakthroughs in establishing contact with an intelligent phenomena, often perceived as UFOs, Light Phenomena and strange looking entities.
Steven demonstrates that there is a conscious connection being established with this phenomena and on many occasions they are being caught on camera.
Dr. Steven Greer: The Cabal’s Last Card Fake Alien Invasion – Deep State False Flags
Guys do you see the UFO lighting near the tree edge? Its a small UFO that came out the the huge UFO cloaked inside the cloud. Yes, two UFOs! The guy noticed the small one, and dismissed the cloud. But the cloud is the mother ship! Crazy cool that the eyewitness didnt even mention the UFO shaped cloud...its hiding a cloaked UFO in it. Wow, just wow!
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was driving home and saw the brightest light I have ever seen during the day. It was hovering when I first spotted it then it proceeded to move and that’s where the video starts. It also disappears at the end. Thoughts on what this is?
Triangle UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Rochester, Michigan. 11-2-2014, MUFON UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO Seen In Night Vision Over Rochester, Michigan. 11-2-2014, MUFON UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Nov 2, 2014 Location of sighting: Rochester, Michigan, USA
Source: MUFON
This eyewitness was using a type 2 generation night vision scope. I know, because I own one. He also is holding a green pen laser, which I also have and use. He is using the green laser to get the attention of aliens so that they fly near him so he can catch it on night vision and record it.
Here we see not a TR3B, but a cloaked triangle craft. Its just one craft! See the two screenshots above, both different but both show a solid triangle craft. It may be invisible, but its visible in night vision! This object was drawn to this location because of the green laser! It was curious about it since it could see the laser for many miles away.
100% proof that triangle alien crafts do exist and do come to the UFO hunters when they try hard to get noticed with green pen lasers! Also nice he didn't hit the ship with the laser rather he politely followed it. Very thoughtful of the eyewitness.
Helicopter FLIR camera caught two UFOs over San Clemente Island, California
Helicopter FLIR camera caught two UFOs over San Clemente Island, California
Over the years, many eyewitnesses from the Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard have reported strange UFO activity off the California's southern coast, especially the area around the islands San Clemente and Catalina and now once again UFO activity has been recorded and this time over Clemente Island.
2021/02/08. The video was recorded from a phone of a sailor on the H60 Romeo's FLIR.
FLIR cameras are typically used on military and civilian aircraft, use a thermographic camera that senses infrared radiation.
The helicopter was grounded off of San Clemente Island, California on a 2 week training event. They were doing routine maintenance after shutdown for all flights when they saw the lights.
There seems to be 2 balls of light in the distance, and when the FLIR locks on it speeds away so fast the FLIR can't keep up with it. Mufon case 113954.
These high speed objects are man-made or are they of alien origin?
CIA Document Dump Reveals 70 Years Of US Government UFO Info
CIA Document Dump Reveals 70 Years Of US Government UFO Info
“What does the U.S. government really know about UFOs and for how long have they known it?” Ufologists and UFO experiencers have been asking these questions for decades, and it seems that answers are finally emerging. Based on the CIA’s recent release, on January 14, 2021, of nearly 3,000 pages of documents that detail a wealth of fascinating data about UFO behavior and capabilities , it seems they know a lot and have known a lot about this topic for quite some time. These freshly declassified US government UFO info documents (published in their entirety on The Black Vault ) reveal the truth about harrowing and awe-inspiring encounters between reliable witnesses and “unidentified aerial phenomena” of unknown origin that have been occurring since the 1950s. The recently-released US government UFO info includes multiple stories of up-close sightings of mysterious disks , glowing spheres, wingless cigar-shaped cylinders, and other anomalous flying objects by military and commercial pilots, in the United States and elsewhere around the world .
In many instances these objects were observed visually and on radar performing aerodynamically impossible (for conventional aircraft) maneuvers. Other times they emitted odd beams of light and other forms of strange illumination. The CIA files even reported close encounters between shocked military personnel and actual aliens , who were spotted emerging from landed UFOs.
These types of stories have circulated for years, and have frequently been discussed on radio programs, podcasts, YouTube videos, at UFO conferences, and in online forums frequented by paranormal enthusiasts. But now, for the first time, the government is adding its official seal of approval to such reports, giving them a legitimacy that they lacked when they were coming exclusively from anonymous “whistleblowers,” lien disclosure gadflies, mysterious ex-military insiders, and other questionable sources sporting dubious or non-existent credentials.
The CIA has long withheld detailed information about UFOs from the public but that changed on January 14, 2021, when nearly 2 million documents were released and published online.
Government UFO Info: The US Senate Demands Answers
The January 2021 release of these new documents was apparently prompted by a special comment added to the recent $2.3 trillion COVID relief and government funding bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump at the end of last December. In this comment, the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA), instructed the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of all other intelligence agencies to “submit a report within 180 days of the date of the enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena .”
Under the terms of the Intelligence Committee directive, the government UFO info report would have to address “observed airborne objects that have not been identified” and should include a “detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by geospatial intelligence, signals intelligence, human intelligence , and measurement and signals intelligence.”
In an added paragraph that seems like a nod to X-Files fans, the Intelligence Committee further ordered “a detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace … and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries.”
It must be noted that this government UFO info directive says nothing about public disclosure. It only requests that reports be created and forwarded to the Senate Intelligence Committee for analysis. This makes the decision of the CIA to release this latest batch of documents to the public a matter of choice rather than law. No one required them to do it, but for reasons unknown they decided to do it anyway and several months before the June deadline that requires them to file a report with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
CIA UFO Data Dump: Honest Disclosure Or Hidden Agenda?
Curiously, this is the second occasion in the last year where an agency of the US government has deliberately chosen to release information that whets the public’s appetite for insider information about UFOs. In April 2020, the Department of Defense took the extraordinary step of declassifying three U.S. Navy videos that showed unidentified aerial objects performing their tricks for navy pilots.
These videos, which were recorded in 2004 in one case and 2015 in the other two instances, had already been leaked to the media in 2007 and 2017. It appears the Defense Department’s primary objective in releasing them officially was to confirm their anomalous nature .
In their statement accompanying the release, the Defense Department said it wanted to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real.” They confirmed that “the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”
In other words, the United States Department of Defense wants its citizens to know that UFOs are real, that they aren’t secret military aircraft, and that investigations into their activities will continue if and when other encounters occur.
After decades of denial and obfuscation, it seems the US government is no longer interested in debunking UFOs or covering up the truth (whatever it might be) about their origin and nature.
Dutifully, mainstream media sources in the United States and the United Kingdom are following the government’s lead, and are now reporting UFO stories disclosed by official sources in a relatively straightforward manner, without the usual snide remarks, snarky tones, or tired and dismissive “explanations” that invoke swamp gas, ball lightning, weather balloons, or next-generation stealth aircraft.
Following this remarkable turn of events, it seems the old questions about “what do they know and for how long have they known it” have been rendered obsolete. In this current disclosure-oriented environment, what we should be asking instead is, “why are they doing this and why are they doing it now?”
Top image: US government info on “everything” to do with UFO sightings, held by the CIA, was released and published online on January 14, 2021 .
Here are 4 of the space missions to keep an eye out for in 2021.
The James Webb space telescope’s gold-coated mirror undergoing cryogenic testing. After many delays, the new space telescope – Hubble’s successor – is currently scheduled to launch on October 31.
This year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Here are some of the missions to keep an eye out for.
1. Artemis 1
Artemis 1 is to be the first flight of the NASA-led, international Artemis program, whose goal was (originally) to return astronauts to the moon by 2024. Artemis-1, which is still scheduled for launch late this year, will consist of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft which will be sent on a three-week flight around the moon. It will reach a maximum distance from Earth of 280,000 miles (450,000 km), the farthest into space that any spacecraft that can transport humans will have ever flown.
Artemis 1 is designed to be launched into Earth orbit on the first NASA Space Launch System, which will be the most powerful rocket in operation. From Earth orbit, the Orion will be propelled onto a different path toward the moon by the rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage. The Orion capsule will then travel to the moon under the power provided by a service module supplied by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The mission will provide engineers back on Earth with a chance to evaluate how the spacecraft performs in deep space and serve as a prelude to later crewed lunar missions. The launch of Artemis 1 is currently scheduled for late in 2021.
In February, Mars will receive a flotilla of terrestrial robotic guests from several countries. The United Arab Emirates’ Al Amal (Hope) spacecraft is the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. It is scheduled to arrive in Mars orbit on February 9, where it will spend two years monitoring the Martian weather and disappearing atmosphere.
Arriving within a couple of weeks after Al Amal will be the China National Space Administration’s Tianwen-1, consisting of an orbiter and a surface rover. The spacecraft will enter Martian orbit for several months before deploying the rover to the surface. If it succeeds, China will become the third country to land anything on Mars. The mission has several objectives including mapping the mineral composition of the surface and searching for subsurface water deposits.
NASA’s Perseverance rover will land at Jezero Crater on February 18 and search for any signs of ancient life which may have been preserved in the clay deposits there. Critically, it will also store a cache of Martian surface samples on board as the first part in a highly ambitious international program to return samples of Mars to Earth.
3. Chandrayaan-3
In March 2021, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch its third lunar mission: Chandrayaan-3. Chandrayaan-1 launched in 2008 and was one of the first major missions in the Indian space program. Comprising an orbiter and a surface penetrator probe, the mission was one of the first to confirm evidence of lunar water.
Unfortunately, contact with the satellite was lost less than a year later. Sadly, there was a similar mishap with its successor, Chandrayaan-2, which consisted of an orbiter, a lander (Vikram) and a lunar rover (Pragyan).
Artist’s concept of the the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission from India.
If all goes well the Chandrayaan-3 rover will touch down in the lunar south pole’s Aitken basin. It’s of particular interest as it is thought to host numerous deposits of subsurface water ice – a vital component for any future sustainable lunar habitation.
4. James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, but has had a rocky path to being launched. Initially planned for a 2007 launch, the Webb telescope is almost 14 years late and has cost roughly U.S. $10 billion (£7.4 billion) after apparent underestimates and overruns similar to those experienced by Hubble.
Whereas Hubble has provided some amazing views of the universe in visible and ultraviolet region of light, Webb is planning to focus observations in the infrared wavelength band. The reason for this is that when observing really distant objects there will probably be gas clouds in the way.
The galaxy NGC 2275 seen by Hubble.
Image via ESA/ Hubble/ NASA/ J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team.
These gas clouds block really small wavelengths of light, such as X-rays and ultraviolet light, while longer wavelengths like infrared, microwave and radio can get through more easily. So by observing in these longer wavelengths we should see more of the universe.
Webb also has a much bigger mirror of 21-foot (6.5-meter) diameter compared to Hubble’s 8-foot (2.4-meter) diameter mirror, essential for improving image resolution and seeing finer detail.
The primary mission of Webb is look at light from galaxies at the edge of the universe which can tell us about how the first stars, galaxies and planetary systems formed. Potentially this could include some information about the origin of life as well, as Webb is planning on imaging exoplanet atmospheres in high detail, searching for the building blocks of life. Do they exist on other planets, and if so, how did they get there?
We are also likely to be treated to some stunning images similar to those produced by Hubble. Webb is currently scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket on October 31.
Astronomers may have captured the first good look at giant flares from the strongest magnets in the universe.
The likely cause of these giant flares? Starquakes trillions of trillions of times stronger than any earthquakes, scientists reported at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting, held virtually last week.
The most powerful magnets in the cosmos are magnetars, which possess magnetic fields about 100 trillion times more powerful than Earth's, or 10 trillion times that of an ordinary fridge magnet, Kevin Hurley, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, said during a news conference held Jan. 13.
Detections of GRB 200415A by NASA's Fermi, Wind, Mars Odyssey and Swift missions provide bands of possible locations, and these bands overlap in the central region of the Sculptor galaxy. (Image credit: NASA GSFC/Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona)
Magnetars are a rapidly spinning kind of neutron star, which is a corpse of a star that died in a catastrophic explosion known as a supernova. "Magnetars are up to a thousand times more magnetic than ordinary neutron stars," Soebur Razzaque, an astroparticle physicist at the University of Johannesburg and the senior author on one of the studies presented, said in a statement.
"In the Milky Way there are tens of thousands of neutron stars," Razzaque added. "Of those, only 30 are currently known to be magnetars."
Once magnetars are born, they only stay magnetars for about 10,000 years before their magnetic fields weaken to render them relatively ordinary neutron stars, Eric Burns, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University and co-author of the new study, said at the press conference. Magnetars are typically seen in star-forming regions, such as starburst galaxies, he noted.
Previous research discovered magnetars regularly explode with X-ray bursts about one-tenth of a second long that each pack up to about the same amount of energy the sun gives off in a year. In three instances over the past 40 years, astronomers have seen magnetars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies explode with even brighter, more energetic outbursts of X-rays and gamma rays. However, such giant flares were so powerful, they blinded any sensors that glimpsed them, making them difficult to study in any great detail.
Now researchers may have the best look yet at a giant magnetar flare, one good enough to help them deduce its possible origins.
Scientists analyzed the extremely bright gamma-ray burst GRB 200415A, which five space observatories that form the so-called Interplanetary Network detected on April 15, 2020. Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the universe, each giving off as much energy in milliseconds to minutes as the sun is expected to emit during its entire 10-billion-year lifetime.
This graphic shows the three nearest magnetar giant flares ever detected. The first one erupted in 1979 in the Large Magellanic Cloud; the others erupted in 1998 and 2004 within our galaxy. (Image credit: NASA GSFC)
At its peak, this newfound explosion was about 360 trillion times more luminous than the sun. "That is about 100,000 years of solar energy released in only 140 milliseconds," Hurley said.
The Interplanetary Network triangulated the location of the gamma-ray burst to the center of the nearby Sculptor galaxy, formally known as NGC 253, which is located about 11.4 million light-years from Earth in the Sculptor constellation. Previously detected GRBs came from relatively far away from the Milky Way, but GRB 200415A originated much closer to home, in cosmic terms.
Gamma-ray bursts are typically divided into two groups — long and short — depending on whether they last more or less than two seconds. Short gamma-ray bursts are most likely caused by the mergers of neutron stars, while long gamma ray-bursts are linked with supernovas.
GRB 200415A lasted just 140 milliseconds, about the blink of an eye. "It's as fast as snapping your fingers," Oliver Roberts, an astrophysicist at the Universities Space Research Association in Huntsville, Alabama who led another new study on GRB 200415A, said at the news conference.
This speed would ordinarily suggest it was a short gamma-ray burst. However, the pattern of light seen from this outburst was very different from that seen from short gamma-ray bursts that previous research found were caused by colliding neutron stars.
Instead, GRB 200415A's light pattern was a near copy of those previously seen from giant magnetar flashes. Those began with an intense flash about one-fifth of a second long, followed by a string of pulses lasting about two to 12 seconds.
The cause of this newfound giant magnetar flare was likely a "starquake" — a rupture of the magnetar's solid crust, Roberts said. This quake was huge — magnitude 27.8 in strength, or about one thousand trillion trillion (10^27, or a 1 with 27 zeroes behind it) times more powerful "than the largest known terrestrial earthquake, which was the magnitude 9.5 [earthquake] in Chile in 1960," Hurley said.
The researchers suggested this starquake not only released a bright flash of gamma rays, but also heated the magnetar's crust. As the magnetar whirls around, this super-hot crust looks like a series of bright flashes that dim as the surface cools, Hurley told Space.com.
The scientists added this starquake likely also spit out a blob of plasma traveling about 99% the speed of light, Nicola Omodei, an astrophysicist at Stanford University who participated in the study, said at the press conference.
After four days, this blob encountered the shockwave created when the giant bubble of plasma around the magnetar, known as its magnetosphere, slammed into the interstellar medium of gas and dust between stars at a speed of about 2.2 million mph (3.6 million kph). When the blob collided with this shockwave, it generated another pulse of gamma rays seen 19 seconds after the initial flash. The gamma rays in this second outburst were even more energetic than those seen in the first one, he noted.
All in all, these new findings suggest that maybe a small percent of known short gamma-ray bursts are caused by giant magnetar flares, Burns said.
The scientists detailed their findings Jan. 13 at an online meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting. Hurley, Roberts and their colleagues detailed their findings in twostudies in the Jan. 14 issue of the journal Nature. Omedei and his colleagues detailed their findings online Jan. 13 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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This Mars meteorite, which weighs 0.75 pounds (327 grams), landed in July 2011 as part of a shower in the vicinity of Tissint, Morocco, the location that gives the meteorite its name. A cross section of a small Aguas Zarcas fragment shows colorful clays that might include complex organic compounds. Water may have recently flowed within meteorites, suggesting the asteroids they broke off from may bear ice, a new study finds.
Water may have recently flowed within meteorites, suggesting the asteroids they broke off from may bear ice, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed carbon-rich meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites. These rare space rocks are one of the most ancient types of meteorites, whose parent bodies formed in the early days of the solar system. Previous research suggested that carbonaceous chondrites raining on Earth likely helped deliver water and organic matter to our newborn planet.
Prior work found that a number of minerals seen in carbonaceous chondrites likely formed due to chemical reactions involving flowing liquid water. However, scientists had thought such activity halted about 4.5 billion years ago, within the first 4 million years or so of the solar system's history.
Now, scientists in a new study have discovered signs of far more recent liquid flow within these meteorites, occurring less than a million years ago.
In this study, researchers examined carbonaceous chondrites collected from around the world. They focused on variations of the elements uranium and thorium known as isotopes. (Isotopes of an element each have different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei. For instance, uranium-234 atoms are uranium isotopes with 142 neutrons, while uranium-238 atoms each have 146 neutrons.)
The levels of different uranium and thorium isotopes within these meteorites should have depended on how long the isotopes usually last before they begin to radioactively decay. Instead, the scientists found unusually high levels of the relatively short-lived isotope uranium-234, compared with longer-lived uranium-238, in all the carbonaceous chondrites they looked at. Most of the samples also had unusually high levels of uranium-238 compared with thorium-230, an isotope that results from the radioactive decay of uranium-234.
The most likely explanation for these findings, they found, was that liquid water flowed within the parent bodies of these meteorites, likely when the collisions that broke the meteorites off those carbonaceous asteroids melted ice within those rocks, the researchers said.
They think this because Uranium and thorium isotopes respond in different ways to liquid water — uranium is soluble in water, whereas thorium is not — which would explain the unusual isotope levels seen within these meteorites.
The anomalous isotope levels seen within the meteorites should disappear within a million years due to radioactive decay, the scientists noted. This suggests these meteorites possessed liquid water during that time.
All in all, this discovery suggests "these asteroids still contain ice, and that means that they could, at any time, have delivered both water and organics, which combined are critical for life," study lead author Simon Turner, an isotope geochemist at Macquarie University in Australia, told Space.com.
Previous research has detected water ice on asteroids such as Themis. "Carbonaceous asteroids might be frozen mud balls rather than rocky bodies as commonly thought," Turner said. "Our data provides strong evidence to support that."
The scientists detailed their findings in the Jan. 8 issue of the journal Science.
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The star system of Trappist-1 is home to the largest group of Earth-like planets ever discovered elsewhere in the Universe by astronomers. This means that investigating these seven rocky worlds gives us a good idea of how common exoplanets with similar compositions to our own are in the Milky Way and the wider cosmos.
New research has revealed that these planets, which orbit the Trappist-1 star 40 light-years away from Earth, all have remarkably similar compositions and densities. Yet, all are less dense than Earth.
The results could indicate these are worlds with much more water than is found on earth, or possibly even that these planets are composed almost entirely of rust.
An artist’s view of the TRAPPIST-1 system. The TRAPPIST-1 star is home to the largest batch of roughly Earth-size planets ever found outside our solar system. An international study involving researchers from the Universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich now shows that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their composition (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
This similarity between the exoplanets makes the Trappist-1 system significantly different from our own solar system which consists of planets with radically compositions and densities. Trappist-1’s worlds are dense, meaning they are like the rocky planets in our solar system, Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. The system seems to be lacking larger gas dominated planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
The finding, documented in a paper published in the Planetary science Journal shows how the system, first discovered in 2016, offers insight into the wide variety of planetary systems that could fill the Universe.
This chart shows, on the top row, artist concepts of the seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii, masses, densities and surface gravity as compared to those of Earth. On the bottom row, the same numbers are displayed for the bodies of our inner solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. (NASA/ JPL – Caltech)
“The new observations allowed us to use transit data from a much longer time span than was available to us for the 2018 calculations,” explains Simon Grimm of the University of Bern, who as well as being involved in the current study, was part of a 2018 team that provided the most accurate calculation of the masses of the seven planets thus far. “With the new data, we were able to refine the mass and density determinations of all seven planets.
“It turned out that the derived densities of the planets are even more similar than we had previously expected.”
The similarity in densities observed in the Trappist-1 exoplanets seen by the astronomers hailing from the Universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich, indicates that there is a good chance they are composed of the same materials at similar ratios.
These are the same materials that we believe form most terrestrial planets, iron, oxygen, magnesium, and silicon. But there is a significant difference between our terrestrial world and the Trappist-1 exoplanets.
Comparison of TRAPPIST-1 to the Solar System: A planet’s density is determined by its composition, but also by its size: Gravity compresses the material a planet is made of, increasing the planet’s density. Uncompressed density adjusts for the effect of gravity, and can reveal how the composition of various planets compare. (NASA/JPL-Caltech )
The planets in the Trappist-1 system appear to be about 8% less dense than the Earth. This suggests that the materials that comprise them exist in different ratios than they do throughout our home planet.
This difference in density could be the result of several different factors.
One of the possibilities being investigated by the team is that the surfaces of the Trappist-1 exoplanets could be covered with water, reducing their overall density. Combining the planetary interior models with the planetary atmosphere models, the team was able to evaluate the water content of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets with what Martin Turbet, an astrophysicist at the University of Geneva and co-author of the study describes as “a precision literally unprecedented for this category of planets.”
For the Trappist-1 system’s four outermost planets, should water account for the difference in density, the team has estimated that water would account for 5% of their overall masses. This is considerably more than the 0.1% of Earth’s total mass made up of water.
Rust Nevers Sleeps for the Trappist-1 Planets
Another possibility that could explain why the Trappist-1 exoplanets have lower densities than Earth is the fact that they could be composed of less iron than our planet is–21% rather than the 32% found in the Earth.
It’s also possible that the iron within the seven exoplanets could be bonded with oxygen forming iron oxides–commonly known as rust. This additional oxygen would reduce the planet’s densities.
Shown here are three possible interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets. The more precisely scientists know the density of a planet, the more they can narrow down the range of possible interiors for that planet. All seven planets have very similar densities, so they likely have a similar composition (NASA/ JPL – Caltech)
Iron oxides give Mars its rust-red colour, but they are pretty much confined to its surface. Its core is comprised of non-oxidized iron like the solar system’s other terrestrial planets. If iron-oxide accounts for the seven exoplanet’s lower densities it implies that these worlds are rusty throughout and lacking solid non-oxidized iron cores.
“The lower density might be caused by a combination of the two scenarios – less iron overall than and some oxidized iron,” explains Eric Angol, an astrophysicist at the University of Washington and lead author of the new study. “They might contain less iron than Earth and some oxidized iron like Mars.”
Angol also points out that the Trappist-1 planets are likely to have a low-water content, an idea supported by previous research. “Our internal and atmospheric structure models show that the three inner planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are likely to be waterless and that the four outer planets have no more than a few per cent water, possibly in liquid form, on their surfaces,” says Turbet.
This seems to favour the theory that the lower density of the Trappist-1 planets is a result of one or both of the iron scenarios suggested by the researchers.
There’s Still a Lot to Learn from Trappist-1
Since its discovery in 2o16, the Trappist system has been the subject of a wealth of observations made by both space and ground-based telescopes alike. Before it was decommissioned at the start of January 2020 the team used the Spitzer Space Telescope to collect their data. This telescope, operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, alone has clocked in more than 1,000 hours of targeted observations of the exoplanets.
This new study demonstrated the importance of studying systems such as Trappist-1 for extended periods of time.
Caroline Dorn, an astrophysicist at the University of Zurich also highlights the fact that studying systems like this could answer questions about the habitability of exoplanets and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe.
“The TRAPPIST-1 system is fascinating because around this one star we can learn about the diversity of rocky planets within a single system,” concludes Dorn. “And we can actually learn more about an individual planet by studying its neighbours as well, so this system is perfect for that.”
“The night sky is full of planets, and it’s only been within the last 30 years that we’ve been able to start unravelling their mysteries, also for determining the habitability of these planets.”
Original Research
Agol. E., Dorn. C., Grimm. S. L., et al, ‘Refining the transit timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides,’ Planetary Science Journal, [https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01074]
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE REASON FOR UNEXPLAINED ACTIVITY ON MARS
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE REASON FOR UNEXPLAINED ACTIVITY ON MARS
The answer may lie just beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
FOR CENTURIES AFTER GALILEO made the first observations of Mars in 1610, the planet appeared to our Earth eyes as a quiet, dusty, and ultimately, dead planet.
But in the last 50 years, scientists have sent multiplespacecraftto observe the Red Planet up close, revealing Mars is very much an active planet, wracked by continuous geological activity and riven with subsurface canals.
One piece of evidence for this activity is the fact the Martian landscape regularly experiences a form of natural disaster which, here on Earth, has the potential to level cities and block roads: Landslides.
For as long as we have known they occur on Mars, so too have scientists not known their cause. But a new study may have uncovered the reason why this Earth-like feature also occurs on Mars lurking beneath the planet's surface. The findings have major implications for future human missions to explore Mars.
The study was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
Development of RSL features at Palikir crater on Mars as viewed by the HiRISE camera on 6 occasions during Mars years 29–30.NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
HERE'S THE BACKGROUND
In September, 2018 NASA's Mars Reconnoissance Orbiter caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a recent landslide in a crater near a region of the planet called Nili Fossae.
The landslides were formed by large amounts of rock and soil moving downslope at a speed of up to 360 kilometers per hour, and extending for over tens of kilometers.
However, scientists were not sure what caused the landslides to form.
Landslides in a crater near Nili Fossae on Mars.Credit: NASA/UofA HiRiseteam/MRO
WHAT'S NEW
Janice Bishop, senior research scientist at the SETI Institute and lead author behind the new study, was studying the unusual chemical processes which take place beneath Antarctica's ice when she noticed a strange similarity to Mars.
"Antartica is a cold and dry environment like Mars," Bishop tells Inverse.
"So we started looking at other analogs as well to try to understand this chemistry."
Bishop and her team studied both the Dead Sea in Israel and Salar de Pajonales in the Atacama Desert, in addition to conducting experiments in the lab, to glean further insights as to what may be occurring on Mars to cause changes in the planet's topography.
Through their observations, they found that specific chemical salts interact with gypsum, or water underground, and this causes disruptions on the surface, including ground collapse and landslides.
"The chlorine salts are very deliquescent, they absorb a lot of water like a sponge so they become a liquid," Bishop explains. This is similar to a more terrestrial, and familiar process you can see in your own kitchen, she says.
"If you leave your salt shaker out, it absorbs water, and becomes sticky."
Similarly, the chlorine salt and sulfate found in the icy underground water beneath Mars' surface creates an unstable, liquid-like slush which causes disturbances in the above ground surface.
Photo of Mars analog crust following hydration experiment with dry blue sulfates on the surface and moist pink sulfates below.Janice Bishop, SETI Institute
This same process may have also caused landslides to take place on Earth millions of years ago. However, since then, our planet was covered by oceans and plants which covered its surface, preventing us from observing the markings leftover by early processes on the planet.
WHY DO WE STUDY MARS?
"I think Mars is really interesting because it's kind of a window to our origins on early Earth," Bishop says. "On our planet, life took off and we have plants and bacteria, we have highways and roads but on Mars you get to see the rocks, the planet isn’t contaminated by all the things we have here so you can see its history."
Mars may be a dry and desolate planet today, but scientists believe that it may have had a similar start to Earth, beginning as a warm and wet world. However, gradually over time, the planet lost its atmosphere.
"The evolution of the planet was kind of frozen in time, its not that it would’ve been the same as Earth but there could’ve been a lot of similarities," Bishop says.
WHAT'S NEXT
The new study suggests that the subsurface of Mars holds a lot more clues to the history and evolution of the planet than scientists previously believed.
Bishop suggests that more efforts need to be concentrated on drilling beneath the surface of Mars.
"So far, we've only seen the surface," Bishop says.
NASA's Mars rovers have poked at rocks, and the space agency's Insight mission, which has been attempting to drill on the Red Planet, recently called it quits. However, the upcoming European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022, will dig two meters beneath the surface.
From there, Bishop hopes to get a better understanding of the processes that are taking place beneath the surface.
"Understanding the processes on Mars helps us understand what happened on Earth since our history was erased," she says.
Abstract:
On Mars, seasonal martian flow features known as recurring slope lineae (RSL) are prevalent on sun-facing slopes and are associated with salts. On Earth, subsurface interactions of gypsum with chlorides and oxychlorine salts wreak havoc: instigating sinkholes, cave collapse, debris flows, and upheave. Here, we illustrate (i) the disruptive potential of sulfate-chloride reactions in laboratory soil crust experiments, (ii) the formation of thin films of mixed ice-liquid water “slush” at −40° to −20°C on salty Mars analog grains, (iii) how mixtures of sulfates and chlorine salts affect their solubilities in low-temperature environments, and (iv) how these salt brines could be contributing to RSL formation on Mars. Our results demonstrate that interactions of sulfates and chlorine salts in fine-grained soils on Mars could absorb water, expand, deliquesce, cause subsidence, form crusts, disrupt surfaces, and ultimately produce landslides after dust loading on these unstable surfaces.
Although some of them were leaked out from under the Iron Curtain of the Cold War days, and many more have been brought into the public arena since, many UFO incidents and conspiracies are still likely buried beneath the secrecy of political ideology and mutual mistrust.
Considering how vast a country Russia is – and how much more territory the Soviet Union took in during its reign – combined with over four decades worth of suppressed information to be accounted for, there is surely a treasure trove of encounters still to be investigated.
We have written of several of these strange incidents and reports before. The Boshich Space Wreckage for example is still one of the most intriguing reports on record. The strange Birdman of Pripyat is another bizarre series of encounters in the wake of the Chernobyl Disaster.
Alien Encounters From Behind The Iron Curtain
Perhaps one of the most intriguing UFO encounters is that of the Voronezh sighting in 1989, thought by some to be disinformation, either to see how seriously the west would take such reports or just to simply feed outright false information. It is arguably a little of both. The fact that the report would enter the mainstream courtesy of the Russian news agency, TASS would also seem to suggest so.
On 27th September 1989, according to the report, a huge, disc-like craft landed in full view of thousands of people on a busy day in the city of Voronezh. Several tall beings then exited the craft and took in their surroundings. They then re-entered the craft, taking off into the air, leaving a “strange residue” behind where their ship had been stationed.
The following month in October 1989, TIME magazine even ran a story on the incident, and more to the point, why the Soviet Union would have allowed such a release to go international. According to Howard G. Chua-Eoan, he believed that the story was a way of testing the “glasnost policy” – an agreement between the two nations to an open media. You can read this article in full here and check out the videos below for further viewing.
An even more bizarre encounter is that of an apparent battle between Soviet military and alien beings, at the bottom of the icy Lake Baikal in Siberia. The account would come to light due to an apparent leak of official documents by a former Soviet navy officer, Vladimir Azhazha.
According to Azhazha, in the winter of 1982, the Soviet military were monitoring reports of strange lights hovering over the lake (incidentally, the area is still considered a UFO hotspot). Military divers would venture down to the icy depths of the lake. They would witness several strange humanoid beings, each dressed in shiny silver clothing, and each wearing a small oxygen mask. The unit would launch an attack on the beings, who responded with a technology akin to a sonar weapon. Three of the unit were killed, and the four survivors had major injuries. You can read a little more of the encounter here, and you can check out the video below.
The Far-Reach Of The Cold War
Although the incident didn’t occur in Russia, it did take place in Soviet controlled Berlin in East Germany. Largely because the Soviet regime stated that UFO sightings were in fact weapons tests “of the evils of the United States”, Linke would keep the encounter to himself until he finally managed to escape the repressed existence on the east side of the Berlin Wall. To make it known of a belief in such sightings invited government “interest” in you that could result in imprisonment.
Once Linke settled in the west to begin his new life with his family, he would tell of his encounter to a Greek newspaper. Interestingly, the CIA would use the newspaper article as a source and put the incident on their own records.
In the summer of 1952, as he was making his way home with his eleven-year old daughter, Gabriella, the pair would spot something in the distance. Believing it to be a deer, the pair crept forward to get a better look. They soon realised it wasn’t a deer.
Settling around forty meters away from the scene, Oscar and Gabriella could see two men examining the ground in front of them with bright lights flashing from their “shiny, metallic clothing!” Nearby was some kind of craft that resembled a “huge frying pan” with a “black conical tower” on the top of it.
When Gabriella let out an involuntary gasp of shock, the two men quickly boarded the craft, which rose into the air, rotating as it did so, before vanishing straight up into the evening sky. For years Linke believed they had witnessed secret Soviet technology and feared having his “movements restricted!” He stated to the newspaper years after the incident that, “The Soviets do not want anyone else to see their work”, going further to say that many people had restricted movements, and even house arrest, because “they know too much!”
Maybe one of the most interesting UFO encounters is one experienced by an apparent Soviet war hero pilot, who “doesn’t exist” and “is no hero of the Soviet Union!” At least that is what UFO researcher, Timothy Good, was told when he questioned Soviet officials.
According to the account put forward by Good, Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin was one of the most highly decorated pilots in Soviet history. So much so, that in the years after the Second World War, he would become the finest test pilot for the Soviet military, putting the cutting edge of Soviet aviation technology through their paces.
On one such test flight on 16th June 1948, he would witness a “cucumber-shaped” craft in the skies in front of him. It was heading straight for him. When it got within ten kilometres of his plane, it vanished out of sight. At the same time, Apraksin’s plane failed and he was forced to make an emergency landing.
He would have another encounter just short of a year later in May 1949. Again, the craft would interfere with his plane, and this time, although he managed to land again, he sustained substantial, injury. It appeared at this point, the Soviet regime were putting his removal from history into action. He would be sent for “re-evaluation” and then eventually registered as “Group One Disabled” – this basically meant he was not fit for active service.
Apraksin literally vanished in the years following his time as a test pilot. Was this due to embarrassment on the regime’s part of a pilot speaking of such “crazy” things. Or was he being removed from official records for another reason?
The Conspiracies Of The Lost Cosmonauts
Perhaps one of the most outlandish and chilling conspiracies said to have played out behind the wall of the Soviet Union during the Cold War is that of the Lost Cosmonauts. While there is no solid proof that the recordings said to have been intercepted by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers in 1961 are one-hundred percent genuine, the battle for the stars between the United States and the Soviet Union was very real, and so does lend a little bit of credibility to the claim. It is really that much of a stretch of the imagination to think that in their desire to score a huge propaganda victory over the United States (and the west as a whole), tragedies were downplayed and essentially kept out of the history books altogether?
The brothers claimed to have intercepted a total of nine such recordings altogether, but one in particular was especially harrowing. Claimed by the brothers to have been recorded in May 1961, the two minute audio is of a female cosmonaut communicating her concerns that her pod is about to burn up upon re-entry. Incidentally, there is no reply from the assumed control tower, despite the woman’s pleas that “I can see a flame! I can see a flame! I feel hot!” You can read a full transcript of the encounter here.
One last point worth mentioning here is, despite the Soviet government (at the time) and the Russian government denying there being any truth to the claims, is an apparent report from the old Soviet news agency TASS, who claimed an “unmanned satellite” had come back to Earth on 26th May 1961. Many believe this unmanned satellite was actually the remains of the unfortunate female cosmonaut. You can read a little more about that here and here.
If there is any truth at all to the Judica-Cordiglia brother’s claims, then somewhere in space – possibly still in the Earth’s orbit – there are several early 1960s space pods-turned-floating tombs containing the bodies of several unknown space pilots. Perhaps one of them was the aforementioned Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin.
Check out the videos below. The first looks at the alleged recording of the unknown female cosmonaut, while the following videos look at the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy in a little more detail. The video below those looks at the conspiracy of Soviet UFO files.
Warp Drives, Space Manipulation, And The Pentagon’s UFO Program
Warp Drives, Space Manipulation, And The Pentagon’s UFO Program
Talk of wormholes and other dimensions outside the parameters of science fiction are usually greeted with nervous looks and uncomfortable sniggers from most. The fact is, however, that many intelligence agencies, in particular, the United States’ Defense Intelligence Agency, has at the very least, experimented and researched the logistics of these theories, as well as the technology required to embark on such endeavors. A “treasure trove” of documents was recently released in the United States following requests by a media outlet in Las Vegas including one, which we will look at in a moment, that looks in depth at not only the prospect of wormholes for space travel but how this could be accomplished. As will also look at a little later, these “projects” appear to have been taking place behind closed doors for over a decade, at the very least, with the roots of them going back to the years following the Second World War and the drastic and urgent increase in UFO activity across the planet – in particular, in the United States.
Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions
Although the paper was dated 2nd April 2010, it was only very recently cast back into the public arena by Las Vegas-based media platform KLAS-TV who, incidentally, share close connections with respected UFO researcher, George Knapp.
The 34-page file titled, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions goes into intricate details of exactly what the title suggests. The document is just one of a plethora of “scientific studies of UFOs” by the Pentagon in 2007. As the opening lines of the document states:
“If one is to realistically entertain the notion of interstellar exploration in time-frames of a human lifespan, a dramatic shift in traditional approach to spacecraft propulsion is necessary. It has been known and well tested since the time of Einstein that all matter is restricted to motion at sublight velocities, and that as matter approaches the speed of light, its mass asymptotically approaches infinity. This mass increase ensures that an infinite amount of energy would be necessary to travel at the speed of light, and, thus, this speed is impossible to reach and represents an absolute speed limit to all matter traveling through spacetime."
IT quickly concludes that even if such a propulsion method was developed and utilized, the nearest star would still take multiple decades to reach from the start point of Earth. It then, however, speaks of recent developments in that “physicists have discovered two loopholes to Einstein’s ultimate speed limit – the Einstein-Rosen bridge (commonly referred to as a ‘wormhole’) and the warp drive. Fundamentally, both ideas involve manipulation of spacetime!” Furthermore, this would allow for “Faster-than-light (FTL) travel!”
The report continues that the wormhole will “connect two potentially distant regions of space”, essentially creating a “shortcut!” This would, in theory, result in the craft being “instantaneously be transported” from one point in space to another. The paper states that “observational evidence” suggests that wormholes don’t exist – at least not locally. They can, however, be manipulated into existence. The warp drive, the report states, “involves local manipulation of the fabric of space in the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft”. This manipulation creates “an asymmetric bubble of space that is contracting in front of the spacecraft while expanding behind it”.
According to the projections, it would be possible to reach Mars in just over three minutes, while reaching as far as Neptune would take only four hours. With regards to more distant destinations, the Orion Nebula, which is 1,599 light years away, could be reached in just over a year utilizing such wormhole-like technology.
It then talks about how the “spacecraft remains stationary inside this ‘warp bubble’ and the movement of space itself facilitates the relative motion of the spacecraft”. This is remarkably similar to how apparent whistleblower, Bob Lazar, spoke about the propulsion systems of alien crafts that he had back-engineered for the United States shadow government in the 1980s.
He would state that UFO crafts had “waveguides” that in turn connected to antimatter reactors that would create a gravity field which makes “manipulation of space and time possible!” He would further describe this manipulation was though the spacecraft in question was a “big stone on a sheet of rubber!” Upon turning on the gravity drives it would “pull the desired destination to it!” When the gravity drive was shut off, space (the rubber sheet) would return to normal, with the craft (the big stone) riding the wave of space-time – essentially, a wormhole. You can read a little more about Lazar and UFO propulsion here. The video below features Lazar speaking about UFO propulsion in a little more detail. You can also view the aforementioned files in full here or here.
The Pentagon and UFOs
According to a report in the New York Times in December 2017 (which you can read in full here), the Defense Department spent $22 million on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. That is, however, all that is known. The records do not show how the money was spent, where it went, or why. Only that the figure of $22 million was allocated to this particular platform. In reality, this money would appear to have been earmarked for “black budget” projects – at least according to those who keep an intense eye on government spending.
Like the above research into “warp drives” and creating wormholes, this project was first set up in 2007 by the Pentagon. Luis Elizondo would run the project until its closure in 2012. However, according to some, its closure was for public consumption, and behind closed doors, the project continues – as does the (now) secretive funding. Elizondo would go public with what he knew about the continued interest and funding the Pentagon had regarding the existence of UFOs. At the same time, US authorities would release two previously classified videos from their files showing UFO activity.
In 2008, the Defense Intelligence Agency would put parts of its research out to the highest bidder. Only weeks later, Bigelow Aerospace, owned by millionaire investor, Robert Bigelow, was awarded the contract. This contract came only weeks after Bigelow shut down what appeared to be one of the most promising independent studies of strange and paranormal phenomena in history at Skinwalker Ranch.
Part of the contract would require Bigelow to “provide a facility that qualified for top-secret work!” Skinwalker Ranch today, is completely off-limits to the general public. Perhaps also interestingly, given the above information regarding the creation of warp drives in order to travel through space in hours instead of years, is Bigelow’s chosen area of interest following the public closure of Skinwalker Ranch. As well as the contract work with NASA, Bigelow Aerospace would look to venture into “space tourism” in the near future.
Whatever the details of the situation, it appears certain that the study of UFOs and the technology they utilize continues by the US government, only now it appears to continue under the cloak of absolute secrecy. Perhaps, as we will look at in a moment, those advances in technology have more than mere human ingenuity at their core.
Check out the short videos below. The first looks at one of the recently released Pentagon UFO sightings, while the second looks at some of the conspiracies surrounding Skinwalker Ranch.
Alien At The Pentagon?
While the idea of top-secret, prolonged interaction between a shadow government operating out of the Pentagon is absurd to some, it isn’t the first time that such claims have been made. The strange tale of Valiant Thor tells of an apparent alien craft landing in a field in Alexandria, Virginia, in March 1957. A lone policeman witnessed the events purely by chance as he went about his routine patrols. A humanoid, very much human-looking, if not a little taller, emerged from craft and approached the policeman. He had, he claimed, been sent by the “High Council” to speak with President Eisenhower. His name was Valiant Thor.
The account was written about extensively by Frank Stranger in the book, Stranger At The Pentagon. Within these pages were several pictures claiming to show Valiant Thor. Whether it is of importance or not, no US official, serving or former, has stepped forward to discredit these photographs.
According to the accounts, Thor did meet with the President, as well as various other high-ranking US officials. He would remain at the Pentagon for three years as a “VIP”. He would be involved in numerous in-depth discussions with US officials during his stay. You can check out the short video below that looks at this claim in a little more detail, and you can read a little more about it here.
Of course, there are many who claim there are secret deals between aliens and top-secret shadow governments. The great-granddaughter of President Eisenhower, who some believe made “secret deals” with grey aliens in 1954 following offers of advanced technology for “access” to American citizens (you can read more about this here), would state that such deals came to fruition “in a world most of us don’t realize existed”. She would continue that the “Second World War was still being fought behind the scenes. It’s like there is this whole other reality going on that we don’t hear about. These timelines and the deeper history connected to secret societies, connected to these deeper ET agendas that have been around for thousands of years!”
Furthermore, according to Laura Eisenhower, not only did these deals result in greater technology, they would also result in secret space programs and unofficial missions. Of course, if there is any degree of truth to the claims, it would also result in the abduction of, and experimentation on, thousands of US citizens, as well as thousands more worldwide. Assuming for a moment these claims are true, we have to ask, how much clout and say in the decision making would Eisenhower really have had? It is likely a decision already made that he, as the President of the United States, had to put his name to. His great-granddaughter would state decades later that her great-grandfather “was instrumental in warning us about the military-industrial complex!”
The videos below features Laura Eisenhower speaking a little further about such notions of secret alien involvement in human affairs. Perhaps such technologies as “warp drives”, only now coming into the public arena for dissection, is the result of such secret deals that took place over half-a-century ago.
An artist's drawing of a particle jet emanating from a black hole at the center of a blazar.
Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab (used with permission by Astronomy Picture of the Day, which is co-managed by Robert Nemiroff at Michigan Tech).
Astrophysicists propose that gamma-ray bursts may exceed the speed of light.
The superluminal jets may also be responsible for time-reversibility.
The finding doesn't go against Einstein's theory because this effect happens in the jet medium not a vacuum.
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. Yet in space many strange things happen, including a new proposal by two astrophysicists that blasts creating bursts of gamma rays may be able to speed up faster than light, going superluminal.
Yet, this research by the astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University is not going against Einstein's theory. What the scientists found is that while these bursts surpass the speed of light in surrounding gas clouds, that only happens in the jet mediums, not in a vacuum.
The astrophysicists also think that these superluminal jets can create the time-reversibility that can be observed in gamma-ray burst light curves.
Jet bursting out of a blazar. Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
NASA
Jon Hakkila likens what they found to skipping stones across the pond. If someone was to throw such a stone into the water towards you, the stone would go through the air in between hops faster than the waves that it causes are moving through the water. As it gets closer, you will see the waves that are produced by each skip in reverse order. The most recently created ones will get to you first and those from the early skips along the water would come last.
"Standard gamma-ray burst models have neglected time-reversible light curve properties," Hakkila explained. "Superluminal jet motion accounts for these properties while retaining a great many standard model features."
Check out the new paper here, published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Cosmic death beams: Understanding gamma ray bursts
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Xavier Demeersman
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[EN VIDÉO] L'atterrissage du rover Perseverance sur MarsAnimation montrant la séquence EDL, l'entrée, la descente et l'atterrissage de Perseverance à la surface de Mars.
Dans moins de deux mois, le vaisseau transportant le nouveau grand rover de la Nasa Perseverance et le révolutionnaire Mars Helicopter Ingenuity va entrer dans l'atmosphère de Mars pour les déposer en douceur sur leur site d'exploration. Un moment où toutes les équipes de la mission retiendront leur souffle.
L'arrivée duroverPerseveranceà la surface de Mars en quête de traces de vie anciennes ou actuelles sera un des plus grands moments de 2021. Une mission, rappelons-le, très ambitieuse tant sur le plan de la recherche enexobiologie,météorologie, environnement extraterrestre que celui de la préparation de l'installation des premiers êtres humains sur une autre planète.
Pour l'instant, le super-rover à la pointe des technologies (célébré par le Time magazine, on en parle ici), encapsulé dans le vaisseau qui le conduit jusqu'à la Planète rouge, vogue paisiblement dans l'espace interplanétaire à une vitesse de quelque 85.000 km/h ! Les trois quarts de son voyage sont déjà accomplis (77 % ce 24 décembre) et il ne lui reste plus que 56 jours de vol (108 millions de kilomètres) avant d'apercevoir la terre rouge... Comme prévu, ce sera donc le 18 février que la machine va atterrir à l'intérieur du cratère Jezero, une destination bien entendu sciemment choisie par les équipes scientifiques de la mission pour son habitabilité passée, il y a plus de trois milliards et demi d'années, quand il faisait plus chaud à la surface de ce monde.
Le rover Perseverance dans les griffes du Sky Crane qui le transporte jusqu'à son site d'atterrissage prévu, le cratère Jezero.
Comme tous les engins qui veulent toucher le sol de Mars, Perseverance va devoir atterrir en douceur, et ainsi passer d'une vitesse de croisière supérieure à 50.000 km/h à zéro en très peu de temps. La méthode choisie pour cette séquence nommée EDL (entry, descent, and landing) est pratiquement la même que celle employée pour Curiosity, en août 2012. Elle a fait ses preuves.
La très belle animation ci-dessus présente l'enchaînement des différentes actions qui se dérouleront le jour J. Le moment le plus tendu sera bien sûr celui où la capsule plongera dans l'atmosphère jusqu'au terminus au sol quelques minutes plus tard. Un moment crucial pour la mission que la Nasa appelle, à juste titre, « sept minutes de terreur ! » (ici condensées en trois minutes dans la vidéo). Comme le centre de contrôle de Mars 2020 est sur Terre, à des centaines de millions de kilomètres de là, soit une dizaine de minutes-lumière, toutes les actions ont donc été orchestrées à l'avance et le cerveau du vaisseau n'aura plus qu'à jouer la partition qu'on lui aura transmise.
Déposé en douceur par le Sky Crane, Perseverance touche le sol de Mars.
Les principales étapes de l’atterrissage de Mars 2020
0:28 : Mars est en vue ! La capsule se sépare de son enveloppe de panneaux solaires.
0:40 : Le vaisseau qui transporte Perseverance entre dans l'atmosphère martienne. Il doit passer de 20.000 km/h à presque zéro en quelques minutes.
0:54 : Solidement attaché, le rover et son vaisseau sont conçus pour résister aux vibrations au cours de son voyage et la manœuvre périlleuse de la séquence EDL.
1:05 : le cratère Jezero n'est plus très loin. Le parachute supersonique est ouvert. Maintenant, la descente peut se faire à une vitesse réduite.
1:26 : la capsule s'ouvre, le rover a les pieds dans le vide. Quelques instants plus tard, l'engin qui va le porter se détache du vaisseau, lequel va aller s'écraser des centaines de mètres plus bas.
Aussitôt largué, le SkyCrane a allumé ses rétrofusées. C'est parti pour une petite balade au-dessus de la région où doit atterrir Perseverance.
2:03 : quand la zone d'atterrissage est en vue, à l'intérieur d'une ellipse de huit kilomètres, l'engin-porteur descend le rover avec les filins.
2:08 : quand Perseverance touche le sol, les filins sautent aussitôt. Le SkyCrane s'éloigne pour aller s'échouer dans un endroit qui ne met pas en danger le rover.
Perseverance est livré. Reste plus ensuite qu'à vérifier que tout est en état de fonctionnement. Puis viendront les premières images de son environnement, mais aussi de lui-même, afin de l'ausculter visuellement. Puis les premiers tours de roue, les premières mesures météo, le déploiement du petit hélicoptère révolutionnaire qui l'accompagne, etc.
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Xavier Demeersman
Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] L'atterrissage du rover Perseverance sur MarsAnimation montrant la séquence EDL, l'entrée, la descente et l'atterrissage de Perseverance à la surface de Mars.
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Les « sept minutes de terreur » qui attendent le rover Perseverance le 18 février
Xavier Demeersman
Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] L'atterrissage du rover Perseverance sur MarsAnimation montrant la séquence EDL, l'entrée, la descente et l'atterrissage de Perseverance à la surface de Mars.
Many in the British UFO research community believe that alien saucers in the possession of the British Government may have been kept at Rudloe Manor, a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located northeast of Bath, between the towns of Box and Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
The Manor was built on top of quarries from which Bath Stone had been extracted, in the 1930s some of the tunnels were converted for use as a Central Ammunition Depot. The vast caverns had some 2,250,000 square feet of space, divided into many smaller chambers.
Are there secret tunnels under Rudloe Manor
The historian Rupert Matthews wrote about the rumours linking the base with UFOs:
“By the later 1990s the rumours had begun to take a more definite form. According to these reports, there was a vast underground complex beneath the apparently innocuous barracks and office buildings scattered in the grounds of the old manor house.
“This much could be checked out and was accurate. The manor had been taken over by the RAF at the start of World War II precisely because these huge underground caverns existed. They were the abandoned workings from which the much prized Bath Stone had been quarried out in the 19th Century.
“Being deep underground the tunnels and caves were, of course, proof against German bombing. From 1940 onward a whole range of government and military units and installations were located in the tunnels of Rudloe Manor where they would be safe from the Luftwaffe. Much of what went on there at the time is now well known and while it was all vital to the war effort is hardly controversial.”
At the end of 1994, Matthew Williams and Paul Damon visited the Rudloe Manor to investigate the truth about the manor and UFO connection. When they arrive there, the guard asked them what they were doing and they explained that they were UFO researchers who interested with the manor.
Then, Matthew and Paul asked if there is an “Underground Town” existed beneath the manor? The guard stated that there was only a quarry at Rudloe site 2 and no more.
Paul said that he watched a TV Program called “Schofields Quest” and from there he got information about “Underground Town”, if it were only a quarry then it would be no problem and not represent any threat to national security to let the “Schofields Quest” cameras in for a look. The guard stated that the tv crew were misguided and he try to convince them once again that there was nothing at site 2 but a quarry.
A few minutes later, a white van came out of nowhere and parked itself in blocking position in front of Matthew’s car. The van’s door opened and 2 soldiers with semi automatic machine guns emerged. The 3rd person who was the driver of the van came out, he was dressed in cammo gear and he appeared to be a sergeant.
They were questioned by the sergeant about their activities around the manor, and they did their best to answer and provide as much information as they could with their knowledge about the base. However he did not satisfied with their explanation, and asked their proper ID.
Just before he left to make his checks he made the following disturbing statement,
“I am going to check your details. Do not get out of your car whilst I am gone, do you understand?”
“Yes, no problem”, said Matthew and Paul.
“Do not attempt to drive away in the vehicle whilst I am gone, do you understand?”
“We won’t go anywhere.”
“Because if you do try to get out of the vehicle OR try to drive away you WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF CIRCULATION!”
Matthew and Paul were shocked with his warning. Whilst the Sergeant was away at the guardhouse one of the soldiers standing guard paced near their car and they got his attention in order to have a talk. He told them that they had got the whole base on full alert and there was a real stir.
Matthew and Paul said that they were sorry but they could not see that they had done anything wrong. They asked him questions about UFO’s – had he seen any, did he know what went on at Rudloe. He said, “Well who knows what they get up to, but I am not allowed to say anything anyhow.”
When the sergeant returned he said that their details had checked out but he was not happy with both of them being there. He told them that they were not allowed to take photos as it was prohibited. Matthew disagreed and stated that there were no anti photography signs posted so there was no restriction.
He argued that there were signs posted and that Matthew had not seen them. He also said that the base commanders would not give such permission and that if they came back to this base in the future to take photos they would be blocked!
After the incident, Matthew said, “If they are this interested in security of the base then it is obvious that they are hiding something “good” there.
According to Nick Redfern, a British author also ufologist and cryptozoologist who has investigated the Rudloe Manor-UFO connection: ‘The whole Rudloe-UFO saga has been a puzzle in itself.
There’s no doubt that the RAF’s Provost & Security Services – who were based at Rudloe for two decades – have played a role in official UFO investigations. There are even a few declassified files available at the National Archive, Kew. But the big question is the extent, or otherwise, of those investigations
Some researchers have suggested – and particularly Matthew Williams in the mid-to-late 90s – that Rudloe’s role went far beyond that officially admitted by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Others merely see it as a minor aspect of official UFO investigations that got blown up out of proportion by the UFO research community.’
Sources:
Paranormal Magazine Issue. 65: “The Top Ten Weirdest Paranormal and Conspiracy Theories” written by Richard Thomas;
Many in the British UFO research community believe that alien saucers in the possession of the British Government may have been kept at Rudloe Manor, a Royal Air Force (RAF) station located northeast of Bath, between the towns of Box and Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
The Manor was built on top of quarries from which Bath Stone had been extracted, in the 1930s some of the tunnels were converted for use as a Central Ammunition Depot. The vast caverns had some 2,250,000 square feet of space, divided into many smaller chambers.
Are there secret tunnels under Rudloe Manor
The historian Rupert Matthews wrote about the rumours linking the base with UFOs:
“By the later 1990s the rumours had begun to take a more definite form. According to these reports, there was a vast underground complex beneath the apparently innocuous barracks and office buildings scattered in the grounds of the old manor house.
“This much could be checked out and was accurate. The manor had been taken over by the RAF at the start of World War II precisely because these huge underground caverns existed. They were the abandoned workings from which the much prized Bath Stone had been quarried out in the 19th Century.
“Being deep underground the tunnels and caves were, of course, proof against German bombing. From 1940 onward a whole range of government and military units and installations were located in the tunnels of Rudloe Manor where they would be safe from the Luftwaffe. Much of what went on there at the time is now well known and while it was all vital to the war effort is hardly controversial.”
At the end of 1994, Matthew Williams and Paul Damon visited the Rudloe Manor to investigate the truth about the manor and UFO connection. When they arrive there, the guard asked them what they were doing and they explained that they were UFO researchers who interested with the manor.
Then, Matthew and Paul asked if there is an “Underground Town” existed beneath the manor? The guard stated that there was only a quarry at Rudloe site 2 and no more.
Paul said that he watched a TV Program called “Schofields Quest” and from there he got information about “Underground Town”, if it were only a quarry then it would be no problem and not represent any threat to national security to let the “Schofields Quest” cameras in for a look. The guard stated that the tv crew were misguided and he try to convince them once again that there was nothing at site 2 but a quarry.
A few minutes later, a white van came out of nowhere and parked itself in blocking position in front of Matthew’s car. The van’s door opened and 2 soldiers with semi automatic machine guns emerged. The 3rd person who was the driver of the van came out, he was dressed in cammo gear and he appeared to be a sergeant.
They were questioned by the sergeant about their activities around the manor, and they did their best to answer and provide as much information as they could with their knowledge about the base. However he did not satisfied with their explanation, and asked their proper ID.
Just before he left to make his checks he made the following disturbing statement,
“I am going to check your details. Do not get out of your car whilst I am gone, do you understand?”
“Yes, no problem”, said Matthew and Paul.
“Do not attempt to drive away in the vehicle whilst I am gone, do you understand?”
“We won’t go anywhere.”
“Because if you do try to get out of the vehicle OR try to drive away you WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF CIRCULATION!”
Matthew and Paul were shocked with his warning. Whilst the Sergeant was away at the guardhouse one of the soldiers standing guard paced near their car and they got his attention in order to have a talk. He told them that they had got the whole base on full alert and there was a real stir.
Matthew and Paul said that they were sorry but they could not see that they had done anything wrong. They asked him questions about UFO’s – had he seen any, did he know what went on at Rudloe. He said, “Well who knows what they get up to, but I am not allowed to say anything anyhow.”
When the sergeant returned he said that their details had checked out but he was not happy with both of them being there. He told them that they were not allowed to take photos as it was prohibited. Matthew disagreed and stated that there were no anti photography signs posted so there was no restriction.
He argued that there were signs posted and that Matthew had not seen them. He also said that the base commanders would not give such permission and that if they came back to this base in the future to take photos they would be blocked!
After the incident, Matthew said, “If they are this interested in security of the base then it is obvious that they are hiding something “good” there.
According to Nick Redfern, a British author also ufologist and cryptozoologist who has investigated the Rudloe Manor-UFO connection: ‘The whole Rudloe-UFO saga has been a puzzle in itself.
There’s no doubt that the RAF’s Provost & Security Services – who were based at Rudloe for two decades – have played a role in official UFO investigations. There are even a few declassified files available at the National Archive, Kew. But the big question is the extent, or otherwise, of those investigations
Some researchers have suggested – and particularly Matthew Williams in the mid-to-late 90s – that Rudloe’s role went far beyond that officially admitted by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Others merely see it as a minor aspect of official UFO investigations that got blown up out of proportion by the UFO research community.’
Sources:
Paranormal Magazine Issue. 65: “The Top Ten Weirdest Paranormal and Conspiracy Theories” written by Richard Thomas;
When the moon is in the Seventh House And Jupiter aligns with Mars Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars — (Age of Aquarius – The 5th Dimension)
That song was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and the musical group, the 5th Dimension. Their name referred to adding a fifth dimension to the traditional four-part harmony of a quartet with an additional voice and had nothing to do with the Kaluza–Klein theory. The what?
“We argue that extensions of the SM with a warped extra dimension, together with a new Z2-odd scalar singlet, provide a natural explanation not only for the hierarchy problem but also for the nature of fermion bulk masses and the observed dark matter relic abundance. In particular, the Kaluza-Klein excitations of the new scalar particle, which is required to naturally obtain fermion bulk masses through Yukawa-like interactions, can be the leading portal to any fermion propagating into the bulk of the extra dimension and playing the role of dark matter.”
Well, that abstract from the paper “A warped scalar portal to fermionic dark matter” published in The European Physical Journal C explains everything … not. Fortunately, the fine folks at Vice have taken a stab at breaking down into layperson’s terms the announcement that theoretical physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University have identified a new particle that may open a portal to a 5th dimension beyond height, width, depth and time … and who couldn’t use an extra dimension these days – even if it’s warped?
“The researchers are part of a long scientific tradition that questions whether the four dimensions that humans can comprehend—3D space and time—are really all the universe has to offer. This line of research has produced 5-dimensional field equations that express the implications an extra dimension would have on the universe, and reality itself.
While researching these equations in relation to fermion masses, the team sketched out the existence of a new scalar field associated with a speculative particle that is roughly similar to the Higgs field associated with the famous Higgs boson particle.”
Like all things strange in physics these days, this research is connected with the Higgs boson particle and dark matter. This new heavy particle appears to fit between dark matter and visible matter, especially light. This research began with German mathematician Theodor Kaluza and Swedish physicist Oskar Klein, who in 1921 independently developed the Kaluza–Klein theory which used the fifth dimension to unite gravity with electromagnetic force. That eventually inspired superstring theory and supergravity — the idea that reality is composed of vibrating strands of energy in ten dimensions or more. The Large Hadron Collider is able to pick up indirect evidence of a fifth dimension, which inspired the proposed new particle which could actually open a portal into this fifth dimension. Or, as the researchers call it, “a possible new messenger to the dark sector.”
Are you ready to enter the dark sector? Or did you think we were already in it?
“If this heavy particle exists, it would necessarily connect the visible matter that we know and that we have studied in detail with the constituents of the dark matter, assuming that dark matter is composed out of fundamental fermions, which live in the extra dimension.”
And that takes us back to the Large Hadron Collider. As powerful as it is, the LHC can’t detect it because the particle is too heavy. (Aren’t we all?) The researchers are forced to wait for the building of proposed new colliders — the International Linear Collider, the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), and the Future Circular Collider. However, it may be too big for those as well. Fortunately, they suspect the new particle might produce gravitational waves which astronomers are already doing a great job detecting and will do even better with future gravitational-wave detectors.
NOW are you ready to enter the dark sector through a portal to the 5th dimension? You may have a long wait. In the meantime, perhaps the advice of that other 5th Dimension can give you something better to do.
“Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in.”
Now I found three faces in a Mars gigapan photo today. The CIA has been spreading misinformation for about 15 years about Pareidolia and how the mind sees what it wants. However I do have a masters degree in counseling and I am very aware of this and know how to avoid it. In psychology, we have a saying about people who learn a single word and apply it to everything and everyone around them....we say, "give a child a hammer, and everything around them becomes a nail." Learn a little more psychology before you go around labeling people things you really don't understand at all. Unless of course, like me you have an upper level degree in it.
What we are seeing here are screenshots of actual faces carved into the local stones. The faces were important to them and their cultures so we know these faces have both meaning and purpose. Faces are important because they show not only what the aliens looked like, but the faces of those that they revered the most. If you look closely at the screenshots you will see not only the eyes, nose mouth and chin, but also the teeth inside the mouth (screenshot below). The face below is looking upward toward the heavens above in order to show the persons was a visionary...always looking beyond.
Don't be fooled by the primitive methods the CIA use to make society conform to their way of thinking...instead...stop believing others options and focus on your own. Finding your voice is the most important thing in the world...because its you.
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Mystery as two massive celestial bodies appear in the night sky over Dubai
Mystery as two massive celestial bodies appear in the night sky over Dubai
Several days ago a very strange phenomenon appeared in the sky over Dubai. Residents of Dubai were baffled when they witnessed two massive celestial objects in the night sky.
Afterwards there was much speculation, some people suggest that the two objects are a moon and a planetoid while others speculate that the two objects are part of the Nibiru system or UFOs disguised as celestial bodies guided by intelligence.
Other suggestions are that it is a holographic projection, project Blue Beam, a mirage or a marketing stunt but basically it comes down to the fact that no one has an answer as to what this strange phenomenon may have been.
Within the field of “UFO Contactees,” “Space Brothers,” and “Space Sisters,” there are a number that are very well known. They include George Van Tassel, Dana Howard, Truman Bethurum, Mollie Thompson, Orfeo Angelucci, George King and Margit Mustapa. And they were just the tip of the iceberg. Then there are the far lesser-known experiences of a young man named Bob Renaud. On one particular night in July 1961 (just two months before the Betty and Barney Hill abduction), 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 one Linn-Erri. So the story goes, the eighteen-year-old Renaud was told: “I am called Linn-Erri, and my associates and I come from the planet Korendor. We are speaking to you from our spaceship many miles above earth.”
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 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.
Greg Bishop and Adam Gorightly brought the story to a new generation in their 2018 book, “A” is for Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees.” The pair wrote: “…Renaud received instructions on how to adjust his television set to receive visual transmissions from outer space and soon Linn-Erri materialized on the screen, a beautiful, statuesque blonde possessing the all too earthly dimensions of 37-22-36!” The adventures didn’t end there. Still with Gorightly and Bishop: “In the early morning hours of December 22, 1962, an average-looking car carrying some average looking fellows (Korendorians in disguise) picked up Renaud and took him for a ride to an isolated area where he was treated to a demonstration of an anti-gravity device that levitated a huge rock one hundred feet into the air and then disintegrated it with a ray gun.” Not only that, in quick time Renaud channeled no less than twelve books – all of which were focused on the philosophy and science of the Korendorians.
As for the specific appearance of the Korendians, we have this: “They were deep blue, almost indigo, with smaller pupils because of Korendor’s light being about 1/6 brighter at the Korendian surface than our sun’s on Earth. There were no discernible eyebrows (or in fact any hair at all). The skull structure over the eyes protruded more than a Terran’s, perhaps to shade the eyes from overhead sunlight. The ears were smaller in relation to the head than ours, lobeless and distinctly peaked at the top. They were pressed almost flat against the head. The nose was small, with slit nostrils. The mouth was slit-like, with lips that were less pronounced than ours, and slightly narrower in proportion to the jaw. It was curled upward in what on Korendor must pass for a smile.”
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, there is something that makes Bob Renaud’s story very intriguing. The name, Linn-Erri, is very similar to the Gaelic word, “Lionmhairreacht,” which is pronounced “Lin-errich” and that translates into English as “abundance.” On top of that, even the name of the aliens’ alleged home planet, Korendor, is worth commenting on. It’s a word very similar – if not near-identical – to the Gaelic “Cor-Endor,” which means “mound of Endor,” or as Whitley Strieber described it, “a place of oracle.” For more on the Gaelic angle of the UFO phenomenon, click here.
As I said yesterday: “Today’s article is a bit different to most of my articles. This one is a 2-part feature that is focused on controversial photographs in relation to the UFO mystery. As to why it’s a bit different, it’s because there’s not a UFO in sight. Rather, the pictures I’m going to talk about are from very different angles. You’ll see what I mean.” Indeed, you will. The second-part revolves around photos taken during an alleged alien autopsy – or more than one. It’s a story I was put onto by U.K.-based ufologist Jenny Randles. In 1997 I interviewed Jenny regarding a strange series of events she found herself in, back in late 1986 (you can find the full story in Jenny’s From Out of the Blue book). It was a very curious saga involving allegedly classified documents, dead aliens, crashed flying saucers, and much more. It all began in October 1986, when Randles came into contact with a man who had then recently left his employment with the British Army. According to the man, he had in his possession a large stash of still-classified material on UFOs that he had acquired under very controversial circumstances.
The story that “Robert” told was as remarkable as it was inflammatory. Roughly a year or so earlier, an American individual, employed by the U.S. military and working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, came across the computerized files while engaged in repairing one particular system at the base. And we’re not talking about just a few pages of material. According to what Robert told Randles and ufologist Peter Hough, the number of pages was huge. The man allegedly printed around six hundred pages of material, which wasn’t even anywhere near the overall total. It turns out that – allegedly – the man in question was friends with Robert’s commanding-officer in the British Army; the two having met on an exchange-program. Fearful about what he had got himself into, the computer-specialist gave the hundreds of pages of material on those aforementioned crashed saucers and alien autopsies to the CO. From there, they reached Robert.
One of the papers referenced the autopsy of a strange body. Randles also said: “There was a lot of material about Roswell, including photographs of the UFO and of the aliens. One of the most detailed files was an autopsy report – that ran close to 200 pages in length – of the bodies recovered from the Roswell crash. Robert remembered the name of the doctor who had written it. It was Dr. Frederick Hauser, a name I’d never seen connected with UFOs in any way whatsoever. Robert said that there was a very detailed account that was mostly filled with medical jargon about the autopsy which he didn’t understand, and there was a photograph of this entity with a slit right down the middle from the neck to the navel.”
A still from the “Alien Autopsy” video
And there was still more to come. Jenny said of those elusive photos: “One of the first things Robert said was that the aliens were very human-looking. He said that the head was completely bald, but the most unusual feature of the face was the nose, which was almost flush into the face, almost unnoticeable. He couldn’t tell from the photographs, but the autopsy report made it clear that the beings were slightly smaller than average human size – about five feet in height.” Randles also told me: “Bearing in mind, 1986 was years before the autopsy film [from Ray Santilli] surfaced. In fact, the connections with the autopsy film and with what Robert told me are chillingly similar. One of the impressions that you get from the alien autopsy footage is that the body is very human-like; and is around five foot in height. I have to say it struck me as soon as I saw the footage that this was very similar to what Robert had described.” And, as Ross Condit told me: “Not sure if this will ultimately bear fruit, but I did some internet research and dug up a Captain Frederick V. Hauser who was the CO of the 450th Medical General Dispensary Unit in Vienna in Feb. 1946. He was University of Michigan class of 1940, so the timing is tight but works.”
I’ve heard the “ice crystals” explanation for different NASA UFO sightings and while it’s valid, I don’t think we should rely on it. Especially when accompanied by other interesting UFOs…
Another Monolith Appears In Turkey, Guarded By Military! UFO Sighting News, 2-5-2021.
Another Monolith Appears In Turkey, Guarded By Military! UFO Sighting News, 2-5-2021.
Date of discovery: February 4, 2021
Location of discovery: Gobeklitepe, Turkey
This just in, a monolith was discovered in an ancient 12,000 years old archeological site that was once the site of a holy temple. The object is seen in the video surrounded by four poles with warning tape wrapped around it to keep people from touching the object. But the most bewildering thing of all...is that there is Turkish military soldiers holding assault rifles guarding the monolith. Now if this was just art, there would be no soldiers. The only reasons that the Turkish government would send soldiers is if they thought this object could actually be an alien relic that landed in this location. They see the monolith as a possible alien artifact and that if it falls into the wrong hands...it could pose a risk to Turkish national security. So they protect it until its looked at by scientific experts and a they settle on what this unknown artifact really is.
Rod UFO Shoots Past Door Cam In Texas! Jan 31, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Rod UFO Shoots Past Door Cam In Texas!Jan 31, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 31, 2021 Location of sighting: Texas, USA
Wow! Just watch as this rod shoots past a door cam two weeks ago. The object shoots fast a whole 2 seconds and its gone, but I slowed it down in the video so you can get a good look at it. Strangely enough the UFO also makes an odd noise that sounds like a electrical power line humming sound. Its been a long time since I have seen a rod in public places like this in Texas. I have reported them shooting into volcanos in Mexico, but not often over neighborhoods. A very rare rod sighting. Absolute proof that rods do exist and are flying low and over the homes of Texas.
Orange Spheres Over Maricopa, Arizona On Feb 4, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Orange Spheres Over Maricopa, Arizona On Feb 4, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 4, 2021 Location of sighting: Maricopa, Arizona, USA
The eyewitness Jasmine Montenegro was talking with a friend when she noticed some glowing lights in the sky. She began recording them and they faded in and out with almost a pulsing action. You can hear the excitement in her and her friends voice as they try to figure out what these lights could possibly be. Similar lights have been seen world wide always described as large, orange, glowing, some over the ocean off the coast of Florida with over 10 minutes of footage. This is absolutely real footage with two real UFOs about to shoot off so fast...that the human eye could not see them go.
Imagine, most sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are not reported, because many witnesses do not want to talk about it or they do not know where to report their sighting.
Whether man-made or of alien origin, a lot of strange objects flying through our sky. The following footage of reported UFO sightings from around the world is just the tip of the iceberg.
Four UFOs disappearing into the Moon's Aristarchus Crater
Four UFOs disappearing into the Moon's Aristarchus Crater
Sky-watcher UFOvni2012 has been observing the Moon's Aristarchus crater for years, which is often hazy, but on January 26, 2021, the vision was clear and to his surprise he saw 4 UFOs looming above the crater's surface.
Then it looks like the UFOs are lining up to disappear into some sort of entrance inside the crater.
It is suggested that there are several secret underground lunar bases on the moon once set up by the earth's super powers and this footage of the four UFOs disappearing into the crater, which starts at 4.04 seconds in the video, could be proof that underground operational bases on the moons are real of which one such a base is located inside the Aristarchus Crater.
VIDEO: UFOs witnessed over Kearney, Missouri 6-Feb-2021
VIDEO: UFOs witnessed over Kearney, Missouri 6-Feb-2021
This triangular formation of lights was filmed over Kearney, MO on 6th February 2021.
Witness report:
We leaving my mother in law’s house and driving out of her subdivision when I saw them and pointed them out to my wife. We live within 20 miles of Kansas City International and see planes coming for approach on a regular basis and know what a plane looks like, These were just read glowing and no distinguishable marks. Lead 3 were in a rigid never changing triangle shape 2 following one merged with the triangle and the other just faded away. This was all to the southeast of our location and they were traveling south to southwest. The Triangle eventually faded out. or turn away so that we could no longer see it. Very brief visually. I am a trained observer from my time in the US Navy and never seen anything like this ever, Not Chinese lanterns or anything else. I have a very short video from my phone but it is not good quality
A study out of the University of Washington sheds interesting light on the human capability to communicate between brain and brain without words. Also known as telepathy.
Reflect On:
If emerging science begins to change our knowledge of who we truly are, might this new understanding of what it means to be human change the way we live our lives?
Fascinating research out of the University of Washington successfully replicates a direct brain-to-brain connection between multiple pairs of people in a scientific study, following-up on the teams initial demonstration.
The study involved six people who were engaged with each other in pairs from different areas of campus. Researchers sent signals from one person’s brain over the internet to another person in an attempt to control the other’s hand motions with thought.
Study Method
In order to properly conduct the study researchers needed to separate the subjects and close off certain perceptions of the study method. Each sender of thought was placed in front of a computer game where he or she had to defend a city by firing a cannon and intercepting rockets launched by a pirate ship. But, the senders were not able to interact with the game physically. The only way they could properly defend their city was through thought. When a rocket was coming or when they wanted to fire a cannon, they had to think about doing that intentionally.
Across campus, each receiver sat in a dark room with headphones on and no ability to see the computer game. Their right hand was positioned overtop the touchpad that would fire the cannon when tapped. If brain-to-brain connection was successful between the two pairs, the send would effectively be able to get the receiver to tap the touchpad and fire the cannon.
From a technology standpoint, researchers used two types of noninvasive instruments that can connect with human brains in real-time. One participant was hooked up to a electroencephalography machine that reads brain activity and sends electrical pulses via the web to the receiver. The receiver is wearing a swim cap with a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil placed near the area of the brain that controls hand movements.
This setup effectively allows one person to send a command that would in theory move the hand of another person simply through thought.
“The new study brings our brain-to-brain interfacing paradigm from an initial demonstration to something that is closer to a deliverable technology,” said co-author Andrea Stocco, a research assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. “Now we have replicated our methods and know that they can work reliably with walk-in participants.”
UW students Darby Losey, left, and Jose Ceballos are positioned in two different buildings on campus as they would be during a brain-to-brain interface demonstration. The sender, left, thinks about firing a cannon at various points throughout a computer game. That signal is sent over the Web directly to the brain of the receiver, right, whose hand hits a touchpad to fire the cannon.
Credit Mary Levin.
The Results
It was found that accuracy varied depending on each pairing. The accuracy range was from 25 to 83 percent. Misses were mostly found to be caused by the sender failing to accurately execute the thought to send the “fire” command. The researchers also were able to quantify the exact amount of information that was transferred between the two brains.
Interestingly the degree of accuracy being low in subjects who couldn’t properly extend intention to the receiver also indicates that it isn’y simply just thoughts that affect our reality but actually the intention. Therefore during study of the phenomenon accuracy in whether or not subjects are truly intending vs just thinking is crucial.
For me personally, this brings interesting insight to my theory that thoughts don’t create reality, but that there needs to be a power behind that thought. A strong intention, emotion, feeling, etc. Further to that, it takes deep practice and a level of mastery to truly train yourself to impact physical reality with thought and intention.
This isn’t the first time brain-to-brain communication has been demonstrated scientifically. Another research team from the company Starlab in Barcelona, Spain, recently published a study with very similar results to the one above. Direct communication between two human brains was demonstrated but this one only featured two subjects.
Also, a study was done that demonstrated telepathy between humans during dreams.
The research team from the University of Washington has been granted a new $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation so they can take their work to the next level. This clearly illustrates the validity and impressive potential implications of their work.
“Imagine someone who’s a brilliant scientist but not a brilliant teacher. Complex knowledge is hard to explain – we’re limited by language,” said co-author Chantel Prat, a faculty member at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and a UW assistant professor of psychology.
Keeping An Open Mind
It feels like we are living in a time where new discoveries are truly making us question what it means to e human. Who are we? What are our capabilities? If the story of who we truly are changes, would that change how we choose to create our society and life?
Thankfully there are many brilliant people out there not only doing this work to bring forth cutting edge science. Of course this new science does come with opposition and controversy as paradigms are challenged by these ideas. It’s my feeling that there is little value in simply calling this work “pseudoscience” as it often is called, as it only seeks to cast off this work without truly looking into it and remembering to stay curious and playful.
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Making air from Moon dust: Scientists create a prototype oxygen plant
Making air from Moon dust: Scientists create a prototype oxygen plant
Scientists have created a prototype "lunar oxygen plant" by testing a method for extracting oxygen from imitation Moon rocks that could be invaluable for lunar settlements.
The European Space Agency has created an experimental “oxygen plant” in the Netherlands that can extract oxygen trapped within simulated Moon dust.
Not only does the process extract up to 96 percent of the oxygen in the imitation lunar soil, it also leaves behind metals that might be valuable to future crewed missions that venture to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
Oxygen on the Moon
Based on lunar rock samples returned to Earth during the Apollo missions, scientists know that the Moon's soil, or regolith, contains about 40 to 45 percent oxygen by weight. This makes oxygen the most abundant element on the Moon's surface. But harvesting it is difficult.
“Being able to acquire oxygen from resources found on the moon would obviously be hugely useful for future lunar settlers, both for breathing and in the local production of rocket fuel,” said Beth Lomax, a University of Glasgow researcher involved in the project, in an ESA press release.
We all know the importance of breathable oxygen, but oxygen in liquid form is also used as a propellant in many rockets. So by taking oxygen directly from the Moon — a process called in-situ resource utilization — future missions wouldn't have to bog down their rockets with a massive surplus of heavy liquid propellants. This would allow us to essentially use the Moon as a cosmic gas station, helping drastically drive down the cost of far-reaching space missions to Mars and beyond.
On the left is a pile of simulated lunar soil, or regolith; on the right is the same pile after essentially all the oxygen has been extracted from it, leaving a mixture of metal alloys.
Beth Lomax/University of Glasgow
Liquid oxygen could also be extremely useful for maintaining satellites around Earth. According to a paper published by Lomax and other researchers in the journal Planetary and Space Science, it's more energy efficient to transport liquid oxygen from the Moon to Earth-orbiting satellites than it is to launch oxygen from Earth's surface while fighting our planet's strong gravity.
The problem with plucking oxygen from lunar rocks, however, is that it's tied up in chemical compounds, and it takes energy to tear it away. This calls for special methods of separating oxygen from the other elements in lunar regolith.
Splitting Rocks
To separate the oxygen from other components in faux Moon rocks, the researchers use a technique called molten salt electrolysis.
By first placing the powdery Moon dust into a hot batch of molten calcium chloride salt, then running an electrical current through the mixture, the researchers can let chemistry and physics do the heavy lifting. The oxygen previously trapped in the simulated rocks migrates to an electrode (specifically, an anode), where the researchers can then capture it.
With this technique, the researchers report, they have been able to pull 96 percent of the oxygen out of their imitation Moon rocks in the course of just 50 hours. Alternatively, they can extract 75 percent of the oxygen in just the first 15 hours. Plus, as an added bonus, the process leaves behind a mixture of metal alloys that researchers suggest could be useful as well.
And just in case you're wondering, according to a press release published last August, researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are also working on a technique for harvesting oxygen from Moon rocks. So stay tuned, because in the not-too-distant future, we might have an old-fashioned gas station bidding war break out on the Moon.
U.S. Navy holds patents for enigmatic inventions by aerospace engineer Dr. Salvatore Pais.
He came up with technology that can "engineer" reality, devising an ultrafast craft, a fusion reactor and more.
While mostly theoretical at this point, the inventions could transform energy, space, and military sectors.
The U.S. Navy controls patents for some futuristic and outlandish technologies, some of which, dubbed "the UFO patents," came to life recently. Of particular note are inventions by the somewhat mysterious Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, whose tech claims to be able to "engineer reality". His slate of highly-ambitious, borderline sci-fi designs meant for use by the U.S. government range from gravitational wave generators and compact fusion reactors to next-gen hybrid aerospace-underwater crafts with revolutionary propulsion systems, and beyond.
Of course, the existence of patents does not mean these technologies have actually been created but there is evidence that some demonstrations of operability have been successfully carried out. As investigated and reported by The War Zone, a possible reason why some of the patents may have been taken on by the Navy is that the Chinese military might also be developing similar advanced gadgets.
Among Dr. Pais's patents are designs, approved in 2018, for an aerospace-underwater craft of incredible speed and maneuverability. This cone-shaped vehicle can potentially fly just as well anywhere it may be, whether air, water or space, without leaving any heat signatures. It can achieve so by being able to create a quantum vacuum around itself with a very dense polarized energy field. This vacuum would allow it to repel any molecule the craft comes in contact with, no matter the medium. Manipulating "quantum field fluctuations in the local vacuum energy state," would help reduce the craft's inertia. The polarized vacuum would dramatically reduce any elemental resistance and lead to "extreme speeds," claims the paper.
Not only that, if the vacuum-creating technology can be engineered, we'd also be able to "engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level," states the patent. This would lead to major advancements in aerospace propulsion and generating power. Not to mention other reality-changing outcomes that come to mind.
Among Pais's other patents are inventions that stem from similar thinking, outlining pieces of technology necessary to make his creations come to fruition. His paper presented in 2019, titled "Room Temperature Superconducting System for Use on a Hybrid Aerospace Undersea Craft," presents a system that can achieve superconductivity at room temperatures. This would become "a highly disruptive technology, capable of a total paradigm change in Science and Technology," conveys Pais.
High frequency gravitational wave generator.
Credit: Dr. Salvatore Pais
Another invention devised by Pais is an electromagnetic field generator that could generate "an impenetrable defensive shield to sea and land as well as space-based military and civilian assets". This shield could protect from threats like anti-ship ballistic missiles, cruise missiles that evade radar, coronal mass ejections, military satellites, and even asteroids.
Dr. Pais's ideas center around the phenomenon he dubbed "The Pais Effect". He referred to it in his writings as the "controlled motion of electrically charged matter (from solid to plasma) via accelerated spin and/or accelerated vibration under rapid (yet smooth) acceleration-deceleration-acceleration transients." In less jargon-heavy terms, Pais claims to have figured out how to spin electromagnetic fields in order to contain a fusion reaction – an accomplishment that would lead to a tremendous change in power consumption and an abundance of energy.
According to his bio in a recently published paper on a new Plasma Compression Fusion Device, which could transform energy production, Dr. Pais is a mechanical and aerospace engineer working at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), which is headquartered in Patuxent River, Maryland. Holding a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, Pais was a NASA Research Fellow and worked with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. His current Department of Defense work involves his "advanced knowledge of theory, analysis, and modern experimental and computational methods in aerodynamics, along with an understanding of air-vehicle and missile design, especially in the domain of hypersonic power plant and vehicle design." He also has expert knowledge of electrooptics, emerging quantum technologies (laser power generation in particular), high-energy electromagnetic field generation, and the "breakthrough field of room temperature superconductivity, as related to advanced field propulsion."
Suffice it to say, with such a list of research credentials that would make Nikola Tesla proud, Dr. Pais seems well-positioned to carry out groundbreaking work.
A craft using an inertial mass reduction device.
Credit: Salvatore Pais
The patents won't necessarily lead to these technologies ever seeing the light of day. The research has its share of detractors and nonbelievers among other scientists, who think the amount of energy required for the fields described by Pais and his ideas on electromagnetic propulsions are well beyond the scope of current tech and are nearly impossible. Yet investigators at The War Zone found comments from Navy officials that indicate the inventions are being looked at seriously enough, and some tests are taking place.
An unclassified image that’s reportedly been circulated among U.S. intelligence agencies shows what appears to be unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the Pentagon’s term for unidentified flying objects. The object in the photo has been described by U.S. officials as silver and “cube-shaped,” according to a report from The Debrief, which first shared the image.
The leaked photo dates back to 2018, when it materialized in an intelligence report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), the Department of Defense’s (DoD) official unit that investigates UAP sightings.
In August, the Pentagon approved the establishment of the task force as the first on-the-books government UFO program since a 2000s-era unit lost its funding in 2012. However, multiple sources confirmed with Popular Mechanics earlier this year that the unit remained active in secrecy after its shuttering. According to The Debrief, the UATPF has briefed government and military officials on UAP matters for the last two years; the newly surfaced image appeared in a report issued by the task force during that time.
The Debrief’s Tim McMillan, a contributor toPopular Mechanics, learned of the photo’s existence from a “defense official who has been verified as being in a position to have access to the UAPTF’s intelligence reports,” he writes. Three other government officials confirmed with McMillan that the photo, which was shared on a secure network used by the U.S. Intelligence Community, comes from a 2018 task force report.
A military pilot reportedly encountered the object while flying over the Atlantic Ocean on the East Coast of the U.S. in 2018 and captured it with their personal cell phone. It’s likely that a backseat weapons system operator on an F/A-18F Super Hornet took the photo of the object, which McMillan calls “inverted” and “bell-shaped,” and describes it having “ridges or other protrusions along its lateral edges, extending toward its base.”
It’s possible the object may be a GPS dropsonde, a sensor on a parachute that provides info on the vertical profile of a storm. But as McMillan points out (and confirms with an atmospheric researcher), the actual dropsonde doesn’t appear in the photo—just the potential square-cone parachute. And there would obviously have to be an aircraft above the object to drop it, and no such craft is visible in the image.
UAPTF/THE DEBRIEF
Is the object a research balloon? Probably not, two defense officials tell McMillan. “Pilots who encountered the object described that, unlike a balloon under similar conditions, the object was completely motionless and seemingly unaffected by ambient air currents,” he writes.
While we await further details about the mysterious object in the photo, it continues to be a busy time for the advancement and disclosure of UAP research.
In a July New York Times article, Harry Reid, the former Nevada senator who was instrumental in funding the government’s original UFO program, said he believes “crashes of objects of unknown origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied.” Reid said he came to the conclusion that “there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession,” according to reports.
In the same Times article, the astrophysicist Eric Davis, who consulted with the Pentagon’s original UFO program and now works for the defense contractor Aerospace Corporation, said that after he examined certain materials, he came to the conclusion that “we couldn’t make [them] ourselves.” In fact, Davis briefed a DoD agency as recently as March about retrieving materials from “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.”
The UAPTF will investigate matters like these—as long as President Donald Trump doesn’t veto the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) the annual bill that sets the budget and policies for the U.S. military.
The NDAA, which must be passed and signed before Congress adjourns on January 3, includes appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for the UAPTF and supports its efforts to reveal any links that UAP “have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations.” But a Trump veto of the NDAA may stall the momentum of the task force.
As for other UAP-related events this year, in April, the U.S. Navy officially released three previously leaked videos taken by Navy pilots that indeed show UAP—but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.
The Pentagon released the videos in order to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” a spokesperson told Popular Mechanics at the time.
The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England
The great saucer invasion: The day six 'spaceships' landed in England
By Tanya Gupta - BBC News
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The saucers were found to be giving out a low, ominous tone
They had big metal domes, emitted a strange, ominous hum and appeared one morning in a straight line across southern England. For a few hours, members of the public, police and the Army really believed alien spaceships had landed - until it was revealed to be a stunt by students. But how was the hoax so successful?
They had metal domes, emitted a strange and ominous hum and appeared in a straight line one morning in the south of England. The public, the police, and the Army believed they had landed extraterrestrial spaceships until it was revealed that it was a student joke. But how did they make the deception so successful?
The apparently extra-terrestrial vessels prompted a major police and military response, witnessed by Ray Seager who was with other children playing outside when one of the six saucers was found in the Isle of Sheppey on 4 September 1967.
"We all came running over, and there it was," he said. "There were no two ways about it. It was there.
"It was the old flying saucer shape. It was a silver, big dome with the thing round the outside. Yes, it was a flying saucer."
While the children were excited, he recalls there was also real fear as the police arrived.
"They started coming up the hill, and as they started getting close, they started gesturing to us, all the kids, to move away. And they were frightened I think, just as much as we were."
Newspapers reported how the saucers were watched, listened to and weighed at police stations and one RAF base throughout the day.
The Sheppey saucer was removed by RAF helicopter, while satellite experts were called to a "landing" site in Berkshire amid reports the object found there was bleeping and hissing and full of a mysterious liquid.
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The saucers were taken away and examined before it emerged that hoaxers were responsible
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Doubts about objects arose after batteries were found in one of them
From the moment apprentices at Farnborough's Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) came up with the idea for the hoax, there was a determination it should be convincing, said engineer Chris Southall.
All of them were interested in sci-fi, and they set out to create a design that would not be recognisably human.
There could be no giveaway features on the saucers, such as portholes or aerials, nor anything that might be seen on terrestrial inventions such as a plane or a boat.
First they made the metal-coated, fibreglass saucers by forming plaster moulds to build them in two halves, and then they sandwiched them together with electronic sound equipment inside.
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The objects were filled with a flour and water sourdough-like substance, which fermented and then exploded when the saucers were drilled into
"When you turned the saucers upside down, it flicked a switch and started a battery," Mr Southall said.
"We were putting them out in secret, in the middle of the night, in the early hours, and we didn't want them to make a noise until then. Only when we left, we turned them upside down and the noise started - and then we got away quick."
The saucers were also filled with a flour and water mix that fermented inside and turned into foul-smelling slime.
"We wanted to make something that looked really alien," he said.
They were placed in six locations in a straight line from east to west - Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Bromley in south London, Ascot, the village of Welford, near Newbury, in Berkshire, Chippenham in Wiltshire and Clevedon in Somerset.
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Newspapers showed how the saucers "landed" in a straight line
Engineer Rog Palmer, who was also on the committee, organised teams of two or three apprentices to take the saucers to each location and briefed each group about how to carry out the task, including what to say if stopped by the police - that they had stayed out late at a party.
And by the time the saucers were discovered, the pranksters were back in their hostel - where 500 apprentices lived - bleary-eyed over breakfast after being up all night, but very excited.
They had risen to the task of planting the "spaceships" without detection, but were they prepared for the extraordinary success of their hoax?
image captionEngineers Rog Palmer (left) and Chris Southall masterminded the hoax
Mr Southall, now 72 and an environmental campaigner who runs an eco-house in Clacton, Essex, remembers it was the era of Sputnik and space exploration - and says the whole point of the hoax was for it to be taken seriously.
"We thought the government should have some sort of plan if aliens did land," he said.
"So we gave them a chance to try out whatever plan they had - but they didn't have one."
He recalls the surprise of the apprentices when police and Army responders blew one saucer up and dropped another.
David Clarke, media law expert at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant and curator for the National Archives UFO project, believes the response to the hoax was flawed.
"One of the saucers when they actually drilled into it, because it was full of this compacted, sort of papier-maché mess, actually exploded and showered the police officers with this stuff.
"If it had been some kind of radiation hazard, how would they have dealt with that? It would have been a disaster area.
"And what did they do? Just washed it down the drains."
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The "landings" led to a major police and Army response
Dr Clarke and Mr Southall agree that in 1967 the public imagination was already gripped by UFO fever - at the time the Ministry of Defence was receiving near-daily reports of sightings.
But despite this climate, the apprentices did not expect the huge media response, which included international coverage and double-page spreads.
"It was more than we hoped for," Mr Southall said.
The events of that day remain something of a blur for him, but he remembers trekking to a TV studio in the evening after the hoax had been exposed.
By the time the papers went to press, journalists had been told about the prank, but it didn't deter them from reporting it as an alien invasion, Mr Southall said.
media captionIt's 50 years since the great UFO hoax fooled the nation
Press cuttings from the time reveal official sources "tended to be snappy" when questioned about the hoax.
But police confirmed no action was to be taken against the pranksters, with one Bromley officer quoted as saying: "We are taking it like gentlemen."
Mr Southall admits that to put the police and Army to such an inconvenience today would have entirely different consequences.
"Those were hippie days," he said. "We were apprentices from the RAE and people had a kinder attitude to us because of who we were, and in those days it was different."
Now, he says, the saucers would be treated as explosive devices and detonated - and the hoaxers could end up in jail.
"That's one of the interesting things looking back at this, 50 years on.
"The times we live in now are much harsher, and I don't think we could do it now. We would end up in trouble."
As far as a student pranks go, creating an incident which received worldwide coverage is fairly good going. But that is exactly what happened back in 1967 when an "alien invasion" took place.
The extraordinary events happened on September 4 that year.
Christopher Lever, then a worker in the city who lived in Winkfield, found a mysterious silver saucer in a paddock at his home in the village on the outskirts of Bracknell.
He didn't know at the time, but five other similar "spacecraft" were found around the country, which sparked fears of an Independence Day-style alien invasion.
Some of the devices that landed elsewhere in the country bleeped when they were touched, and others emitted a foul-smelling liquid. The saucer in Winkfield did neither.
The police were called and the "flying saucer" was taken to the police station in Ascot.
An investigation was carried out and gradually it was revealed the "alien invasion" was an elaborate hoax by engineer apprentices at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough.
Another of the "saucers" was found in the wilds of West Berkshire in Welford near Newbury.
He said: “There used to be a satellite tracking station nearby so Christopher contacted them.
“They passed it to their station engineer Roger Kenyon, who thought the best part of valour was to stand at a distance and throw pennies at it – he thought it might blow up or angry little green men might emerge.
“When he ran out of change he went closer. Eventually the police were called and officers from Bracknell came and took the saucer to the station in Ascot.”
The papers revealed they were fitted with a motion sensitive alarm that went off if they were moved. They were also filled with a foul-smelling green gunge.
People were so scared by the crafts that in some areas the army was called in.
While the incident was debunked as a hoax, a recent report has revealed Berkshire as a hotspot for UFO sightings. And the area has a long history of mysterious activity in the skies.
Astronomers announced this month that a new deep-field survey called JADES will be carried out with the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble’s much-anticipated successor. The Webb is due to launch later this year.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (in its eXtreme version) is the deepest view of the universe yet obtained … and will be, until JADES takes over. It stretches approximately 13 billion light-years and includes approximately 10,000 galaxies. It took 11.3 days for the Hubble Space Telescope to collect these ancient photons. Try downloading the largest version and zoom in on different sections. We’re seeing these galaxies as they were billions of years ago. How might they look today?
Image via NASA/ ESA/ S. Beckwith (STSci)/ HUDF team.
Astronomers announced a new deeper-than-ever sky survey this month (January 15, 2021), to be conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble telescope’s successor, scheduled for launch in October of this year. The new survey is abbreviated JADES, which is short for James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey. The survey will be like the Hubble Deep Fields, but deeper still. Its main goal is to see far away in space – and thus far back into the very young universe – and image it just at the end of the so-called Cosmic Dark Ages, that is, at the time when gas in the universe went from being opaque to transparent. This is also the time when the very first stars were forming – very large, massive and bright stars – in a veritable firestorm of star birth when the young universe was less than 5% of its current age.
The Webb telescope will be located near the second Lagrange point – a relatively stable region of space, gravitationally speaking, known as L2 – some 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. To conduct the new survey, the Webb telescope will be staring at a small point of space for nearly 800 hours (approximately 33 days) to be able to see fainter objects than those ever seen before and thus to find the first generation of galaxies. Astronomers want to know, among other things, how fast did these galaxies form, and how fast did their stars form? They also want to look for the very first supermassive black holes, which are thought to lie at the hearts of nearly all large galaxies, including our Milky Way.
The long-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope has been postponed a number of times for a variety of reasons, most recently because of effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the formal successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, but is equipped with instrumentation able to image further into the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum than Hubble could.
This capability also makes it a worthy successor to the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope which recently went into retirement.
What makes the infrared part of the spectrum so important for surveys like JADES? If you look really deep, you will also look back in time, and the farther back in time you look, the more redshifted the galaxies are (the farther away they are, the faster they move away from us, and the more their light has been shifted towards the red part of the spectrum). This means that the light we want to observe, originally in the optical (visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum, might not even show much in the optical part anymore. Instead, it’s been shifted to longer wavelengths, into the infrared regime.
In other words, the use of infrared cameras is necessary to be able to see the light from the first generation of galaxies. Daniel Eisenstein, a professor of astronomy at Harvard University, said:
Galaxies, we think, begin building up in the first billion years after the Big Bang, and sort of reach adolescence at 1 to 2 billion years. We’re trying to investigate those early periods. We must do this with an infrared-optimized telescope because the expansion of the universe causes light to increase in wavelength as it traverses the vast distance to reach us. So even though the stars are emitting light primarily in optical and ultraviolet wavelengths, that light is shifted quite relentlessly out into the infrared. Only Webb can get to the depth and sensitivity that’s needed to study these early galaxies.
In fact, the James Webb Space Telescope was built specifically for this purpose. Up to now, infrared images are much less resolved – less clear – than optical images, because of their longer wavelength. With its much larger collecting area, the Webb will be able to image, in infrared, at the same resolution – detail – that Hubble could obtain in the optical part of the spectrum.
Get ready for a whole new set of mind-blowing images of the universe, this time in the infrared, from Webb!
After having successfully deployed its solar panels – precisely as it’s supposed to do once it’s in space – the Webb telescope is shown here ready for the final tests on December 17, 2020, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Then it will be packed up and transported to French Guyana, to be launched on October 31, 2021, via an Ariane V rocket.
The use of deep field surveys is a young science, for two reasons. First, astronomers didn’t have the right instrumentation before Hubble to do them. Second, it’s also because no one initially knew the result of staring into a piece of empty space for a long time. Such a long stare into the unknown would require valuable observation time, and if this long observation didn’t produce any results, it would be considered a waste.
But in 1995, Robert Williams, then the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), which administrates the Hubble telescope, decided to use his “director’s discretionary time” to point the Hubble toward a very small and absolutely empty-looking part of the sky in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. There were no stars visible from our Milky Way (or extremely few), no nearby galaxies visible in the field, and no visible gas clouds. Hubble collected photons for 10 consecutive days, and the result, the Hubble Deep Field, was a success and a paradigm changer: A patch of sky about as small as the eye of George Washington on an American quarter (25-cent coin) held out at arm’s length, showed a 10 billion-light-years-long tunnel back in time with a plethora of galaxies – around 3,000 of them – at different evolutionary stages along the way. The field of observational cosmology was born.
This was done again in 1998 with the Hubble telescope pointed to the southern sky (Hubble Deep Field South), and the result was the same. Thus we learned that the universe is uniform over large scales.
Next was the installation of a new, powerful camera on Hubble (the Advanced Camera for Surveys) in 2002. The incredible Hubble Ultra Deep Field was acquired in 2004, in a similarly small patch of sky near the constellation Orion, about 1/10 of a full moon diameter (2.4 x 3.4 arc minutes, in contrast to the original Hubble Deep Fields north and south, which were 2.6 x 2.6 arc minutes). And so our reach was extended even deeper into space, and even further back in time, showing light from 10 thousand galaxies along a 13-billion-light-years-long tunnel of space. If you’ll remember that the universe is about 13.77 billion years old, you’ll see this is getting us really close to the beginning!
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field was the most sensitive astronomical image ever made at wavelengths of visible (optical) light until 2012, when an even more refined version was released, called the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, which reached even farther: 13.2 billion years back in time.
The JADES survey will be observed in two batches, one on the northern sky and one on the southern in two famous fields called GOODS North and South (abbreviated from Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey).
Marcia Rieke, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona who co-leads the JADES Team with Pierre Ferruit of the European Space Agency (ESA), explained:
We chose these fields because they have such a great wealth of supporting information. They’ve been studied at many other wavelengths, so they were the logical ones to do.
View larger. | Look closely. Every single speck of light in this image is a distant galaxy (except for the very few ones with spikes which are foreground stars). This telescopic field of view is part of the GOODS South field. It’s one of the directions in space that’ll be observed in JADES, a new survey that aims to study the very first galaxies to appear in the infancy of the universe.
The GOODS fields have been observed with several of the most famous telescopes, covering a great wavelength range from infrared through optical to X-ray. They are not fully as deep (the observations don’t reach as far back) as the Ultra Deep Field, but cover a larger area of the sky (4-5 times larger) and are the most data-rich areas of the sky in terms of depth combined with wavelength coverage. By the way, the first deep field, HDF-N, is located in the GOODS north image, and the Ultra deep field/eXtreme (don’t you love these names?) is located in the GOODS south field.
There are a large number of ambitious science goals for the JADES program pertaining to the composition of the first galaxies, including the first generation of supermassive black holes. How these came about at such an early time is a mystery. As well, the transition of gas from neutral and opaque to transparent and ionized, something astronomers call the epoch of reionization, is not well understood. JADES team member Andrew Bunker, professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who is also part of the ESA team behind the Webb telescope, said:
This transition is a fundamental phase change in the nature of the universe. We want to understand what caused it. It could be that it’s the light from very early galaxies and the first burst of star formation … It is kind of one of the Holy Grails, to find the so-called Population III stars that formed from the hydrogen and helium of the Big Bang.
People have been trying to do this for many decades and results have been inconclusive so far.
But, hopefully, not for much longer!
Bottom line: JADES is an ambitious new deep sky survey to be observed with the James Webb Space Telescope, once launched. It will reach further back in time and space than any survey before, to study the very first generation of galaxies after the universe transitioned from opaque to transparent.
The Aztec’s Hueteocalli, otherwise known as the Templo Mayor (which translates into “Great Temple”) stood at the center of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), the capital city of the Aztec world in Mexico. With its twin temples dedicated to the war god Huitzilopochtli and to the rain god Tlaloc, archaeologists from the Templo Mayor Project ( PTM) of the National Institute of Anthropology and History ( INAH) have discovered a sculptured stone displaying a golden eagle.
It is at the foot of this architectural wonder of the Aztec religious world in modern-day Mexico City, on the central axis of the temple dedicated to Huitzilopochtl and the monumental sculpture of the goddess Coyolxauhqui, that archaeologists have unearthed the giant obsidian eagle. And this is no ordinary carved eagle, for it represents the largest of its type ever discovered.
The golden eagle bas-relief was discovered during excavations at the Templo Mayor in the center of Mexico City.
Dating to the rule of Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina, between 1440 and 1469 AD, Mexico’s Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, said the carved itzcuauhtli (obsidian eagle) was discovered in February 2020. The representation of a golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos canadensis ) measures 1.06 meters (3.47 ft) long and 0.7 meters (2.26 ft) wide. The ancient bas-relief is “the largest in a set of 67 similar elements discovered in the Templo Mayor .
The stone was discovered near the circular Cuauhxicalco, or “place of the eagle's gourd,” where 16th century accounts say the Tenochca rulers were ritually cremated. Lead archaeologist Professor Leonardo López Luján says the eagle was carved on “red tezontle,” which is a porous, highly oxidized, volcanic rock used extensively in construction in both ancient and modern Mexico.
The golden eagle bas-relief, measuring 1.06 meters (3.47 ft) long and 0.7 meters (2.26 ft) wide, was discovered on the south side of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City
Dr. López Luján added that the plaza floor in the Templo Mayor had been covered since pre-Hispanic time and that it is unique because its bas-reliefs “alluding to the dual conception of the building.” The eagle was discovered on the south side of the temple which is associated with the mythical birth cycle of Huitzilopochtli; while to the north, the bas-reliefs are associated with Tláloc, “the water cycle and the regeneration of corn.” Dr. López Luján’s team originally believed the floor was built by the government of Ahuítzotl between 1486 and 1502 AD, but now it is thought to date to the government of Motecuhzoma I in the 1440s.
Aztec boys were taught about weaponry and warfare until the age of 17 when the best students progressed to become “eagle warriors” and earned nobility in Aztec society . However, to achieve adult status young men had to capture their first prisoner and after they had captured 20 a young man was eligible to become either a jaguar or eagle warrior. Either way, both paths meant a life spent in constant battle to capture prisoners for sacrificing to the gods.
The Mexican coat of arms depicts a golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring a rattlesnake.
The golden eagle exists today in the Mexican coat of arms , that depicts the bird of prey perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring a rattlesnake. This image reflects the ancient Aztec legend that their capital city was located where an eagle was seen eating a snake on top of a lake. For the people of Tenochtitlan the eagle symbol had strong and positive religious connotations, but for the European invaders it was the serpent from the Garden of Eden representing the sinister voice of temptation.
The eagle was not only symbolic in ancient Mexico but across the entirety of South America from Brazil in the east to Ecuador in the west, and Peru in the south: where it was incorporated in mythology with the condor. According to the the Pachamama Alliance “The Eagle and the Condor” is an ancient Inca prophecy that speaks of humans splitting and following two paths, that of the eagle or the condor. The path of the condor is the path of heart, of intuition, and as such it represents feminine universal aspects. On the other hand, the path of the eagle is the path of the mind: the masculine way.
The prophecy of the eagle and condor says that beginning in the 1490s a 500-year cycle would begin in which the Eagle people would become so powerful that they would nearly drive the Condor people out of existence. This prophecy is believed to have become manifest in the subsequent Spanish conquest of South America, and according to most indigenous communities in South America today is still unfolding in the shape of old giants ripping apart their indigenous lands for liquid gold.
Top image: The giant bas-relief of a golden eagle has been discovered during excavations at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
Gareth Dorrian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
No-one has visited the moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent and generating a new space race. Nasa has selected the private company SpaceX to be part of its commercial spaceflight operations, but the firm is also pursuing its own space exploration agenda.
To enable flights to the moon and beyond, both NASA and SpaceX are developing new heavy lift rockets: SpaceX's Starship and Nasa’s Space Launch System.
But how do they differ and which one is more powerful?
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Starship
Rockets go through multiple stages to get into orbit. By discarding spent fuel tanks while in flight, the rocket becomes lighter and therefore easier to accelerate. Once in operation, SpaceX's launch system will be comprised of two stages: the launch vehicle known as Super Heavy and the Starship.
Super Heavy is powered by the Raptor rocket engine, burning a combination of liquid methane and liquid oxygen. The basic principle of a liquid fuel rocket engine is that two propellants – a fuel such as kerosene and an oxidiser such as liquid oxygen – are brought together in a combustion chamber and ignited. The flame produces hot gas under high pressure which is expelled at high speed through the engine nozzle to produce thrust.
The rocket will provide 15 million pounds of thrust at launch, which is approximately twice as much as the rockets of the Apollo era. Atop the launcher sits the Starship, itself powered by another six Raptor engines and equipped with a large mission bay for accommodating satellites, compartments for up to 100 crew and even extra fuel tanks for refuelling in space, which is critical to long duration interplanetary human spaceflight.
Super Heavy separating from Starship. (Image credit: SpaceX)
The Starship is designed to operate both in the vacuum of space and within the atmospheres of Earth and Mars, using small moveable wings to glide to a desired landing zone.
Once over the landing area, the Starship flips into a vertical position and uses its on-board Raptor engines to make a powered descent and landing. It will have sufficient thrust to lift itself off the surface of Mars or the moon, overcoming the weaker gravity of these worlds, and return to Earth – again making a powered soft landing. The Starship and Super Heavy are both fully reusable and the entire system is designed to lift more than 100 tons of payload to the surface of the Moon or Mars.
The spacecraft is maturing rapidly. A recent test flight of the Starship prototype, the SN8, successfully demonstrated a number of the manoeuvres required to make this work. Unfortunately, there was a malfunction in one of the Raptor engines and the SN8 crashed on landing. Another test flight is expected in the coming days.
NASA's Space Launch System
The Space Launch System (SLS) from Nasa will be taking the crown from the discontinued Saturn V as the most powerful rocket the agency has ever used. The current incarnation (SLS block 1) stands at almost 100 metres tall.
The SLS core stage, containing more than 3.3 million litres of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (equivalent to one-and-a-half Olympic size swimming pools), is powered by four RS-25 engines, three of which were used on the previous Space Shuttle. Their main difference from the Raptors is that they burn liquid hydrogen instead of methane.
Stages of the SLS. (Image credit: NASA)
The core stage of the rocket is augmented by two solid rocket boosters, attached to its sides, providing a total combined thrust of 8.2 million pounds at launch - about 5% more than the Saturn V at launch. This will lift the spacecraft to low Earth orbit. The upper stage is intended to lift the attached payload – the astronaut capsule – out of Earth’s orbit and is a smaller liquid fuel stage powered by a single RL-10 engine (already in use by ATLAS and DELTA rockets) which is smaller and lighter than the RS-25.
The Space Launch System will send the Orion crew capsule, which can support up to six crew for 21 days, to the Moon as part of the Artemis-1 mission – a task that current Nasa rockets are currently not capable of performing.
It is intended to have large acrylic windows so astronauts can watch the journey. It will also have its own engine and fuel supply, as well as secondary propulsion systems for returning to the Earth. Future space stations, such as the Lunar Gateway, will serve as a logistical hub, which may include refuelling.
The core stage and booster rockets are unlikely to be reusable (instead of landing they will drop in the ocean), so there is a higher cost with the SLS system, both in materials and environmentally. It is designed to evolve to larger stages capable of carrying crew or cargo weighing up to 120 tonnes, which is potentially more than Starship.
NASA’s SLS and SpaceX’s Starship, on the right, could both get us to the Moon and beyond. (Image credit: Ian Whittaker/NASA/SpaceX, Author provided)
A lot of the technology being used in SLS is so-called "legacy equipment" in that it is adapted from previous missions, cutting down the research and development time. However, earlier this month, a test fire of the SLS core stage was stopped a minute into the eight-minute test due to a suspected component failure. No significant damage occurred, and the SLS program manager, John Honeycutt, stated: "I don't think we're looking at a significant design change."
And the winner is...
So which spacecraft likely to reach carry a crew to the moon first? Artemis 2 is planned as the first crewed mission using SLS to perform a flyby of the moon and is expected to launch in August 2023. Whereas SpaceX has no specific date planned for crewed launch, they are running #dearMoon – a project involving lunar space tourism planned for 2023. Musk has also stated that a crewed Martian mission could take place as early as 2024, also using Starship.
Ultimately it is a competition between an agency that has had years of testing and experience but is limited by a fluctuating taxpayer budget and administration policy changes, and a company relatively new to the game but which has already launched 109 Falcon 9 rockets with a 98% success rate and has a dedicated long-term cash flow.
Whoever reaches the moon first will inaugurate a new era of exploration of a world which still has much scientific value.
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Archaeologists have found a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold tongue at an ancient Egyptian site called Taposiris Magna.
Embalmers perhaps placed the golden tongue on the mummy to ensure that the deceased would be able to speak in the afterlife, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said in a statement released Jan 29.
For instance, if the golden-tongued mummy encountered Osiris, the god of the underworld, in the afterlife, they would have needed to be able to speak to the god, the statement said. It isn’t clear if the mummy had a speech impediment when they were alive. It’s also not clear why the tongue was made out of gold specifically.
The archaeologists, led by Kathleen Martinez, from the Dominican Republic, discovered the mummy in one of 16 burials at Taposiris Magna, which has temples dedicated to Osiris and Isis, a goddess who was both the wife and sister of Osiris. Previously, archaeologists found a hoard of coins decorated with the face of Cleopatra VII, suggesting the temples were in use during the queen’s reign.
Among the other burials at the site, archaeologists discovered this female mummy who has a death mask that covers much of her body.
(Image credit: Egyptian antiquities ministry)
The remains of several statues depicting the deceased were also recently found at the site.
(Image credit: Egyptian antiquities ministry)
This statue also depicts one of the deceased, a man whose hairstyle is shown in detail.
(Image credit: Egyptian antiquities ministry)
This 2,000-year-old mummy was buried with a golden tongue, likely to help the deceased speak in the afterlife.
(Image credit: Egyptian antiquities ministry)
More mummies
The other 15 burials also date back around 2,000 years and contain remarkable treasure. In one, a female mummy is wearing a death mask that covers much of her body and depicts her with a headdress while smiling.
Two of the mummies were found with the remains of scrolls, which scholars are currently analyzing and deciphering. The plastered layers, or cartonnage, encasing one of these mummies has golden decorations of Osiris, the statement said.
The researchers also found several statues that depict the people who were buried at the site; the statues are so well preserved, you can still make out the individual’s hairstyles and headdresses, the statement said. The statues give the people a formal look, with no smiles on their faces.
Though the archaeologists aren’t sure exactly when the individuals died, they can tell that the people lived at a time when Egypt was ruled either by the Ptolemies (304 B.C. to 30 B.C.), who were the descendants of one of Alexander the Great’s generals, or by the Roman Empire, which took over the country after the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 B.C.
A team made of archaeologists from Egypt and the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic are conducting these excavations at Taposiris Magna. It is led by Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist from the Dominican Republic. Excavation of the site and analysis of the remains is ongoing.
'UFO sighting' sparks frenzy as eyewitnesses report ‘3 large objects’ in the sky over USA
'UFO sighting' sparks frenzy as eyewitnesses report ‘3 large objects’ in the sky over USA
UFO hunters have been analysing a trio of intriguing videos showing strange sightings over Denver, Colorado with one prominent conspiracy theorist bizarrely claiming the clips are "100 percent proof of aliens".
Amateur video footage reportedly shot on Sunday, January 31, has emerged online which appears to show a trio of strange white objects seemingly flying in formation. The anomalies are easily visible against a brilliant blue sky due to each of their clearly-defined contrails. The bizarre sight was captured in three independently-captured clips, which all show the incredible object in the sky.
Once posted on social media, the initially Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) generated outrageous explanations, including claims they were alien in origin.
Eyewitness Nick Morgan tweeted: “Anybody else see these three contrails over Denver yesterday?
We were struggling to figure out what they were - Air Force 1 with escort? Incoming missiles? Meteorites?
Eyewitness Nick Morgan
“We were struggling to figure out what they were - Air Force 1 with escort? Incoming missiles? Meteorites?”
UFO hoax buster Scott Brando of ufoofinterest.org believes there is terrestrial explanation for the strange sighting.
He told Express.co.uk: “Those objects are just contrails from three military aircrafts, two of them identified by Mick West of Metabunk as C-17A Globemasters.”
Using the Radarbox online tool, the fact checker added: “[Flights] COHO71 and COHO71 show up on FlightAware, TCM to CHS.
“And presumably there was a third plane with no ADS-B accompanying them – not entirely uncommon with military planes.
“The small kink in the path is magnified by perspective compression.”
Footage from one of the vide clips records one eyewitness saying: “I was having my morning coffee, I generally look out my window while I'm doing that.
UFO sighting: UFO hoax buster Scott Brando has confirmed alien were not involved with the sighting
(Image: Twitter)
UFO sighting: The objects were simply contrails from three military aircrafts
(Image: Google Maps)
“I looked up and I asked my friend if they could see that weird smoke trails. The trails were long at first and you could see that there was a Direction Change in the upper atmosphere.
“As it got lower to the ground, I would say within 1,500 feet, they slowly started changing directions and started heading East toward Buckley Air Force Base.”
Self-proclaimed alien spacecraft expert Scott Waring was among the minority to suggest the flyby was instead a trio of UFOs.
He wrote on his ufosightingsdaily blog: “UFO reports just came in, both coming from Denver today.
“The two different eyewitnesses spotted three falling white objects in the sky.
“The objects appear to be disks. When I made a close up screenshot of the falling objects, they all look like round disks.
“Now NASA has not reported any space debris falling over Denver, nor have they reported anything falling from space this week.
“If two different reports came in about this, since each report represents about 500 people eyewitnesses.
“That means at least 1,000 people saw this maybe much more. Not everyone records what they see during a sighting.
UFO sighting: The small kink in the plane's path were magnified by perspective compression
(Image: AirNav/RadarBox)
UFO sighting sparks frenzy as eyewitnesses report ‘3 large objects’ in the sky over USA
(Image: Express)
“Its actually a very few, and even fewer will report them to UFO sites, often instead posting them to Twitter, Facebook and other social sites where they get lost and eventually forgotten.
“Absolute proof that there are aliens in the Denver mountain regions, 100 percent proof that a alien base sits below this mountain range in that area. But I have been saying that info for a decade.”
Mr Waring’s unsubstantiated claims swiftly attracted scores of comments on his YouTube page, with many of them also claims to have spotted the trio over Colorado.
YouTube user MJA wrote: “They remind me of contrails, but that would be a three-ship formation, in loose trail (kind of random) travelling together.
Elon Musk says Neuralink could start planting computer chips in humans brains within the year
Elon Musk says Neuralink could start planting computer chips in humans brains within the year
Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Elon Musk said Neuralink is working to initiate human trials by the end of the year.
In 2019, Musk said it would be testing the AI brain chips on humans by the end of 2020.
Musk told Clubhouse users on Sunday that the company's chip implant allowed a monkey to play video games using its mind.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that Neuralink — his brain-computer-interface company — could be launching human trials by the end of 2021.
Musk gave the timeline in response to another user's request to join human trials for the product, which is designed to implant artificial intelligence into human brains as well as potentially cure neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
"Neuralink is working super hard to ensure implant safety & is in close communication with the FDA," Musk said on Twitter in response to another user's request to join human trials. "If things go well, we might be able to do initial human trials later this year."
Musk has made similar statements in the past about his project, which was launched in 2016. He said in 2019 that it would be testing on humans by the end of 2020.
Musk told Clubhouse users Sunday night that Neuralink recently used its nanotechnology to implant a chip into a monkey's brain. The wireless chip allowed the monkey to play video games using only its mind, according to Musk.
The chip implants can read and write brain activity. Musk claims the brain-machine interface could do anything from cure paralysis to give people telepathic powers, referring to the device as "a Fitbit in your skull."
Musk has also recently tried to recruit for the company on Twitter.
"If you've worked on advanced wearables, phones or robots, those skills are needed @neuralink," Musk tweeted on Sunday.
D’ici 2035, la NASA veut envoyer des astronautes sur Mars.Néanmoins, atteindre la planète rouge à une distance moyenne de 225 millions de kilomètres n’est pas chose aisée.
Plus froide que l’Antarctique et dépourvue d’oxygène, Mars est une planète hostile. Plus le voyage est long et plus les astronautes s’exposent aux risques des voyages spatiaux. C’est pourquoi les scientifiques s’efforcent de trouver un moyen de réduire le temps de trajet. Une compagnie basée à Seattle, Ultra Safe Nuclear Technolgies (USNC-Tech) a proposé une solution : un moteur à propulsion nucléaire thermique (NTP) qui permettrait de faire le trajet Terre – Mars en à peine 3 mois.
Concept de fusée NTP. Source : NASA
À l’heure actuelle, le voyage le plus court pour un vol non habité est de sept mois. Avec une équipe à bord, on estime à neuf mois le temps de trajet. Michael Eades, directeur de l’ingénierie d’USNC-Tech, déclare qu’une fusée à propulsion nucléaire est plus puissante et deux fois plus efficace qu’une propulsion chimique classique. Cela signifierait voyager plus vite et plus loin en consommant moins de carburant.
« La technologie nucléaire étendra la portée de l’humanité au-delà de l’orbite basse terrestre et dans l’espace lointain, » déclare-t-il à CNN. Cela permettrait également, toujours selon ses déclarations, d’ouvrir l’espace à des opportunités commerciales galactiques.
Des voyages spatiaux plus rapides
Aujourd’hui, les fusées sont propulsées par des moteurs chimiques. Celles-ci pourraient vous amener sur Mars, mais cela prendrait au moins trois ans pour un aller-retour selon Jeff Sheehy, ingénieur en chef de la direction des missions de technologie spatiale de la NASA.
La NASA veut voyager plus vite pour limiter le temps passé par l’équipage dans l’espace. Cela permettrait de réduire le temps d’exposition aux radiations spatiales qui peuvent causer des problèmes de santé comme le mal des rayons, risques accrus de cancer de la peau, atteinte au système nerveux central ou encore des maladies dégénératives. De plus, « plus longtemps vous êtes partis, plus grandes sont les chances que les choses tournent mal, » ajoute-t-il.
D’où le regain d’intérêt pour la propulsion nucléaire. Un système NTP utilise un réacteur nucléaire pour générer de la chaleur à partir d’uranium. Cette énergie chauffe un liquide propulsif, souvent de l’hydrogène liquide, qui se détend en gaz dans la tuyère et génère une poussée.
Une fusée équipée d’un moteur à propulsion nucléaire produira deux fois plus de poussée par unité de liquide propulseur qu’un système à réaction chimique. Cela revient à dire « le double de miles par gallon » selon Sheehy. Avec cette technologie, les astronautes pourraient faire l’aller-retour en moins de deux ans.
Le défi du moteur à propulsion nucléaire
L’un des plus grands challenges à la réalisation de ce mode de propulsion est de trouver un carburant à base d’uranium capable de résister aux chaleurs extrêmes présentes à l’intérieur d’un réacteur nucléaire.
USNC-Tech affirme avoir résolu le problème en créant un carburant capable de fonctionner jusqu’à 2700 K ( un peu plus de 2400 °C). Le carburant contient du carbure de silicium, un matériau utilisé dans le blindage des chars et qui forme une barrière étanche aux gaz, empêchant la fuite de produits radioactifs et protégeant ainsi les astronautes.
Le projet a été présenté conjointement avec d’autres entreprises qui développent des projets similaires. Bien que Sheehy ne fera pas de commentaires sur les spécificités de chaque conception, il a déclaré que les développements montrent que le moteur nucléaire est réalisable et qu’ils constitueraient « un bon choix pour l’exploration humaine de Mars ».
Le nucléaire est-il une option sûre ?
Des missions plus courtes signifient moins d’expositions aux radiations spatiales, mais il reste le problème des radiations du moteur lui-même.
Cela peut être réglé par le design de la fusée en elle-même selon Eades. Le liquide propulsif, stocké entre le moteur et l’équipage, bloque déjà une grande partie des radiations, agissant comme un « excellent bouclier anti radiation », déclare-t-il.
La distance entre l’équipage et le réacteur fournit une couche de protection supplémentaire, selon Sheehy, et toutes les conceptions de NTP placent les quartiers d’habitations à l’autre extrémité de la fusée par rapport au réacteur. Pour protéger les personnes au sol, un vaisseau spatial NTP ne décollerait jamais directement de la Terre. Une fusée classique la hisserait en orbite et seulement à ce moment la fusée déclencherait sa propulsion nucléaire.
Si une catastrophe survient et que le réacteur explose, les pièces ne retomberaient pas avant plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’années sur une planète quelconque, aux dires de Sheehy. Pendant ce temps, toutes substances radioactives auraient le temps de perdre leur dangerosité.
L’exploration de l’espace lointain
Bien que l’objectif actuel d’UNSC-Tech soit de réaliser un voyage simple en cinq à neuf mois, la technologie nucléaire a le potentiel de réduire le temps de trajet de la Terre à Mars à seulement 90 jours, selon Eades. Ces voyages plus rapides ouvrent un tas de possibilités. UNSC-Tech développe sa technologie pour des agences gouvernementales comme la NASA et le département de la défense, mais aussi pour un marché commercial.
La compagnie déclare que ce concept pourrait donner un coup de pouce au tourisme spatial, mais aussi fournir un service rapide de logistique orbital comme le transport de satellite ou amener des appareils capables de réaliser des maintenances de satellite dans l’espace.
Sheehy est d’accord sur le fait que la propulsion NTP est la clé de l’exploration spatiale, mais met en garde sur le fait que la technologie ne pourrait être utilisable à grande échelle que d’ici une vingtaine d’années. De nombreux tests et démonstrations devront avoir lieu avant de pouvoir envoyer un équipage sur Mars dans une fusée NTP.
« Personne n’a encore piloté de propulsion nucléaire », dit-il. « Je pense qu’il va falloir voler plusieurs fois avant que quelqu’un vende des billets. »
Today’s article is a bit different to most of my articles. This one is a 3-part feature that is focused on controversial photographs in relation to the UFO mystery. As to why it’s a bit different, it’s because there’s not a UFO in sight. Rather, the pictures I’m going to talk about are from very different angles. You’ll see what I mean. From 2007 to 2010 I investigated the strange story of a U.S. Government think-tank-style group nicknamed the Collins Elite (as told in my 2010 book, Final Events), a story that has its origins in 1991 (even though the group was created decades earlier). Their belief is that the UFO phenomenon has – quite literally – demonic origins, and that the extraterrestrial angle is merely an ingenious, deceptive ruse employed by Satan. The goal: to further allow his minions to get their claws into us all, and lead us down a distinctly dark pathway before Judgment Day and the final-countdown begins. As someone who holds no particular views on the nature of religion or life-after-death, I have no real opinion on the validity of the beliefs of the Collins Elite, aside from the fact that I find it fascinating that such a think-tank group actually exists. But what interests me most of all, is that a certain theme runs through much of this story that can also be found elsewhere at an official level, and it’s one I find somewhat disturbing. It’s the matter of strange and suspicious deaths and photographs.
I was put on the trail of the Collins Elite by a man named Ray Boeche. As well as being an Anglican priest, Ray is a former State-Director (for Nebraska) with the Mutual UFO Network: MUFON. In a truly fascinating interview with Ray in 2007, he told me how he had been clandestinely approached, in 1991, by two Department of Defense (DoD) physicists working on a classified program to try and contact what were described to Ray as “Non-Human Entities,” or “NHE’s.” In Ufological terms, we would call these entities the diminutive, black-eyed “Grays.” For the people on the DoD project, they may very well have begun with that view too, but ultimately they came around to the notion that this was merely a terrible ruse. Like the Collins Elite, Ray’s ufological Deep-Throat-like sources finally accepted that the entities at issue were demonic. But, there was an interesting – and disturbing – further aspect to this revelation: there were those on the project that believed engaging the NHE’s in some form of “Faustian pact,” as a means to understand and harness their extraordinary and potentially-lethal powers, could actually aid in the development of occult-based weapons of war, such as the ability to provoke psychic-assassinations.
Ray told me the following: “I had no way of knowing before our face-to-face meeting if there was any legitimacy to this at all. I wasn’t given any information at all before our meeting, just the indication that they were involved in areas of research I would find interesting, and that they had some concerns they wished to discuss with me. Both men were physicists. I’d guess they were probably in their early-to-mid fifties, and they were in a real moral dilemma. Both of them were Christians, and were working on a Department of Defense project that involved trying to contact the NHEs. In fact, this was described to me as an “obsessive effort.’ And part of this effort was to try and control the NHEs and use their powers in military weapons applications and in intelligence areas.
Ray continued: “Most of it was related to psychotronic weaponry and remote viewing, and even deaths by what were supposed to be psychic methods. The project personnel were allowed to assume they had somehow technologically mastered the ability to do what the NHEs could do: remote-viewing and psychotronics. But, in actuality, it was these entities doing it all the time, or allowing it to happen, for purposes that suited their deception. With both psychotronic weapons and remote-viewing, I was told that the DoD had not really mastered a technology to do that at all; they were allowed by the NHEs to think that this is what they had done. But the NHEs were always the causal factor.”
Now, we get to the matter of those mysterious and highly controversial photographs. Here are Ray’s words on this particularly strange and sinister issue. Of what Ray saw himself, he said: “They showed me a dozen photos of three different people – four photos of each person, who had apparently been killed by these experiments [italics mine]. These were all postmortem photographs, taken in-situ, after the experiments. The areas shown in all of the photographs were like a dentist’s chair or a barber’s chairs, and the bodies were still in those positions, sitting in the chairs. Still there, with EEG and EKG leads coming off of them. They were all wired. It was a very clinical setting, and there was no indication of who they were. It was a very disturbing sort of thing. And I’m thinking in the back of my mind: if these are real, who would they have gotten for these experiments? Were they volunteers? Were they some sort of prisoners? I have no idea. Were they American? Were they foreign? There was no way to tell.”
Over the years, I’ve tried to find those elusive photos, but with no luck. I’m still trying, though.
“I’m now convinced that Mars is inhabited by a race of demented landscape gardeners.” Those were the words that the late sci-fi writer, Arthur C. Clarke, made in 2001. They were largely made in jest, but they served to make an important and astonishing point: Clarke came to believe that evidence had been found strongly suggesting that there was vegetation on the Red Planet. He even suggested – tentatively, admittedly – that Mars just might be teeming with trees, bushes and plants. And if there was vegetation, then there just might be other kinds of life on Mars, too. Possibly even intelligent life. And what was it that led Clarke to come to such a controversial conclusion? Nothing less than NASA’s very own priceless photos of Mars’ surface, that’s what. But, let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. How did such a controversy begin?
For Arthur C. Clarke, matters began in his teenage years. That’s when he developed a fascination – which lasted throughout his life – for the mysteries of outer space. Such was the level of that fascination, Clarke became a member of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) before he was twenty. During the Second World War, Clarke worked in the field of radar in the British Royal Air Force, honing his interest in science and technology. With the war finally over in 1945, and as a result of his growing enthusiasm for worlds beyond ours, Clarke accepted the position of chairman of the BIS. He oversaw it for two years. Clarke then took a break, coming back to run the organization from 1951 to 1953.
Floating above the red planet.
Clarke became not only a well-respected figure as an inventor, a writer, and an explorer: he was also someone who had an overriding passion for science-fiction. It was in this field, particularly, that Clarke absolutely thrived. For example, there was his short story, “The Sentinel,” which was written in 1948 and published three years later. It served as the direct innovation for Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2015, the SyFy Channel broadcast a three-hours-long series based on Clarke’s 1953 novel, Childhood’s End. Clarke also turned his talents to television, presenting – in the 1980s – Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World; Arthur C. Clarke’s World of Strange Powers; and Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious Universe. He died on March 19, 2008. All of which brings us back to that controversial statement of the “demented” kind. It would never have been uttered had it not been for certain, spectacular photos that came back from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor.
As NASA noted in 1997: “Launched November 7, 1996, Mars Global Surveyor became the first successful mission to the red planet in two decades. After a year and a half spent trimming its orbit from a looping ellipse to a circular track around the planet, the spacecraft began its prime mapping mission in March 1999. It has continued to observe the planet from a low-altitude, nearly polar orbit ever since.” Not only that, NASA added that Mars has “very repeatable weather patterns” and that a “panoply of high-resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor has documented gullies and debris flows suggesting that occasional sources of liquid water, similar to an aquifer, were once present at or near the surface of the planet.”
That same panoply revealed something else; something amazing, if the data was not being misinterpreted. Tucked away among a wealth of less controversial images from the Mars Global Surveyor were a number of astounding images that appeared to show nothing less than vast areas of vegetation; trees, even. They looked eerily like what on Earth are termed Banyan Trees. They are, essentially, trees that grow and thrive by living on other trees. It wasn’t long before the media – and Arthur C. Clarke – caught wind of these extraordinary photographs and what they seemed to show. He wasted no time at all in giving his opinion on this new development on Mars. Clarke made no bones about it when he said that the collective images were “so striking that there is no need to say anything about it.” Clarke was also excited by the fact that Mars’ very own Banyan Trees appeared to alter in appearance, according to the seasons on Mars. On this particular point, Clarke could not forget NASA’s words that Mars had “very repeatable weather patterns” when he said, “Something is actually moving and changing with the seasons.”
Candy Hansen, a key figure on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter program, said, in forthright fashion: “To date, there is no firm evidence of any type of Martian biology, past or present, plant or otherwise. In the Martian spring, the sun warms the ice, causing it to sublimate directly into vapor, and the resulting gas dislodges surrounding dust and sand particles. What we think is happening is that the dark sand is sliding down the bright frosted portion of the dune.”
Ark of the Covenant: Secret Templar Map Discovered, Ancient City in Grand Canyon, Scott Wolter
Ark of the Covenant: Secret Templar Map Discovered, Ancient City in Grand Canyon, Scott Wolter
Ark of the Covenant: Secret Templar Map Discovered, Ancient City in Grand Canyon, Scott Wolter
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter is the host of Travel Channel’s hit show American Unearthed,™ which follows him on his quest to uncover the truth behind historic artifacts and sites found throughout North America and around the world. Scott is also the author of several books, including The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence, The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America, and his new book, Cryptic Code of the Templars in America: Origins of the Hooked X. Scott has been president of American Petrographic Services, Inc., since 1990 and has been the principle petrographer in more than 10,000 investigations throughout the world, including the evaluation of fire-damaged concrete at the Pentagon.
Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers: Mysteries of the Hooked X (2013) The Lake Superior Agate: Fourth Edition (2008/2011) The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America (2009) The Lake Superior Agate: Fourth Edition (2008) The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence (2005) The Lake Superior Agate: One Man’s Journey (2001) The Lake Superior Agate: Third Edition (1997) Ettringite: Cancer of Concrete (1997) The Lake Superior Agate: Second Edition (1994) The Lake Superior Agate (1986)
Silver UFOs Over Seattle, Washington, 6-21-2016, MUFON, UFO Sighting News.
Silver UFOs Over Seattle, Washington, 6-21-2016, MUFON, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 6-21-2016
Location of sighting: Seattle, Washington, USA
Source: MUFON #77300
Watch this amazing video of two silver disk-like U shaped craft. The objects are moving like they are under intelligent control. Even the eyewitnesses can be heard being both startled and baffled by what they were seeing above them. The detail of the silver UFOs is fantastic and the eyewitness has a steady hand so it makes this video both rare and important to our research in this area. We get to see some significant data here...color, shape, size, movement, the tilting of the object, and the objects seem to take notice and participate with the eyewitnesses a little bit...as if they were playing. This is a very close sighting to the eyewitnesses, and is an indication that there is a UFO base not far away, probably in Elliot Bay, about 6km deep below its floor.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I was at work and two stationary bright points of lights in broad daylight caught my eye. I told a co worker to go grab my bag which I keep a camcorder in, while I kept any eye on the two objects. I don't believe they were giving off their own light but rather reflecting the sunlight. I turned on my camcorder and attempted to zoom in on the objects but it was difficult since they were so small and the camera had a hard time focusing in on them. I was eventually able to zoom in on one of them, focused long enough but still couldn't tell what I was seeing. Not until I was able to view the footage in a larger screen. When I got home and was able to view the footage, the object appeared to be a highly reflective, "squared" (meaning sharp edges, not curved), capital "H". It had two long squared pillars with a short bar in the middle...like a capital "H". I recorded them for sometime then they slowly went behind the building. I went to put my camcorder away only to see them again but further to the right. So either they came back almost to the point where I originally saw them or there were two more that I didn't see when I saw the original two objects. Then those two eventually drifted behind the building as well.
Below is a close up of one of the orbs at the very end of the video that darts into a cloud to hide.
Date of sighting: 1-16-2014 Location of sighting: Taipei, Taiwan
Source: MUFON #60850
Guys this is just amazing. Although this is a video from 2014, it shows something thats all too rare nowadays. Foo fighters! And a whole fleet of them to boot. There are at least nine of these white orbs, but probably three times more due to the eyewitness unable to see directly below, in front of, behind or to the opposite side of the plane. So what we see is just a small sample of the entire Foo Fighter fleet.
At the end of the video I can hear the flight attendant asking him in English and then Chinese to "please put your phone away while we are landing." It totally explains why he caught only 37 seconds of mind-blowing raw footage of the event.
Also, if you watch in full screen mode, you will see orbs appearing from behind the plane wing...that is 100% proof that these are flying objects outside the window and not reflections from overhead reading lights on the plane.
What really hit me is that at the end of the video...he zooms in with his iPhone 5s and we see two white spheres quickly move into the clouds to hide...they sensed they were being watched! Alien computers systems have the ability to not just scan for data, but to scan for telepathic data too. That means it can sense some of our thoughts, especially powerful ones like awe, love, fear.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states: Hello Mufon my name is [Name removed/cms/tg] I have witness 8~10 UFOs flying . I was on the air plane of Eva Airline. from Vancouver Canada to Taipei, Taiwan BR0009 it was Oct16 5am.. 30 mins before landing first clip was only 5 seconds, I saw a bright light flying under. 2nd picture i saw 3 UFO in my camera 3rd video I have is 38 seconds. about 8 UFo flying under the plane [Link moved to FI Section/cms/tg] and i used SLOW MOTION of iphone 5s to film the 36 s video until they asked me to shut down my camera due to landing policy here is the videos and pix in my drop box [Link moved to FI Section/cms/tg] feel free to download.. thank you location is at the North East of Taiwan.
Of course, the human in question couldn’t report their findings—or ever come back.
The reason is that supermassive black holes are much more hospitable.
In a new finding ripped from Interstellar, scientists say humans can indeed explore black holes firsthand. The catch? If you're going to jump into a black hole, don't plan on ever jumping back out into our universe.
“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black hole does not expect to report the findings to anyone in the entire Universe,” Grinnell College physicists explain in a new article in The Conversation.
That’s because of special physics found in supermassive black holes, resulting in a combination of gravity and event horizon that wouldn’t instantaneously pull the human being into a very dead piece of spaghetti.
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Because supermassive black holes are much bigger than stellar and intermediate black holes, all the parts of them are more spread out. A person falling in would make it to the event horizon—the border of the black hole beyond which not even light can escape, and where gravity is so strong that light will orbit the black hole like planets orbit stars—a lot sooner than in a smaller black hole.
As you approach the black hole’s event horizon, the huge difference in gravitational pull between your head and toes causes you to stretch into a spaghetti-like noodle.
The person would stay cognizant and intact for longer. But, of course, they would never emerge—making this a one-way rollercoaster ride of scientific discovery into oblivion.
Why does the math work this way? It’s a matter of facts about black holes of different sizes, the researchers say:
“For a black hole with a mass of our Sun (one solar mass), the event horizon will have a radius of just under 2 miles. The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, by contrast, has a mass of roughly 4 million solar masses, and it has an event horizon with a radius of 7.3 million miles or 17 solar radii. This implies, due to the closeness of the black hole's center, that the black hole's pull on a person will differ by a factor of 1,000 billion times between head and toe, depending on which is leading the free fall.”
Did someone order spaghetti?
LEO RODRIGUEZ/SHANSHAN RODRIGUEZ/CC BY-ND
This means avoiding “spaghettification” (really!) and a safe, gentle float past the event horizon.
Why does stuff go in but never come out? Well, scientists have only begun to understand the specific instances in which black holes eject energy or information—and that’s unlikely to ever take the form of a missive, or even Morse code message, from a disappearing astronaut. Those black holes are very old, for example, with different physics than this special case.
But, like in Interstellar, our imaginations reel at the idea of studying a black hole from the inside. Perhaps in some far future, someone will invent the right kind of tether to pull someone back out. And in that case, we can confirm some of the facts of life in a black hole, time dilation or not.
“We had no idea about this kingdom. In a flash, we had profound new information on the Iron Age Middle East,” said Prof. James Osborne of the Oriental Institute, an archaeologist who specializes in examining Iron Age cities. Osborne and colleagues have discovered what looks like a major political center in ancient Turkey from about 2700 years ago — and we knew nothing about it.
The half-submerged stone with inscriptions dating to the 8th century BC. Image credits: James Osborne.
It started in 2019, when a local farmer told the group that a nearby canal had a strange stone with some unknown writing on it. At that time, researchers were exploring a giant, ancient mound site in central Turkey called Türkmen-Karahöyük and went to investigate what the farmer had pointed out. They knew the area was riddled with archaeological finds, but they were shocked by what they found.
“We could see it still sticking out of the water, so we jumped right down into the canal – up to our waists wading around,” said archaeologist James Osborne from the University of Chicago in early 2020.
“Right away it was clear it was ancient, and we recognised the script it was written in: Luwian, the language used in the Bronze and Iron ages in the area.”
Osborne wasn’t an expert in Luwian, but he was fortunate enough to work just down the hall from two experts who translated it as being written by a king called Hartapu.
The upper mound of Türkmen-Karahöyük from the northwest. Photograph courtesy of KRASP.
The ancient stone block turned out to be a military boast. It noted that the local rulers had defeated the kingdom of Phrygia led by king Midas. Phrygia had been led by several kings named Midas, but dating suggests that it could be the legendary king Midas, who was said to be cursed by the gods to turn everything he touched into gold.
Phrygia was a local powerhouse and defeating it would have been quite the feat, so whoever wrote the plaque must have also represented a strong kingdom — but researchers had no idea about it before.
“We had no idea about this kingdom,” Osborne said. “In a flash, we had profound new information on the Iron Age Middle East.”
This fits in quite well with other recent findings. A few miles to the south, researchers had also found a block writing of King Hartapu, but no one knew who he was or what he ruled — until now.
Luwian inscriptions from a nearby dig. Image credits: Oriental Institute.
Researchers have their work cut out for them. Judging by the size of the Türkmen-Karahöyük mound, there’s plenty more left to be discovered — and who knows what they’ll find?
“Inside this mound are going to be palaces, monuments, houses,” Osborne said. “This stele was a marvellous, incredibly lucky find – but it’s just the beginning.”
1177 BC: The year civilization collapsed by Eric Cline Princeton University Press // Buy on Amazon
“Modern scholars refer to them collectively as the “Sea Peoples,” but the Egyptians who recorded their attack on Egypt never used that term,” Eric Cline poignantly writes in the beginning of his book on what he calls “the most interesting year in history.
We’re over 3,000 years in the past, and the Eastern Mediterranean is riddled with thriving civilizations. The Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans are all vying for progress and power, establishing refined trade routes that build on intermingled and surprisingly advanced civilizations. We’re 3,000 years in the past, and yet the people of the time are surprisingly like us.
Nowadays, we often talk about Ancient Greece and Rome, but a millennium before that, several Mediterranean civilizations had established a Golden Age. They traded with each other, they gave gifts and called on each other for help, and of course, at times, they waged war with each other. Yes, at a time when the Roman Empire was centuries away, these civilizations (including the likes of the mythical Troy) ruled the land with stunning prowess.
They were, argues Cline, much like us. For starters, they had many of the same problems we have today: environmental issues (serious drought), pestilence (COVID-19), a struggle for resources. They were also intertwined in many of the ways that we are today, especially through trade. The Mediterranean Sea made for the perfect place to trade your goods, from gold and silver to more practical aspects like wood and tin. They built monumental architecture so impressive that centuries later, people would believe it was mythical. They had advanced writing systems and wrote their adventures, woes, and plans on pieces of papyrus or clay tablets.
Yet despite all this, they disappeared one after the other almost simultaneously, leaving archaeologists thousands of years later wondering what had happened.
The Sea Peoples
Picture this: in this mosaic of civilizations, a group of mysterious sea marauders enter the stage. We don’t know where they came from, what they did, or even who they were. We just know that they came, in great numbers, and they attacked — and even this, we only know because the Egyptians described it in great detail.
The Egyptians didn’t consider the Sea Peoples a unitary group, instead considering them a sort of marine confederation, but the proof is so scarce that we can’t really be sure who they were. The Egyptians claimed they defeated the Sea Peoples, but it must have been a Pyrrhic victory, because after one war, the Egyptian civilization collapsed into a dark age it took centuries to recover from.
It wasn’t just the Egyptians: one after the other, all civilizations in the area collapsed, for no clear reason. It was like the fall of Rome — an end of civilization and the beginning of a long Dark Age. It’s not clear that 1177 is the year when this happened, but sometime around that year, this transition took place — and it’s as good a placeholder as any.
Could it be that these Sea Peoples, who we don’t even know who they are, could have single-handedly collapsed Bronze Age civilization? For a long time, this is what many archaeologists thought — and some still do. But in Cline’s book, he presents a different hypothesis: it wasn’t just one factor, it was a “perfect storm” of different factors, and the Sea Peoples were just one of them.
For instance, other civilizations don’t really mention the Sea Peoples, but that doesn’t mean they never fought them — it’s possible that we just haven’t found their writings, or they got lost or destroyed. But they do mention other problems, like droughts, diseases, or earthquakes. In the period leading to 1177, they all seemed to suffer from some big problem that brought their demise.
1177 is their story — to the extent that we know it.
A story of times past and present
Cline does an excellent job at setting the stage for these events, not just in terms of integrating archaeological and historic evidence, but also in terms of storytelling. The story features different people (some familiar, like Nefertiti or Tutankhamun, and others unknown), different areas, and many intriguing episodes, and yet despite all this information, it flows effortlessly. It’s not just interesting, it’s enthralling. Reading the book, I found myself wanting to learn more about these people in this period. I was surprised by how much we know about them, and saddened to see how much there’s still to discover.
For instance, one such episode features a king that ruled some 3750 years ago and organized expeditions to bring ice from high in the mountains during the cold season. He also built a special ice house where the ice was kept in a solid state until summertime, where he would enjoy his cooled beverage. Another episode features a military strategy recreated with success by a World War I general, who said he learned it from an ancient Egyptian ruler.
Then, of course, there is the intertwining of myth and history. Troy, the legendary city over which gods and men fought, was a real place, and the boundary between myth and reality is not always clear. Then, there’s the biblical Exodus and how it ties (or doesn’t) with archaeological evidence. The Christian myth of the Flood, copied almost exactly from the Babylonians who had described it a thousand years prior.
It all makes for a gripping reading, where you learn while enjoying the story of one of history’s greatest mysteries. Was it the unknown invaders that shattered these bustling civilizations? Was it a sum of factors? Was it something else entirely? Some parts of the puzzle are still missing, but Cline does a great job of walking through the available evidence, presenting it in an easy-to-follow fashion, and drawing what conclusions can be drawn.
The book does at times feel vague or indeterminate, maybe because that’s just the nature of archaeological evidence. Cline also spends a lot of time building a beautiful picture of the world during the Late Bronze Age, looking at what may have caused this collapse, yet at one point he seems to dismiss it as an inevitable collapse of a complex system, leaving the reader wanting more. Still, it’s a thought-provoking read, and a timely second edition as well. With the ongoing pandemic, we’ve seen just how much our lives can change in a moment. Humans often like to think themselves as invincible. Just like these ancient people, we think our society can bend, but nothing can truly break it. The pandemic is just one aspect — researchers have warned for decades that climate change is looming and it could soon cause catastrophic damage.
1177 BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed, is a remarkable book that brings forth not just a piece of history, but also lessons from the past. It may very well be that drought or war brought an end to their society, and there is a warning there for us as well. Unlike these ancient people, however, we are generally aware of what’s going on in the world and what’s happening to us, though whether or not we’ll act on it is a different thing.
Filer’s Files 5 2021 - UFO Deactivated Nuclear Missiles - PART I
Filer’s Files 5 2021 - UFO Deactivated Nuclear Missiles - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Nuclear Missile Warheads Deactivated by UFO, Fast-moving Underwater Objects, USOs Rise from Under the Ocean, Navy Admits It Has Additional ‘Top Secret’ Footage of USS Nimitz UFO , A Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017, Worldwide Trouble Brewing, The Sven book 2.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Denmark, and England in the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Nuclear Missile Warheads Deactivated by UFO
Captain and Minuteman Launch Officer in the United States Air Force. He testifies to a UFO incident that occurred on the morning of March 16, 1967, in which 16 nuclear missiles went inactive at the same time on two launchers, while security observed UFOs over the launchers. The security guards could not identify these objects despite being about 10 meters away from them.
Captain Robert L. Salas graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and spent seven years in active duty from 1964 to 1971. He also held positions at Martin Marietta and Rockwell and spent 21 years at the FAA. In the Air Force, he was an air traffic controller and a missile launch officer as well as an engineer on the Titan 3 missiles.
Capt. Salas testifies below about a UFO incident in March of 1967, where he states that 16 nuclear missiles became non-operational at two different launch facilities immediately after guards saw UFOs hovering above. The guards could not identify these objects even though they were only about 30 feet away.
The Air Force did an extensive investigation of the incidents and could not find a probable cause. At a debriefing about the incident, an officer from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations required Capt. Salas to sign a non-disclosure form, and told him that he was not to talk about the event to anyone including his family or other military staff. At a time during the Cold War when minor technical anomalies were openly communicated amongst the staff, this incident was highly unusual. Even today, Captain Salas thinks this to be very unusual.
Captain Salas’ UFO Testimony
I have talked with Captain Salas on several occasions. He said, “On March 16, 1967 he was on duty along with my commander Fred Mywald. We were both on duty at Oscar Flight as part of the 490th Strategic Missile Squad and there are five launch control facilities assigned to that particular squadron. It was still dark out and we were sixty feet underground in the ICBM launch control facility.
I received a call from my topside security guard who’s the flight security controller. He said, “That he and some of the guards had been observing some strange lights flying around the site around the launch control facility. They were acting very unusual just flying around, and I said, “You mean UFOs?” He said, well, he didn’t know what they were, but they were lights and were flying around. They were not airplanes; they weren’t making any noise. They were not helicopters; they were making some very strange maneuvers and he couldn’t explain it.”
It wasn’t more than a few minutes later he calls back. This time he’s very frightened. I can tell by the tone of his voice he’s very shook up. He says, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’m looking at it right now. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.”
I immediately went over to my commander telling him about the telephone call we just received. As I was relating this to him, “our missiles started shutting down one by one. By shutting down, I mean they went into a “no-go” condition meaning they could not be launched. So we get bells and whistles – a red light no-go condition.”
These weapons were Minuteman One missiles, and were of course nuclear-tipped warhead missiles. As they started shutting down, immediately he gets up, and we both start querying the status board. We’ve got the ability to query and determine what the cause of the shutdowns was. He felt, “most of them were guidance and control system failures and then he started reporting to the command post.” In the meantime I called upstairs to find out what the status was of this object and the guard said, “The object has left – it just left at high speed.”
The Air Force did an extensive investigation of the entire incident and was not able to come up with a probable cause for the shutdowns. And I’ve got quite a few witnesses that will testify to that. We’ve got a couple of people who worked on the investigative team. And I’ve got correspondence from the man who actually organized the investigative team. There was no viable explanation for the shutdown of multiple ICBMs.
Each missile is basically self-supporting. Most of them are powered by commercial power but each missile has its own power generator. At our site anywhere from six to eight went down, but they went down in rapid succession, which again is an extremely rare happening. We rarely had more than one missile go down for any reason at all.
After I talked to my guard upstairs, my commander talked to the command post. When he finished talking to the command post he turned to me and said, “The same thing occurred at ECHO Flight. ECHO Flight is another squadron, I’d say probably 50 – 60 miles away from our location, but they had the same sort of thing happen. “They had UFOs that were hovering, not at the launch control facility, but at the actual launch facilities where the missiles are located. They had some maintenance and security people out there at the time and they observed the UFOs at those sites. Now they lost all ten of their ten weapons.
So … we lost anywhere from between 16 to 18 ICBMs at the same time UFOs were in the area and were observed by airmen. Those missiles were shut down the entire day because we’ve got testimony from Colonel Don Crawford, who relieved the crew at ECHO Flight. He was there when the missiles were being brought up to alert status, and he said it took the whole day. So I’m assuming it took our missiles all day to be brought back up also.
I wrote up a report about this incident – it was in my log – and I turned it in. When we got to the base, we had to report to our squadron commander right away.
And in that room with my squadron commander was a fellow from AFOSI (we had an Air Force Office of Special Investigations on the base). He was there in the office with the commander. He asked for my logs, and he wanted a quick briefing, although it seemed to me he knew pretty much what had happened already. But we gave him a quick briefing.
UFOs were reported over Maelstrom Air Force Base (AFB,) and in August of 1966 at Minot, North Dakota a very similar thing happened at one of the launch control facilities at Minot AFB. This UFO was observed on radar, there was some communication failure, and the object was observed over the launch control facility.
David H. Schuur reports one case a UFO squadron had the launch procedure turned on and most Minuteman missiles were activated and could have launched if not stopped. The Soviets also had similar incidents. Bob Kominski headed up the organization to look at all aspects of these shutdowns was told by his boss that the Air Force said, “Stop the investigation. Do no more on this and in addition do not write a final report.” Again, this is very unusual, especially in light of the fact that CINC-SAC headquarters was stating that this was of extreme importance. Note: For Captain Salas’ personal research showing many other levels of cover-up and deception, you can purchase a DVD with the videotaped testimony of Capt. Salas and many others at this link. T
Fast-moving Underwater Objects
A senior member of the Intelligence Community whose responsibilities for decades involved underwater surveillance and reconnaissance programs told The Debrief there was validity to claims of extremely fast-moving underwater objects being detected by U.S. military systems. I had a st7udent who worked undersea sonar who claimed he regularly spotted undersea objects moving at 100 to 150 knots faster than any submarine.
“On occasion, there are detections made of non-cavitational, extremely fast-moving objects within the ocean.” The intelligence official declined to elaborate further, citing the high-levels of security classification associated with underwater reconnaissance.
Officials who had read the reports say the UAPTF appears particularly interested in “transmedium vehicles.” While this may seem unusual, many accounts exist–some going back centuries–in which people say they have observed unidentifiable craft operating in and out of the water.
Pilot flying an F/A-18 fighter jet captured a craft with a cell phone. The photo showed an unidentified silver “cube-shaped” object. The report is said to have indicated the object was “hovering” or completely motionless when military pilots encountered it. The object appeared to be at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000 feet and approximately 1,000 feet from the fighter jet.
USOs Rise from Under the Ocean
This is some cool footage of three UFOs rising up out of the ocean on Jan 26, 2020 Source: ISS live Earth’s orbit an ISS NASA cam
Each UFO is about 1.5 km long…and one of them is still half under water. UFOs have been reported by pilots that size, so its not unusual at all. The UFO on the far left is the leader of the fleet. You can see the UFO on the far left is about 75% out of the water, the center UFO is 45% and the UFO on the far right is only about 20% out of the water. Once the UFOs have left the water, they must wait in position for a few minutes until most water has fallen off the ship, because the water can cause hull damage when heating up fast and freezing fast exiting our atmosphere…but when they go light speed…a little water can really send them off track by a long ways. Scott C. Waring – Taiwan
Abductions and Water UFOs
Abductees claim they are taken to underwater bases
UFO abduction stories occur with some regularity to reveal the physical changes observed by the abductees, in the water environment, just as physical changes were observed in other sections by non-abductees. Whether one believes in the reality of abductions or not, the stories of the physical aspects of the UFOs involved in these tales remains consistent with the that have not been abducted.
I therefore feel that this is our only chance to view the water-UFO phenomenon from an insiders (in the true meaning) perspective, and therefore feel it is a necessary part of the overall view of UFOs. The text presented is only a minute part of the total story. I heartily recommend reading the books involved as all are quite interesting and pertinent in the overall abduction story. In the very least, it shows that abductees besides being Astronauts can also be Aquanauts.
Navy Admits It Has Additional ‘Top Secret’ Footage Of USS Nimitz UFO
F-19 and Tic Tac UFO probably from Underwater
On November 14, 2004, after being notified of something unusual flying off the coast of San Diego by the USS Princeton, Navy pilots that had already launched off the USS Nimitz witnessed an aircraft the shape of a Tic Tac, about 46-feet-long, flying at a speed of 24,000 mph, and displaying the kind of maneuverability that went against all of the laws of physics.
In 2019, Squadron Commander David Fravor along with four other Navy veterans from the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, Gary Voorhis, Kevin Day, Ryan Weigelt, Jason Turner, and P.J. Hughes, went public, revealing what they witnessed over the Pacific Ocean about off the coast of San Diego in 2004.
Navy pilot Chad Underwood actually recorded footage of the mysterious aircraft back in 2004 using his jet’s the plane’s FLIRAdvanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR), “an optical electric- and thermal-imaging system that was developed for U.S. Navy pilots by Raytheon.”
In November of 2019, Fravor said that the original radar tapes of the UFO encounter disappeared from the USS Princeton archives and “someone has taken that page from the logbook.”
The United States Navy has admitted that the videos are real but a little over three months after researcher Christian Lambright submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence requesting records relating to the
USS Nimitz UFO encounter he was told there are other documents and another video, but there were “no releasable records.” USS Nimitz (View the Navy’s official response here.)
The Navy stated that the documents in question are exempt from release because they are classified as TOP SECRET and would cause “exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.”
Our review of our records and systems reveal that ONI has no releasable records related to your request. ONI has searched our records for responsive documents. We have discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET. A review of these materials indicates that are currently and appropriate Marked and Classified TOP SECRET under Executive Order 13526, and the Original Classification Authority has determined that the release of these materials would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States. Specifically, under Section 1.4, the materials would trigger protections under subcategory c), the Intelligence Activities of the United States, as well as the Sources and Methods that are being used to gather information in support of the National Security of the United States. In addition, the materials would trigger protections under subcategory e), Scientific and Technological Matters related to the National Security of the United States. For this reason, the materials are exempt from release under the (b) (1) Exemption for Classified Matters of National Defense. As a result these records may not be released and are being withheld.
We have also determined that ONI possesses a video classified SECRET that ONI is not the Original Classification Authority for. ONI has forwarded your request to Naval Air Systems Command to make a determination on reliability…”
Several sailors who were on the USS Nimitz having reported seeing a longer video, which the Pentagon has said does not exist.
Nimitz helicopter
Additionally, Lead Petty Officer Ryan Weigelt has stated that following the USS Nimitz UFO encounter a group of United States Air Force personnel that weren’t assigned to the ship landed, went straight to the Admiral’s quarters, and then took “something” off the ship’s helicopters which rendered them unable to fly until whatever it was they had taken was returned. They then left the ship by a RIB (rigid-hulled inflatable boat).
“There’s no doubt in my mind that these guys were looking for data on the UFOs,” said Weigelt. Thanks tohttps://brobible.com/culture/article/navy-admits-additional-footage-nimitz-ufo/
A Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017 — and more are coming
Reed Tucker writes, Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, believes he’s already found an alien craft.
In his upcoming book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), out Jan. 26, the professor lays out a compelling case for why an object that recently wandered into our solar system was not just another rock but actually a piece of alien technology.
The object traveled toward our solar system from the direction of Vega, a nearby star 25 light-years away, and intercepted our solar system’s orbital plane on Sept. 6, 2017. On Sept. 9, its trajectory brought it closest to the sun. At the end of September, it blasted at about 58,900 miles per hour past Venus’ orbital distance, and then, on Oct. 7, it shot past Earth’s before “moving swiftly toward the constellation Pegasus and the blackness beyond. The space object was dubbed ‘Oumuamua (pronounced “oh moo ah moo ah”), which is Hawaiian for — roughly — “scout.” As space travelers go, it was relatively small at just about 100 yards long, and the first interstellar object ever detected inside our solar system. Judging from the object’s trajectory, astronomers concluded it was not bound by the sun’s gravity — which suggested it was just traveling through.
The Observatory on Haleakala, Maui, which contains the world’s most powerful telescope, caught the image of ‘Oumuamua.
At first, scientists thought it was an ordinary comet. But Loeb said that assumption ran the risk of allowing “the familiar to define what we might discover.”
“What would happen if a caveman saw a cell phone?” he asked. “He’s seen rocks all his life, and he would have thought it was just a shiny rock.”
Loeb soon opened his mind to another possibility: It was not a comet but discarded tech from an alien civilization.
Observatory on Haleakala, Maui
A number of unusual properties about the object helped Loeb make this conclusion. Its brightness varied tenfold every eight hours, suggesting that was the amount of time it took for it to complete a full rotation. Scientists concluded the object was at least five to 10 times longer than it was wide — sort of like the shape of a cigar. No naturally occurring space body we’ve ever seen has looked like it — or even close.
What’s more, ‘Oumuamua was unusually bright. It was at least “ten times more reflective than typical solar system [stony] asteroids or comets,” the author writes.
He likens its surface to that of shiny metal. It was able to fly from the strong gravity of the sun.The sun’s pull will speed up an object massively as it gets closer, then kick it out the other side, only for the object to slow considerably as it gets farther away.
Worldwide Trouble Brewing
The news in the US is controlled by six companies that choose to limit your knowledge of world events and often provide information favorable to Communist countries, them and often harmful to you such as Communist Chinas’ biological warfare with the corona virus. Most all Chinese were vaccinated by June of 2020 and only 15,000 died while we are at 400,000 with better medical system.
A series of unfavorable situations that should be revealed are occurring. There is strong evidence our weather is being manipulated or GeoEngineered. Weather modification is resulting in the extreme conditions that we are witnessing with unusual early cold and snow in December It appears to be designed to physically harm the US, Canada and Western European Nations.
Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow air currents on Earth that are westerly winds (flowing west to east). Jet streams are caused by a combination of a planet’s rotation on its axis and atmospheric heating by solar radiation. This last week at the end of January the Jet stream suddenly moved hundreds of miles south bringing old air to much of the east. Meteorologists use the location of some of the jet streams as an aid in weather forecasting.
Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow air currents on Earth that are westerly winds (flowing west to east). Jet streams are caused by a combination of a planet’s rotation on its axis and atmospheric heating by solar radiation. This last week at the end of January the Jet stream suddenly moved hundreds of miles south bringing old air to much of the east. Meteorologists use the location of some of the jet streams as an aid in weather forecasting.
The HAARP ionosphere heater installations around the globe appear to be routinely manipulating the jet stream. Dr. Nick Begich writes, AARP will zap the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an “ionospheric heater.” The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth’s upper atmosphere. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth.
Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope; antenna send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radio wave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas.
This sudden movement of the jet stream is likely evidence of weather modification by, China by altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. From Angels Don’t Play this HAARP: http://haarp.net/
The US has a HAARP site in Alaska but it is doubtful it alone is effective or motivated to harm the US. The jet stream was involved in hundreds of severe tornado’ and flooding in the US this year.
Jet stream analysis maps attempt to highlight the location and strength of the jet streams. This map shows the pattern of winds in blue in the upper troposphere, on the 300 millibar pressure surface which corresponds roughly to an altitude of around 32,000 feet where I generally flew for some 5,000 hours and often used it to gain speed of my aircraft on about a 100 mph.
Russia and China have HAARP ionosphere heater installations than any other countries and could be manipulating the jet stream that flows around the world. Pushing the jet stream near Moscow, Central Russia and the Kamchatka Peninsula could cause the jet stream to undulate north to Alaska and pick up the cold air and bring it south into the US.
China has admitted to causing it to snow in various places in its country .Much of the Eastern US will be hit by heavy wet snow on February 1, 2021, and temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal. There is a mountain of data including already conducted experiments, satellite imagery, lab tests of snow, observations on the ground, and multiple existing patents, all of which point solidly to the conclusion that snow storms are being engineered with well established weather modification processes. Heavy tornados recorded in the last couple years are also affected by the jet streams.
Weather Modification Two known patents for the process of artificial ice nucliation for weather modification exist. The Chinese government has openly admitted they are creating artificial snow storms into Beijing. The Beijing Weather Modification Office form a part of China’s nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world’s largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide. They seed clouds by firing rockets and shells loaded with silver iodide into them. They also control the Haarp that may be controlling the weather in the United States.
President ‘s Oath Leaves Out Protection from enemies foreign and domestic.”
During the inauguration, “President” Biden’s oath of office was not the usual oath that presidents take. I listened to it and foes no mention of Protecting the United States from enemies foreign and domestic..”
Many Presidents have sworn to protect the nation from enemies. Perhaps the millions Hunter Biden has received from foreign nations like Russia, Ukraine and China led to the exclusion.
The Sven
No. 2 of The Seven trilogy
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, has been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021. The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter. Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. www.fredellisbrock.com
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Filer’s Files 5 2021 - UFO Deactivated Nuclear Missiles - PART II
Filer’s Files 5 2021 - UFO Deactivated Nuclear Missiles - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Nuclear Missile Warheads Deactivated by UFO, Fast-moving Underwater Objects, USOs Rise from Under the Ocean, Navy Admits It Has Additional ‘Top Secret’ Footage of USS Nimitz UFO , A Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017, Worldwide Trouble Brewing, The Sven book 2.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Denmark, and England in the United Kingdom and Uruguay.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Oakley – January 25, 2021, putting my groceries in the car something caught my eye directly above the Taco Bell. There was what appeared to be a military cargo like plane flying pretty low. I took my phone out to take a picture. Before I could a large donut shaped UFO that was grey and black appeared. There was no noise. It seemed to have an aura completely encircling it. As I turned the camera on several smaller black UFOs appeared to come out of the donut shaped craft and follow a snake like pattern. I managed to take a picture, but before I could switch it to video mode the craft disappeared. I waited several minutes to see if it would reappear but it did not.
Florida Lights
Orlando — on July 11, 2020, it was circling and had no lights, it looked big and kind of shaped like a saucer and eventually it disappeared .I ended the video and ran to my girlfriend to show her. By the time we came back outside it was gone. I posted it on TikTok yesterday January 20th. And in my Instagram and I would like to be compensated for any use of my video.
Seffner– December 5, 2020, I was looking at the strangest clouds I ever saw. As I was driving in Brandon FL. I stuck my phone out the window & took pictures of the strange clouds. When I went to look back at the pictures you can see two objects just past the clouds, they weren’t there when I took the pictures. One is a different color. Note: The colored circles in the above photo are not real objects and quite likely lens flares. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Indiana White Object
Valparaiso– on January 23, 2021, my son and I were driving and noticed an object dropped out of the sky. I quickly pointed it out to my son and asked him what it was. We were both unsure what we were seeing. It was hovering I approached a stop sign stopped and turned left and pulled the car over. I asked my son to take a video. He snapped a picture and started to video. We saw the object kind of tumble as some lights came into focus it changed position and then took off at an incredible rate of speed. Before it disappeared we saw a flash that kind of blinded us for a few seconds like a weld flash almost.
Kentucky Object
Mount Sterling– January 19, 2021, my small children and I witnessed something in the sky above our home. The temp was about 40 degrees, clear conditions and the sun was just starting to set. We sit up on a ridge and have a great view from all around and, great for star gazing. As we got out of the car my 5 yr old son asked what the line was in the sky, and he pointed at the contrail stretching over the house. They were all over the sky that day, but as I looked up over the roof of the house at the contrail, I saw just to the left of it a large object motionless in the sky. It was large, about the size of a commercial plane, but it had no wings and no tail, it was oblong shaped kind of like a Tic TAC. No windows or lights that I saw, and it was silver like galvanized metal silver. I was at about a 40 degree angle looking at it so I got a good look at the end and side of it. It was at about 70 degrees above elevation, if I calculated it correctly. The details are still very clear in my mind, as was the look I got of it. The sun setting to my right was shining onto the side of it and reflecting brightly. As it flew away, it appeared to be glowing white due to the reflection. There were no lights otherwise, nothing flashing or glowing aside from the glow of the suns light reflecting off of it. No windows or anything identifying on its side. I quickly pulled out my phone and ran around to the back patio to record what I saw, but by the time I got around it had already moved a significant distance away where it became stationary again briefly, before flying away heading southeast. In the video I am standing stationary. You will see the object located above the tallest tree top to the left and then moves between the two tallest tree tops as it flew farther away in a SE direction. The object appears like glowing orb at some times and at other times you can make out the oblong shape, especially if you zoom in on it. I scanned the sky a few time to see if any objects or possibly planes were in the sky.
What first struck me was the lack of sound. There is a small airport west of the downtown area, but I’m used to the single engine planes that usually come/go. When I first saw the object it was at 15-20,000 feet? It was higher than a helicopter flying over and was definitely higher than I’ve seen a helicopter hover over a wooded area for example. It wasn’t flying at the normal height. It definitely rose in altitude as it flew off
Mississippi Tubular Light
Biloxi– January 24, 2021, on numerous occasions, beginning in 2020, we have captured video evidence of strange lights in our home. We have not done anything with the footage, until now. Last night, a lamp begins getting so bright that it seemed the bulbs would burst. Then, an opposing lamp that was cut off started flickering. Off and on repeating with strange patterns appears in the ceiling overhead. Then, the strange lights, or entities appeared. All of this was taking place in our den with Lights shooting from different directions. I was able to review the video frame by frame and found that each tubular light had a round physical appearing ball that was leaving the light trail. The light energy had black small appendages on the sides. I have no idea what these are, but they seem to like it here. See footage and photos.
Nevada Moon
Spring Valley– January 24, 2021, I do a live feed of the Moon when is visible via Face book and I have many videos with objects .Not sure if this is something but I have never seen any object slow down as this did, crossing the face of the Moon. I was live so over 1000 people seen it too Queen of the Night Eye in the Sky.
New Jersey Object
Titusville — My daughter and I were driving this morning on her way to daycare. We were driving south on Bear Tavern Rd. in Pennington, and saw a light Orb pulsing, rolling, and changing its shape before disappearing. As I looked out over the horizon of the farm I observed what I thought at first to be a reflection off a plane, but as I looked at it, there was no structure that revealed itself and it became apparent that it was not structured at all, but a rolling, pulsing, and light that varied in size and shape. I would guess it was about a mile into the farm. It looked low to the ground, within 1,000 feet. If I had to guess at the relative size it was moving from a 20-50 foot diameter as it pulsed/rolled/changed. All the while it was hovering/bobbing in place though as we drove down the road at 50mph.
The whole event lasted 15-20 seconds. It didn’t just vanish though, it went down to a single point, like an old TV set turning off.
New York Lights
Saratoga Springs– On November 21, 2020, while traveling north on I87 in Saratoga on Nov 21 2021 I observed a steady bright light in the sky. The light traveled West to East in a steady pattern then seemed to change direction (quick ascension), had disappeared briefly, and then reappeared to the East. Light was steady (aside from when it disappeared)
Long Branch – August 23, 2017, walked outside and felt like an invisible bat was dive bombing me. I was trying to stand still to feel it but I was ducking and flinching as it flew past. One billionth of my consciousness was seeing it. I was not wearing a shirt; I felt it on my face and chest. It filled every pore of my skin without touching me as it zoomed past. A couple times it flew directly across my eyes; I felt it on my eyeballs. I saw it, kind of. I saw 6 little planes that were only suspicious because of the moment and started recording them. I’m holding my phone about six inches from my face and this thing shoots between my face and my phone. The camera goes out of focus as it passes because I flinched. My eyes were focused on my phone, that time I actually saw it. Not only did it fly fast, it completely stopped.
Tennessee Lights
Bush Creek – On December 9, 2020, the U.F.O first appeared late at night while we were out smoking cigarettes. As we were smoking and looking at the sky before walking back to our house we saw what appeared to be an unusually strange and abnormally low flying traditional rectangular satellite like you would see floating in space.. It was flying very quickly in a set trajectory. Then suddenly it stopped right at the top of the tree line in front of us those fences. The UFO had flashing red and green lights only as it flew passed up. Then when it stopped it appeared to zig zag in a close general vicinity of where it had stopped and would rise above the tree line and hover, then move back to just behind the tree top branches to where it were still very clearly visible. It’s flashing lights changed many different variations of combination of the colors between red green and then blue.
At times when it rose to a hover the flashing lights turned to pulses and gradually changed from the red and green with hints of blue to nothing but strobing pulsating blue. We were in a trance and watched for hours. In the blistering cold we were excited and curious and a bit uneasy up until that point. When the blue pulsating began we wanted to walk back across the connected yard to home but were afraid to. After we came back too we noticed the UFO was showing a white light.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Light
Mission— on January 25, 2021, Resubmitting photos, as the previous photos were to large
Nanoose Bay— At 1:15 AM New Years Eve, 2015, I witnessed a craft appear to circumnavigate the moon then move to a stationary position and hover in the night sky over Townsite, Powell River, BC. I could clearly see the craft as it hovered there, so decided to try and snap a few photographs with a cell phone I had handy. The craft remained there for an hour and a half, so allowed plenty of time to take photos. I obtained approx. between 150 and 200 images. Several nights before this occurred; I witnessed 4 or 5 similar craft hovering in formation over our residence in Townsite. There were two women present, both of whom became quite emotional when the objects began to shuffle formation and shift their position in the night sky. They both took refuge in the house. I didn’t look at the photos until a year later, when I enlarged them and saw what appeared to be a strange object morphing from one unusual shape to another in what seemed to be deliberate fashion. On this evening I was looking after a young man with special needs, at one AM, I went out to see an object circumambulating the moon. Since Jan 1, 2015, I have accumulated another few hundred shots of this and similar nature, in Lake Cowichan, BC. British Columbia.
UK/England Light
Manchester— I only noticed these old pictures a few weeks ago on my phone when I come to look at them again a couple of days ago I couldn’t find them, it’s as if they were either deleted or taken from my phone. Anyway I looked at one of my older phones and noticed that I still have these pictures of a wired solar eclipse back in 2015 only looking closer I noticed a sphere looking object flying around the eclipse!!
Uruguay Lights
Piriápolis, Maldonado— I received a message on January 12, 2021, from Mr. Martín Chacón, a resident of the La Falda neighborhood. I contacted him on WhatsApp and he sent me a video of strange lights perched on Cerro del Toro, near his home, recorded with his cell phone on January 9 at 23 hours and 30 minutes. I did analysis using Vegas software and then contacted him by phone to ask about the details of his observation. He gave me another video recorded by a friend that night. They first observed an oval shape or arrangement of the lights, and before disappearing it changed to a V shape. The lights were intense and flashing. The estimated size was more than 20 meters long. It did not emit any kind of sound. Moments before starting the observation, the witnesses noticed that all the dogs in the area began to howl. The entire sighting lasted about 5 minutes.
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Put another way, a young person in the U.S. is nearly 11 times as likely to die in a swimming pool than in a school shooting. Few public officials would say pools are doing a poor job protecting swimmers, but the statistics suggest that we need “more lifeguards at pools, as opposed to guards at schools,” Fox said
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One of the most famous UFO encounters is the story of Minnesota deputy sheriff Val Johnson, who in 1979 was chasing a UFO in his police car when it suddenly zoomed head-on into it, temporarily blinding Johnson, leaving him unconscious and his patrol car’s windshield cracked. Johnson’s eyes were permanently damaged, the car is in a museum, and the story has gone on to be a UFO legend, but it apparently never made it to Indiana, where two police officers chased some brightly lit UFOs into Kentucky. Were they unaware of Johnson’s story or just brave civil servants protecting the good folks of Evansville from an alien attack? And what do they have against Kentucky?
“What are those lights? What are those, man?”
In the video (watch it here) posted by the Evansville Police Department, Officer Trendon D’mechi asks his unnamed partner for his professional opinion on a line of flashing lights the spotted while out on patrol the night of February 1. According to the Evansville Courier & Press, the only source for the story besides the police department, the officers estimated that the lights were above the Indiana/Kentucky border and pursed them to the Ohio River which separates the states. However, the short trip to Marina Pointe was long enough for the lights to disappear.
“My partner and I definitely felt uneasy after seeing the lights. I was surprised that we didn’t receive (any) calls. Or if we did they weren’t dispatched, since there would be nothing we could do about them.”
While their car didn’t suffer any damage, nor did D’mechi and his partner, he told the Courier & Press they were shaken by the fact that they couldn’t identify the lights. Nor could Leslie Fella, director of marketing and air service for Evansville Regional Airport, when sent the video by the reporter.
“Oh wow, very interesting (and strange!) indeed! This is the first that I’ve heard or seen of it, and no, we aren’t aware of anything in the area. Although, unless commercial, we aren’t always made aware.”
Evansville Regional Airport is a fairly busy facility three miles north of Evansville, so its air traffic control should have picked up the lights if they were conventional aircraft. Do they not want to admit these were UFOs? Scott Air Force Base in Western Illinois said it had no exercises going on at that time and Kentucky’s Fort Campbell, 100 miles south, did not respond to the reporter’s request for information. Would the military admit their airspace had been breeched?
So, what did Officer D’mechi and his partner see and record? While he initially thought drones, anyone who has watched the news recently is aware of the SpaceX Starlink communications satellites which are frustrating astronomers and UFO watchers worldwide with their regular appearances in a line across the sky. However, those don’t blink like the ones the officers saw, which many commenters agreed are bigger than the Starlink satellites and moved faster too. Tic Tac UFOs like those spotted by US Navy pilots? Since those have been confirmed but not identified, the military might be wary about confirming them again. Leslie Fella from the Evansville Airport also says “drones,” but she’s not 100% sure.
Former deputy sheriff and UFO crasher Val Johnson claimed his life was affected by his encounter and he refused to ever look at the car again. Since he refused to take a lie detector test, no confirmation has ever been made. Will this encounter affect Officer D’mechi and his partner the same way? Will any other witnesses come forward? Will the military issue any further statements? What do the people of Kentucky think about Indiana cops now?
De Chinese Marsverkenner Tianwen-1 heeft vrijdag zijn eerste foto van de Rode Planeet doorgestuurd, zo heeft het Chinese ruimtevaartbureau (CNSA) meegedeeld. De sonde moet rond 10 februari aankomen bij Mars.
Van op ongeveer 2,2 miljoen km afstand van de planeet genomen, is een eerste foto binnengelopen. Hij toont volgens het CNSA de canyons van Valles Marineris nabij de evenaar, de grote krater Schiaparelli en de vlakte Acidalia Planitia.
Vrijdag heeft de sonde haar vierde baanmanoeuvre uitgevoerd, aldus het officiële Chinese persbureau Xinhua. Het tuig bevond zich vrijdag op 1,1 miljoen km van zijn doel en alle systemen werken zoals het hoort.
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De missie omvat een "orbiter", een lander en een kleine robotjeep van meer dan 200 kilogram. Tianwen-1 moet Mars beter in kaart brengen, en zoeken naar tekenen van vroeger en huidig leven. Als alles goed gaat, landt de robotjeep in april op Mars om er over het oppervlak te rijden en experimenten te verrichten. De jeep beschikt over vier zonnepanelen en zes wielen. Hij moet drie maanden operationeel zijn.
Als de missie slaagt, wordt China na Amerika en de voormalige Sovjet-Unie het derde land dat een ruimtetuig zacht doet landen op onze buurplaneet. Een Marslanding is geen evidentie, zowat de helft van alle pogingen is mislukt.
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This image of Mars captured by China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 was released by China’s space agency on Friday.
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Close Encounters of the Lone Star Kind
Close Encounters of the Lone Star Kind
Pamela Colloff’s extra-terrestrial experiences.
In 1973, when Palacios Mayor W. C. Jackson invited extraterrestrials to visit Texas (“No one has ever made those fellas welcome,” he told reporters), his hospitality came almost a century too late. Long before anyone had heard of Roswell, flying saucers were first spotted in Texas in 1878, according to local legend, and first touched down here in 1897. In fact, Texas can boast of having some of the most compelling evidence ever uncovered of alien visitors—such as Aurora’s crash site, Lubbock’s mysterious lights or Dayton’s close encounters. Texas has also bred its share of peculiar UFO devotees, such as Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite, who was born in Spur and had his first spiritual vision while walking along a Galveston beach, as well as some members of the Republic of Texas, who reportedly believe that the Marfa Lights are proof of a subterranean energy grid that the Pentagon is trying to tap into with alien technology. MUFON, the world’s largest UFO investigation organization, is based in Texas, as is NASA, which oversees an intergalactic radio signal monitoring program called SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
1878: Denison, Texas
Thanks to a long-forgotten nineteenth-century farmer named John Martin, unidentified flying objects were first described as “saucers” here in Texas. According to the article “A Strange Phenomenon” that appeared in the
Denison Daily News on January 25, 1878, Martin was hunting when he saw “a dark object high in the northern sky.” The news account states that “the peculiar shape and the velocity with which the object seemed to approach riveted his attention, and he strained his eyes to discover its character. When first noticed it appeared to be about the size of an orange, after which it continued to grow larger.
“After gazing at it for some time,” the article continues, “Mr. Martin became blind from long looking and left of viewing to rest his eyes. On resuming his view, the object was almost overhead and had increased considerably in size and appeared to be going through space at a wonderful speed. When directly over him it was about the size of a large saucer and was evidently at great height.”
Although Martin clearly saw a “saucer,” Idaho pilot Kenneth Arnold is widely—and incorrectly—credited as the first person to describe an unidentified flying object as such. Arnold ushered in the post-war wave of UFO hysteria in 1947 when he told a local reporter, and in turn, the Associated Press, that he had seen an object in the sky over Washington’s Cascade Mountains that “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.” Arnold’s account coined the term “flying saucer,” although that honor rightly belongs to Texan John Martin, who had spotted one 69 years earlier.
1883: Marfa, Texas
According to Apache legend, the ghostly flashes of light that appear in the night sky of West Texas are the incarnation of the wandering spirit of Apache Chief Alaste, who has haunted the Chinati Mountains since his execution at the hands of Mexican Rurales in the 1860s. White settlers first noticed these lights, now known as the Marfa Mystery Lights, in 1883 when rancher Robert Ellison was driving his cattle a few miles east of Marfa. He and his companions spotted flickering lights along the horizon and feared that they were Apache camp fires, but when they searched the area the next day, they found no traces of encampments.
Since that time, people have flocked to what is now Route 90, nine miles east of Marfa, to try to spot the lights, which have appeared in white, pink, yellow, green, and blue hues to the east of the Chinati Mountains. Sometimes the lights dance erratically, while other times they remain motionless, slowly brightening with intensity. Skeptics believe that the lights are simply car headlights skimming across the mountains, but that would not explain sightings in the last century, or the fact that the lights often move in circles or zig zag formations. Others have argued that the lights are nothing more than ball lightening, reflections, mirages, swamp gas, or static electricity, but scientists have not been able to prove that any of those phenomena could happen in West Texas terrain with such regularity. According to local folklore, the lights are believed to be many things: Alaste’s spirit, the reflections of Spanish gold, the hidden treasures of Pancho Villa, “brujas” (witches) who are learning to fly, and most recently, UFOs.
On April 17, 1897, six years before the first plane was flown by the Wright brothers, an “airship” visited Aurora, Texas. After having been spotted sporadically in the Midwest, the illuminated, cigar-shaped craft was next seen in North Texas—first in Denton, and then in Weatherford, Corsicana, and Stephenville. The editor of the Stephenville newspaper claimed that the airship hovered so close to the town that he was able to yell out a request for an interview, which the extraterrestrial pilot denied.
Moving on to Aurora, the airship reportedly circled the town square, crashed into a windmill, and exploded, leaving behind the pilot’s charred body and a note written in indecipherable hieroglyphics. According to an article published in the Dallas Morning News two days later, the pilot was thought to be “a native of the planet Mars.”
Rumors about the airship persisted, and in 1973, a team of UFO buffs and television crews descended on Aurora to see if they could substantiate the story. Some Aurora elders claimed to remember the close encounter, while most of the town’s 300 residents emphatically insisted that it was an old hoax designed to revive Aurora’s declining fortunes. The incident may always remain a mystery, however, since a district court blocked an effort to exhume an Aurora grave that some believed held the pilot’s body. According to local legend, the grave was marked only by a headstone bearing a cryptic insignia: several small circles drawn inside the Greek letter delta. The stone has since disappeared.
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1948: Laredo, Texas
Gossip circulated throughout the ’50s that several officers from an air force base near Laredo were instructed on July 7, 1948 to cordon off a remote strip of land where an extraterrestrial aircraft had crashed. Rumored to be a large disc, it had supposedly flown over Albuquerque at around 2,000 miles per hour before crashing into the West Texas desert, where it was then recovered by government agents. One variation on the story claimed that the badly-burned inhabitant of the craft was significantly shorter in height than the average human and had unusually long arms.
In 1978, a man claiming to be a former Air Force photographer sent reporters photos of a severely burned body inside some wreckage—pictures that he claimed he was instructed to take of a wrecked experimental aircraft outside of Laredo during the summer of 1948. The singed “alien” in the photo, quickly dubbed “tomato man” by the press because of his extremely large head, is probably a human pilot who was killed when his plane crashed and burned. The pilot’s noticeable lack of hair and enlarged head are thought to be a result of the fire.
Government papers now indicate that the Air Force was experimenting at that time with V-2 rockets, nicknamed “foo-fighters,” hence the crashed experimental aircraft that the photographer was instructed to document. One unresolved question is whether the pilot was actually a man or a monkey; the latter would explain the rumor that the pilot was short in stature with extremely long arms.
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1951: Lubbock, Texas
Before Buddy Holly put Lubbock on the map, the Lubbock Lights gave this Panhandle town national fame. On an August night in 1951, several college professors sitting outside on a porch saw a formation of blue lights fly quickly overhead. They waited to see if the lights would return, and later that evening, they observed the lights again. That same night, a Lubbock woman also spotted the blue lights as she was taking her laundry off a clothesline. The lights, she later told Air Force investigators, framed the tail end of an enormous, “winglike” craft. A few days earlier, an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission saw the same type of aircraft in Albuquerque—a “wing-shaped” object with blue lights at its base. By the end of August, there was another sighting of the object in Matador, Texas, about seventy miles north of Lubbock, as well as photographs of the blue lights taken by Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart, Jr.
Before the lights disappeared two weeks later, dozens of people in North Texas reported seeing blue lights darting from one end of the horizon to the other. An investigation into the phenomenon for Project Bluebook—a 1950s and ’60s Air Force study into the possible existence of UFOs—came up with two explanations for the sightings. One theory was that the lights were plovers, West Texas birds with shiny white breasts that could have reflected the city’s glow as they flew overhead; another theory was that the lights were actually a result of Lubbock’s newly-installed mercury-vapor street lamps that gave off a bluish haze. However, neither of these explanations accounted for the lights’ immense speed or their sudden disappearance.
The Air Force ultimately categorized the Lubbock Lights sightings under the inconclusive heading “unidentified,” making it one of the most famous—and widely witnessed—UFO incidents in history.
1957: Levelland, Texas
Not far from where the Lubbock Lights were seen six years earlier, residents of Levelland, Texas, reported ten UFO-related incidents during the course of several hours on November 2, 1957. The first close encounter took place around eleven o’clock in the evening when farm workers Pedro Saucedo and Joe Salaz saw a giant, brilliantly-lit object fly over their truck. As it passed overhead, the truck’s headlights and engine went dead, resuming to normal only once the craft had disappeared. Saucedo reported the incident to Levelland police, who received a call an hour later from Levelland resident Jim Wheeler. Eight miles from the original report, Wheeler said that his engine and headlights had failed as he approached a brightly lit egg-shaped object in the road. Once the craft had ascended into the sky and disappeared, Wheeler was able to restart his engine.
Sheriff Weir Clem and Deputy Pat McColloch drove along Route 116 searching for the glowing object when finally, at 1:30 a.m., they spotted an enormous, egg-shaped craft that looked “like a brilliant red sunset across the highway,” according to Clem. It “lit up the whole pavement in front of us for about two seconds,” he said, and then it disappeared. Throughout the night, the Levelland police department continued to receive calls describing a similar bright object that caused lights to dim and car engines to shut off.
The Air Force investigated, speculating that the incidents were examples of ball lightening. However, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Air Force’s primary UFO investigator at the time, recanted this conclusion in later writings. “I am not proud today that I hastily concurred in Captain Gregory’s evaluation as ‘ball lightning’ [as the explanation for the Levelland sightings] on the basis of information that an electrical storm had been in progress in the Levelland area at the time. That was shown not to be the case,” wrote Hynek. “Besides, had I given it any thought whatsoever, I would have soon recognized the absence of any evidence that ball lightning can stop cars and put out headlights.” The Levelland sightings remain unexplained.
1975: Seguin, Texas
The world’s largest UFO organization, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), was originally founded in Illinois in 1969 after the Air Force abruptly ended Project Bluebook, its study of the possible existence of UFOs. Continuing where Project Bluebook left off, MUFON went about researching, investigating, and compiling reports of UFO sightings in an attempt to resolve the question of whether or not UFOs exist. In 1975, MUFON relocated to Seguin, where it resumed documenting UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circles, and animal mutilations throughout the world by using the organization’s vast network of inve stigators.
Now considered to be the preeminent UFO authority, MUFON hosts an international symposium each year, publishes its own magazine and 312-page investigator’s manual, and is frequently called upon by writers from the X-Files and Unsolved Mysteries for script material. MUFON’s charismatic 76-year-old founder, Walt Andrus, and the organization’s vast resources—such as a museum filled with rare UFO photos, stacks of declassified government documents, and a database containing thousands of investigators’ methodically researched reports—have drawn everyone from German physicists to Hollywood producers to Seguin.
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1980: Dayton, Texas
On the night of December 29, 1980, on a remote road 40 miles outside Houston, restaurant owner Betty Cash, her friend Vicki Landrum, and Landrum’s 7-year-old grandson, Colby, were returning home after a night out when a large, glowing, diamond-shaped aircraft spurting flames descended from the sky and hovered above the roadway in front of them. When they got out of the car to take a closer look at the object, which made a loud roaring noise, they were soon forced to return to the car because of the intense heat emanating from the craft. Cash claimed that as she grasped her car’s hot door handle, her wedding ring burned into her hand. Soon thereafter, the mysterious aircraft flew away along with a swarm of black Chinooks, or military helicopters.
Cash, who had remained outside the car longer than the Landrums, was admitted to a local hospital as a burn victim. All three passengers manifested different symptoms of what appeared to be radiation sickness, such as burns, blisters, nausea, rashes, severe headaches, sore eyes, and hair and fingernail loss. Cash was later diagnosed with breast cancer and Landrum developed severe cataracts. ”I’ve never believed in UFOs, ” Mrs. Cash later told reporters. “I was the first one to laugh.” But, she added, “I was terrified. Now I’m afraid to look up.”
Two theories swirled around the incident: either the object was an experimental military device which had gone haywire on a test flight or, some speculated, it was a recovered alien aircraft which the Air Force was trying to fly. Cash and Landrum hired a lawyer, who filed suit against the government for $20 million in damages. The case dragged on in district court for several years and called upon the testimony of officials from NASA, the Air Force, and the Army and Navy, before being dismissed in 1986 because no governmental agency owned or operated any aircraft fitting Cash and Landrum’s description. To this day, there is no conclusive explanation of the night’s events.
Oldest Pyramid on Earth is Hidden on Icy Antarctica
Oldest Pyramid on Earth is Hidden on Icy Antarctica
Ancient alien conspiracy theorists strongly believe that secret pyramids and concealed all around the Earth and think some may be covered on Antarctica. Alien theorists point to a pyramid-like structure near the Shackleton mountain range on the continent. When viewed on satellite imagery, the pyramid appears to have four steep sides, similar to Giza’s Great Pyramid.
This theory was featured on the TV series Ancient Aliens on the History Channel. Episode one of season 11 of the series explored the possibility that alien visitors or human civilisations left such pyramids.
David Childress, a conspiracy theory author, told Ancient Aliens there’s a possibility the Shackleton pyramid is the oldest on the world.
He said if this giant Antarctica pyramid is an artificial structure, it would probably be the oldest pyramid on Earth. In fact, it might be the pilot pyramid that all the other pyramids on the planet were designed to look like.
However, Dr. Michael Sala, author of Exopolitics Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence, has a different theory. He said the pyramid is just one node in a worldwide network of power-generating pyramids strategically installed around Earth.
Legendary Giants of Peru whose skeletons were seen by the conquerors
Legendary Giants of Peru whose skeletons were seen by the conquerors
In current times the idea of the existence of lost civilizations of giant beings has spread widely among people, thanks mainly to the Internet. However, a few decades ago, this topic was unknown to the vast majority of people. Peru is one of the countries where these ancient stories have been documented by chroniclers or passed down from generation to generation, showing the “strangeness” that the colonizers witnessed hundreds of years ago.
There is a special area on our planet where there are especially many stories and legends about people of great stature. Also, these stories are not thousands of years old, but only a few hundred.
Stories about the Peruvian giants have been known since the 16th century, when the first Spanish conquerors arrived in this region.
One of the first reports of the Peruvian giants is the story of the conqueror Pedro Cieza de León , which is described in the folio Royal Comments of the Incas, Volume 1 , written by the Peruvian writer Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Cieza de León apparently did not see the giants with his own eyes, but spoke to those who saw them.
In his report, he described that once people of great stature sailed on their large rafts from the reeds to the shore where the village of local natives was located. The town was located on the Santa Elena peninsula, which is now the territory of Ecuador.
The giants disembarked from the rafts on the peninsula and established their camp near the conquerors. Apparently, they decided to settle here for a long time, because they immediately began to dig deep wells to extract water from them.
Normal men reached their knees …
An excerpt from the ancient text narrates:
“Some of them were so tall that a normal-sized man would barely reach his knees. Their limbs were proportional to the body, but their huge heads with shoulder-length hair were monstrous. Their eyes were huge as saucers and their faces were beardless. Some of them were dressed in animal skins, but some were in their natural state (without clothing). Not a single woman was seen among them. When they set up camp, they began to dig deep wells to get water. They dug them in stony soil and then built strong stone pits. The water in them was excellent, it was always fresh and tasted good ”.
As soon as the giants established their camp, they immediately made a bloody raid on the village of the local natives. According to Cieza de León’s description, they stole everything they could grab and ate everything they could eat, including people!
It was a terrible sight when these huge people were hanging from the trees and the natives were fleeing from them, and they could hardly defend themselves. Then, on the site of the devastated village, the giants built their great huts and stayed here to fish and hunt in the local forests.
Despite this, Cieza de León himself believed this story to be completely true and described that he personally saw the huge stone wells built by the giants. He also writes that other conquerors saw the wells and the remains of huge houses that the local natives were unable to build.
In addition, Cieza de Leon writes about even more curious things. He writes that the conquerors found very large human bones in this area , as well as pieces of teeth that were large and heavy.
“In 1550, in the city of Lima, I heard that when His Excellency Don Antonio de Mendoza, the viceroy and governor of New Spain, was here, some bones of people were found that were huge and could belong to giants. I also heard that complete deposits of giant bones were found in an ancient tomb in or near Mexico City. Since many locals claim to have seen them first hand, we can assume that these giants really exist and may belong to only one race. “
Other proof of the existence of ancient Peruvian giants can be found in the records of Captain Juan Olmos, who in 1543 excavated ancient burials in the Trujillo Valley and supposedly discovered bones of people of great stature there.
Later, another giant skeleton was found in the province of Tucumán by the conqueror Agustín de Zárate and his people. In general, similar stories come from Spanish characters who visited Peru during the 16th century and continued to appear in the 17th century.
In 1620, the Jesuit priest and missionary Pablo José Arriaga in his manuscript ” The extirpation of idolatry in Peru ” wrote the following:
“They (the representatives of the Spanish inspectors) took us to the other side of the town, where there was a very large cave and the remains of giants lay in it. Among them were three giant bodies with deformed heads (elongated skulls) wrapped in ceremonial cloth. These giants were considered the ancestors of all these village people who worshiped them, even sacrifices were made in their honor. Then (the Spanish) burned all these bodies ”.
Cover of the Extirpation of idolatry in Peru of the Jesuit. Pablo Joseph de Arriaga (1620). In the 18th and 19th centuries, stories about Peruvian giants also appeared, but they became smaller and were already perceived as myths and legends, and not as something real.
Lily Wilder, aged 4, was walking with her father and per dog along a beach in south Wales, when she saw something unusual. It turned out to be a dinosaur footprint from the Triassic.
Image credits: National Museum Wales.
Although Lily doesn’t quite grasp exactly what she spotted yet, her keen eye is what found the footprint. She called to her dad who took photos and then posted them on a Facebook group, where he was directed to contact paleontologists. The incredibly well-preserved fossil is more than just a cool find: it can help researchers better understand how some dinosaurs walked around.
“It really is stunning preservation … You can see every detail of the muscles and where the joints are in the foot,” Cindy Howells, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales paleontology curator, told NBC News. She called the footprint the “best specimen ever found” on the beach.
It’s not possible to tell exactly what species it was right now, but many things can be inferred about the dinosaur that left the footprint. It was probably about 75 cm tall, shorter than a horse but taller than a dog. The dinosaur would have walked on its two hind feet and hunted small animals, or maybe even insects.
“There are no fossilised bones from this 220 million-year-old dinosaur, but similar footprints in the USA are known to have been made by the dinosaur Coelophysis which does not occur in the UK,” reads a statement from the National Museum Cardiff, where the fossil will soon be hosted. “Many of the other footprints found at Bendricks Bay in the past have most likely not been from dinosaurs, but rather from some of the more crocodilian-type reptiles that also inhabited the area.” The museum also added that Lily will have her name listed as the one who discovered the footprint.
Dinosaurs first appeared some 230 million years ago, so this is one of the earliest ones to roam the Earth. It marks an important period, when dinosaurs were diversifying and exploring different ecological niches. They would have roamed across much of today’s Britain, but few fossils have ever been found in the area. As it enters the custody of the museum, it will be analyzed in greater detail by palaeontologists.
Meanwhile, Howell says that people should learn from this episode and try to spend more time in nature, especially in this very challenging pandemic period, when meeting with others can be so complicated. You never know what you may find, she says.
“Obviously, we don’t all have dinosaur footprints on our doorstep but there is a wealth of nature local to you if you take the time to really look close enough,” she says.
The search for intelligent alien life began at a goat farm in Israel.
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb was sitting on a barn floor hunched over his laptop devising a scientific way to search for a civilization in outer space. An answer to that age-old question: Are we alone? An Israeli-Russian billionaire was ready to front him $100 million for the project – on the condition that Loeb could prepare a PowerPoint presentation ASAP.
But life, like the universe itself, works in mysterious ways. Loeb was on vacation, six-thousand miles from his office in Cambridge, at a goat farm. And, well, goat farms aren’t known for their great WiFi.
“It was 6 a.m. in the morning and I was sitting with my back against the wall looking at the newly born goats that were born just the day before, while contemplating the first trip to the nearest star. It was very surreal,” Loeb recalled during a recent Zoom call. “I’m sure that the owner of the goat farm never imagined that this would happen at that place.”
Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth’ by Avi Loeb
Loeb’s quixotic search for life beyond Earth is the subject of his new book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.” But lest you think the 59-year-old Loeb is some crackpot, tin foil hat on head, glancing up at the stars and spotting a UFO, you should know something about his bona fides. Avi Loeb just completed his third term as chair of Harvard’s astronomy department. The author of five books and 800 scientific papers, he was named in 2012 as one of the most influential people in space by Time Magazine.
For Loeb, looking for aliens is a matter of life or death. Sooner or later, he explained, Earth will no longer be habitable. Within a billion years, the sun will boil off all the oceans. At any point in time, an asteroid could smash into our planet, killing us like it did the dinosaurs. “If we’re not careful enough, we can have a self-inflicted wound today coming from our technologies. We have all our eggs in one basket right now. If there is a catastrophe here on Earth, then we lose everything that is precious to us."
Now imagine if we could find an intelligent life form somewhere else in the galaxy. Imagine if we could make contact, if we could say, “Hey, our planet is no longer habitable. Can we stay at your place?”
He is not alone in his beliefs. That PowerPoint he created at the goat farm? Crazy as it sounds, it did the trick. Yuri Milner, the Israeli-Russian billionaire, cut his $100 million check and launched the Breakthrough Listen Initiative. With Loeb at the helm, Nobel Prize winners and some of the smartest minds in Silicon Valley came on board. The project was unveiled to the world on July 20, 2015, the 46th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. “In an infinite universe, there must be other life,” Stephen Hawking announced at the press conference. “There is no bigger question. It is time to commit to finding the answer.”
A football field in the sky
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
An artist’s rendering of Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system.
Avi Loeb is used to having epiphanies at Israeli farms. His grandparents fled Nazi Germany before the war and emigrated to the bucolic village of Beit Hanan. Loeb was born in the winter of 1962, and was raised in the agrarian ways of his parents. His mom was a baker and his dad was Israel’s leading pecan farmer.
After school each day, when Loeb was done collecting eggs from his flock of chickens, he would drive the family’s tractor to a quiet spot on the farm and read books. “I dreamed of thinking for a living,” he said.
He wanted to become a philosopher, but didn’t know if that was an actual vocation so he studied what he thought was the next best thing: science. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem – a school that his intellectual muse, Albert Einstein, helped establish in 1923. Loeb then followed Einstein’s path to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. After spending five years there, he was eventually hired by Harvard University, where he started as an assistant professor and got tenure after only three years.
On the morning of October 19, 2017, just two years after Breakthrough Listen launched, Loeb’s research got an unexpected jolt. A powerful telescope at an observatory in Hawaii spotted something strange in the sky above. It was the size of a football field.
The scientists dubbed it Oumuamua, the Hawaiian word for ‘scout,’ and it’s believed to be the first interstellar object detected passing through our solar system.
Ask Loeb what he thinks the strange flying object was and he’ll tell you, in all earnestness, that it was an alien ship on a reconnaissance mission or a relic of a lost alien civilization. Indeed, he talks often about the burgeoning field of space archaeology, wondering if, in some way, he’s Indiana Jones in a lab coat.
His suppositions are not without controversy. Many scientists, even those who respect Loeb’s work in general, believe the Harvard professor is too quick to point to aliens. They think he’s an interstellar Paul Revere. “The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!” Scientists from NASA and the European Space Agency say Oumuamua was likely just a comet. Chinese physicists believe it was a chunk that had broken off an asteroid or something that we had never seen before.
But that’s exactly the kind of thinking that gets under Loeb’s skin. “They are just saying, ‘You know what? We don’t understand this anomaly. It’s business as usual. Let’s forget about it.’ And that to me is just like a caveman witnessing a cell phone and saying, ‘You know, it’s a shiny rock that just looks like all the rocks I’ve played with until now.’”
Listening for aliens in the quietest place in America
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The Green Bank Telescope is 60% taller than the Statue of Liberty and is so massive the locals refer to the GBT by its other acronym — the ‘Great Big Thing.’
While Loeb waits for the world to become a better place, he remains steadfast, listening. But to listen for aliens, one needs complete silence. Loeb and his colleagues at the Breakthrough project have found the perfect location to conduct their experiments.
In a field, tucked away amidst the valleys of the Appalachian Mountains in a small town in rural West Virginia, is the Green Bank Observatory – home to one of the largest telescopes in the world. The work they are doing is so precise that the government has dubbed the area the United States National Radio Quiet Zone. WiFi routers and Bluetooth signals are prohibited. Cell service is non-existent. Try to use a microwave and a police officer may cite you.
The scientists are listening for Fast Radio Bursts, an astronomical pulse that would reveal the existence of intelligent life. Since they began paying attention in 2015, they have already collected about a million gigabytes of information. (That would be the equivalent of storing around 60,000 Nicholas Cage movies in HD.)
Loeb hopes his new book – written for a mainstream audience – will get more people interested in the need to find a new Earth, but there’s a part of him that’s still trying to convince his fellow astrophysicists of the legitimacy of searching for aliens. To that end, he has just completed a manuscript for “Life in the Cosmos,” an 870-page science textbook about the search for extraterrestrials to be published by Harvard University Press this summer.
“I want to convince my colleagues that this subject belongs and we have the tools to address it,” he said. He remembered something he was taught during his time as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces. “Sometimes a soldier has to put his body on the barbed wire so that others can pass through. And I don’t care if I don’t get likes on Twitter. I’m willing to put my body on the barbed wire so that the next generation of younger scientists will be able to discuss this subject freely.”
’Let’s attract their attention by being better’
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Dr. Avi Loeb delivering the keynote lecture at the 2019 New Scientist Live convention in London.
In the years since the Breakthrough Listen Initiative began, Loeb has done a yeoman’s job explaining why the quest to find extraterrestrials is critical to humanity’s survival. But if the shoe was on the other foot, would aliens want to find us? “I don’t think that we are particularly intelligent or worthy. We are not the smartest kid on the block,” he said. “And the reason I say that is because it’s highly unlikely that out of all the random processes, that the chemical soup that exists on Earth produced the best cake possible. I think that there might be other cakes on other planets that have similar conditions to Earth that taste better, that are more intelligent than we are.”
It’s at this point in the conversation that Loeb transforms into the man he always wanted to be: a philosopher. “I think what the universe is telling us again and again, and people ignore, is that we should be modest,” he said. “Aristotle was arguing that we are the center of the universe, there are spheres around us. And that was a beautiful model. It was very flattering to us. But it was wrong. We are not at the center of anything.”
In his new book, he points to Winston Churchill who, in 1939, was writing an essay about how exciting it would be to search for life beyond our solar system. But then Churchill was drafted to become prime minister and fight the Nazis. Loeb imagined an alternative scenario where, instead of wasting resources during WWII, the citizens of Earth followed Churchill’s advice to use those same tools and technologies to explore the sky for signatures of alien civilizations.
“Humanity, at least historically, wasted most of its resources on people fighting each other on borders, territories, on ethnicity,” Loeb said. “Racism in particular is a completely ridiculous idea – that people with different skin color would have different qualities? My bottom line is, when I read the morning newspaper, I don’t get the impression that we are particularly intelligent. So why should they visit us? Let’s get better. Let’s attract their attention by being better.”
The Mysterious Aboriginal Rock Art of the Wandjinas
The Mysterious Aboriginal Rock Art of the Wandjinas
One of the most intriguing and perplexing legends of the Australian Aboriginal people is that of the Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings and creators of the land and people. The land of the Wandjina is a vast area of about 200,000 square kilometres of lands, waters, sea and islands in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia with continuous culture dating back at least 60,000 years but probably much older. Here, traditional Aboriginal law and culture are still active and alive.
The Worora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people are the three Wandjina tribes – these tribal groups are the custodians of the oldest known figurative art which is scattered throughout the Kimberley.
Perhaps what is most interesting about their figurative art painted on rocks and in caves is the way in which they have represented the Wandjinas - white faces, devoid of a mouth, large black eyes, and a head surrounded by a halo or some type of helmet.
The ancient paintings have received all manner of interpretations from stylized representations of people or even owls, to ancient astronaut theories which suggest that extraterrestrial beings visited Earth tens of thousands of years ago and had direct contact with the inhabitants. Some believe that the extraterrestrials even played a direct role in creation, which is reflected not only in the Dreamtime stories of the Aboriginals but also the myths and legends of many ancient civilizations around the world.
One could be forgiven for thinking that there is indeed a remarkable similarity between the Wandjinas and the stereotypical image of an extraterrestrial which we see time and again in art, movies and witness accounts. And many raise logical questions such as, why were the Wandjinas painted with white skin if it was representing another Aboriginal, all of whom had black skin? Why were the eyes always painted so disproportionate to the face and nose? And why were they all painted without a mouth?
But what is even more surprising is the oral account of the Wandjinas which has been passed from generation to generation as all of the Aboriginal Dreamtime stories have.
The story goes like this – the Wandjina were “sky-beings” or “spirits from the clouds” who came down from the Milky Way during Dreamtime and created the Earth and all its inhabitants. Then Wandjina looked upon the inhabitants and realised the enormity of the task and returned home to bring more Wandjinas. With the aid of the Dreamtime snake, the Wandjina descended and spent their Dreamtime creating, teaching and being Gods to the Aboriginals whom they created. After some time, the Wandjinas disappeared. They descended into the earth and since then, have lived at the bottom of the water source associated with each of the paintings. There, they continually produce new ‘child-seeds’, which are regarded as the source of all human life. Some Wandjina also returned to the sky, and can now be seen at night as lights moving high above the earth.
Aboriginal people, in the Kimberley also believe that even after they disappeared, the Wandjina continued to control everything that happened on the land and in the sky and sea.
Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, rock art and cave paintings have often been considered more myth then reality, like the stories we find in the teachings of modern day religions. However, recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed the reality of at least some of the Dreamtime stories. For example, those that spoke of huge mammals walking the Earth were once considered fantasy. But discoveries of animal fossils belonging to ‘mega fauna’ including giant mammals confirmed that these stories were accounts of real life events, passed down by generations over tens of thousands of years.
Interestingly and of course controversially, objects have been found on geographical sites which suggest the area had been inhabited as long ago as 174,000 B.C. This contradicts the theory that Aboriginals had their routes in Africa and that inhabitants travelled from Africa to Australia about 60,000 years ago. Other researchers have suggested that Homo sapiens actually originated in Australia .
Today, the Aboriginal tribes of the Worora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul still revere the Wandjina and only certain individuals are given permission to paint them. It is said that the Wandjina could punish those who broke the law with floods, lightening and cyclones and the paintings of the Wandjina are believed to possess these powers, therefore according to the Aboriginals they are always to be approached and treated respectfully.
Why would ancient Aboriginal people create so-called myths or fanciful stories if it meant so much to them and remains so important to their culture to this day? So many myths and legends of the past have already been proven true by archaeological findings, such as the legend of the city of Troy , the labyrinth of the Minotaur, Norse legends of navigational crystals and many more. Could it not be that the Aboriginal people of the time were simply telling of events as they saw them and how they understood them at the time? Perhaps one day we will uncover the answers to these intriguing questions.
It was in February 1975 that remote-viewer Ingo Swann was contacted, out of the blue, by what he personally described as a certain highly-placed figure in Washington, D.C. It was someone who guardedly advised Swann that he, Swann, would soon be receiving a telephone call from a “Mr. Axelrod.” Swann’s source quietly advised him that while he could not offer much at that time by way of a meaningful explanation, Swann should be keenly aware that the call would concern a matter of great urgency and importance. A somewhat concerned Swann waited…and waited…and waited. Finally, around four weeks later, a call arrived, and Swann was asked to make a cloak-and-dagger rendezvous, only mere hours later, at the National Museum of Natural History within the Smithsonian.
Despite the somewhat fraught, last-minute nature of the conversation, Swann unhesitatingly agreed, and quickly – albeit with a degree of concern and trepidation – made his careful way to the meeting-place, where he was greeted by a man who Swann said looked like a Marine. Although basic formalities were exchanged, Swann was hardly clear on what was afoot: he was driven by car to a second location, where nothing less than a helicopter was waiting to take him to a destination unknown. Such was the security and secrecy surrounding the journey Swann was blindfolded for the approximately thirty-minute flight. In other words, the experience was rapidly becoming one of near-007-like proportions.
On landing, Swann was taken to an elevator that descended for a significant period of time – perhaps into the bowels of some secret, underground installation, Swann thought, and probably with a high degree of logical justification. With the blindfold finally removed, Swann gathered his bearings, and was then introduced to the enigmatic Mr. Axelrod, who admitted this was not his real name, but suggested to Swann it was an identity that served the particular purposes of the meeting. Axelrod wasted no time and got straight to the point, asking Swann a great deal of questions about the nature of remote-viewing. Axelrod also made it clear that he wished to make use of Swann’s skills – on what was clearly a secret operation – for a significant sum of money. It truly was one of those offers that one cannot refuse. And Swann, most assuredly, did not refuse it.
Axelrod asked Swann, pointedly, what he knew about our Moon. Now, finally, the purpose of the strange meeting was becoming much clearer. Someone within officialdom was secretly looking to have the Moon remote-viewed – which is precisely what Swann went ahead and did. By Swann’s own admission, he was utterly floored by what he found: during an initial targeting, his mind focused in on sensational imagery of what looked to be a huge tower, similar in size to the Secretariat Building at the United Nations, but one that soared upwards from the Moon’s surface. This was no human-made structure, Swann was told: it was the work of nothing less than mysterious extraterrestrials. In follow-up remote-viewing sessions, Swann was able to perceive on the surface of the Moon a wealth of domed structures, advanced machinery, additional tall towers, large cross-like structures, curious tubular constructions across the landscape, and even evidence of what looked like extensive mining operations. Someone, or something, had secretly constructed nothing less than a Moon-base.
Intriguingly, Swann was also able to focus his mind on what appeared to be a group of people – that appeared very human – housed in some sort of enclosure on the Moon, that were busily burrowing into the side of a cliff. The only oddity: they were all utterly naked. Rather ominously, and very quickly, at that point Axelrod terminated the experiment, amid dark and disturbing allusions to the possibility that the Moon-based entities were possibly acutely aware they were being spied upon via the means of astral-travel. It was even implied that Swann’s very actions might now place him in grave danger, if the beings decided to turn the tables and pay him a visit of a deadly, cosmic kind – which, very fortunately for Swann, they did not.
Now, we come to the end of the story. In many respects, it’s more thought-provoking than the story of Swann. Axelrod inquired of Swann if he knew of a man named George Leonard. Swann replied that, no, he was not familiar with the name. It transpired that during that very same time-frame that the shadowy Axelrod was employing Swann to seek out the mysteries of the Moon, Leonard – an author – was hard at work, toiling on a manuscript titled Somebody Else is on the Moon. In 1977, Leonard’s manuscript appeared in book form, and, to a significant degree, focused its attention upon the very matter about which Axelrod was so deeply troubled: namely, unusual, intelligently-designed structures, or installations, on the Moon. Leonard’s publisher said:
“Few people noticed the secret codewords used by our astronauts to describe the moon. Until now, few knew about the strange moving lights they reported. George H. Leonard, former NASA scientist, fought through the official veil of secrecy and studied thousands of NASA photographs, spoke candidly with dozens of NASA officials, and listened to hours and hours of astronauts’ tapes. Here, Leonard presents the stunning and inescapable evidence discovered during his in-depth investigation: Immense mechanical rigs, some over a mile long, working the lunar surface. Strange geometric ground markings and symbols. Lunar constructions several times higher than anything built on Earth. Vehicles, tracks, towers, pipes, conduits, and conveyor belts running in and across moon craters. Somebody else is indeed on the Moon, and engaged in activities on a massive scale. Our space agencies, and many of the world’s top scientists, have known for years that there is intelligent life on the moon.”
The odd, near-Deep Throat-like meetings between Swann and Axelrod – on the nature of what was afoot on the Moon – continued until 1977, after which time they came to an abrupt end, with Swann, unsurprisingly, left scratching his head about the distinctly odd sequence of events. No doubt, Leonard was mystified, too.
Imagine, if you will, a huge network of strange, huge “tubes” positioned across certain portions of Mars’ vast landscape. Not only that, they just might have been the sophisticated creations of ancient Martians who used them as a means of perhaps planet-wide transport in the distant past. Sounds incredible? Well, yes, it is incredible. But does that make it true? That’s the big question that sorely requires answering. The controversy all began after certain photos of the curious structures were secured by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, which was launched in November 1996. The MGS obtained incredible images from all across the planet. Indeed, as NASA noted: “Mars Global Surveyor, launched in 1996, operated longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history, and for more than four times as long as the prime mission originally planned. The spacecraft returned detailed information that has overhauled understanding about Mars. Major findings include dramatic evidence that water still flows in short bursts down hillside gullies, and identification of deposits of water-related minerals leading to selection of a Mars rover landing site.”
Are the mysterious tubes nothing more than the modern day equivalents of the non-existent canals that captivated both Lowell and Schiaparelli a long, long time ago? Was this really solid evidence, caught on camera by NASA, of incredible structures created by advanced Martians? Or, was a huge wave of embarrassment about to engulf those whose enthusiasm just might cause them to jump the gun? Those were the questions being asked approximately a century after Lowell’s 1895 book, Mars, began making big and controversial waves. There’s no doubt that the tubes – largely translucent or transparent, but not exclusively – exist. And in large amounts. And, there’s no doubt whatsoever that the natures of the tubes require a definitive answer as to what they are. Theories include (a) the highly ironic idea that Lowell and Schiaparelli were, mostly, correct from the very beginning – that the tubes were used by Martians to divert precious and vital water supplies to areas of the planet that were running perilously low when Mars began to degrade, whether due to catastrophic environmental developments, or as a result of a planet-wide war; and (b) that the tubes were a means of transportation for the Martians themselves.
Jeffrey McCann, of The Research Abyss, said, somewhat echoing the theories of Percival Lowell: “A lot of people have seen these strange structures and have tried to speculate as to what they might be. Some would say these are huge water ducts funneling water from one area to another [italics mine], others are firm in thinking that these are some sort of natural geological anomaly only occurring on Mars.” As these words demonstrate, sometimes it’s hard to fully move on from old theories. Few people – if any – deny the undeniably odd appearance of the tubes: they look just like gigantic, ribbed earthworms. In fact, after what became famously known as the “glass tube photo” taken by the Mars Global Surveyor surfaced, Mars researcher Richard Hoagland highlighted the controversy at his website. It can be accurately said that Hoagland was the primary figure who brought the matter of the tubes to an eager and amazed audience.
Mars. the “Red Planet”
Ron Nicks, a geologist, recalled of one particular image sent back to Earth: “This remarkable ‘tube,’ roughly a mile in length and hundreds of feet wide, appears to cling to a desert canyon wall near the canyon’s bottom, and extend along its entire length. The feature has the appearance of being ‘translucent,’ of being supported at somewhat regular intervals by ‘ribs,’ and of being quite cylindrical – with a localized, internal structure at one point of considerably higher albedo (brightness). To define this feature in purely geological terms has been a considerable challenge.” These ribs, or arches – the latter may be better and more correct terminology – play a significant role in the theories and conclusions of those who doubt that the tubes are merely natural phenomena. On this issue, Richard Hoagland and Mike Bara – the authors of Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA – said: “Critics in the past attempted to pass off similar arches as ‘sand dunes.’ To be sure, there are some superficial resemblances between these ‘arches’ (and similar structures near the base of some pyramids at Cydonia) and real sand dunes – but on any sort of close examination, the ‘sand dune’ argument quickly falls apart.””
As for what the photo actually shows us, Glen Hiemstra, A.K.A. “The Futurist”” echoed: “The land area seen in the full image is about 20 miles by 2 miles. The portion of the tube exposed, more clearly seen in the blown-up image, is about 1.5 miles long and perhaps 100 meters in diameter. It appears to be translucent, as though made of glass. It has circular markings, perhaps support structures, at regular intervals. The idea that it may be naturally occurring ice is apparently ruled out by the temperature at this region of Mars. So what is it?” That’s the question just about every devotee of Martian puzzles wants answering.
The Earth’s Magnetosphere Might be Creating Water on the Moon
The Earth’s Magnetosphere Might be Creating Water on the Moon
There’s no doubt that the Moon has water on its surface. Orbiters have spotted deposits of ice persisting in the perpetual shadows of polar craters. And recent research shows that water exists in sunlit parts of the Moon, too.
Over the years, scientists have presented evidence that the Moon’s water came from comets, from asteroids, from inside the Moon, and even from the Sun.
But now new research is pointing the finger directly at Earth as the source of some of the Moon’s water.
The new study is titled “Earth Wind as a Possible Exogenous Source of Lunar Surface Hydration.” The lead author is H.Z. Wang of Shandong University in China, and the paper is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The research suggests that particles from Earth can seed the Moon with water.
That the Moon has water isn’t surprising. Astronomers have detected water in all kinds of places in space, though most of it is ice. The prevailing theory for that water is that it arrives on planets and moons as they form, perhaps delivered by asteroids or comets. But this paper presents evidence that some of the water on the Moon’s surface came from Earth’s wind.
It’s likely that the solar wind is responsible for some of the Moon’s surface water. The lunar regolith contains silicates, and protons in the solar wind are able to reduce the oxygen out of those silicates. That oxygen then readily combines with hydrogen to form water.
The problem with the Sun being the only source of lunar surface water is evaporation. Computer models predict that a large portion of it—up to 50%—should evaporate from high-latitude regions of the lunar surface during the full Moon. For three to five days each cycle the Moon is in Earth’s magnetosphere, meaning that water should disappear from the surface since Earth’s magnetosphere blocks the solar wind from reaching the Moon and replenishing the surface water during that period.
This image from the study shows the Moon in the Earth’s magnetosphere. For 3 to 5 days each month, the Moon is protected from the Solar wind and instead subject to the Earth wind. Image Credit: Wang et al, 2021.
But that’s not what happens. Instead, according to data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 satellite’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, the water doesn’t disappear during full Moons. The authors of the study say that an “Earth wind” is replenishing it.
The solar wind and the Earth wind are different. The solar wind is primarily plasma consisting of protons and electrons released from the Sun’s upper atmosphere. But the Earth wind is a flow of ions from the magnetosphere, as measured by the THEMIS-ARTEMIS mission.
This figure from the study a north (B) overview and a south (C) overview of the Moon’s polar regions. It shows data from the Chandrayaan-1 satellite’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper which indicates OH/H2O abundance. The red and black bars around the outside of each image shows the Moon subjected to solar wind and Earth wind. The small red square is the Goldschmidt crater, which has an anomalous abundance of OH/H2O due to its composition. Image Credit: Wang et al, 2021.
Japan’s Kaguya mission detected hydrogen ions from Eath’s exosphere embedded in the soil. It also detected high concentrations of oxygen isotopes coming from Earth’s ozone layer and becoming embedded in the lunar surface. This points to the idea of a “water bridge” from the Earth to the Moon. This bridge is active during the days of the month when the Moon is inside Earth’s magnetosphere, and it replenishes water lost to evaporation.
Though these findings go a long way to help explain lunar surface water, they might have broader importance, too. If there’s a bridge between Earth and the Moon that creates water on the Moon, where else in the Solar System might this be happening?
This image from the study shows satellite data for an entire month, including the Full Moon. During the time that the Moon is out of the Solar wind and inside Earth’s magnetosphere, surface water persisted. For a more detailed explanation of this figure, see the study. Image Credit: Wang et al, 2021.
The authors have proposed a mechanism for lunar water that coexists with the solar wind explanation. But it’s not confirmed yet. Future studies may provide further evidence that there’s a water bridge between the Earth and the Moon. China’s Chang’e 5 mission returned lunar samples to Earth back in December. Those samples could hold evidence for the water bridge idea.
If it turns out to be correct, astronomers will immediately begin to wonder (they probably already have) if a similar mechanism is at work elsewhere, maybe right here in our own Solar System.
This study also points out how much more we have to learn about the interactions between planets, their moons, and their stars. The evolution of water in our and other solar systems may depend on these interactions. This research effort could also help us understand the potential habitability of distant exoplanets.
Sky-watcher MoonMan while using a 6inch celestron telescope, was looking around the sinus iridum area on the moon when he spotted a bright sphere apparently emerging from a crater.
The object is recognizable as a small bright sphere which appears from the 14 miles wide crater.
Amazing UFO video! Flying saucer making maneuvers near a plane
Amazing UFO video! Flying saucer making maneuvers near a plane
This amazing UFO sighting video of a flying saucer making maneuver near a plane was fist uploaded to Twitter but it was deleted soon after. It was sent to me by our reader. Allegedly it was filmed recently but the exact date and location is unknown at the moment.
International scientists meet to discuss Element 115, claimed as key to anti-gravity decades ago
International scientists meet to discuss Element 115, claimed as key to anti-gravity decades ago
Moscovium, the heavy and radioactive Element 115, used to be referred to as Ununpentium years ago until 2016. There was no official name years ago after Russian scientists in Dubna created it for the first (recorded) time around 2004. Its official name comes from “Moscow.” But this element was mentioned long before this by a man named Bob Lazar in 1989. Lazar is the famous whistleblower who claims he worked at Area 51, and that the element was the fuel for alien spaceships acquired by the U.S. government.
When Lazar made the claims, the scientific community considered it absurd, but then the absurdity disappeared utterly later.
It took ten years for the discovery to be confirmed by two different labs, and it was by a team in Sweden in 2013. The researchers fired rare and expensive calcium atom isotopes at an unstable, radioactive element called americium in a large vacuum chamber. The result, a “million-dollar” atom that rapidly decayed, with a half-life of only 220 milliseconds. The effort was only possible because of international contributions.
“Making Moscovium has been a fantastic piece of international collaboration because although the experiments were done in Russia, they relied on having samples of americium, which were made in America,” explained Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff at the University of Nottingham.
See more about the element below from Periodic Videos:
In 2014, Lazar appeared with investigative journalist, George Knapp to discuss the news about the ‘discovery’ of ununpentium. Although the atom appeared to be too unstable to be useful, he claimed that soon, a new isotope of the element would prove much more stable. He passed several polygraph tests to confirm the authenticity of his claims.
“They made just a few atoms. We’ll see what other isotopes they come up with. One of them, or more, will be stable, and it will have the exact properties that I said,” Lazar told Knapp.
In 2019, Bob Lazar and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell appeared together on Larry King to discuss Element 115. They claim that not only is the “super heavy” element the key to space travel, but unfortunately, they fear it can be weaponized in the wrong hands.
“Element 115 is a super heavy element. It’s something we’ve only just recently synthesized. We only made four atoms of it. But the craft uses larger quantities of it, 23-gram little triangles of it,” said Lazar.
“It’s a unique element. When it’s exposed to radiation, it produces its own gravitational field – its own antigravitational field,” he clarified, “…and it’s what’s used to lift and propel the craft and create distortions around it.”
“It’s an amazing material, and it’s certainly nothing that appears here naturally,” he continued.
“And it can be weaponized, and that’s kind of the issue here,” interjected Corbell.
See the moment from Larry King earlier is 2019:
If Moscovium is indeed something to be feared, it’s interesting to note that today, a team of international scientists is meeting to discuss its potential future research. (As well as the potential of other new heavy elements made in a similar way) The TAN conference is part of a celebration for the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table.
According to a news release on August 26, 2019, the professor who discovered Moscovium is present at the conference. Topics include discussing unresolved research, including “whether heavier elements can have longer lifetimes again.”
“Professor Yuri Oganessian is also on site. He is an element discoverer from Russia and currently the only living person an element is named after: element 118, Oganesson. He was head of the discovery team of Elements 114 to 118 (flerovium, moscovium, livermorium, tennessine and oganesson) at the Flerov Laboratory of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR in Dubna, Russia.”
There are currently 118 elements listed in the periodic table. Only 92 of them occur naturally on Earth.
For more, watch the clip from Ancient Aliens Season 11, Episode 3 below:
New radar image of the Apollo 15 landing site, located with respect to prominent lunar features. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/AUI/NSF/USGS.
This might look like your typical space photo, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. This stunning image of the Apollo 15 landing site wasn’t taken by an optical instrument, such as a camera, but rather by a radar telescope that bounced radio waves off the surface of the moon.
In the image, we can see Hadley Rille, the meandering channel that runs across the middle. It was formed millions of years ago by collapsing lava tubes during a time when the moon was still volcanically active. The circular feature pictured is, you’ve guessed it, a crater known as Hadley C, measuring 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) in diameter.
GBT-VLBA radar image of the region where Apollo 15 landed in 1971. Credit: NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/NSF/AUI.
What’s amazing about this photo is its astonishing resolution, which can resolve objects as small as 5 meters across from 384,000 kilometers (239,000 miles) away.
Because Earth has a thick atmosphere and an active weather system, it can be challenging to image things with a normal optical telescope. For this reason, scientists typically position their telescopes at high-altitude locations, perched on a mountain. A fine example is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope facility that sits on top of a 5,000m-high plateau in Chile.
But if you use radio waves, the interference is minimal. For the past two years, scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in the U.S. have been experimenting with radio imaging technology that can take astronomical snapshots from Earth. The fruit of their labor is the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia — the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Because Earth has a thick atmosphere and an active weather system, it can be challenging to image things with a normal optical telescope. For this reason, scientists typically position their telescopes at high-altitude locations, perched on a mountain. A fine example is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope facility that sits on top of a 5,000m-high plateau in Chile.
But if you use radio waves, the interference is minimal. For the past two years, scientists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in the U.S. have been experimenting with radio imaging technology that can take astronomical snapshots from Earth. The fruit of their labor is the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia — the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope.
This telescope is fitted with a powerful transmitter that beamed radio waves onto the Apollo 15 landing site region. The reflected waves that bounced off the lunar surface were detected by NRAO’s continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). This pattern was decoded in order to construct a high-resolution image of the site — and the results speak for themselves.
What’s amazing is that we’re likely seeing just the tip of the iceberg of what this kind of technology can do. The researchers plan to scale up this proof-of-concept with a much more powerful transmitter that will allow them to image small objects passing by Earth or even as far into the solar system as Jupiter’s moons.
“The planned system will be a leap forward in radar science, allowing access to never before seen features of the Solar System from right here on Earth,” said Karen O’Neil, the Green Bank Observatory site director.
Soon, Non-Biological Intelligences Will Populate Our Planet
Soon, Non-Biological Intelligences Will Populate Our Planet
And we need to start preparing now.
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Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological hardware – you’re using it now. Science and technology seem to be converging, from several directions, on the possibility of similar intelligence in non-biological systems. It is difficult to predict when this might happen, but most artificial intelligence (AI) specialists estimate that it is more likely than not within this century.
Freed of biological constraints, such as a brain that needs to fit through a human birth canal (and that runs on the power of a mere 20W lightbulb), non-biological machines might be much more intelligent than we are. What would this mean for us? The leading AI researcher Stuart Russell suggests that, for better or worse, it would be ‘the biggest event in human history’. Indeed, our choices in this century might have long-term consequences not only for our own planet, but for the galaxy at large, as the British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees has observed. The future of intelligence in the cosmos might depend on what we do right now, down here on Earth.
Should we be concerned? People have been speculating about machine intelligence for generations – so what’s new?
Well, two big things have changed in recent decades. First, there’s been a lot of real progress – theoretical, practical and technological – in understanding the mechanisms of intelligence, biological as well as non-biological. Second, AI has now reached a point where it’s immensely useful for many tasks. So it has huge commercial value, and this is driving huge investment – a process that seems bound to continue, and probably accelerate.
One way or another, then, we are going to be sharing the planet with a lot of non-biological intelligence. Whatever it brings, we humans face this future together. We have an obvious common interest in getting it right. And we need to nail it the first time round. Barring some calamity that ends our technological civilisation without entirely finishing us off, we’re not going to be coming this way again.
There have been encouraging signs of a growing awareness of these issues. Many thousands of AI researchers and others have now signed an open letter calling for research to ensure that AI is safe and beneficial. Most recently, there is a welcome new Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society by Google, Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.
For the moment, much of the focus is on safety, and on the relatively short-term benefits and impacts of AI (on jobs, for example). But as important as these questions are, they are not the only things we should be thinking about. I’ll borrow an example from Jaan Tallinn, a founding engineer at Skype. Imagine that we were taking humanity into space in a fleet of giant ships. We would need to be sure that these ships were safe and controllable, and that everybody was properly housed and fed. These things would be crucial, but they wouldn’t be enough by themselves. We’d also do our best to figure out where the fleet was going to take us, and what we could do to steer our way towards the best options. There could be paradise worlds out there, but there’s a lot of cold, dark space in between. We’d need to know where we were going.
In the case of the long-term future of AI, there are reasons to be optimistic. It might help us to solve many of the practical problems that defeat our own limited brains. But when it comes to what the cartography of possible futures looks like, which parts of it are better or worse, and how we steer towards the best outcomes – on those matters we are still largely ignorant. We have some sense of regions we need to avoid, but much of the map remains terra incognita. It would be a peculiarly insouciant optimist who thought we should just wait and see.
One of the far-sighted writers who saw this coming was the great Alan Turing. ‘[I]t seems probable that once the machine thinking method has started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers,’ he wrote at the conclusion of a 1951 lecture. In his 1950 paper on the so-called Turing Test, designed to gauge our readiness to ascribe human-like intelligence to a machine, Turing closes with these words: ‘We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.’ We’re well beyond Turing’s horizon, but this progress does nothing to alleviate the sense that there are still pressing questions we must try to answer. On the contrary – we live among pressures that will soon take us beyond our own present horizon, and we have even more reason than Turing to think that what lies ahead could be very big indeed.
If we are to develop machines that think, ensuring that they are safe and beneficial is one of the great intellectual and practical challenges of this century. And we must face it together – the issue is far too large and crucial to be tackled by any individual institution, corporation or nation. Our grandchildren, or their grandchildren, are likely to be living in a different era, perhaps more Machinocene than Anthropocene. Our task is to make the best of this epochal transition, for them and the generations to follow. We need the best of human intelligence to make the best of artificial intelligence.
Stuart Russell and Martin Rees are affiliated with the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where Huw Price is the academic director.
Martin Rees and Jaan Tallinn are co-founders of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, where Huw Price is the academic director.
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
The presence UFOs has been acknowledged for years, and as time moves on it continues to gain more credible traction within the mainstream. There are many questions to be asked, and much to still be revealed, but is secrecy the real threat?
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What are the reasons for such secrecy? Why is the human race kept in the dark?
Ella Louise Fortune, who worked as a nurse at the Mescalero Indian Reservation near Three Rivers, New Mexico, took the picture you see above while driving along Highway 54 on October 16, 1957, near Holloman Air Force base
At this moment our media is caught up in a maelstrom of rapid fire reports concerning insider whistleblowers and looming impeachment proceedings. Just a few weeks ago the world wisely turned its attention to the rapid destruction of the Amazonian rainforest and its devastating consequences regarding life on this planet. Despite the sudden absence of coverage on this issue since, that problem has yet to be resolved. It is indicative of our nature to focus on what is new and not on what is truly important. Another astoundingly transformative topic made its way into mainstream media earlier this year but is receiving little attention now. After seven decades of relentless denial, the US military publicly acknowledged the existence of UFOs in our skies. When examined contextually, this casual admission may prove to be the biggest story in the history of humankind.
In May of this year (2019) the New York Times and CBS reported that the US Navy recently admitted that their pilots have been observing objects that defy our understanding of how things are supposed to fly. The actual incidents occurred in 2014 and 2015. Another confirmed encounter referenced in the story involved a squadron from the USS Nimitz, which occurred 10 years earlier. This is the “tic tac” sighting, where several pilots observed a small, elliptical “craft” moving in irregular paths at speeds exceeding what was thought possible. Last week, CNN again reports here that the Navy has “confirmed” that their pilots have encountered UFOs. Is that such an earth-shattering admission? They are objects. They fly. They cannot be identified. So what? The real question is, if the Navy doesn’t know what they are, thenwhat are they? We as the public are left to speculate and fantasize as we await the next morsel of information from our trusted government and news sources.
Many people continue to regard this as a curiosity, a preliminary chapter in a story that will end with the admission of a computer glitch, faulty radar system or errant weather balloon. Those who have followed the history of UFO sightings undoubtedly will conclude that this is the first crack in a wall of military secrecy surrounding thousands of separate extraterrestrial spacecraft encounters that have occurred over more than seven decades.
Is Proof Subjective?
The broad chasm between “believers” and “deniers” exists because the standards of proof on each side are not the same. On one extreme are those who require extraterrestrial beings to appear at town hall meetings before reconsidering their position. On the other are those who see a shaky video of amorphous lights appearing in the sky and then immediately conclude that E.T. is here. How then are we to assess the footage taken from the viewfinders of fighter pilots? If any more credence is given to this “evidence” it is only because of the credibility that we choose to bestow upon the source that has offered it. If we were to be purely objective, there isn’t anything more here beyond the stamp of validity of trusted institutions like the US Navy and mainstream media. How then are we to proceed?
In this day and age, any form of recorded visual evidence carries the possibility of misdirection. Even though billions of human beings have smart phones with sophisticated cameras at the ready, we must contend with the reality that photographs and video can easily be enhanced, modified or created from scratch to falsely “prove” that an extraterrestrial presence exists on our planet. If we cannot rely on videos and photographs, where then should we look for “proof”?
Unless one has had a first-hand personal encounter with a being from another star system, the most compelling evidence can only come from the testimony of actual eye-witnesses to UFOs. Could someone else’s personal account offer anything more than a compelling but unsubstantiated story? That is a matter of opinion. On the other hand, eye-witness testimony, though flawed at times, is often offered as the foundation of proof in our legal system today. If witnesses can condemn a suspect of a crime or provide an alibi that leads to their exoneration why wouldn’t we consider testimony with regard to the UFO phenomenon just as seriously?
The military has unofficially acknowledged UFOs for years
Dr. Steven Greer is an Emergency Room Physician who has spent over two decades tirelessly compiling and spreading evidence of extraterrestrial contact with humans and the suppression of this information by the media and governmental organizations. His two documentaries, “Unacknowledged” and “Sirius Disclosure,” have been viewed by millions of people around the world. He has briefed members of Congress and former CIA Director James Woolsley, and in 2001 he held a conference at the National Press Club flanked by 20 retired military, FAA and intelligence officers who all publicly attested to the presence of ETs on Earth.
Among the wealth of information he has made publicly available, Dr. Greer offers over six hours of eyewitness testimony on his Disclosure website, all of which is worthy of consideration. If you have ever listened to these interviews, it is difficult to conclude them to be intentionally misleading. The witnesses are mainly ex-military, some of them having held high positions. They have very similar stories with a few key, consistent elements including a typical military deadpan delivery. Many were early in their military careers at the time of their encounter. They witnessed objects moving through the sky soundlessly at unthinkable speed, making maneuvers that would have crushed their pilots and then abruptly vanish. Often physical evidence of the encounter remained. Their stories are often corroborated by other eyewitnesses and radar technicians. They claim that they were threatened by their superiors if they spoke out, so they waited, for decades in many cases. Now that their military careers are long over, they find it meaningless to keep their vows of silence and wish to live out their remaining years with a clean conscience. There is, of course, the possibility that they are lying, but what would be their motive? They are not gaining fame or fortune for their candor. Most of them are unwilling to state that what they saw was from another planet or star system, they simply know that things just don’t move like that, at least not anything from around here anyway.
How we choose to interpret these accounts, and more recently those of the F-18 pilots in the New York Times and on CNN, depends on your perspective and how flexible you are in your belief system. Here I would like to explore the “middle” ground. If you believe they are telling the truth and you also believe that extraterrestrial craft are an absurd fantasy perpetuated by a pocket of our population that is tired of acceding to Einstein’s special theory of relativity (which dictates that “warp” speeds are a physical impossibility), it can only lead you to the following conclusion: the objects they saw are real and they are from here. In other words, secret military aircraft would explain most, if not all of the incredible stories told by people who seem utterly convinced of their experience and continue to remain undeterred in their account despite continuous attacks from “debunkers” and dismissal from every “real” media source.
In recent years the government of the United States has been spending around $700,000,000,000 per year (source).Every once in a while we all get a glimpse of what some of this money is paying for when never-before-seen, radar-invisible, futuristic looking flying machines capable of classified speeds and unconfirmed altitudes that are made from obscure materials are rolled out of hangars with a modicum of fanfare. It is not unreasonable to assume that “we” have others out there being tested and tweaked. Flight testing is a necessary part of the development cycle of new technology and could explain many UFO sightings. It would also explain why the military has been so conspicuously tight-lipped about the whole thing. Why jump to the fantasy of ancient, interstellar civilizations that have found a way to crack the cosmic speed-limit when everything could be neatly explained by super-classified military flying machines running test flights?
The secret airship theory certainly ties up many of the loose-ends while not forcing us to discredit the earnest testimony of many eye-witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomena from our brothers and sisters in uniform. It does, however, introduce a new wrinkle in our understanding of the current state. If there are secret aircraft, from whom are they being kept a secret?
A Brief history of Secrecy
We may be quick to conclude that secrecy is a necessary part of modern warfare, and that having weapons technology up our sleeve endows us with a tactical advantage over our adversaries. Upon closer consideration, this military strategy has implications that are potentially very troubling.
To better explain, let us consider the advantage of secret weapons technology historically. In the closing months of WWII it became increasingly apparent that the empire of Japan had little intention of surrendering to the Allied Forces despite their continued heavy losses of life. Emperor Hirohito and propagandists worked the Japanese public into a frenzy through synergistic narratives of nationalism, honor and fear. The introduction of Kamikaze pilots, young warriors of sound mind that were willing to fly their propeller-driven planes directly into American ships, gave the world a startling glimpse into the depth of Japan’s resolve. The United States had something up their sleeve as well.
The possibility of harnessing the power of atomic fission through a chain reaction had been stirring in the minds of theoretical physicists long before the start of the war. The idea of turning this potential force of nature into a weapon came soon afterwards. The Manhattan Project, the secret effort of the US military to build the atomic bomb, did not take place in an isolated desert location called Los Alamos alone. It was an enormous feat of science and engineering that required participation from not only theoretical physicists but engineers, mathematicians, material scientists, construction contractors and laborers. Thousands played a role and their efforts were distributed around the country, from New Mexico to Tennessee. To put it into perspective, the atomic bomb was not constructed only from stuff sitting around. The element Plutonium (used in the Nagasaki bomb) was synthesized by bombarding Uranium with neutron radiation and isolating the products. Prior to the Manhattan Project plutonium was a substance that had not existed beyond extremely trace quantities on our planet.
None of the public and very few of those involved with its production knew what the purpose of all of this activity really was about. Even the Vice President at the time, Harry Truman, was unaware that this effort was taking place. He took the oath of office on April 12, 1945 and was only then briefed about the extent and implications of the Manhattan project. If coordinated correctly, an awful lot of smart people can be kept in the dark about a lot of things, including their own role in a bigger picture.
The decision to deploy the first atomic weapon upon human beings was made behind closed doors. The successful test of an atomic weapon on July 16, 1945 (The Trinity Test) demonstrated undeniably that our species had entered a nuclear age. By most historical accounts, neither the existence of an atomic bomb nor the results of the Trinity test were ever shared with the Japanese government prior to the bombing of Hiroshima just three weeks later. Although it has been reported that a group of leading physicists involved in the development of the weapon formally requested that Truman reconsider his approach, they were not heeded. President Truman made the decision to drop the bomb with no specific warning to the Japanese about its potential for devastation. Ultimately he and his advisers believed that the impact of the bomb would be maximized if it occurred unannounced. Leaflets dropped on the people of Nagasaki several days later did reference the weapon . Because the empire of Japan refused to unconditionally surrender, that city was destroyed with another atomic bomb as well.
Secrecy is the real threat
President Truman’s reasoning has been the subject of much scrutiny and debate. Regardless of one’s critique of his rationale, it is obvious that the use of a weapon as a deterrent is only possible if the enemy is aware that it exists. One can argue that this has been proven as no nuclear weapon has ever been deployed on humans in the 74 years since the destruction of Nagasaki. Indeed, the hegemony nuclear powers exert over the rest of the world only exists because everybody knows who has them and who doesn’t.
What then is the intent of new kinds of weapons and technology that are are hidden? Secret weapons cannot be deterrents against aggressive action. Weapons that remain hidden in secrecy are necessarily offensive. Moreover, secret weapons can serve a more diabolical purpose than the damage they inflict. If no one knows their damage signature, range or how they are deployed they can potentially be used to synthesize conflict and implicate innocent parties. How would anyone be certain of the source of the aggression? Secret weapons do not exist to prevent wars, they exist to start them.
The atomic bomb was kept a secret for three weeks. Little else has been offered to the public since. It would be naive to to assume that no newsworthy progress has been made with weapons technology beyond supersonic airplanes, miniaturized thermonuclear devices and self-guided drones in the intervening seventy years. If weapons and contrivances of unknown capability are in existence outside of the public eye we must also acknowledge that acts of terror and aggression around the world must carry with it some uncertainty about their origin and intent.
Depending on which sources we trust there have been dozens of staged events portrayed as attacks deserving of retaliation throughout our history, in the United States and around the world. The sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin events, and Operation Northwoods are just a few of the many actual or planned “false flag” events that our government has admitted were covert operations designed to provoke public outrage and mobilize our war machine. The first resulted in our entry into the first World War, the second resulted in the massive remilitarization of our presence in Vietnam and the third was one of several schemes conceived by JFK’s military advisors to force a US invasion of Cuba using remotely piloted commercial aircraft flown in to American targets. It is likely that those who questioned our government’s depiction of those events at the time felt the same backlash endured by those who continue to exhort others to reexamine the events of 9/11 today.
Three weeks ago we were told by U.S. Secretary of State (and former CIA director) Mike Pompeo that the recent attacks on Saudi oil fields were yet another “act of war” committed by Iran. Tehran continues to vehemently deny his account and insist that it is the work of the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group. Pompeo characterizes that assertion as “literally nuts” and that an appropriate response would not necessarily be limited to economic sanctions against Iran. Is it possible that neither Iran nor the Houthis were responsible for these attacks?
Whether or not you consider a discussion around UFOs and extraterrestrials to be flippant, the recent attention media has placed on this phenomenon offers an opportunity to consider the depth and implications of secrecy more soberly. Perhaps the US Navy has offered up this footage (15 years after the actual incident in the case of the “tic-tac” sighting) to be forthcoming. Regardless of their intent, it is important to put this admission into context. Have these been the only sightings since 2004? Is it reasonable to assume that this recent disclosure reflects a spirit of transparency or have there been numerous other unacknowledged encounters with UFOs as the “unofficial” testimonies indicate?
If these objects reported by the Navy are not of extraterrestrial origin we must avail ourselves to the reality that weapons and craft of spectacular capability are hidden not just from our “enemies” but from all of us. In either case, it is clear that despite the tepid public reaction to this Navy report, it has offered us a rare glimpse of the depth and breadth of secrecy that has been imposed upon us, if we are willing to pay attention. This wall of secrecy does not merely hide a few irrelevant facts. It may very well be an all-encompassing “distortion field” that has perpetuated a vastly different interpretation of global events while squelching a potential, transcendent truth about our history and our role in a greater cosmic neighborhood.
There are a ton of people who see fake UFO videos that think they're real. You don't have to be a CGI expert to dismiss the fakes.
There are a ton of UFO videos out there. Nowadays, it seems like the fake UFO videos outnumber the real mysteries by 100 to 1. And that’s not an exaggeration, when I’m looking for good reputable videos, I don’t find much. In fact, I have to trudge through so much obviously fake garbage that I frequently throw up my hands and bail on research for the day.
I’m surprised by the number of people who see fake UFO videos and believe they are real. You don’t have to be a CGI expert to pick out the fakes. All you have to do is pay attention to a few details in most videos. Here’s what I look for.
A detailed location is one of the most important pieces of documentation frequently missing from fake UFO videos Image Source: Pixabay
The Video Lacks a Specific Date and/or Location
Hoaxers found out a long time ago that obscurity was a great way to keep their fakes from being found out. Investigation of a video is a hoaxer’s worst nightmare. UFO videos without a specific date and location are nearly impossible to investigate. This leaves investigators only able to look at the video and attempt to determine if it’s CGI or not. The problem is that CGI has gotten very good.
Even VHS video cameras from 30 years ago had a date stamp on them. So when you see a UFO video or a video of an alleged alien, look for a date. These events are worthy of documentation and the date & location of occurrence have got to be part of that.
Look for a specific date such as, “June 21, 2017”. If the date is completely missing or only refers to a time frame like, “June 2017”, you should be suspicious.
Similarly, look for detailed information about the location where the video was taken. If the video simply says, “UFO Sighting in Mexico” or omits any location altogether, you should be cautious.
No News or Media Reports
So let’s say there’s a great UFO video and it’s got a specific date and location. But there’s a problem… there are no local news clips coinciding with that date and location.
Of course, many sightings might not warrant a news story. A small orb recorded along a desert highway may not ever get coverage, but we do know that big sightings over populated areas do get news coverage. The funny thing is, a lot of the fake UFO videos out there show spectacular craft flying over cities or neighborhoods, and yet there’s zero news coverage.
I know for sure that my local news would eat up something like that if it really happened. And before you go thinking that it’s a conspiracy that the news outlets don’t report it, keep in mind that some of today’s most reputable news sites have UFO and unexplained sections. The Lubbock Lights were in the news, so was The Battle of Los Angeles, and let’s not forget about that tiny incident in Roswell that sparked this entire thing off.
So when you see a video, especially something truly spectacular, and there’s no mention of news articles or MUFON reports? Don’t be afraid to disregard it. Remember, the last thing a hoaxer wants is for their fake videos to be thoroughly investigated.
Photos of Unidentified Aerial Objects – Lubbock, Texas Image Source: Project Blue Book
No Independent Verification
In addition to news reports, good sightings and videos should have independent witnesses. Again, some sightings are solo and only seen by one person out somewhere alone, and you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find independent verification.
But in many fake UFO videos, you’ll see crafts that are so amazing and must have been seen by hundreds or thousands of people. Yet, no one has seen anything. They would have been recorded by hundreds of people on their phones. Yet there’s nothing.
So when you see a video where the person posting it seems to be the only one who witnessed the event, you should consider dismissing it.
Reactions on the Ground Don’t Make Sense
I’ve found lots of videos where there’s some type of spacecraft hovering overhead while people on the ground go about their business as if nothing’s happening. In reality, this is normally because nothing is happening. The craft is added via CGI after the video is shot.
When a large UFO is seen over a city, you’d expect to hear people screaming and maybe sirens as emergency personnel respond to vehicle crashes from people staring at alien invaders instead of watching where they’re going.
Heck, in most places a heavy rain is enough that you’d hear emergency response vehicles with sirens blaring within minutes due to weather-related accidents.
In many videos, this is an easy thing to check. And it’s a dead giveaway that the video has been faked.
The Camera Operator Ignores the Object
This one is a bit more subtle to notice. But once you see it, it’s game over. Take a look at the video below and notice that the camera operator doesn’t seem very concerned about the massive UFO in the sky. In fact, he doesn’t even make an attempt to keep the camera centered on the object.
If you watch the video and ignore the UFO, you’ll see that the camera-man was actually filming the storm. He slowly pans the camera from one side of the storm to the other.
It’s fairly clear that the video was taken and the hoaxers added the UFO in later. But it’s a great video! The quality is great, it looks real.
Guess what else? No sirens. That thing is massive and would be causing an all-out panic over this city if it were really there.
As a matter of fact, this video is a perfect example of lots of the keys to look for to determine that it’s a fake UFO video. There’s no specific date or location, which makes it impossible to research news articles or interview anyone in the city who would have seen it.
Even the camera-man is awfully calm considering what is supposedly there in the video. The clip itself is relatively short before it cuts away to replay with different video settings, but why cut away? The craft was still there right? The short cutaway is a hallmark of CGI because longer clips take a lot of processing power to render.
While fake UFO videos may be fun to watch, their existence dilutes an already rare phenomenon with piles and piles of garbage. UFO researchers frequently have their limited time eaten up by such hoaxes.
These videos serve as nothing more than click-bait to get you to read an article. Share them if you like, but understand that by doing so, you’re detracting from the greater reality of alien visitation and unidentified flying objects.
Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi, who works for the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has invented a new fusion rocket that could one day take humans to Mars.
The device uses magnetic fields to shoot plasma particles from the back of the rocket and propel the craft through space.
Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi has invented a new fusion rocket that could one day take humans to Mars
Using magnetic fields allows scientists to tailor the amount of thrust for a particular mission and astronauts change the amount of thrust while piloting to distant worlds.
Ebrahimi's innovation would also take space faring heroes to the Red Planet 10 times faster than current rocket thrusters that use electric fields to propel the particles.
'I've been cooking this concept for a while,' said Ebrahimi.
'I had the idea in 2017 while sitting on a deck and thinking about the similarities between a car's exhaust and the high-velocity exhaust particles.'
'During its operation, this tokamak produces magnetic bubbles called plasmoids that move at around 20 kilometers per second, which seemed to me a lot like thrust.'
Fusion is the power that drives the sun and stars, and combines light elements in the form of plasma.
The device uses magnetic fields to shoot plasma particles from the back of the rocket and propel the craft through space. Pictured is the thruster concept that shows the plasma particles being pushed around by the magnetic reconnection
Plasma is the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that represents 99 percent of the visible universe - and is capable of generating massive amounts of energy.
Scientists have been working around the clock to replicate fusion in a lab with the hopes of harnessing its power to produce electricity for rockets traveling through deep space.
Current plasma thrusters that use electric fields to propel the particles can only produce low specific impulse, or speed.
But computer simulations performed on PPPL computers and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, showed that the new plasma thruster concept can generate exhaust with velocities of hundreds of kilometers per second, 10 times faster than those of other thrusters.
That faster velocity at the beginning of a spacecraft's journey could bring the outer planets within reach of astronauts, Ebrahimi said.
'Long-distance travel takes months or years because the specific impulse of chemical rocket engines is very low, so the craft takes a while to get up to speed,' she said.
Using magnetic fields allows scientists to tailor the amount of thrust for a particular mission and astronauts change the amount of thrust while piloting to distant worlds.
'But if we make thrusters based on magnetic reconnection, then we could conceivably complete long-distance missions in a shorter period of time.'
Although using fusion to power rockets is not a new concept, Ebrahimi's thruster differ from leading devices in three ways.
The first is that changing the strength of the magnetic fields can increase or decrease the amount of thrust, which will allow better maneuvering through the dark abyss that is space.
'By using more electromagnets and more magnetic fields, you can in effect turn a knob to fine-tune the velocity,' Ebrahimi said.
Second, the new thruster produces movement by ejecting both plasma particles and magnetic bubbles known as plasmoids.
The plasmoids add power to the propulsion and no other thruster concept incorporates them.
However, the last difference between Ebrahimi's concept and other ones is that hers uses magnetic fields to shoot particles of plasma out from the back of the rocket – space-proven devices using electric fields.
Using magnetic fields may be a game changer, as It allows scientists to tailor the amount of thrust for a particular mission.
'While other thrusters require heavy gas, made of atoms like xenon, in this concept you can use any type of gas you want,' Ebrahimi said. Scientists might prefer light gas in some cases because the smaller atoms can get moving more quickly.
A Newly Discovered Planetary System With an Unusual “Rhythm”
This is an artist’s impression of the TOI-178 planetary system, which was revealed by ESA’s exoplanet watcher Cheops. The system consists of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as they orbit their central star. In this artist impression, the relative sizes of the planets are to scale, but not the distances and the size of the star.
Credit: ESA
A Newly Discovered Planetary System With an Unusual “Rhythm”
Numerous exoplanets are orbiting their host star in a very unusual but precise “rhythm”. Scientists made this discovery by focusing on the system’s rhythmic orbital dance.
This graphic shows a representation of the TOI-178 planetary system, which was revealed by ESA’s exoplanet watcher Cheops. In this graphic, the relative sizes of the planets are to scale, but not the distances and the size of the star.
Credit: ESA/Cheops Mission Consortium/A. Leleu et al.
When astronomers analyzed data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), they initially discovered three planets orbiting a star called TOI-178. But when they looked more closely at the system, they found that the planets were orbiting in a type of precise rhythm with each other. And after further analysis, they discovered that there are at least six planets in the system.
What’s even more interesting is that the planets are very different from one another. Experts were able to determine that these six planets are anywhere from 1.1 times to 3 times larger than Earth and they all have different densities, from being a rocky super-Earth-like planet to a gassy mini-Neptune.
(Not the TOI-178 system)
In a statement provided by the University of Bern in Switzerland, Kate Isaak, who is the project scientist for the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS), explained this discovery in further detail, “It is the first time we observe something like this,” adding, “In the few systems we know with such a harmony, the density of planets steadily decreases as we move away from the star. In the TOI-178 system, a dense, terrestrial planet like Earth appears to be right next to a very fluffy planet with half the density of Neptune, followed by one very similar to Neptune.”
As for the planets that travel around TOI-178, they orbit the star every 2, 3, 6, 10, 15, and 20 days. According to the researchers’ analysis, the planet that is the closest to the star orbits in its own rhythm but the other five are in complete harmony with one another. To put the outer five planets’ rhythm into better perspective, when the planet the furthest from the star completes one orbit, the next closest planet completes three-quarters of its orbit, followed by the next closest making two orbits, then the next one completing three orbits, and the fifth one finishing six orbits. Furthermore, the planets sometimes line up while orbiting the star. (An artist’s impression of the TOI-178 system can be seen here as well as a video showing the planets’ unusually precise rhythm.)
(Not the TOI-178 system)
And there may be even more planets orbiting TOI-178 but scientists will need to study the system in greater detail with help from the European Extremely Large Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope.
Their research was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics where it can be read in full.
Historically, science has been used to help prevent us from jumping to irrational conclusions, especially conclusions drawn about whether mysterious aircraft are controlled by extraterrestrial beings. Some would argue that the scientific method helps humans stay grounded in material reality and doesn’t lead to flights of fancy.
But in one of his lectures, ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna shares a more controversial theory, asserting that “masculine” rationalism and science may have caused UFO sightings. He says UFOs could be hallucinations intentionally brought on by the “Divine Feminine” part of the universe, and this feminine entity wants to shake our foundations and challenge what we know. It wants to warn us, McKenna says, that being too “science-minded” is causing us to be cold, unfeeling rationalists who will continue to destroy our planet.
“What [UFOs] are doing is eroding faith in science, [a system] which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe,” McKenna says. “I really believe that we have moved so far from an awareness of the feminine portion of our psyche that now, the [Divine Feminine] must present itself in consciousness under the guise of an extraterrestrial or interdimensional invader.”
To clear up some of this counter-culture hippie-speak, the definition of “the Goddess” varies across religions and philosophies. But from McKenna’s point of view, the Goddess, sometimes referred to as the “Divine Feminine,” seems to function as an emotional, sensing and feeling archetype, whereas the masculine “God” is a rational materialist who considers personal and sensory experience to be unimportant. To upend the supposedly masculine scientific paradigm, McKenna suggests, the Goddess has taken on the role of a kind of court jester, poking fun at the masculine King Science, causing people to question what they think they know.
“The UFO is nothing more than an assertion of herself, by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organizations: ‘You have gone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going to be shown for what it is, nothing more than a pleasant metaphor,’” McKenna says. “[Science] is not some metatheory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid, to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down.”
McKenna says that when a society begins to evolve in a “lethal direction” as our world has, the “Overmind” (a term used in science fiction to refer to a hive mind or collective consciousness) will make the decision to corrode ideologies that are having a detrimental effect.
“Rationalism and scientific technology which began and came out of the scholasticism of the Middle Ages and the wish to glorify God turned into kind of a demonic pact leading to atomic weapons, male dominated organizations flying messages of lethal destruction and inevitable historical advance, and into this comes an anomaly which cannot be explained,” McKenna says. “I believe that is the purpose of the UFO, to inject uncertainty into the male dominated paternalistic rational solar myth under which we are suffering.”
McKenna, who claims to have seen UFOs up close and has met with entities from other dimensions, isn’t moved to take a strong position and say that aliens are real. He engages other possibilities, like perhaps we share Earth with alien beings, or extraterrestrial civilizations are visiting, or even that UFOs could be manned by Earth time travelers, our children from the future coming back to warn us to change our ways. But he sees these theories as unlikely.
Behold the divine power of the Divine Feminine… mushroom?
He suggests, as a well-known proponent of psychedelics, that we use mushrooms to help distance ourselves from this materialistic, rational experience of the world. And in doing so, we will tap into the wisdom of the Goddess which will allow us to examine what UFOs really mean. He says that psychedelics could provide as much insight into UFOs and consciousness as a telescope provides rocket scientists, and that when scientists discount sightings reported under the influence of psychedelics, they’re crippling our understanding of the phenomenon and contributing to UFO hallucinations.
“The repression of those compounds and their use by science has created a neurotic energy dynamic in the mass psyche. And the mass psyche has begun to hallucinate because the destiny of human beings is to live in the imagination in the hands of the Goddess. And wherever that thrust is impeded, psychopathy will result,” McKenna says. “I believe that until we form a resolution to conduct an unfettered and mature exploration of human psychology, using all the tools available to us, that the skies of Earth will continue to be haunted by flying saucers.”
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The Ancient Aliens Have Returned & It's Not How You Think, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Bill Birnes
The Ancient Aliens Have Returned & It's Not How You Think, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Bill Birnes
William J. Birnes holds a JD with a specialty in entertainment and literary law and a PhD in Medieval Literature. He is currently the Chairman of the Board at Sunrise Community Counseling Center where he is in charge of auditing the center’s operational and management budget as well as the budgets for its federal and state grant programs.A New York Times bestselling author, a former writer/consulting producer/host at the History Channel, Dr. Birnes was a member of the English Department faculty at Trenton State College, now The College of New Jersey, from 1968 to 1983.
With backgrounds in public and private administration and having worked as a data and financial analyst under a Bureau of Justice Administration grant at the United States Department of Justice, Dr. Birnes was also a grants-award administrator and judge for the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a Fellow in the National Endowment for the Humanities.He is currently the author of Psychiatric Criminology, a professional reference text for medical and law students, published at the CRC Press of Taylor and Francis.
Third Video Released Over Denver Tri UFO Sighting, 1-31-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Third Video Released Over Denver Tri UFO Sighting, 1-31-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 1-31-2021 Location of sighting: Denver, Colorado, USA
This is the third UFO video of the three falling objects seen over Denver, Colorado last week. The objects caught the attention of the world, however I have yet to hear TV news in Colorado mention it. This video was posted to facebook with the title..."Anyone else see this?" And apparently many did. I am still wondering why NASA or the Denver news hasn't found out what these objects were. If they don't know...then its truly unknown objects. Or as we say...unidentified flying objects...UFOs. 100% proof that aliens frequent the areas of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado.
Glowing Disk During Sunset Seen Over Tokyo, Japan On 1-31-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Disk During Sunset Seen Over Tokyo, Japan On 1-31-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 31, 2021 Location of sighting: Sumida Ward, Tokyo, Japan
An eyewitness noticed a glowing disk near a tall structure in Japan last week. The object appeared in the sky during sunset and was only visible for a few minutes. The tower sits in the middle of Tokyo and was lighting up beautifully when suddenly a white disk was spotted hovering next to the top of the tower. The UFO must have come over to the building because the flashing colors got its attention and it sat in place just 20-30 meters from the top of the building. This is 100% proof that aliens not only hide from us, but they also do things to inspire us to believe in them like this...where they deliberately hover over the most famous city in Japan...Tokyo...trying to get the publics attention. Why? To give us something to believe it...something we can't learn in a class or from books. Something that was once Taboo to talk about, but today is increasingly more accepted with every coming day that passes.
The last days a series of strange anomalies have been captured by the satellites LASCO C2 and LASCO C3. It seems as several objects shooting beams of light into space as well as a huge zig zag anomaly suddenly appears next to the sun.
All the objects appear and disappear in a split second and although it is quite possible that these anomalies are merely a collection of streaks left by cosmic rays, charged particles from space, we cannot exclude that they are UFOs.
NASA'sParker Solar Probe spacecraft kicked off the new year with another close approach to the sun on Sunday (Jan. 17) as the sun's activity picks up from a lull when the probe launched.
2021 will mark a busy year for the spacecraft, which will conduct a total of four close approaches to the sun, plus two Venus flybys, necessary steering maneuvers that will also allow the spacecraft to collect some bonus science observations.
The spacecraft made its previous close approach in September. And although the sun's activity gradually increased in 2020 with the arrival of a new solar cycle, dubbed solar cycle 25, that began early in 2020, the sun wakes up slowly, and the star only released its first major flare in three years in November.
The 11-year solar cycle governs both the sun's activity and its influence around Earth and across the solar system. The more active the sun is, the more dark sunspots dot its surface; these are also the locations from which massive blasts of solar plasma, called coronal mass ejections, originate.
Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the sun at 12:39 p.m. EST (1739 GMT) on Sunday. At that point, the spacecraft was about 8.4 million miles (13.5 million kilometers) away from the sun's surface and traveling at nearly 290,000 mph (470,000 kph), according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which runs the spacecraft.
Next, on Feb. 20, the spacecraft will fly past Venus before making another close approach to the sun on Apr. 29. A second spacecraft, the U.S.-European Solar Orbiter, is also beginning its science work with good timing compared to the solar cycle.
Email Meghan Bartels at mbartels@space.com or follow her on Twitter @meghanbartels. Follow uson Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth.
Charred trees are seen along Pallet Creek Road during the Bobcat Fire in Valyermo, California, September 18, 2020. Climate change is poised to exacerbate the frequency and intensity of annual wildfires. (Image credit: Kyle Grillot/ Getty)
Humanity is barreling toward a "ghastly future" of mass extinctions, health crises and constant climate-induced disruptions to society — one that can only be prevented if world leaders start taking environmental threats seriously, scientists warn in a new paper published Jan. 13 in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science.
In the paper, a team of 17 researchers based in the United States, Mexico and Australia describes three major crises facing life on Earth: climate disruption, biodiversity decline and human overconsumption and overpopulation. Citing more than 150 studies, the team argues that these three crises — which are poised only to escalate in the coming decades — put Earth in a more precarious position than most people realize, and could even jeopardize the human race.
The point of the new paper isn't to scold average citizens or warn that all is lost, the authors wrote — but rather, to plainly describe the threats facing our planet so that people (and hopefully political leaders) start taking them seriously and planning mitigating actions, before it's too late.
"Ours is not a call to surrender," the authors wrote in their paper. "We aim to provide leaders with a realistic 'cold shower' of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future."
What will that future look like? For starters, the team writes, nature will be a lot lonelier. Since the start of agriculture 11,000 years ago, Earth has lost an estimated 50% of its terrestrial plants and roughly 20% of its animal biodiversity, the authors said, citing two studies, one from 2018 and the other from 2019. If current trends continue, as many as 1 million of Earth's 7 million to 10 million plant and animal species could face extinction in the near future, according to the new paper.
Such an enormous loss of biodiversity would also disrupt every major ecosystem on the planet, the team wrote, with fewer insects to pollinate plants, fewer plants to filter the air, water and soil, and fewer forests to protect human settlements from floods and other natural disasters, the team wrote.
Meanwhile, those same phenomena that cause natural disasters are all predicted to become stronger and more frequent due to global climate change. These disasters, coupled with climate-induced droughts and sea-level rise, could mean 1 billion people would become climate refugees by the year 2050, forcing mass migrations that further endanger human lives and disrupt society.
Overpopulation will not make anything easier.
"By 2050, the world population will likely grow to ~9.9 billion, with growth projected by many to continue until well into the next century," the study authors wrote.
This booming growth will exacerbate societal problems like food insecurity, housing insecurity, joblessness, overcrowding and inequality. Larger populations also increase the chances of pandemics, the team wrote; as humans encroach ever farther into wild spaces, the risk of uncovering deadly new zoonotic diseases — like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 — becomes ever greater, according to a study published in September 2020 in the journal World Development.
While we can see and feel the effects of global warming on a daily basis — like record-setting heat across the world and increasingly active hurricane seasons, for instance — the worst effects of these other crises could take decades to become apparent, the team wrote. That delay between cause and effect may be responsible for what the authors call an "utterly inadequate" effort to address these encroaching environmental threats.
"If most of the world's population truly understood and appreciated the magnitude of the crises we summarize here, and the inevitability of worsening conditions, one could logically expect positive changes in politics and policies to match the gravity of the existential threats," the team wrote. "But the opposite is unfolding."
Indeed, just last week a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change revealed that humans have already blown past the global warming targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, and we are currently on track to inhabit a world that is 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit (2.3 degrees Celsius) warmer than average global temperatures in the pre-industrial era — slightly more than halfway to the United Nation's "worst-case scenario." Nations have similarly failed to meet basic biodiversity targets set by the U.N. in 2010, the authors note.
The dark future described in this paper is not guaranteed, the authors wrote, so long as world leaders and policymakers start immediately taking the problems before us seriously. Once leaders accept "the gravity of the situation," then the large-scale changes needed to conserve our planet can begin. Those changes must be sweeping, including "the abolition of perpetual economic growth … [and] a rapid exit from fossil-fuel use," the authors wrote.
But the first step is education.
"It is therefore incumbent on experts in any discipline that deals with the future of the biosphere and human well-being to … avoid sugar-coating the overwhelming challenges ahead and 'tell it like it is,'" the team concluded. "Anything else is misleading at best … potentially lethal for the human enterprise at worst."
Should we build a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres? It's more plausible than it sounds.
This NASA illustration depicts an O'Neill Cylinder: a floating human habitat orbiting an alien planet. A new paper proposes building a mega-colony of them around the dwarf planet, Ceres.
Now more than ever, space agencies and starry-eyed billionaires have their minds fixed on finding a new home for humanity beyond Earth's orbit. Mars is an obvious candidate, given its relatively close proximity, 24-hour day/night cycle and CO2-rich atmosphere. However, there's a school of spacefaring thought that suggests colonizing the surface of another planet — any planet — is more trouble than it's worth.
Now, a new paper published Jan. 6 date to the preprint databasearXiv offers a creative counter-proposal: Ditch the Red Planet, and build a gargantuan floating habitat around the dwarf planet Ceres, instead.
In the paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, astrophysicist Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki describes his vision of a "megasatellite" of thousands of cylindrical spacecrafts, all linked together inside a disk-shaped frame that permanently orbits Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Each of these cylindrical habitats could accommodate upwards of 50,000 people, support an artificial atmosphere and generate an Earth-like gravity through the centrifugal force of its own rotation, Janhunen wrote. (This general idea, first proposed in the 1970s, is known as an O'Neill cylinder).
But why Ceres? Its average distance from Earth is comparable to that of Mars, Janhunen wrote, making travel relatively easy — but the dwarf planet also has a big elemental advantage. Ceres is rich in nitrogen, which would be crucial in developing the orbiting settlement's atmosphere, Janhunen said (Earth's atmosphere is roughly 79% nitrogen.) Rather than building a colony on the surface of the tiny world — Ceres has a radius roughly 1/13th that of Earth — settlers could utilize space elevators to transfer raw materials from the planet directly up to their orbiting habitats.
This orbital lifestyle would also address one of the biggest caveats Janhunen sees in the idea of a Martian surface colony: the health impacts of low gravity.
"My concern is that children on a Mars settlement would not develop to healthy adults (in terms of muscles and bones) due to the too-low Martian gravity," Janhunen told Live Science in an email. "Therefore, I searched for [an] alternative that would provide [Earth-like] gravity but also an interconnected world."
Even so, Janhunen's proposal comes with its own caveats that could work against a successful Ceres colony, an outside researcher pointed out.
This NASA illustration shows what the interior of an O'Neill Cylinder could look like. Each habitat would have an artificial atmosphere, Earth-like gravity and a mix of urban and agricultural space. (Image credit: Rick Guidice courtesy of NASA)
Welcome to disk-world
According to Janhunen's proposal, each cylinder of the Ceres megasatellite would produce its own gravity through rotation; each cylindrical habitat would measure about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) long, have a radius of 0.6 miles (1 km) and complete a full rotation every 66 seconds to generate the centrifugal force needed to simulate Earth-like gravity.
A single cylinder could comfortably hold about 57,000 people, Janhunen said, and would be held in place next to its neighboring cylinders through powerful magnets, like those used inmagnetic levitation.
Janhunen's megasatellite would include a disk of interconnected habitat cylinders (center), flanked on both sides by massive mirrors to angle sunlight into the colony. (Image credit: Pekka Janhunen)
That interconnectedness points to the other big advantage of megasatellite living, Janhunen said: New habitat cylinders could be added onto the edges of the colony indefinitely, allowing for near unlimited expansion.
"Mars' surface area is smaller than Earth's, and consequently it cannot provide room for significant population and economic expansion," Janhunen told Live Science. A Ceres colony, on the other hand, "is growable from one to millions of habitats."
Seeing the light
Beyond the cylinders and their massive disk frame, the colony's main features will be two enormous glass mirrors, angled at 45 degrees relative to the disk in order to reflect just enough natural sunlight into each habitat. Part of each cylinder will be devoted to growing crops and trees, planted in a 5-foot-thick (1.5 meters) bed of soil derived from raw materials from Ceres, Janhunen wrote. The natural sunlight should keep them growing strong. (The "urban" part of each cylinder, meanwhile, would rely on artificial light to simulate an Earth-like day/night cycle. Janhunen does not stipulate where the settlement's oxygen comes from.)
This society of floating, cylindrical utopias may sound a bit outlandish, but it has its proponents. In 2019, Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO and founder of the private space company Blue Origin)spoke at a Washington, D.C., event about the merits of building "O'Neill colonies" similar to the one Janhunen describes here. Bezos was skeptical that such a colony could exist in our lifetime, asking the audience, "How are we going to build O'Neill colonies? I don't know and no one in this room knows."
However, Janhunen is more optimistic. In an email to Live Science, he said that the first human settlers could start heading to Ceres within the next 15 years.
The future is bright when you live in a habitat cylinder millions of miles from Earth.(Image credit: Don Davis courtesy of NASA)
Next year on Ceres?
Manasvi Lingam, an assistant professor of astrobiology at the Florida Institute of Technology who studies planet habitability, said that the Ceres proposal presents a "plausible alternative" to colonizing the surface of Mars or the Moon, but still lacks some key considerations.
"I would say there are three main caveats," Lingam, who was not involved with the paper, told Live Science. "The first is a question of other essential elements, other than nitrogen."
One key element that isn't mentioned in the paper is phosphorus, Lingam said. The human body relies on phosphorus to create DNA, RNA and ATP (a vital form of energy storage in cells). All organisms on Earth — including any plants colonists might hope to grow in their floating habitats — need it in one way or another, but Janhunen's proposal doesn't address where or how this critical element would be obtained.
The second caveat is the technology, Lingam said. Collecting nitrogen and other raw materials from Ceres would require mining the planet's surface and extracting those crucial elements from the rocks themselves. This operation likely wouldn't be possible without a fleet of autonomous mining vehicles ready to deploy on Ceres, plus satellites to guide them to the most viable nutrient-rich deposits. The idea is plausible, Lingam said, but technologically, we aren't there yet; just recently (on Jan. 15), a NASA Mars robot was declared dead after it failed to bury itself just 16 feet (5 meters) into the Martian surface, terminating a two-year mission.
Those technological limitations point to Lingam's third caveat, which is the proposed time frame. Janhunen's proposal suggests that the megasatellite's first cluster of orbiting habitats could be completed 22 years after mining begins on Ceres. But this estimate assumes the settlement's available power supply grows exponentially each year, beginning immediately and never stalling due to technological or logistical problems. That estimate "isn't inconceivable," Lingam said, but shouldn't be taken for granted.
"That timescale of 22 years might be the lower bound under optimal conditions, but I'd argue that the real timescale could be a lot longer," Lingam said.
The largest lake on Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be deeper than a thousand feet. Even though it’s been more than three years since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finished orbiting Saturn (when it dove down into the planet’s atmosphere), experts are still finding valuable information from the data that it collected.
In one of Cassini’s last flybys of Titan (specifically, the 104th flyby of the moon on August 21, 2014), it was able to capture significant data of the moon’s largest lake called Kraken Mare. Based on preliminary data, it was believed that the lake was at least 115 feet deep but according to more in-depth analysis, it has been revealed that it is much deeper – at least 1,000 feet. In fact, it is so deep that the radar on board the spacecraft couldn’t probe all the way down to the bottom of the lake.
They were able to figure this out by calculating how long it took the radar signal to bounce back from the lake and by considering the type of liquid the lake is comprised of as it would absorb a portion of the energy emitted from the radar signal.
Kraken Mare
There is a mixture of methane and ethane in Kraken Mare and scientists are still optimistic that they will solve the mystery of where the liquid methane originated from because based on the fact that Titan is so far away from the sun, it should have cycled through all of its methane in 10 million years. While there is a lot of debate on the exact age of Saturn’s moons, they are certainly much older than 10 million years.
And Kraken Mare is not only deep, but massive in size as it would cover all five of North America’s Great Lakes if it was situated here on Earth. In a statement from the Cornell University Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Valerio Poggiali, who is a research associate at the university and the lead author of the study, explained this further, “Kraken Mare … not only has a great name, but also contains about 80% of the moon’s surface liquids.”
At a thousand feet deep, NASA should have no problem putting a submarine down into the depths of Kraken Mare which is currently being discussed for a future mission to Titan sometime in the next decade.
Titan
And Kraken Mare wasn’t the only lake that the spacecraft collected data on. Specifically, researchers were very interested in finding out more about Ligeia Mare and its “magic island” that continuously disappears and reappears. They were also curious about an estuary called Moray Sinus that has a depth estimated at 280 feet. The spacecraft probed the surface of the moon with a radar altimeter at a distance of about 600 miles away.
Back in the day, the United States and the Soviet Union both had their eyes to the sky. Space was seen as the last frontier for the Cold War they had long been waging, and they constantly sought to one-up each other. Space was a potential battle ground not just for trying to gain an upper hand, but also as a stage on which they could flex and pose for the world stage, constantly trying to show who was best. It was in this climate of competition and trying to master the domain of space that the Soviets would build a tactical armed space station, and become the first, and so far only, nation to actually fire a space cannon.
There was a time when the Soviets were winning the space race. Initially they came out of the gate strong, with many decisive victories. The launching of the Sputnik on October 4, 1957 was the first manmade object placed in space, followed by putting the first living animal in space in the form of a dog named Laika, and then there was the Soviet unmanned space probe Luna II, which on September 14, 1959 became the first manmade object to land on the moon. They followed this up on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit for 108 minutes, becoming the first human being in space. At this time the Soviet Union were showing that space was their domain, which made the United States very nervous indeed. At the time space was being increasingly seen as sort of the battlefield of the future, with all manner of potential uses for reconnaissance satellites or even proposed orbital weapons. The early Soviet early dominance of space was alarming and unacceptable for the Americans, not only militarily but also ideologically, as it showed that communism was winning, so they did what they were good at and started throwing tons of money at their space programs.
Laika, the first Earth creature to go to space
Flush with cash from its newfound industrial and economic surge in the wake of World War II, the United States doubled their efforts in the space race, and it paid massive dividends. In quick succession they launched their own satellite, put astronaut Alan Shepard into space, and then performed their coup de grace on July 20, 1969, by landing astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. In short order The United States had upped the ante and clawed ahead of the Soviets to leave them reeling. The U.S. now had the upper hand, and the thought of American satellites circling the globe unchecked terrified the Soviets, only made worse when the U.S. began preparations for a manned space station called the American Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program. This just wouldn’t do, so they began a space station program of their own.
The Orbital Piloted Station (OPS), code-named Almaz, meaning “Diamond,” was a top-secret program launched in 1964 and carried out by the Soviets to put their own manned space station into orbit for the purpose of military reconnaissance. To this end it was to be fitted with cutting edge spy equipment, cameras and radar, and it was designed to be able to be resupplied while in orbit. It was to be the first of several planned military space stations, and money was poured into it. All of this was very hush hush, of course, hidden behind the façade that it was to be a part of the civilian space station program called Salyut. They didn’t want the Americans getting wind that they were planning on putting a military apace station in orbit, but they had to be sure their investment stayed safe. At the time, both sides were very concerned with anti-satellite and space station weapons, paranoid that anything put up into space was liable to be shot down or straight out stolen, so the Soviets made sure that one aspect of the Almaz was developed, and that meant they wanted to mount a big space cannon on it.
In order to arm their fancy space station, the Soviets designed the R-23M Kartech, basically a modified version of the Rikhter R-23, which was a 23mm, fully automatic tail gun designed for the Tupolev Tu-22 Blinder supersonic bomber. The new modified cannon weighed 37 pounds and could supposedly fire up between 950 to 5,000 rounds per minute, that could hit targets with accuracy up to two miles away. It was designed to be mounted on the forward belly of the Almaz station, but firing the weapon was the tricky part. As the cannon was to be mounted in a fixed position, actually aiming it would require the entire space station to be moved into a firing position. Another problem was that thrusters would be needed to counterbalance the recoil of the weapon, as every shot fired would potentially push the space station out of orbit, a big problem in the weightless vacuum of space. Nevertheless, the Soviets went ahead with arming their space station.
Between 1973 and 1976, the Soviets would launch three crewed military reconnaissance stations with the Almaz program, which were disguised under the civilian Salyut program and launched under the names Salyut 2, Salyut 3 and Salyut 5. While the Salyut 2 failed shortly after achieving orbit, the Salyut 3 and 5 were successfully tested, and the Salyut 3 managed to be a historic first when it actually test fired its space cannon in orbit. The test occurred on January 24, 1975, and although the cannon had been tested on land, since no one had ever fired it in space no one was really sure how the weapon was going to affect the station. For this reason, the test was scheduled for shortly before the Salyut 3 was to deorbit and long after the crew had left. The station was at the time being remotely operated, and when the weapon was fired thrusters were used to counteract the recoil. According to reports, approximately 20 rounds in one to three controlled blasts, all of which purportedly burned up in orbit, although the exact results have remained classified. To this day, the Almaz program represents the only armed and crewed military spacecraft ever flown, a rather interesting and somewhat unsettling milestone.
At the time of this space cannon test, the U.S. had no idea that any of this was going on. They of course knew about the Salyut 3, but at the time they were unaware that it was a military spacecraft and certainly knew nothing about the fact that it was armed or that the Soviets planned to actually test the weapon. In fact, it was not until long after the Cold War had ended and the end of the Soviet Union, that the information on the test firing would get out with the Russian Defense Ministry finally revealing it on the Russian military show Voennaya Priemka. However, the test results are still classified, the footage from the experiment was destroyed on reentry, and there is only one known photo of the actual cannon used aboard the Salyut 3.
Although we don’t know the exact results of the test firing, it must have been successful enough for the Soviets to see space-based weapons as viable, as they planned for future space stations to be armed with interceptor missiles. However, in the end the Almaz program never really caught on. Manned space stations were increasingly seen as to cost-inefficient, and the military lost interest, instead focusing on automated satellites for reconnaissance purposes. The Almaz program was grounded and absorbed into the civilian Salyut program, but much of it still remains classified. This was the first, and as of yet as far as we know the last time anyone tried to fire weapons from space, but make no mistake the interest is still there, and who knows how many secret programs there might be. Although there are many laws now in place to keep this sort of thing from happening, there will likely always be those who see space as a potential battleground, and now you know that the Soviets took the first step with their clandestine operation.
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Screen capture of the R-23M space cannon taken from Zvezda TV, per the Russian Ministry of Defence
MASSIVE GOVERNMENT COVER-UP! UFO's MUST be Disclosed BY THE END OF JUNE
MASSIVE GOVERNMENT COVER-UP! UFO's MUST be Disclosed BY THE END OF JUNE
When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs!
The director of National Intelligence and the secretary of defense have a little less than six months now to provide the congressional intelligence and armed services committees with an unclassified report about “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
Israel has made a similar motion! Disclosure is here!
Face In Clouds Watching! Texas, USA 1-26-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Face In Clouds Watching! Texas, USA 1-26-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 26, 2021
Location of sighting: East Texas, USA
Here is a face caught by a young woman driving along East Texas last week. The face has an incredible detail to it and its facing downward toward the car on the road. As if it were deliberately looking at the eyewitness. The detail of the face really stands out...it has two eyes, a nose, a mustache, a beard. Strange one...It looks deliberate and meaningful, not a coincidence at all. It almost looks like the sacred Shroud of Turin with the Jesus face in it, but the hair on the face in the cloud is very different. I am left speechless.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I took the video on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 around 6:15 P.M My fiance and I were driving to our friends house in East Texas, not far from our own home. I was of course doing something on my phone when my fiance said "Hey, look up".... & as soon as I did, I automatically seen it. There was a face clear as day in the clouds or cloud.... I was in total shock as to what I was seeing before me. It was shocking, creeping wow moment. It even seem to have eyes inside as if it was watching us. I seen videos of this anomaly but never experienced one. I've always been a believer of anything paranormal or unusual unexplained happenings but this set it in stone for me.
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In addition in this program, we will show you some strange sightings in different countries. Such as Bogota Colombia, some witnesses have shown evidence recorded by cellular.
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Renowned UFO researcher Dr. Jacques Vallée recently made an appearance on the Joe Rogan show expressing his belief that we have to stop looking at UFO encounters/intrusions as a threat.
Reflect On:
Is there any reason to believe that these objects pose a threat? Will the government along with mainstream media try and control our perception of the phenomenon, and give us an inaccurate picture of what the phenomenon represents?
What Happened: Renowned UFO researcher, scientist, mathematician, and astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallée recently made an appearance on the Joe Rogan show to discuss the UFO phenomenon. On the show, he made the following statement:
We have to stop reacting to intrusions by UFOs as a threat, I mean that’s the whole thing behind this new task force, as much as I respect, you know, the task force, my colleagues and I want to cooperate with them to the extent that we can bring information or resources to what they do. But there is more, this is not, should not be looked at specifically as a threat…With the phenomenon that we observe if they wanted to blow up those F18s they would do it. Obviously that’s not what it’s all about, and this idea of just labelling it all as a threat because it’s unknown, that’s the wrong idea. (source)
The “task force” he mentions refers to To The Stars Academy (TTSA), who is working with the US Department of Defense to disclose the reality of the UFO phenomenon to the public. The military jets he refers to comes from an encounter released by this organization in cooperation with the Pentagon. TTSA, since its inception, has had the privilege of sharing their opinion of the UFO phenomenon on major mainstream media outlets. This has been great to create a huge wave of awareness to the fact that these objects are real, they’re here, and they can perform maneuvers no known made made piece of machinery can.
That being said, it was a little unsettling to see the TTSA have access to mainstream media outlets the way they did and do. In my opinion, this comes from their strong connections to the Department of Defence given the fact that they seem to be working directly with them. It’s unsettling because there are many UFO researchers out there, and many credible high ranking “whistleblowers” who have been quite outspoken about the phenomenon for quite some time. Why didn’t they ever get any air time? Why does this privilege only belong to TTSA? This is not an attack on TTSA, just simple and warranted critical questioning.
It’s no secret that trust for mainstream media as well as government is at an all time low. They, in my opinion, seem to be masters of perception manipulation and control, meaning that they can easily attach a narrative to the phenomenon and control the peoples perception of it. In this case, so far, we’ve seen a bit of a threat narrative, when in fact if you do the research you will see that, in my opinion, the overwhelming majority of UFO encounters are not indicative of any type of threat. If anything the common them is “evasive” maneuvers to avoid our own aircraft. So anytime there is a threat narrative it’s a bit suspicious. Furthermore, any particular case disclosed within the mainstream does not represent the phenomenon, there hundreds of thousands of cases, if not more. We cannot generalize the behaviour of UFOs from a few cases that are presented by mainstream media. TTSA has since had three key people leave the organization.
Collective Evolution has written about this topic, in depth, since our inception in 2009. If you want to sift through our articles specifically about this phenomenon, you can do so here. I also published an article sharing my thoughts about a “threat” narrative and the idea of a “false flag” UFO event. You can read about that in depth, here.
Hopes of Alien Life on Mars Increase After New Satellite Images Reveal Network of Hidden Lakes
An image of active Dunes in Wirtz Crater. This image was taken by the HiRISE instrument on board on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.
Hopes of Alien Life on Mars Increase After New Satellite Images Reveal Network of Hidden Lakes
Scientists confirmed the discovery of a massive lake of liquid water 20 kilometers in diameter, and reported the discovery of three new saltwater lakes beneath the Martian surface.
Thanks to the MARSIS radar of the ESA Mars Express orbiter, a team led by Sebastian Emanuel Lauro and Elena Pettinelli of the University of Roma Tre has confirmed the presence of a complex system of saltwater lakes under the South Martian pole cap. Roberto Orosei.
The discovery of the subterranean, saltwater lakes is a big deal, and experts say that these bodies of water “could still retain traces of any forms of life to this day.”
The discovery deepens our understanding of the red planet and helps us better understand what mars were like in the distant past and what the red planet is like today. As it turns out, Mars is a hidden gem, and its most important features are located beneath the surface, hidden from ordinary sight. However, satellite images from various space agencies are helping reveal the hidden jewels of the red planet.
When I say jewels, I mean water. In 2018, a large lake of liquid water 20 kilometers in diameter was discovered under the icy surface of the south pole of Mars.
Lakes on Mars
New research has confirmed that the lake’s existence and found three more, which means that there is much more water on Mars than we initially thought.
“Not only did we confirm the position, extent, and strength of the reflector from our 2018 study”, co-lead author Elena Pettinelli (Roma Tre University) said, “but we found three new bright areas.”
“Smaller bodies of liquid water surround the main lake, but because of the technical characteristics of the radar and its distance from the Martian surface, we cannot conclusively determine whether they are interconnected,” he added.
More importantly, scientists argue that the recently-uncovered lakes remain liquid despite extreme cold as they are hypersaline solutions (hypersaline perchlorate brines). High concentrations of salts are dissolved in water.
As revealed by researchers, the average temperature at the Martian pole varies at around -110 ° C. But despite this freezing temperature, the water is believed to remind in a liquid state because salts can reduce the freezing point of water by tens of degrees
“These experiments have demonstrated that brines can persist for geologically significant periods of time even at the temperatures typical of the Martian polar regions (considerably below the freezing temperature of pure water),” explained Co-author Graziella Caprarelli.
“Therefore, we think that any process of formation and persistence of sub-ice water beneath the polar ice caps requires the liquid to have high salinity,” the researchers explained to scimex.
Mars’ Geological History
More importantly, the lakes’ discovery helps us better understand the geological history of Mars and how long the planet may have remained “habitable” both above and beneath the surface.
Whether Mars is habitable today—if it is home to microbes—is something NASA‘s Perseverance rover hopes to answer. The rover—and the first Martian helicopter—are set to touch down on the red planet’s surface in February 2021.
Nonetheless, the recent discovery contributes to our hopes that the red planet is habitable. Only recently have we learned that, based on observations of Venus’s atmosphere, there could be organisms there as well. If this is true, why wouldn’t Mars also be home to microbial life? Subsurface conditions on Mars could be the ideal hiding spot for life.
Researchers say that the existence of a single subglacial lake on Mars could be attributed to “exceptional conditions” such as the existence of a subsurface volcano. How4ver, the discovery of a network of subterranean lakes suggests that their formation process is much more common than initially thought.
More importantly, if such lakes are, in fact common, and extensive, it would imply that they existed for much of the red planet’s history, which in turn means that there was probably enough time for life to emerge.
The recent study published in nature also tells us we need to look at Mars from a different perspective and that the planet’s ice sheets are not uniformly structured wastelands. Instead, it should be seen as “stratigraphically and physically complex geological formations, deserving to be fully explored in detail.”
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In 2019 UFOs became mainstream. But this truth had already been known for many decades. Collective consciousness is ready now more than ever for contact, and you're being prepared for that.
Reflect On:
Why is humanity so deeply interested in the UFO and ET subject. Sure, you might say there is an 'agenda' with ET disclosure, but is there more to this picture? Why has this subject become the most sought after information out there?
UFOs became mainstream in 2019, the next question is who’s manning them? The mainstream media, and the agencies that direct them, have hidden the truth about UFOs for decades and they finally changed their story on that this year. Given we had known UFOs were real for many decades prior, and that we also have known ETs are involved in this whole phenomenon, are we really going to wait many more decades for the mainstream to admit ETs are real too? Or are we going to start listening to what independent media has been saying for decades?
Humanity is preparing for contact on a mass level. This is a blunt truth but one that is undeniable when you look at how interested and hungry the masses are for content related to this subject. Some of the most watched, read, and searched content on the internet, Netflix and YouTube all relate to ETs and UFOs. Sure, some might still be in the closet about it, but that’s changing QUICK!
But why has this been a secret for so long? The truth is, the biggest secret behind why ET and UFO disclosure has been suppressed is something that isn’t discussed all that much. We typically hear about things like technology suppression, specifically energy systems. How do these crafts get here? What propulsion systems do they use? These questions lead people towards the reality that the technologies of UFO craft ultimately would disrupt our fossil fuel energy oligarchy so much that it would also collapse our economies in some ways.
Of course, this would not be such a bad thing. Why? Because when you consider that this would mean having endless and ‘free’ energy, cost for goods would drop dramatically. Not just that but, when you begin to examine the ease in creating systems based around abundance, it becomes incredible to consider what is truly possible.
An endless supply of food grown locally, everywhere! Endless energy, installed everywhere! Cars and building facilities that do not create pollution. We could essentially live in a society built such that we do not need to be enslaved by money or debt because abundance would simply become a natural happening of a society built with abundant technology, that’s harmonious, in place.
We can all see the value of such disclosures, and the reason why this would be covered but. But there is something even deeper.
The Biggest Secret
The question is, if we know these technologies exist, and they are being suppressed. And if we know that whistleblowers and people have already reverse engineered or built these things, and not all have been killed or threatened, what is the reason why these things are held back? Why do we still deny these realities en masse?
The truth is, it comes down to consciousness. We’ve been saying this since the inception of CE in 2009: solutions are there, but they won’t come until humanity is ready. What does this ACTUALLY mean to be ready? It means growing up enough as a race, that we can actually be responsible for what it is we will have access to. Not just that, but to be able to say we have ‘graduated’ in a sense, to say we are beyond our old ways.
While that sounds like a loaded few sentences, and they are in a sense, all that is really being said here is, humanity has been stuck in a cycle of experience where we continually see everything, and everyone as separate from us. We are individuals, living out our identities and lives and we are simply here to survive. We believe the limiting ideas of what our reality is and should be and thus we create that reality consciously. Our collective belief about how our world should be is directly tied to what actually happens.
But there is this feeling deep within us at this time, and I know you feel it, where we are beginning to deeply question our ways. How we treat one another, our political systems, the elite manipulation and control that exists, the existential reality of who we are and how we are truly just consciousness, all connected. These deep questions are asking us to explore who we truly are and why we are truly here. And many of us are doing so. This is beginning to create instability and change in our system because the consciousness that holds up our old world, is beginning to crack, and a new one is emerging.
Contact: It’s On Us
WE are preparing ourselves fro contact. This is not happening through someone else, it’s a collective phenomenon that is simply the next stage of humanity’s journey. As our consciousness continues to shift, through us truly doing our own questioning, changing our own patterns, habits, thoughts, and actions, we will begin to truly create the solutions necessary to create a world where we can thrive. And disclosure of technologies will come forth. It comes down to US having to do this work, not governments, not someone else coming to save us. It’s about creating an entire populace with the mentality of truly being empowered and self-responsible, as opposed to needed governance and feeling helpless.
This is why the greatest reason why ET reality is so suppressed comes down to consciousness because with an introduction to ET life, comes an entire myriad of experience we have not been exposed to.
Our CETV platform is designed to help prepare us for the stages of the personal transformation that is occurring in people’s lives. From information, to techniques, to how to guides, CETV is here as a tool to help us move through these confusing and yet expansive times. You can check out CETV here.
In the video below I explain what this means deeply, and how we can begin opening up the doors to mass contact with ET’s.
Grey and Nordic (tall white) aliens get all the love and Reptilians get all the fear, so there’s not much left to give the Mantis aliens, even among insect lovers. The experience of a man in England who claims he not only witnessed a 7-foot-tall alien mantis exiting from a spacecraft (which he photographed), it forced evil thoughts into his mind and caused him to lose his job at a dog food company. Is that last part a reason to love or to fear Mantis aliens?
“On a Thursday morning at 5am I was cycling home from work and I saw something odd in the sky. It was a glowing orange sphere just hovering on the horizon. At first I thought it must be Venus or a satellite, but it seemed to be much closer than either of these things.”
So begins the 7-foot mantis tale of Paul Froggatt, a resident of Warwick and a former night shift employee at a local dog food warehouse. Froggatt shared his alleged encounter with The Daily Star and no other accounts appear to be available, so take that into consideration as describes the encounter.
This sounds interesting.
“I stopped on my way to take some photos – the object looked a fair bit bigger in person than visible in the photos. This is when the object started to move around and rotate in shape. I could see it was circular with a part sticking out from the main body. When this started, I got the chills down my back and felt like there was something wrong here, I hurried on my way home.”
Froggart’s photos (see them here) appear to be closer to dawn than 5 am and the object definitely looks like a planet from afar and a balloon closer up. He claims it seemed to follow him until he entered the forest, which he remembers was unusually quiet. That’s when he saw it.
Paul Froggatt holds up his drawing of the 'evil 7ft alien mantis'
(Image: Paul Froggatt)
Paul Froggatt is appealing for witnesses to get in touch
(Image: Paul Froggatt)
“Standing a few meters ahead is what I can only describe as a humanoid praying mantis. This thing was at-least 7 foot tall, light green with triangular head and big oval black eyes. It had all the features of a mantis but stood on two legs and had a somehow human like shape about it. I was completely frozen with fear. For what felt like an age – but was probably only seconds – I stared into this creature’s eyes and it stared back. I felt like it could read my mind and I could read its. My fear was replaced with completely alien thoughts of utter hatred and evil I felt projected from this thing. I suddenly snapped out of this hypnotic kind of state and it made a step back as if it was gonna pounce on me.”
Unfortunately, that’s the end of his account – except for the picture he drew of the creature. (See it here.) That depiction and his account adhere pretty closely to the description of mantis aliens by other witnesses and abductees. Believed by many to be from the Draco (dragon) constellation, they’re generally described as being 6-7 feet tall with bodies identical to but bigger than insect praying mantises, with dark brown or black slanted eyes. The article doesn’t give a color and the drawing is in black pen, but most accounts describe mantis aliens as being brown or green, with some having them in colored robes. They’re bipedal and said to communicate with each other using clicks and with humans using telepathy. They’re believed to be shapeshifters, are sometimes seen with small Grey aliens which follow them and are said to be evil beings harvesting DNA in order to conquer humanity, possibly in conjunction with Reptilians.
Most of that description matches what Froggart to the Daily Star, which could mean he had a real encounter with a Mantis alien, had a very real hallucination or he knew quite a bit about their alleged description and behavior ahead of time. Again, the photo of the UFO doesn’t clarify anything – it may be a coincidence and not associated with the alleged mantis – and the drawing doesn’t either. There are no other witness reports as of this writing.
Will they be back?
Froggart didn’t have any answers so he asked his co-workers — who he claims instead nicknamed him the “Mantis man of Warwick” and tormented him so much that he had to quit the job at the dog food warehouse. Did the evil Mantis alien play a part in this? If this is true (again, no other accounts pop up), it shows Froggart was serious enough about the encounter to put his job in jeopardy.
Is this a real Mantis encounter or a hoax? The needle is still on the ‘Skeptical’ side.
Was the story planted in the media by the Mantises to get more publicity for their species? Now THAT’S evil!
Today’s article is on the subject of some of the weirdest government projects that span more than a few decades. I’m going to focus on the United States and the United Kingdom. I’ll begin with the U.K. and reveal some of its strange secrets. And tomorrow I’ll focus on the U.S. In the heart of North Wales, U.K., there exists a body of water called Lake Bala. You may say, well, there’s nothing particularly strange about that. You would be correct. Lake Bala is not out of the ordinary, in the slightest. But what is rumored to dwell in its dark depths most assuredly is out of the ordinary. It’s the domain of aviolent lake monster called Teggie. Or, is the story born out of secret, military experiments? It all very much depends on who you ask and who you believe. There are longstanding rumors in and around the Bala area that in the build-up to the First World War, the British Royal Navy clandestinely let loose a group of seals into the lake. The reason: to strap them with dynamite and train them to attacks specific targets, namely warships.
It should be noted that the dynamite was not real and the “warships” were just small rowing boats. In other words, the project was a test-run, in the event that the Royal Navy might find itself at war with Germany (which it did in 1914, when the First World War broke out), and suicidal seals, strapped with explosives, might be required to fight for their country. So the story goes, the seals proved impossible to train, and the project was abandoned. And, so today, what people are seeing today are brief glimpses of the original seals that bred and bred and so on. Of course, it’s very possible this is nothing more than a tall tale, passed on through the generations and without any actual facts to support it. Thus, the legend of Teggie continues to thrive. Now, onto the matter of Aleister Crowley.
Aleister Crowley, the “Great Beast” who died in 1947, was the subject of sensitive files that are said to have been destroyed, but which may not have been. In this case, the records were said to have originated with MI5, which is the U.K.’s equivalent of the FBI. Richard B. Spence, of the International Spy Museum, has done his utmost to try and unravel the connections between Crowley and the intelligence community. Spence says of Crowley: “He was such a disreputable and even evil character in the public mind that arguably no responsible official would think of employing him. But the very fact that he seemed such an improbable spy was perhaps the best recommendation for using him.” Another theory is that during the Second World War, British Intelligence planned on using the world of the occult to try and prevent the Nazis from invading the U.K.
It was thanks to Spence that in 2003 something extraordinary happened. That was the year in which Spence found not a file on Crowley per se, but a file on another topic, but which referenced Crowley’s MI5 file. The claim that there had not been an MI5 file on Crowley, now had no merit. Caught in an awkward situation, MI5 went back on its previous stance and claimed that, yes, there had been a Crowley file, after all. But, it had been destroyed back in the 1950s. Spence dug deeper and found further references to Crowley-based files. They, too, had been destroyed, claimed MI5. W. Adam Mandelbaum, who worked for U.S. Intelligence, said that: “Given the political fallout that would have resulted from making this involvement public, it should be no surprise that there is a paucity of documentation concerning Crowley’s intelligence efforts.” Now, let’s look at a similar situation but a different person.
There are rumors that secret files exist within the U.K.’s MI5 – which is the British equivalent of the United States’ FBI – on “Britain’s Most Famous Witch.” Her name was Sybil Leek, who was rumored to have undertaken work of a very weird kind to help defeat the Nazis during the Second World War. I have tried to secure such files, but with no luck. But, there’s a chance they exist. The BBC says: “One of the most incredible claims about her is that she was recruited by the British Government during the Second World War. According to the Second World War author Michael Salazar, her role was to provide phony horoscopes for the Germans who believed in Astrology. She apparently wrote a chart which convinced the Nazi Rudolf Hess to fly to England, where he was captured.” Maybe, one day, we’ll know for sure the truth of this weird affair.
Today’s article is the second part of a two-part story on strange, secret programs. The first feature was on the secret files and projects of the U.K. Now, I’m focusing on the United States. We’ll begin with the field of Remote-Viewing. The whole RV phenomenon is well-known. But, how about a certain operation that the late RV expert, Pat Price, got into during the 1970s? In his 1997 book Remote Viewers, Jim Schnabel told the story of the U.S. Intelligence community’s involvement in the controversial issue of psychic spying that largely began in the early-to-mid 1970s. Commenting on the skills of a talented remote-viewer in relation to matters of a UFO nature, one Pat Price, Schnabel noted Price was of the opinion that “…Alaska’s Mount Hayes, the jewel of a glacial range northeast of Anchorage, housed one of the aliens’ largest bases.” According to Pat Price, the aliens that lived deep inside Mount Hayes were very human looking, differing only in their heart, lungs, blood, and eyes. Ominously, he added that the aliens use “thought transfer for motor control of us.” Price added: “The site has also been responsible for strange activity and malfunction of U.S. and Soviet space objects.”
Now, onto a completely different issue: dowsing. In 1978, staff at the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio prepared an extensive document titled Paraphysics R&D – Warsaw Pact [R&D referring to Research and Development]. Page twenty-three of the document details positive results of both U.S. and Soviet research in the field of dowsing. Notably, a copy of the entire FTD document was sent to the CIA’s Office of Science and Technology (OSI) shortly after its publication.
How about the FBI’s file on Spontaneous Human Combustion? That was a subject that the Bureau studied for a long time. It’s a little-known fact, however, that midway through the 20th century the FBI got involved in the controversy of SHC. The unfortunate person whose fiery death caught the attention of the FBI was Mary Hardy Reeser, a then-sixty-seven-year-old woman from St. Petersburg, Florida. It was some time on the night of July 1, 1951 when Reeser took her last breaths. Reeser’s son Richard (who was a physician), his daughter Nancy, and the landlady, Patsy Carpenter, were hanging out with Reeser in her room. Around 9:00 p.m. they all left. Their last image was of Reeser reclining in her chair and smoking a cigarette. It wasn’t until the next morning that it became clear something terrible had occurred overnight. As fate would have it, on the morning in question Carpenter received a telegram for Reeser and took it to her room. There was no response to Carpenter’s knock on the door. So, Carpenter turned the doorknob. She screamed and jumped back. The doorknob was red hot.
Carpenter quickly caught the attention of a couple of house-painters, who raced over and forced open the door. All three were hit by a blast of scalding hot air. The scene in front of them was like something out of a horror-movie. The chair in which Mary Hardy Reeser had been reclining was severely burned. Ashes were everywhere. Teeth and bones could be seen on what was left of the chair. And then there was the matter of Reeser’s head: it was shrunken significantly and burned almost raw. Undamaged was Reeser’s left ankle, as well as her left foot and left shoe. Those remains aside, she was pretty much gone. The FBI’s file on SHC, however, still exists.
Then, there’s the Collins Elite, a think-tank-type group that believes the UFO phenomenon is demonic in nature, rather than having extraterrestrial origins. I pursued them a great from 2007 onward and they were a sinister and strange bunch. Today, the Collins Elite still exists – despite the widespread denials of the U.S. Government that it has ever existed. And, in the 21st Century, the group is a definitive secret society. Entrance to the group is strictly limited to those that move effortlessly between the domains of the Pentagon and the Trilateral Commission, the Department of Defense and fringe archaeologists, the Pope, and those well-versed in the black arts. As the Collins Elite sees it, the group is at the forefront of a worldwide, secret war to prevent a full-scale demonic invasion, worldwide martial-law, Armageddon, the rise of the Anti-Christ, and a planet and its people plunged into a literal, hellish nightmare. Time may tell if the theories of this secret network are valid or not.
In 1952 the U.S. Army secretly looked into the matter of teaching dogs to search for deadly landmines on battlefields. The strangest aspect of the program was that it would explore the feasibility of the dogs using extra-sensory perception (ESP) to find the landmines! The Army contracted Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, PhD, to come on-board. The operation progressed quickly. According to the documentation – which has been released under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act – two dogs in particular, named Tessie and Binnie, scored very well. Rhine also suggested to the Army that pigeons might be good candidates for certain, tricky operations of the military and espionage type. The official records contain Rhine’s own words on this intriguing issue. He said: “The mystery of pigeon-homing and the possibility that extrasensory perception enters into that performance led us to undertake the solution of the problem of how these pigeons find their way home. At the termination of the contract the problem had not been solved.”
Rhine added, however, that regarding the matter of pigeon-homing: “…researchers have ruled out all existing sensory hypotheses, thereby making extrasensory perception a more plausible interpretation than it has been hitherto. This research has opened up possibilities of importance not only within but far beyond the scope of the projects specifically dealt with. The problems raised on this project involve basic research that may remain in the category of the inapplicable for many years. Measured against this is the enormous value, not only to intelligence but to application in a wide range of military uses of extrasensory perception.”
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Venus, goddess of love that you are Surely the things I ask Can’t be too great a task
The most popular song about Venus was the tune sung by Frankie Avalon in 1959 – it reached #1 on the Billboard charts. That probably wouldn’t happen today since one of the “things” he was asking Venus for was a “a little girl for me to thrill.” That stinks, and apparently so does Venus and its chances for harboring life forms of any age or genders. The announcement in 2020 that phosphine had been detected in the Venusian atmosphere had talk of life at a fever pitch due to phosphine being a chemical that can only be produced by life forms – at least life as we know it. Not surprisingly, the announcement was controversial and other researchers took deeper looks into the toxic clouds over Venus and what they found stinks … and not just for the phosphine believers.
“Instead of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, the data are consistent with an alternative hypothesis: They were detecting sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide is the third-most-common chemical compound in Venus’ atmosphere, and it is not considered a sign of life.”
In the press release for a new study submitted to the journal Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, co-author Victoria Meadows, a University of Washington professor of astronomy, explains why the “purported phosphine on Venus” idea smelled funny … her team showed it was most likely sulfur dioxide with that unique odor you whiff in burnt matches, rotten eggs and your grandfather’s flatulence. Even more embarrassing (to the phosphine crowd), the scientists from UW, NASA’s Caltech-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the NASA Ames Research Center and the University of California, Riverside (an impressive team) showed that the signal mistaken for phosphine was detected in an upper layer of the Venusian atmosphere which would have destroyed them almost immediately.
Before the phosphine crowd, which used data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), could object, lead author Andrew Lincowski, a researcher with the UW Department of Astronomy, hit them with the radio astronomy data used to model conditions in Venus’ atmosphere.
“This is what’s known as a radiative transfer model, and it incorporates data from several decades’ worth of observations of Venus from multiple sources, including observatories here on Earth and spacecraft missions like Venus Express.”
The model showed that the mistaken phosphine signature was 50 miles above the planet’s surface in the mesosphere where it would have no protection from toxic chemicals and ultraviolet radiation.
“Phosphine in the mesosphere is even more fragile than phosphine in Venus’ clouds. If the JCMT signal were from phosphine in the mesosphere, then to account for the strength of the signal and the compound’s sub-second lifetime at that altitude, phosphine would have to be delivered to the mesosphere at about 100 times the rate that oxygen is pumped into Earth’s atmosphere by photosynthesis.”
Then came the slam-dunk.
“Our new work provides a complete framework that shows how typical amounts of sulfur dioxide in the Venus mesosphere can explain both the signal detections, and non-detections, in the JCMT and ALMA data, without the need for phosphine.”
That stinks.
That definitely stinks. Perhaps the musical answer to Frankie Avalon’s somewhat perverted request and the phosphine lovers passion for possible life on Venus comes not from Venus but from this J. Geils Band anthem which proclaimed about both of these that:
This video is available at nativememoryproject. org Crow Storyteller Grant Bulltail shares the legend of the people who hold up the earth
I’m of Choctaw descent,heard of stories of Little People they had experiences with.Theres this Anthropology Expert Susan B Martinez,she has a book out called Lost Tribes of Atlantis.Very informative read,on the different kinds of Little People still around today. Michael Kane
Anonymous UFO Disclosure! You Need To Hear This "They Tried Keeping Them Secret"
Anonymous UFO Disclosure! You Need To Hear This "They Tried Keeping Them Secret"
Anonymous UFO Disclosure! You Need To Hear This “They Tried Keeping Them Secret”
“It’s called the American Dream, because you need to be asleep to believe it”
– George Carlin
Anonymous is the most famous ‘hacktivist’ group in the world. The informal nature of the group makes its mechanics difficult to define. Subsequently, without a formal organizational hierarchy, it’s difficult to explain Anonymous to the general public and the media. In this article, I’ll explain the history of the group, and offer some clarity on what’s misunderstood about them.
‘Hacktivist’ is a portmanteau of ‘hacker’ and ‘activist’. When people have technical skills, have access to the Internet, and understand how network infrastructure and servers work, it can be tempting to put that knowledge into having some effect on the world. The ‘activist’ part of ‘hacktivist’ means that they don’t do their hacking and cracking without a cause.
The various people behind Anonymous worldwide are united in the belief that corporations and organizations they consider to be corrupt should be attacked. If you’re an administrator for a network that has little reason to be a target for social activists, your network and servers are unlikely to become a target for Anonymous.
If for some reason you believe your network might become a target, I recommend testing it for handling DDoS attacks, as that’s the most common method Anonymous uses to bring down web servers.
UFOs Falling At Denver, Colorado, USA, 1-31-2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Falling At Denver, Colorado, USA, 1-31-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 31, 2021 Location of sighting: Denver, Colorado, USA Source: MUFON
Two UFO reports just came in, both coming from Denver today. The two different eyewitnesses spotted three falling white objects in the sky. The objects appear to be disks. When I made a close up screenshot of the falling objects...they all look like round disks. Now NASA has not reported any space debris falling over Denver, nor have they reported anything falling from space this week. If two different reports came in about this, since each report represents about 500 people eyewitnesses. Thats means at least 1,000 people saw this maybe much more. Not everyone records what they see during a sighting...its actually a very few, and even fewer will report them to UFO sites...often instead posting them to Twitter, Facebook and other social sites where they get lost and eventually forgotten.
Absolute proof that there are aliens in the Denver mountain regions, 100% proof that a alien base sits below this mountain range in that area...but...I have been saying that info for a decade.
Scott C. Waring
1st eyewitness states:
I was having my morning coffee, I generally look out my window while I'm doing that. I looked up and I asked my friend if they could see that weird smoke trails. The trails were long at first and you could see that there was a Direction Change in the upper atmosphere. As it got lower to the ground, I would say within 1,500 feet, they slowly started changing directions and started heading East toward Buckley Air Force Base. There was no sound, no odor no strange electromagnetic sensations. These objects did not appear to be in a hurry and they maintained a straight heading. Had I not looked at them directly, I probably would have imagined them to be a chemtrail coming from an aircraft. However all three of these maintained a perfect formation until they're out of sight.
2nd eyewitness states:
I observed 3 large white objects traveling at a high rate of speed. They maintained their formation and had long tails. The best description is that they looked like cloud tear-drops. 10:45 in the morning and no clouds in the sky- and I observed these very large objects appear to "fall" then move east at a high rate of speed. They maintained their brightness and formation unitl I lost sight of them due to trees and buildings.
Ring doorbell captures bright anomaly shooting up in the sky
Ring doorbell captures bright anomaly shooting up in the sky
Aring doorbell picked up a bright anomaly shooting up in the sky over New Jersey and a series of flashing lights that changed to a V-shape before disappearing captured over Maldonado, Uruguay.
Case 1: Date of sighting - 2021/01/30 West Depford - New Jersey
Close to Philadelphia International Airport
Ring doorbell picked up a bright object shooting up in the sky.
You can see a flash across the street as it ascends. Mufon case 113478.
Case 2:Date of sighting - 2021/01/09 Maldonado, Uruguay
Two residents of the La Falda neighborhood, Piriápolis, Maldonado, Uruguay captured a series of intense flashing lights that changed to a V-shape before disappearing.
The estimated size was more than 20 meters long.
Both witnesses noted that the object did not emit any kind of sound.
Moments before starting the observation, the witnesses noticed that all the dogs in the area began to howl. Mufon case 113447.
Ireland Comes on Top in Number of UFO Sightings Among European Countries
Ireland Comes on Top in Number of UFO Sightings Among European Countries
A new report has found Ireland to have the most extraterrestrial visits in Europe, with 105 recorded unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings.
Different media organizations worldwide were eager to determine which country in Europe has the most extended duration of ET visits after the CIA released thousands of archives that have brought alien life back into the limelight.
Experts analysed official sightings from across the continent, documenting the frequency of sightings, duration, and UFO type being spotted.
Experts revealed that Europe has had 994 UFO sightings, all taking an average of 12 minutes. Unidentified flying discs are the most common type of UFO being seen.
Monaco is likely to offer the longest sightings for UFO enthusiasts, which last an average of 45 minutes. The most prevalent UFO type in Monaco is flying discs.
Liechtenstein comes second with UFO sightings lasting an average of 39 minutes. Most reporting witnesses claim to have observed a light formation moving in the sky.
Latvia and Ukraine follow behind in third and fourth position with sightings lasting an average of 24 minutes and 22 minutes, respectively.
Antarctica bombshell: Mars mineral found trapped in polar ice can link Earth to Red Planet
Antarctica bombshell: Mars mineral found trapped in polar ice can link Earth to Red Planet
ANTARCTICA researchers boring into the icy continent have stumbled upon particles of jarosite - a mineral so rare it is more likely to be found on Mars. Scientists now believe the discovery could draw a link between the Earth and Red Planet.
Antarctica's barren polar landscape hides a wealth of information trapped in its ice, thousands of feet below the surface. Scientists drill into the ice to learn about the past climates and the chemical composition of Earth's ancient atmosphere. But a team of researchers drilling a mile into the Antarctic ice came across something unexpected - a rare mineral more closely associated with Mars than it is with Earth.
The mineral jarosite is abundant on Mars, where the Red Planet's conditions were once just right for the mineral to form.
According to the US space agency NASA, the yellow-brownish mineral forms in the presence of water and acidic conditions.
Mars may no longer be wet and acidic but deposits of the mineral have been found below the surface.
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover was the first to detect jarosite on the Red Planet in 2004, and the mineral has since been found across multiple Martian locations.
"[To the best of my knowledge], for the first time a Martian geochemical process is investigated through an #Antarctic #icecore (please correct me if I'm wrong). So excited!"
The researcher and his team drilled one mile into East Antarctica in search of minerals that were not jarosite.
Instead, he stumbled upon unusual particles which upon closer inspection with X-rays were confirmed as the rare mineral.
However, the researchers only discovered trace amounts of the stuff - smaller than a grain of sand.
The key difference between the amount of jarosite found on Earth and Mars could be the amount of dust present.
Simply put, there is more raw material on the Red Planet for the mineral to form.
He said: "Mars is such a dusty place - everything is covered in dust."
More importantly, the discovery suggests jarosite on Earth formed in the same way it did on Mars and that could go a long way towards bridging the gap between the two planets.
Dr Baccolo said: "This is just the first step in linking deep Antarctic ice with the Martian environment."
Scientists boring more than a mile deep into Antarctic ice have unearthed a mineral that's rarely seen on Earth but found in abundance on Mars, Science Magazine reported.
The yellow-brown mineral, called jarosite, requires both water and acidic conditions to form, according to NASA — conditions that are hard to find now on the Red Planet. Nonetheless, after the Opportunity rover first discovered jarosite on Mars in 2004, the mineral turned up in several Martian locations, leaving scientists to wonder how the mineral became so common, Science reported.
Some theorized that, when ice covered the planet billions of years ago, dust containing the required minerals — iron, sulfate and potassium — may have been trapped inside.
"Mars is such a dusty place — everything is covered in dust," study author Giovanni Baccolo, a geologist at the University of Milan-Bicocca, told Science. But while ice could have provided the wet environment needed for acidic dust to transform into jarosite, scientists have never actually seen dust and ice chemically reacting to form the mineral.
But the discovery of jarosite particles locked in Antarctica's ice may support the theory, the researchers reported in a paper published Jan. 19 in the journal Nature Communications.
On Earth, jarosite is a rare mineral that crops up in mining waste exposed to air and rain, Science reported. It can also form near the vents of volcanoes, according to NASA. Baccolo and his colleagues never expected to find the mineral in Antarctica, he told Science; but when the team pulled a roughly mile-long (1,620 meters) ice core from the ground, they found trace particles of jarosite, smaller than grains of sand, buried in the deepest layers of the ice.
After examining the particles with an electron microscope, the team deduced that the jarosite had formed in pockets within the ice. This finding hints that the mineral formed in the same way on Mars, although on the Red Planet, jarosite appears in "meters-thick deposits," not as a few sparse grains, Megan Elwood Madden, a geochemist at The University of Oklahoma who was not involved with the research, told Science.
These ultra-thick slabs of jarosite may have formed on Mars because the Red Planet is far dustier than Antarctica, providing more raw material to form jarosite, Baccolo noted. "This is just the first step in linking deep Antarctic ice with the Martian environment," he said.
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