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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
31-03-2021
SpaceX, Shift4’s Inspiration4 mission reveals its final two crew members
SpaceX, Shift4’s Inspiration4 mission reveals its final two crew members
The crew for SpaceX and Shift4’s all-civilian Inspiration4 mission is now complete. The final two members of the groundbreaking mission were announced on Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Floria, where the Falcon 9 rocket carrying Inspiration4’s Crew Dragon capsule will be launching later this year.
Joining 38-year-old Shift4Payments CEO Jared Isaacman and 29-year-old physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux will be 41-year-old Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and educator working for Lockheed Martin, and 51-year-old Dr. Sian Proctor, an entrepreneur, educator, and trained pilot who has a passion for space.
As per Inspiration4’s website, Sembroski will represent the virtue of Generosity, and Dr. Proctor will represent Prosperity. Isaacman represents the virtue of Leadership, while Arceneaux represents the virtue of Hope.
In an interview with TODAY‘s Tom Costello, Dr. Proctor remarked that being selected for the Inspiration4 mission felt like “opening up the chocolate bar and seeing the golden ticket to Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.” She remarked that she had no worries about the mission at all, and that her reservations were actually more rooted in the prospect of the opportunity to go to space slipping by.
“I was more worried that this opportunity had slipped me by and I would never get the chance to go to space, but now here I am and that just shows you never give up because that moment for me is here… I’m ready. Just strap me in, let’s go!” she said.
As for Sembroski, launching from the Kennedy Space Center would be a rather symbolic experience. Twenty years ago, Sembroski showcased his passion for education and supporting passions by serving as a Space Camp counselor, an experience that he highlighted during his interview with TODAY.
“I’ve taken that experience with me to really drive the passion for getting kids to seek their passion in science and technology and really spark the interest in those fields by using space as that medium, and then ever since it’s stuck with me,” he said.
Isaacson, for his part, remarked that he is extremely excited for the Inspiration4 launch. “This is a very real moment, but I can’t help but be overwhelmed just thinking about all of the history that came before us here. That’s what’s going through my mind, like the astronauts climbing into the Apollo missions and Skylab and the space shuttle. It’s just so incredible to be here,” he said.
The Inspiration4 crew would now be undergoing intensive training for their upcoming mission, which is expected to launch sometime this fall. Previously, Isaacson has noted that Inspiration4 could launch around October, but in his recent interview with the US media outlet, he noted that the mission could launch before the end of September instead. Such a timetable would give the crew just about six months to get fully trained and ready for a multi-day trip to space about 335 miles above Earth.
Watch TODAY’s segment on Inspiration4’s completed crew in the video below.
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St. Helens, Merseyside Woman Snaps a Possible Alien Creature
St. Helens, Merseyside Woman Snaps a Possible Alien Creature
Mellisa Braham, a St. Helens resident, reported seeing a tiny humanoid-shaped figure on February 26 Friday. It was her birthday recently, and as a gift, she received a new smartphone. Seeing it was a lovely afternoon on Friday, she decided to take her dog for a walk with her new phone to test out the camera.
She took several video clips and photographs at different resolutions. Later on in the evening, she uploaded the pictures to her PC to look at them.
When looking through the still photos, she noticed one of them showing what looks like a small humanoid-shaped figure walking from right to left.
Initially, she could not tell if the object was a tiny living and breathing being of some kind, but after she enlarged the photo, she saw what resembled a bipedal being with a head, eye, body, arms, legs, hands, and feet.
She said the object in the picture reflects sunlight and also casts a shadow on the ground and doesn’t look like a bird, rat, squirrel, or any other kind of animal.
Mellisa doesn’t rule out that the object could be something of nothing, something mundane captured at a weird angle or just a trick of the light, making it look extraordinary. She sent the photo to several experts and researchers to analyse and know what they make of it.
The picture was snapped at full resolution, 12 MP, camera set to fully automatic, and no zoom used. It was taken when the weather was dry, mild, and sunny at 16:05 between the Victoria park entrance and the now-demolished healthcare centre on Cowley Hill Lane, St. Helens, Merseyside, UK.
The Lost Pacific Continent of Advanced Human Beings... Did It Really Exist?
The Lost Pacific Continent of Advanced Human Beings... Did It Really Exist?
According to Churchward, the lost Pacific continent of Mu "extended from somewhere north of Hawaii to the south as far as the Fijis and Easter Island."
He claimed Mu was the site of the Garden of Eden and the home of 64,000,000 inhabitants known as the Naacals.
Its civilization, which flourished 50,000 years before Churchward's day, was technologically more advanced than his own, and the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt and the Mayas were merely the decayed remnants of its colonies.
Could this strange land and advanced human's have really existed?
Silver UFO flying strangely slowly over Saint Paul, Minnesota, next, a glowing Orb flew in and stayed for 2 hours over Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Then a blinking light flashing in a triangle over Florence, Montana, the lights were flashing like they were going in a pattern around a saucer shape metallic craft and a huge cylinder shaped anomaly near the sun appears and disappears within a second.
Features called recurring slope lineae (RSL) are found on some Martian slopes in warmer months. Red arrows point out an RSL in this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera system on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
(Image credit: A. McEwen/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona)
Mars' bizarre dark streaks may not be so astrobiologically intriguing after all.
Those streaks, known as recurring slope lineae, were discovered in 2011 by scientists studying imagery captured by the powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
As their name suggests, recurring slope lineae, or RSL for short, are found on Red Planet slopes. The marks creep down steep inclines, especially in Mars' southern hemisphere, during warm times of the year and fade away as the weather cools.
These characteristics led scientists to speculate that the dark marks could be caused by salty liquid water flowing or seeping through the red dirt, in spots that get warm enough for some of Mars' plentiful subsurface ice to melt. That exciting hypothesis got a boost in 2015, when data gathered by MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer instrument, or CRISM, revealed the apparent signature of hydrated salts at some RSL locales. That's just what you'd expect to see after briny liquid had evaporated away.
But the liquid-water explanation has been losing favor over the last few years. For example, a 2018 study cast serious doubt on the CRISM find, suggesting that the supposed hydrated-salt fingerprint was actually an artifact of data processing. And researchers have been finding more and more evidence, from both experimental and modeling work, that dry landslides are etching the dark marks into warm Martian slopes.
The team, led by HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen, counted 150 active RSL sites during the year of the dust storm, compared to an annual average of just 36 in the six previous years. (The years here are Mars years, each of which lasts about 687 Earth days.)
"There are clear dust devil tracks in 73% of post‐storm images in the southern middle latitudes in the summer, where and when dust devils are most active," the researchers wrote in the study.
"The tracks indicate dust lifting, by several mechanisms," they added. "We suggest that dust lifting processes on steep slopes may initiate and sustain RSL formed from flows of dust (perhaps clumped) and/or sand that is destabilized by dust movement."
McEwen discussed the recent study last Thursday (March 25) during a presentation at the 2021 Spring Meeting of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's Committee on Planetary Protection. (Planetary protection refers to efforts to avoid contaminating other worlds with microbes from Earth, and to prevent potential alien bugs from getting a foothold on our planet.)
He also gave an overview of the decade-long history of RSL research, which he said now points strongly toward dry explanations for the dark features.
"None of the wet hypotheses have survived, in my opinion," said McEwen, who's based at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
He also said he doesn't believe that RSL sites should be regarded as "special regions" — locales that might be capable of supporting Earth life and are therefore off-limits to exploration by all but the most rigorously sterilized spacecraft.
If that view becomes the consensus, it will be easier for NASA and other space agencies to send rovers to RSL sites and study the mysterious features up close. But consensus has not yet been reached; the new study, while suggestive, doesn't slam the door on the wet-RSL hypothesis.
"These debates will continue," McEwen 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.
The company today (March 30) unveiled its second piloted space plane, a shiny silver vehicle called VSS Imagine.
Like Virgin Galactic's other spacecraft, VSS Unity, VSS Imagine is designed to take people and scientific experiments to and from suborbital space. However, the newcomer is the first of the next-generation SpaceShip III line, which features upgrades that will "enable improved performance in terms of maintenance access and flight rate," company representatives wrote in a statement today.
Virgin Galactic unveiled its first SpaceShip III vehicle, VSS Imagine, on March 30, 2021. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic)
The SpaceShip III design also features a change that, while dramatic, is merely skin-deep — a mirror-like livery that reflects the vehicle's surroundings, from the ground all the way up to space and back.
"As a SpaceShip III class of vehicle, Imagine is not just beautiful to look at but represents Virgin Galactic's growing fleet of spaceships," Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, said in a statement today.
"All great achievements, creations and changes start with an idea," the billionaire entrepreneur added. "Our hope is for all those who travel to space to return with fresh perspectives and new ideas that will bring positive change to our planet."
VSS Unity is a SpaceShipTwo vehicle. SpaceShipOne, the design pioneer, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 after making two crewed flights to suborbital space and back within a two-week span.
Unity and Imagine are two-pilot, six-passenger space planes designed to lift off beneath the wings of a carrier aircraft, which drops them at an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 meters). At that point, each spacecraft's onboard rocket motor lights up, blasting it up to suborbital space.
VSS Imagine has the same basic body plan as Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity, a SpaceShipTwo vehicle. But the new space plane features some performance-enhancing upgrades, as well as a different, mirror-like livery. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic)
Virgin Galactic passengers won't circle Earth like astronauts aboard the International Space Station do. But they will get to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curve of Earth against the blackness of space. More than 600 people have booked a ride to date, at a price (most recently) of $250,000 per seat, company representatives have said.
Unity and Imagine are at Spaceport America in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic's commercial hub. Unity is in the final stages of its test campaign and is expected to launch on another suborbital test mission — its third spaceflight overall but first from Spaceport America — this May, company representatives said.
VSS Imagine and a tow vehicle outside Virgin Galactic's hangar at Spaceport America in New Mexico. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic)
It will be Unity's second crack at its third spaceflight. The previous attempt, in December 2020, was aborted after a faulty computer connection prevented Unity's onboard rocket motor from firing up as planned. Pilots C.J. Sturckow and Dave Mackay brought the vehicle down for a safe landing at Spaceport America shortly thereafter.
Imagine will begin ground tests soon and will take to the sky for unpowered "glide flights" this summer, if all goes according to plan, Virgin Galactic representatives said.
And Virgin Galactic will continue to build out its growing fleet. The company's manufacturing subsidiary, The Spaceship Company, continues assembling a third spacecraft at its headquarters in Mojave, California. (Unity's first two spaceflights lifted off from the nearby Mojave Air and Space Port.) We learned today that this third vehicle is a SpaceShip III, and that it will be called VSS Inspire.
VSS Imagine could begin unpowered "glide flights" this summer. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic)
"VSS Imagine and Inspire are stunning ships that will take our future astronauts on an incredible voyage to space, and their names reflect the aspirational nature of human spaceflight," Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier said in the same statement. "Congratulations to our dedicated team who worked so brilliantly to achieve this milestone."
There could be yet more space planes to come as well. Virgin Galactic's hangar at Spaceport America can fit five space planes and two carrier aircraft simultaneously, company representatives have said.
Virgin Galactic isn't the only major player in the suborbital space tourism business. Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company, Blue Origin, is developing a rocket-capsule combo called New Shepard, which already has more than a dozen uncrewed test flights under its belt.
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.
Thanks to author J. R. R. Tolkien and filmmaker Peter Jackson, just about everyone knows what a Hobbit is and many people wish they could meet one. Of course, these are the imaginary humanoids about half the size of humans, not the real archaic humans Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensi, the tiny hominids nicknamed ‘hobbits’ that lived on the islands of Luzon and Flores in southeast Asia until about 50,000 years ago – which means they could have met early humans. Based on the amount of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA modern humans carry, it could also mean that these early humans could have had sex with the hobbits. Did they? A new study set out to find out, and in the process revealed more about the mysterious rumored ‘southern Denisovans’.
No, not this kind of hobbit
“There are no ‘first-hand’ genomes of the kind we have from Neanderthals and Denisovans, but there are ‘second-hand’ bits of DNA in the Denisovan genomes that seem to come from them having interbred with a super-archaic population. These can be recognised by their greater-than-average divergence within the genome and also, if there has been recent interbreeding, the strands of DNA will have been shuffled up less, and hence found in larger and more ‘pristine’ chunks.”
The new study, co-authored by anthropologist Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum in London and published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, points out that there is no DNA from Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensi but previous research of Neanderthals and Denisovans has helped researchers identify evidence of interbreeding between species. Because their existence overlapped with humans on the islands in southern Asia, Springer told Gizmodo he and the team believed they’d find that evidence.
“Conversely, we found no evidence that the ancestors of present-day Island Southeast Asia populations interbred with either of the two hominin species for which we do have fossil evidence in this region: H. floresiensis from Flores, Indonesia, and H. luzonensis from Luzon in the Philippines.”
In an article in The Conversation, study lead João Teixeira from the University of Adelaide gives the disappointing result of the research – no sex. However, this means that these two hobbits may actually be related to a different missing link – the mysterious ‘southern Denisovans’. They’re considered mysterious because no Denisovan fossils have been found on the islands despite a high concentration of their DNA in modern inhabitants. Even with the lure of sex, it’s a long, cold journey north from Island Southeast Asia to Siberia, where their namesake Denisova Cave is. Teixeira thinks this means their fossils might be on another island — Sulawesi, where stone tools have been found, and Australia are two possibilities.
Where’s the hobbit women?
“Alternatively, we may need to rethink our interpretation of the hominin fossils already discovered in Island Southeast Asia.”
“But perhaps Denisovans were much more diverse in size and shape than we realised, meaning we might conceivably have found them in Island Southeast Asia already but labelled them with a different name.”
In other words, H. floresiensis and H. luzonensis could be misidentified hobbit Denisovans. And most importantly, there could have been plenty of hobbit-human sex – we just haven’t found the fossils yet.
You may know Jerome Clark as a former editor of Fate magazine, or as the author of “Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America” and other books, or co-author (with Loren Coleman) of “Cryptozoology A to Z”, or from his many television appearances discussing the subject of UFOs. However, none of those things nor his other noteworthy accomplishments in the field of UFO research will get him as much exposure and notoriety as a few sections in his latest seven-volume collection, “The UFO Phenomenon,” which covers UFO reports from 543 BCE to present times. (Note: this series is an updated Kindle version of the “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon From The Beginning” which was first published in 1998.) In particular, “UFOs in the Late 20th Century and the New Era 1991–2020 (The UFO Phenomenon Book 7)” has already made headlines for Clarke’s revelation that by his count a total of 212 people have been abducted by aliens since 2014 for the purpose of sex.
“Abductions can happen anywhere and may last anything from 20 minutes to five days. The usual duration is one to three hours. Most happen at night. A key procedure is inspection of the reproductive organs, often followed by extraction of sperm or eggs.”
That sounds pretty clinical, and in fact many stories of sexual encounters between humans and extraterrestrials emphasize that, even if the intercourse was consented to and the alien was sexually attractive, the experience was generally not pleasurable. That sexual attractiveness in some other cases is what apparently drew The Sun to Clark for an interview.
“Their usual dress is a coverall or one-piece jumpsuit, often skintight, perhaps even so snug that the beings appear (or are) nude.”
In the chapter titled “Khoury Case,” Clark describes the experiences of Peter Khoury, the head of Media at Australian news company NMRA, who claimed his 1992 abduction involved having two nude blonde aliens kneeling on his bed, one of whom engaged in foreplay before attempting to have sex – a failed attempt that allegedly left him with a few blonde hairs for evidence. According to the review, the hair was analyzed and found to be a hybrid of Asian and Gaelic advanced DNA.
Clark doesn’t ignore really close encounters of the female kind. The review tells the account of a woman from Indianapolis who told Clark aliens impregnated her while she was on a cruise ship (Earthly, not alien), returned a few month later for the fetus, and again to introduce her to her hybrid daughter.
In the sample of the Kindle book on Amazon, Clark tells of Antonio Villas Boas, who claimed he was abducted in 1958 by many small beings who “dragged him inside a landed UFO, drew blood samples and left him in a room where he had sexual relations with an almost-human female.” To show how times have changed, Clark shares that the “few ufologists who knew of this report kept it hidden in a plain brown envelope of secrecy” because of the damage inter-species sex would do to the field. However, stories of alien abductions picked up in the latter half of the 1960s and today this kind of sex is almost mandatory in TV and movie alien encounters.
Mock-up of a close encounter of a sexual kind with an alien
Did that teaser interview in The Sun have you breathing heavily for more alien sex stories? Clark’s seven-volume set was released on Kindle last week, and there’s no requirement to start from the beginning – you can skip right to the good parts in Volume 7. However, based on Clark’s large body of reputable books on UFOs, extraterrestrials, cryptozoology, and other strange creatures of the paranormal world, it would certainly be enjoyable and enlightening to start at Volume 1, page 1, in 543 BCE
Just about everyone has heard of the Roswell, New Mexico “crashed UFO” affair of early July 1947. However, what about the fabricated crashed UFO stories designed – in the early years of the Cold War – to try and make the Russians believe the West had its hands on extraterrestrial technology? Maybe, even highly advanced alien weaponry. There’s no doubt at all that many of the 1950s-1960s-era stories of crashed UFOs were nothing but creations of skillful figures in the Pentagon and the CIA. Today, I’ll share with you two such examples. One of the most controversial UFO events occurred (or didn’t) in Hart Canyon, Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948. In many respects, the case can be seen as Roswell’s “little brother.” An alien spacecraft was said to have crashed in the canyon, killing the diminutive creatures inside, who were whisked away by the military. See what I mean about the Roswell parallels? Writer Frank Scully was so enamored by the story he wrote his very own, full-length book on the subject in 1950 titled Behind the Flying Saucers. It became a smash-hit. Working along with Scully was a man named Silas Newton. He was a conman, millionaire, oil entrepreneur, and someone who had crossed paths with both the cops and the FBI on a few occasions, mainly because of his intricate plots to swindle just about anyone he could. Newton knew the UFO subject was taking off, so he thought of ways to earn money from it – which is why he got chummy with Scully.
By his own admittance, and a couple of years after the Aztec story surfaced in Frank Scully’s book, Newton was clandestinely visited by two representatives of “a highly secret U.S. Government entity,” as it was worded. Those same agents of the military told Newton, in no uncertain terms, they knew his Aztec story was nonsense. Amazingly, however, they wanted Newton to keep telling the tale to just about anyone and everyone who would listen. This caused CIA guy, Karl Pflock, to ponder on an amazing possibility: “Was this actually nothing to do with real saucers but instead some sort of psychological warfare operation [italics mine]?” There’s no doubt that Pflock was right on target: Newton was used to help spread the word that, yes, UFOs had fallen to Earth and the U.S. military had the technology. But, it was all a big, successful ruse. There were no crashed UFOs and no alien technology – but, the plot worked and had the Russians deeply concerned. Now, let’s take a look at another case – and another hoax.
For years, stories have surfaced to the effect that in 1952 – the same year Silas Newton got that strange visit from the U.S. military – a UFO slammed to the ground on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. Particularly interesting is a National Security Agency document that tells the story of the fatal crash and the recovery of a craft from another planet. The NSA’s copy of this previously-classified document is very slightly different to copies of the same document that have been declassified by the U.S. Air Force, the Department of State, and the U.S. Army. Someone in the NSA – unfortunately, we don’t know who – identified the Spitsbergen story in the document as being a “plant.” As for who secretly seeded the story, and why, well, that’s another matter entirely. Maybe, U.S. intelligent agents planted the story to try and further have the Russians believe that the U.S. government was back-engineering extraterrestrial spacecraft, when it really wasn’t. On the other hand, the “planters” may have been the Soviets themselves, trying to achieve something almost identical, but aimed squarely at the White House, the CIA, and the Pentagon. Jack Brewer, who runs TheUFO Trail blog, says of all this amazing chicanery concerning the Spitsbergen saucer saga of 1952: “It should be a forgone conclusion at this point that the UFO topic was exploited by the global intelligence community for a variety of purposes from one operation and era to the next. The consequences might indeed be significant and far-reaching.”
In October of last year, it was reported that asteroid Apophis (nicknamed the “God of Chaos”) was picking up speed and may end up crashing into Earth in the year 2068. This was quite concerning as the asteroid measures over 1,100 feet in width (335 meters) and would have caused a catastrophic impact equivalent of 880 million tons of TNT.
But now, according to new orbit analysis and calculations, NASA has stated that the asteroid will not hit Earth in 2068 and it won’t impact our planet for at least a hundred years. It will pass by us at a fairly close range in 2029 and 2036 but with no possibility of an impact. In fact, on April 13, 2029, Apophis will travel by us at a distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). Those living in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with the naked eye and astronomers will have an excellent opportunity of studying it in greater detail.
Astronomers confirmed these new calculations when Apophis recently flew by us. They used strong radar observations in order to determine its orbit around the sun and that’s how they were able to say with confidence that it won’t pose any type of threat to us for at least a century.
Apophis’ trajectory when it will pass by Earth on April 13, 2029.
Davide Farnocchia, who is from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) which is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, reiterated this by stating, “A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore, and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years,” adding, “With the support of recent optical observations and additional radar observations, the uncertainty in Apophis’ orbit has collapsed from hundreds of kilometers to just a handful of kilometers when projected to 2029. This greatly improved knowledge of its position in 2029 provides more certainty of its future motion, so we can now remove Apophis from the risk list.”
As for the equipment they used to make these new calculations, astronomers used the 70-meter (230-foot) radio antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California to track the asteroid’s orbit. JPL scientist Marina Brozovic explained this further, “Although Apophis made a recent close approach with Earth, it was still nearly 10.6 million miles [17 million kilometers] away. Even so, we were able to acquire incredibly precise information about its distance to an accuracy of about 150 meters [490 feet].”
With the new calculations confirmed, astronomers are now hoping that their data will reveal the true shape of Apophis as it’s currently unclear what it actually looks like although previous radar observations have indicated that it has a “bilobed” or “peanut-like” shape.
Radar images of Apophis taken in early March.
They’re also looking at the asteroid’s rotation rate and axis in order to figure out what kind of effect our planet’s gravitational field will have on it when it passes by us in 2029.
A simulation depicting Apophis’ 2029 approach to Earth can be seen here.
Strange lights caught on camera in Montana, United States, 1952. Angels? What is it?
Strange lights caught on camera in Montana, United States, 1952. Angels? What is it?
In Montana, 1952, residents have been thrown into a fright after a bizarre story emerged regarding peoples being scared at a street location by what has been described as a “strange lights”.
That and more strange events caught on tape. Real or fake? Video here:
Massive Tic-Tac Decloaking Captured From The ISS! NASA Explain This! 2021
Massive Tic-Tac Decloaking Captured From The ISS! NASA Explain This! 2021
MASSIVE TIC-TAC Decloaking Captured From The ISS! NASA Explain This! 2021
It looks like the ground opened up as it was landing. Than after it landed they closed the rocky doors. Look at the ground carefully as it lands the rocks are closing and attaching to each other. Herm
Looking at this “tic tac” Blake, it almost looks like it is being swallowed up into the ground. LD
Huge Mothership Captured On Video Over Major City! Watch Now 2021
Huge Mothership Captured On Video Over Major City! Watch Now 2021
Huge Mothership Captured On Video Over Major City! Watch Now 2021
Tried buying countdown to disclosure last night , YouTube said it wasnt available 😞 Maybe today I’ll get lucky ,, it’s so nice to finally find a group who wants to know and get the truth about what’s really going on, Thank you. LJ
I notice the orange light has an obvious glare to it, perhaps because of a smear on the camera lens. That effect should be duplicated on the lights in the object, but isn’t which is odd. VL
Russian Astronaut Films Clear Massive UFO from ISS
Russian Astronaut Films Clear Massive UFO from ISS
Recently, a Russian Astronaut Filmed Clear Massive UFO Mothership type craft from NASA ISS while doing a time-lapse of the northern lights – There are more strange sightings Caught on Tape in 2021 than ever before. What are these UFO?
Date of sighting: March 20, 2021 Location of sighting: Sacramento, California, USA
Guys, the last time I saw this shape of UFO it was when the Chile Military released a recording of a similar shaped object that they tracked and recoded. I will place that video below. This object is moving and it's of a shape that is not a kite, drone, plane, helicopter, balloon or anything that could be mistaken for a UFO. This is unique and I believe it's intelligently controlled by an alien pilot. The shape of the craft is unbalanced...which validates my theory that some UFOs are grown, because its faster and easier. This is 100% proof that UFOs are passing over California like they own it! But then again, maybe they do, but were never told.
Black Triangle UFO Over Pasadena California On March 17, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black Triangle UFO Over Pasadena California On March 17, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 17, 2021 Location of sighting: Pasadena, California, USA
This eyewitness was in Pasadena, CA when they noticed a black triangle object overhead. They managed to record almost three full minutes of this strange object. The triangle rotates its position as it slowly moves over them. It has two longer sides and one shorter side and almost looks like the hypersonic missile that the USAF has created, except this was hovering and moving very slowly. The object rotates, stops rotating and then rotates a different direction. As if it were looking around, taking in the full scope the view has to offer. This is absolutely a UFO, but why its allowing itself to be seen is anyones guess. But my best hypothesis is that this craft is monitoring the covid infections and immunizations of the humans below in order to assess future predictions of events.
A ranch in Mexico has suffered immense and violent losses this winter, and locals reportedly fear that the mythical "Chupacabra" is behind it. The Chupacabra is a cryptid of urban legend not unlike the Bigfoot in the U.S. After 18 sheep were killed at the Santa Lucia ranch, farmers reportedly fear the stories may be true.
The Santa Lucia ranch has lost 18 sheep since Christmas day, according to a report by The Daily Star. It is located in the municipality of Medellin de Bravo in Veracruz, and veterinarians say there are no native predators capable of wreaking this kind of havoc. The bite marks and wounds on the animals were not consistent with coyotes, lynxes or even dogs in the area. Graphic photos published by the Star show the wounds themselves.
The 18 deaths are spread across four separate attacks so far — Dec. 25, Dec. 28, Jan. 12 and Feb. 21. Locals reportedly fell back on fears of a mythical Chupacabra, which goes back decades in local urban legend. In the stories, the Chupacabra — literally "goat sucker" — feeds on livestock, depriving human ranchers of their food source. Trying to intervene in its feeding is even more dangerous, they say.
The first supposed sighting of the Chupacabra was in 1995 in Puerto Rico, but the creature was soon credited with several other livestock killings of the past. The creature has been allegedly sighted all over Central America and the Caribbean, and even as far north as Maine in the U.S. In these instances, it is sometimes conflated with other cryptids like the Jersey Devil, Bigfoot or Dogman.
Speculation about cryptids and cryptozoology is in vogue at the moment, with people on social media excitedly discussing various alleged sightings and up-and-coming theories. Last month, cryptozoology enthusiast Lee Solway launched a new podcast called When Cryptids Call, where listeners are invited to call in and share their stories of encounters.
Some of the accounts from the podcast have gone viral, particularly Colin Keelty's description of the "Dogman." Keelty had no less than five encounters with the creature, seeking it out a times. Stories of the Dogman go back to at least the 1600s in parts of England, and Keelty noted that only 30 percent of the country is urbanized. The rest if farmland or, in many cases, wilderness.
"I like to think these things are real, but I'm open-minded about the supernatural," Keelty said. "I do really think these things move about the country through green belts. I've had loads of stories of factories where there's a green belt out the back and something's gone crashing through, something large that we can't explain — bigger than a deer, massive and black."
WHY IS THE PENTAGON RELEASING A UFO REPORT, ANYWAY?
WHY IS THE PENTAGON RELEASING A UFO REPORT, ANYWAY?
Five answers for your need-to-know questions.
THE TRUTH MAY (SOON) BE OUT THERE.
People anticipating the release of the upcoming government report on unidentified aerial phenomena (or unidentified flying objects for old-schoolers) have even more reason to rejoice:former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe said in an interview that the report would contain information on “difficult to explain” sightings.
In an interview this month with Fox News, Ratcliffe said:
“We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for or are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
The Pentagon report is set to be released on June 1. As conversations around UFO sightings swarm the internet, Inverse breaks down what to expect from the upcoming report and how to separate fact from fiction.
5.WHAT IS THIS UFO REPORT GOING TO SHOW?
In December 2020, the government enacted the Intelligence Authorization Act, which called for the release of an unclassified and all-sources report on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) — the official military term used for unidentified flying objects. The act was included in the mammoth appropriations bill that also included financial aid checks for people living with the economic fallout from Covid-19.
The report will include a thorough analysis of
Available data
Intelligence reporting on UAPs
It will be presented to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on UAPs.
Sarah Scoles, science journalist and author of the book They Are Already Here on UFO culture, says that it remains unclear how much of the report will be made public.
“A large portion of it is supposed to be unclassified, but that doesn't mean necessarily that we will get to see it,” Scoles tells Inverse. “Its mandate is essentially to lay out what we know and don't know about unidentified aerial phenomena, specifically around military installations.”
The report may also lay the groundwork for figuring out what to do with the information that has been released and provide a way to systemize information that may be available in the future, according to Scoles.
This 1951 Riverside, California UFO sighting is among many compiled in a US Air Force report called Project Blue Book, the first large-scale government investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena. National Archives, Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force (Air Staff)
4.WHEN IS THE UFO REPORT BEING RELEASED?
In accordance with the newly signed act, the government is required to release the report within 180 days, giving it a deadline of June 1. There’s a chance it could come sooner. It could also be delayed, reports theWashington Post:
When Trump approved the spending package on Dec. 27, a 180-day countdown began, giving intelligence officials until June to deliver lawmakers their write-up.
However, two factors might delay the report’s release: Agencies have missed similar congressional reporting deadlines in the past; and the provision is not technically binding, as the language was included in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the bill, not the bill itself.
“In other words, it isn’t statute, but the agencies/departments generally treat report language as bill language,” said one senior Senate aide familiar with the legislation.
3.WHAT MEDIA IS GOING TO BE IN THE UFO REPORT?
On April 27, 2020, the Pentagon formally released three videos taken by US Navy pilots that show an "unidentified aerial phenomenon."
The footage shows a cluster of odd-looking aircraft flying with unidentified maneuvers, unlike anything the NAVY pilots had seen before as one of them can be heard in the video exclaiming,
"What the f--k is that?"
By releasing the videos, the Pentagon declassified the footage and made it officially available to the public, but didn’t publicly speculate on the nature of the strange craft seen in the video.
Ratcliffe says in the interview that there are a lot more sightings than have been made public, adding that “some of those have been declassified.”
“And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by NAVY or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that, frankly, engage in actions that are difficult to explain,” he adds.
2.WHY IS THE UFO REPORT SO DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN?
When the Pentagon officially released the footage of the unidentified aircraft last year, the agency admitted that the videos aren’t exactly sure what is going on in the video, and that they cannot explain how the crafts are able to pull such maneuvers.
It remains unclear whether the government believes these to be sightings of foreign aircrafts using technologies unfamiliar to the United States, or whether they believe the craft are not of this world.7
Area 51 has, for several decades, been the center of alien conspiracy theories. Surrounding towns have taken advantage of this by theming themselves around the secretive government base in Groom Lake, Nevada. Getty Images
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, is skeptical about the content of the report.
“It’ll be ambiguous” Shostak tells Inverse. “The Navy, I'm sure, is not going to come out and say, ‘these are alien crafts,’ and if they do, I will dine on my hat.”
However, Shostak believes that the government’s main interest in the footage is whether it poses some sort of security threat.
“They just want to know whether these are Chinese aircraft or Russian aircraft or drones, something in aerospace that they don't know about,” Shostak says. “I think that's what motivates them.”
1.WILL THE UFO REPORT ADMIT THERE ARE ALIENS?
Here is when it gets tricky.
The report has not been released yet, and online alien enthusiasts are already rejoicing that this is the “big one” where proof of extraterrestrial life will finally be released to the public.
But that may still be difficult to prove, even if footage showing unidentified flying objects is released to the public.
This 1954 photo taken by US Coast Guard photographer Shell R. Alpert purportedly shows unidentified craft over Salem, Massachusetts. United States Coast Guard
The report will not likely pin down a source for these events, according to Scoles.
The language being used by former officials such as Ratcliffe in recent interviews implies “a non-US and non-foreign origin for what they're seeing and what you're left with is not us or them, it’s something outside of Earth,” Scoles says.
And while many scientists believe that life does exist beyond Earth, they are more than skeptical that this form of extraterrestrial life, assuming that it is intelligent, would drop by our home planet in these unexpected ways.
“I believe there are plenty of aliens out there,” Shostak says. “I just don't think that they're trying to tease our top guns.”
NASA Scientist Trolls Us Saying They Are Close To Finding Alien Life, But Russia Already Found It! UFO Sighting News.
En vidéo : 10 mystères inexpliqués de l'Univers
Emma Hollen - Journaliste scientifique
En dépit de millénaires d'avancées scientifiques, de nombreuses questions demeurent encore sans réponse quant au fonctionnement de notre monde. Voici 10 mystères inexpliqués concernant le fonctionnement de l'Univers.
Le mystère est à la fois le moteur et la plus grande frustration de la recherche, poussant les scientifiques à toujours explorer plus loin, à répondre à la cascade de questionnements supplémentaires que déclenche inévitablement l'obtention d'une réponse. Son magnétisme est presque tangible lorsque l'on se penche sur des questions fondamentales comme le sens de notre existence dans l'Univers, l'apparition de la vie, ou encore la fabrique du temps.
Le scientifique face au mystérieux
Richard Feynman était sans aucun doute l'un des scientifiques et pédagogue les plus brillants de son époque. En dépit d'une personnalité controversée et de son implication dans le projet Manhattan, son héritage vit encore dans l'esprit des chercheurs et des étudiants de physique. Parmi les nombreux discours par lesquels il a su transmettre son amour pour la science et son esprit critique, on trouve celui tenu lors de sa célèbre série d'interviews avec la BBC, dont voici un extrait :
« Je pense qu'il est bien plus intéressant de vivre sans certitude qu'avec des réponses qui pourraient être erronées. J'ai des réponses approximatives et de possibles croyances, ainsi que différents degrés d'incertitude au sujet de bien des choses, mais je ne suis absolument sûr de rien du tout, et il existe de nombreuses choses au sujet desquelles je ne connais rien, comme la question du sens de notre existence. Je n'ai pas besoin de connaître la réponse. Je ne redoute pas de ne pas savoir des choses, perdu dans un univers mystérieux sans but précis, ce qu'il est, pour autant que je puisse en juger. Ce ne me fait pas peur.»
Nous ne nous exprimerons pas quant au but de l'Univers, mais force est de lui reconnaître ce caractère mystérieux dont parle Feynman. Ce dernier siècle, les découvertes se sont suivies à un rythme toujours plus effréné : la vérification de la théorie de la relativité, la découverte de la matière et de l'énergie noires, de l'expansion de l'Univers ou du fond diffus cosmologique, la détection du boson de Higgs et des ondes gravitationnelle ont tous apporté de nouvelles pièces à l'édifice de notre compréhension et ouvert des portes sur des questionnements toujours plus profonds, avec l'espoir qu'un jour, toutes ces portes ne mèneront plus qu'à une seule.
Top Univers
La rencontre apocalyptique entre une étoile et un trou noir
La théorie des cordes, la musique de l'univers ?
Peut-on créer des minitrous noirs sur Terre ?
Un trou noir pourrait-il entrer en collision avec la Terre?
A few nights ago I was talking with a friend about the notorious Majestic 12 documents – and the matter of how they entered into the public domain. Whether you buy into the Majestic 12 issue or not (I don’t), the story behind the papers is a fascinating one. Exactly two weeks before Christmas Day 1984, a package appeared on the doorstep of the home of a man named Jaime Shandera. He was a friend and colleague of Bill Moore (co-author with Charles Berlitz of the 1980 book, The Roswell Incident), and someone who was heavily into UFOs, too. The envelope contained camera-film of a document that told the story of a secret group established by the U.S. government, following the Roswell crash of July 1947. It went by various permutations, the most popular in the UFO research arena being Majestic 12. The document showed the government had dead aliens hidden away. Extraterrestrial wreckage had been recovered by the U.S. military. Autopsies on the disturbingly-looking humanoids from far away – with their black eyes, large heads, and skinny bodies – were quickly undertaken. No-one knew what should be done. No-one knew how to keep the public and the press away from the incredible finding. Everything was top secret, as the documentation made very clear. If the documents were the real thing, of course.
Moore and Shandera – and, soon, Stan Friedman, too – quickly got together to scrutinize the material. Such was the perceived deep concern for what they had got a hold of, the trio decided the wisest approach was to say nothing – not a single thing – to anyone. The three continued to quietly research the documents – genuine or faked. Things altered quickly in 1987. That’s when something occurred that was totally out of the hands of the team. It was the last thing they needed. As the investigations into Majestic 12 continued on, rumors began to circulate that an English UFO writer, Timothy Good, had gotten copies of the same papers that Moore, Shandera and Friedman had kept so quiet since 1984. As for how Good got his versions, that’s still a mystery to this day. I should note there are vague claims, though, that Good’s supply came from someone with links to the CIA.
The handover of the papers to Good was said to have occurred in March 1987. Of more concern for the three men in a quandary, however, was not so much who gave Good the documents, but that he was about to have a new book published, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up. Sidgwick & Jackson was the company; a highly respected publishing company with an ability to make Good’s book a big hit. The goal was achieved. The book became a bestseller in the U.K. And guess what? Sidgwick & Jackson just about managed to get the Majestic 12 documents in the pages of Above Top Secret before Good’s book went to print. Two months after Good’s CIA insider provided him the documents, the London Observer newspaper mentioned it. The date of the article was May 31, 1987. Written by Martin Bailey it had the lengthy title of “Close encounters of an alien kind – and now if you’ve read enough about the election, here’s news from another world.”
In no time, Moore, Shandera and Friedman chose to release their copies into the public domain, which is hardly surprising, given that word of the Majestic 12 papers was now starting to trickle and circulate outside of the confines of the trio. This was completely understandable: the three had done all of the groundwork, and the very last thing they wanted now was to be written out of the story – or, at the absolute least, left marginalized and sitting frustratingly on the sidelines. And who should have died in May 1987, just when the Majestic 12 documents were about to surface? The CIA’s James Jesus Angleton, a powerful character said to have been plugged-in to the government’s UFO secrets. Lung-cancer was the cause. Angleton was sixty-nine. Strangely, also in May 1987 a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon – an employee of the CIA who wrote sci-fi under the alias of James Tiptree – took her life. Her husband’s life, too. Sheldon is believed to have created a faked UFO document – to freak out the Russians – in the 1960s called the “Serpo” documents. It tells a story that mirrors certain portions of the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Specifically, the final stages of the movie in which Richard Dreyfuss’ character of Roy Neary is taken away by aliens.
The story directly above shows that questionable UFO documents have been circulating around since the 1980s. Should we view them as hoaxes or of no particular value or importance? Or, are greater agendas at work? That’s a question I’ll answer in another article.
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A few nights ago I was talking with a friend about the notorious Majestic 12 documents – and the matter of how they entered into the public domain. Whether you buy into the Majestic 12 issue or not (I don’t), the story behind the papers is a fascinating one. Exactly two weeks before Christmas Day 1984, a package appeared on the doorstep of the home of a man named Jaime Shandera. He was a friend and colleague of Bill Moore (co-author with Charles Berlitz of the 1980 book, The Roswell Incident), and someone who was heavily into UFOs, too. The envelope contained camera-film of a document that told the story of a secret group established by the U.S. government, following the Roswell crash of July 1947. It went by various permutations, the most popular in the UFO research arena being Majestic 12. The document showed the government had dead aliens hidden away. Extraterrestrial wreckage had been recovered by the U.S. military. Autopsies on the disturbingly-looking humanoids from far away – with their black eyes, large heads, and skinny bodies – were quickly undertaken. No-one knew what should be done. No-one knew how to keep the public and the press away from the incredible finding. Everything was top secret, as the documentation made very clear. If the documents were the real thing, of course.
Moore and Shandera – and, soon, Stan Friedman, too – quickly got together to scrutinize the material. Such was the perceived deep concern for what they had got a hold of, the trio decided the wisest approach was to say nothing – not a single thing – to anyone. The three continued to quietly research the documents – genuine or faked. Things altered quickly in 1987. That’s when something occurred that was totally out of the hands of the team. It was the last thing they needed. As the investigations into Majestic 12 continued on, rumors began to circulate that an English UFO writer, Timothy Good, had gotten copies of the same papers that Moore, Shandera and Friedman had kept so quiet since 1984. As for how Good got his versions, that’s still a mystery to this day. I should note there are vague claims, though, that Good’s supply came from someone with links to the CIA.
The handover of the papers to Good was said to have occurred in March 1987. Of more concern for the three men in a quandary, however, was not so much who gave Good the documents, but that he was about to have a new book published, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up. Sidgwick & Jackson was the company; a highly respected publishing company with an ability to make Good’s book a big hit. The goal was achieved. The book became a bestseller in the U.K. And guess what? Sidgwick & Jackson just about managed to get the Majestic 12 documents in the pages of Above Top Secret before Good’s book went to print. Two months after Good’s CIA insider provided him the documents, the London Observer newspaper mentioned it. The date of the article was May 31, 1987. Written by Martin Bailey it had the lengthy title of “Close encounters of an alien kind – and now if you’ve read enough about the election, here’s news from another world.”
In no time, Moore, Shandera and Friedman chose to release their copies into the public domain, which is hardly surprising, given that word of the Majestic 12 papers was now starting to trickle and circulate outside of the confines of the trio. This was completely understandable: the three had done all of the groundwork, and the very last thing they wanted now was to be written out of the story – or, at the absolute least, left marginalized and sitting frustratingly on the sidelines. And who should have died in May 1987, just when the Majestic 12 documents were about to surface? The CIA’s James Jesus Angleton, a powerful character said to have been plugged-in to the government’s UFO secrets. Lung-cancer was the cause. Angleton was sixty-nine. Strangely, also in May 1987 a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon – an employee of the CIA who wrote sci-fi under the alias of James Tiptree – took her life. Her husband’s life, too. Sheldon is believed to have created a faked UFO document – to freak out the Russians – in the 1960s called the “Serpo” documents. It tells a story that mirrors certain portions of the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Specifically, the final stages of the movie in which Richard Dreyfuss’ character of Roy Neary is taken away by aliens.
The story directly above shows that questionable UFO documents have been circulating around since the 1980s. Should we view them as hoaxes or of no particular value or importance? Or, are greater agendas at work? That’s a question I’ll answer in another article.
ALL RELATED VIDEOS, selected and posted by peter2011
Amazing UFO sighting filmed from a car over Arizona – March 2021
Amazing UFO sighting filmed from a car over Arizona – March 2021
This really interesting UFO sighting was filmed in the sky above Arizona a few days ago. What do you think it is?
Witness report:
I saw 4 of them flying in a square formation towards Yuma, couldn’t pull my phone out fast enough for those though, and the movement on those were crazy. Maybe next time I’m down there I’ll catch them on camera. In all my years here I’ve never seen them have full on lights beaming down. Maybe flashes of red and green here and there like a normal plane/jet but I’ve never seen 4 of them flying in a square, solid white light the whole time. They all disappeared at the same time. Only thing that was letting me see them was the crazy amount of light they were emitting, so it just looked like someone just turned some lights off lol. Yuma Proving Grounds does military testing but I’ve never seen shit like this in all 23 years of living here, I wish I could’ve recorded the 4 flying in a square formation but I couldn’t pull my phone out fast enough after I was done being in awe. I saw no smoke trails like in the video. I was literally trying to see where smoke would be if they were flares but I couldn’t see a single column of smoke. It was from my phone, Samsung S20. Wouldve been awesome if I had a Nikon lol. Right after the BP checkpoint leaving Yuma, they were by the mountains.
Meet Anton (70), who is certain that we’re regularly being visited by alien life. With presenter Tim they go searching for UFO’s and aliens. When Anton was 23 years old, he saw some noiseless orbs skimming over him in the sky . Since then he has seen such apparitions more often and is convinced that there are aliens on Earth. He has even spoken to one – after all, many aliens have human forms. Anton is charting where and when the creatures appear on Earth.
An underwater graveyard filled with the bones of extinct giant lemurs up to the size of a gorilla has been discovered in a cave in Madagascar.
Divers found hundreds of fossilised bones and skeletons of the primitive primates as they explored flooded inland caves on the west coast of Madagascar.
The perfectly preserved fossils, which have yet to be properly dated, are thought to be up to 4,000 years old.
Scientists leading the study of the fossils believe there could be thousands of individuals buried in the soft silt at the bottom of the cave.
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This foot long skull of Megaladapis edwardsi is the largest lemur found in the caves in western Madagascar
Among the fossils at the base of the caves was a foot long skull from a species of lemur that weighed as much as 165lbs (75kg) - the same as a female gorilla.
The discovery of the remains of so many giant lemurs, and other extinct species, in one place has left scientists baffled.
It is very unusual to get the bones so many individuals in one place, particularly as most were complete and did not appear to have been disturbed since they had died.
Palaeontologists say the animals could have ended up in the cave in a number of ways:
First they could have been brought there by a predator - in one of the three caves the remains of an extinct carnivore known as the giant fossa. It is thought to have been its den.
However, few of the lemur remains showed signs that they had been gnawed or damaged after death, suggesting they had not been eaten by a predator.
Another theory is that the caves were a sort of graveyard that provided a quiet place for animals to die. It is still unusual to get so many in one place.
Another possibility is that the cave had supported a rich and functioning ecosystem that flooded, killing whatever was inside the cave.
Finally, the bodies of the animals could have been carried into the cave by a flood.
Palaeontologists say they have also found the remains of another lemur that grew to be as large as a gorilla and weighed hundreds of pounds when fully grown.
Among the fossils, the researchers have also discovered the bones from elephant birds, corned crocodiles, rodents and hippos that roamed the island landscape thousands of years ago.
However, most of the species found in the caves are now extinct and scientists are baffled as to how so many diverse species ended up in one place.
Professor Alfred Rosenberger, an evolutionary primatologist at Brooklyn College in New York, who has been leading the recovery of the fossils, said: 'Nothing like this has ever been found before. It is really an enormous number of fossils all in one place.
'They are very complete, which is unusual in palaeontology. Here everything is together in one place. The preservation is really incredible.'
Speaking to Mail Online he added: 'We know there are hundreds of specimens visible on the surface of the cave floor, and we estimate there are actually thousands. There are fossils in the sediment that will have to be extracted.'
He said it is still unclear how the animals ended up in the cave but they may have been carried there by a flood.
He said: 'That is a major question that only can be addressed with additional research.
'The common sense hypothesis is that many were accumulated in flooding episodes of some kind. Cyclones are pretty common in Madagascar.
Lemurs the size of GORILLAS found in underwater grave
The fossilised giant lemur skulls, like the one above, were found often with complete skeletons in the caves
The caves were found in Tsimanampesotse National Park close to the west coast of the island of Madagascar
This artist's impression of Megaladapis shows how the giant 165lb lemur would have looked
'But the questions is actually a complex one, and we will need data from a variety of sources to figure that out.'
A team of specialist cave divers found the fossils as they explored three large flooded inland caves in the Tsimanampesotse National Park called Malaza Mongo, Mitoho and Aven.
In the Aven Cave they discovered huge numbers of lemur fossils while there were also some found in the other caves.
Similar fossils had been found in the past in other nearby caves, but no where near in as many numbers. Those were estimated to be between 3,000 and 4,000 years old.
This, according to the researchers, suggests that the latest fossils are probably of a similar age.
Professor Rosenberger said that the bones showed hardly any sign of post-death damage like the kind that comes from being eaten by a predator.
Instead, he said it appeared that many of the lemurs had decomposed slowly and their bones have not been disturbed since.
Scientists have described the apparent graveyard of fossilised giant lemur as a 'remarkable discovery'
The scientists believe there could be hundreds it not thousands of individual animals buried in the silt
Among the other animal fossils found resting on the silt surface were this skull from a horned crocodile
Divers discovered found the fossils sitting on the silt covered floor as they explored three large caves
It has raised intriguing questions about what led all these animals to die in one place.
One theory is that it was a sort of graveyard where the animals went to die, or the cave had once been an ecosystem that flooded, killing whatever was inside the cave.
In Mitoho cave, the researchers found evidence that it had once been the den of an extinct carnivore known as the giant fossa, Cyrptoprocta spelea.
The caves sit within Tsimanampesotse National Park and are thought to have flooded with sea water
Hundreds of fossils were found on top of the cave floor, like above, but many more could be buried in the silt
The scientists believe the graveyard, above, is the largest concentration of giant lemur fossils ever found
MODERN LEMURS ARE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION
This greater bamboo lemur pictured above is one of the most endangered primates in the world, with their population though to number just 500
They are some of the world’s most-loved animals, but almost 95 per cent of lemurs are threatened with extinction, according to the latest global assessment of at-risk species.
Madagascar is the only place on the planet where they are found in the wild, making them one of the most threatened groups of animals on Earth.
Of the African island nation’s 101 remaining lemur species, more than a fifth are critically endangered, including the largest living lemur, the large-bodied Indri.
Almost half of the species are endangered, including the world’s smallest primate, Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur and 20 are vulnerable to extinction.
Lemurs are threatened by destruction of tropical forest habitat, with illegal logging on the increase in the face of political uncertainty and rising poverty in Madagascar, where some people hunt them for food.
This would explain some of the bones that had appeared there.
The researchers also found fossilised bats, rodents and other carnivores in the caves.
But according to Professor Rosenberger, it is the extent of the lemur fossils that makes the caves truly extraordinary.
They vary in size from those similar to the species found in Madagascar today - the only place in the world where lemurs survive - to the giant Megaladapis edwardsi, which weighed up to 165lbs.
But unlike their primate cousins, these giant lemur were thought to behave more like koala bears, clinging to trees.
Many of the fossilised lemurs discovered in the caves were much larger than species that are alive today
Few bones, like those above, showed signs of disturbance after death, suggesting the lemurs were not eaten
This diagram shows how the structure of the Aven caves where most of the lemur bones were found
Professor Rosenberger said they found a skull of one of these creatures in the Malaza Manga cave.
He said: 'One of the nicest things we discovered is a very beautiful skull sitting on the silty surface at the bottom of the cave of an animal called Megaladapis.
'It is a fascinating critter. It is kind of like a koala bear lemur.
'It had a large cow-like skull of about one foot in length, enormous molar teeth - perhaps twice as large as to be expected for body weight - designed to leafy shear food, and a stocky body with fairly short limbs.
The largest lemur skull found in the caves belonged to a giant lemur called Megaladapis, which is weighed as much as a female gorilla but lived in the trees, clinging to branches much like Koalas do in Australia
Professors Rosenberger (right) and Godfrey (left) say they are just beginning of their work on the fossils
'It had no upper incisor teeth, which is an adaptation we find in mammals that crop leaves with flappy big lips.'
The researchers hope that by understanding more about what led to the demise of these species it might help them predict what will happen to the existing ones in the future.
Professor Laurie Godfrey, a palaeontologist at the University of Massachusetts, said: 'When you have a place that two thirds of the animals that lived there only a thousand years ago are gone and replaced by other animals, then what we need to know is what are the implications for the rest of the flora and fauna.'
The lemur remains appear to have decomposed and were undisturbed for hundreds if not thousands of years
Wetenschappers kunnen ontdekkingen in diepe grotten van de aarde niet verklaren
Wetenschappers kunnen ontdekkingen in diepe grotten van de aarde niet verklaren
Enkele van ’s werelds meest verontrustende wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen zijn gedaan in oude grotten. Deze grotten trekken ons van nature aan vanwege de mysteries die ze bevatten en het is natuurlijk voor ons om onszelf af te vragen hoe diep ze zijn. Deze grotten brengen ons ook dichter bij onze voorouders, omdat ze als hun schuilplaats dienden. De diepe grotten maken ons echter ook bang vanwege hun verstikkende duisternis.
Deze grotten bevatten oude lijken, Neanderthaler begraafplaatsen en zelfs levensvormen die zo oud zijn dat ze de archeologische gemeenschap shockeren. Sommige van deze grotten bevatten mysteries die de wetenschap nog niet heeft uitgelegd. Hier onderzoeken we wat de wetenschap weet maar nog niet heeft begrepen in deze cryptische diepten.
Maak je klaar om de meest schokkende ontdekking te ontdekken die is gedaan in een van de diepste grotten ter wereld – je weet wanneer je het ziet …
In deze grot vonden wetenschappers het leven bedekt met gigantische kristallen. Toen ze deze grot begonnen te verkennen, hadden ze niet verwacht tekenen van leven te zien. Ze vermoeden echter dat hun leven ongeveer 50.000 jaar oud is. De grot waar ze dit leven vonden, bevond zich in Naica, Mexico.
Deze bacteriën en andere microben bloeiden in de grot door mineralen zoals ijzer en magnesium te verteren, aanwezig in kristallijne formaties. Er wordt gedacht dat de ontdekking van deze bacteriën het bereik van omstandigheden waarin wij geloven dat het leven kan floreren, verbreedt. Zou dit de ontdekking kunnen zijn die wetenschappers helpt het leven te ontdekken in extreme omstandigheden op een andere planeet?
Een verontrustende ontdekking onder water …
De wetenschappers geloven dat het kerkhof hierboven de grootste concentratie van gigantische makifossielen is die ooit zijn gevonden
In een onderwatergrot in Madagaskar hebben duikers de botten van gigantische maki’s gevonden. Sommige van deze maki’s zouden zo groot zijn geweest als gorilla’s. Het is echter niet bekend hoe de botten in deze onderwatergrotten zijn aangekomen. Wetenschappers vermoeden dat ze door stromingen zijn gesleept of geduwd.
De oude wereld vóór mensen bevatte allerlei gigantische wezens. Gigantische maki’s zijn niet het eerste waar we aan denken, maar we hadden gigantische libellen, gigantische struisvogels en gigantische herten van meer dan 3 meter lang. Deze geweldige wezens zijn slechts een van de bewijzen van de ongelooflijke kracht van evolutie. We hebben het geluk dat we ze helemaal niet hebben gevonden. Wat kan er verborgen zijn in nog diepere grotten?
Soms zijn grotten de bron van zoveel schande dat je liever niet binnenkomt. Dit lijkt het geval te zijn met deze set van ongelukkige grotten. Gelegen in de West Wycombe-kelders van Zuidoost-Engeland, zijn deze grotten de thuisbasis van enkele sculpturen die bijvoorbeeld rondspoken.
De betreffende beelden lijken op de duivel. Om deze reden hebben de grotten de bijnaam Hellfire Caves. Hoewel de grotten volledig kunstmatig zijn, maakt de aanwezigheid van deze beelden de grotten angstaanjagend. Als je van bijgeloof houdt, wil je misschien wegblijven van deze grot. Het is veel beter voor je geestelijke gezondheid!
Sommige grotten hebben onverwachte verrassingen! Zoals we hebben gezien, hebben anderen gigantische maki’s, maar voor deze grot houdt het gewoon niet op en is het dat ook echt. De grot in Ellison Cave is de thuisbasis van een van de langst bekende druipstenen. Deze afgrond werd gemeten op een adembenemende afdaling van 178 meter. Het is ongeveer de helft van de hoogte van het Empire State Building met 102 verdiepingen.
Om de enorme en duizelingwekkende afdaling te bereiken, moet je door 19312 meter donkere en gevaarlijke grotten gaan. Deze afdaling is zwart en zit vol met wendingen, bochten en kronkels waardoor je je hoofd draait. Als je echter mijlen van dreigende duisternis kruist, zal je de 178 meter druipsteen van deze grot tegenkomen. Deze put maakt Ellison’s Cave in het noordwesten van Georgia de 12e diepste in Noord-Amerika.
Een grot vol sterren
Gloeiwormen in de Waitomo Caves in Nieuw-Zeeland
We hebben allemaal beelden gezien van fosforescerende bacteriën en anderen, die in hoekige visbollen leven, de getijden van sommige oceanen en andere interessante interessante dingen. Hier hebben we ze opgesteld langs de muren van de grotten. Deze glanzende bollen lijken op een mooie sterrennacht en zijn opgehangen aan het plafond om hun volgende maaltijd te vangen – vliegende insecten.
Deze grot van Waitomo, in Nieuw-Zeeland, staat vol met deze verzen. Het werd 30 miljoen jaar geleden gevormd en er zijn frequente kajaktochten. Als je de hangende bollen wilt zien, neem dan gewoon een vliegticket naar Nieuw-Zeeland en ga kajakken. Hoewel we ontdekkingen hebben die zo mooi zijn als fosforescerende bacteriën, hebben we ook een van de meest walgelijke ontdekkingen die nog komen …
Snottiet
Lange snotieten uit Snot Heaven in Cueva de Villa Luz (ook bekend als Cueva de las Sardinas), Tabasco, Mexico. Foto door Kenneth Ingham.
Snottietcluster in Snot Heaven in Cueva de Villa Luz (ook bekend als Cueva de las Sardinas), Tabasco, Mexico. Foto door Kenneth Ingham.
Deze plakkerige en slijmerige substantie dankt zijn naam aan zijn textuur en consistentie: snottiet. Met een consistentie die vergelijkbaar is met die van slijm, wordt deze kleverige modder opgehangen in afwachting van vliegende insecten. Deze stof werd oorspronkelijk gevonden in een grot in Tabasco, Mexico. Dit is geen ingrediënt van de saus, maak je geen zorgen.
Blijkbaar is dit materiaal slechts een stapel bacteriematten die zo zijn aangebracht dat ze naar het plafond druppelen. Dit ding heeft de consistentie van slijm en het is verre van verleidelijk. De bacterie wordt als extremofiel beschouwd vanwege de extreem zware omgevingen waarin hij bloeit. Jij en ik kunnen bijvoorbeeld niet onder dezelfde omstandigheden floreren.
Vleermuizen
Iedereen weet dat vleermuizen in grotten leven en in Barangay Tambo, op Samal, in overvloed leven. Deze grot is de thuisbasis van het vleermuisreservaat van Monfort, een heiligdom met voldoende vleermuizen om Dracula te laten huiveren. Opmerkelijk diep, maar deze grot strekt zich slechts ongeveer 75 meter diep uit. Met wat er komt, zul je je realiseren dat dit echt niets is in vergelijking.
Vleermuizen zijn een van die wezens waarvan we heel goed weten dat ze zich hebben aangepast aan het leven in de grotten. Deze dieren hebben zich aangepast aan de duisternis van het leven in de grotten door een perfect gereguleerd echolocatiesysteem te ontwikkelen. Hiermee kunnen ze de details van hun omgeving detecteren met geluidsgolven. Ze weerkaatsen van de muren en pilaren van hun omgeving en gebruiken de vertragingen van gereflecteerde golven om afstanden en snelheden te bepalen.
De grotten van de dood
Deze grotten (die deel uitmaken van de grootste Smoo-grot) bevinden zich in het noorden van Schotland en ze dragen niet de naam van de scène van de film Mel Gibson waarin hij “Freedoommmm!” roept voordat hij zijn einde ken. In plaats daarvan staan ze bekend om de overblijfselen die wetenschappers in hen hebben gevonden: botten die wijzen op een menselijk offer.
Welk bewijs van opoffering hebben ze gevonden, vraag je? Welnu, wat is het meest beangstigende dat je je kunt voorstellen. Ze vonden koppen op snoeken, lichamen in kuilen en ingewanden overal verspreid. Gelukkig is het notoir moeilijk om door deze grotten te navigeren. Als je deze uiteengereten en verlaten lichamen wilt vinden, moet je door een niet-bevaarbaar land gaan. Het is waarschijnlijk het beste, vooral voor je geestelijke gezondheid!
Olm Salamander
Sommige van de vreemde dingen die we in de grotten vinden, zijn vreemd mooi. De watersalamander is er een van. Hij is blind, maar gekleurd met pigmenten die hem geweldig maken. Wat meer hij broedt in water, zwemt in water en gebruikt elektrosensatie om zijn omgeving te begrijpen. Hij kan ook meer dan 100 jaar leven.
Het kleine wezen leeft in de grotten van Slovenië en Kroatië. Zijn huid is bleek en roze, een scherpe combinatie van bleekheid en chic. Het behoudt zijn oorspronkelijke kieuwen tot zijn dood, wat het uitzonderlijk vreemd maakt in amfibieën. Normaal gesproken verliezen we naarmate we ouder worden onze jonge leden, maar niet de olm!
Een giftige grot
In Roemenië vind je meer dan geesten, spoken en vampieren. In Constanta, bijvoorbeeld, een land in de buurt van de Zwarte Zee, vindt je giftige grotten. Deze grot bleef bijna 5,5 miljoen jaar intact. En gedurende deze miljoenen jaren heeft het leven zich aangepast aan zijn vreemde en verrassend onherbergzame omgeving.
In de meeste gevallen herbergt de grot dieren zoals schorpioenen, spinnen en duizendpoten, grove dingen die de meesten van ons zouden kunnen schreeuwen als we ze in het echt zouden zien. De echte naam van de grot: Movile Cave. In het donker vind je een meer dat ruikt naar rotte eieren en verbrande zwavel. Bij verstoring zal het waterstofsulfide, een giftig gas, uitstoten.
Om de rest van deze grot te verkennen, moeten wetenschappers een duik nemen in de donkere en giftige diepten van deze wateren. Wat het moeilijker maakt, is dat de atmosfeer in de grot een minder dan normale hoeveelheid zuurstof heeft, ongeveer de helft. Dit betekent dat zonder een ademhalingsapparaat dat extra zuurstof levert, je snel hoofdpijn krijgt, hypoxisch wordt en sterft.
Vanwege deze omstandigheden kan je slechts enkele uren in de grot verblijven. Onze lichamen zijn niet aangepast aan het leven in de vergiftigde diepten van Roemenië. Maar in tegenstelling tot ons hebben veel andere soorten hun plechtige stilte hervat. Wat echter opvalt, is dat hoe ongastvrijer de omgeving van de grot voor ons wordt, hoe meer variaties er in het leven zijn.
Omdat zonlicht de grot niet binnenkomt, moet het ecosysteem volledig van zijn stralen worden beroofd. Dit is het geval voor elk levend dier dat in het licht wordt opgesloten. De bacteriën in deze grot, bijvoorbeeld, krijgen hun koolstofdioxide precies zoals planten, alleen op andere plaatsen dan zonlicht. Dit is de enige plaats op aarde waar dit gebeurt.
En hoe, vragen jullie het, doen ze het? Ze breken de chemicaliën in de lucht af. Sommige bacteriën breken bijvoorbeeld zwavel op in zwaveldioxide. De toenemende aanwezigheid van dit zwavelzuur veroorzaakt zelfs een nog grotere erosie van de kalksteen van de grot, waardoor deze uitzet en groeit.
Schilderijen
De grotten zijn vol mysterie – en over het algemeen niet de verkeerde soort. Sommige grotten hebben bijvoorbeeld veel details over oude beschavingen onthuld. In deze grot in Argentinië hebben ze hun wonderbaarlijke vermogen om kunst te maken aangetoond. Wat we zien is hun uitdrukking door tientallen handafdrukken uitgedrukt in rood krijtpoeder.
Deze schilderijen blijken tussen 9.500 en 13.000 jaar oud te zijn. Hun prehistorische kwaliteit laat niet alleen zien dat mensen zich vóór de moderne dag graag artistiek uitten (godzijdank hadden we geen iPhone nodig), maar dat we het ook graag op interessante en mooie plekken doen.
UFO appears and disappears into thin air over volcano, 3-25-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO appears and disappears into thin air over volcano, 3-25-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 3-25-2021 Location of sighting: Volcano Popocetepetl, Mexico Source: Volcano live cam
Ok guys, this is directly from the live cam. This strange object just appeared out of nowhere and then vanished as fast as it appeared. Its clearly very huge, very long. Its not a meteor, the tail is all wrong and the speed is too slow not to mention its not falling! If it were a plane, it would not suddenly appear and disappear so fast.
What I believe happened is that this UFO suddenly teleported out of the alien base below the volcano and materialized above the volcano and began moving...however the UFO opens up a doorway (wormhole) and enters it quickly vanishing. Awesome it was all caught on video.
Disk Near Space Station On Live Cam 1-27-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Disk Near Space Station On Live Cam 1-27-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 1-27-2021
Location of sighting: Space station
Watch this UFO in the video and you will soon notice that its very close to the space station and very thin. The object really comes into focus when the bright sunlight is behind it...which shows us its true shape. UFOs have been seen at the space station for over a decade. I first started using the cams myself and then it began to catch on more and more. Today live cams are a UFO researchers right hand. We can be in many places around the world at once. Thus making the chances of catching a UFO much greater. This video shows a true alien craft near the NASA space station. This UFO was caught by Youtuber Luis Andrés Jaspersen Revilla. Absolutely fantastic catch!
They Flew: Ancient Mayan Space Vehicle Reverse Engineered
They Flew: Ancient Mayan Space Vehicle Reverse Engineered
They didn’t any modifications in their replica, keeping the exact aerodynamic characteristics of the Inca objects that were proven actual replicas of 100% functional aircrafts, after the stunning successful test.
This is truly amazing!! Two German aeronautical engineers, Algund Eenboom and Peter Belting, dug the Inca artifacts back into scene, built a propeller-powered scaled replica of one of the artifacts and performed a flight test in 1997, during the Ancient Astronaut Society World Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Frontier scientist Richard Hoagland’s research team The Enterprise Mission pointed out another relatively new and interesting development in the proof for a lost technological society.
Among other points, Hoagland et al. discuss the recent findings of German scientists Dr. Algund Eeboom and Mr. Peter Belting. Several small gold trinkets have been recovered from tombs of the Incas, dating back thousands of years.
These trinkets clearly depict structures that undeniably appear to be workable flying airplanes, complete with what appear to be gun turrets on some of the wings.
Eeboom and Belting’s discovery of ancient gold trinkets of working aircraft. (Courtesy of the State Bank of Bogota)
Hoagland et al. also point out the far more well-known fact that working bird-shaped gliders have been found within tombs in Egypt. Since these gliders also possess remarkable similarity to working airplanes and are capable of long flights when thrown, we must assume that the ancient Egyptians were also well aware of this technology.
With the evidence now seen from the Incan tombs above, we may suppose that the bird gliders were simply children’s toy models of systems that were in much more common use at one time.
And so, if we are seeing workable airplane models being built as small gold statuettes and wooden models in two different ancient cultures separated by the Atlantic, we certainly can assume that a large-scale technological society with full-sized, working aircraft may have been in existence at one time as well.
It is frustrating that we have not found any full-sized models. However, after a hypothesized 12,500 years of time passing, we should expect that any such structures made of wood or metal would have long since deteriorated.
The Atlantean lore from the Edgar Cayce readings states that almost the entire concentration of that society was on an island in the Atlantic that included present-day Cuba and outlying areas as well, and which subsided under ocean waters, known as “Poseidia.”
And if the modern toys of our society were suddenly subjected to a vast cataclysm and promptly left unattended for 12,500 years, the savage action of tidal waves, land subsidence, rust, tornadoes, hurricanes, rising sea levels, glaciers, natural disasters and all other forms of growth and decay would most likely completely wipe out all remnants of things such as wooden houses, hollow buildings and skyscrapers of glass, and metallic automobiles, trains or airplanes.
So, therefore, despite their toy-like appearance, which may indeed have been the playthings of children at one time, these tiny gold statuettes could well have been considered very sacred objects – some of the sole remaining fragments of a culture of “Gods” destroyed in the seas of Time.
These precious models were held onto and possibly copied over and reduplicated for thousands of years by the survived “Atlantean” cultures of the Incas and Egyptians before being buried in their tombs.
They may well have been the direct symbols of a lost “time of the Gods” when humankind had conquered the skies and could fly around at will, with the gifts of advanced technology.
Many archeologists dismissed the find as merely being reproductions of “insects”. However, it was pointed out that insects do not possess a “vertical stabilizer”. The conclusion, according to Eeboom’s impressive statistics: the ancient craftsmen really meant for their miniature “airplanes” to look like … airplanes!
Peter Belting approached the problem from a “hands on” point of view: he actually built scaled-up (but otherwise precise) models of the ostensibly “miniature aircraft” — and then attached propellers and jet engines.
And they flew!
At the August, 1997 meeting of the ” Ancient Astronaut Society World Conference,” gathered in Orlando, Florida, the two researchers presented their independent findings on the “insects.”
Those assembled literally cheered when Belting’s model (powered by a small jet engine — left) flew a set of complex aerodynamic maneuvers … and then came in for a perfect landing — all with a model airplane built as an exact match to a tiny gold trinket found in an Incan grave … dated minimally to over a thousand years ago!
Then, in case anyone still doubted, Belting and Eeboom took everyone out into the parking lot of the Orlando Florida Mall … and once again, put the “thousand-year-old” (if not far older …) jet-powered aircraft through its paces for the astonished crowd.
There Are Over 50 E.T Races Categorized by the Pentagon... Disclosed Encounters
There Are Over 50 E.T Races Categorized by the Pentagon... Disclosed Encounters
There Are Over 50 E.T Races Categorized by the Pentagon… Disclosed Encounters
In the spring of 2013, representatives from 10 countries gathered in Washington D.C for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. The attendees gave five days of testimony confirming the existence of UFOs. Despite the efforts of the governments, these whistleblowers have come forth to reveal the evidence that has long been repressed. Investigative reporter, Paola Leopizzi was there and reports on the disclosed encounters by those in attendance and why the UFOs are here in this interview with George Noory.
The Kongka Pass or also called Kongka La, is about as remote as it gets. Located within the Himalayan mountain range, the low mountain pass, which meanders through the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, and intrudes into the Chang Chenmo Valley of China. It is a place surrounded by looming snowcapped peaks, deep gullies and valleys, and constantly battered by frigid weather, a place not meant for us. It is a forbidding, uninhabited no man’s land only sparsely roamed by herders, Hindu pilgrims, adventure seekers, and overseen by sporadic military outposts along the craggy border, since the pass has long been disputed and fought over by India and China. It’s sweeping vistas of barren expanses of rocky, jagged land give this place an ambiance and appearance not unlike some alien world, which is perhaps appropriate because the Kongka Pass has come to be known as a hotspot for UFOs and weird alien activity.
For years those who have travelled through the pass have come back with strange stories. Common among these are unidentified lights in the sky, which sometimes do aerial acrobatics, swoop and rise, or even seem to disappear right into the side of the ridge. There are also numerous reports of disorientation, malfunctioning electrical equipment, and lost time, with people reporting suddenly waking up many miles away from where they last remember being. Sightings of UFOs have been reported by people on both sides of the border, with many of these witnesses being military personnel or even leaders, yet considering the harrowing terrain and isolated remoteness there has been little done to actually investigate, and this has led to rumors that the pass holds within it a vast underground warren of tunnels that operates as a UFO base for aliens on Earth. It might just seem like spooky tales orbiting an undeniably beautiful and inhospitable place, but there have been several incidents from the Kongka Pass that stand out.
The Kongka Pass
In 2003, over a dozen Indian troops along the border spotted over several nights floating lights in the sky of the Chinese sky that were anomalous enough that they were reported to their command, but there was no further word about what it could have been from their superiors nor from the Chinese military. Even weirder was an incident that allegedly occurred in 2004 in the Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh, where a group of geologists led by a Dr. Anil Kulkarni, of the ISRO’s Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad, were on an expedition to the Samudra Tapu Valley, one of the most desolate and remote places in the entire region. During the expedition, the team reportedly observed a bizarre robotic humanoid measuring 4 feet tall walking along the rocky landscape about 50 meters away. The scientists observed the strange robot for nearly 40 minutes and even took pictures, before it purportedly suddenly rose into the air to shoot into the sky as soon as they tried to draw closer. The whole thing was witnessed by 14 people, including 6 scientists, who concluded there was no reasonable natural explanation. Nevertheless, their report went unanswered and was quietly swept under the carpet. Interestingly, others have reported seeing small, robotic entities in the pass as well, including one sighting in which the entity seemed to disappear into a hole in the ground, which itself then disappeared as if it had never been there.
There was another high-profile and very bizarre series of events that unfolded in the region in 2012. Between August 1 and October 15 of that year, units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, a remote, 86,000 sq. km heavily militarized zone between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Aksai Chin. The objects were described as luminous yellow orbs, which seemed to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and then proceed to move back and forth through the sky before shooting off. Army officials who witnessed the phenomena were certain they were not unmanned aerial vehicles, drones or low earth-orbiting satellites. In September of that year, a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyzer was installed at a nearby mountaintop, but even when the objects were seen visually they failed to show up on either radar or in the spectrum analysis. An aircraft was even dispatched to approach one of the objects, but it shot straight upwards and could not be followed. A team of astronomers from the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle also witnessed the objects over a period of three days, and came to the conclusion that they were not planets, meteors, or satellites. The mysterious objects were observed by hundreds of military personnel, officials, and scientists, but have never been conclusively identified.
On top of all of this, Google Earth has uncovered a lot of weird things in the Kongka Pass, such as mysterious openings in the earth that seem to have been bored out with machinery, as well as unregistered military facilities, complexes of buildings, and mysterious structures. It has been claimed that sometimes these images are blurred out on Google Earth not long after being discovered. It is unclear what this has to do with any of the purported UFO activity in the region, but it certainly adds another layer of strangeness to an already strange place. What is going on in this bizarre place? Are these phenomena the result of aliens or something else? One thing that can be said is that if this really is the location of some alien base of operations, with its complete remoteness and disconnect from civilization they could not have picked a better place to go mostly unnoticed.
Mysterious blobs of rock beneath Earth’s surface may belong to an ALIEN planet, study claims
Mysterious blobs of rock beneath Earth’s surface may belong to an ALIEN planet, study claims
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
HUGE fragments of an alien world may be buried deep beneath the surface of our planet.
A study has identified blobs of rock under Earth’s crust that possibly belonged to Theia, a Mars-sized planet thought to have collided with our pale blue dot billions of years ago.
Blobs of rock (red) under Earth's surface may have once belonged to an alien planetCredit: Ward et al., Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020)
The almighty crash is believed to have created the Moon – and remnants of the impact may lurk deep within our planet's mantle.
Researchers at Arizona State University used seismic waves to track the size of the strange blobs, known as large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs).
Two of the gigantic masses were studied: One buried under Africa and the other below the Pacific Ocean.
They're hundreds of miles tall and thousands of miles across, sitting close to our planet's metallic core, the study found.
The rock possibly belonged to Theia, a Mars-sized planet thought to have collided with Earth billions of years agoCredit: Asu
Author Qian Yuan says the blobs "straddle the Earth's core like headphones".
They are denser and chemically different to the rock surrounding them, suggesting the weren't originally a part of our planet.
Theia's mantle was denser than Earth's, according to Yuan, which may have allowed it to accumulate near our planet's core following impact.
"Theia's mantle may be several per cent intrinsically denser than Earth's mantle," Yuan explained in a summary of the team's findings presented last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Scientists used data on seismic waves to track the size of the blobsCredit: Asu
"This enables the Theia mantle materials to sink to the Earth's lowermost mantle and accumulate into thermochemical piles that may cause the seismically-observed LLSVPs."
Experts have long believed that a rogue, Mars-sized planet smashed into Earth around 4.5billion years ago.
The impacting planet, referred to as Theia, is thought to have fused with Earth, meaning parts of it should exist in the mantle today.
Chemical exchanges in the wake of this violent merger may have created the conditions for life on our planet.
The collision is thought to have thrown up vast clouds of material that gravity later fused together to form the Moon.
A timeline of life on Earth
Here's a brief history of life on our planet
4.6billion years ago – the origin of Earth
3.8billion years ago – first life appears on Earth
2.1billion years ago – lifeforms made up of multiple cells evolve
1.5billion years ago – eukaryotes, which are cells that contain a nucleus inside of their membranes, emerge
550million years ago – first arthropods evolve
530million years ago – first fish appear
470million years ago – first land plants appear
380million years ago – forests emerge on Earth
370million years ago – first amphibians emerge from the water onto land
320million years ago – earliest reptiles evolve
230million years ago – dinosaurs evolve
200million years ago – mammals appear
150million years ago – earliest birds evolve
130million years ago – first flowering plants
100million years ago – earliest bees
55million years ago – hares and rabbits appear
30million years ago – first cats evolve
20million years ago – great apes evolve
7million years ago –first human ancestors appear
2million years ago – Homo erectus appears
300,000 years ago – Homo sapiens evolves
50,000 years ago – Eurasia and Oceania colonised
40,000 years ago – Neandethal extinction
Analysis of Moon rocks has suggested that our rocky satellite could actually be a combination of chunks of Earth and Theia.
The idea that LLSVPs are in fact remnants of Theia has been around for years, but the new study presents the most compelling evidence yet.
The study reveals that chemical signatures linked to LLSVPs are at least as old as the Theia impact.
While it's not conclusive proof that ties them to an ancient alien world, it certainly shows that the theory is plausible.
"This crazy idea is at least possible," Yuan, a PhD candidate at ASU, told Science.
In other space news, the DNA of 6.7 million species could be stored inside the Moon in case there's a disaster that destroys life on Earth.
The largest asteroid to make a 'close approach' to Earth in 2021 is set to shoot past this month.
Nasa has released historic first audio recordings captured on the surface of Mars.
What do you make of the Theia find? Let us know in the comments...
Hollow Earthers believe our planet is filled with giant empty spaces that are occupied by beings who may be aliens, Earthlings or something else. Giant Impacters believe the Moon was formed when a young planet collided with Earth, knocking out the giant chunk that became our satellite. If these two theories were the circles of a Venn diagram, the intersection might be filled with the theory of Qian Yuan, who believes the Moon was formed by a giant collision and two blobs that were once the colliding planet are still occupying space inside the Earth and affecting its magnetic field as if they were alive. Giant blobs inside the Earth? What kind of Jules Verne fever dream is this?
“They are the largest thing in the Earth’s mantle.”
Qian Yuan, a Ph.D. student in geodynamics at Arizona State University (ASU), is referring to two massive blobs, one below West Africa and the other below the Pacific Ocean, that are about 1000 km tall and thousands of kilometers wide. These blobs have long been known to exist – seismologists detect a slowdown in the velocity of seismic waves when they reach these areas, indicating that the blobs are more dense than their surroundings. That has earned them the name large low-shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) but no one has been able to determine what they are nor how they got there.
“This crazy idea is at least possible.”
Yuan told Science Magazine the “crazy idea” began in an ASU class about the “giant impact hypothesis” – the idea that an infant Earth collided with a Mars-sized planet called Theia, breaking off the chunk that became the Moon. However, no one has an explanation for what happened to Theia. Since no one has been able to explain the blobs either, Yuan decided to try linking the two and explaining both.
Yuan modeled Theia’s collision with Earth, varying its size, and focused on what could have happened afterward. With a Theia the size of Earth, its liquid core would have quickly merged with Earth’s. However, at that size, its mantle pieces could have survived intact and remained near the core. Studies of moon rocks from Apollo missions show they have a higher density that Earth rocks, which implies they came from Theia. A model with Theia’s mantle rocks at 1.5% to 3.5% denser than Earth’s would survive and end up near the core, and a model with Theia the size of Earth would leave pieces the size of the LLSVPs or blobs.
Does this prove Yuan’s crazy idea is really possible? He presented a paper on it at the recent online ‘52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2021’ and wasn’t muted, so that’s a good sign. However, he told Vice that there’s still a missing piece to the mysterious pieces that could be solved by another lunar rock mission.
“If people can find some chemical relationship between the lunar mantle materials with the LLSVPs, it may suggest they have the same ancestor: Theia. Otherwise, these two materials shouldn’t have any relationship. The LLSVPs are thought to be very old, and have noble gas isotopes. If the mantle rocks of the Moon also have similar noble gas isotopes, I think that’s the final task for our hypothesis.”
In the meantime, researchers are also looking in the opposite direction inside the Earth for more smaller chunks of Theia. There’s also another Venn diagram circle to add – if early Earth was hit by one massive planet, it could have been hit by more. That would mean the mantle may be filled with pieces of other worlds besides Theia.
Jules Verne wasn’t dreaming after all. We need to focus more attention to a journey to the center of the Earth.
Secret Underground Bases Revelations, Bigfoot, Cherokee Little People & UFOs
Secret Underground Bases Revelations, Bigfoot, Cherokee Little People & UFOs
Mary Joyce: from UFOs to secret underground bases; from Bigfoot to Cherokee Little People. She has worked for two major metropolitan newspapers – The Orlando Sentinel in Florida as an artist and columnist, and The Oakland Press in Michigan as a Sunday magazine editor and then feature editor.
On the side, she’s written magazine articles and books. Since 2008, she has been the main researcher and editor for the Sky Ships Over Cashiers website. Mary has gone from investigating mob stories in Detroit, including Jimmy Hoffa’s death, to interviewing people with the highest top-secret clearances about clandestine government activities.
She even has had face-to-face interviews with a whistleblower with Cosmic Top-Secret clearance who once worked within the top tier of the infamous international Cabal.
Secret Antarctica: UFO, Underground Bases and Fallen Angels from the Book Of Enoch
Secret Antarctica: UFO, Underground Bases and Fallen Angels from the Book Of Enoch
Antarctica is most likely the whitest region on earth, with a ridiculous amount of ice that is too harsh humans. Yet, this white mass might be burying some of the darkest mysteries about the world. Every day, more research is being done about this place and what secrets it holds. Antarctica has been home to a lot of mysteries for long. For one, we have the incident of Operation Highjump. It is believed by some that about 250,000 senior officers belonging to the germans managed to escape in U-boats from Germany. Some even believed that Hitler was one of the escapees.
Secret Antarctica UFO, Underground Bases and Fallen Angels from the Book Of Enoch The more Antarctica is examined, the more the mysteries that crop up. An example is the huge electromagnetic anomaly that was detected by NASA satellites in 2006. This anomaly wasn’t lying on the surface either. It was buried deep underneath 151 miles of ice. What a beautiful way to confuse researchers. Over a decade later, they are still left with questions. But then, turning to an ancient scroll dated millennia ago, the Book of Enoch, some interesting passages seemed to have something to say about this. Enoch was the man who was reported to have escaped death.
He was the great great grandfather of Noah. He wrote about how he was taken to the place where the corrupted angels who disobeyed God and came to earth were imprisoned. In his book, he had talked about the 200 fallen angels who had lived among men, teaching men advanced technologies for their time and sleeping with the women and fathering the Nephilim, thereby genetically modifying men and leading mankind astray.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
UFO Orb Over Philadelphia, Video, March 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Orb Over Philadelphia, Video, March 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 20, 2021
Location of sighting: Philadelphia, USA
A mysterious white orb was seen flying over some buildings in Philadelphia this week. The orb was not moving with the wind, but seemed to be intelligently controlled. It first moves to the right, then moves to the left...which would be impossible for a balloon. This object is a UFO. A white orb UFO that is watching the people below and monitoring their reactions to it.
For some unknown reason, white orbs have increased in reports 5X in the last month. Even at MUFON site, incoming orb reports now reach 4-6 per 24 hours. It seems...something is up with aliens and they have some serious activities being planed soon. Only time will tell.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Did not look like a ballon. Too high and big and was pulsating white light. I had a daylight sighting of a white orb. Shortly after an unmarked helicopter followed. I was too confused to record that. Philadelphia, PA USA, 600 block of South 3rd street.
Contact With Nordic Extraterrestrial Beings in USAF Uniform Whose UFO Was Recorded
Contact With Nordic Extraterrestrial Beings in USAF Uniform Whose UFO Was Recorded
JP, an anonymous source who has provided hundreds of photos of different types of craft belonging to a classified US Air Force (USAF) space program, claims to have encountered a human-looking “Nordic” extraterrestrial on May 24. He believes the Nordic was dressed in a US Air Force uniform and invited him to fly in a saucer-shaped craft that had landed in a secluded wooded area of Orlando, Florida.
JP turned down the offer but photographed the spacecraft after it had departed (attached below). His recollection of the conversation with the Nordic reveals that they are directly cooperating with the USAF and adhering to the terms of an agreement on their communication with the general public.
The transcript of my Skype conversation with JP is included below, along with some commentary. I’ve produced a page with older articles and videos featuring his photos, as well as originals, for independent review. The debate began at 10:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. I’ve removed grammatical errors and added extra text in square brackets to clarify what JP is saying: 9:00 a.m., JP Today’s touch was superb. Michael Salla, what happened?
JP: I went for a stroll through the jungle. I was getting ringing in my ear. I assume it was a sort of calling. As I discovered from the previous touch. I happened to run into this guy. I’m dressed in a suit from the United States Air Force. Indigo blue. His demeanor had shifted. Maybe a Nordic.
JP wears a United States Air Force jumpsuit and has light blue eyes and blond hair. He was outstanding. Many of these craft, he says, can be seen all over the world. He asked me to join him in his hobby. No, I answered. Yes, [he inquired] if I was certain….
JP: I told him that we would need video evidence soon. He explained that they couldn’t because of a treaty they have with the United States and other countries.
This is consistent with what contactees like George Adamski, Howard Menger, and others have said about human-looking extraterrestrials that they helped blend into local communities in order to escape detection by the general public and even national authorities.
It’s worth noting that the current Russian Prime Minister, Dimitry Medvedev, claimed in December 2012 that when he became President, he would be granted a highly classified file containing details on how Russian and global authorities register and track extraterrestrials living among us.
All of this implies that secret agreements have been concluded between public authorities and Nordic extraterrestrials, according to which no video recording of their lives is allowed by anyone they approached.
Returning to my Skype conversation with JP, I asked him about his decision not to accept the Nordic offer to work in his craft:
Michael Salla: I was taken aback when you said no. Have you ever had a bad gut feeling?
JP: No, I was pleased, but I was annoyed because I didn’t get any video.
Michael Salla: Will you have been allowed to take photos?
JP: He told me. This type of ship can be found all over the place. After he’d finished listening to me. He got in touch with me. I knew I was inside the ship when I saw a light. I’m just floating in space. It had only been a fraction of a second. He then told me that you had returned.
JP is saying that the “Nordic” arranged for him to see inside the craft without physically entering it. Perhaps there was astral projection or some other form of non-physical experience.
JP then inquires about Nordic-US Air Force collaboration:
J.P. : I’m wondering what’s going on with you and the US Air Force. He told me that they are working on a big project together. Several Gulf of Mexico ventures involving MacDill Air Force personnel.
Michael Salla: Why was he dressed in a uniform of the United States Air Force?
JP: Both of these sonic booms are part of the concept they’re developing.
Was it emblazoned with the USAF Special Operations patch, Michael Salla?
JP previously claimed that he was taken onboard a rectangle-shaped spacecraft and saw passengers wearing USAF uniforms with the Air Force Special Operations patch. The mishaps occurred near MacDill Air Force Base, which houses the US Special Operations Headquarters.
JP defined the Nordic patch as distinctive, with symbols of a star and a crescent.
He later explained to me that the uniform itself featured the acronym, USAF, with the acronym also written out in a foreign language he didn’t understand at first but later discovered to be ancient Sumerian after some internet research.
This, it appears, allowed the Nordic to move freely inside USAF bases:
JP: A distinctive type of space insignia.
Michael Salla: What led you to assume it was a US Air Force uniform rather than a Nordic one?
JP: To blend in while walking around the [USAF] base. “United States Air Force,” the patch read.
Michael Salla: Did he tell you, MacDill, that he hangs out on US Air Force bases?
JP:… There are other bases around the world.
Michael Salla: That makes complete sense. Did he say how long his organization has been working on joint ventures with the USAF? When did it all start?
JP: We didn’t get very far with that talk. I’ve been thinking about you for a long time, Michael. I dashed to my truck as he walked away.
Michael Salla: Was the conversation conducted in English or by telepathy?
JP is fluent in English. The European variant. In the same way that English people speak. The perfect English. This is not a traditional American remark.
Michael Salla: Were you able to take any pictures?
Of course, JP.
JP claimed to have been able to photograph the craft after it took off, but not while it was still on the ground. The first images of the departing craft are shown below. Many of the photographs he sent are included in the video below, as well as zooms of two of them.
JP says he was about 25 meters away from the craft when it landed, but his phone didn’t work. The craft’s diameter was approximately 20 meters, and it had three window panes through which he could see.
JP was then questioned about what the Nordic had told him about the USAF partnership:
Michael Salla: What kinds of systems did the Nordics work on with the USAF?
JP: Playing with ship maneuvering. Invasive maneuvers are being carried out all over the world, including in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and Asia.
Michael Salla: Were the Nordics demonstrating intrusive maneuvers to the US Air Force? Could you please elaborate?
JP Another craft is being accompanied by another craft. This isn’t the same as a plane following another plane.
Michael Salla: Were the Nordics sharing technologies with the US Air Force, or merely understanding how?
JP: The US Air Force has the supplies, but they don’t know how to use it. It’s the equivalent of handing over a smartphone to an Indian on Amazon. The Indian would have no idea how to charge [the] phone or navigate…
In other words, they are teaching physics to technology. What to do with the guns because weapons can impair the craft’s ability to fly.
The craft’s cannon is a superheated pulsing weapon fire. How to deal with thunderstorms to save and gain electricity, using radioactive light beams.
It’s worth remembering here that, according to William Tompkins, Corey Goode, and others, the US military industrial complex decided to work with German scientists after WWII to learn about the technology of crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft recovered from Roswell and elsewhere. My most recent book, Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Origins of Secret Space Programs, goes into great detail on this subject.
According to JP’s testimony, the USAF is also in need of assistance in understanding Nordic extraterrestrial technology, which is more advanced than recovered spacecraft belonging to tiny Gray extraterrestrials whose bodies are often discovered inside crashed vehicles.
It’s worth noting that in previous incidents involving his sightings of USAF aerospace vehicles and Nordic spacecraft, covert agents caused him to look in the direction of the craft. This suggests that he is a part of a licensed transparency movement in which he is being supported in revealing the presence of an Air Force Secret space program, as well as their alliance with a group of Nordic extraterrestrials who mimic humans.
JP previously stated that he has been informed that he is not permitted to take videos of the craft, but that he is permitted to take photographs. When he tries to record videos of the spacecraft he sees,his phone shuts down, he says.
I’ve known JP since 2008, and I believe he’s telling the truth about what occurred. The photographs show without a shadow of a doubt that the remarkable events he experienced were authentic.
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5 Theories About UFOs That Don’t Involve Aliens
5 Theories About UFOs That Don’t Involve Aliens
Unidentified flying objects. Yet, the first thing that pops into our mind when we think of UFOs is the dehydrated face of an awfully malnutritioned gray alien, maybe green.
But what of UFOs? Are they really aliens? Or is there another explanation? For the sake of curiosity, we shall explore the latter..
5. Time Travellers
This is probably the second-best known theory, right after the “aliens” explanation. The idea that UFOs could be time travelers for the future has been proposed again, and again, and again.
That’s exactly why it is the first name on the list. As we progress, we’ll explore the wider and more controversial theories.
Dr. Bruce Goldberg, who is normally a dentist and hypnotherapist, claims himself to be a specialist in “future life progression”. His theory is that UFOs are actually time travellers from the distant future, chrononauts, and that grays are simply: the evolved humans.
4. The Imaginal Realm
Remember how we all have been obsessing about the Buddhist concept of “tulpas” or “imagined reality”, ever since the idea has surfaced the internet? Similar is the idea of the “imaginal realm”.
This alternate dimension is supposed to be the result of the collective imagination of all, often interlapping with this reality, leading to such phenomena as UFOs, fairies, ghosts, demons and so forth.
Also, certain people are gifted with the special ability of visualising this realm, aka, psychics, visionaries and prophets.
3. Demonic Entities
This is one of the many beliefs that Christians worrying about the “Final Days” often seem to have.
They tend to believe that UFOs and aliens are just a propaganda machine for Satan’s dark army, who are trying to control the human race camouflaging themselves as aliens from the outer space, therefore creating a world of chaos and anarchy.
While many will argue that this is paranoid, if UFOs exist, there is no reason why demons can’t.
2. Fourth Dimensional Objects
The only reason we are mentioning this theory is that we found a rather interesting quote on Listverse.com:
Imagine a flat plane on which two-dimensional creatures live. They cannot perceive our third dimension, but we can see them. Say you stick your finger into their plane.
From their point of view, an object has suddenly and inexplicably appeared out of nowhere. It also appears to change size and shape depending on exactly what cross-section of your finger is in their plane.
When you pull your finger out, the object disappears, and no one believes the two-dimensional creature who saw it because he was drunk and is always making up crazy stories.
Yep, that’s a possibility, and if it can happen to them, it can probably happen to us too. You know, when dealing with fourth-dimensional objects like UFOs. Problem is, there is no proof about an existing world of two-dimensional stick figures, or a fourth-dimensional one.
1. UFOs Are a Missing Link
If we maintain that UFOs are indeed ultra-modern spaceships used by an advanced race of creatures, it seems more likely that the creatures originate from Earth than a different planet. People who hold on to this belief often use Ockham’s Razor to justify their viewpoint.
While it seems highly unlikely that any creatures thriving on this surface are still unknown to humans, people often combine this with the Hollow Earth Theory and other “cryptid-related” theories, therefore the term “Cryptoterrestrial”.
Since 2020, the number of UFO sightings has increased in many locations in the United States. The recent statement on the upcoming UFO reports by the former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe surprised everyone. He said that some UFO sightings are hard to explain. Some officials are worried about the continuous spotting of UFOs over military bases. Is there any possibility that the military actions are being controlled by these UFOs? Not so long ago, former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas believed that UFOs are real and they do interfere in the military’s nuclear program.
A 30-year-long investigation by UFO researcher Robert L. Hastings has revealed shocking information about the connections between UFO and Nukes. He interviewed more than 50 officials of the US army, ranked from nuclear missile launch and targeting officers to missile maintenance personnel and the missile security police. According to him, the UFO activities over the US army bases have been noticed since 1948. His sources told him that mainly, the UFO incidents occurred at “Malmstrom, Minot, F.E. Warren, Ellsworth, Vandenberg, and Walker AFBs, between 1963 and 1996. Other sources were stationed at Wurtsmith and Loring AFBs, where B-52 nuclear bombers were based during the Cold War era.”
Former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas
One such incident mentioned by Captian Salas took place on the morning of March 16, 1967. He was at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in an underground capsule when he was told by the security forces that a red glowing object had been seen at the front gate of the base.
One of the airmen was enjoying the clear morning sky when suddenly a star appeared from the sky, moving in a zig-zag manner. Then another light came and started doing the same thing. He called the Flight Security Controller (FSC), and they both watched the movement of those strange lights. They reported to Salas and he asked them to keep an eye on those lights.
Firstly, it did not concern Salas because he thought that maybe his colleagues were joking. After some time, he was called by the controller again, and he (FSC) was frightened and shouting. They were watching a UFO, hovering outside the front gate.
“I can’t really describe it. It’s glowing red. What are we supposed to do? Make sure the site is secure and I’ll phone the Command Post. Sir, I have to go now, one of the guys just got injured.”
After that, Salas lost communication with the airman and security guard. He immediately contacted his commander Lt. Fred Meiwald, who was sleeping at that time. While he was on the call with Lt. Meiwald, a security alarm rang, indicating a problem within the missile system. He checked the matter and found there was a ‘No-Go’ light, and two red security lights were lit. He was just trying to understand what went wrong, consecutively several alarms went off and they lost “entire flight of ten ICBMs to a ‘No-Go’ (inoperable) condition.”
Malmstrom Air Force Base
He reported the incident to his command post and reived information from the security guard that the man who had seen the UFO was seriously injured. The security guard also told him that the UFO had a saucer shape and was constantly hovering near the front gate.
“They could have a lot more damage, permanent damage, to our weapons systems, and they didn’t,” Salas said. “If they wanted to destroy them, with all the powers they seem to have, I think they could have done that job, so I personally don’t think this was a hostile intent,” Salas said.
According to declassified documents of the incident, a team of engineers from the Boing company conducted an investigation but did not find anything that could confirm the reason behind the missile system failure. Robert Kaminski, who was leading the team, said: “There were no significant failures, engineering data or findings that would explain how ten missiles were knocked off alert,” and “…there was no technical explanation that could explain the event.”
Several other engineers tried their luck to find the cause of missile system failure but no strong evidence was found. In the end, they concluded that the system could have failed due to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sent from an unknown source.
Robert L. Hastings collected the information on the topic from various army personnel that includes Staff Sgt. Louis D. Kenneweg, Airman 1st Class David Hughes, Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Chassey, Lt. Col. Robert Peisher (USAF Ret.)
Aliens Implanted ‘Nano Chips’ Into Human Bodies And Controlling Them For Decades
Aliens Implanted ‘Nano Chips’ Into Human Bodies And Controlling Them For Decades
One of the strangest features in the cases of alien abduction is when physical evidence remains on victims’ bodies. Roger Krevin Leir (1935-2014) was an American podiatric surgeon and ufologist who had found alien implants while performing surgeries on his patients.
According to Leir’s findings, these implants were pieces of rare metals, strange wiring, something that looked like electrodes or microcircuits. Most often, they were found in the nose area (pushed very far, almost to the brain) and in the limbs.
Roger Krevin Leir with his findings
Leir started his career as an orthopedic surgeon in California and initially had no interest in ufology. But gradually, he found his interest in UFOs and aliens and then became a member of the local branch of MUFON.
However, for many years, it was just an exciting hobby for him and he did not mix this hobby with his work. But in 1955, everything changed. That year, Leir attended a UFO event, where he saw X-rays of a woman claiming to had been abducted by aliens.
Leir, being a surgeon, found something abnormal in the photographs of a woman’s body. He found several metal objects in the pictures at once and then told the woman that he could remove them from her body. Leir was driven by curiosity, he wanted to study these objects and understand what they could have been.
When he operated the victim, he discovered that they were two tiny pieces of metal that consisted of aluminum and meteoric iron. There were no scars on the surface of the skin near the area where he pulled these objects out, and there was not the slightest trace of inflammation in the connective tissue, as if the woman’s body did not consider these objects to be foreign bodies.
Alien implant
How could these objects have got into the body and what were they? Leir was confused. But then he found another patient with the same implants, and when he pulled them out, they again turned out to be objects with unusual properties.
Leir operated about dozens of people, removing many different strange objects from their bodies. All implants were unique, their shapes were not repeated, it seemed that the implants were made for each person individually.
Some of them consisted of very rare elements, for example, one implant contained U-236, an isotope of uranium, and another contained iridium. And a whole group of implants was elements that are found only in meteorites.
Sometimes implants were showing strange crystalline structures, implants like carbon nanofibers or nanotubes, covered with a very hard oily layer that prevented the body from rejecting them. Some implants were magnetic, and some were said to emit obscure radio waves at the deep space-frequency and continued to emit these signals even after being removed from the body.
Leir said that he had several cases when these implants were trying to avoid a surgical scalpel and remain in the patient’s body. And when he tried to cut the implants, they were extremely resistant to conventional instruments, and only with a laser, he was able to damage some of them.
Using ultrasonic technology to locate the alien implantPhoto credit: Un-X News Magazine
There was one frightening case when one implant, during removal, suddenly broke into several pieces, but then began to come together by itself.
According to Leir, in that case, a man from southern California had had several abductions in his life, including when he was abducted with his wife and their children.
One morning, he woke up with a pain in his toe, and then he saw several spots of blood on the sheet. After examination, Leir found a foreign body in his finger, although there was not a single wound on it and there were no traces of blood anywhere. He took x-rays and decided to remove it surgically.
After several visits, the man told Leir that he had been abducted by aliens. Leir carried out the whole operation under C-Arm (X-ray image intensifier). For the first time, the alien object split into several parts. Lier placed each piece on gauze and then transferred it to a container filled with serum from the patient’s blood.
Alien object being removed surgicallyPhoto credit: Un-X News Magazine
Leir and his team managed to remove all pieces of the object except for the last one which suddenly disappeared somewhere and was never found.
After three days of the operation, Leir found that all the broken pieces were lined up next to each other. He could only say about the properties of the foreign object that all the pieces were made of a material with a special magnetic memory.
Small metal-like object removed from the man’s legPhoto credit: Un-X News Magazine
Another frightening discovery by Dr. Leir was that he found that some implants had been in the bodies of patients for many years and even for decades.
With each of these strange occurrences, Roger Leir became more and more convinced that they were dealing with alien technology. He assumed that these implants were a kind of tracking sensor for certain people, or they were supposed to track the physical condition of those people.
Photo credit: Un-X News Magazine
Leir was well aware that his work would cause a lot of critical reviews, but until his death, he assured that in the study he adhered to the most rigorous scientific methods.
Leir wrote several books on the topic of aliens and implants, many articles in magazines, and appeared on TV and radio. A lot of accusations fell on him from skeptics, who believe that his implants are just random pieces of glass or metal that got into his patients’ bodies under various circumstances not related to aliens. Leir steadfastly resisted criticism.
There is no lack of strange sightings in New Jersey with 138 extraterrestrial reported in 2020, according to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
NEW JERSEY, NJ — There is no lack of strange sightings in New Jersey with 138 extraterrestrial reported in 2020, according to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
The majority of the sightings report odd lights moving through the air or a triangle/orb/oval-shaped object being spotted in the sky.
"2 triangular UFOs with 3 bright green lights appeared in the sky and flew towards each other," said one resident in Great Meadows.
Some even reported seeing the objects being chased by fighter pilots, such as in Cape May.
"Red dancing light. Then multiple flashing lights. Extremely silent. Three military helicopters on scene. Air tasted like perfume," according to the report.
All of these sitings made their way to a list compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center, an independent organization that's been around since 1974. The group, which has assisted police departments when people report their observations to 911, has put together a list of more than 90,000 sightings around the world.
Here are all of New Jersey's weird sightings from 2020, according to NUFORC:
Dec. 29 at 4:27 p.m., Eatontown: "Small reflective orb flying over Monmouth County, NJ followed by several military jets."
Dec. 24 at 12:35 a.m., Secaucus: "Watched small bright light travel southwest of Manhattan. It was small solid light watched it for a minute or 2."
Dec. 22 at 8 p.m., Jersey City: "Object with red blinking lights, went flying super fast over the Hudson from south to north."
Dec. 15 at 5:30 a.m., Ledgewood: "Spherical green light hovering in New Jersey."
Dec. 14 at 11:56 p.m., Sussex: "Green light moves across sky at high speeds."
Dec. 12 at 1:35 a.m., Moonachie/Little Ferry: "UFO with bright white lights at around 1:30 a.m."
Dec. 12 at 1 a.m., Bayville: "I was standing outside on the front porch and I saw 2 fireball-like objects floating through the sky flying at a fast speed."
Dec. 8 at 9:50 p.m., Great Meadows: "2 triangular UFOs with 3 bright green lights appeared in the sky and flew towards each other."
Dec. 6 at 10 p.m., Bordentown: "Few thousand feet above roof..below Orion's belt. Flashing .. pulsing..zoomed in and rectangle shape."
Dec. 2 at 2:30 a.m., Bayonne: "I got up to the bathroom after 2 in the morning, from the window I could see some very bright lights were 4 lights in an almost square."
Dec. 1 at noon, Millstone: "It flew across highway dropped to the ground and skyrocketed."
Dec. 1 at 9 a.m., Barnegat Township: "Witnessed object being chased by fighter jets 30 passes so far."
Nov. 15 at 1:45 a.m., Little Egg Harbor: "Triangle shaped. 3 circular dim lights. Craft looked semi-transparent. No sound. Smooth movement in straight line across sky."
Nov. 9 at 7:05 p.m., Pomona: "UFO sighting outside CVS."
Nov. 5 at 8:36 a.m., Long Beach Island: "Big triangular haze moving north gets to a busy street and disappears."
Nov. 4 at 11:45 p.m., Mt. Holly: "While coming outside I decided to look up because it was clear I the saw this cloud looking group of lights in the sky."
Nov. 3 at 11:50 p.m., Raritan Township: "White flashing shaped disc coming down at 45 degree angle to land on ground."
Oct. 24 at 12:16 a.m., Cherry Hill: "Oval shape white orb with tail."
Oct. 23 at 7 p.m., Westville: "One orange light and a couple white lights. Circle. Came very close to my face. No sound. Hard to make out with the lights."
Oct. 21 at 10 p.m., Mullica Hill: "Orange triangle object slowly shrinks into ball and disappears."
Oct. 20 at 11 p.m., Wharton State Forest: "I have video 4 circular lights moving back n forth and up and down stationary, 5th object was much larger and wider also moving side to side than slowly moving out of sight."
Oct. 17 at 5 p.m., West Windsor: "10-12 orb-like objects flying in a closed triangle formation."
Oct. 10 at 8: 35 p.m., Howell: "Light green fireball-like object traveling downward."
Oct. 3 at 3:50 p.m., Shrewsbury: "Further west from us and directly above at 12 o'clock was a very shiny reflective mirror or chrome colored object."
Oct. 1 at 7:45 p.m., Roebling: "...a white light moving very quickly."
Sept. 24 at 11 a.m, White Township: "2 objects not seen until exposed."
Sept. 21 at 4:30 p.m., Cherry Hill: "5 sphere light traveling toward Philly 3 in. A triangle and 1 leading with 1 trailing."
Sept. 20 at 2:34 a.m., Mount Laurel: "Tiny lights in the shape of hockey pucks, the size of a quarter circling in my back door."
Sept. 19 at 8:55 p.m., Forked River: "Fast-moving object caught on iPhone not hoax."
Sept. 19 at 3 p.m., Newark: "Clear Blue sky no clouds Star-like silver object fading in and out visible for 1 minute or 2 then disappeared."
Sept. 14 at 8:50 p.m., Hasbrouck Heights: ((NUFORC Note: Source of report provides no detailed information about the sighting. PD))
Sept. 13 at 7:45 p.m., Wayne: ((NUFORC Note: No information provided by the witness. PD))
Sept. 5 at 3:23 p.m., Elizabeth: "Observed a black disc shaped object moving slowly and occasionally emitting a sparkling light."
Sept. 4 at 11 p.m., Livingston: "I was looking at the sky and saw a white thug whiz bye too close to the ground for a meteor, followed by 2 more."
Aug. 30 at midnight, Bloomingdale: "Animal mutilation possibly UFO."
Aug. 29 at 11:15 p.m., Ewing: "Pulsating light ring which turned on and off. Looked to have emitted the light from out near the stars."
Aug. 27 at 8:47 p.m., Marlton: "Father and son see large bright orb with aura around it."
Aug. 27 at 1:30 a.m., Long Beach Island: "My friend and I decided to take a walk on the beach at around 1:30 am after a long night of talking catching up.after about 20 minutes we noticed three bright lights on the sand..."
Aug. 27 at 12:45 a.m., Phillipsburg: "1 orange egg-shaped object in the eastern sky. Stayed in one place for the approximately 2 minutes I observed, then disappeared."
Aug. 26 at 1:45 a.m., Clifton: "As I was driving down the road a glowing blue orb dashed across the sky at great speed. It was not a shooting star, or a plane. "
Aug. 24 at 8:30 p.m., North Brunswick: "Reddish-orange triangle stopped, quietly hovered then turned sharply right."
Aug. 18 at 6 p.m., Bayonne: "Fast-moving pencil-shaped object.
Aug. 17 at 9:30 p.m., Marlton: "Diamond-shaped object with red and green flashing lights."
Aug. 16 at 8 a.m., Blackwood: "While driving down highway saw 2 objects glowing like fire moving too close together at same rate of speed."
Aug. 14 at 12:08 a.m., Piscataway: "I have on video what me and my children witness last night. It was unbelievable. It shined a big spot light."
Aug. 13 at 5 p.m., Pompton Lakes: "I was sitting on lower patio looking at trees in my yard when this football-shaped object entered the yard to my right flying to my left in a u."
Aug. 8 at 10:28 p.m., Cranford: "Red orb seen being chased by military aircraft over Cranford."
Aug. 8 at 10:19 p.m., Westfield: "After hearing a loud similar to a train combine with a plane passing overhead, I looked up and saw a bean shape flat object about 30 ft wide, black and a green light on the edge."
Aug. 8 at 9:45 p.m., Nutley: "As I was viewing the planet Jupiter at night with a high-power binocular (25x100), a bright cigar-shaped object shot upwards very quickly to the left of Jupiter."
Aug. 8 at 3:24 a.m., Hillside: "Only seeable thru telescope blue and green discs floating for about 3 hours."
Aug. 5 at 8:30 p.m., Delanco: "5 Orange Glowing Spherical Objects. ((NUFORC Note: Later identified as sky lanterns. PD))
Aug. 1 at 12:45 a.m., Howell: "Saw a silver spherical flying object over I-195 moving too fast to catch and disappeared after a few miles."
July 31 at 9:36 p.m., Monroe Twp: "10-12 orange glowing slanted oval shaped objects in formation seen with no sound."
July 30 at 1 a.m., Farmingdale: "I saw a flashing bright white light."
July 29 at 10:11 p.m., Maple Shade: "Moving white light southeast to northeast then disappears. Approx 6-8seconds. About the size of bigger medium size star."
July 27 at 3:10 a.m., Glassboro: "Green and yellow lights."
July 25 at 9:49 p.m., Maywood: "Fast-moving white ball of light; no trail."
July 22, Clifton: "Bright circle, and it had 4 color lights flickering no noise moved slowly."
July 21 at 9:45 p.m., Bergenfield: "Disk Sighting."
July 20 at 10:37 p.m., North Bergen: "The most panicking moment of my life."
July 15 at 9:16 p.m., Edgewater: "I have a live picture showing a green light with odd movement."
July 12 at 5 p.m., Rahway: "My husband and I were doing yard work and he noticed a round circle like a ball he called me and I saw the same it was shining."
July 11 at 10 p.m., Clinton: "Satellite-like moving star with bright flashes every few seconds."
July 9 at 10:15 p.m., Hillsborough: "Three red lights in the shape of triangle witnessed moving across sky, then change direction, then disappear."
July 4 at 9:39 p.m., Old Bridge: "At first there were 2 glowing orange lights- one in front of the other. Another third light appeared to make a triangle."
July 4 at 9:30 p.m., Bellmawr: "Quickly moving sphere of alternating colors passing about 10 miles east of Philadelphia the night of July 4th, 2020."
July 1 at 10:45 p.m., Trenton: "A fiery triangle object flying about and made no noise in the night sky."
June 29 at 12:55 a.m., Bayonne: "Triangular shaped unidentified flying object with three lights at its corners hovering over the Hudson River for roughly 45 seconds."
June 28 at 4 p.m., Hazlet: "I was taking phone videos of storms in my area,when 21 seconds into video a round red object went from north to south."
June 27 at 10:40 p.m., Howell: "Spherical red and orange extremely bright glowing object lasted two to three minutes and left the atmosphere as white in 3 seconds."
June 27 at 7:30 p.m., Sea Bright: "Skate Fish Egg shaped object followed by a translucent sphere, disappeared over the ocean."
June 23 at 6:15 p.m., Bridgewater: "Repeated daylight sightings of high altitude box kite shaped object over central NJ."
June 17 at 1:38 a.m., Fairview: "A bunch of unexplained beams of lights coming from meadowlands area and huge triangle-shaped falling stars."
June 15 at 10:50 p.m., Ramsey: "The shape seemed to be slightly triangular, and tiered. As if 3 triangles were stacked on top of each other overlapping one another by 50%. There were 2 sets like this, flying in tandem approximately 100 feet apart. It appeared as if they were each about 50 ft tall and 20 ft wide."
June 13 at 10:20 p.m., Cherry Hill: "8-10 Glowing orange orbs traveling from south to north at night."
June 13 at 11 a.m., Flemington: "Moving white light in sky with naked eye looks like an extremely fast satellite bigger than usual."
June 12 at 8:55 a.m., Lumberton: "Very high altitude, circular UFO, sighted in high-speed maneuver."
June 10 at 12:30 a.m., Asbury Park: "Unusual lights on Asbury Park Boardwalk as seen on webcam."
May 30 at 11 p.m., Vineland: "Round bright red flaming ball of light."
May 30 at 1:30 p.m., Vineland: "It had a red eye and I think it new I was looking at it."
May 21 at noon, Brick: "Irregularly shaped craft hovering stationary then moving at an incredible rate of speed."
May 13 at 3:37 a.m., Springfield: "Yellow light floating across my grass as it descended it set off my Ring lights. The image can be seen on the Ring doorbell camera."
May 4 at 11 p.m., Wantage: "Bright light moving extremely low and slow with periodic bright shards of colored lights beaming down periodically."
May 3 at 8:30 p.m., Hawthorne: "My wife and I were sitting on my porch and I noticed what looked like a light in the distance. It was hovering and moving in different directions."
May 3 at 8:20 p.m., Maple Shade: "was sitting outside and looked up. it was a black oval disk and it was it was turning sideways as it flew. It was still light out."
May 2 at 7:45 p.m., Brick: "Bright white light due north."
May 1 at 9:50 a.m., Oak Ridge: "Patterned high altitude fast moving lights Over 35!"
April 28 at midnight, Hammonton: "they travel very fast in single line in the sky traveling from the west."
April 28 at 9 p.m., Mays Landing: "30 silent bright lights moving fast in a row."
April 23 at 7 p.m., Swedesboro: "As I was leaving work is when I saw a bright object in the sky. It was raining and the skies were grey with clouds and not much sunlight. It appeared to be cigar shaped, stationary and also very bright like glowing white."
April 21 at 8:30 p.m., Interlaken: "It would zig-zag and go up and down not the first time I’ve seen."
April 16 at 10 p.m., West Deptford: "Immensely bright light hovering."
April 13 at 9 p.m., Montville: "Very bright light. Much larger than a star I took a picture and video. It appears to have a halo effect around it."
April 13 at 7:30 p.m., Neptune: "Bright light that hovered for hours, resembled a very bright star."
April 12 at 9 p.m., North Bergen: "snake shape bright light."
April 11 at 10:30 p.m., Perth Amboy: "The object was bright white at times stem like branches, object moved in various vertical and horizontal movements very slow."
April 11 at 10:04 a.m., Monroe Township: "There was an inner red light with a larger outer blue light that was much taller."
April 7 at 11:22 p.m., Burlington Co. (Presidential Lakes Estates): "Bright red orb from all sides. 10 seconds. Then disappeared. Have video."
April 6 at 9:45 p.m., Fort Lee: "Huge bright light appears and moves like it’s inspecting the earth below."
April 1 at 9 p.m., Pompton Lakes: "8-10 very distant objects that looked like a star moving perfectly in a line with each other and vanishing."
March 30 at 9:50 p.m., Howell: "2 of us witnessed a quick bright light, then we saw a flash of orange trail and it disappeared. It definitely was not a shooting star."
March 26 at 9 p.m., Wanaque: "Very bright white shape from cylindrical to round, hovered in same place for 40 minutes, eventually went higher and faded from view."
March 26 at 5:55 a.m., Newark: ((NUFORC Note: Source of report provides no information. PD))
March 26 at 5:50 a.m., Edison: "I noticed that the stars were real bright...at first it looked like the big dipper."
March 25 at 10 p.m., Kinnelon: "Bright spinning light hovering for about 45 minutes."
March 20 at 3:55 p.m., Monroe: "Bright circular flying objects."
March 17 at 10 a.m., Howell: "It was very bright in the sky, far away I saw what I thought to be helicopter under the object, lights were green."
March 16 at 12:02 a.m., Glassboro: "3 lights moving in sky over Route 322."
March 15 at 9:55 a.m., River Edge: "An object was spotted in the Northeast direction from Bergen County, NJ for over 20 minutes."
March 14 at 2 a.m., Bayville: "Elongated light with aurora beams going downwards to bay an jutting side to side very quickly."
March 11 at 4:55 a.m., Atlantic City: "20 or more lights making formation above ocean and hotel roofs. Lasted from 40 to 60 minutes."
March 9 at 7:15 p.m., Martinsville: "Bright light above the SW horizon like a star but too low to be a star. Hovering but occasionally moving in an erratic way."
March 4 at 9 p.m., Cape May: "Red dancing light. Then multiple flashing lights. Extremely silent. Three military helicopters on scene. Air tasted like perfume."
March 4 at 8:41 p.m., Atlantic City: "I saw two orange lights and them disappeared."
March 2 at 8:15 p.m., Jersey City: "Bright light surrounded by small lights, all change color and move in an strange manner."
March 2 at 8 p.m., Phillipsburg: "I saw a brightly lit object in the sky flying from East to north west. It was fast and silent it did not stop . I watched it fly across the sky for about six seconds flight."
March 1 at 11 p.m., Berlin Boro: "They looked like stars moving or satellites in a single line formation around 5:30 am east coast."
March 1 at 7 p.m., Hawthorne: " Flying objects."
March 1 at 5:40 a.m., Tenafly: "12 starlights were moving in formation from SW-NE direction."
Feb. 27 at 9:56 a.m., Norwood: " MADAR Node 145"
Feb. 24 at 5: 21 a.m., Edison: "Viewing small object appears then winks out."
Feb. 20 at 7:33 p.m., Norwood: "MADAR Node 145"
Feb. 15 at 1 a.m., Bridgewater: "Large blue light streaming and disappearing in midair very low to the road."
Feb. 14 at 9:15 p.m., Mullica Hill: "Bright round light! Just hovered still and then had a bluish and red light next to the bright light as it took off."
Feb. 13 at 2 a.m., Atco: ((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD))
Feb. 10 at 9:15 p.m., River Vale: "MADAR Node 146"
Feb. 8 at midnight, Ocean Gate: ((NUFORC Note: Witness, who elects to remain totally anonymous, provides no information. PD))
Feb. 8 at 5:48 a.m., Tenafly: "String formation. Looked like stars one after the other for a good 15 min."
Feb. 2 at 5:53 a.m., Hamilton Township: "MADAR Node 62"
Feb. 1 at midnight, Teaneck: "100 ft triangular craft with bowl."
Jan. 23 at 12:30 a.m., Blackwood: "I was driving down the road and looked up and saw a super bright red light in the sky. It looked close and was very big."
Jan. 17 at 5: 30 a.m., Princeton: "...it looked like a huge floating platform just hovering in the sky above a large shopping center near my house. It was black and solid, blacker than the dark winter sky, with white, and the occasional red and green lights irregularly placed around it."
Jan. 13 at 5:38 p.m., Trenton: "Moving flying object filmed from flight from Orlando to Albany"
Jan. 9 at 9:56 a.m., Laurel Springs: "I took 4 pictures of a cylinder shaped craft in the sky."
Jan. 9 at 1 a.m., Audubon: "Blob and green light seen near moon."
Jan. 6 at 9:20 p.m., Waretown: "Low-flying light formation hovers and then disappears."
Jan. 1 at midnight, Brick: "Large orange glowing ball floating across sky."
Have you seen anything unusual in the sky? Tell us in the comments below.
The truth may be out there. But don't expect the feds to share what they know anytime soon on the recent spate of UFO sightings.
Some military and spy agencies are blocking or simply ignoring the effort to catalog what they have on "unidentified aerial phenomenon," according to multiple current and former government officials. And as a result, the Biden administration will likely delay a much-anticipated public report to Congress.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the director of national intelligence to work with the Defense Department to provide a public accounting by June 25 on unexplained sightings of advanced aircraft and drones that have been reported by military personnel or captured by radar, satellites and other surveillance systems.
The request came after revelations in 2017 that the Pentagon was researching a series of unexplained intrusions into military airspace, including high-performance vehicles captured on video stalking Navy ships.
But those advising the investigations are advocating for significantly more time and resources to retrieve information from agencies that in some cases have shown reluctance, if not outright resistance, to sharing classified information. And they worry that without high-level involvement, it will be difficult to compel agencies to release what they have.
"Just getting access to the information, because of all the different security bureaucracies, that's an ordeal in itself," said Christopher Mellon, a former Pentagon intelligence official who lobbied for the disclosure provision and is continuing to advise policymakers on the issue.
For example, he asserts that a Pentagon task force established last August and led by the Navy has had few personnel or resources and only modest success acquiring reports, video or other evidence gathered by military systems.
The Pentagon task force is expected to be the primary military organization contributing to the wider government report.
"I know that the task force has been denied access to pertinent information by the Air Force and they have been stiff-armed by them," Mellon said in an interview. "That is disappointing but not unexpected."
The Air Force, which is historically most associated with UFOs from its investigations during the Cold War, deferred all questions on the subject to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which has similarly said little publicly about the effort.
"To protect our people, maintain operational security and safeguard intelligence methods, we do not publicly discuss the details of the UAP observations, the task force or investigations," said Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough, who declined to address the criticism.
The report due to Congress will include "a detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by" a host of means, including imaging satellites, eavesdropping equipment and human spies.
It also must include "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." The report must contain "a detailed description of an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the federal government, regardless of which service or agency acquired the information."
Gathering such information from across the national security bureaucracy is enormously challenging, Mellon said.
"They have to repeat that painful process with scores of different agencies," he said, citing the Army, CIA, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
A spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told POLITICO the report to Congress is in the works, but declined to offer further details. “We are aware of the requirement and will respond accordingly.”
Any delay in delivering it is likely to be perceived by a large segment of the public as an attempt by the government to hide what it knows.
But there is growing pressure from Congress for a more organized effort to compile what the government has learned and reveal how it is trying to solve the mysteries.
Sen. Marco Rubio, who was responsible for requesting the report, told Fox News this week that he does not believe military and intelligence agencies have come to any solid conclusions about the origin of the UFOs. But he insisted that the reports demand a more comprehensive intelligence-gathering effort.
"You have all the stigma and the taboo that is associated with it," said Elizondo, who serves as an informal adviser to the military. "Organizations whose mission this might fall squarely into are resisting adopting this mission. There's been so much public taboo about this for decades that no one wants to risk their professional careers and that of their bosses on a topic like this without being directed."
He also sees what he called "passive resistance," or "they're just not going to do anything to support it," such as applying resources or personnel to the activity.
Others see a lack of cooperation among different agencies and a desire to protect sensitive information that could benefit adversaries.
"One of the challenges that [the Defense Department] has had in the past is that a lot of these intelligence-gathering organizations, a lot of the military services' organizations that gather data on intrusions, are all extremely stovepiped and federated," said Ellen Lord, who served as undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment until January and was briefed on the Pentagon efforts.
She also said there may be valid reasons not to make it all public. "I think it is sometimes easy ... to go down a rabbit hole for the sci-fi, alien piece of this," she said in an interview. "In reality, there is a lot of technology that has been leveraged by our adversaries and we have ways to deal with that.
"But that is something that is not typically spoken about in public forums. Therein lies the challenge of some of these things," she added.
The secrecy surrounding the effort has been demonstrated by the Pentagon's refusal to even discuss any details of its UAP task force, not even how many personnel are assigned to it or what budget it has been given.
Elizondo believes there is little chance such obstacles can be overcome by June under the current level of effort and is advocating for an interim report that requests more time and resources. "We can do this right or we can do it right now," he said.
"It's certainly not sufficient time to provide a comprehensive, government-wide report that Congress not only expects, but that Congress deserves and frankly, so does the American people," he added.
Mellon thinks it could take months or longer. "In addition to the onerous job of trying get everyone to come clean," he said, "there will be a sensitive and probably difficult process of getting all the players ... to agree on the language and approve it. That process alone could take weeks or months."
Mellon also said the direct involvement of senior executive branch officials, including Haines and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, "is likely to prove necessary to compel the cooperation needed to do the job properly."
The good news," he added, "is the leadership on both sides appear to be taking this issue seriously and are acting in good faith."
Half a century ago, NASA scientists shot a map into space that contains the position of Earth for aliens to find—but it won’t always be accurate.
However, the daughter of the man who made that map is ensuring the next one will remain accurate not just for a few million years, but for a billion years.
How it began
In December 1971, NASA was excitedly preparing to launch the Pioneer 10 capsule that would not only study Jupiter for the first time, but set a path to drift out of our solar system.
As Pioneer 10 would likely be the first earth-made object to ever be discovered by aliens, the American astrophysicist Carl Sagan thought we should leave a message on board. His colleague Frank Drake thought we should send a map onboard as well.
So Sagan and Drake came up with a famous image—a line drawing etched into a gold-anodized aluminum plate that depicted the male and female frame, with the male waving in what would hopefully be construed as a gesture of good will. It also depicted a simple diagram of our solar system, and galactic coordinates for Earth.
Detailed view of the visual message on a Pioneer plaque/NASA Ames
A special moment
The launch was one of those moments in history that for many turned the volume down on everyday things like the stock market, election season, the school year, or problems at work—the kind of moment that caused people from all walks of life to gather around and say “wow, that was special.”
However the galactic coordinates method, albeit brilliant at the time, which Drake used to formulate the position of Earth, has a limited number of years to work. The method uses pulsars: the leftover body from a supernova explosion. Pulsars are very bright and spin at incredibly fast speeds. They’ve also been theorized to be the most effective points by which to navigate space, as the timing of their rotations, and the radio frequency their spinning creates, are constant and reliable for periods of millions of years.
Only a handful of these pulsars were known in Drake and Sagan’s time, and so their options were limited. But as Nadia Drake, Frank’s daughter, explains in her story for National Geographic, pulsars do slow down over time, removing their eventual usefulness as waypoints.
Each line etched onto the gold-aluminum plate detailed the pulsars’ placement with respect to Earth, while the lines themselves were drawn in a binary code which would allow any space-fairing intelligent race to calculate the rotational speed of each one.
The Voyager Golden Record/NASA
This would also allow aliens to figure out how long ago the message was sent, because they could measure the rotational decay of the pulsar in years based on the speed during 1971 and at the time the message was found.
However this was also the map’s downfall, because the slowing down would effectively inhibit aliens from figuring out which pulsars Drake and Sagan were using.
A family business
One of the world’s “most prolific pulsar astronomers” is also Nadia Drake’s husband, and he was able to use the same method, but with more consistent “binary pulsars,” to draw a new map that could be reliably decoded for billions of years.
Tonight we gave a talk @astronomyontap, about the pulsar map on Scott’s shirt, and the bartender @KardinalHallVA made us special cocktails with Ransom gin - They are called Ransom’s Ransom and they are yummmm. Thanks AoT for a stellar evening! - pic.twitter.com/ZyoIpLBN0o— Dr. Nadia Drake, PhD (@nadiamdrake) February 6, 2019
The binary pulsars, also known as millisecond pulsars, sit in dead orbits that won’t change even after billions of years. They spin much faster and last much longer. Scott Ransom, Nadia’s husband, also used pulsars that orbit Milky Way in what are called globular clusters.
Orbiting beyond the reaches of our galaxy, globular clusters are like millisecond pulsar factories, and shine beautifully through space telescopes. They’re fascinating places, and act as much better signposts for would-be aliens searching for our planet—even as the positions of the stars within the Milky Way alter and shift.
Finally, our concept of time and distance would be foreign to any aliens, so like Frank Drake, Ransom included the detailed chemical structure of hydrogen—the most plentiful element in the universe.
When hydrogen electrons change the direction of their spin, they release a radio wave. By comparing the speed of the radio wave to the speed of light, the map offers a new way to calculate both time and space that any race clever enough to pick out a silent spacecraft like Pioneer 10 would be able to decode.
The US Navy and the Pentagon were reluctant to admit the pilots from the USS Nimitz encountered Tic Tac candy-shaped UFOs off the coast of San Diego in 2004, but it’s assumed by many that there’s more in the files than was eventually released. That proved to be true this week when The Drive, a military news website with a knack for finding out secrets, revealed that at least one and possibly as many as five other warships encountered mysterious long-flying drones (UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) off the coast of Los Angeles in 2019 using more sophisticated equipment than was available in 2004. Yet it appears the UAVs were not able to be identified at the time or in subsequent investigations. What in the name of tiny mint pill-shaped candies is going on?
Did the navy ship #USSKidd #DDG100 encounter a UAP in July 2019 in So Cal OPAREA Trying to find out more. The ship logs indicate a “Snoopy Team” was deployed – an intel section that tries to visually ID objects. DM if you know more. Near San Clemente island #TicTac @UfoJoe11
U.S. warships like those in the report
This story begins with a 2020 tweet by Dave Beaty, a documentary filmmaker and “UFO Researcher Producer @ WWII Foundation who produced “The Nimitz Encounters – A Short Documentary Film.” Beaty appeared to be looking for info on an incident he heard about involving the destroyer USS Kidd (DDG-100) – an incident serious enough to deploy an onboard intelligence “SNOOPIE (Ship Nautical Or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Exploitation)” team. This alerted The Drive to get involved by making Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In response, they received deck logs from the USS Kidd which pinpointed its location. That helped identify other ships in the immediate area, including U.S. Navy destroyers USS Rafael Peralta, USS Russell, USS John Finn, and the USS Paul Hamilton. From all of the logs, The Drive pieced together two nights of Tic Tac UAP sightings beginning on July 14, 2020.
The Drive has screen shots of the logs and detailed accounts of the various activities (see them here) which I will attempt to summarize. The USS Kidd reported two UAVs at around 10 pm and deployed the SNOOPIE team to document them. The ship then advised the USS Rafael Peralta, which activated its own SNOOPIE team and reported a “white light identified hovering over” the ship’s flight deck that matched its speed of 16 knots in conditions of low visibility and for around 90 minutes – indicating this was not a commercial drone. The logs of the USS John Finn also showed sightings.
Additional FOIA documents show that on July 15, the USS Russell spotted drones at 8:39 PM, and the USS Kidd saw them shortly thereafter, with both deploying SNOOPIE teams. The USS Rafael Peralta received a radio call from a passing cruise ship, the Carnival Imagination, notifying them that the drones are not theirs, and that they saw as many as five or six maneuvering nearby. The USS Rafael Peralta crew later saw four and then two more drones. The Drive notes that all of these sightings on July 15 were closer to shore than on the previous night and none of the ships appeared to have identified the drones.
Who or what is messing with U.S. warships?
Emails show a Navy and Coast Guard investigation began on July 17, with the FBI also being called in. Various possible sources or owners of the drones were identified, investigated and rejected. Just when the investigation seemed to stop, more sightings occurred – on July 25 and 30th by the USS Kidd. The Drive notes that it has not received other deck logs to determine if any other ships saw these UAVs.
The Drive asks the right questions, and we have a few more. Who is operating drones around U.S. warships? What kind of drones can travel 1000 miles from shore, reach speeds of over 45 mph and hover for 90 minutes? Are these military drones being clandestinely tested by the U.S.? If they’re foreign, why was there no combat? Are they related to the 2004 Tic Tac drones? Are they related to the “long cylindrical object” spotted over New Mexico by American Airlines pilots last month? If they’re aliens … well, good luck getting the Pentagon to reveal any more. One thing is certain – the Navy collected a lot of data that The Drive has only scratched the surface of.
Kudos to The Drive and Dave Beaty for their intrepid work and coverage of this breaking story.
There are numerous reports of odd humanoid beings and aliens that take all manner of shapes and sizes. reports like this are endless, often achieving a status of being completely surreal. One subspecies of humanoid sightings are those entities that seem to float or hover, defying the laws of gravity and even physics, and these have formed a whole are of unexplained phenomena. One such case comes to us from the country of Thailand, where villagers stumbled across a levitating, enigmatic creature that still has not been totally explained.
In the early morning hours of August 31st, 2005, the tiny rural village of Huay Nam Rak, in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, about 488 miles north of Bangkok, seemingly became the destination of an otherworldly visitor. On this morning, over a dozen villagers near one of the many rice fields of the area allegedly witnessed a small, floating humanoid around 30 inches in height, with yellowish skin, huge red eyes, and a large head and ears, a tiny mouth, and with no arms and skinny legs. The entity was first sighted by a man named Sawaeng Bunratchasak, who had been riding his bicycle past the field when he saw the strange humanoid creature hovering through the air. He at first took it to be a scarecrow until it floated high up above the field and seemed to move like a living creature, even seeming to look right at him and nod its head. The startled man then rode off in a panic to tell others of what he saw, and they came running to see it for themselves.
Many people saw the mysterious entity, which purportedly floated around the clearing for over an hour. Some witnesses described it as looking like a child, while others thought it looked somewhat robotic or like an animated doll, since its movements were jerky and unnatural. Still others believed it to be a ghost or spirit, but the main consensus was that it was an alien. It hovered all around the field, apparently under some sort of power, occasionally nodding at the onlookers or looking at them with a pleading look “as if asking for help,” and then suddenly it lifted off to disappear into the sky. Some of the witnesses would describe the entity as sort of stretching out and turning black in color before shooting up into the sky like a rocket, while others said it had gone up into a bright orb of light in the sky. One witness, 35-year old Sawaeng Boonyalak, would say of the creature:
The alien is about 70 cm high and has yellow skin and flat chest. Its mouth is very tiny. It has bald big head with big eyes and big ears. Suddenly, the alien floated to a tree top. After more villagers came to see it, it floated into the sky into the bright light.
When word of the bizarre sighting got out, hundreds of curiosity seekers began flocking in to the field, as well as news crews and reporters, and in the meantime local officials launched an investigation into the matter, which turned up no evidence of the alleged creature. Unfortunately, the poor rural farmers who had seen it did not have cameras, but they were able to make sketches of what they had seen. The police were very skeptical of the whole thing, accusing the witnesses of drinking, but they all insisted that they had been completely sober. In this sleepy village where not much ever happened it created quite a bit of excitement at the time, but a possible mundane explanation would emerge.
One resident of a nearby village by the name of Tongmuan Pochailoet would claim that he had found an old helium filled doll trapped up in a tree earlier that month and had refilled it to hang outside his home as a scarecrow. He said that this doll was 3 feet high and had an oversized head and small limbs. The doll worked a charm in scaring off the birds that threatened his crops, but he would unfortunately lose it during a storm. According to him, that was two days before the sightings at that field, and so he was certain that what was seen must have been his lost helium doll. However, most of the witnesses denied that they could have possibly seen an inanimate floating doll. The creature has been too lifelike and had moved its legs and head, even looking right at them and reacting to them. The entity had also moved about in an intelligent manner on its own power, even against the wind at times, and then there was the way it shot up into the sky, or by some accounts entered a UFO. Those who had seen it were certain that it was no helium doll. They were even more certain when Pochailoet showed them a picture of his doll and every single one of the witnesses said it looked nothing like what they had seen.
What was this strange entity that was witnessed? Was it really nothing more than an inflatable helium doll? If that were the case, how could so many people see it and misidentify it? was it simply the wild imaginings of simple, uneducated villagers? Whatever the case may be, it seems to have caused a minor hysteria at the time, and we are left to wonder just what those people saw out there.
Over the years, UFO witnesses and investigators have claimed that their phones – whether smartphones or landlines – have been secretly monitored by what some might call “Them.” To many people, this might sound like nothing but outright paranoia. The fact is though that “monitoring” of the UFO field has been going on for a very long time. And, today, I’ll share with you some intriguing cases. Let’s begin: While digging through a whole host of formerly classified files on UFOs at the National Archives at Kew, England in 1996, I came across a one-page report dated 28 March 1965 that, I confess, I almost overlooked. On closer inspection, however, I realized that it was potentially one of the most important UFO-related documents that I had ever come across. According to the MoD paperwork, on the night in question a witness saw at approximately 9.30 p.m. over moor-land near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England: “Nine or ten objects – in close triangular formation each about 100ft long – orange illumination below – each triangular in shape with rounded corners, making low humming noise.” They sounded very much like the “Flying Triangles” of today.
The witness, Jeffrey Brown, told me that “For about eighteen months after the sighting, I would get strange telephone calls from people. These would be every two or three months. They just phoned out of the blue but didn’t introduce themselves. They just said they were from some bureau or other. They didn’t mention the name of the bureau but kept mentioning ‘sightings’ and asked whether I had seen anything else strange. Had any men come to interview me?” Mr. Brown was never visited by anyone with regard to his Flying Triangle encounter, nor did the MoD ever offer an explanation as to what it was that he saw on that fateful night in March 1965. He was, however, unnerved by those mysterious telephone calls – primarily because aside from informing the MoD of what had occurred, he made no other report (either official or unofficial) with anyone and kept the details to himself. Brown’s report can still be read at the National Archives.
Claudia Cunningham was christened by long-time UFO researcher and author, Tim Beckley, as the “MIB Lady,” due to her diligent and dedicated research into the phenomenon, as well as being someone who had her very own run in with one of the MIB in 2009, as I detailed in my book The Real Men in Black. In the late 1970s, Claudia experienced something that many researchers and witnesses encounter: strange and unsettling telephone interference. She told me of what happened at the height of one of her UFO investigations, when she had just got a new phone. Claudia got a very intimidating call. In her own words: “A man with a guttural and threatening voice said very emphatically, ‘Claudia? I see you just got home. Do you know know what I’m going to do with you? I’m coming over now’ and hung up. I thought I would absolutely die on the spot. Just think, now: a brand new phone with a brand new number. No-one had it. If a neighbor saw me pull in they wouldn’t have my phone number to call me, so it was no neighbor. I heard a car pull in the driveway as I was planning to run out through the cellar through the cellar door to escape and it was my parents. Thank the Good Lord. I never found out who it was, nor do I want to know. I was involved in my studying UFOs, etc. and I was always very nervous and upset around that time to begin with.”
In 1996, UK UFO researcher Irene Bott and I investigated an alleged UFO crash in the woods of Cannock Chase, England. It was said to have come down back in 1964. After promoting the story in the local newspaper (The Chase Post) an elderly man, Harold South, came forward to share what he said he knew of the affair. In fact, he said he knew a lot. South claimed to have been at the site and said he was warned not to talk about what he’d seen. For years Harold had remained silent. Things changed, though, when me and Irene began investigating his claims. In December 1996, the two of us arranged to visit South in person. We did so on the 11th of the month. We called him – from my landline – in the morning and arranged to drive over to his home. When we got there, we could see South was very disturbed and worried. He claimed that in the time between me calling him and me and Irene arriving at his place, he had received a call from the Ministry of Defense – something that had put Harold into a state of distinct unease. South said that the MoD told him to call another number – as in right away. He did not. Rather, South put the phone down.
I have to say that, at first, me and Irene suspected this was a ruse: South’s way of getting out of being interviewed – after possibly having changed his mind about speaking to us. It turned out that was not the case, though. We asked South if we could use the U.K.’s “1471” system (that permitssomeone to find the number of the most recent incoming call). We dialed. Sure enough, and just as South said, there was a Ministry of Defense number. It turned out not to be from the main MoD building in London, but from the Ministry of Defense Guards Service at a local military base, Whittington Barracks. The person who we spoke to claimed no knowledge of the MoD’s call to South, even though we pointed out that we had specific evidence of the call. The conversation went no further – apart from round in circles. South, by now, was a man on edge: he quickly closed the conversation with us, clearly concerned that he was now in a situation that he had no desire to be in. South stopped the interview and refused to speak to us again. It was just another day in the weird world of UFOs.
Cases like those above absolutely abound. There’s little evidence to suggest it’s all down to fantasy and hoaxing. Indeed, the UFO research community has been watched, listened to, and followed for decades. And, no, it’s not a matter of paranoia. It’s a matter of reality.
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UFO In "Madonna and Child" Painting, 1400s, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO In "Madonna and Child" Painting, 1400s, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of painting: 1480-1515 (exact unknown) Artist of painting: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Sebastiano Mainardi and to Jacopo del Sellaio (artist unknown)
Hey, in this old painting there is a UFO with brilliant shiny light emanating from it. At first I thought it was a mistake, mold growing, a stain, a mistake of some sort. But as I looked closer I realized it was purposely made. What makes me think that? Well, first off the object has golden beams of light shooting from it. Also it has a domed lower bottom area and two antenna sticking from its top. To top it off, there is a man and his dog in the painting, staring up at the UFO in the sky.
I do believe in god and I subscribe to all religions. But I can see that the artist saw not only a similarity but a link between Jesus and aliens. By putting Jesuses mother in the painting its a direct link to Jesus himself and they are being watched and protected by a UFO in the distance. I think there is a fine line between religion and aliens. What I mean is...when a alien species evolves high enough...they will have angelic-like powers and abilities...and the fine line is then gone. Earth is only 4.3 billion years old, but astronomers say the universe is 13.5 billion years old. So there are many species out there that had 9 billion years of evolution ahead of us. I call those species ascended species...species that have survived and evolved beyond the materialistic body to become pure energy and thus take any form they want, traveling without a spaceship, basically...performing miracles in our eyes.
UFOs Seen Streaking Across Oregon and Washington State, 3-25-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Seen Streaking Across Oregon and Washington State, 3-25-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 3-25-2021
Location of sighting: Oregon, Washington, USA
Watch this video below and you will see some mysterious glowing objects streaking across the sky. Now the us agencies are trying to spread disinformation by falsely telling the public that this is SpaceX debris falling. I know for a fact that Elon Musk would not allow such debris to fall over America. He instead would aim it at the ocean area where it can crash to earth safely. Elon thinks ahead, he plans ahead and would never ever allow SpaceX parts to crash over American soil, or any land for that matter. So, this is not SpaceX, what is it? Easy...a fleet of UFOs trying to look like meteors...but meteors fall, these are following each other and not falling but moving in a straight line. These are UFOs!
Strange lights taking off recorded by surveillance cam in Hawaii
Strange lights taking off recorded by surveillance cam in Hawaii
On March 22, 2021 the Ring surveillance cam of a resident in Aiea, Hawaii recorded a strange string of lights pulsating and taking off out of the driveway, passes the tree, moved up into the air, flew south-bound over Pearl Harbor and dropped down into the ocean.
Landlocked Bermuda Triangle: The Mexican Zone of Silence
Landlocked Bermuda Triangle: The Mexican Zone of Silence
Of all the sites that are unexplained, the Bermuda Triangle is usually the first one that comes to mind. Located in the Caribbean, it is renowned for the ships and radio signals that have disappeared without explanation in recent years. Yet, there is another, perhaps lesser known region in which the inexplicable occurs. This location is often referred to quite simply as Mexico's Zone of Silence.
A Land Were Radio Signals Die
Located in the Chihuahuan Desert (not titled such for an unexplained number of dogs), Mexico's Zone of Silence is precisely what it sounds like: a pocket of land in which radio signals die, preventing communication to and from the area, and directionality loses all meaning. According to reports from visitors of the area, which is also known as the Mapimí Silent Zone, if one brings a compass as a backup tool, that person is out of luck—the arrow of the compass will spin uncontrollably, confusing all sense of direction. Consider the spinning compass from Disney's Pocahontas…just without the sage old Grandmother Willow to decipher the compass' meaning.
One of the most prominent investigators of the Zone is a man called Benjamin Palacios, known for his somewhat touristy home and the tours of the Zone he provides to visitors to the region. However, it seems that the mysteries of this site were not always known.
Rumors abound that the Mexican government hid the unexplained occurrences, possibly evidenced by the lack of tourist sites, hotels, etc. nearby the desert. Supposedly the site was only exposed to the public as unusual when an American missile mistakenly crashed in the Zone of Silence. While retrieving the missile, United States agents were exposed to the unexplained.
Supposedly the site was only exposed to the public as unusual when an American Athena RTV test rocket mistakenly crashed in the Zone of Silence.
An article regarding the statement from the US government claims that,
"On July 11, 1970, the United States Air Force launched an ATHENA V-123-D rocket from Green River Launch Complex in Utah. While its intended target was the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it impacted '180-200 miles south of the Mexican border,' according to a recently released memorandum sent from the desk of Henry Kissinger, then serving as National Security Advisor to President Nixon."
It appears, if this quote is accurate, that a technological error revealed the Zone of Silence as an unexplained, possibly alien, site.
As is the case with most locations described as unexplained, "research" is ongoing to determine what other factors might be playing a role in the strange activity of the site. Reports of plant and animal investigations are plentiful, as well as an examination of the geological make-up of the region.
Zona del Silencio (Zone of Silence) landscape in Mexico.
And, of course, as with all locations in which the words "unexplained" or "inexplicable" are attached to their names, rumors of alien investigations are equally extensive.
It appears that numerous people have reported UFOs in the region, strange lights, and burning bushes, not unlike those described anywhere near Roswell, New Mexico or Area 51. It is also intriguing for theorists to point out the Zone of Silence falls on the same coordinates as the Bermuda Triangle, itself only recently (likely) explained.
Yet, aside from the numerous theories of UFO and alien influence in the Zone's fifty-kilometer (31-mile) radius, the unexplained occurrences might, in fact, have explanations. Scientists have discovered underground deposits of meteorite debris called magnetite. Essentially, magnetics beneath the surface of the desert are what disrupt radio waves and the metal arrow of compasses.
This theory further explains the enigmatic site when one realizes that meteorites striking the Chihuahuan Desert were not uncommon in the 1900s; three have been reported striking the desert between 1938 and 1969. Those that prefer the theory of aliens likely do not hold much stock in the meteorite claims. Perhaps these people prefer to insist on a government cover-up, or an extraterrestrial trick.
Regardless, it appears that the Zone of Silence remains among the list of the unexplained, more than likely because it is far more beneficial for tourist revenue than the title "the Zone of the not-so-unexplained Silence."
'ZOMBIE-GENEN' IN HET BREIN KOMEN NA DE DOOD TOT LEVEN
'ZOMBIE-GENEN' IN HET BREIN KOMEN NA DE DOOD TOT LEVEN
Vivian Lammerse
De ontdekking heeft verstrekkende gevolgen voor postmortaal hersenonderzoek.
Artsen verklaren een persoon ‘dood’ als diegene stopt met ademen en het hart geen bloed meer door het lichaam pompt. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat alles er in het lichaam ook meteen mee ophoudt. In de uren na iemands overlijden zijn bepaalde cellen in het menselijk brein namelijk nog steeds actief. Sterker nog, in sommige gevallen worden de cellen zelfs actiever.
Studie In de nieuw gepubliceerde studie bogen de onderzoekers zich over de genexpressie in vers hersenweefsel dat verzameld was tijdens hersenoperaties. “We besloten een gesimuleerd doodsexperiment uit te voeren door het hersenweefsel bij kamertemperatuur te bewaren om zo de dood na te bootsen,” legt onderzoeker Jeffrey Loeb uit. “Vervolgens keken we naar de expressie van alle menselijke genen in de daaropvolgende 0 tot 24 uur.”
Zombie-genen De onderzoekers ontdekten dat 80 procent van de geanalyseerde genen 24 uur lang relatief stabiel bleven; er veranderde niet veel. Daarentegen degradeerde een andere groep genen – waarvan bekend is dat ze aanwezig zijn in neuronen en waarvan is aangetoond dat ze op een ingewikkelde manier betrokken zijn bij de menselijke hersenactiviteit zoals geheugen en nadenken – in de uren na de dood snel. Deze genen zijn met name relevant voor wetenschappers die aandoeningen zoals schizofrenie en de ziekte van Alzheimer bestuderen. En dan bestaat er nog een derde groep genen. Deze zogenaamde ‘zombie-genen’ bleken na de dood juist tot leven te komen: ze werden veel actiever. De activiteit van deze zombie-genen bereikte na ongeveer twaalf uur het hoogtepunt.
‘Zombie-genen’ in het brein komen na de dood tot leven.
Afbeelding: Dr. Jeffrey Loeb/UIC
Het zijn interessante bevindingen. “De meeste onderzoeken gaan ervan uit dat alles in de hersenen stopt wanneer het hart stopt met kloppen,” zegt Loeb. “Maar dat is niet zo.” De actief geworden zombie-genen komen binnen één type cel tot expressie: ontstekingscellen die gliacellen worden genoemd. Deze gliacellen blijken dus na de dood tot leven te komen en groeien uit tot lange, armachtige aanhangsels. “Dat gliacellen groter groeien na de dood is op zich niet zo verwonderlijk,” vertelt Loeb. “Het zijn namelijk ontstekingsremmende cellen. Het is hun taak om dingen op te ruimen na hersenletsel, zoals zuurstoftekort of een beroerte.”
Jeffrey Loeb
JENNY FONTAINE/UIC
Implicaties De ontdekking heeft verstrekkende gevolgen voor postmortaal hersenonderzoek. “Wat belangrijk is, zijn de implicaties van deze vondst,” zegt Loeb. “De meeste onderzoeken die postmortaal menselijk hersenweefsel gebruiken om behandelingen en mogelijke genezingen te vinden voor aandoeningen zoals autisme, schizofrenie en de ziekte van Alzheimer, houden geen rekening met de postmortale genexpressie of celactiviteit.”
De bevindingen betekenen volgens de wetenschappers niet dat we onderzoeksprogramma’s naar menselijk weefsel moeten stopzetten. “Wel zouden onderzoekers rekening moeten houden met deze genetische en cellulaire veranderingen,” onderstreept Loeb. “We zouden het postmortale proces zo veel mogelijk moeten verkorten om de omvang van de veranderingen in het brein na de dood te verkleinen. Het goede nieuws is dat we nu weten welke genen en celtypen stabiel zijn, welke degraderen en welke in de loop van de tijd juist meer tot expressie komen. Hierdoor gaan we de resultaten van postmortale hersenstudies steeds beter begrijpen.”
WIST JE DAT…
…onderzoekers al eerder ontdekten dat het breintot wel 10 minuten nadat de dood is ingetreden actief kan blijven? Ondanks dat het hart stopte met kloppen en de bloeddruk in de slagaderen wegviel, maten de onderzoekers hersenactiviteit. Het doet een belangrijke vraag rijzen: want wanneer is iemand nu echt overleden?
Was Pentagon researching on alien and UFO-related incidents?
As space agencies like NASA and non-profit organizations like SETI are trying hard to find proof of alien existence, a top scientist has warned that the crucial first contact may not be that great for humanity. Jacco van Loon, astrophysicist and director of Keele Observatory at Keele University warned that humans should be very cautious while dealing with aliens, as an advanced extraterrestrial species might have the intention to destroy humanity.
Aliens might be hostile
In a recent article written on The Conversation, van Loon claimed that advanced aliens that might be living in the distant nooks of the universe may not be friendly, and sometimes, they might be hostile towards humans. According to van Loon, if aliens may get interested in the earth, they will wipe out humanity from the surface of the blue planet.
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"They may be interested in our planet. Earth has perfect conditions for life. Aliens might need another home, if for some reason – such as climate change, nuclear war, or an enormous asteroid impact – they had to leave their own planet. It's also possible that they would not be looking for friendship. There are plenty of examples from our history of times when humans have traveled somewhere on Earth and acted cruelly, killing or enslaving the people that lived there. Aliens settling on Earth might want us out of their way," wrote van Loon in his article in The Conversation.
Will aliens eat humans?
Alexander Pearce, an Irish convict notorious for cannibalizing his fellow prison escapees had once claimed that human meat is one of the tastiest meats he ever had. Jacco van Loon believes that aliens might eat humans if they find our meat delicious and nutritious.
"Humans are predators who eat other lifeforms. Aliens might find us nutritious or tasty too," the astrophysicist added.
Jacco van Loon also suggested that aliens, if present somewhere in the universe are not contacting humans because they might be considering earthlings as a primitive species. He also made it clear that some advanced extraterrestrial species may not be interested in life outside their planet.
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What do they know? US federal officials gives 'mysterious' response to 'fleet of UFOs'
What do they know? US federal officials gives 'mysterious' response to 'fleet of UFOs'
A BIZARRE fleet of bright lights moving quickly across a sky has sparked a frenzy about a “fleet of UFOs” - leaving experts baffled and even prompting a response from the US government.
A mysterious video of a “fleet of UFOs” has sparked worldwide alarm, with some calling the strange moving lights an “armada”. The bizarre footage, captured in the skies of Casper, Wyoming in the US, has sparked alarm among local officials and questions for the US government. In the video, a continuous stream of white objects can be seen flying over the town of Casper.
A mysterious video of a “fleet of UFOs” has sparked worldwide alarm
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User comments speculate drones, balloons, lanterns, and possible other-worldly activity
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“I think it’s possible it was balloons or possibly drones.
"They weren't orbs they look like crafts, I thought drones maybe.
“But, if they were drones they had a really long range because they flew clear over the horizon out of sight but they were completely silent and they were pretty close.
"I figured if they were drones I would have heard the propellers but I have no idea what it was, it was a trip.”
More than a dozen appear to flash, and the objects seem to be moving in formation in one direction
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Officials at the nearby airport denied any knowledge about the strange lights.
Glenn Januska, Director of Casper Natrona County International Airport said that he wouldn’t be able to identify the lights.
He deferred identification to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The bizarre footage, captured in the skies of Casper, Wyoming in the US, has sparked alarm
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Allen Kenitzner, spokesperson for the FAA’s Northwest Mountain Region, said that he wasn’t able to offer a positive identification of the phenomenon immediately.
He mysteriously added that there wasn’t anything in the air that the FAA wasn’t able to identify that night.
This has prompted speculation that the US knows what the mysterious lights are.
One viewer of the video suggested it was "the first sign of an alien invasion".
Another wrote that it could be new military technology, adding "that definitely looks like an air assault formation".
Scientists prove how Moon was formed after finding chunk of doomed planet that smashed into Earth in its core
Scientists prove how Moon was formed after finding chunk of doomed planet that smashed into Earth in its core
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
SCIENTISTS think they've found a 'chunk' of the doomed planet suspected of creating the Moon underneath the lunar surface.
One theory for the creation of the Moon is that a large planet crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago and debris that fell from our planet became the Moon.
The Theia collision hypothesis is how a lot of scientists think the Moon was formedCredit: Getty - Contributor
The impacting planet, referred to as Theia, is thought to have fused with Earth but scientists think they've now found a 'chunk' of it buried deep under the lunar surface.
The Theia impact, also referred to as the giant impact or the 'big splash', is a hypothesis which suggests that the Moon was formed from debris that was broken off Earth when a giant planet sized object collided with it.
This planet sized object is known as Theia and is often described as an 'ancient planet' that was the size of Mars.
Analysis of Moon rocks has suggested that the impact was one direct hit and the Moon could actually be a combination of a chunk of Earth and parts of Theia.
This timeline shows how all the debris from the collision could have eventually merged togetherCredit: Wikimedia Commons/Citronade
For the first time ever, scientists believe they've found traces of Theia on the Moon which could confirm the favoured model for explaining its formation.
The researchers, from the University of New Mexico, wrote in their paper: "This model was capable of accounting for the then-recent observations from samples returned by the Apollo missions.
"Which included the Moon's low iron content relative to Earth, depletion in volatiles and enrichment in refractory elements, while avoiding most of the pitfalls of previous lunar origin theories."
The study required an intricate look into the makeup on the Moon and revealed that it's more different to Earth than previously thought.
Previous computer models of the impact have suggested that 70-90% of the Moon should be material from Theia.
Other's suggest the Moon should be similar to Earth.
This should be easy to determine as most bodies in the Solar System have their own chemical makeups that can be differentiated from one another.
The researchers intensely analysed the Moon rock samples and found small differences in the isotopes that make up the Moon and Earth.
Study lead author Erick Cano, a stable-isotope geochemist at the University of New Mexico, told Space.com: "Going into this project, it was expected that our results would likely mirror that of previous studies.
"The most surprising part of our results was finding the amount of variation that we did between the individual lunar samples."
The variation in all samples suggested that the deeper into the Moon's surface, the more similar the Moon becomes to Theia than Earth.
The researchers wrote in their study: "Our data suggest that samples derived from the deep lunar mantle, which are isotopically heavy compared to Earth, have isotopic compositions that are most representative of the proto-lunar impactor ‘Theia’."
The researchers now support the idea that the Theia collision led to mixing between the Mars-sized planet and Earth.
They think this mixing led to the similar but distinct compositions of Earth and the Moon.
Scientists eagerly await new Moon rock samples so that theories like this can be tested further.
The Moon is a natural satellite – a space-faring body that orbits a planet
It's Earth's only natural satellite, and is the fifth biggest in the Solar System
The Moon measures 2,158 miles across, roughly 0.27 times the diameter of Earth
Temperatures on the Moon range from minus 173 degrees Celcius to 260 degrees Celcius
Experts assumed the Moon was another planet, until Nicolaus Copernicus outlined his theory about our Solar System in 1543
It was eventually assigned to a "class" after Galileo discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610
The Moon is believed to have formed around 4.51billion years ago
The strength of its gravitational field is about a sixth of Earth's gravity
Earth and the Moon have "synchronous rotation", which means we always see the same side of the Moon – hence the phrase "dark side of the Moon"
The Moon's surface is actually dark, but appears bright in the sky due to its reflective ground
During a solar eclipse, the Moon covers the Sun almost completely. Both objects appear a similar size in the sky because the Sun is both 400 times larger and farther
The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was in 1959, as part of the Soviet Union's Lunar program
The first manned orbital mission was Nasa's Apollo 8 in 1968
And the first manned lunar landing was in 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission
THERE APPEARS TO BE A HUGE CHUNK OF AN ANCIENT PLANET BURIED INSIDE EARTH
THERE APPEARS TO BE A HUGE CHUNK OF AN ANCIENT PLANET BURIED INSIDE EARTH
THEIA'S IMPACT WITH THE EARTH CREATED THE MOON — AND PERHAPS LEFT SOME SHRAPNEL BEHIND.
Ancient Shrapnel
There are two gigantic blobs of dense material lurking in the lower depths of the Earth’s mantle beneath West Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Thousands of miles wide, the blobs have been one of the planet’s best-kept secrets — and baffled for scientists for decades.
Now, there’s mounting evidence that the blobs might be remnant shards from an ancient protoplanet named Theia that crashed into the Earth around 4.5 billion years ago, Science Magazine reports. Scientists previously suspected there was a link between the blobs, formally known as large low-shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs), and the Moon, but most thought the LLSVPs were planetary scars from Theia’s impact, not pieces of the alien world itself.
Kicking Around
To be fair, this isn’t the first time that scientists have speculated that the underground blobs were remnant shards of Theia, Science reports. But Qian Yuan, the Arizona State University graduate student who presented the idea at last week’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, seems to have made the most compelling case yet.
“I think it’s completely viable until someone tells me it’s not,” Arizona State seismologist Edward Garnero, who didn’t work on the study, told Science.
Special Delivery
The smoking gun in Yuan’s work, as it were, is seismological evidence that the LLSVPs are chemically different from the rest of the mantle rock that surrounds them. That suggests that the blobs have extraterrestrial origins — and because they’re six times more massive than the Moon, something as large as a protoplanet would have had to shear them off.
Even though the research remains somewhat speculative, seismologists emboldened by studies like Yuan’s are increasingly convinced that other pieces of otherworldly shrapnel could also be hiding beneath the Earth’s surface, according to Science. Uncovering them, they suspect, could help reveal that Earth’s ancient past was far more violent than what we know so far.
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When an alien lands on the White House lawn, who should greet him (her? it?): someone from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or someone from the Fish and Wildlife Commission?
How, one might ask, can an extraterrestrial (ET) visitor have any rights at all? The ET is not a member of our society, our species, or our planet. And, loosely speaking, these three qualifications are the most fundamental bases for justice under modern human law. Must we then sadly admit that any ET visitor must necessarily remain totally rightless?
In the most general sense, a right is a power or privilege, a fair claim of freedom of action inherent in one person as against all other persons. It may be based upon any one of a variety of legal theories, ranging from the doctrine of natural rights (“equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family”) and civil rights (equality of treatment for all inhabitants), to civil liberties or legal rights created by law and dependent upon the existence of civilized society (as opposed to natural rights).
In practice, it has proven exceedingly difficult to apply the doctrine of natural rights. In this country, as elsewhere, there exist no absolute privileges for any individual. There is no justice in a legal vacuum or state of anarchy.
Rights must therefore be defined by law. That is, the value society places on a particular right (through its laws) may be measured by the complexity of procedure and burden or proof that must be borne to destroy it. While one’s driver’s license can be revoked rather easily, the right of a person to his life is very highly valued by society, and can only be wrested away by substantial justification before several batteries of juries and appellate courts.
If rights are defined by law, then to whom are rights of various kinds accorded under American jurisprudence? In general, both our Constitution and our statutes speak of “persons” as the entities to whom right may accrue.
Nonpersons, such as animals, trees, rocks and machines, have no rights and are treated as property. Property may not bring legal actions on its own behalf, although the human owner of property may do so to recover his own losses. (Private groups and governmental authorities can also initiate lawsuits against an owner for misuse of his property, such as in nuisance or animal cruelty cases. But the reparation rarely flows to the benefit of the property itself.)
The history of the scope of protection and legal rights in general is most illuminating. In The Descent of Man (1871), Charles Darwin pointed out that among primitive tribal states it was widely accepted behavior to commit what we would regard as serious crimes (robbery, murder) against strangers or innocent travelers.
As an example, he cited the “North-American Indian…[who] is well-pleased with himself and honored by others, when he scalps a man of another tribe…. In a rude state of civilization the robbery of strangers is generally considered as honorable.”
The tales of Homer tell us that Odysseus, returning home after the Trojan wars, summarily executed at least a dozen of his slave girls – for suspected “misbehavior” in his absence. At that time, slave girls were regarded as mere property, possessed of no rights whatsoever. As one commentator put it, “the disposal of property was…a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong.”
In early Roman times prior to the introduction of Justinian law, a father retained jus vitae necisque – the right of life and death – over his children. Male parents could banish or execute their children, or sell them into slavery. Children (nonadult humans) were thus not legal persons, in our modern understanding of the term.
More recently, certain other classes of humans have had less than complete rights under American law. For instance, in the well known Dred Scott v. Sanborn (1857) case, Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney wrote with solemn judicial punctilio that blacks were “a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race.”
A Virginia court (one year later) articulated this position with even greater clarity: ‘So far as civil rights and relations are concerned, the slave is not a person but a thing.” Hence, little more than a century ago in this country, human beings of a particular race were deemed nonpersons (and therefore mere property) in the eyes of the law.
Over the years, the status of personhood has gradually been extended to include blacks, children, women, aliens (foreigners) and prisoners, and has come to signify in most recent times a “human being.” But it should be noted that in each case it was a long, hard battle to extend rights to any new class of entities. It will be no different in the case of the extraterrestrial.
On the other hand, there are a few liberal trends on the horizon. The law has long recognized that groups of humans – such as corporations and municipalities – may be considered as legal persons for some purposes. A corporation is sometimes referred to as a “citizen” of a country, though in reality it is just a fictitious entity. Also, there are many groups working for an increase in the rights of animals. (While enforcement remains a problem, dolphins and other marine mammals may be killed only in very well-defined and specific situations under federal law.) And at least one jurist has suggested that trees and rivers be granted a measure of legal personhood.
There is ample material to construct either a liberal or a conservative view of the ET visitor under American law. In any prima impressionis situation, the legislators and courts must draw upon all arguments available to them. But we must bear in mind that the law is primarily a product of social problems and conflicts. If there are few problems, there is little law. Hence, there is not and cannot be any body of substantive doctrine to direct us in assessing the rights of the ET.
There are, however, a few basic guidelines that have been established. “Metalaw” is that branch of theoretical law which deals with a generalized jus naturale (natural law) relating to all sentient beings, be they on Earth or on other worlds.
Metalaw Today
How should we treat extraterrestrial visitors? This fundamental ethical question must first be dealt with before we may address ourselves to their rights under the law.
As we sift through the mountains of philosophical and sacred writings which represent our species’ collective anthropocentric wisdom, we find the so-called “Golden Rule” cropping up again and again. For example: “What is hateful to thyself, do not unto they neighbor” (Babylonian Talmud); “A man should treat all living creatures as he himself would be treated” (Sutra-Kritanga); “You must expect to be treated by others as you have treated them” (Seneca); “Do naught to others which if done to thee would cause thee pain” (Hindu Mahabharata 5.1517); “We should behave to friends as we would wish friends to behave to us” (Aristotle); “Hurt not others with that which pains yourself” (Buddhist Udanavarga 5.18); and, of course, “As you wish men to do to you, so also do you to them” (Christian Bible, Luke vi. 31). Should we, then, apply the Golden Rule in dealing with sentient extraterrestrial beings?
The world’s first space lawyer, the late Andrew G. Haley, addressed just this question at the Seventh International Astronautical Conference in Rome (September 17-22, 1956). The Washington D.C. attorney stated that Metalaw, defined as “the law governing the rights of intelligent beings of different natures and existing in an indefinite number of different frameworks of natural laws,” would require a different moral basis than present earthly law.
The Golden Rule, Haley observed, is starkly anthropocentric. It promotes as a standard of ethical behavior the subjective needs and wishes of humans. In his paper ‘Space Law and Metalaw – A Synoptic View,” he pointed out that to treat other sentient creatures as we would desire to be treated might well mean their destruction. There is no equitable or ethical basis by which we may be allowed to impose our values on ETs. Instead, we must find out how they wish and require us to treat them.
Haley framed the Great Rule of Metalaw in a deceptively simple form: Do unto others as they would have you do unto them. This is that only way to ensure justice for beings that are “scarcely imaginable.” Absolute equity is the only principle of the laws of mankind that we should permit ourselves to project into our considerations of intelligent extraterrestrial life forms. The Great Rule preserves this principle, by granting individual sovereignty to each sentient race in the cosmos.
What of the possibility of malevolent ETs? Surely we must violate the Great Rule and ruthlessly defend ourselves at all costs? Haley argued not unconvincingly that virtually all extraterrestrial civilizations will either be inferior to us by a fair margin, or will be far superior technologically. (This is also the finding of modern exobiological theory.) Of the inferior ones, we should have little trouble physically restraining them from doing us harm. Of the superior ones, they should have no fear of us whatsoever and will most likely treat us with benevolence as a result.
This is, of course, an old argument – and not fully satisfying, since it solves the problem by defining it away. The solution to our dilemma lies in the Great Rule itself and the principle of absolute equality. Each set of facts must be examined on its own merits. More specifically, we should authorize the use of “reasonable force” in dealing with less-than-benevolent ET visitors: Just enough force to restrain them from damaging us, but only exactly that much, and no more.
The next great leap forward in the development of Metalaw occurred in 1970, with the publication of the first full-length book on the subject. Relations with Alien Intelligences, written by the Austrian jurist Dr. Ernst Fasan, represents an excellent attempt to evolve a sophisticated set of metalaws consistent with jus naturale. Dr. Fasan relies on a theory of absolute equity in the form of an ethical “litmus test” – the Categorical Imperative, as proposed by the 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
In Kant’s own terminology, the Imperative proposes a moral axiom which is true a priori for every sentient being: “Act in such a way that the maxim of your will can at the same time always be valid as a principle of general legislation.” In other words, when considering a particular course of conduct, judge whether or not it is desirable that it become a general rule. For instance, if one contemplates murder, he should ask: ‘Would it be desirable for everyone to murder?” Clearly it would not, since acceptance of this proposition would lead to the death of the murderer himself.
Using the Categorical Imperative, the Great Rule, and a few very basic assumptions about the character of the extraterrestrial creature (alive, three-dimensional and physically detectable, intelligent and possessing a “will to live”), Dr. Fasan derives eleven fundamental metalaws of general validity. In descending order of importance, they are:
(1) No partner of Metalaw may demand an impossibility.
(2) No rule of Metalaw must be complied with when compliance would result in the practical suicide of the obligated race.
(3) All intelligence races of the universe have in principle equal rights and values.
(4) Every partner of Metalaw has the right of self-determination.
(5) Any act which causes harm to another race must be avoided.
(6) Every race is entitled to its own living space.
(7) Every race has the right to defend itself against any harmful act performed by another race.
(8) The principle of preserving one race has priority over the development of another race.
(9) In case of damage, the damager must restore the integrity of the damaged party.
(10) Metalegal agreements and treaties must be kept.
(11) To help the other race by one’s own activities is not a legal but a basic ethical principle.
Unfortunately, these fine metalegal concepts have not found their way into American law. Fasan’s metalaws provide an elaborate ethical-legal superstructure upon which practical statutes and juridical decisions may eventually be constructed. But the rules do not now have the force of law – hence, they are not directly applicable to the early phases of first contact on planet Earth. What will our government, and our present legal system, do in a first contact situation?
First Contact Jurisdiction
There are innumerable ways in which first contact may occur. Relations may take place with the whole extraterrestrial race, or with representative organizations of their race, or with individual members. Similarly, interaction may occur with all of humanity, a part of humanity, or single persons.
The scenario frequently discussed by exobiologists involving radiotelescope communication would be a case of race meeting race. Murray Leinster’s science fiction classic “First Contact” is an example of a meeting between two representative organizations – a subgroup within each race.
Contact may also be classified according to the intensity of interaction. Remote Contact, probably the safest method, would involve interstellar or galactic radio links. Direct Contact might entail a well-publicized (authorized) landing at an Air Force base, with clear prior notice given us by the ETs – or perhaps an arranged rendezvous on the Moon. The most dangerous and controversial of all, however, is Surprise Contact – a sudden confrontation without warning or advance preparation.
Let us analyze such a case of Surprise Contact: A single extraterrestrial visitor, landed in a relatively conspicuous local (park, open field, etc.) in a typical state.
First of all, unless the ET is buzzing houses in his spacecraft, has a grossly nonhuman appearance, or is wreaking destruction far and wide, his presence may actually go unnoticed for quite some time. But eventually a passing motorist or pedestrian will spot the creature, who perhaps is garbed in a spacesuit or other unconventional attire. The local police will receive a report of a strange creature roaming the streets.
Since local authorities get mountains of crank calls, they probably won’t dispatch a patrol unit until several reports have been received or until the ET inadvertently maims someone. The police cruiser will arrive at the scene shortly thereafter. Depending on the alienness of the extraterrestrial, the policemen may suspect a prankster at first (as has happened many times!), until the creature either reveals its primary physiological differences or displays command of superior technology.
If a large crowd has gathered, the ET may be in trouble. There are cases on record of crowds mobbing and killing “admitted space beings” (who were really human pranksters, as it turned out). The officers will immediately call in local reinforcements, which should arrive in ten minutes or less. The county sheriff will also be notified, as well as the State Police or Highway Patrol – these groups will dutifully respond within twenty minutes, but will make no decisions.
The police will also quickly alert the local Civil Defense authorities. From there the buck passes swiftly up through the county Civil Defense office to the state Civil Defense office, at which point the governor of the state will be apprised of the situation. He has the authority to declare a state of emergency or invasion and call out the National Guard (state militia) for assistance.
The militia maintains local bases equipped with jeeps, tanks, and cannons, should these be required. The Guard can probably be mobilized and on the scene in less than an hour to assist in the apprehension and detention of the extraterrestrial, and in crowd and riot control. The governor, in the meantime, will have notified the Federal Department of Defense, and, of course, the President.
The Defense Department will place the Army Area Commander in immediate charge of maintaining order, and the local Air Force and Naval District authorities will probably also enter the picture, but with clearly subordinate roles. Pending direct Presidential orders, the Army commander remains in temporary control.
The President will undoubtedly notify Congress immediately, calling an emergency session to obtain legislative direction. But it is important to realize that, on his own, the President already possess sweeping authority should he care to exercise it. A vigorous, “expansionist” Chief Executive would be likely to assume far greater personal control than a more passive, wait-and-see President. The personality of the person in the White House may therefore be a decisive factor in the early stages of first contact.
The United States is presently in a state of national emergency. (It has been continuously since the early 1930s!) This fact is not generally known or appreciated by the public. The Presidential proclamations of national emergency issued under Roosevelt (1933), Truman (1950), and Nixon (1970, 1971) were not terminated when the crises that spawned them had passed. Our country remains under four separate active declarations of emergency.
This means that broad Presidential authority is available to dispose of the ET as the Chief Executive sees fit. Another declaration of national emergency could also be forthcoming at this point. But even if the President does assert full, immediate control, considerable confusion will still result.
Federal agencies will jockey for jurisdiction, based on entwining statutes and overlapping authority that would put a Gordian knot to shame. The CIA and FBI, suspicious of the possibility of a foreign hoax and the dangers to national security caused thereby, may try to intervene at the holding area and assert some influence of their own.
Even more important, they will be trying to protect the ET – a potentially valuable military resource – from foreign agents, saboteurs, kidnappers and assassins. (The entire American defense establishment will probably be placed on full alert status.)
The Treasury Department, also suspecting a hoax and fearing for the President’s life, may try to get into the act by sending in Secret Service agents to verify the authenticity of the ET. Of course, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency will all be vying for power as well.
The Public Health Service, under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), will want to establish local quarantine and detention authority under 42 U.S.C. §264 et seq of the Federal Code. (The Department of Agriculture may try a similar trick under 21 U.S.C. §101 et seq, if they argue that the extraterrestrial is an animal and not a “person” – see discussion below).
The Attorney General, under 8 U.S.C. §1222, has the legal authority to order immigration officers to “temporarily detain” the ET in contemplation of deportation proceedings. And naturally, the Department of Transportation will be anxiously searching for the space traveler’s vehicle, as will the military and various intelligence agencies.
A host of civilian organizations will clamor to be heard, probably within hours of first contact. The SPCA, Humane Society and other animal protection groups will want assurances that the ET is receiving “adequate housing, ample food and water, reasonable handling, decent sanitation, sufficient ventilation, shelter from extremes of weather and temperature” and so forth, as required by the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. §2131 et seq, as amended to include any warm-blooded animal used for “laboratory purposes”) and state animal cruelty laws.
NASA will probably have some complaints to make, along with the national Academy of Sciences, assorted astronomical and zoological societies, and many other scientific groups. And, sooner or later, the United Nations will get wind of the “capture.” Although the UN has no real authority within domestic borders, vehemently unfavorable world opinion could easily be roused to a fever pitch.
My point is simply this: Our federal laws provide no clear and unambiguous legal direction. Without the leadership of a strong President, tremendous confusion and jurisdictional squabbles will erupt almost instantly. And we have assumed a rather passive, obeisant extraterrestrial. If he is in any sense more active, there could be fearful and unfortunate complications.
The creature will at last be safely in military custody, under very heavy guard and probably under quarantine. (I suspect a contingency plan lies dusty in some half-forgotten Pentagon file.) As for his future legal rights, our visitor must await a final adjudication by Congress.
Animal or Person?
As suggested earlier, an entity cannot be said to hold legal rights unless some judicial or administrative body is authorized to review the actions of those who threaten to usurp those rights. Furthermore, most of our laws, codes, statutes and constitutions afford rights only to “persons.” The distinction between animals and persons is therefore of critical importance.
The strict legal definition of “animal” is: “Any living being, not a human, endowed with the power of voluntary motion.” The ET is clearly not a member of the species Homo sapiens, and is therefore nonhuman. He does, however, appear capable of voluntary motion. Hence, a rebuttable presumption of animalhood will arise: the ET will be considered a legal animal by default.
There are several kinds of animals. Under Roman law all animals were considered ferae naturae (wild animals) – they were regarded as common property having no owner. As the law developed, and animals began to play more important roles in society, the courts created a second class, domitae naturae (domesticated animals).
These were further subdivided into “generous” (of commercial value to man – cows, sheep, and other herbivores) and those of “base nature” (animals not useful for work – household dogs, cats, etc.). Domestic animals can be the subject of ownership, and can therefore be estrays (a kind of wandering property). Estrays may be impounded as public nuisances and destroyed after thirty days if no owner makes a claim.
If the ET visitor is to be regarded as an animal, he will undoubtedly be classified as ferae naturae, no proof of tameness or ownership being evident. A wild animal running loose on private property may be hunted and killed, and thus reduced to personal possession.
Such an animal on federal lands is subject to the Department of the Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Commission: on state lands, it is subject to the state’s department of fish and game. Either authority may declare a “special open season on said game,” or the department itself may destroy the animal causing damage to property.
Even if the extraterrestrial is somehow regarded as being tame, his position is not improved. The fact that animal cruelty laws exist in virtually all states does not alter the creature’s basic rightlessness. Also, most cruelty statutes specifically exclude invertebrate animals. If our ET resembles a cross between a sea scorpion and a grasshopper, he’ll be out of luck.
The whole idea of treating the extraterrestrial visitor as an animal may seem outrageous to many at first, but this is the letter, if not the spirit, of the law. We’ve seen that human beings have often been denied the elementary status of personhood. (It should come as no surprise that in the thirteenth century, a law was passed in England proclaiming humans of the Jewish faith to be “men ferae naturae, protected by a quasi-forest law. Like the roe and the deer, they form an order apart.”)
But with a little luck we can chart a course to legal personhood for the ET. This may best be accomplished by demonstrating the wider implications of humanness. While some may myopically argue that the essence of humanity is strictly defined by the human genome, the sounder view is that the essence of man is mind – the rationality of a sentient organism. Attempts to articulate this elusive characteristic have included “mental ductility,” “ability to transmit culture,” “ability to fashion tools,” “ability to symbol,” “predisposition to learn from experience,” and “self-awareness.”
Raw intellect is not enough, however, to qualify one for personhood. Dolphins and whales, elephants, dogs, pigs, and other animals are able to demonstrate surprisingly high intelligence in certain situations – and the law doesn’t consider them legal persons. Yet infants, drugged people, insane or retarded people, all are considered legal persons, though their mental faculties may be practically nonexistent. Intelligence is perhaps a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for personhood.
High technology is not good enough either. Although they have visited us, and so possess superior technology a priori, this does not presuppose the existence of intelligence. For instance, it is possible that a society of antlike creatures could develop a technology without any single member possessing independent intelligence.
In his book Persons – A Study of Possible Moral Agents in the Universe, Dr. Roland Puccetti, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Singapore, proposes another kind of test for personhood. The basic assumption – and it is a persuasive one – is that “moral persons” should also be considered “legal persons.”
The Puccetti Test thus asks the following of the extraterrestrial: Can he take a moral attitude? Alternatively, is he capable of making moral judgements? If so, if he possesses some system of ethics, Puccetti would class him as a moral and legal person. (Puccetti allows that intelligent machines could be considered persons using this test – a perfectly acceptable result.)
If the ET visitor can pass the Puccetti Test, and demonstrates his intelligence, Congress would doubtless be justified in granting him legal personhood under our laws.
Extraterrestrial Persons
In ancient and medieval times, as well as in primitive tribal states, the general tendency was to view the foreigner as an outlaw, criminal, or enemy. The jus gentium (the equitable law of nations) of the Romans, and the unity of all humans promoted by Christianity (“You shall have but one law for alien and native alike.” Leviticus xxiv. 22), helped to encourage a greater universality of attitude.; However, it was not until modern times that the legal alien acquired significant rights under law.
As far as basic rights for the extraterrestrial visitor are concerned, once he has been declared a legal person he has crossed the most fundamental juridical threshold. Our Constitution speaks of the rights of “people” and “persons,” and the 14th Amendment extends this mantle of protection into state jurisdictions as well. Hence, any person physically present within the borders of our country will be protected by the Bill of Rights – whether citizen, alien, or extraterrestrial.
As far as the specifics of classification are concerned, there are many ways to judicially view the ET. For example, he may be considered a refugee. A refugee is a technically stateless person – he is neither citizen (or national) nor subject of any foreign government on Earth. one definition of the refugee is as follows: “Any person uprooted from his home, who has crossed a frontier – natural or artificial – and looks for protection and sustenance to a government other than his former one.” This seems to fit the extraterrestrial rather well.
In many foreign countries, where the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons is operative, refugees are guaranteed minimal legal rights commensurate with foreign nationals. In the United States, however, even stateless persons are protected by the Bill of Rights.
Another way the ET may be viewed is as an alien, defined as “any person owing allegiance to an foreign government.” The home planet of the extraterrestrial is certainly “foreign,” in a very broad sense, and so the ET may be classified accordingly.
There are several kinds of aliens. An illegal alien is one who has entered the country illegally, without passing through the normal channels of admission (i.e., the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, under the Department of Justice). Our extraterrestrial has certainly made an illegal entry, and theoretically should be subject to immediate deportation proceedings. But a decision to “deport” the ET would create more problems than it would solve.
Another kind of alien is the alien enemy (a citizen of some hostile foreign power). If the President proclaims that the landing of the ET is a prelude to or threat of invasion and war, he is authorized under 50 U.S.C. §21 to order a federal marshal to “apprehend, restrain, secure and remove” all alien enemies. This course of action seems unlikely in the extreme, since the creature is already in Army custody and, in a practical sense, cannot be “removed” (deported – where?).
A way around the immigration problem is to classify the ET as an essential alien. 50 U.S.C. §403h provides that, with the concurrence of the Director of the CIA, the Attorney General, and the Commissioner of Immigration, any alien deemed “ essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence mission” or vital to the interests of national security may be admitted for permanent residence (and ultimately naturalization and citizenship) without regard to admission procedures.
This would seem quite possible in the case of the extraterrestrial, since a major foreign policy consideration will be the creature’s advanced technology. Any nation on Earth in possession of the visitor and his hardware would theoretically gain a significant psychological and military advantage.
The ET might also be classed simply as an alien amy – a friendly alien. Although this normally requires proper immigration, there are ways around this rule. Alien crewmen of foreign vessels, and aliens in transit, are exempt because their stay in the country is very temporary. If the ET is viewed as having entered the country for “business or pleasure,” or as a “bona fide student, scholar, specialist, or leader in a field of specialized knowledge or skill,” he is again exempt under 8 U.S.C. §1101 as a visiting alien.
Another distant possibility is the granting of ambassadorial status to the extraterrestrial. As a full diplomat, the ET would serve as the representative of his own government while on Earth. (Diplomats have full immunity from prosecution.) Or the ET may be seen only as a consul, a mere commercial agent for his government, entitling him to fewer immunities. Normally, however, there must be diplomatic reciprocity before a foreign envoy of any kind is afforded ambassadorial rank. Since we know nothing of the extraterrestrial government, such unilateral diplomatic relations are highly improbable.
As a last resort (in my view the wiser course), Congress may decide to entirely junk the above anthropocentric pigeonholes. A new legal classification might be created – the “extraterrestrial person” or “pseudoperson” – which grants the ET a measure of rights and responsibilities in keeping with the basic principles of Metalaw. At long last, jus naturale, galactic conscience and universal equity may find a home in American jurisprudence.
Robert A. Freitas Jr., “The Legal Rights of Extraterrestrials,” Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 97(April 1977):54-67
On March 8 of this year I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “All About Those Flaming UFOs! Literally Flaming!” The article was focused on why I concluded that aliens from faraway worlds would never soar around our skies by using something so primitive (for them) as chemical-rocketry. It’s this particular issue that made me conclude both the Lonnie Zamora “UFO landing” of 1964 and the Cash-Landrum UFO-Helicopter affair of December 1980 – both of which involved crafts spewing out flames – had terrestrial origins. Clearly, there was no highly-advanced technology involved. That means the craft were built and flown by us – and not by incredibly advanced extraterrestrials. In fact, when it comes to looking at matters carefully, it’s ridiculous to even consider that either craft (and crew) came from another planet. The “ridiculous” angle also comes into play when we take a look at the most famous “alien abduction” of all time: the Betty and Barney Hill incident of September 1961. In my view, the Hills had an encounter with humans – almost certainly connected to something akin to the controversial MK-Ultra program that began in the early 1950s.
Betty, Barney and Delsey, the Hill’s beloved dog
One of those who came to believe that the Hills had been subjected to an MK-ULTRA-type encounter was the late Philip Coppens. He said: “It is clear that the Hills were being monitored by USAF [U.S. Air Force] Intelligence before the encounter took place, through Major James MacDonald, who had befriended them some time earlier. Betty Hill wrote to [UFO researcher / author] Donald Keyhoe who, despite the fact that he received over a hundred letters a day, homed in on this initially unremarkable case. Within twenty-four hours, Keyhoe had arranged for the Hills to be visited by top-level scientists, including C.D. Jackson, who had previously (definitely not coincidentally) worked on psychological warfare techniquesfor President Eisenhower [italics mine]. Stretching coincidence far beyond breaking point, Jackson already knew Major MacDonald, with whom he next interviewed the Hills.” Philip continued on: “It seems that Betty and Barney Hill were at the center of a web that involved USAF Intelligence and top military experts in psychological warfare.The evidence suggests that the Hills were the subjects – victims – of a psychological experiment[italics mine].”
More on the matter of ridiculous things, there’s the so-called “Star Map” that Betty was shown on-board the “UFO.” Without doubt, one of the most important – if not, arguably, the most important – of all so-called “alien abduction” cases is that of Betty and Barney Hill, who underwent such an experience in 1961, and who, it can be justifiably said, kick-started abduction research of the type that, today, has come to typify the subject. One of the most important aspects of the story – which, many have asserted, proves the Hill’s encountered real aliens – is that relative to the “Star-Map” that the crew generously showed to Betty. It is the saga of this map that pretty much convinced whole swathes of Ufology that the mysterious abductors were the denizens of a light-years-away locale: Zeta Reticuli. The late Stanton Friedman championed the map in his lectures.
A map? Really? Can you imagine, even in the earlier years of NASA’s space-program, a scenario where – while traveling to the Moon in 1969 – the crew of Apollo 11 took to the skies amid a conversation that went something like this: “Get the map out; we need to see where we’re going.” Such a scenario is manifestly idiotic. And, yet, we’re expected to believe the Hill’s aliens used such ancient means of navigation in a journey to and from another star-system, never mind just to the Moon and back. Now, I don’t dispute that Betty was shown such map-like imagery; but, in my view, the reason for doing so was purely theatrical. The entire event was carefully stage-managed. It was done to convince Betty and Barney that the entities were extraterrestrial. But, as a result of claiming to utilize such a ridiculously outmoded means of navigation, the visitors successfully rendered themselves as laughable and illogical as their simplistic map itself. My conclusion on all of this? I’ll tell you: that nothing less than some kind of home-grown mind-control operation was afoot. And it had nothing to do with aliens.
Many people have heard of the Travis Walton incident, however on this occasion Travis reveals some of the more finer details of his experience of being taken by strange beings for five days. What he experienced has never left him. He recalls his experience with precision and now can confirm there is even further evidence to back up his story. Travis Walton himself delivers a fascinating presentation.
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For more than a decade, scientists have been working to unravel the mysteries of so-called “fast radio bursts” (FRBs), which are sudden and unexplained radio pulses that are mostly observed in distant galaxies.
These bizarre bursts, which last for mere milliseconds and sometimes repeat in odd patterns, have inspired explanations ranging from pyrotechnic interactions between exotic stars to signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Now, astronomers have managed to probe a repeating burst at the shortest timescales ever, meaning that a team studied its signature at tiny periods of just 3 to 4 microseconds within those millisecond pulses. This unprecedented analysis revealed a newly observed “microstructure,” or a pattern of variable brightness, revealing that the new technique “can unveil clues into [FRB] emission physics,” according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.
A team led by Kenzie Nimmo, a PhD student at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam, obtained this “high-time-resolution” data from the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network, a vast network of radio telescopes that spans four continents. Their target was FRB 180916, a curious repeating burst that operates on a cycle of 16 days; it actively bursts for four days and goes quiet for 12 days.
“The microstructure that we refer to in the [study’s] title is that we see the brightness of the burst itself vary on microsecond timescales,” said Nimmo in an email. She also noted that the polarized properties of the burst also fluctuate at the microsecond level.
The results are interesting, Nimmo added, because these “short timescale brightness variations strongly constrain the size of the FRB emission region, which dictates what models can work for producing FRBs.”
In other words, studying an FRB at very short timescales provides a means of zooming into the physical space around the unknown source of these radio pulses. The microsecond resolution achieved by Nimmo and her colleagues enabled them to determine that the size of the emission region, meaning the area that is creating these pulses, is about a kilometer (0.62 miles) in scale.
What makes this finding so impressive is that the source of the burst is located some 457 million light years away from Earth. While that actually makes FRB 180916 relatively close compared to other FRBs, it is still mind-boggling Nimmo’s team has captured kilometer-scale details from such an enormous intergalactic distance.
Scientists have previously captured details of FRBs at timescales of about 20 to 30 microseconds, which makes the new study about 10 times more precise than anything before it. At this resolution, the team could make out interesting details about the “polarization position angle” (PPA), which is the angle at which the burst’s polarized light oscillates. This property is important for figuring out details about the FRB source’s spin, and how close the radio emission is to its source, which can in turn shed light on its possible identity.
“We noticed that on very short timescales (less than 100 microseconds or so), we see small variations in the PPA,” Nimmo said. “This could mean that we are starting to resolve the rotation of whatever object is producing FRBs.”
Based on their results, the researchers think that neutron stars, a type of extremely dense dead star, are “the most compelling progenitor model for FRBs,” Nimmo added. These roiling balls of compact matter contain more mass than the Sun, yet they are only about 12 miles in diameter.
As a consequence, neutron stars are extremely volatile and could be capable of the type of extreme radio outbursts seen in FRBs. Indeed, a weak radio burst within our own galaxy, the Milky Way, was traced back to a special type of highly magnetized neutron star located about 30,000 light years from Earth.
Some models of FRBs suggest that their radio pulses originate close to the star, within its magnetosphere, while others suggest that the emission is the result of a relativistic shock that occurs further away from the source, Nimmo said. This new high-time-resolution study favors the former scenario, in which the emission emerges close to the neutron star.
The repeating periodicity of FRB 180916, meanwhile, hints that it may originate in a binary system that contains a precessing (wobbling) neutron star and a massive star that share an orbital period of 16 days. When these objects are closest to each other during this orbit, interactions between them could amplify the bursts, causing the four-day period of activity that we see on Earth.
Ultimately, Nimmo and her colleagues hope to study these mysterious bursts at even shorter timescales, though she notes that pushing these temporal limits will involve a host of observational and data-volume challenges. That said, the payoff could be huge: it’s possible that this line of research could reveal that one-off FRBs might actually be repeaters, assuming scientists can look at them closely enough, in addition to a range of other possible breakthroughs.
“In our study we measure a range of timescales from microseconds to milliseconds and suggest that this might be characteristic of repeating FRBs, so searching for this range of timescales in the future could be a way to identify a repeating FRB (from a non-repeating FRB),” Nimmo said.
“This is very important as it is still debated whether repeating and non-repeating FRBs are the same thing, or if they come from different progenitors/emission physics,” she added. “Having identifiers to distinguish between them, as opposed to simply observing multiple bursts, is invaluable both for our understanding of them, but also to help future observations be more lucrative by studying sources that ‘look’ like repeaters.
Ever seen a silent helicopter? An airplane that doesn’t emit any kind of sound? And how about a strange, unidentified craft in the skies that makes not even a bit of noise? Most people haven’t. But, even so, a sizeable number have. And that’s the theme of today’s article. I’ll begin with a case that dates back to the 1990s. The UK’s Salisbury Times newspaper – on August 23, 1994 – reported on a sighting of a strange craft seen not at all from Stonehenge. The staff of the publication wrote: “A green flying saucer hovered beside the A303 road at Deptford last week – according to a lorry driver who rushed to Salisbury police station in the early hours of the morning. The man banged on the station door in Wilton Road at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday after spotting the saucer suspended in mid-air. ‘He was 100 per cent convinced it was a UFO,’ said Inspector Andy Shearing. The man said it was bright green and shaped like a triangle with rounded corners. It also had green and white flashing lights. Other drivers had seen it and were flashing their car lights at him.
A triangle shaped ufo in the evening sky
A patrol car took the driver back to the spot but there was no trace of the flying saucer. Inspector Shearing said police had been alerted about similar sightings in the same area in the past.” Although the Times called the object a “flying saucer,” the description of it being “shaped like a triangle with rounded corners,” sounds very much like a highly-classified aircraft known as the TR-3A. It’s also a near-perfect description of equally unidentified aircraft that have become known within Ufology as “Flying Triangles.” But here’s the most important issue: the witness reported that the object he saw was “suspended in mid-air.” This is particularly fascinating, as there are longstanding rumors that the TR-3A has hovering capabilities. Apparently, the craft has the ability to fly in silence, too, since in this case the vehicle made no sound at all.
In 1995, the U.S. magazine, Aviation Week and Space Technology, published an article (Vol. 142, No. 6) which, in part, stated that, “…the U.S. military has been working for years on at least two helicopter projects. The more recent is [the] development of a light, very quiet helicopter [italics mine] with a mast-mounted sight.” One of those who had uncovered certain, classified data on this particular Nevada-based program was a conspiracy-theorist named Jim Keith, who died in 1999. The issue of the silent helicopters was one which particularly intrigued Keith. After all, helicopters are known for their deep, thump-thump sound. So, to encounter a helicopter that is near-silent – or, perhaps, even completely silent – would be amazing, indeed. In pursuing the tales of the silent copters, Keith found himself repeatedly pointed in the direction of Nevada. By now, you know the specific stretch of Nevada: Area 51. In February of 1995, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper ran an article titled “Ex-Worker Describes Stealth Copter.” It was written by a journalist named Susan Greene. Commenting on all of this, Keith said: “According to statements of a former worker at Groom Lake Air Force Base, a black budget stealth helicopter was being tested at this facility as early as 1990. The code name for the helicopter was ‘T.E.K,’ which stood for ‘Test and Evaluation Project K.’”
Under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency has declassified several hundred pages of documentation on UFOs. Of course, the file does not contain any kind of definitive smoking-gun. It does, however, provide the reader with more than a few intriguing reports on notable incidents. One such incident, described in the DIA’s files, occurred in the summer of 1979. The DIA documentation notes that late on the afternoon of August 8, 1979, “…the Embassy here received information that a strange object had been found on a farm near Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Source stated that the object was about 70 centimeters in diameter and two meters in circumference with a hole in one side and a metal skin covering of approx one-half inch thickness. Later the object was described as ‘about three times the size of a basketball.'” A second fireball fell from the sky early in the morning of the same day that the first one was found near Cotoca. This second one was found 200 kilometers north of the city of Santa Cruz on the farm of Juan Saavedra by the Campesino Gonzalo Menacho Viveras. The place is in the area of Buen Retiro near the Yapacane River. According to the information given by the Campesino, around 12:30 a.m. on Friday last week he heard a loud whistling sound and saw a fireball followed by an explosion. He said that the next eveninga silent aircraft that had three lights was flying over the explosion area.”
In all probability, none of those silent craft were extraterrestrial craft. The likelihood is they were highly-advanced vehicles of scientists and military agencies. In other words, facilities around the world are clandestinely flying craft in our skies that the rest of us know nothing about.
If you believe (or at least want to believe) that fast radio bursts (FRBs) are communications signals from intelligent extraterrestrials, then perhaps you can help astronomers interpret the meaning of a new discovery – measuring at the shortest timescales ever, they’ve found unusual variations in the brightness that allows them to precisely pinpoint not only their source but also the size of the source … and it’s small enough to move the needle for many a bit closer to “It’s aliens!” Is it?
“(These) short timescale brightness variations strongly constrain the size of the FRB emission region, which dictates what models can work for producing FRBs.”
In a Vice interview on a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy that she co-authored, Kenzie Nimmo, a PhD student at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam, describes how her team used data from the intercontinental European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network to study FRB 180916, a repeating burst whose 16-day cycle consists of four days of bursts followed by 12 days of quiet. While FRB 180916 has been studied before, Nimmo and her team used a new technique that sliced them into 100 microsecond pieces, which gave them the “polarization position angle” (PPA) at which the polarized light swings back and forth. This data then helps reveal the rotation of the FRB source, how close the radio emission takes place to its source and the size of the emission region or area creating the pulses.
Think about that for a moment. This new data can measure the size of the source of fast radio bursts from a different galaxy 457 million light-years away. The size of the source of FRB 180916 was truly a shocker. Any guesses?
Try approximately one kilometer (0.62 miles) wide. Could that be a transmitter? Nimmo and the other researchers are leaning more towards a neutron star, which can contain more mass than the Sun, yet be only about 12 miles in diameter. The FRB discovered just 30,000 light years away in our own Milky Way galaxy was proven to be a form of neutron star called a magnetar. The repeating periodicity of FRB 180916 points more to a binary consisting of a precessing (wobbling) neutron and a massive star that orbit in other over a 16-day period. The 4-day bursts from FRB 180916 could then be explained by the two stars being closer together, with the dark 12 days when they are farther apart.
Not as exciting as aliens, but this makes more scientific sense. Since they’re not looking for aliens, Nimmo sees these microsecond measurements as a tool to identify repeating FRBs, take another look at one-off FRBs to see if they’re a new kind of repeater and better pinpoint the locations of all FRBs.
If you don’t want your discussion on FRBs to become highly polarized, stay away from bringing up aliens.
Chipinge man falls off bike after encounter with ‘UFO’
Chipinge man falls off bike after encounter with ‘UFO’
By Tamuka Charakupa
A Chipinge man is recovering in hospital after falling from a motor cycle, having been scared by an instant flash light from an alleged unidentified flying object witnessed in parts of Chipinge and Chimanimani on Friday evening.
Now recovering from a leg injury after being admitted at Chipinge District Hospital on Saturday, 47-year-old Chipinge resident, Richman Myambo is yet to come to terms with what he saw on Friday evening following a strange unidentified flying object.
Myambo fell from a motorbike when he witnessed a strange instant flash light and a deafening sound that followed thereafter.
“I was travelling home on my motorbike at around 9am when I witnessed a strange light travelling in the sky. I tried to concentrate on riding, but what made me fall was the sound that followed after the light. I then fell on the bike due to panic. I thought I was dying.”
Myambo initially thought it was one of those weird moments encountered at night before noticing a rocket-like object.
“I was 100% sober, but I was so confused because I thought I had encountered those strange things people see in dark and thick forests. The object looked like a rocket with fire on its back.”
While authorities are yet to establish whether the unidentified flying object landed or not, the feature has set tongues wagging among Chipinge residents.
Residents claim to have seen a bright light that was followed by a huge blow sound and a shaking, while others describe the event as a collision of two stars.
Meanwhile, the district Meteorological Services Department confirmed that indeed the strange feature was witnessed but they are yet to release an official statement.
UFO encounters of the automobile kind are common. Besides the many reports of engines and lights suddenly malfunctioning, there are some more famous and intimate auto encounters, like the 1979 incident in Minnesota by deputy sheriff Val Johnson, whose damaged car is now in a museum. Or the 1969 incident in Sheffield, Massachusetts, when Thom Reed and his family reported beingabducted from their car – a UFO encounter honored by the state’s governor as “historically significant and true.” On the other hand, UFO encounters of the motorcycle kind are pretty rare. In fact, if anyone else has had one, Richman Myambo may want to talk to you about what happened to him recently in Zimbabwe – an incident that left him and his two wheels reeling.
“I was travelling home on my motorbike at around 9 am when I witnessed a strange light travelling in the sky. I tried to concentrate on riding, but what made me fall was the sound that followed after the light. I then fell on the bike due to panic. I thought I was dying.”
Richman Myambo, a resident of the Chipinge Safari Area in eastern Zimbabwe near the Mozambique border, told local media the “object looked like a rocket with fire on its back” and that the sound was deafening. Myambo knows what you’re thinking:
“I was 100% sober, but I was so confused because I thought I had encountered those strange things people see in dark and thick forests.”
The Chipinge Safari Area sounds more like a place for a Bigfoot encounter in a dark park. While no one else was knocked off of their bikes by the UFO (Myambo suffered a leg injury that required a hospital visit), there were other witnesses who reported the incident, including Charles Mugadhuyu who claimed he saw the UFO drop fast, explode into flames and hit the ground with an audible thud. Felistus Magorwa told local media it looked like a star heading eastward across the sky, but the sound was more than a thud.
“It was a frightening explosion-like sound. It also sounded like rain thunder despite the clear sky.”
ZBC News reported other unnamed witnesses reported a bright light resembling the collision of two stars, a huge “blow” sound and ground shaking. Add all of those up and it sounds more like a meteorite than a UFO. In fact, the district Meteorological Services Department confirmed that it witnessed something but issued no official statement as of this writing.
It would be easy to chalk this one up as a meteorite – an encounter close enough to knock a man off of his motorbike – but any discussion of Zimabwe and UFOs always leads to the 1994 incident when 62 children at Ariel School in Ruwa (six hours from Chipinge) reported seeing a shiny flying disc and speaking telepathically with aliens. No one was knocked off of their bikes or trikes or see-saws, but the children are now adults and continue to stick to their story. Did their aliens come back to check up on them?
Probably not. This one is on the “meteorite” side of the explanation dial unless more witnesses or some photos turn up. If you’re heading to Zimbabwe to look for Myambo’s UFO, wear a helmet.
When it comes to the matter of alien abductions, there are more than a few angles that pop up time and again. For example, in just about everything case recorded, there has been a significant amount of what is popularly known as “missing time.” Usually, it’s a period of at least several hours. On occasion, the memories begin to come back during the sleep state; however, it’s rare that complete recall occurs. The experiences of Whitley Strieber and Betty and Barney Hill are classic examples of what defines missing time. Then, there’s the matter of the black-eyed alien “Grays” taking blood, eggs, DNA, sperm and skin cells from those they abduct. Precisely why, we don’t really know. Some say that it’s done to create what are termed “alien-human hybrids;” creatures that look enough like us to move among us. Maybe, even, infiltrate our society. Another familiar – and repeated – angle is that of abductees having apocalyptic nightmares. Usually those same nightmares revolve around nuclear war, the destruction of the planet by our reckless activities, and the likes of a new Ice Age and the wipe-out of the human race. There is, however, another aspect of the alien abduction that not so many are aware of. It is, however, an important angle. And now I’ll share it with you. It’s the immersion of abductees into strange liquids and gels while on-board UFOs.
In one case, the abductee recalled waking up “…naked in a funnel shaped pool filled with a greenish black gel type liquid. The pool had to be 20 yards wide all around. And pretty deep. The pool was made of some kind of shiny metal. With the gel it made the surface very slippery and you would slip under the gel if you tried to get out. I then realized something very odd at that time. I wasn’t alone. There were at least 15 other humans with me. All of them screaming and panicking. This is what scared me. I didn’t know what they were screaming about. I thought they knew something I didn’t, so I got scared. Some were under the gel moving around I could see. Most were trying to escape.”
Here’s a second example: “I found myself inside a clear glass cylinder, totally submerged in some kind of warm fluid, thicker than water, thinner than oil. To my surprise, I was able to breathe this warm fluid without discomfort. I could also open my eyes without a problem. The solution was clear, of a greenish color and the container was softly lit. I remember, still fully submerged in this solution, that I slowly began to recall the abduction that had taken me away from my bedroom, minutes, maybe hours before. (impossible to tell). Then I made the connection with the place I was now in and real fear took hold of me. I remember desperately trying to get out of the container but I could not move a muscle except for my eyelids. Finally, and all at once by sheer force of will, I was able to regain movement of my limbs. I jumped out of the glass container faster than a spring. Apparently, what I had been breathing while submerged was very different than air because I felt the urgent need to take a big breath of air as soon as I came out. I was naked and dripping this fluid/solution that was sort of a slimy gel. The place was dark, very steamy with a strange, unpleasant smell.”
Investigator Helmut Lammer reveals the account of a woman named Lisa, who was “…kidnapped and brought to a military underground facility, where she saw naked humans floating in tubes. Lisa claims that she was forced by humans into some type of pool filled with a golden yellow bubbly fluid, while other humans looked at her. Lisa has traumatic recollections that her kidnappers tried to make her and other victims able to breath in the liquid. In two of the before mentioned cases the abductee was forced to breath the liquid like Lisa. The hypnosis transcripts reveal that the liquid breathing experiences were traumatic for the abductees. Both abductees where totally immersed in the liquid and both reported that they could breath the fluid.”
The late ufologist Stanton Friedman made a valuable observation on this issue: “The amount of acceleration a person can stand depends on many factors; the three most important depends on the duration of acceleration (the greater the force, the shorter the time it can be tolerated), the direction of the force in relation to the body (back to front acceleration is much easier to handle then head to foot acceleration, and for this reason Apollo astronauts have their backs perpendicular to the direction of the thrust, rather then along it as in an elevator), and body environment is important (a person immersed in fluid can withstand greater acceleration than one not so immersed).”
The use of liquids to protect abductees from otherwise dangerous acceleration while in a UFO? Maybe…
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Newly Forming Stars Don’t Blast Away Material as Previously Believed. So Why Do They Stop Growing?
Newly Forming Stars Don’t Blast Away Material as Previously Believed. So Why Do They Stop Growing?
We thought we understood how stars are formed. It turns out, we don’t. Not completely, anyway. A new study, recently conducted using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, is sending astronomers back to the drawing board to rewrite the accepted model of stellar formation.
What we do know about star formation is that they are born from enormous clouds of hydrogen gas. The gas gets clumped together and compressed by gravity, increasing in pressure and temperature until the mass grows large enough to set off nuclear fusion. But stars don’t seem to absorb all of the gas in their surroundings. Something stops them from reaching enormous sizes.
Until now, the accepted model assumed that the excess gas gets blown away from the star in extremely powerful solar winds, shaped and directed by magnetic fields shooting out from the poles of the star. “There are remarkable ‘U’- or ‘V’- shaped structures extending to the north and south of a protostar,” explains Nolan Habel, one of the researchers from the University of Toledo. “They are actually hollowed-out cavities carved into the surrounding gas by hurricane-like winds or jets of material expelled from the poles of the protostar.”
Protostars being born in the Orion Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, N. Habel and S. T. Megeath (University of Toledo).
These powerful jets were thought to eventually clear out all the excess gas, leaving stars to only absorb about 30% of the material in their surroundings. But the new study turns this theory on its head. The cavities created by the jets do not seem to grow steadily over time, meaning that they alone cannot possibly explain why stars stop growing. There must be some other mechanism that helps clear out the remaining gas surrounding a protostar.
The team made this discovery by studying a sample of 304 protostars at various stages of formation in the Orion Nebula (the closest region of star formation to Earth). The astronomers sorted the stars by age, and then used Hubble imagery to measure the shape and volume of the cavities created by jets. They were expecting to see the cavities grow over time, as the model suggests should happen. But, they didn’t.
“We find that at the end of the protostellar phase, where most of the gas has fallen from the surrounding cloud onto the star, a number of young stars still have fairly narrow cavities,” said Tom Megeath, another researcher on the team. This goes against all common theories of star formation, and is going to require further research to figure out what is happening. Why do stars stop growing, if not because of their polar jets?
A wide view of the Orion Nebula, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team.
The team has brainstormed a few possible alternatives. The gas clouds in which stars form are not uniformly dense. They have ‘filaments’ of higher density where protostars tend to form, and oscillations in these filaments might fling the protostars away. We also know that stars don’t always form alone: about half of all sun-like stars have a binary partner. It is conceivable that two or more protostars forming close to one another might gravitationally disturb each other, pushing them away from their source material.
For now, these are just theories. It will probably take bigger and better instruments to find a concrete answer. The James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch later this year, might provide astronomers with the clues they need to solve the mystery. In the meantime, there’s a whole lot of astrophysics textbooks out there that are going to need a revised edition.
Who Are The Black Eyed Children? Can Negative Attachments Carry Over From Past Incarnations?
Who Are The Black Eyed Children? Can Negative Attachments Carry Over From Past Incarnations?
Who Are The Black Eyed Children? Can Negative Attachments Carry Over From Past Incarnations?
Live! Thursday 3/11/21 8pmET/5pmPT DarkHour Paranormal welcomes investigator, journalist, researcher, ufology enthusiast, and good friend, Rich Giordano to share his thoughts on Black Eyed Children, Paranormal phenomena, and what might lie beyond the wild blue yonder.
Filer’s Files 12 2021 Operation Paperclip - PART I
Hackettstown, New Jersey Bolide on March 14, 2021
Filer’s Files 12 2021 Operation Paperclip - 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 Jimmy Carter Saw UFOs, Operation Paperclip, Jack Sarfattti Concepts, An Asteroid May Hit Earth 2022, Newgrange, Thousand Years Older than Gobekli Tepe, ‘alien face’ in Antarctica, China’s Super Carriers and Aircraft, Fireball, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, 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
President Jimmy Carter Saw UFOs
“If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one.”
Presidential campaign 1976
“It was the dankest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was about the size of the moon. A red and green glowing orb radiated as it hurtled across the southwestern Georgia skies. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing’s for sure: I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified flying objects in the sky.”
President Jimmy Carter Interview following his sighting of a UFO at Leary, Georgia, October 1961
Operation Paperclip
CIA reports as World War II ended, the race was on with the Soviet Union to seize as many German scientists as possible in anticipation of the Cold War. The full story has remained elusive until now. Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen, provides perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public. Her book is a detailed and highly readable account of the program. Jacobsen compiled extensive primary and secondary sources, duly annotated in over 100 pages of notes and bibliography. In it are many new sources, among them US government records “Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act”), German archival records, first-person accounts, memoirs, and letters. Jacobsen offers a detailed chronology of events related to
Operation Paperclip
The author focused on 89 scientists who came to the United States. The book is compelling work with interesting historical and personal revelations, for example:
One of the most notorious cases of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation occurred on 15 May 1945, when the German U-234 submarine, bound for Japan, was captured off Newfoundland by the USS Sutton.
The U-boat carried Dr. Heinz Schlicke, Director of Naval Test Fields at Kiel, and the cargo included plans for the Hs293 glider bomb, V-1 glide bomb (forerunner to cruise missiles), V-2 rocket (forerunner to the SCUD missile), low observable submarine designs, and lead-lined boxes filled with 1,200 lbs. of uranium oxide, a key ingredient of atomic bombs and plans for the Me262 fighter aircraft the first combat jet aircraft.
ME-262 first jet Fighter
The Germans had actually manufactured about 1200 first jet Me 262 fighters by the end of the war, but it seems that they were never used very effectively.
Lack of fuel, lack of proper training of pilots, and the fact that the engines wore burned out very quickly because the Germans had lost all the sources of rare earths that they needed to produce alloys for high quality turbine blades seem to have contributed to Schlicke, who claimed to be an electronic warfare expert, became a prisoner at Ft. Meade, MD.
Sarin gas was produced at Dyhernfurth (Dyhernfurth later fell into Russian hands). Its name derives from the initials of its developers: Gerhard Schrader and Otto Ambros from the infamous IG Farben chemical company—maker of the killing gases used at concentration camps—and from the names of two German Army officers.
Schrader tells the story of inventing “tabun,” a nerve agent named after the English word “taboo.” The Germans called it 9/91 and, after their defeat at Stalingrad, seriously considered using it on the Russians.
Henry Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed the scientists’ ideas could launch new civilian industries and produce jobs. Indeed, German scientists
Von Braun developed synthetic rubber (used in automobile tires), non-running hosiery, the ear thermometer, electromagnetic tape, and miniaturized electrical components, to name a few.
Werner von Braun is well known to those who remember the Apollo moon landing. Another 120 fellow German scientists, engineers, and technicians developed the Saturn V launch vehicle, or that the Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi. The Vertical Assembly Building—bigger in volume than the Pentagon than and almost as tall as the Washington Monument—was designed by Bernhard Tessmann, former facilities designer at the German missile launch facility at Peenemunde.
Werner Von Braun
Other prominent Nazis hired under Operation Paperclip included:
Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who played an important role in space medicine by developing space suits and other life-support systems. In June 1948, he put a rhesus monkey named Albert in the pressurized nosecone of a V-2 rocket in a pressurized nose cone, the first step in the effort to send humans to space.
General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate 600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. In 1948, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter assumed control of the so-called Gehlen Organization.
German biologist Dr. Kurt Blome was hired to develop offensive and defensive capabilities to the questions about the morality of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists. Jacobsen balances her judgment with an understanding of the perceived threat of the Soviet Union under Stalin and the communists’ determination to prepare for total war with the West. The Soviets similarly captured and used German scientists for their own defense programs.
Paperclip German Scientists
When UFOs crashed in New Mexico in 1947 Paperclip scientists according to Cantwheel documents claims the Germans (Von Braun’s group) were in a position to identify whatever they were as they were experts in advanced V weapons and likely had knowledge of Nazi disc shaped craft. About 100 of them were assigned to PAPERCLIP projects at Fort Bliss, White Sands during this period.
They were issued special War Department ID cards that specifically stated that they were not to be held or questioned by authorities and had permission to leave the Fort Bliss test range on sometime in early July 1947 for unspecified reasons.
This was when the Roswell crafts had crashed nearby. It has been my belief for a long time that the Germans were brought into the classified UFO Program since
Robert Addinall wrote, looking at the links others have provided, most plausible is that if the allies did come across actual completed German flying disk prototypes, these used circular turbines rotating around a central cockpit, or a few sets of circular rotating turbines in nacelles on the underside of the vehicle – in other words, forms of jet aircraft.
German Haunebu Disk
They had a 25-year head start in advanced disc aircraft and rocket research. Naval Intelligence specialist Engineer William Thompson claimed the Germans had actually flown advanced disc shaped craft during the war and eventually helped back engineer some of these craft in the US.
He also claimed Werner von Braun had advanced knowledge concerning these craft and was instrumental in helping the US build some of these craft. It seems these men could have been building Discs as well as working on V-2 rockets.
General Donald Putt
General Donald Putt was responsible for their employment at Wright Field (Putt is mentioned in Top Secret Project SIGN files as head of Air Force R&D in 1947-48 and was a student of Theodore von Karman).
The CIA’s PAPERCLIP files contained biographies of Germany’s top scientists (some were declassified in 1994) for possible recruitment in the U.S.
PAPERCLIP was an illegal project to prevent Von Braun and approximately 1200 other Germans from standing trial at Nuremberg for war crimes. Army and Air Force CIC deleted any information of their Nazi affiliation and SS positions (Von Braun was a SS Major) and the CIA misled the White House about their pasts. The U.S. considered their knowledge as vital to National Security and defense for the Russians had captured and recruited some of Von Braun’s people to work on their missile and jet aircraft development projects. The Germans were also instrumental in creating the Russian’s atomic bomb program and ICBM projects. Thanks to Linda Hunt’s book
Jack Sarfatti Concepts
Jack Sarfatti
Jack Sarfatti writes Both the coupling metamaterial susceptibility invariant scalar field coupling S and the applied EM pump stress-energy source tensor Tuv have imaginary parts in their constitutive parameters from Joule heat dissipation (inelastic scattering input pump photons off electromagnetic multiple moments of real electric charges in motion in the meta-atoms of the meta-surface fuselage.
The pump INPUT Fuv field is Fourier analyzed into second quantized quantum harmonic oscillator modes with aa* – a*a = 1 (SPIN 1 has 3 polarization states).
Similarly, IN THE WEAK FIELD APPROXIMATION FOR NOW (FEYNMAN’S LECTURES IN GRAVITATION) the induced OUT PUT gravity field huv where guv = nuv + huv and huv << nuv, has second quantized modes bb* – b*b = 1 (SPIN 2 has 5 polarization states) NEAR FIELDS!
Doing the 3D space integrals over EACH LOCALIZED meta-atom CAVITY ORTHONORMAL EIGENFUNCTIONS (MORSE FESHBACH MIT METHODS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS) we essentially have a FORCED QUANTUM HARMONIC OSCILLATOR PROBLEM FOR EACH NEAR FIELD POLARIZATION MODE OF THE INDUCED WARP GRAVITY FIELD WITH HAMILTONIAN
So a small capacitor and inductor could have the instantaneous power of the world’s biggest power station.
The little packets of energy going back and forth create the illusion. So Eytan that is the basis of all you chaps doing warping with LC circuits?
In that case, you analysis should explicitly have in the stress-energy tensor the T01 and T10 terms, solve the EFE and show how you get a time dependent wobble on the Schawartzchild field.
(He comes the earful) I don’t think Jack did that in his analysis. He lept into the weak field solution, only ever considered the T00 term and essentially plugged into the weak field solution his values.
It seems the T01 and T10 terms could counter the small 8piG/c^4 term if they rise to huge levels… I was skeptical but see what you are getting at. I don’t think Jack’s analysis was complete but he did hint at the idea of frequency dependence of the dielectric allowing him to change the phase of the field, allow the craft to rise or fall. That seems plausible.
On 15/03/2021 12:32, Eytan Suchard wrote:
Dear Remi,
Oscillation of mass creates an oscillating gravitational field. It is usually insufficient for a warp drive, unless you take into account gravity and anti-gravity by charge in addition to inertial mass:
M_virtual = +,- charge / sqrt(16 Pi G Epsilon0) where G is the constant of gravity and Epsilon0 the permittivity of vacuum.
That is not mainstream physics. Mainstream physics is not based on Causal Sets and on energy as misaligned causal sets. Kind regards, Eytan.
Newgrange One of oldest Structures in the World
The Irish claim they were the world’s first civilization. Newgrange was built 5200 years ago, during the Neolithic period (tail end of the Stone Age); the Newgrange megalithic tomb was constructed with alternating layers of dirt and rock and infused with the mystical curiosities. The structure models a typical disc UFO and drawings on the walls suggest the flight of craft. The Tuatha Dé Danann, the people of the Goddess Danu, were one of the great ancient tribes of Ireland that allegedly arrived from the sky. Some historians claim they burned their ships and the smoke they emerged from made it appear they came from the sky. This earthen temple is 600 years older than Egypt’s Giza Pyramids and 1000 years older than Stonehenge suggesting advanced aliens helped in the construction. The building of Newgrange is a remarkable architectural feat and it’s within one of the most popular flight paths for UFOs.
With a mesmerizing entrance stone, the Newgrange passage and tomb are adorned with beautiful circles, spirals, and radials suggesting representation of flight. While the purpose of this ancient art appears to be decorative, many spiritually-minded scholars believe these etchings to be energy-creating icons that relate to the sun, moon, and stars.
Newgrange has a reputation to be a reservoir of healing energy for all walks of life. Residents of the nearby Laytown say that unusual objects have been crisscrossing the night sky for as long as they can remember. More recently, unexplained crop circles have been appearing in neighboring areas. It seems the Gods are restless and trying to communicate.
Asteroid May Hit Earth
NASA reported that on May 6, 2022, an asteroid could hit Earth.
The rocky celestial body, 130 meters in diameter and considered by the agency as “potentially dangerous“, was first detected in 2009.
Specialists assured that the possible collision would cause an explosion equivalent to 230 kilotons of dynamite. Nostradamus predicted we will hit this year.
Another steroid passed very close to Earth last week
Boncuklu Tarais a Thousand Years Older than Gobekli Tepe
Boncuklu Tara sitting eerily quiet upon an almost forgotten potbelly-shaped hilltop in the Southeastern Turkish countryside is an archaeological site that has caused heated debates among researchers, dreamers, and scientists. The mainstream scientific community remains reluctant to budge from the cemented ideas of academia regarding the possibilities of advanced cultures far older than believed possible. Literally written in stone, found in newly excavated digs, are the remains of a people we know little or nothing about, and now Boncuklu Tara a new discovery has emerged that’s even older — by a thousand years or so —than Gobekli Tepe.
Boncuklu Tara Smithsonian magazine noted that Göbekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years and “upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization.” The site is regarded as early evidence of prehistoric worship, featuring unmistakable temples and stunningly carved stone monoliths.
The Debate over Who Built Göbekli Tepe
An episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast, featuring Graham Hancock, garnered more than 3.5 million views on its episode about Göbekli Tepe, since it aired in 2017. For several hours, bestselling author and journalist Graham Hancock traded barbs with materialist science writer and founder of The Skeptics Society, Michael Shermer, over the deeper significance of the Göbekli Tepe find in Turkey. Weighing in on the discussion was Randall Carlson, geological explorer, and renegade scholar. At the heart of the ongoing debate is who built Göbekli Tepe and whether academia should rethink the antiquity of history and stop underestimating the cultural achievements and advancement of peoples who predated the esteemed ancient Greeks by millennia.
Hancock argued that Göbekli Tepe may be a clue to an advanced civilization that met its demise prior to its final construction.
Boncuklu Tara from Air
Following an ancient cataclysm, the few survivors of an ancient civilization or the ET alien explorers may have taken refuge among hunter-gatherers. There are caves packed with the bones of thousands of animals and people all over the world showing the extent of the ancient cataclysm.
The survivors y may have shared some of their knowledge Hancock said, “Perhaps there’s been a forgotten episode in human history. Perhaps its fingerprints are present at a number of sites around the world. Perhaps the extremely defensive, arrogant, and patronizing attitude of mainstream academia is stopping us from considering that possibility, and therefore I campaign to get that possibility considered.”
And now, beyond Göbekli Tepe news, field workers have added another coal to the fire with their discovery of an ancient site that is at least a thousand years older.
Excavations at Boncuklu Tarla in Southeastern Turkey’s Mardin province began in 2012 and have yielded what may be called an 11,300-year-old mini Göbekli Tepe — a Neolithic-era temple with three well-preserved monolithic structures. However, the structures have no figurative inscriptions common to Göbekli Tepe. The temple walls were constructed of rubble and cemented with hardened clay.
The Daily Sabah, a Turkish newspaper reported that the archaeological excavations are being conducted by Mardin Museum Director Nihat Erdoğan and his team. Researchers are hoping to learn more about the cultures, social lives, and burial traditions of the people who lived in Northern Mesopotamia at least 10 millennia ago. The area of the excavateion has been home over its history to Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others.
Boncuklu Tara
Erdoğan said that the Neolithic period saw the establishment of the first sedentary society that led to controlled food production. The first phase of the period did not have baked clay vessels and baskets. Wooden or stone vessels were used instead of baked clay. This is the Aceramic Neolithic phase, in which artifacts have survived in only a few places in Anatolia.
Archaeologist and advisor to the dig, Ergül Kodaş, Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey, said that the history and age of the site is “a new key point to inform us on many topics such as how the [people] in Northern Mesopotamia and the upper Tigris began to settle, how the transition from hunter-gatherer life to food production happened, and how cultural and religious structures changed.”
What Do We Know? Boncuklu Tara is also just now being uncovered
Certainly, the ancient sites at Göbekli Tepe and Boncuklu Tarla stretch the limits of academic preconceptions and conclusions. Some researchers, like Graham Hancock, Dr. Robert Schoch, and Randall Carlson, have been advocating for a change in paradigm among mainstream archeology. They entertain the possibility that there is evidence pointing to the possibility that there was a major global catastrophe at the end of the last Ice Age, caused by the impact of a comet. For many early people, this marked the end of the world as they knew it, that probably created gigantic worldwide flooding and may even caused the Earth to tip and change poles. Antarctica became cold and Canada warmed melting the ice. The question is whether the few survivors could have intermingled with hunter-gatherers to create a new type of society
Google Earth uncovers enormous ‘alien face’ in Antarctica
Alien Face in Antarctica
UFO-HUNTERS say they’ve found signs of an alien invasion in Google Earth snaps of Antarctica.
The conspiracy nuts reckon they’ve found a grimacing face carved into the ice at a remote region in the southeast of the island.
Some conspiracy belier’s think this ‘face’ visible in Google Earth images was left there by alien invaders.
Ufo_scandinavia uploaded strange footage last week showing the bizarre anomaly. It also may suggest a human like civilization existed on Antarctica many centuries ago before the Earth changed its poles. There is strong evidence that Antarctica once had much warmer weather. The face looks part human and part ape. A fairly sophisticated civilization would need to carve this face that has lips, teeth, nose eyes, chin etc. Credit: Google Earth and Harry Pettit
China’s Super Carriers and Aircraft
Media sources say China’s newest super carrier could very well sport the latest EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) launch technology, similar to the US Navy’s newest operational aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford.
China has been making steady progress building its third aircraft carrier, the first expected to match the “super carriers” of the US fleet in size and capability, according to satellite photos and analysis by Military.com reported.
China’s Global Times also reported Sept. 13 that the new carrier could be launched soon.
The 10 other carriers in the US fleet use steam-powered catapults to launch aircraft.
A J-15 fighter jet takes off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Liaoning.
(Photo/eng.chinamil.com.cn)
China has likely been able to steal the technology by computer hacking. CSIS high-resolution satellite photos showing the latest carrier laid out n hull blocks at the Jiangnan shipyard on the outskirts of Shanghai. The new carrier is expected to be longer than the Ford’s length is 1,106 feet.
China currently has two carriers — the Liaoning, a converted Soviet-era warship, and the domestically-built Shandong. Both feature “ski jump” sloped flight decks to launch aircraft.
EMALS uses a surge of electricity to generate electrical currents with strong magnetic fields.
It is supposed to be easier to operate, gentler on airplanes, and capable of launching more planes into the air in a shorter period of time than steam catapults.
Another advantage: The launch control system for electromagnetic catapults know what speed an aircraft should have at any point during the launch sequence, and can make adjustments during the process to ensure that an aircraft will be within 3 mph of the desired takeoff speed, Air & Space magazine reported.
In contrast, once a launch has begun in the steam system, adjustments cannot be made.
If too much steam is used, the nose wheel landing gear, which attaches to the catapult, can be ripped off the aircraft. If too little steam is used, the aircraft won’t reach takeoff speed and will tumble into the water.
An electromagnetic catapult can launch every 45 seconds. Each three-second launch can consume as much as 100 million watts of electricity, about as much as a small town uses in the same amount of time, Air & Space reported.
“The Defense Department estimated that China’s third aircraft carrier could be operational by
2023
Electronic Catapult System
The report also said that China’s military has already surpassed the US in missile development, number of warships and air defense systems. Additionally China’s Communist Party media frequently mentions China is at war with the United States.
This allows the people to condone imperilment of three million religious believers in concentration camps, to conduct extraordinary hacking of technological and political data, weather control bringing blizzards to the US, and bio-warfare with the corona virus.
Bolide Fireball Seen All Over East Coast Explodes
Us humans living on Earth, most days we’re able to go about our lives without worrying about what might be lurking elsewhere in our solar system.
Earth is incredibly fortunate to have a thick atmosphere that destroys most small debris before it reaches the ground and a magnetic field that protects us from dangerous radiation.
It’s all very nice down here on the surface… that is until an object manages to survive its trip through the atmosphere and cause a ruckus for us, Earthlings.
Bolide or Fireball seen all over East Coast
That’s just what happened this week over Vermont, when a fireball — known to scientists as a Bolide — streaked through the sky and exploded. The blast was significant, and reports from the ground indicate that the shockwave shook homes and businesses and even caused ground tremors that were strong enough to be picked up by seismic equipment in the area. Now, NASA offers us a more detailed look at the data and shows us how powerful the blast truly was.
ISS Objects Observed
Space – on March 17, 2021, you can see this winged object take off and leaves a trail of something for a few seconds.
The glowing is my key board but they tell me t he triangle is a solid object and not a reflection of the space station itself.
The images are crazy as it takes off! The object seems to glow stronger before it goes grey and takes off. Frame by frame you can see it accelerate. The picture is to show you placement of the space station once the sun comes up.
The flying wing above the ISS appears quite large and appears to have anti-gravity propulsion. Wings are generally needed to fly in the atmosphere so it is difficult to know who manufactured this object.
These photos was taken off ISS at an altitude of approximately 220 statute miles,
North Africa – on December 31, 2020, another strange capture from ISS of numerous lights.
A large number of objects appear in this photo that is not stars.
Child Sex Trafficking Explained By Texas Officials
Mexican Cartels are making a fortune in illegal immigration crossing fees of $2,00 to 3,000 for Mexicans’, $5,000 to 6,000 for Central Americans, $45,000 to 50,000 for all other Nationalities.
If unable to pay you can earn the fee by bringing in drugs to the US.
State troopers patrolling the highways are making large drug busts in Arizona and other states.
Eight probably terrorist Iranians and two Yemanese were arrested recently near the Southern Border. With large gaps in the wall since Biden stopped construction it is not known how many tourists have entered the country. They are expected to conduct operations such as forest fires, down commercial aircraft, and conduct sabotage to weaken the country.
100,000 immigrants enter US in February
Texas officials claim many illegal immigrants belong to a child sex ring operation .Talon was created to target immigrants in the country illegally with sex crime convictions, not solely child sex offenders, and it was shelved by ICE, as the agency awaits new operating guidelines from the new administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement canceled deportation requests for three convicted child sex offenders and was about to release them into communities until Texas law enforcement officials intervened and forced a reversal, two ranking Republicans charged in a letter Wednesday demanding answers from the agency’s chief. Thanks to Washington Times
Human trafficking is exploding in the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation. This is in addition to large amounts of illegal drugs that will cause the death of nearly a 100,000 US citizens. As the police forces are continuing to weaken, and ICE is stopped from transporting known criminals back to their home country, expect the 25% rise in murders and crime to increase. Also expect severe limitations on purchasing weapons to protect your family.
Border district Democrats are also sounding the alarm as the crisis created by President Joe Biden’s pro-illegal immigration policies gets worse.
During an interview with CNN over the weekend, Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar urged the administration to deal in reality and discussed alarming numbers of illegal immigrants crossing without any type of testing for illness cross the border Some 14,000 unaccompanied children are now being released into the country;
“Look, they can call it a challenge. Other people can call it a crisis. Let me look at the reality. In January we had 78,000 people who were stopped at the border. In February I think you’re going to see 100,000 individuals and keep in mind that March, April, May and June are the peak times so we haven’t even hit the peak times right now,” Cueller said. “And what’s happing is that,Border Patrol does not COVID test for any illness any of them have. The ones who are coming in are not tested by Border Patrol. They get on a bus they can travel anywhere. “Few if any know English.
“This is why Greyhound and other folks are saying, ‘Hang on. You’re letting people into our buses without having been COVID tested,'” Cuellahe continued.
Shadows
No. 2 of The Seven trilogies
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven triogy, 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 12 2021 Operation Paperclip - PART II
Hackettstown, New Jersey Bolide on March 14, 2021
Filer’s Files 12 2021-Operation Paperclip - 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 Jimmy Carter Saw UFOs, Operation Paperclip, Jack Sarfattti Concepts, An Asteroid May Hit Earth 2022, Newgrange, Thousand Years Older than Gobekli Tepe, ‘alien face’ in Antarctica, China’s Super Carriers and Aircraft, Fireball, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, 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
Moreno Valley – on March 14, 2021, was driving when I spotted an object in the sky. At first glance I thought they are in the direct path of air traffic from March ARB. I stopped and filmed with my girlfriend. It continued to change shape. I would guess the object was several thousand feet in the air but looked very large. The cloud cover was very high and we could see planes flying in the distance. The time it took for us to lose complete sight of it was 1 minute as it just seemed to disappear. I have always thought there were UFOs and believe that I have seen one in the past. The pictures show it changing shapes.
Florida Lights
Belleview – on March 14, 2021, Taking pictures of strange cloud formations and upon review of iPhone pictures noticed cylindrical shaped orange object crested on top to point in 4 images at 6:58 am.
Nevada Rectangle
Nampa – on March 17, 2021, I saw a rectangle shape going across the sky. Nothing pulling it so took pictures.
New Jersey Object and Bolide
Hackettstown– on March 14, 2021, I walked into the living room and looked outside. I looked up and saw the object moving from the west to east. The fireball looked like it was shooting out bright little stars. Several people saw the Bolide that exploded.
New York Object
New York City– on August 18, 2020, what appeared to be a sky snake, a UFO with a trail presented itself to us while we were relaxing on a rock atop a hill on a sunny evening at Central Park. There are hundreds of kite technicians enjoying the same wind. Some felt it was a kite; however I saw it turn into two UFOs so it could not be a kite.
Texas Cigar
Kline – June 15, 1984, I was coming home about 12 midnight looking down at my Sony Selman when I looked up and saw a light coming up to me from the horizon! I saw a light floating 50 feet over my friend’s home silently just floating there. It was about 100 feet long with glowing wings with round glowing light circles in the square ‘wings. I stood there and could not move as I was transfixed on the craft. I watched it for 4 /5 minutes then it started to pulse then I ran to my house and it took off and was gone in 2 seconds.
Vermont Object
Nearby– on November 18, 2019, on a road trip I visualized a black diamond in the sky and decided to film it.
Virginia Boride
Petersburg – on March 14, 2021, I posted a YouTube video of an asteroid what I saw – https://youtu.be/p8EG8BhR2
Washington Lights
Cle Elum– on March 11, 2021, I saw a light band moving at a linear speed and direction. It was moving from SW to the NE. There was no audible sound. The pictures are attached at an estimated height of 40,000 feet, and speed of 1,000 MPH Location of sighting: 47 11′ 12″ N 120 45′ 00″ W
Note:Some debunkers may explain this away as Star-Link satellites. That is not the case. This is a solid object. There was another sighting in Chehalis, Washington at the time. The Chehalis witness described the object as looking like a long ladder. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
West Virginia Rainbow Object
Glenville– on March 16, 2021, I have taken literally tens of thousands of photos in my life and am considered an amateur photographer. I was outside taking photos with my cell phone of a double rainbow above my house after a short rain event. I had taken 25 pictures and was scrolling through them on my cell phone and noticed the object in the one picture to the left and between the rainbows. There were no birds at all in the sky. I assume the object captured was moving at a high speed since I did not see it with my naked eye. The object appears to be solid and reflecting light on the top portion.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Light
Poert Aalberni – on March 9, 2021, @ 924 pm I took a series of videos and some stills of unidentifiable technology. I also took from the video by magnifying the size and going through it frame by frame.
Netherlands Light
Groningen – on March 13, 2021, this is better quality footage than in case 114150, of orb activity seen from the iss over the North Pacific
Portugal Lights
Maia – on March 17, 2021, my name is Fernando, I am 52 years old, between June 1989 and December 1990 I served in the Portuguese, Armey and I am currently a real estate consultant. For some time I wanted to share what I witnessed between 00:09 and 00:25 on July 16, 2017 in Águas Santas, I went to the balcony saw a light “the size” of a star blinking half a second apart for 60 seconds. Coordinates of the sighting were 41.215514, -8.570713. Numerous lights in the shape of a square appeared and a circumference with neon light moved for a few “meters” until they were positioned under the Constellation Bigger Bear. On July 23, 2017 at 00:20 I looked at the sky over and saw dozens of UFOs passing towards the light that was blinking. The photo from the second sighting is original from the event, although I drew it from above, to demonstrate what I saw. Does this event have anything to do with what is going on with this global pandemic?
UK/England Light
Aylesbury– on March 9, 2021, standing outside I noticed a moving light in the clear sky. I always look at the sky and try to spot satellites. I seen a bright light for just over two minutes and then it was gone.
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Now here is something you don't hear NASA talking about on Mars. A white tower on Mars stands about two meters tall in the far distant background. The object is so white, that the color doesn't match any of the things around it. This is a huge photo mind you. So being the only white object in the entire thing really makes it stand out. I know that some inexperienced people may try to explain it away by saying its a reflection. Well, thats ridiculous. The rocks near it have no such reflection, nor does anything in this entire huge photo! So...this material has been seen before and reported by me before. Just last week I reported a white fungus triangle on the side of a rock. This is the same living material. I believe it to be the outer casing of a living creatures home. Like hornets make a nest, or termites make tall mounds, this too is such a creature. What ever created it, its small, its alive, and it usually creates these things in the shadows. This one however is out in the open and very big. Two meters almost. So it could be a fungus or it could be a created nest of a small species that has learned to survive the harsh environment of Mars. Life...finds a way.
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UFO Sighting News: Alien Probe Passes Door Cam, Aiea, Oahu, Hawaii Video, 3-22-2021.
UFO Sighting News: Alien Probe Passes Door Cam, Aiea, Oahu, Hawaii Video, 3-22-2021.
Date of sighting: 3-22-2021 Location of sighting: Aiea, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
Source: MUFON
This door cam in Hawaii caught something moving over the cars in the driveway a few days ago. The object appears to be a string of six spheres. This looks like an unmanned alien probe to me. This will be difficult for many to understand or even believe, because of the depth of the subject. Society knows what they see in the movies, which is all wrong. Aliens don't want to kill humanity and aliens ships are not heading to earth to harvest our flesh and body chemicals. The reality of the situation is that we are visited hundreds of times a day worldwide by UFOs and alien probes are over every 5km square area of this planet. The ships come in all shapes and sizes due to age and species that made them. Same goes for probes. Laugh at me now, but
the future will vindicate and validate me.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
My Ring surveillance is set to record anything larger than a cat that moves in my driveway. I received an alert on my phone at 10pm on Tuesday night. When I opened the app and saw this strange string of lights pulsating and taking off out of my driveway, I was quite flustered. The object moved up into the air, flew south-bound over Pearl Harbor and dropped down into the ocean. It makes a strange whoosh sound as it passes the tree and takes off. I included the short clip and also the long version. Note: my surveillance lights never turned on and the lights seen are infrared light waves.
A former airline pilot recalls the terrifying moment he experienced a UFO encounter 35,000 feet in the air, in this clip from Season 2, “Airline Encounters.”
Admiral Richard E. Byrd Encounter With A Lost Civilization In Antarctica
Admiral Richard E. Byrd Encounter With A Lost Civilization In Antarctica
On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. What happened on that flight?
For years rumors have persisted that on his historic flight to the North Pole, Admiral Byrd flew beyond the Pole into an opening leading inside the Earth. Here he met with advanced beings who had a sobering message for him to deliver to Mankind at the Surface World.
Upon Byrd’s return to Washington, on March 11, 1947 he was interviewed intently by top security forces and a medical team. He was placed under strict control and ordered to remain silent on behalf of humanity. Being a military man, he felt he had to comply.
Here, from Admiral Byrd’s secret log and diary, is the message meant to have been heard 70 years ago!
Excerpt of The Hollow Earth (no ISBN):
“During his Arctic flight of 1,700 miles BEYOND the North Pole he reported by radio that he saw below him, not ice and snow, but land areas consisting of mountains, forests, green vegetation, lakes and rivers, and in the underbrush saw a strange animal resembling the mammoth….”
In January, 1956, Admiral Byrd led another expedition to the Antarctic and there penetrated for 2,300 miles BEYOND the South Pole. The radio announcement at this time (January 13, 1956) said:
“On January 13, members of the United stated expedition penetrated a land extent of 2,300 miles BEYOND the Pole. The Flight was made by Rear Admiral George Dufek of the United States Navy Air Unit.” Byrd said on March 13, 1956, “The present expedition has opened up a vast new land.”
Admiral Byrd said in February, 1947 before his North Pole flight, “I’d like to see that land beyond the Pole. That area beyond the Pole is the center of the great unknown.”
Excerpt of A Flight to the Land Beyond the North Pole:
“I bid you welcome to our domain, Admiral.” I see a man with delicate features and with the etching of years upon his face. He is seated at a long table. He motions me to sit down in one of the chairs.
After I am seated, he places his fingertips together and smiles. He speaks softly again, and conveys the following. “We have let you enter here because you are of noble character and well-known on the Surface World, Admiral.”
“Surface World,” I half-gasp under my breath! “Yes,” the Master replies with a smile, “you are in the domain of the Arianni, the Inner World of the Earth. We shall not long delay your mission, and you will be safely escorted back to the surface and for a distance beyond. But now. Admiral, I shall tell you why you have been summoned here.
Our interest rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the ‘Flugelrads,’ to your surface world to investigate what your race had done.
“That is, of course, past history now, my dear Admiral, but I must continue on. You see, we have never interfered before in your race’s wars, and barbarity, but now we must, for you have leamed to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely, that of atomic energy.
Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. You see, our culture and science are many thousands of years beyond your race, Admiral.” I interrupted, “But what does this have to do with me, Sir?”
The master’s eyes seemed to penetrate deeply into my mind, and after studying me for a few moments he replied, “Your race has now reached the point of no return, for there are those among you who would destroy your very world rather than relinquish their power as they know it…”
I nodded, and the Master continued. “In 1945 and afterward, we tried to contact your race, but our efforts were met with hostility. Our Flugelrads were fired upon, yes, even pursued with malice and animosity by your fighter planes.
So, now, I say to you, my son, there is a great storm gathering in your world, a black fury that will not spend itself for many years. There will be no answer in your armies, there will be no safety in your science. It may rage on until every flower of your culture is trampled and all human things are leveled in vast chaos.
“Your recent war was only a prelude of what is yet to come for your race. We here see it more clearly with each hour…do you say I am mistaken?”
“No,” I answer,” it happened once before, the Dark Ages came and they lasted for more than five hundred years.” “Yes, my son,” replied the Master, “the Dark Ages that will come now for your race will cover the Earth like a pall, but I believe that some of your race will live through the storm, beyond that, I cannot say.
We see at a great distance a new world stirring from the ruins of your race, seeking its lost and legendary treasures, and they will be here, my son, safe in our keeping. When that time arrives, we shall come forward again to help revive your culture and your race.
“Perhaps, by then, you will have learned the futility of war and its strife…and after that time, certain of your culture and science will be returned for your race to begin anew. You, my son, are to return to the Surface World with this message…”
With those closing words, our meeting seemed at an end. I stood for a moment as in a dream…but, yet, I knew this was reality, and for some strange reason I bowed slightly, either out of respect or humility, I do not know which.
Suddenly, I was again aware that the two beautiful hosts who had brought me here were again at my side. “This way, Admiral,” motioned one. I turned once more before leaving and looked back toward the Master. A gentle smile was etched on his delicate ancient face. “Farewell, my son,” he spoke, then he gestured with a lovely, slender hand a motion of peace and our meeting was truly ended.
Quickly, we walked back through the great door of the Master’s chamber and once again entered into the elevator. The door slid silently downward and we were at once going upward. One of my hosts’ spoke again, “We must now make haste, Admiral, as the Master desires to delay you no longer on your schedule timetable and you must return with his message to your race.”
Source: A Flight to the Land Beyond the North Pole; The Missing Diary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Inner Light Publications, Box 753, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Mankind has made contact with an alien 'Galactic Federation' but it has been kept secret because 'humanity isn't ready', former head of Israel's space security program claims
Mankind has made contact with an alien 'Galactic Federation' but it has been kept secret because 'humanity isn't ready', former head of Israel's space security program claims
Haim Eshed said aliens are real and secretly in contact with America and Israel
He claimed the 'Galactic Federation' runs an underground Mars base with the US
The 87-year-old said aliens will not come into the open until humanity 'evolves'
An Israeli space official has claimed that aliens are real and secretly in contact with America and Israel - but are keeping their existence quiet because humanity 'isn't ready'.
Haim Eshed - who was head of Israel's space security programme for nearly 30 years and is a retired general - described a so-called 'Galactic Federation' which supposedly runs an underground Mars base in a secret pact with Washington.
Israeli space official Haim Eshed, pictured on the cover of a new book called The Universe Beyond the Horizon, claims that the US and Israel have had contact with aliens
But the aliens had to intervene to stop Donald Trump when he appeared 'on the verge' of blurting out their secrets, he told Israeli paper Yediot Aharonot.
And the 87-year-old Eshed says the aliens will not come into the open until humanity can 'evolve and reach a stage where we will... understand what space and spaceships are'.
Eshed did not say how long the aliens have been hiding in the shadows, but said some of the supposed contact had taken place during Trump's presidency.
Speaking of an 'agreement' between the US government and the alien visitors, Eshed said the extraterrestrials wanted to work with American agents to study 'the fabric of the universe'.
'The aliens have asked not to announce that they are here [because] humanity is not ready yet,' Eshed told the Hebrew-language newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth, according to Jewish Press.
'Trump was on the verge of revealing [alien existence], but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying, 'Wait, let people calm down first'.
'They don't want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.'
Until that point, he said, aliens have secured an agreement to keep their movements secret.
'They have been waiting for humanity to evolve and reach a stage where we will generally understand what space and spaceships are,' said Eshed.
'There's an agreement between the US government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here. They, too, are researching and trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe, and they want us as helpers.'
'There's an underground base in the depths of Mars, where their representatives are, and also our American astronauts,' Eshed is reported to have said.
The former space official claimed he had come forward now in the unlikely hope that his revelations would be accepted as true.
'If I had come up with what I'm saying today five years ago, I would have been hospitalised,' he told the Israeli paper. 'Every place that I went to in academia with this, they said: The guy has lost his mind.
'I have nothing to lose. I've received my degrees and awards; I am respected in universities abroad, where the trend is also changing.'
In April 2020 the Pentagon released footage from three sightings of unidentified objects. One of the videos was captured off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, in 2015 (pictured)
The professor has even put his thoughts into a book in which he describes how aliens have prevented nuclear disasters on Earth, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The book is called The Universe Beyond the Horizon: Conversations with Professor Haim Eshed.
As head of the Israeli defence ministry's space directorate, Eshed helped launch spy satellites which he said would help provide high-quality surveillance of Iran.
When he retired in 2011, he was even described in Israeli media as 'the father of Israel's satellite programme'.
But after leaving his role at the defence ministry, he is said to have 'turned to what really interested him - aliens'.
In the new book he discusses UFOs and 'various theories about their nature, purpose and origin, which in his opinion is probably not from Earth,' according to a blurb.
Eshed is described a researcher who 'believes that the human race is not alone in the universe, and that it must fit into the harmony of the great plan'.
Israel's space agency hinted at a future moon mission on Monday by publishing a short clip entitled 'Back to the Moon' with the caption 'Ready to get excited again?'.
The country's first attempt at a lunar landing ended in failure when a privately-funded robotic craft crashed on its final descent last April.
Only the US, China and the former Soviet Union have succeeded in carrying out a controlled landing on the moon.
NASA has an official target of returning humans to the moon by 2024, but the development of a next-generation rocket has been held up by the pandemic.
The US and China also have Mars in their sights, but the dream of landing humans on the red planet is still some way off - despite Eshed's claims of an underground base.
Beijing's unmanned Tianwen-1 rover is due to arrive in the red planet's orbit in February 2021 after taking off in July.
NASA has its own Mars rover on the way, Perseverance, and is working on systems that could support human life on the 34million-mile trip to Mars.
Trump, whether secretly in league with aliens or not, unveiled America's new Space Force last year, the first new military service in the US for more than 70 years.
The Pentagon said in August this year that it was setting up a new task force under the US Navy to investigate UFO sightings.
In April, US defence chiefs released three videos taken by Navy pilots showing mid-air encounters with unexplained objects.
The grainy black and white footage had previously been leaked and the Navy had acknowledged they were genuine videos.
One of the videos was shot in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015.
Mystery of the mirrored monoliths: They've sprung up in remote beauty spots across the world, from the Utah desert to the Isle of Wight. But are they bizarre works of art... or something out of this world?
By Mark Palmer for the Daily Mail
Soaring over the barren, featureless desert of Utah's aptly named Red Rock Country, the helicopter crew could not believe its eyes.
A tedious routine flight counting bighorn sheep in one of America's emptiest regions had suddenly taken a dramatic turn, one that would immediately capture the world's imagination — and fuel wild conspiracy theories.
In this rugged, canyon-carved, sun-baked corner, an otherworldly, 10ft 'monolith' was glinting in the harsh desert light. Three-sided, metallic and as immovable as the menhirs of Stonehenge, it seemed somehow both to have been there for ever and to be a kind of message or sign — but it gave no clue as to its origins.
Feeling reflective: This 10ft metal monolith appeared in a red-rock desert in the U.S. state of Utah last month
Helicopter pilot Bret Hutchings described how a biologist on the flight with him spotted the object. 'He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' said Hutchings. ''There's this thing back there — we've got to go look at it!' I have to admit, that's been about the strangest thing I've come across out there in all the years of flying.'
A bewildered spokesman for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources euphemistically said the monolith — which are usually a single stone or rock — was an 'anomaly' after it appeared on November 18, adding: 'It's a tough place to get to by vehicle and on foot.'
So who — or what — could possibly have planted it? The internet was instantly aflame with theories. It was a prop left over from films including Indiana Jones, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible, all of which were made in the area. It was, others insisted, a satellite beacon, a 'resonance deflector' — or maybe just 'an eyesore'.
But perhaps the most common suggestion was that the monolith was placed there by an alien species of vastly superior intelligence.
After all, it resembled nothing so much as the huge black object that mysteriously appears in the desert in the epic opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Within days, similar objects began popping up all over the world and a near identical monolith appeared on a hillside in Romania (pictured)
Gold in them thar hills: Another strange object appeared in Chia municipality, Colombia, as the metal structures started popping up all around the world
Fixed into the dusty ground by a higher intelligence, the object appears to teach the 'apes' in that film how to use tools — in turn sparking the arrival of humans.
Then, just as strangely as it arrived, the Utah monolith vanished, nine days after it had first baffled the globe. And from there, the mystery only deepened further.
Within days, similar objects began popping up all over the world. A near identical monolith appeared on a hillside in Romania. Internet users were quick to point out that the metallic, triangular object had appeared close to an ancient archaeological landmark, the Petrodava Fortress, built by the ancient Dacian people about 2,000 years ago.
Could this be significant, many wondered. Were aliens trying to send a message? Or were pranksters merely copying the Utah phenomenon that fascinated the planet? Then the monoliths began proliferating with extraordinary profusion. One 'landed' at the top of a mountain trail in California. It too vanished.
Another turned up in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania, outside a sweet shop. Perhaps the extra-terrestrials were fond of Hershey's chocolate, some quipped.
At the end of last week, an especially beautiful monolith appeared in the Joshua Tree National Park of southern California. Others appeared in Colombia and the Netherlands.
At the end of last week, an especially beautiful monolith appeared in the Joshua Tree National Park of southern California
New on the block: Another monolith appeared on a hilltop near the city of Atascadero in California last week, days after others had mysteriously appeared then vanished
Finally — closest to home — in the early hours of Sunday morning, a gleaming, three-sided monolith 'landed' out of nowhere at genteel Compton Bay, on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight.
Dog walkers were awed by the sight of the 8 ft object standing rigidly straight, reflecting the winter light that sparkled on the sea. Resident Alexia Fishwick said she was 'dumbstruck' when she spotted it during a beach walk, saying the monolith was 'really quite magical'.
Once again, it was in a hard-to-reach place, fixed into the sand below a sheer cliff, accessible only by a narrow footpath. Former Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank, who lives on the island, says: 'I'm not sure if it's aliens, a Coldplay PR stunt or a local mirror dealer drumming up trade, but it got us all down the beach anyway.'
Tory MP Bob Seely was more measured, saying: 'It's fascinating that this sculpture has popped up.'
Sculpture? Surely not, many insist. It must be far, far more than that.
A spokesman for Isle of Wight Council claimed the beach at Compton Bay is owned and managed by the Crown Estate — although the National Trust disputes this, insisting it owns the site.
The Trust says the monolith had appeared without permission — how infuriating that the aliens failed to follow proper planning rules — and insists: 'We need to monitor over the next few days to ensure the beach remains safe and does not become overcrowded.' The organisation also conducted a full study of the object, concluding that it 'seems secure on a wooden plinth and is made from mirrored sections of plastic or Perspex material'.
The monoliths began proliferating with extraordinary profusion, with one appearing in a nature reserve near Oudehorne in the Netherlands
Stunned: Local Peter James was mystified when a monolith appeared out of nowhere at genteel Compton Bay, on the south-west coast of the Isle of Wight
Over in America, suspicion has fallen upon an anonymous collective called The Most Famous Artist, based in Sante Fe, New Mexico. They quickly took credit for the monoliths in Utah and California and, while they were about it, showed some entrepreneurial flair by posting an image of the Utah creation — with a £34,000 price tag attached.
Whatever the truth of the monoliths' origins, it's clear there hasn't been anything like them since crop circles began appearing in 1976. Over the next two decades these phenomena were all the rage. Or, as the Smithsonian Institution said, they were a 'lens through which the initiated could witness the activity of Earth energies and ancient spirits, the anguish of Mother Earth in the face of impending ecological doom and evidence of secret weapons'.
The mystique of crop circles was finally shattered when two Brits — Doug Bower and his co-conspirator Dave Chorley — were outed as the creators of the first 'flying saucer nest' in a Wiltshire wheat field using ropes and boards. There are signs, that the current monolith mania will be more short-lived.
Another turned up in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania, outside a sweet shop. Perhaps the extra-terrestrials were fond of Hershey's chocolate, some quipped
An anonymous collective called The Most Famous Artist took credit for the monoliths in Utah and California, but founder Matty Mo (pictured) said the craze is now out of control
Many seem to disappear almost as fast as they arrive. One at the top of the Californian hiking trail came a cropper when a group of Trump supporters chanting 'Christ is King' and 'America First' came across it on a hike, took a dim view and demolished it, though it soon reappeared.
But as with those perplexing circles, the beauty of the monoliths seems to be that you can believe whatever you want about their origins. Go all galactic, if you wish, and convince yourself that they have appeared as an urgent — if rather opaque — message from aliens. Or take the view that people with too much time on their hands are planting a few bits of shiny metal and revelling in the subsequent speculation.
As Matty Mo, founder of The Most Famous Artist collective, said when he heard about the Isle of Wight's version: 'The monolith is out of my control at this point. Godspeed to all the aliens working hard around the globe to propagate the myth.'
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Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear Said There Are Civilizations, Huge Cities, And Bases On Moon
Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear Said There Are Civilizations, Huge Cities, And Bases On Moon
A former CIA pilot John Lear gave part of his life to serve as a US Air Force pilot and then worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In one of his interviews, John made a sensational announcement that Earth is a space prison and unlocked several moon mysteries. He also noted that in the universe, there are still a lot of inhabited planets of different levels of development.
Given that flights into space are carried out only within the same galaxy in which planet Earth is located, and even then at very short distances, therefore, it is not worth completely rejecting the information provided by John, because the government always has something to hide.
John Lear
Planet Earth in space is considered as a prison for the inhabitants of various galaxies, and billions of creatures are referred to it as re-education. The man also said that on Earth, a person is serving his sentence from birth, and only with death is sent to a better world; a similar model of the world can be found in various religious systems, which in some cases confirms the information.
This statement by the CIA officer is worth noting: “The moon is an artificial body that was dragged to our planet, as a result of which an ice age broke out on Earth that killed all living things.” In fact, the circumstances of the appearance of the moon in outer space are not exactly known, and no one has seen the back of the moon. John also explained in his interview how Moon had been created in Jupiter and brought to Earth’s orbit about 15,000 years ago which was nearly around the last ice age. Also, he said that the Greys are on the moon also but mainly remain underground within huge laboratories.
According to him, Moon has a breathable atmosphere where around 250 million people are living in huge cities and bases.
Artificially created Moon base/Moon mysteries/YouTube
And if you recall the flight of the Americans to the moon, then a lot of questions also arise, the answers to which only say that the Americans weren’t on moon, and if they were, then they definitely have something to hide. The officer claimed that in those days, NASA had no technology that could cross that Van Allen belt safely.
The artificiality of the moon is also confirmed by the fact that if you look at it in the night sky, then it really looks like plastic.
It is impossible to find material evidence in the words of John Lear, as he himself says that if he managed to get them, he would be immediately destroyed.
Christopher Kraft, who was director of the NASA tracking base in Houston during the Apollo Moon missions, revealed the conversation between Mission Control and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin after he left NASA.
Armstrong and Aldrin From the moon: “Those are giant things. No, no, no …. this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this!” Mission Control, Houston: “What…what…what? What the hell is happening? What’s wrong with you?”
Armstrong and Aldrin: “They’re here under the surface.” Mission Control: “What’s there? Emission interrupted… interference control calling Apollo II.”
Armstrong and Aldrin: “We saw some visitors. They were there for a while, observing the instruments.” Mission Control: “Repeat your last information.”
Armstrong and Aldrin: “I say that there were other spaceships. They’re lined up on the other side of the crater.” Mission Control: “Repeat…repeat!”
Armstrong and Aldrin: “Let us sound this orbita ….. In 625 to 5…automatic relay connected… My hands are shaking so badly I can’t do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have picked up anything… what then?” Mission Control: “Have you picked up anything?”
Armstrong and Aldrin: “I didn’t have any film at hand. Three shots of the saucers or whatever they were that were ruining the film.” Mission Control: “Control, control here. Are you on your way? Is the uproar with the U.F.O.s. over?
Armstrong and Aldrin: “They’ve landed there. There they are and they are watching us.” Mission Control: “The mirrors, the mirrors…have you set them up?”
Armstrong and Aldrin: “Yes, they’re in the right place. But whoever made those space ships surely can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out.”
Did you know the space pioneer and the sixth man who stepped foot on the lunar surface, Edgar Mitchell strongly believed in the existence of extra-terrestrial life and according to him, NASA has been working with them for a long time.
He said,” It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real.”
There is a conspiracy that Mitchell told a man named Farida Iskiovet (allegedly a former U.F.O investigator for the President of the United Nations) about the UFO he saw on the moon.
John Lear 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.
On the evening of November 9, 1974, police in the quiet town of Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, got a curious call from some scared teens. The group of friends, consisting of John Lloyd, 14, William Lloyd, 16, and Robert Gillette, 15, claimed that they had been outside playing in a park when they saw a fiery object “like a shooting star” come speeding over the nearby Salem Mountain to plummet to earth behind some trees, showering a trail of sparks behind it and emitting a “whistling noise” the whole way. When the curious boys excitedly ran over to see what had happened, they realized that the object had come down into a pond, or more accurately a large coal breaker pit filled with water. When they approached the pond’s edge, they claimed to have seen something down in the depths eerily glowing in the water about 20 feet from shore. They also claimed that there was a fizzing sound from the pond for a few minutes, as if “someone had thrown a cigarette in the water.” Police at first thought it was an obvious prank, but officers were sent to check it out anyway. This would be the beginning of one of the strangest UFO cases in Pennsylvania history.
When police arrived, they were surprised to see that there indeed was something out under the surface emanating a spooky glow, with the teens even claiming that it seemed to have changed positions since they had first called it in. The police had no idea what it could be, and they quickly cordoned off the area just to be safe. It seems as if they still sort of thought of it as a joke, though, because one policeman even apparently fired off four shots into the pond at the mysterious object, to no effect. A closer look at the glow seemed to suggest that it was coming from a circular or spherical object, perhaps 5 feet in diameter, and that this glow seemed to be pulsating with a white-yellowish light. Police speculated that it was perhaps a downed plane, but the speed with which it had hit the water and the description from the boys seemed to discount this. Another idea was that it was a meteorite, some sort of space junk or even a downed Soviet missile. However, none of these explanations can explain one police report that a boat sent to investigate had seen the light seemingly rush towards them before returning to its original resting spot. What was going on here? No one had a clue. By the next morning the glowing had stopped.
Carbondale, Pennsylvania
Before long word had gotten out about a “UFO crash” at the pond, and police had their hands full trying to keep the flow of hundreds of congregating gawkers from approaching the water. In the meantime, Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois was contacted by police about the strange incident and he suggested that it was likely a meteor or a meteor fragment, as well as recommending that Geiger counter readings be taken at the site just in case. Hynek would also send a UFO field investigator to the site. Another investigator who would be called in was M.J. Graeber, ufologist and founder of UFORIC, a Philadelphia-based UFO Report and Information Center. By this time the area was flooded with thousands of curiosity seekers and UFO enthusiasts, with many more clogging up the roads leading into the city, and all sorts of rumors were heavily making the rounds. Graeber would say of the scene and the flying rumors:
It looked just like a scene from a science fiction movie and fears grew that emergency vehicles could not have got through if they were needed. To make matters worse, although we hadn’t a ghost of an idea of what was actually in the water, rumors were spreading like a brush-fire and a few very vocal UFO enthusiasts who were milling about at the site were questioning the effectiveness of the police, fire companies and UFO researchers’ retrieval efforts. There was a rumor that an alien space ship had landed – not crashed – in the silt pond and that the military had managed to recover whatever was in the water and spirit it away before anyone had an opportunity to see it. In one rumor scenario, the UFO was loaded upon a flatbed railcar that was brought to the site on a nearby (albeit, long abandoned) railroad spur – and in another account, two military helicopters were used to lift the object from the water and place it in an armored truck. Curiously, I too became linked to a rather ridiculous rumor which placed me at the scene as a government agent or high ranking Air Force officer disguised as a UFO field investigator. But the truth was that I was just a guy who had an interest in the UFO phenomenon and had been investigating sighting reports for about two years prior to the incident.
Curiously, Graeber would report that there were only police at the scene and a single Air Force officer, with no armed military men present, despite what others would later claim. While the investigation was being carried out, the local Fire Department made efforts to pump and drain the pond to find out if anything was in there, but they faced many difficulties with debris and silt, making the process extremely slow going and basically useless. Another idea was to try and use a crane fitted with a magnet to lift whatever it was out, but this proved to be impractical and there was still the fear that whatever it was could be leaking dangerous substances. They ended up calling in a diver by the name of Mark Stamey to come in and take a look, and in the meantime some of the UFO investigators were being interviewed about their thoughts on the matter. Most of them were beginning to think this was perhaps a hoax, or at most a meteor. Graeber would say:
The UFO researchers were being interviewed by the press and a TV station’s helicopter circled the pond churning up the water. Although we still hadn’t any solid information on what the object in the water might be, Dr. Hynek’s representative and I were starting to suspect that the incident might be a prank that the teens had perpetrated on a nothing else to do Saturday night whim. We thought that perhaps their hoax simply got out of control and took on a life of its own – and that the boys may have been too scared to fess up to what they had done. Of course, it may have been that the boys had witnessed a meteor or a bolide (a large and occasionally exploding meteor) streaking across the night sky and mistakenly assumed that it was the same luminous object that they discovered moments later in the pond. This seemed to be a reasonable notion, as the boys’ description of the aerial phenomenon they had observed was absolutely meteoric in character. However, my inspection of the alleged crash site revealed that there were no topographical indicators to suggest that something like a plane, a large piece of space junk or a meteor had impacted the pond or the area surrounding it. There wasn’t any obvious displacement of earth; there was no displacement of water from the pond; there were no indicators of a fire, downed tree limbs or skid marks creating a gouge in the soil.
It is quite possible that this is correct, as when Stamey finally suited up and dove in, he returned a short while later with a 12‐inch miner’s lantern. After this, the whole thing would fall apart. Robert Gillette Jr. would admit that he had thrown the lantern into the water to scare his sister, although the other two boys insisted that what they had seen was true, that an object really had come down from the sky. Nevertheless, the news soon hit that it was all a hoax, the disappointed crowds quickly dissipated, and the UFO researchers packed their bags and went home. However, there were still many who believed that a UFO, or at least something strange, had really come down, and there were many reports from people who insisted that they had seen a big flatbed truck on the road near the pond with something large on it and surrounded by the military, with the lantern planted there to make people go away and cover up the fact that they had retrieved an alien ship. This whole conspiracy would be fueled when years later Gillette would recant his confession to throwing the lantern in the pond and admitting that something larger was removed, although he shies away from aliens and thinks it was likely some Soviet tech. Gillette has said of this:
My girlfriend broke up with me, so I was in a bad mood. I just told them what they wanted to hear, that it was a lantern. It wasn’t a lantern. Something was pulled out of the pond. I don’t think it was aliens. Some people do. I never called it a UFO. The official people did.
The case has become quite the piece of lore in the area, and there are still plenty of people who thing there is more to it than meets the eye. While it seems on the surface that it must surely be just a prank that got out of control, is that really what is going on here? Did these kids just pull off a hoax that managed to pretty much shut the whole town down? If so, why are there so many other reports of something strange going on? Did something come down into that pond or not, and if so, what was it? Was this a plane, meteor, satellite, or something all together stranger? Was there someone who wanted to cover it all up by orchestrating it as a hoax? The case is so long ago now, and so written off as just a prank, even by many ufologists, that it hasn’t really been investigated any further, and so it is left up to the imagination.
The saga of the Flying Saucer began with the pilot Kenneth Arnold, whose 24 June 1947 encounter at the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, kicked off the modern era of UFO sightings. At approximately 3.00 p.m. on the afternoon in question, Arnold was searching for an aircraft that had reportedly crashed on the southwest side of Mt. Rainier. At the time of its occurrence, Arnold’s encounter attracted the keen interest of not just the public and the media, but also that of the all-powerful Federal Bureau of Investigation. The following is a verbatim statement made by Arnold himself and taken from previously Secret FBI records of 1947 that confirm the Bureau’s deep interest in his strange encounter: “I hadn’t flown more than two or three minutes on my course when a bright flash reflected on my airplane. It startled me as I thought I was too close to some other aircraft. I looked every place in the sky and couldn’t find where the reflection had come from until I looked to the left and the north of Mt. Rainier, where I observed a chain of nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north to south at approximately 9,500 feet elevation and going, seemingly, in a definite direction of about 170 degrees.”
Arnold stressed that the objects were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly and he was puzzled by their physical appearance: “I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn’t find their tails but assumed they were some type of jet plane. The more I observed these objects, the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all objects flying whether I am close to the ground or at higher altitudes. The chain of these saucer-like objects [was] at least five miles long. I felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I saw [sic].” No conclusive explanation for Arnold’s sighting ever surfaced, and the mystery regarding what he did or did not see has raged for more than half a century. Even the FBI – that was monitoring UFO activity in the summer of 1947 on a somewhat ad hoc basis – came away impressed by the report: “It is difficult to believe that a man of [Arnold’s] character and apparent integrity would state that he saw objects and write up a report to the extent that he did if he did not see them.”
Kenneth Arnold
As UFO sightings reached epidemic proportions across the USA in the summer of 1947, the military swung into action, and various studies and operations were formulated that ultimately unified into an official, investigative operation known as Project Sign. That project would, in 1948, make way for Project Grudge; and, finally, Project Blue Book, which continued until 1969. Collectively, the three projects concluded that no UFO sighting investigated officially had ever had a bearing on national security, and there was no evidence to indicate that any UFO sightings represented alien visitations. Of course, numerous claims, counter-claims, arguments and counter-arguments have been put forth by a variety of authors and commentators on whether or not some UFOs are indeed alien spacecraft, and whether or not elements of the US Government, military and intelligence community have systematically hidden evidence in support of that theory from the public and the media alike.
Two weeks after the encounter of Kenneth Arnold, Brigadier General George F. Schulgen, Chief of the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence, met with Special Agent S.W. Reynolds of the FBI with a view to determining if the Army Air Force could solicit the assistance of the Bureau on a regular basis in its investigation of the UFO mystery. General Schulgen advised SA Reynolds that, “every effort must be undertaken in order to run down and ascertain whether or not the flying discs are a fact and, if so, to learn all about them.” An examination of the relevant files of the FBI demonstrates that, in the weeks following Arnold’s encounter of 24 June 1947, the foremost thought on General Schulgen’s mind was that the saucers were Russian in origin. He confided in Special Agent Reynolds that, “the first reported sightings might have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret weapon.” It was for this reason that the Army Air Force sought the FBI’s assistance.
General Schulgen guaranteed the FBI “all the facilities of [my] office as to results obtained,” and outlined a plan that would involve the FBI in both locating and questioning witnesses to UFO sightings to ascertain whether they were sincere in their statements that they had seen flying saucers, or whether their statements were prompted by “personal desire for publicity or political reasons.” Similarly, in 1953, the Robertson Panel – a select group of consultants brought together by the CIA to look at the national security implications of the UFO controversy – recommended that a number of the public UFO investigative groups that existed in the United States at the time, such as the Civilian Flying Saucer Investigators (CFSI) and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), should be “watched” carefully due to “…the apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive purposes…”
Indeed, the fear and concern expressed by the military, the CIA, and the FBI in the formative years of official UFO studies that those implicated in the Flying Saucer mystery had “Communist sympathies” or were following a covert, political agenda – the intention of which was “causing hysteria” and subversion – led to intense surveillance of practically anyone and everyone that delved into the subject, and particularly those that criticized the Government’s handling of the situation.
The Best UFO Sightings, Videos & Alien Encounters Of 2021 - Part I
The Best UFO Sightings, Videos & Alien Encounters Of 2021 - Part I
We start 2021 very much in the same way we began 2020 – with an apparent expectation of a huge release of information combined with an admission of prior knowledge about the existence of UFOs and alien life. Essentially, “disclosure”.
Of course, whether that disclosure arrives remains to be seen. However, sightings of strange lights and objects in our planet’s skies have continued over the first four weeks of the new year, suggesting that 2021 will indeed be a busy year for all things UFO-related.
Contents
February
UFO “Fleet” Captured On Video, Lehigh, Florida, February 2020
Bright Glowing Object Captured On Camera Over Wasilla, Alaska, 10th Jan
Bright Ascending Object Captured Over Montana 30th Jan
Strange Object Witnessed Over Edinburgh, Scotland, 30th Jan
Strange Trails Over Denver, Colorado, 31st January
Strange, Glowing Object Spotted Over Coventry, England, 1st Feb
Orange, Glowing Craft Over Colina, Chile, 3rd Feb
Object Appears Out Of Clouds Over Georgia, 9th Feb
Several Strange Lights Over Los Angeles, California, 10th Feb
Multiple Orb-Like UFOs Over Tempe, Arizona, 12th Feb
UFOs Captured During Interview On RT News, 13th Feb
Meteor Or UFO Over Melbourne, Australia, 14th Feb?
Strange Glowing Orb Witnessed Over Spain, 15th Feb
Strange Object Over Cape Town, South Africa, 16th Feb
Lights With “No Sequence Or Rhythm” Gulf Breeze Sighting, 17th Feb
Another Glowing Orb Witnessed Over Wasilla, Alaska 17th Feb
Two Strange Objects Overtaking A Plane Over Rioverde, Mexico, 19th Feb
Silent Orbs Making Their Way Over Metairie Louisiana, 21st Feb
The American Airlines Flight 2292 Incident, New Mexico 21st Feb
Strange Object Appears Out Of The Clouds Over Cairns, Australia, 22nd Feb
February
February was witness to many varied UFO sightings all around the world. And like previous months and years, the variety of the sightings is matched only by the intrigue they generate. From sightings of strange orbs rising rapidly into the atmosphere, disc-like objects emerging from the clouds to fleets of UFOs hanging over busy cities, February has once again played host to various aerial anomalies in our collective skies.
As always, however, we begin our round-up with a look at some of sightings that occurred last month but have only recently been reported in the last few weeks, the first of which features the previously mentioned UFO fleet.
UFO “Fleet” Captured On Video, Lehigh, Florida, February 2020
Perhaps the eldest sighting only recently reported is MUFON case 113798, which while unfolding on February 2020, has only just entered the public domain. The sighting is particularly interesting in that it appears to show many different lights – described as a “fleet” by some UFO enthusiasts – that are clearly visible in the night sky.
The witness would claim that they had just finished work for the evening when they noticed “all these orbs just stationary in the sky”. What’s more, some of these objects would “disappear and reappear”. Realizing they were witnessing something out of the ordinary, the witness reached for their phone and shot around a minute of footage. They would state, however, that despite the extraordinary nature of the incident, they were “in a hurry to get home” and had to turn their mind to the journey.
Once more, if we take note of the location, is this another sighting that lends credibility to the notion of secret bases somewhere under the water off the American coast? It is certainly a thought-provoking sighting, which you can see below.
Bright Glowing Object Captured On Camera Over Wasilla, Alaska, 10th Jan
Although it wasn’t reported until the third week on February, a sighting that occurred in Wasilla, Alaska appears to show a bright object in the early evening skies. Captured somewhere between 7 pm and 9 pm, the witness would claim that they had seen many UFOs over the area.
This is interesting as Alaska is a relative object for such strange and intriguing sightings. Was this another one that suggests an apparent alien interest in this part of the world?
This particular sighting was of a glowing object – either spherical or disc-shaped – that, from the brightness of it, appears to be very large. As we will examine shortly, in the very same location a little over a month later, another similar sighting occurred.
You can see the picture the witness captured below.
Bright Ascending Object Captured Over Montana 30th Jan
A sighting from Montana on the evening of 30th January was captured on video and appears to show a bright object ascending over the city of Ferndale. The footage was captured at a little after 10 pm and does indeed appear to show large, artificial object heading high up into the atmosphere.
The witness was at a local bar when they captured the footage, near the Swan Mountain range. While some who have viewed the video state that the object could be something due to atmospheric conditions, others believe that it shows a genuine extraterrestrial craft. One thing that all appear to agree on, though, is that it is a very interesting piece of footage.
You can see that video footage below.
Strange Object Witnessed Over Edinburgh, Scotland, 30th Jan
At around 5 pm on the 30th January in Edinburgh in Scotland, a local woman noticed a strange “UFO-like object” hovering almost directly over her home. Thew witnessed managed to obtain several moments of video footage of the object, which according to the Edinburgh Live platform (who received the report) showed a “dark object (that) flies back and forth”.
The witness claimed that she had dismissed the notion that the “object” might have been merely birds due to how it “kept disappearing” and then reappearing. She did say, though, she was not sure what the object was, but that birds, in her opinion, what not have remained in such an aerial position for as long as the sighting went on for, around 10 to 15 minutes.
The witness was also certain that the object disappeared on several occasions, stressing that she meant “proper disappearing”, and that the activity appeared to be taking place close to or over Edinburgh Airport. We should note that many UFO sightings have occurred near airports, many of which have unfolded in recent years. Whatever the object was on this occasion, though, remains a mystery.
Strange Trails Over Denver, Colorado, 31st January
During the morning of 31st January (according to separate MUFON reports – number 113474 and 113475) at just before 11 am, several local residents of Denver, Colorado spotted strange objects that appeared to be falling to the ground leaving trails behind them.
One witness would claim they were simply drinking their usual morning coffee and looking out of his window as normal when they noticed the strange trails. He alerted his friend who was with him and both kept their focus on them for several moments. As they watched, the witness recalled how you could “see that there as a directional change in the upper atmosphere”. Furthermore, after reaching an approximate altitude of around 1,500 feet, the objects themselves appeared to change direction, heading toward nearby Buckley Air Force Base.
The witness would further state that all three of the apparent objects “maintained a perfect formation” and that they made no noise whatsoever. They eventually disappeared into the distance.
A second witness would claim that they too had seen “three large white objects” that moved at a “high rate of speed”. They would also state, like the first witness, that they “maintained their formation” and that they appeared very much like “cloud tear-drops”. They would claim the objects appeared to “fall” before they suddenly changed direction, heading east at a “high rate of speed”. The witness would eventually lose sight of them behind the trees and buildings in the distance.
As we might imagine, there were a whole host of explanations offered for the strange objects, including that they were extraterrestrial crafts.
However, one UFO researcher, Scott Brando, would suggest in the Express newspaper that there was a “terrestrial explanation” for the sighting, elaborating that they were “contrails from three military aircraft”. Furthermore, he would claim another researcher, Mick West of Metabunk, had already identified two of them as “C-17A Globemasters”. We should perhaps note that one of the witnesses claimed the objects intentionally changed direction and headed toward Buckley Air Force Base. Might this suggest that they were indeed military aircraft?
What do you think? Are these merely military aircraft? Or might there be an otherworldly explanation? You can see the footage below and make up your own minds.
Strange, Glowing Object Spotted Over Coventry, England, 1st Feb
Another sighting from the MUFON files (case number 113692) unfolded in the daylight skies of Coventry, England on the 1st February.
According to the witness, they spotted a “helixical shape” while they were pruning trees in their garden. They watched the strange shape for around a minute before reaching for their phone and beginning to film it. Shortly after the did so, “another faster moving shape enters the frame” and was “moving erratically”.
While this second object disappeared, the first continued along a “fairly straight trajectory”. The witness’s wife also saw the bizarre object along with her husband. Although they were uncertain of what the object was, they believed it was “too erratic to be a satellite” and also felt that the International Space Station (which was over the UK at the approximate time of the sighting) would not have been invisible during the day.
You can see video footage of that sighting below.
Orange, Glowing Craft Over Colina, Chile, 3rd Feb
On the evening of 3rd February over the city of Colina in Chile, a strange object was captured on video moving through the skies overhead. The object in question appears orb-like and has a gentle orange glow. The way it moves suggest that it is not a planet and it has no standard lights that suggest it is a terrestrial aircraft.
The footage itself is all we have to go on with this particular sighting as there is little other details in the public domain at this stage. Given that the sighting occurred over such a populated area it would be a little surprising if it wasn’t seen by other local residents.
You can check out that video footage below.
Object Appears Out Of Clouds Over Georgia, 9th Feb
At 10 am on the morning of 9th February over Moultrie in Georgia, a local resident spotted what appeared to be a disc-shaped object in the grey, morning sky. The witness, who was visiting a local Walmart store, noticed a strange shape in the clouds and immediately went to capture the anomaly on camera and snapped off three pictures “back-to-back”.
However, when the witness studied the pictures, they noticed what appeared to be an object shaped decisively like a disc. They attempted to take several more pictures in an attempt to capture the object once more. However, all they showed were the clouds suggesting that the object, whatever it was, had gone.
The witness would conclude that the object must have been “moving extremely fast” and appeared to have “come straight out of the clouds”.
Did the witness capture a UFO on film by taking a picture by pure chance at the exact moment it was leaving the cloud cover and heading off into the distance and presumably very high speed? If so, we can assume that the object made no noise whatsoever as they were not aware of its presence in real time. How many other objects might be zipping around our skies without anyone noticing them?
You can check out some of those pictures below.
Several Strange Lights Over Los Angeles, California, 10th Feb
During the evening of the 10th February over the skies of Los Angeles in California, a local resident – Bobby Cail, managed to capture footage of several strange lights seemingly hovering over the city.
The witness claimed he watched the brightly glowing lights for several moments before reaching for his phone in order to record them. However, within seconds of the recording beginning, the lights begin to fade away and disappear, almost as if they are aware of being captured on film. While this could merely be coincidence, and most likely is, it is still an intriguing detail that we shouldn’t ignore.
Whatever the objects were, they are just one of many UFO reports that come out of California. And as we shall see in a moment, around 48 hours later, a similar sighting would unfold in nearby Arizona. Before we move on to that, though, you can see that footage below.
Multiple Orb-Like UFOs Over Tempe, Arizona, 12th Feb
Only two nights later, and from another case from the MUFON files is case number 113700, a similar sighting unfolded when several strange orb-like lights appear in the early evening sky over Tempe, Arizona on 12th February.
The witness would claim that they were speaking with their wife and looking out of their kitchen window when he suddenly noticed “a group of strange lights” in the sky. He alerted his wife before reaching for his phone in order capture several moments of the bizarre scene. He would later that the strange objects moved for so long before becoming stationary, “pulsated and then vanished into the clear night sky”.
At one point during the sighting, an airplane traveled in the same direction of the objects, with them seeming “unaffected by this”. In fact, once the plane had disappeared out of sight, “more (objects” returned to the sky”. The witness would further describe the objects as being a “reddish orange color” although the color didn’t appear on the video footage.
You can see video footage of that sighting below.
UFOs Captured During Interview On RT News, 13th Feb
During a live television interview on RT (Russia Today) News, two distinctly disc-shaped objected seemingly appeared behind one of the interviewers. The objects appeared to move at a high rate of speed and appeared to move in a strict formation.
There is little further information as to what the objects might have been, as well as if there as an official reaction to the sighting. The brief seconds of footage, though, are extremely interesting.
We should note that this is not the first time where UFOs have been captured on screen during live television broadcasts. As we have examined before, these strange objects have shown up on news interviews, weather reports, and even live sports broadcasts. Once more, we might ask, given that we are not actively recorded all parts of the sky all the time, how active with UFOs they just might be.
You can see that news clipping below. The UFO enters the screen from the left.
Meteor Or UFO Over Melbourne, Australia, 14th Feb?
On the evening of 14th February in Melbourne, Australia, a local resident filmed what they believe to be a meteor falling from the sky. However, according to UFO researcher and author, Scott Waring, the footage might actually be that of a UFO descending in a controlled fashion.
Waring would state on his website that if the object was a meteor, it would likely be “moving twice as fast”. Furthermore, there appears to be “no tail” that is visible. Waring also notes, that after the flash that most would suspect to be an explosion, it is clear the object itself was “still intact” before “going dark”.
Was this a UFO that was entering the Earth’s atmosphere? And was the flash the start of some highly advanced propulsion technology? According to many who have viewed the footage, it is, in fact, a meteor, but the debate, it would seem, is still to be had.
You can see the original footage below and make up your own mind.
Strange Glowing Orb Witnessed Over Spain, 15th Feb
Although the footage is only 20 seconds long, a sighting of a strange orb filmed over Badajoz in Spain is very worthy of our time here. The object in question appears to move slow and purposely over the region before disappearing into the distance.
The aerial anomaly also appears to have a persistent glow and a definite solid, disc shape to it. Briefly, it even appears to be rotating around its own axis (something which many UFO reports state and that has been captured on other videos before).
You can see that footage below.
Strange Object Over Cape Town, South Africa, 16th Feb
On the 16th February, local residents of Cape Town in South Africa, witnessed a bizarre green glow in the sky overhead. One resident even managed to capture footage of the strange sighting from the balcony of an apartment at the The Sentinal Luxury Apartment Building, before uploading the video to YouTube under the header “Cape Town UFO Sighting”.
While there is debate as to what the strange green glow might have been, it isn’t the first time in recent weeks that residents of Cape Town have witnessed strange aerial anomalies in their skies. At the start of the month on the 5th February, multiple residents witnessed and reported a “string of lights” moving across the sky at great speed. They then disappeared into the distance. South Africa, like many countries around the world, also has a long history of UFO sightings and activity.
You can view the footage captured on 16th February below.
Lights With “No Sequence Or Rhythm” Gulf Breeze Sighting, 17th Feb
A particularly interesting UFO sighting unfolded at around 10 pm on the 17th February in the Gulf Breeze region of Florida.
The witness would claim they were outside their home using their phone when they “saw a bunch of lights that were blinking”. What’s more, the witness is relatively familiar with both commercial and military planes that fly over the house. These lights, however, the witness recalled as moving “randomly” and with “no sequence or rhythm”.
The sighting lasted for around 10 minutes in total, although the witness only managed to capture around 60 seconds worth of (undoubtedly valuable) footage.
As the witness also correctly points out, the entire Gulf Breeze area has regular UFO sightings, and has done for decades. Might it be that there are some truths in the conspiracies of secret bases, possibly extraterrestrial ones, residing of the coast of Florida, as well as other coastlines of the United States?
You can see the video captured by the witness below.
Another Glowing Orb Witnessed Over Wasilla, Alaska 17th Feb
We began our look at UFO sightings for the month of February by examining an incident that took place at the start of January but was only recently reported. On the 17th February in the same city of Wasilla in Alaska, a similar sighting of a glowing orb hovering high overhead.
The incident occurred at approximately the same time – somewhere between 7 pm and 9 pm – and was captured on camera by the witness. It would appear that the picture wasn’t showing the setting sun as this had occurred earlier. What’s more, due to the cloudy skies, it is likely not a planet either.
Is this more evidence that there is a persistent UFO presence over Alaska? You can see that picture below.
Two Strange Objects Overtaking A Plane Over Rioverde, Mexico, 19th Feb
On the evening of 19th February a local resident, Alejandro Garcia, captured around 30 seconds of footage of two UFOs over the city of Rioverde in Mexico. The footage shows the two objects moving past a plane suggesting they are traversing the skies at a considerable pace. Furthermore, the objects appear to be traveling purposely one over the other.
What isn’t clear is whether the footage shows two objects throughout or whether it shows one object becoming two.
As we have mentioned previously, Mexico is one of the places you might be most likely to see a UFO, with many sightings reported there each year. This incident only adds to its reputation as a UFO hot spot.
The footage in question can be seen below.
Silent Orbs Making Their Way Over Metairie Louisiana, 21st Feb
According to MUFON case 113579 – as highlighted by Scott Waring – a local witness managed to capture footage of several glowing orbs going over the Metairie region of Louisiana. And what’s more, we are not talking just a few – the witness would claim there was likely more than 30 of the strange glowing spherical objects.
Also of intrigue is the fact that some of these glowing orbs appear to change speed (which can be seen in the footage). Does this suggest an intelligence behind them?
The witness stated in their report that the light had “no sound” and were moving in an east to west direction. They glowed with a “reddish pink hue” and were not flashing at all but were consistent.
You can see that footage below.
The American Airlines Flight 2292 Incident, New Mexico 21st Feb
While flying over north east New Mexico, the pilots of American Airlines Flight 2292 witnessed an “unidentified cylindrical-shaped object” speeding through the sky at an altitude of around 36,000 feet. What’s more, the incident has not only been officially confirmed by American Airlines, but the FBI is also said to be investigating the sighting.
Upon seeing the bizarre object, the pilots asked ground control if there were “any targets” in the sky with them as they had “just had something go right over the top of us”.
Interestingly, the sighting occurred in almost the same location as a sighting that occurred in 2018 when two aircraft had such close encounters at almost the same altitude of 37,000 feet. What’s more, one of the pilots involved in that incident would speak to the media, with the descriptions he gave being very similar to those of the recent sighting.
While there is some debate whether such sightings in this region of the United States might be connected to the White Sands Missile Range, many others believe the incident to be yet another encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
You can listen to the incident in the video below.
Strange Object Appears Out Of The Clouds Over Cairns, Australia, 22nd Feb
Another MUFON case (113765), on the evening of 22nd February in Cairns, Australia, two local residents witnessed and filmed strange flying object that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
The witness would state in his brief report of the sighting that they at first believed the object was a “hole in the clouds” until they realized that the clouds themselves were moving behind the object. Then, after several moments, the object “pulsated (and) then disappeared”.
Veteran UFO researcher, Scott C. Waring, would state that this action was “clearly noticing the two men watching it and recording it”. Whatever the object was, if indeed it was a solid object, remains unknown and there if little other details at this point regarding the sighting.
The Best UFO Sightings, Videos & Alien Encounters Of 2021 - Part II
The Best UFO Sightings, Videos & Alien Encounters Of 2021 - Part II
We start 2021 very much in the same way we began 2020 – with an apparent expectation of a huge release of information combined with an admission of prior knowledge about the existence of UFOs and alien life. Essentially, “disclosure”.
Of course, whether that disclosure arrives remains to be seen. However, sightings of strange lights and objects in our planet’s skies have continued over the first four weeks of the new year, suggesting that 2021 will indeed be a busy year for all things UFO-related.
Contents
January
Two Strange Objects Photographed Over Florida, 2nd Dec
String Of Red Lights Over Idaho Falls, 5th Dec
Bright, Circular Object Hovers Over Dorchester, Massachusetts 26th Dec
Blue UFO Over Hawaii, 29th December
Demi Lovato Claims Another UFO Sighting, Mid-January
Cube-Like Object Filmed Over Palm Beach, Florida, 3rd Jan
UFO Captured In Time Lapse Photos, Hatteras Island UFO, 7th Jan
Ring Of Light Captured Over Fargo, North Dakota, 9th Jan
Glowing Rectangular UFO Over Hollywood, Florida, 12th Jan
Objects “Appear Out Of Nowhere” Alejandria, Mexico, 13th Jan
UFO Captured Going In And Out Of Clouds Over Picos, Brazil, 15th Jan
Pilots Witness UFO Over Pakistan, 23rd Jan
Strange Object With Rotating Lights Over Great Falls, Montana, 27th Jan
Glowing Spherical Object Moving Slowly Over Touchet, Washington, 27th Jan
Glowing Object Photographed Over St. Peters, Missouri, 28th Jan
Blue UFO Over Charlotte, North Carolina, 29th July
Bright Object Rising Into The Air, San Diego, 28th Jan
µJanuary
We will update this article each month with the latest UFO sightings from the previous four weeks as we go through 2021. As usual, though, we start with several recently reported sightings that occurred back in December.
Two Strange Objects Photographed Over Florida, 2nd Dec
Although it wasn’t reported until the middle of January, a strange object was photographed in the skies over Seffner in Florida on the morning of 2nd December. The witness was driving at a little after 10 am she they noticed a strange formation in the cloudy skies above.
They brought their vehicle to a stop and reached for their phone in order to take a picture of the apparent anomaly. When the pictures were viewed a short time later, two strange objects appeared to be in the shot. The witness claimed that they hadn’t noticed them when actually taking the pictures.
It is highly like that the “objects” in question were actually simply lens flares. There is, though, perhaps some doubt, and the picture is certainly intriguing. You can view that picture below.
String Of Red Lights Over Idaho Falls, 5th Dec
Although there is little information at this time, another December sighting not reported until January unfolded over Idaho Falls in Idaho on the evening of 5th December.
At just before 6:45 pm a local resident noticed “two sets of three lights in a slight curved line”. It appeared that each set of three were in motion in their own right as they “blinked separately”. The lights were moving, however, in the same direction, occasionally flashing a white light as they moved.
You can see a picture of the lights that the witness managed to capture and make up your own mind.
Bright, Circular Object Hovers Over Dorchester, Massachusetts 26th Dec
Our last late-reported sighting of December that we will examine took place in Dorchester, Massachusetts on the 26th of December.
At a little after 6 pm, the local resident happened to notice a “white circular object hovering and flashing” while looking out of their window. They watched it move in several directions before seemingly heading toward them. It was at this point when they reached for their phone and began recording the unusual aerial activity.
When they zoomed in with their camera, they noticed how the object was “moving in uncharted flight paths, as if it was trying to get a better look at something”. Once more, then, although it is only a suggestion, there is the notion of some kind of reconnaissance to this UFO sighting.
Furthermore, the witness would claim that the object remained in the sky almost the entire evening. Even more intriguing, the witness claimed that the four objects returned into the same position in the sky and once more acted as though they were scanning the ground below.
The online website where this report was submitted noted that there were no bright planets visible in the area where the incident occurred.
You can view that video below.
Blue UFO Over Hawaii, 29th December
At the end of 2020 on the 29th December, a local resident of the Hawaiian island of Oahu spotted and reported a glowing, blue UFO overhead. The shape of the object appeared to oblong and was “larger than a telegraph pole”.
The sighting was captured on film and was appeared to travel across the sky before eventually entering the waters of the Pacific Ocean. This is, once again, an intriguing detail given the number of researchers who suggest that underwater alien bases exist in several places around the world.
There are, however, plenty of theories and suggestions as to what else the object might have been. Perhaps one of the most recurring was that it could be an “LED kite”. As we might imagine, the debate continues as to how otherworldly or terrestrial the blue object might actually be. It is, however, one of the most intriguing to recently come to light.
The sighting was officially reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. Their initial investigation has not revealed any “aircraft disappearing off radars” and have had “no reports of overdue or missing aircraft”.
You can see footage and a news report of that sighting below.
Demi Lovato Claims Another UFO Sighting, Mid-January
Before we move on to other sightings throughout January, we should perhaps turn our attention to another celebrity claiming an apparent extraterrestrial encounter. And while we might be suspicious that such celebrity claims are nothing more than an exercise in staying in the public eye, they still very much require documenting and examining.
The claim came to light in the middle of January when the singer stated on social media that she had managed to film a UFO “in broad daylight”. The circular object may or may not be a UFO – and certainly got a reaction from her followers, with some stating they were merely balloons.
Incidentally, Lovato has made several claims of seeing UFOs in the past. In October 2020 she released similar footage of an apparent UFO, even claiming she had been in the company of Dr. Steven Greer when the video was captured. From her social media posts and recent interviews, it would appear Lovato is very much a believer in at least the possibility of alien life visiting our planet.
Cube-Like Object Filmed Over Palm Beach, Florida, 3rd Jan
Early in the evening on the 3rd of January in Palm Beach, Florida at around 6 pm, a local resident was leaving a department store with their 10-year-old son when they noticed a “dark, cubed-shaped object” overhead. which was “moving slowly” through the cloudy sky.
The witness immediately reached for their phone, realizing they were witnessing something out of the ordinary, and began to film the aerial anomaly from the street below. They continued to view the object for some time. And while it appeared to be descending, they would eventually lose sight of it as it disappeared “behind the store” which blocked their view. The witness would estimate that it was around 500 feet away from where they stood. Although they would quickly get in their car and attempt to locate it once more, they could not find the object after that.
They would further recall how there was a “dim light” on one side of the object and that it appeared to be completely silent. What’s more, it appeared as though there was “some rotation motion” to the apparent craft.
You can view that footage below.
UFO Captured In Time Lapse Photos, Hatteras Island UFO, 7th Jan
At 10:20 pm on the evening of 7th January, at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, a photographer, Wes Snyder, was shooting time-lapse photos for a project that was upcoming. However, during this photo mission, he managed to capture just under three minutes’ worth of footage of a strange object.
Snyder realized he had captured something quite extraordinary when he reviewed the footage. He could immediately see that the object was moving “faster than the clouds” and was much too big to be a plane. Snyder himself is unsure of exactly what the object might have been and asked for viewers’ thoughts when he posted it online. He did, however, dismiss that it might be a meteorite or a shooting star due to how long it remained in shot.
It is a possibility that the UFO disappeared into the ocean as opposed to into the distance (although there is no footage of this). We mention regularly that many UFO sightings occur near water, with one of the main theories as to why this might be being the presence of underwater alien bases off the coast of the United States.
It is certainly an intriguing piece of footage. You can view Snyder’s video below.
Ring Of Light Captured Over Fargo, North Dakota, 9th Jan
After finishing work at a little after 7 am, a local resident of Fargo, North Dakota, witnessed a strange, glowing ring of lights in the still dark sky as they drove home. Although there was a fog in the sky, the lights were clearly visible.
The witness, who sat waiting at the traffic lights, reached for his film and managed to capture several seconds of them. They would note that the lights appeared to be completely stationary and didn’t move at all during the incident. It appears, when the footage is viewed, that the lights are the underside of a solid object, most likely a circular, disc-shaped one.
One intriguing theory was put forward by veteran UFO researcher and writer, Scott C. Waring. He would state that it was possible the UFO had just landed and the “aliens disembarked to study” the area. If that was the case, then the witness might have been nearer to a much closer encounter than they previously thought.
The witness eventually drove away from the scene. You can see the video in question below.
Glowing Rectangular UFO Over Hollywood, Florida, 12th Jan
Just before midnight on the evening of 12th January in Hollywood, Florida, a rectangular UFO was captured for several minutes on video. The person who captured the footage first noticed the three rows of lights of yellow, red, and white, seemingly hovering overhead in a stationary position.
They managed to use their phone to capture the footage. The object remained visible for some time before disappearing behind buildings and then reappearing again. The lights eventually faded and the object disappeared from view. Whether it moved away into the distance or whether it simply turned off its lights is unclear.
You can view footage of the sighting in the video below.
Objects “Appear Out Of Nowhere” Alejandria, Mexico, 13th Jan
At just after 7 am on the morning of 13th January in Alejandria in Mexico, several UFOs were witnessed and filmed in the skies overhead.
The witnesses to the incident would claim that these strange objects “appeared out of nowhere” and at first were just three lights. However, as they came closer, they very much appeared to have a solidness to them. They would elaborate on how their “glow is fascinating”. The witnesses were in the highlands of the area when they filmed the strange crafts.
The sighting is interesting not only because it appears authentic, but Mexico is home to many UFO sightings month after month. Some researchers even suggest that the several mountains and volcanoes in the area are home to extraterrestrial bases which results in the increased sightings in this part of the world.
You can see that video below and make up your own mind.
UFO Captured Going In And Out Of Clouds Over Picos, Brazil, 15th Jan
On the morning of 15th January over Picos, Brazil, a strange object was filmed leaving the clouds before disappearing back into them. Local resident, Luan Silva had noticed the strange object emerging from cloud and disappearing back into them several times before finally reaching for his phone, managing to film this action.
There is little information or explanation as to what was taking place, but the footage is seemingly credible. If we assume this object was a solid, intelligently guided craft, what might the purpose be for such a display? For example, if this was some kind of reconnaissance mission why would it allow itself to be seen several times? Or might this have been an intentional action to make its presence known, and if so, why?
You can see that short video below.
Pilots Witness UFO Over Pakistan, 23rd Jan
Another sighting involving commercial pilots occurred on the 23rd of January over Pakistan when several pilots with Pakistan International Airlines witnessed something strange in the skies with them. And what’s more, one of the crew managed to capture footage of the obscure object.
The plane was making its way from Karachi to Lahore at around 4 pm when the pilot spotted something out of the ordinary approximately 1000 feet above their own altitude. The captain, Faisal Qureshi, immediately contacted the control tower and reported the strange object. Shortly after, he captured the video footage.
The crew would describe the strange object as being “extremely bright” and appeared to have a metal ring around it. In the video, the pilot is also clearly heard saying “it’s not a balloon, it’s not an aircraft”. We should note that many who have viewed the footage believe there is a distinct possibility that it could indeed be a balloon.
Perhaps an indication of the authenticity of the sighting is the fact the airline themselves issued an official statement regarding it. In it, they stated that it was “too early to say what the object was” and that they might not ever “be able to tell”. However, as it was reported as per protocol, they would investigate.
Just what the object might have been remains open to debate. You can watch a short video on the sighting below.
Strange Object With Rotating Lights Over Great Falls, Montana, 27th Jan
While the following sighting doesn’t have any photographs or video footage to back it up, it is perhaps one of the most detailed incidents of the opening month of 2021. The incident in question took place in Great Falls, Montana at a little after 6 am.
The witness stated how they were laid in bed looking out of the bedroom window having been awake for several hours already. As they did so, they noticed what they at first thought was a plane in the distance. However, when they noticed it was heading toward them, they began to watch the object more closely. It was quickly growing larger in size suggesting it was approaching the house with some speed.
Now beginning to fear the object was about to crash into their home, the witness jumped out of bed, continuing to watch the aerial anomaly as they did. Suddenly, though, the object stopped and hovered. The witness would estimate it was no more than 50 feet from the window he was watching it from.
The witness doesn’t state what actual shape the strange vehicle was, they did state that they briefly contemplated that it was a helicopter which perhaps suggests an oval or cigar shape. They did, though, reveal that in the underside were red and white light that appeared to be rotating randomly. They also recalled that it was completely silent. As he struggled to open the blinds so that he could see the craft more clearly, it suddenly disappeared, again without making a sound.
The witness would make it clear that they were not dreaming nor in a state of sleep paralysis, and that what they had seen was definitely real.
Glowing Spherical Object Moving Slowly Over Touchet, Washington, 27th Jan
A recent MUFON report (MUFON 113398), a local resident managed to capture around 30 seconds of footage of a glowing spherical object moving across the sky. The witness was in their back garden when they first noticed the strange object. They would note how slow and controlled the movement across the sky was, and how it appeared to pulsate somewhat as it moved.
As UFO researcher, Scott Waring asks, might this slow movement over the area be due to a surveillance mission? Or might it even be to monitor how humans react to seeing such alien craft? The debate, on the previous questions and this particular sighting continues.
You can see the video in question below.
Glowing Object Photographed Over St. Peters, Missouri, 28th Jan
According to another recent MUFON case (MUFON 113445) on the 28th of January in St. Peters, Missouri, a passenger in a car noticed a “very bright stationary light in the sky”. They would estimate that the object was around a mile or so away from the moving vehicle and was in view for around 30 seconds. However, during that time, the witness managed to capture several photographs.
What is interesting is that the photographs do appear to show a solid object that is reflecting the sun from a seemingly shiny exterior. And what’s more, very similar photographs have been captured going back many years. Of course, whether the incident was a case of an intelligently guided craft or not remains open to debate. It is perhaps interesting that the object – if we assume for a moment that it is indeed a solid craft – was witnessed over powerlines. Some UFO researchers claim this could be a way of them extracting power from them, or even using them to spy on our own communications.
Incidentally, this sighting is very similar to the sighting over Washington State the day before that we examine above. Might it be the same object?
Blue UFO Over Charlotte, North Carolina, 29th July
On the evening of 29th January over the city of Charlotte in North Carolina, local resident Alisa Homewood witnessed several strange lights overhead. She would recall how she was leaving a grocery store with several members of her family when she “happened to notice the lights”.
She continued to watch them as they approached. When she realized that they were making no sound whatsoever, she decided to take out her phone and photograph them. She would later post the pictures on Facebook stating that although they “flickered like lanterns” they were seemingly unaffected by the wind and instead “followed the same exact path”.
She would conclude that although it was unlikely that “they were aliens” there was nothing to suggest they were “definitely lanterns”.
Interestingly, only hours earlier on the morning of the sighting, Alisa witnessed “approximately six military helicopters fly over the area”. Whether there is a connection between the military helicopters and the later sighting of the apparent blue UFO is perhaps open to debate.
You can see one of those photographs below.
Bright Object Rising Into The Air, San Diego, 28th Jan
At a little after 7 pm on the 28th January in San Diego, California a strange ascending object was captured on a security video. It wasn’t until the following day that the owner of the property realized he had captured something a little out of the ordinary.
This is another sighting that doesn’t at this stage have a lot of information, and there is still speculation as to whether the light belongs to a terrestrial aircraft. However, it is certainly worth including here for your examination.
You can view that footage below.
The stories, accounts, and discussion in this article are not always based on proven facts and may go against currently accepted science and common beliefs. The details included in the article are based on the reports and accounts available to us as provided by witnesses and documentation.
Scientists In Antarctica Drilled Into This Massive Ice Shelf But Didn't Expect To Find This Inside
Scientists In Antarctica Drilled Into This Massive Ice Shelf But Didn't Expect To Find This Inside
Scientists in Antarctica drilled into this massive ice shelf but didn’t expect to find this inside. Today, we take a look at what scientists found inside this ice shelf. Our world is filled with mysteries for us to discover, with nature posing some of the most peculiar happenings.
Whether it is a theory, prediction or hypothesis that has turned out to be the opposite to what we had anticipated, or an evolutionary adaptation we cannot quite figure out, nature is wonderful, but confusing to say the least.
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It Was Witnessed in 15 states and Two Countries Spanning 800 Miles Moving at 45,000 mph!!
It Was Witnessed in 15 states and Two Countries Spanning 800 Miles Moving at 45,000 mph!!
It Was Witnessed in 15 states and Two Countries Spanning 800 Miles Moving at 45,000 mph!!
We are living in very unique, changing times and during these times I have become more than intrigued by these changes and what is causing them. I’m referring to the earth changes, changes in our sun and how the earth’s atmosphere manages this what I believe to be a much different sunlight.
Over the last 10 years I have become very familiar with our planet, the mechanics of it and how it reacts to many different aspects of space weather and many other things as well. I monitor everything from the sea floor to the cosmos and everything in between. I am a full-time Watchman and as these uncertain times move forward I’ve got your back. When you really need to know…you’ll know.
Dead Sea Scrolls Prophesy of Destruction By Meteorites and Lightening
Dead Sea Scrolls Prophesy of Destruction By Meteorites and Lightening
Dead Sea Scrolls Prophesy of Destruction By Meteorites and Lightening
Dead Sea Scrolls Prophesy of Destruction By Meteorites and Power Lightening at the time of Elijah’s final advent according to Malachi 4. The fragment goes hand and hand with the two witnesses of revelation 11 as well as the judgment of the Seventh Angel when he begins to sound and pour out his vial.
UFO Fleet Over Lake Michigan On March 21, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Lake Michigan On March 21, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 21, 2021
Location of sighting: Chicago, Illinois, USA
A family was looking out a window of their apartment from a very tall building in Chicago, when they noticed some large lights hovering over the Lake Michigan not far away. The lights were so close to the water that sometimes the reflection of the UFOs could be seen. Aircraft can be seen flying over the lights once in a while, but the lights and aircraft stay far apart. These lights are a sign that there is an alien base below lake Michigan. Absolutely amazing and even the eyewitnesses noticed other people not looking at the UFOs. Very strange how people are too busy to look out the window. 100% proof that an alien base sites at the bottom of lake Michigan off Chicago coast.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
These lights appeared literally again the very next day. I honestly do not know what they are. I ordered some binoculars in case they appear again. If I find that they are human craft I will post in the comments. If anyone in the Chicago area has seen this please leave a comment.
What are these objects flying over Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
What are these objects flying over Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska
On the same day, 2021/03/24, people witnessed unknown bright objects flying over Ford Collins Colorado , Cheyenne Wyoming and North Platte, Nebraska.
On 2021/03/22 a sky-watcher in Las Vegas, Nevada captured a massive unknown object passing the Moon.
And on 2021/03/14 a witness from Markleeville, California stepped out of his snow cat to stretch when he noticed a big object hovering over the mountains on which he started to film it. A significant storm was rolling in that night but the object maintained its path. It made no sound and according to the witness there was a kind of mist or aura around the object. Source: www.mufon.com
Most UFO hunters report seeing brightly coloured sphere shaped orbs floating around the darkness off space, but a recent sighting may change the way we perceive alien crafts.
A 'cylinder', semi-transparent shaped UFO was spotted in the live web feed from Nasa earlier this month, traveling alongside of the International Space Station (ISS).
The clip shows the anomaly trailing 'at the same speed of the massive US spacecraft and a Martian researcher says it is similar to 'the cylinder UFO and orbs seen on worldwide CNN back in 2006'.
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Most UFO hunters report seeing brightly coloured sphere shaped orbs floating around the darkness off space, but a recent sighting may change the way we perceive alien crafts. A 'cylinder', semi-transparent shaped UFO was spotted in the live web feed from Nasa, traveling alongside of the International Space Station (ISS)
Scott C. Waring, founder of UFO Sighting Daily, was spending a quite night at home watching the live internet cam of the ISS when he saw something strange floating beside it.
'As I was watching, I noticed a long cylinder object floating alongside and below the space station,' Waring shared in his blog today.
The video post is just 1 minute and 22 seconds long and shows the outside of the station, but if you just a little to the right there seems to be an object traveling the same speed.
And just as Waring describes it, 'cylinder' and 'semi-transparent'.
Scott C. Waring, founder of UFO Sighting Daily , was spending a quite night at home watching the live internet cam of the ISS when he saw something strange floating beside it. 'As I was watching, I noticed a long cylinder object floating alongside and below the space station,' Waring shared in his blog today
'Its speed was matched with the ISS, but the object floating was semi-transparent,' he continues.
'Just when you thought it was about to come into focus, the screen went blue'.
'That's what happens when Nasa catches a UFO on cam, they cut the feed for a few minutes.
Waring finished the post recalling a sighting with a similar cylinder shape Martian vehicle that was captured by CNN.
The video post is just 1 minute and 22 seconds long and shows the outside of the station, but if you just a little to the right there seems to be an object traveling the same speed. And just as Waring describes it, 'cylinder' and 'semi-transparent'
The video features a female employees from mission reaching out to Houston about the external tank that fell from the Atlantis.
'27 - 32 seconds into the video of the external tank, you will see a triangular object fly across the bottom right hand corner of the screen,' Youtube John Schaser, who first published the clip, wrote in the caption.
The clip shows the UFO trailing 'at the same speed of the US spacecraft and a Martian researcher says it is similar to 'the cylinder UFO and orbs seen on worldwide CNN back in 2006'. The video features a female employees from mission reaching out to Houston about the external tank that fell from the Atlantis (pictured)
'Are they orbiting this close to a satellite? or is it a UFO? Tell me what you think. This video is not a fake.'
'I simply downloaded it off of the NASA website and reposted it here, it is still on the NASA server'.
Nasa had to make a public statement debunking what some believed to be a UFO, saying the 'orbs' were 'space debris' that was reflecting sunlight, reports Inquisitor
'Just as the film goes blue, the cylinder moves under some of the land on the earth,' wrote a YouTube commenter named 'technicaly brilliant.' 'Think its some kind of reflection.'
'Just a reflection on the camera, errorhead,' added another commenter on the YouTube video, using the online name 'Allen Roswell.'
'ALIENS STOPPED NUCLEAR WAR ON EARTH' SAYS FORMER ASTRONAUT
Aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia, according the bizarre claim of a former astronaut.
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military officials witnessed alien ships during weapons tests throughout the 1940s.
The UFOs, he says, were spotted hovering over the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico.
The Nasa veteran has regularly spoken about his belief in aliens ever since he landed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
'White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,' the 84-year-old Texan told Mirror Online.
'They wanted to know about our military capabilities.
'My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.'
Dr Mitchell says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims.
'Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said.
He previously said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
He claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and 'had they been hostile', he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.
But Waring insists the object was a 'cylinder' shaped UFO.
Earlier this year more bizarre footage was released from Russia showing another object trailing the ISS.
The clip was reported to show a spacecraft or piece of debris following the station as it orbited Earth in January.
Earlier this year more bizarre footage was released from Russia showing another object trailing the ISS. The clip was reported to show a spacecraft or piece of debris following the station as it orbited Earth .The footage was said to have been taken while the satellite was waiting for a supplies delivery (pictured)
The footage - claimed to have been shot on the ISS's own cameras - was said to have been taken while the satellite was waiting for a supplies delivery.
This footage sent conspiracy theorist into a frenzy, as many believed it to be a UFO – but others were skeptical about the authenticity of the film and the explanations of the object.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating since 1990.
This animation is a compilation of Hubble Space Telescope images that show Saturn's changing appearance during the end of the summer season in its northern hemisphere. The images were taken in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
(Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/A. Simon/R. Roth)
Saturn is now in the "September" of its lengthy year, and an iconic space telescope is watching the ringed planet's change of seasons.
Spring and autumn officially got underway here on Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively, just a few days ago with the arrival of the vernal equinox. The coming and going of seasons is possible when a planet has a tilted axis — and both Earth and Saturn have a lean in their spins.
But there's a big difference in their length of seasons. Earth takes one year to orbit the sun, during which our planet experiences the cold and dreary, the sunny and delightful, and every seasonal middle-ground in between. But Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, takes 29 Earth years to go around our star once. Earth moves through all its seasons repeatedly all the while Saturn remains in just one season; it takes roughly seven Earth years for Saturn to begin and end one of its seasons.
This series of images was taken in (from left to right), in 2018, 2019, and 2020. During this time, Saturn is at the tail end of summer and approaching the autumn of its northern hemisphere. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/A. Simon/R. Roth)
Thankfully, lengthy space missions like NASA's Cassini mission and the Hubble Space Telescope got plenty of time to observe seasonal changes on Saturn.
On March 18, Hubble team members based out of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland published new images that show subtle shade differences to the appearance of Saturn's clouds over the last several Earth years. In these images taken by Hubble during 2018, 2019 and 2020, Saturn's northern hemisphere is experiencing summertime and approaching its autumn. Meanwhile, like on Earth, it was winter (ang going on spring) in Saturn's southern hemisphere.
"What we found was a slight change from year-to-year in color, possibly cloud height, and winds — not surprising that the changes aren't huge, as we're only looking at a small fraction of a Saturn year," according to Amy Simon, planetary scientist at Goddard, who commented in the NASA press release that describes the new images. "We expect big changes on a seasonal timescale, so this is showing the progression towards the next season."
The Hubble data show that, from 2018 to 2020, the equator brightened by about 5% to 10%, and some cloud bands that were visible during certain years do not appear at other times.
Wind speeds also changed, according to NASA. Back when Cassini observed Saturn during the years 2004 to 2009, winds near the equator were roughly 800 miles per hour (roughly 1,300 kilometers per hour), according to the release.
Hubble's 2018 observations show equatorial wind speeds became much faster, about 1,000 mph (roughly 1,600 kph). By 2019 and 2020, however, Hubble detected that those wind speeds dropped back to the Cassini speeds from more than a decade ago.
Saturn's rings, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini observed Saturn and its moons from June 30, 2004, until Sept. 15, 2017. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating since 1990. The 30-year old spacecraft went into safe mode briefly this month, but it has returned to its science work once again as of March 11.
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US has 'secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom and performing moves humans don't have the technology for', says Trump's Director of National Intelligence
US has 'secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom and performing moves humans don't have the technology for', says Trump's Director of National Intelligence
In December a 180-day deadline was announced for a report into UFO sightings
The Pentagon and intelligence agencies must release their report by June 1
John Ratcliffe, former DNI, said there were more sightings than publicly known
Ratcliffe said the observations were made by Navy and Air Force pilots
They were recorded by 'multiple sensors' and had no obvious explanation
The incidents included supersonic travel without a sonic boom
Ratcliffe said it was in the public interest that the information be released
The U.S. has evidence of UFOs breaking the sound barrier without a sonic boom and making maneuvers impossible with known technology, the former Director of National Intelligence has revealed.
The revelations increased excitement about a forthcoming report detailing what the U.S. government has observed.
John Ratcliffe, who served as Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, said that many of the incidents still have no easy explanation.
'There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,' Ratcliffe told Fox News.
'Some of those have been declassified.
'And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.
'Movements that are hard to replicate that we don't have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.'
John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox News on Friday to discuss the forthcoming report
Ratcliiffe said that there had been more UFO sightings than the public previously knew
Navy pilots recorded seeing unexplained objects spinning in mid air, in the summer of 2014
Ratcliffe told host Maria Bartiromo that the sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' had been observed all around the world.
'When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it's not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection,' Ratcliffe said.
'Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things, and some of these are unexplained phenomenon, and there is actually quite a few more than have been made public.'
The government was, in December, given a 180-day deadline to disclose what it knew, meaning that the report should be out before June 1.
Ratcliffe said he had hoped to publish their findings before he left office on January 20.
'We weren't able to get it down into an unclassified format quickly enough,' he said.
The report was part of a $2.3 trillion COVID relief bill, which Trump signed into law in December.
The bill contained the Senate Intelligence Committee's Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 that had in it a 'committee comment' section that addressed 'unidentified aerial phenomena.'
The report, produced by the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, must identify, among other things, any threats posed by unidentified aerial phenomena and whether they may be attributed to foreign adversaries.
'Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances,' Ratcliffe said.
'Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or than we realized.
'But there are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.'
Avril Haines is now the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration.
The Defense Department announced in September the creation of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force on August 4.
Videos from the Navy were released last year through the Freedom of Information Act that showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers.
One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were shot in January 2015. The three videos were code-named 'FLIR1,' 'Gimbal,' and 'GoFast.'
In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.
The videos were made public and published because of efforts by the New York Times, as well as through efforts by To The Stars Academy, which was founded by Tom Delonge, the founder and lead vocalist for the bands Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves.
Ratcliffe said it would be 'healthy' for as much of this information as possible to be made public.
A week before Ratcliffe stepped down, in January, the CIA released a treasure trove of newly-unsealed records.
They showed chilling accounts of hundreds of UFO sightings across the globe dating back to the 1950s - along with the international intelligence community's efforts to understand them.
A dossier with nearly 3,000 pages of documents about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - the government's official term for what are commonly called UFOs - was published on The Black Vault website.
Thousands of paranormal enthusiasts pored through the collection of more than 700 individual documents, according to Black Vault's founder John Greenewald Jr, who has spent the past two decades suing the CIA to release the records and then scanning the pages into his database one by one.
The CIA purports that the files account for its 'entire' collection of declassified UAP intel, but Greenewald cautions that there's no way to verify that claim and has vowed to continue searching for further records.
The documents also show correspondence about UFO sightings between CIA officers and members of the military.
Sometimes the officials brush off observers' stories as purely superstitious, even when another explanation isn't clear. But in other instances the officers show genuine concern that perhaps something dangerous is at play.
Pictured: A photo from the Project Blue Book archive shows lights misidentified as a group of UFOs over a Coast Guard air station in Salem, Massachusetts in 1952
In December it emerged that two Pentagon reports had been produced, providing detailed classified information about strange sightings.
The DoD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force issued the two classified intelligence 'position reports' in 2018 and summer 2020, and they circulated widely in the U.S. intelligence community, according to a detailed account from The Debrief based on interviews with multiple intelligence sources.
The position reports' startling contents included a leaked photo that has never before been made public, accounts of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky, and an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.
This leaked photo, published by The Debrief in December, was included in the 2018 position report, two DoD and one intelligence source told the outlet
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000
The leaked photo was was captured in 2018 off the East Coast of the United States by a military pilot using his cell phone camera, the sources said.
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000.
It appears that the image was captured by the backseat weapons systems operator of what appears to be an F/A-18 fighter jet.
Experts were baffled by the photo, but noted that the object somewhat resembles a GPS dropsonde, an atmospheric profiling device designed to be dropped from aircraft, typically over a hurricane.
'These revelations are extraordinary, and give the public a genuine peek behind the curtain when it comes to how the US government is handling the UFO issue,' Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the UK Ministry of Defence, told DailyMail.com.
'What this new information does is confirm that the US government is taking the UFO phenomenon more seriously than ever before,' he added. 'I anticipate further revelations shortly.'
The Pentagon has not confirmed the existence of the two position reports, as well as the authenticity of a leaked cockpit photo included in one of the reports.
Even more shocking were the revelations contained in a second, revised report issued by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in early 2020.
The report delved deeply into the possibility that UAP are able to freely move both through the air and underwater, zipping through the ocean undetected and emerging into the air at incredible speeds.
The report contained an 'extremely clear' photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft that emerged from the ocean in front of a F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, sources told The Debrief.
An artist's recreation (above) shows the image in the 2020 report as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded edges and large, spherical white 'lights' in each corner
Researcher Dave Beaty created this image to depict the object as described by sources who had seen the report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
That photo has not been leaked publicly, but artist and researcher Dave Beaty's recreation shows it as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded or 'blunted' edges and large, perfectly spherical white 'lights' in each corner.
The encounter occurred off the East Coast in 2019, according to officials who had seen the latest report.
Two officials said said the photo was taken after the triangular craft emerged from the ocean and shot straight upwards.
Officials say the latest report focused specifically on the possibility of 'transmedium' craft that are able to operate both underwater and in the air.
'Tic Tac' UFO: US Navy pilot made visual contact with the object on November 14, 2004
At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.
The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.
The original FLIR video from the USS Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.
Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.
The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.
In January, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.
Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine in January
He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.
He also revealed that for about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.
The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs - but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.
Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.
As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.
Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open.
He recalls how he suddenly saw a blip on his radar before tracking it on his FLIR camera.
Underwood was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet as part of the USS Nimitz (above) carrier group when he encountered an 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving,' Underwood told the magazine.
'And what I mean by 'erratic' is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I've ever encountered before flying against other air targets.'
Underwood said the object wasn't obeying the laws of physics and dropped from 50,000 feet altitude to 100 feet in seconds, which he says, 'isn't possible'. He added that he saw no signs of an engine heat plume or any sign of propulsion.
The pilot refuses to speculate as to whether the object is an alien spacecraft or not, however.
'That's not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.'
In a Fox News interview, Trump's former intelligence director said the sightings are difficult to explain.
A previously declassified video of an alleged UFO sighting from the U.S. Navy.
(Image credit: U.S. Navy)
More inexplicable sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) will be released for public scrutiny in June — including a UFO that broke the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom.
Speaking on Fox News, the former director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, said Saturday (March 20) that the sightings are "difficult to explain." Ratcliffe, who served in the Trump administration, said he'd hoped to declassify the reports during his tenure but that they will be released by the Pentagon by June 1.
It's not the first time the military has released strange reports, and even videos, of UFOs, known in military parlance as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs). In April 2020, the U.S. Navy released three videos appearing to show aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound. And Senate intelligence reports reveal that the Pentagon is still on the hunt for UFOs or UAPs. But check your excitement, Fox Mulder — the military is generally more concerned about whether UAPs might be secret aircraft or weapons developed by other nations than it is about finding evidence of ET in our midst.
According to Newsweek, Ratcliffe said the upcoming Pentagon report will include more sightings and reports of objects moving in seemingly impossible ways or breaking the speed of sound without an accompanying sonic boom. The unexplained sightings occurred all over the world, he said, and include events picked up on automated sensors and not just by human eyes.
"There are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things that we've seen," Ratcliffe told Fox News.
The report and declassification is required under the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021.
However, the sightings may not even represent advanced Earth technology. Debunkers have suggested that the apparent extreme speed of the aircraft in the videos released in April 2020 could be an optical illusion called parallax. This effect occurs when an object close to a camera lens appears to be moving, sometimes quite quickly, as the camera moves, just because it's closer to the lens than objects in the background. (A video example is available at SyfyWire.) Thus, the objects in the video could be as mundane as passenger planes or weather balloons. Some of the sudden movements in the videos may be artifacts of the camera zooming or sharpening the image, Vice reported.
There are also declassified experimental aircraft that can do things like break the speed of sound without the enormous "crack" of a sonic boom. NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft, which is under construction and not yet in flight, is designed to fly faster than sound without making more than a gentle thump to listeners on the ground. It's unknown if governments have similar, secret technology in testing or use.
Whatever the to-be-released videos show, it's a time of unprecedented document release around UFOs. In January, the CIA unveiled three decades' worth of documents about mysterious incidents reported to or investigated by the agency.
Voor de tweede keer ooit is het een internationale groep wetenschappers gelukt om een afbeelding van een zwart gat te maken. De wetenschappers toonden het object in zogeheten gepolariseerd licht. Zo willen ze begrijpen hoe het magnetische veld rond het zwarte gat werkt. Bij het onderzoek waren sterrenkundigen Monika Moscibrodzka en Sara Issaoun van de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen betrokken.
De onderzoekers van de Event Horizon Telescope brachten de eerste afbeelding van het zwarte gat in april 2019 naar buiten. Daarop is een ring van licht rond een donker centrum te zien. Het gaat om een gat in het midden van Messier 87 (M87), een sterrenstelsel in het sterrenbeeld Maagd, op 55 miljoen lichtjaar afstand van de aarde. Het zwarte gat heeft een doorsnee van 40 miljard kilometer en is ongeveer 6,5 miljard keer zo zwaar als onze zon.
Zwarte gaten zijn plekken in het heelal waar de zwaartekracht zo groot is, dat niets eraan kan ontsnappen, zelfs licht niet. Alles wat in de buurt komt, wordt opgeslokt en verscheurd. Bij dat verzwelgen schiet het zwarte gat stralen van energie en materie de ruimte in. Die worden jets genoemd. Die komen bij het zwarte gat in M87 tot minstens 5.000 lichtjaar ver.
NASA verstopte stukje van eerste vliegtuig van gebroeders Wright in Marshelikopter
Marshelikopter Ingenuity maakt zich op voor zijn eerste vlucht op de rode planeet. Die is gepland voor begin april. In de aanloop ervan verklapte NASA gisteren dat Ingenuity een stukje stof van het eerste gemotoriseerde vliegtuig van de Amerikaanse luchtvaartpioniers Wilbur en Orville Wright aan boord heeft.
De expeditie van Marsrover Perseverance (Volharding), die op 18 februari op Mars is geland, draagt een soort matroesjka-component in zich, zo blijkt. Onder de robotjeep hangt de minihelikopter Ingenuity (Vindingrijkheid), die op of rond 8 april zijn eerste testvlucht op Mars zal afwerken. En onder het zonnepaneel van deze kleine helikopter - eerder een drone - zit dan weer een lapje stof van het eerste gemotoriseerde vliegtuig van de gebroeders Wright uit 1903 verborgen. Symbolisch, uiteraard. Bobby Braun, directeur voor planetaire wetenschap bij het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van NASA, omschreef de aanstaande poging van Ingenuity om de eerste gemotoriseerde, gecontroleerde vlucht op een andere planeet uit te voeren als een “gebroeders Wright-moment”.
Op vraag van NASA schonk het Carillon Historical Park in Dayton (Ohio), de geboorteplaats van de gebroeders Wright, het meegereisde stukje textiel uit de linkerondervleugel van hun eerste vliegtuig met kleine motor. Een overgrootnicht en -neef van de twee broers gaven hun zegen om het lapje stof de trip van zo’n 480 miljoen kilometer naar Mars te laten maken. “Wilbur en Orville Wright zouden blij zijn te horen dat een klein stukje van hun Wright Flyer I uit 1903, het toestel dat het ruimtetijdperk lanceerde met amper een kwart mijl (400 meter, jv), weer de geschiedenis zal inzweven op Mars”, aldus Amanda Wright Lane en Stephen Wright.
Op 17 december 1903 maakte Orville Wright als eerste piloot in de geschiedenis een geslaagde vlucht met een gemotoriseerd vliegtuig. Het toestel, dat de naam ‘Wright Flyer’ en later ook ‘Flyer 1' kreeg, kwam van de grond in het dorp Kitty Hawk op de Outer Banks in de staat North Carolina.
Van de Wright Flyer vlogen eerder al fragmentjes hout en stof mee naar de maan, samen met Neil Armstrong in de Apollo 11 in 1969. Ook astronaut John Glenn had in 1998 wat mee van de Flyer 1 toen hij op 77-jarige leeftijd met de spaceshuttle Discovery als oudste persoon ooit de ruimte invloog. Glenn en Armstrong kwamen allebei, net als de broers Wright, uit Ohio.
Voorlopig blijft Ingenuity nog even vastgehecht aan de buik van Perseverance. Dit weekend viel een beschermingsplaat weg, zodat je de kleine helikopter nu al wel kan zien hangen. De eerste vlucht op Mars van de miniheli, die amper 1,8 kilogram weegt, is voorzien voor ten vroegste 8 april. De Ingenuity stijgt dan verticaal op tot een hoogte van drie meter, blijft daar dertig seconden stationair hangen, maakt een rotatie rond zichzelf, en daalt dan weer af naar het Marsoppervlak. De heli krijgt zijn instructies enkele uren op voorhand, maar analyseert zelf zijn positie ten opzichte van de grond en neemt ondertussen dertig foto’s per seconde.
De vlucht wordt volgens de NASA geen sinecure, want de dichtheid van de atmosfeer van Mars is maar één procent dan die van de onze. Bovendien krijgt het oppervlak van Mars gedurende de dag slechts de helft van de zonne-energie die wij ontvangen, terwijl het ‘s nachts tot min negentig kan worden, wat onbeschermde elektrische componenten kan doen bevriezen en stuk gaan.
In een maand tijd zullen nog vijf andere vluchten volgen, telkens op grotere hoogte. Alles zal vlak naast de landingsplaats van Marsjeep Perseverance in de Jezerokrater gebeuren. De rover zal de testvluchten observeren vanop afstand, om daarna weg te rijden om zijn eigen missie te volbrengen. Perseverance gaat onder meer op zoek naar tekenen van vroeger leven op Mars.
Toestellen zoals de door de NASA zelf gebouwde Ingenuity kunnen essentieel worden voor het planetair onderzoek, omdat ze zichnaar plaatsen kunnen begeven die voor robotjeeps niet toegankelijk zijn, zoals canyons. Dit helikopterprogramma heeft de NASA ongeveer 85 miljoen dollar gekost.
Liang Bua Cave on the island of Flores, where specimens of the “Hobbit” species were discovered. Image: Liang Bua Team
Anthropologists know of at least two ancient species of tiny humans that lived on the islands of southeast Asia over 50,000 years ago. The origin of these extinct humans is unknown, but new research suggests they’re more closely related to Denisovans and Neanderthals—and, by consequence, modern humans—than previously thought.
New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans (Homo sapiens) and two extinct species of short-statured humans, Homo floresiensis (commonly known as the Flores Island “hobbits”) and Homo luzonensis (found in the Philippines). Fossil evidence of these two species, described in 2004 and 2019 respectively, suggests these island-dwelling humans stood no taller than around 3 feet and 7 inches (109 centimeters), a possible consequence of insular dwarfism—an evolutionary process in which the body size of a species shrinks over time as a consequence of limited access to resources.
At the same time, the new paper, led by João Teixeira from the University of Adelaide, provides further confirmation of interbreeding between the Denisovans and modern humans, specifically modern humans living in Island Southeast Asia, an area that encompasses tropical islands between east Asia, Australia, and New Guinea. Denisovans—a sister group of Neanderthals—reached the area some 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, but archaeologists have yet to uncover a shred of fossil evidence related to these so-called “southern Denisovans.” That’s obviously weird, given the overwhelming genetic evidence that they lived in this part of the world, but it means there are important archaeological discoveries still waiting to be found. At least in theory.
So, the new paper, co-authored by anthropologist Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum in London, suggests modern humans interbred with Denisovans but not H. floresiensis or H. luzonensis. That’s an important result, because it could help to explain the presence of the diminutive humans, who died out around 50,000 years ago, in this part of the world. Excitingly, it could mean that these “super-archaics,” in the parlance of the researchers, “are not super-archaic after all, and are more closely related to [modern] humans than previously thought,” explained Teixeira, a population geneticist, in an email.
In other words, H. floresiensis or H. luzonensis might actually be the elusive southern Denisovans.
Given that present-day human populations in Island Southeast Asia have retained a significant amount of Denisovan DNA, the authors wondered if H. floresiensis and H. luzonensis also interbred with modern humans. It was also possible, though unlikely, that another ancient human called H. erectus, which lived in Java until around 117,000 to 108,000 years ago, might’ve also contributed to modern human ancestry. Indeed, one possible scenario is that the super-archaics were descended from H. erectus.
To that end, the scientists studied the DNA of 400 modern humans, of which more than half were of Island Southeast Asia ancestry. The team searched for key genetic signatures indicative of interbreeding events related to “deeply divergent hominin species,” said Teixeira. Island Southeast Asia is the “most likely geographic region where such events could have occurred due to the aforementioned presence of H. floresiensis and H. luzonensis, and perhaps H. erectus as well,” he added.
It’s important to note that scientists do not have genomes for the two short-statured species, nor H. erectus for that matter.
“There are no ‘first-hand’ genomes of the kind we have from Neanderthals and Denisovans, but there are ‘second-hand’ bits of DNA in the Denisovan genomes that seem to come from them having interbred with a super-archaic population,” explained Stringer in an email. “These can be recognised by their greater-than-average divergence within the genome and also, if there has been recent interbreeding, the strands of DNA will have been shuffled up less, and hence found in larger and more ‘pristine’ chunks.”
To be clear, the scientists are not looking for specific species-related genomes, but evidence of interbreeding, which leaves a pronounced genetic signature across the entire genome.
Results showed that modern humans did not interbreed with the two small human species, but the team did confirm Denisovan ancestry among individuals from Island Southeast Asia. As Stringer put it, “the DNA of local populations shows signs of ancestry from the Denisovans, who are currently only known from fossils in Asia, but no genetic evidence deriving from the ancient humans whose bones have actually been found in the area.”
Indeed, fossil evidence of Denisovans is non-existent in Island Southeast Asia, and the evidence that does exist elsewhere is sparse. Aside from genetics, the presence of this human species is known from a finger bone, several teeth, and skull fragments found in Siberia, as well as a 160,000-year-old jawbone found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau.
The new research confirms that the two super-archaic species “did not contribute ancestry to modern human populations,” or if they did, they’re “not so divergent as currently assumed based on morphological comparisons,” said Teixeira. These short-statured humans may seem very different from modern humans, and thus very divergent, but that could be an illusion, as their DNA may actually be very similar to ours and especially to that of Denisovans, according to this line of thinking.
For Teixeira, the absence of this interbreeding combined with the widespread Denisovan ancestry means the two super-archaic species might represent the missing Denisovans in Island Southeast Asia, or some kind of offshoot.
“The ISEA fossil hominins are thought to represent a much older split (approximately 2 million years ago). But those estimates rely on morphological comparisons to, and the assumption they descend from, H. erectus,” he explained. “Our results show that such super-archaic species did not interbreed with modern humans in ISEA—but what if we’re wrong? What if hominin occupation in ISEA was not continuous? What if Denisovan ancestry in ISEA comes from these groups?”
To which he added: “No one knows for sure what a Denisovan is supposed to look like nor how much morphological variation existed within different Denisovan populations,” he explained. “If that is the case,” the revelation that the super-archaics are actually the southern Denisovans “could have serious implications for paleoanthropology.”
Stringer, on the other hand, isn’t so sure, as his interpretation of the evidence suggests a different lineage for the tiny human species.
“The known fossils of H. erectus, H. floresiensis, and H. luzonensis might seem to be in the right place and time to represent the mysterious ‘southern Denisovans,’ but their ancestors were likely to have been in place in Island Southeast Asia long before the Denisovan lineage had evolved,” and possibly as long as 700,000 years ago, Stringer explained.
“George, co-authors do not always agree on everything,” Teixeira told me when I queried him about this apparent inconsistency.
Regardless, theco-authors believe that interbreeding between southern Denisovans and modern humans happened in Island Southeast Asia.
“The presence of the largest amounts of Denisovan-like DNA in regions like Papua New Guinea and Australia suggests that the interbreeding occurred in ISEA or, much less likely in my opinion, a place like Papua New Guinea,” explained Stringer in his email. “My guess is that Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi were the homelands of the missing ‘southern Denisovans’ and will most likely yield up their fossils.”
Stringer said these results depend on the samples analyzed and that more samples are likely to provide a fuller picture.
The new paper, while illuminating, raises some very important questions. First and foremost, where are the Denisovan fossils in Island Southeast Asia? And, as Teixeira asks, “have we already found them but assumed these fossils represented much more distant relatives?” In other words, maybe the “hobbits” were the southern Denisovans all along.
Uitgestorven ‘hobbits’ mogelijk verwant met moderne mens via neanderthaler en denisovamens
De homo floresiensis - beter bekend als uitgestorven ‘hobbits’ - en homo luzonensis - vernoemd naar het Filipijnse eiland Luzon - leefden meer dan 50.000 jaar geleden op eilanden in Zuidoost-Azië. Hun afkomst is niet bekend, maar nieuw onderzoek suggereert nu een nauwere verwantschap met neanderthalers en denisovamensen dan aanvankelijk gedacht. Of nog: de oude hobbits zijn mogelijk verwant met de moderne mens.
De nieuwe studie, onder leiding van João Teixeira van de universiteit van Adelaide, vond geen bewijs van kruisingen tussen de homo floresiensis of de homo luzonensis met de homo sapiens (de moderne mens). Die beide mensensoorten, die op de Zuidoost-Aziatische eilanden leefden, werden doorgaans niet groter dan 109 centimeter, wat mogelijk het gevolg was van eilanddwerggroei. Dat is een evolutionair proces waarbij een soort in de loop van de tijd kleiner wordt door een beperkte toegang aan levensmiddelen.
Tegelijkertijd kon het onderzoek wel kruisingen bevestigen van de denisovamens met de moderne mens die leefde in het gebied dat de tropische eilanden omvat tussen Oost-Azië, Australië en Nieuw-Guinea. De denisovamens - verwant aan de neanderthaler - kwam daar 50.000 tot 60.000 jaar geleden terecht, maar archeologen konden nooit fossiel bewijs bovenspitten van deze zogenaamde “zuidelijke denisovamens”. Gek, gezien het overweldigende genetische bewijs dat ze ooit wel degelijk in dat deel van onze planeet leefden. Zo dragen de huidige populaties daar nog een flink stuk DNA van de denisovamens in zich.
De studie stelt dus dat de moderne mens seksueel verkeer had met de denisovamens, maar niet met de homo floresiensis of de homo luzonensis. Dit is belangrijk omdat het mee de aanwezigheid in dat deel van de wereld zou kunnen verklaren van die kleine mensensoorten, die zo’n 50.000 jaar geleden uitstierven. Het zou, volgens de onderzoekers, kunnen betekenen dat ze “nauwer verwant zijn aan moderne mensen dan eerder werd gedacht”. Met andere woorden, de homo floresiensis of de homo luzonensis zijn misschien wel de zuidelijke denisovamensen, of een afstammeling daarvan.
Althans volgens onderzoeksleider Teixeira. Co-auteur en anthropoloog Chris Stringer is daar, verrassend, niet zo zeker van: “Ik vermoed dat Sumatra, Borneo en Sulawesi de thuislanden waren van de vermiste ‘zuidelijke denisovamens’.” Dat moet kunnen, volgens Teixeira: “Co-auteurs hoeven het niet over alles eens te zijn”.
Microplastic aangetroffen in nieuw ontdekt kreeftje op 7 km diepte
Britse onderzoekers hebben microplastic gevonden in een nieuw ontdekte kreeft, op bijna 7 kilometer diepte in de Marianentrog ter hoogte van de Filipijnen. Dat meldt het Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) vandaag. Er werden resten van vermoedelijk een PET-fles aangetroffen in de darm van het diertje.
Onderzoekers van Newcastle University ontdekten in de reuzenvlokreeft een vezel polyethyleentereftalaat of PET, afkomstig van een plastic fles. Het is niet zo ongewoon dat dieren microplastics binnenkrijgen, maar deze kreeft bevond zich op 7 kilometer diepte in de Marianentrog, de diepste onderwatertrog ter wereld.
Het diertje van anderhalve centimeter leeft van aas dat neerdwarrelt vanuit hogere waterlagen en kreeg daarom de naam Eurythenes plasticus. Eerder werden al microplastics gevonden in andere diepzeekreeftjes in de tot 8 km diepe Peru-Chilitrog, aan de westkust van Zuid-Amerika.
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Instrument met Belgisch tintje achterhaalt hoe Mars deel van water verloor
Mars heeft het grootste deel van zijn hoeveelheid water verloren. Dankzij een co-Belgisch instrument op de Europese sonde Mars Express hebben wetenschappers een tip van de sluier gelicht hoe dit is kunnen gebeuren, zo meldt het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA.
Dat er ooit veel water op de Rode Planeet is geweest en mogelijk evenveel als bij ons, is ondertussen voldoende duidelijk geworden. Maar Mars heeft over enkele voorbije miljarden jaren heen veel water in de atmosfeer zien opgaan en dat is nog steeds het geval.
Hoe dit kon gebeuren was onduidelijk, maar onderzoek met de deels Belgische SPICAM-spectrometer (instrument dat de chemische samenstelling en de evolutie van de atmosfeer van Mars bestudeert, nvdr.) op de in juni 2003 gelanceerde Mars Express zijn enkele processen duidelijk geworden.
Waterdamp
De atmosfeer vormt de sleutel, zo bleek. Wetenschappers onderzochten waterdamp in de atmosfeer van de grond af tot een hoogte van 100 km, over acht Marsjaren heen (zo'n vijftien Aardse jaren).
Anna Fedorova van de Russische Academie voor Wetenschappen en collega's vonden dat die waterdamp beneden 60 kilometer hoogte bleef wanneer de planeet zich ver van de Zon bevond, maar tot 90 kilometer klom wanneer Mars het dichtst tot onze ster stond. De baan van de planeet schommelt tussen 207 en 249 miljoen kilometer van de Zon.
Nabij de Zon zorgden de hogere temperaturen en meer intensieve circulatie in de atmosfeer ervoor dat het water op een zekere hoogte niet bevroor. De bovenste laag van de atmosfeer raakte vochtig en gesatureerd met water. Dit verklaart waarom water tijdens dit seizoen sneller ontsnapt: het water komt hoger, wat ertoe bijdraagt dat het in de ruimte verdwijnt.
Stofstorm
Dan is er nog een tweede mechanisme. Het bleek dat in de jaren waarin er een enorme stofstorm op Mars woedde, de atmosfeer nog vochtiger werd en dat er zich water accumuleerde op meer dan 80 kilometer hoogte. De Franse onderzoeker Jean-Yves Chaufray schatte dat het waterverlies met een factor 100 kan variëren wanneer er zich een stofstorm voordoet.
Mars verliest aldus elk miljard jaar het equivalent van een laag van twee meter water. Maar geaccumuleerd over de vier miljard jaar dat de planeet bestaat, is dat nog geen verklaring voor waar al het water op de planeet naartoe is. Mogelijk is het onder de grond verdwenen of is er vroeger veel sneller water ontsnapt, suggereert Chaufray.
Een studie in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Science bracht vorige week al aan het licht dat heel wat water werd opgezogen door de bodem van de planeet. Daar ging het onomkeerbaar deel uitmaken van de moleculaire structuur van mineralen.
Government Agencies Are About To Disclose What They Know About UFOs, And That Will Be A Dramatic Paradigm Shift Paradigm Shift
Government Agencies Are About To Disclose What They Know About UFOs, And That Will Be A Dramatic Paradigm Shift
Do you believe in UFOs? Decades ago, if you answered yes to such a question many would have considered you to be a nutjob. But at this point UFOs are not a “conspiracy theory” any longer. In fact, even the U.S. government is admitting that they exist, and in just a few weeks we may learn a whole lot more about what the U.S. government really knows about this phenomenon. When President Trump signed a 2.3 trillion dollar COVID relief bill last December, it contained a provision which requires all U.S. intelligence agencies to submit an unclassified report to Congress that reveals all that they know about UFOs…
In December 2020, President Trump signed a coronavirus relief bill that included an interesting stipulation – the bill set into motion an 180-day time frame in which US intelligence agencies must tell Congress everything they know about UFO sightings, via an unclassified report.
Remarkably, in what sounds like the opening crawl of an unimaginative sci-fi film, the report must also include an analysis as to whether or not UFOs pose a threat to national security (perhaps, one day, our puny, primitive weapons will be used to “bring democracy” to a space-faring civilization).
Unfortunately, U.S. intelligence agencies insisted that 180 days did not give them enough time, and so now the report is expected to be released somewhere around June 1st.
But it is coming, and the COVID relief bill was very specific about what it must include…
The report will include all data found through “geospatial intelligence, signals intelligence, human intelligence and measurement and signals intelligence.” Classified information held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI will be included as well.
It will be fascinating to see what actually ends up in this report.
Personally, I don’t think that the intelligence agencies will come even close to revealing everything that they know. But the fact that former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe was willing to share so much information during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Friday seems like a good sign. According to Ratcliffe, there have been “sightings all over the world”…
Ratfcliffe said some UFO sightings have been declassified in the past, but a report to be released by the Pentagon and other federal agencies will present more information to the American people.
“There have been sightings all over the world,” Ratcliffe said. “And when we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite or some intelligence collection. Usually, we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things.”
Yes, it is definitely quite true that there have been sightings all over the planet, but Esri has released an animated map that shows that more UFO sightings happen in the United States than anywhere else by a good margin.
During his interview, Ratcliffe also admitted that some of the things that UFOs do are “difficult to explain”, and that includes “traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom”…
“Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that, frankly, engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
Of course videos that the U.S. Navy has previously released have already confirmed the fact that UFOs often perform aerial feats that human pilots simply cannot match…
Videos from the Navy were released last year through the Freedom of Information Act that showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers.
One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were shot in January 2015. The three videos were code-named ‘FLIR1,’ ‘Gimbal,’ and ‘GoFast.’
In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.
If UFOs can perform “seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers”, that would seem to suggest that whoever is piloting them is even more technologically advanced than we are.
I am entirely convinced that the U.S. government knows a great deal about UFOs and those that are flying them, and millions of Americans are very much looking forward to the release of the upcoming unclassified report.
U.S. government agencies will certainly not tell us everything, but I do believe that they will reveal more details than they ever have before.
Ultimately, I believe that the stage is being set for a great deception of epic proportions, and that is why I am starting to write more about the UFO phenomenon.
As more information is shared with the public, the narrative will be that UFOs are “spacecraft” that contain “aliens” from another planet.
And I think that it is quite likely that officials will insist that they are “friendly” and that we should be open to “learning” from them.
But the truth is that they are definitely not our “friends”.
As humanity moves into the darkest hours that it has ever known, people will become increasingly desperate for someone to come along and save us.
And if “aliens” were to show up with technology that we do not currently possess, many would be tempted to embrace them as “saviors”.
For decades, Hollywood has been relentlessly priming us for such a scenario, and now the U.S. government is starting to publicly acknowledge that UFOs aren’t just science fiction.
This is a story that is going to become increasingly important over the next few years, and it isn’t going to end well.
AMAZING DETAILED ALIEN CRAFT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OVER NEW GUINEA
AMAZING DETAILED ALIEN CRAFT CLOSE ENCOUNTER OVER NEW GUINEA
JUNE 26, 1959…………………PAPUA NEW GUINEA
According to renowned UFO investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, one of the most well-documented “close encounters of the third kind” occurred in the Anglican mission village at Boianai, Papua, New Guinea, which was, at the time of the incident, still a territory of Australia. The Australian Anglican Church was very involved in missionary work, and ardent in sending its heralds to the island nation.
One of these was the Father William Booth Gill. Gill was highly thought of by his co-hearts, and all those who knew him. As far as the occurrence of extraordinary events was concerned, Gill was skeptical, to say the least, especially being a devoted Church worker.
The first hint of the events to come, began on April 5, 1959, when Gill saw a light on the uninhabited Mount Pudi. This light, Gill stated, moved faster than anything he had ever seen. A month or so later, his assistant, Stephen Moi, saw an “inverted saucer-shaped object” in the sky above the mission. Gill dismissed these sightings as some sort of electrical or atmospheric phenomena.
Little did he know, that these events, whatever they were, had drawn their attention to the sky above them, and soon William Gill would have one of the most celebrated UFO sightings to ever be documented, which was validated by a whole group of additional witnesses.
This extraordinary event would take place at 6:45 P.M.,June 26, 1959. Father Gill saw what he described as a bright white light to the Northwest. Word of the sight spread quickly, and within a few moments, Gill was joined by no less than thirty-eight additional witnesses, including Steven Moi, Ananias Rarata, and Mrs Nessle Moi.
According to sworn statements, these thirty-plus individuals watched a four-legged, disc-shaped object approximately the size of 5 full moons lined up end to end. This unbelievable craft was hovering over the mission!
To their utter surprise, they saw four human-like figures that seemed to be performing a kind of task. Now and then one of the figures would disappear, only to reappear in a moment or two.A blue light would shine up from the craft at what seemed to be regular intervals. The witness watched the craft and its activities for a full forty-five minutes, until the shining ship rose into the sky, and disappeared at 7:30 P.M.
Glued to the sky, the witnesses would see several smaller objects appear at 8:30, and twenty minutes later, the first craft reappeared. This phenomenal occurrence would last an incredible four hours, until cloud cover obscured the view at 10:50. Father Gill prepared a full written report of this event, and 25 other observers signed the document.
This first sighting, a once in a lifetime occurrence, would incredibly be followed by another sighting the very next night. At 6:00 P.M., the larger object appeared again, with its occupants. It was shadowed by two of the smaller objects.
In William Gill’s own words: “On the large one, two of the figures seemed to be doing something near the center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over and raising their arms as though adjusting or “setting up” something. One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us.”
(In a moment of anticipation, Gill raised his arms and waved to the figure.) “To our surprise the figure did the same. Ananias waved both arms over his head; then the two outside figures did the same. Ananias and myself began waving our arms, and all four seemed to wave back. There seemed no doubt that our movements were answered… “
Gill and Ananias continued to occasionally wave, and their waves were returned. Another witness, Eric Kodawara, waved a torch, and there were acknowledgments from the craft. Gill went inside to eat, but when he came back, the craft was still there, only farther away (smaller).
After a Church service, at 7:45, Gill again came outside to look for the craft, but clouds had appeared, and there was no sight of the object. The very next evening, the shining craft would make one more appearance.
Gill counted eight of them at 6:45. At 11:20, Gill heard a loud bang on the roof of the mission. Going outside to see what had happened, he spied four UFOs in a circle around the building. These four craft were extremely high in the sky. The roof was checked for damage the next morning, but none was found.
“Gill’s reports constitute the most remarkable testimony of intensive UFO activity ever reported to civilian investigators. They were unique because for the first time, credible witnesses had reported the presence of humanoid beings associated with UFOs.” NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Over 80 Pictures Deep Inside Underground DUMBs Bases!
Over 80 Pictures Deep Inside Underground DUMBs Bases!
Deep Underground DUMBS Bases and Black Operation Budgets
About deep underground bases and black operation budgets. All from open sources, nothing is classified. But still mind blowing!
There are at least 1,400 DUMBS worldwide, 188 known DUMBS in the U.S., with 2 underground bases being built per year in the U.S. The average depth of bases are 4.25 miles underground.
Over 80 Pictures From Inside Underground DUMBs Bases!
Over 80 pictures from inside DUMBS that you probably have not seen… and this is just a really tiny sample of what has been discovered, some of which are as deep as 5 miles down.
Long UFO Over Cheyenne, Wyoming On 3-24-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Long UFO Over Cheyenne, Wyoming On 3-24-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 3-24-2021 Location of sighting: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA Source: MUFON
Here is a really intriguing sighting. A few eyewitnesses saw a long white cylinder object moving silently across the sky. The object is being lit up from the lights on the ground. You can really hear the astonishment from the eyewitnesses. This cylinder object is similar to many other UFO reports and I think this one is watching the people below. It's testing the emotional and physical reactions that the humans have to seeing a real alien ship.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
As we were leaving from our night shift noticed long bright light crossing sky. It was super long and was traveling slower than a meteor and faster than a air plane took about 3 to 4 min to cross sky and it appeared to split. When we could look and see what looked like the tail of the two split objects the rear of the object was very bright sorta appeared to have like fire coming out the back.
UFO Sighting Over Mountains at Markleeville, California On 3-14-2021, MUFON.
UFO Sighting Over Mountains at Markleeville, California On 3-14-2021, MUFON.
Date of sighting: March 14, 2021 Location of sighting: Markleville, California, USA Source: 114334 MUFON
Here is a great video of a black UFO moving across the snowy mountain tops of California last week. The object was recorded by a guy clearing the snow in the area from the roads. I watched this video and I noticed that the object slowed down at times and even changed its shape. The dark object almost looks like a person as it moves across the sky. And as it was over the mountain top, I noticed that it seemed to pull something into itself. That happens at 30 seconds into the video and that why I said it changes shape. This UFO was headed to an alien base located below the mountain ridge, about 6km below the surface.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Sunday, March 14th at approx. 19:00 I stepped out of my snowcat to stretch, noticed object in the corner of my eye. Thought it was maybe a bird, but it was way too big, so I grabbed my phone and started to video the object. There was no sound coming from object so that eliminates a plane or helicopter. It was too windy for glider or paraglider. A significant storm was rolling in that night and the object maintained its path. I could kind of see a mist or aura around the object, especially in the video. It seemed like it would level out or turn 360 degrees back and forth and was moving as it was flying. As you can see, I was in a valley so if there was sound, I would have heard it. There were no lights but appeared to have some of aura and path. This video was taken just before sundown as the time had changed that morning. March 17th, days later, around 2100, I was in my snowcat at the highest point of the trails I groom when the speakers in the snowcat started to crackle and music started to mesh with itself. I was listening to a downloaded song on my iPhone since there was no service out there. It was a very calm night when suddenly, snow and wind abruptly surrounded my cat. This continued for about a minute and then went back to being calm again and music went back to normal. This could have been a coincidence, but I had a strange feeling.
Long cigar-shaped UFO over Cheyenne, Wyoming 24-Mar-2021
Long cigar-shaped UFO over Cheyenne, Wyoming 24-Mar-2021
This cigar-shaped UFO was caught on tape above Cheyenne, Wyoming on 24th March 2021.
Witness report:
As we were leaving from our night shift noticed long bright light crossing sky. It was super long and was traveling slower than a meteor and faster than a air plane took about 3 to 4 min to cross sky and it appeared to split. When we could look and see what looked like the tail of the two split objects the rear of the object was very bright sorta appeared to have like fire coming out the back
Back in 1996, I received a number of stories – some from retired, British military personnel – suggesting that if I wanted to find out what the British Government really knew about UFOs – and particularly so crashed UFOs – I would be wise to focus my attentions not so much on the work of the Ministry of Defense, but on that of the Home Office.
Although the Home Office is chiefly known for its work in the fields of counter-terrorism, immigration, and crime policy, there are indications that its work delves into far deeper, and much more mysterious, areas, too.
According to several of the accounts provided to me back in ’96, the Home Office oversaw the security surrounding a number of secret, underground bunkers located across the south and southwest of England.
They were built as fortified havens for senior military and government personnel, in the event of a nuclear strike on the UK by the Soviets during the Cold War. I was advised, however, that deep within two of the bunkers were stored the remains of a number of alien bodies – all preserved in cryogenic states.
Of course, there is nothing new about such controversial claims. There are numerous accounts – particularly within the United States – of retired military personnel supposedly having seen extraterrestrial corpses in “secret hangars” or in “classified vaults.” And, indeed, many people with an interest in Ufology will know of the rumors surrounding the supposed “Hangar 18″ and the tales of dead aliens at Area 51.
Image credit: thesun.co.uk
What makes the stories about the Home Office and UFOs so interesting and different, however, is the noted lack of attention they have received over the years. That’s not to say there isn’t an intriguing body of data available. Quite the contrary: there actually is an intriguing body of data on this matter. According to researcher and author Timothy Good, in his 1987 book, Above Top Secret:
“A close friend of mine whom I have known since 1952 witnessed the landing of an unidentified flying object in Derbyshire in September 1963, and subsequently came into contact with its operators. Four years afterwards two men with Home Office identification cards turned up at my friend’s flat and politely asked a number of questions which clearly indicated that they were familiar with aspects of the incident.”
Similarly, in 1982 Good interviewed an eye-opening interview with a retired police inspector, in an attempt to determine if the UFO issue was subject to the constraints of the British Government’s Official Secrets Act – a piece of legislation utilized to muzzle government employees when deemed necessary by officialdom. According to Good’s source: “What I can say to you, is that I know the subject itself was the subject of a Home Office directive.”
Further data that suggested a link between the world of the UFO and that of the Home Office came from the late Graham Birdsall of UFO Magazine, who informed me that he had spoken with one George Wild – a prison officer at Armley Prison in the English city of Leeds – on a highly controversial matter of a UFO nature.
Wild informed Birdsall that a “senior Home Office prison official” had once let it slip to him that on the first night of the famous series of UFO incidents at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980, high-level orders had arrived at the nearby High Point Prison advising staff to prepare for a possible evacuation of the inmates due to a matter of national security.
I also learned in 1996, from a now-retired UK government official, that the Home Office had extensive guidelines in place in the event that a space satellite decayed from its orbit and crashed on British soil.
“You could equally apply those guidelines to a crashed UFO,” he said, with a smile of the knowing kind. Acting on this information, in December 1996, I telephoned the Home Office and asked to be put through to their Press Office.
I explained the situation: I was interested to know what the Home Office’s response would be if a large, metallic object from space – such as a satellite – crashed to earth on the UK. I considered it wise not to mention UFOs, even though that was my primary area of interest.
I was transferred to a helpful man who informed me that the responsibility for monitoring satellite movements over the British Isles was predominantly the domain of the tracking station at RAF Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
If it appears there is a possibility, however remote, that a satellite in a decaying orbit might impact on the UK, Fylingdales had standing orders to keep the Ministry of Defense informed, who in turn were obliged to advise the Home Office of the unfolding situation. As the Press Officer explained to me:
“The Home Office has responsibility for emergency planning, which obviously isn’t specific, necessarily, to satellites. But the situation is they only really become a matter for the Home Office when they’ve landed, because that’s when the emergency services come into play.”
He continued: “For example, there was one recently – a Chinese satellite which came down. That was one we were kept well informed of and were aware of. We were advised of the expected time it was going to land and all that kind of stuff. We don’t really take much actual action; our side would be more the policy angle; ensuring that all the right contingency plans are in place.”
My next stop: RAF Fylingdales.
“You want the Space Information Officer,” I was advised by the switchboard operator at Fylingdales when I detailed my quest to her. A few moments later the SIO was on the line: “We track satellites all the time. When there are predictions for satellite decays – this is maintained by US and UK authorities – and if there is one which is potentially going to cause problems, the Ministry of Defense and the Home Office are the people who get involved.
“We would just track it and keep those people up to date with what was happening with the satellite at the time. The Home Office and the MoD do all the coordination. Accurate predictions as to where something is going to crash are very difficult: it depends exactly on what the satellite’s doing – if it’s rolling or if it’s got high drag in one part or another. It also depends on what angle it enters the upper end of the atmosphere.
“There are experts that are able to calculate to within an hour or so when it’s coming down. We can advise the Home Office and the MoD of the position of the satellite, how it’s moving, whether it’s speeding up, slowing down, or whether it’s changing its attitude, or whatever.”
In addition, and also in 1996, I received a newly-declassified Home Office directive of 1979 titled Home Office Circular No. ES 5/1979, Satellite Accidents. It dealt with Home Office guidelines for dealing with the possible recovery of stricken space vehicles on the British mainland. The document stated:
“It is for the Government to decide whether, and if so by what means, a public warning of danger from radioactivity should be given. In reaching that decision, the need to prevent unnecessary alarm would be carefully considered. Chief Officers should therefore ensure that nothing is done locally to anticipate a Government statement.
“When reports of suspected or actual locations have been received the police should take such steps as may be needed locally to prevent people entering areas which may be dangerous because of radioactive material. Some larger pieces of debris might have radiation fields of significance over distances of the order of 100 meters.”
The document then went on to illustrate the many and varied divisions within the British Government that had jurisdiction in the area of fallen spacecraft. As well as the Home Office, this included: the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston; the National Radiological Protection Board; the Ministry of Defense; Chief Officers of Police and Chief Fire Officers in the UK; and representatives of the “NAIR Scheme” – the National Arrangements for Incidents Involving Radioactivity.
Clearly the directive – and the testimony of the staff at the Home Office and at RAF Fylingdales – was relative to the Home Office’s involvement in the recovery of crashed space vehicles of terrestrial origin.
But what of the Home Office’s link with objects of possible non-terrestrial origin? I have to admit that, although I have a number of stories on-file concerning alleged Home Office involvement in crashed UFO events in the UK, nothing concrete or definitive has ever surfaced. Nevertheless, where there is smoke there is often a degree of fire, too…
By Nick Redfern (Nick Redfern is one of the world’s leading authorities on UFOs and the author of many important books, including Covert Agenda, Cosmic Crashes, Strange Secrets etc.)
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FBI releases document with detail of Alien bodies, spacecraft and planet
FBI releases document with detail of Alien bodies, spacecraft and planet
The crafts possess a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
The Document declassified by the FBI states: “…Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control, and the bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter…”
Numerous government around the world are slowly coping with the idea that the worldwide population has a right to know whether or not we are alone in the universe. In fact, the disclosure movement has never been as strong as it is today with countless Military officers, government officials, and astronauts speaking out about the existence of alien life and Alien spacecraft.
Among all of the governments on the planet, it is believed that the United States have a lot of disclosure to do. Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton has stated that if she is elected President of the United States, she would disclose all alien related documents and get to the bottom of the UFO phenomenon.
Jon Podesta, who was President Barack Obama’s right man, and Chief of Staff under the Clinton administration tweeted not long ago that one of his biggest regrets of 2014 was his failure to “secure the disclosure of UFO files” and that “the time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources, those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.”
But despite serious attempts of disclosure, the government of the United States still maintains that they do not have knowledge of any information related to the Alien/UFO phenomenon.
However, many maintain that the reason why disclosure hasn’t happened yet isn’t because of the government. It’s very likely that such a subject might even go far beyond, extending into powerful corporations and a tight group of international elites.
Many governments around the globe have declassified a number of UFO-related documents which only proves that they have been extremely interested in the UFO phenomenon for years. However, not only have governments released classified information, agencies such as the FBI, NSA and CIA have also declassified some of their most secretive files on UFO’s and Alien life in the universe.
Getting to the bottom of the declassified FBI document, the original one can be found by visiting this link which will take you to the FBI’s vault of declassified documents.
The declassified document was addressed to “certain scientists of distinction,” to“aeronautical and military authorities,” and to “a number of public officials.”
The declassified document is a letter sent to the director of FBI in Washington from their San Francisco office, detailing UFO’s and extraterrestrials.
“Lt. Colonel _X_X_ of G2, San Francisco advised today he has no further information, and that our Seattle office is in possession of all information known by him and is handling the matter at Tacoma, Washington.” (Source)
Part of the disks carry crews; others are under remote control.
Their mission is peaceful; the visitors contemplate settling on this planet.
These visitors are human-like but much larger in size.
They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world
The disks posses some type of radiant energy.
They do not come from any “planet” as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us.
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter.
They re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without a trace.
The region they come from is NOT the astral plane but corresponds to the Lakas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms.
However, this is just one of the many files that have been released to the public which describe with great detail the visitations.
Many things remain a mystery. While the above-mentioned documents give fascinating details about the visitations, it still leaves us with a umber of questions like: Is it possible that three are several races of aliens out there? Are they Physical or extra dimensional?
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe; they have been coming here for a long time.” (source) (source)
– Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
The board is set. The pieces are almost in motion. This week NASA provided the first shot of Ingenuity, a miniature Mars helicopter.
Here it’s seen stowed sideways, folded up and locked in place.The helicopter is nearly ready to make history with the first powered flight on another Planet.
The Mars helicopter could fly in early April
The teams behind NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter have selected an airfield on Mars for the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) chopper and are preparing to fly in the near future.
“Ingenuity’s test flights are expected to begin no earlier than the first week of April,” NASA officials wrote in a mission update on Wednesday (March 17). “The exact timing of the first flight will remain fluid as engineers work out details on the timeline for deployments and vehicle positioning of Perseverance and Ingenuity.”
NASA team testing some of what’s coming up next weeks. Credit: NASA JPL
During a press conference on Tuesday (March 23) at 1:30 p.m. EDT, NASA will provide an update on the Ingenuity flight plan (17:30 GMT). You can watch it live directly on NASA’s website.
Perseverance, which landed inside the Red Planet’s 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, still has ingenuity tucked away in its belly. Perseverance will deploy Ingenuity onto the red dirt and drive about 330 feet (100 meters) away once it arrives at the chosen airfield. According to mission team members, the six-wheeled rover will attempt to document the little chopper’s flights using its Mastcam-Z camera suite and two microphones.
Ingenuity is a technology demonstration designed to pave the way for future aerial exploration of Mars. It carries a high-resolution camera but no science instruments. NASA officials have stated that if Ingenuity’s flights are successful, future Red Planet missions may include helicopters that serve as scouts for rovers and/or gather data on their own.
Scientists have already proposed in the past to to use powerful lasers to signalize aliens. Image Credit: MIT News.
E.T., we’re home. Existing laser technology could be fashioned into Earth’s “porch light” to attract alien astronomers, reports MIT News.
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposes to create a cosmic beacon, with available laser technology, strong enough to attract potential aliens located as far as 20,000 light-years away.
The research, called “feasibility study,” appears in the Astrophysical Journal.
The findings suggest that if a 1 to 2-megawatt high-power laser were to be focused through a massive 30 to 45-meter telescope and into space. This combination would produce a beam of infrared radiation strong enough to stand out from the sun’s energy.
MIT researchers propose a radical method for aliens elsewhere in the universe. The ESO 3,6-meter telescope located at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, with images of the stars Proxima Centauri, is shown in this image.
Furthermore, scientists explain that once a potential alien civilization picks up this signal, we could use the same system to transmit brief messages to communicate with aliens.
“If we were to close a handshake and start to communicate successfully, we could flash a message, at a data rate of about a few hundred bits per second, which would get there in just a few years,” explained author James Clark, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The best part is that the technology needed to get this working is already available to use, and such an instrument could soon be developed.
“This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one,” Clark explains.
“The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum. I don’t know if intelligent creatures around the sun would be their first guess, but it would certainly attract further attention.”
Several possible configurations were considered by experts before the eventually picked two that would work best for their design.
Using a 2-megawatt laser and putting it through a 30 meter-telescope, we could produce a powerful signal that could be picked up clearly from Proxima Centauri B, one of the planets closest to our sun and possibly home to alien life.
Using a 1-megawatt laser and putting it through a 45-meter telescope, we could then produce a powerful enough signal to be intercepted by anyone inhabiting the Trappist-1 system, located 40 light-years away from Earth.
However, Clark explains that both options could be detectable as far as 20,000 light-years away.
But while this plan may sound attractive and help us find out whether we are alone in the cosmos, the plan has a few risks.
Although shinning the powerful laser through the telescope would not be something that you could see with the naked eye, the powerful beam could disrupt spacecraft instruments on its path. It could also harm a person’s eyesight if he or she were to stare directly at it.
Clark explains that “If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one’s living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it.”
“In general, this was a feasibility study. Whether or not this is a good idea, that’s a discussion for future work.”
It wouldn’t work the other way around
While this plan could work for us if we were to try and signal aliens, ‘ hey, we are here,’ the same thing wouldn’t work the other way around.
According to scientists, if the roles were reversed and instead looked for a similar laser beacon coming from space, it would not be easy to spot with currently available technology.
“It is vanishingly unlikely that a telescope survey would observe an extraterrestrial laser unless we restrict our survey to the very nearest stars,” Clark explains.
“With current survey methods and instruments, it is unlikely that we would be lucky enough to image a beacon flash, assuming that extraterrestrials exist and are making them,” Clark adds.
“However, as the infrared spectra of exoplanets are studied for traces of gases that indicate the viability of life, and as full-sky surveys attain greater coverage and become more rapid, we can be more certain that, if E.T. is phoning, we will detect it.”
You Need To Watch This! Dr. Steven Greer TR-3B Encounter! Buckle-Up! 2021
You Need To Watch This! Dr. Steven Greer TR-3B Encounter! Buckle-Up! 2021
You Need To Watch This! Dr. Steven Greer TR-3B Encounter! Buckle-Up! 2021
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.
Eye Witness, Crop Circles Made by Plasma Technology, Scientific Evidence, Gary King, Darcy Weir
Eye Witness, Crop Circles Made by Plasma Technology, Scientific Evidence, Gary King, Darcy Weir
Eye Witness, Crop Circles Made by Plasma Technology, Scientific Evidence, Gary King, Darcy Weir
Experience a crop circle, in U.K, out the back in a farmers field, behind my property, during the night, long ago, it’s were my interest, in this subject started, it was not man made, the dogs, would have been, alerted me …… If people, had been out their, that night ……. Nick Whitestar
Nostradamus Nailed It To The Day! Revelation 12 Ended The Age Of Pisces
Nostradamus Nailed It To The Day! Revelation 12 Ended The Age Of Pisces
This video will warp your mind! Do not miss this show! Yes, it’s true, Nostradamus nailed then end of the age of Pisces to the EXACT DAY. I fulfilled my destiny in the Nostradamus manuscript. I go over every single detail, including the ones that I have never shown my subscribers. Revelation 12 ended the Age of Pisces and began the age of Aquarius. Also in this show, who is Satan? The answer will knock your socks off.
What was the garden of Eden? It was a slave colony, as the Pleiadians have stated. I blend new information that is just being revealed to the public from the Sumerian texts with the information from Cosmic Agency. I’m still reeling about everything happening, but such is life. I love you lots! Naughty Beaver
Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Discovered In Judean Desert Cave
Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Discovered In Judean Desert Cave
Dozens of fragments of a 2,000-year-old biblical “Dead Sea scroll” have been found in a cave in the Judean desert, Israel. It is the first time such text has been found in 60 years, since the motherload of Dead Sea scrolls was found in the 40’s and 50’s. They are one of a number of finds made in a largescale historic survey by the Israeli authorities of the Judean desert cave system.
Antiquities Rescue Mission Finds Dead Sea Scroll Fragments
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have announced “magnificent and rare” finds after completing an operation to protect the cultural treasures that were vulnerable to looting in the Judean Desert Nature Reserve.
According to the IAA, this is the first time such text fragments have been found since the last find of the famous Dead Sea scroll parchments were recovered from caves in Qumran in the West Bank. These famous parchments are remains of the oldest copies of biblical text in the world, dating back to between the 3 rd century BC and the 1 st century AD.
The operation to survey and excavate the desert caves and ravines has been running since 2017. It is a collaboration between the IAA and the Staff Officer of the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, with funding from the Landmarks Program of the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, explained the IAA statement .
Since the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in the region over 70 years ago, the area has been targeted by thieves and looters. The aim of the survey was to find and recover any antiquities that might remain in the area, to save them from the hands of thieves.
According to Amir Ganor, head of the Antiquities Theft Prevention Unit, the operation has been a real success. Ganor stated that “since the commencement of the operation in 2017 there has been virtually no antiquities plundering in the Judean Desert,” reports AP News .
Investigator repels into Cave 8 at Nahal Hever known as the Cave of Horror, where the Dead Sea scroll fragments were recently discovered.
Missing Pieces Miraculously Found In The “Cave of Horror”
According to an IAA film on the discovery, around 20 fragments were initially discovered in the new find, and this number rose to 80 in total according to AP News . Based on the writing style they are from the 1 st century AD, states the IAA.. The content of the text includes sections from the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets including lines from the books of Zechariah and Nahum, written in Greek.
It is thought that the new parchment finds are some of the missing pieces of a larger group of scroll fragments that were previously discovered in the cave known as the “Cave of Horror.” This cave, designated as “Cave 8,” is located in Nahal Hever, and lies 80 meters (262 feet) below the clifftop, so it is only accessible using climbing equipment .
In 1952, the cave was found to contain the remains of 40 men, women and children that were hiding out from the Romans during the Bar Kokhba Revolt . This was when the Jewish rebels attempted an uprising against the Roman regime of Emperor Hadrian. The revolt lasted from 132-136 AD, and initially Jews gained a great deal of territory, including 50 strongholds and almost a thousand towns and villages, including Jerusalem.
But their success was to be short lived. They were defeated by the tactics of Julius Severus, who besieged the Jewish fortresses and camps until rations were exhausted and the people were weak. This seems to be what happened at the Cave of Horror. The group hid for as long as they could last but are thought to have eventually died of starvation or thirst.
Found along with the Dead Sea scroll fragments in the cave was a cache of coins. The entire coin hoard is thought to have been hidden during the Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt.
Coins from the Bar Kokhba period recovered from the Cave of Horror.
Other Ancient Finds From The 500 Plus Nahal Hever Caves
The survey has been a massive operation and has included the investigation of over 500 caves. The arid conditions of the caves have allowed items to be preserved over many millennia. Other important finds discovered during the survey were far more ancient than the Roman period.
These include the 6000-year-old mummified remains of a child, and what is believed to be the oldest completely intact woven basket and lid in the world, which has been radiocarbon dated to as old as 10,500 years.
6,000-year-old skeleton of a girl or a boy who was buried wrapped in cloth in one of the many Nahal Hever caves.
The ancient skeleton had been wrapped in a material and placed in a dug out pit, underneath two stones, reports the Jerusalem Post . The remains included naturally mummified flesh and other organic matter and “a small bundle of cloth was clutched in the child’s hand,” said Ronit Lupu, an IAA prehistorian, who went on to state:
“…and because of the climatic conditions in the cave, a process of natural mummification had taken place; the skin, tendons, and even the hair were partially preserved, despite the passage of time."
The 10,500-year-old basket as it was found in the Muraba‘at Cave.
The oldest find on the list of outstanding discoveries was recovered from Muraba‘at Cave, 18 km (11.2 miles) south of Qumran. It is a woven basket , complete with lid. It has been dated to the Neolithic period, around 10,500 years ago, and the IAA claim this is possibly the oldest complete basket ever to be found anywhere in the world.
These finds are highlights of what has been deemed an extremely successful archaeological search and rescue operation.
Top image: Sections of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets scroll discovered in the Judean Desert expedition prior to their conservation. Source: Shai Halevi / Israel Antiquities Authority
Gravity machine utilizing an intense EM field that produces sufficient thrust to propel
a space ship in accordance with Einstein general relativity.
Principe: it is composed of coaxial condensator whose surface is overwound by a
superconductive coil which generates a gravitational vortex around the cylinder
body.
The electromagneto –toroid propulsion system can produce sufficient thrust to
propel a space ship similar to Forward´s gravity machine
From an engineering perspective the electromagneto-toroid method is far more
practical.The unified field theory on connection between gravity and electromagnetic
field was decisive until now at present time (2018)
Within the frame work of Cartan introduced 1913 about torsion fields and later by
Einstein, the existence of these field s has been permitted but are very weak and
cannot be observed and seemed to have no practical application . Shipov states in
1980 the OPPOSITE!
The torsion field concept was conceived in the Sovjet Union by a group of great
physici in 1980. Anatol Akimov and Gennady Shipov began the research as the state
sponsored center for Nontraditional Technologies.
Torsion fields : theory of physical vacuum
( Shipov, Heim)
Torsion fields can be generated ,detected and switched on and off and are a distinct
type of energy field that included to today´s classical physics .Torsion field
emanations can travel at velocities at least as high as 109 times speed of light. After
reading some of Russian literature about torsion fields one becomes almost
convinced that there is a similarity between the so-called gravity waves of Ramsey
and Hodowanec and torsion fields . For the latter you may find research results
published earlier in Dutch : * Gravity metingen met een electronische detector
schakeling * 2-06-2015. In this research was found that the large angular
momentum of stars and black holes are detected even when the receiver was
severely shielded . The signals were interpreted by Hodowanec as generated as
gravitational waves.
Following Burkhard Heim ideas space propulsion is possible and will be possible with
Torsion Field generation. The torsion field has the following unusual possibilities
The upper limit is 109 times the speed of light
Torsion fields are able to propagate in a region of space which is not limited by the light cone .That means that torsion fields are able to propagate in the future as well in the past
Torsion fields transmit INFORMATION without transmitting energy
All of these four requirements are fulfilled by the 6- dimensional unified
geometrized quantum field theory of Burkhard Heim which has been proven to be
correct.
The GEMS ,Gravity Electromagnetic Super
Unification Theory
This theory unifies the 4 fundamental forces of nature: the short range strong
and weak nuclear forces and the long range gravity and EM forces ,for the first
time . This theory is brought by Colonel John Brandenburg (2016) in* The
journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science Studies* Basically it is a classical
theory extended to subatomic limits, with appropriate quantum conditions. GEMS
is a combination of the Kaluza – Klein hidden dimension approach of the EM-
gravity unification and Sacharov approach where in space-time is
electromagnetic in character. This theory indicates that manipulation of gravity ,
strong and weak forces by electromagnetism is possible.
Solar Warden space ships
(William Tompkins designs)
William Tompkins claims to have participated in the development of an
antigravity space craft . He is one of several such individuals who have come
forward acknowledge the existence of high classified secret technology projects.
He worked for more than 50 years in Naval Intelligence .Tompkins reported that
he was given approval by the Navy to share extraordinary experiences which
included working with secret UFO designs that US spies obtained in Germany and
study reversed engineering of Nazi antigravity space-drafts .Tompkins worked all
the time under Rear Admiral Rico Botta, identified as playing a key role in
starting US Navy-led secret space program and was assigned to transporting spy
intelligence stolen papers of Nazi Germany.
Only a few military insiders know the Nazis are deep into a secret Ufo -project.
Remarkable is that some of the space ships designs resemblance with flying
*submarines*.Looking at some types gives clearly a picture of Electromagnetic
propulsion with coils covering the walls , and also a clear picture of the two
counterclockwise rotating fields for gravity propulsion. The existing two power
source is very consistent with the detection of the two peaks in the magnetic
detection report of the cylinder- ufo observation in Sint Katelijne Waverduring
the winter of 2008
Sint Katelijne Waver , March, the 20th-2021
Jan De Ceuster
Solar Warden space ships
Type : William Tompkins design
Submarine adapted for space travel with two power counterclockwise
rotating torsion fields
Type : submarine- diving cylinder UFO
Type : submarine- type cylinder UFO in space
Jan De Ceuster
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Disk Shoots Past Animal Cam With Deer, 3-13-2021, VIDEO, UFO Sighting News
Disk Shoots Past Animal Cam With Deer, 3-13-2021, VIDEO, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 13, 2021 Location of sighting: Orlando, Florida, USA
Watch this mind blowing video and you will notice that its an animal cam recording the local deer. However as a deer is grazing in front of the cam, a metallic disk shoots slowly past the deer. The disk look to be about one meter across and the dark area in its middle is a window area. This object is actually watching the deer grazing as the came watches them both! Absolutely takes my breath away. This video is one for the history books.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This video was taken by my field camera approx. 5 feet off ground. As you can see in video, the deer was not affected by the object leading me to believe that it made no sound as it traveled at high speed past the camera.
UFO Sighting News: Sphere Seen Over City In Argentina Known As "the end of the world." Video. March 22, 2021.
UFO Sighting News: Sphere Seen Over City In Argentina Known As "the end of the world." Video. March 22, 2021.
Date of sighting: March 22, 2021 Location of sighting: Ushuaia, Argentina
This UFO was recorded by UFO researcher Gina Maria Colvin Hill of Youtube. She was recording a live web cam of Argentina when she suddenly noticed a massive glowing sphere moving over the bay. At one point it leaves a long trail on the cam, and you can even see its reflection in the water. Gina was insistent that it was not a plane, and I really have to agree. This object is not moving like a plane and has no features of any aircraft I have ever seen. This is a sphere. Absolutely amazing to see this 12 minute video. Loved it! This city in Argentina is called Ushuaia and has the title of world's southernmost city. It's also been called, "the end of the world." This video is 100% proof that aliens exist and are right now flying over Argentina as we speak!
Video was taken by a field camera approximately 5 feet off ground. As you can see in the video, the deer was not affected by the object leading me to believe that it made no sound as it traveled at high speed past the camera.
Date of sighting: 2021/03/13 - Location: Orlando, Florida. Source: Mufon case 114319.
Fast-moving red light and two stationary orbs, Clearwater Beach FL 20-Mar-2021
Fast-moving red light and two stationary orbs, Clearwater Beach FL 20-Mar-2021
Strange UFO activity filmed in the sky above Florida three days ago.
Witness report:
UFO sighting in Florida. Fast-moving red light and two stationary orbs. Saw these on March 20 at around 10 pm in Clearwater Beach. The two orbs are to the north in the video
Fast UFO recorded with a field camera over Orlando, Florida 13-Mar-2021
Fast UFO recorded with a field camera over Orlando, Florida 13-Mar-2021
This fast UFO was flying at really low altitude. It was filmed with a field camera in Orlando, Florida on 13th March 2021.
Witness report:
video was taken by my field camera approx. 5 feet off ground. As you can see in video, the deer was not affected by the object leading me to believe that it made no sound as it traveled at high speed past the camera.
Despite humanity’s best efforts to find evidence of intelligent alien life out there somewhere in the Universe, we’ve turned up squat so far. Is Earth really so unique, or is it just that any extraterrestrials that once existed gave up the ghost long ago?
A new Canadian study suggests there’s an alternative possibility. Aliens may very well be out there and looking for us too, and, if so, our best chance of finding one another is to presume that their ability to see across the chasm of space is effectively the same as our own.
One of the ways our Earthly scientists study faraway planets is by examining their shadows as they pass in front of their host stars. The authors of the new study – to be published in Astrobiology – say this is the most likely way alien observers would know anything of Earth too.
“It’s impossible to predict whether extraterrestrials use the same observational techniques as we do,” said astrophysicist René Heller, who worked on the research while at McMaster University in Canada, and is now at the Institute for Astrophysics in Göttingen, Germany. “But they will have to deal with the same physical principles as we do, and Earth’s solar transits are an obvious method to detect us.”
When a planet performs a transit in front of a star – as seen with Venus passing over the Sun in the NASA image above – it’s the closest astronomers get to shining a light on planets that are so far away, they’re difficult to study in other ways.
Transit observation not only allows scientists to visually see planets using telescopes, but it also helps them to collect other kinds of data, such as atmospheric conditions and surface temperature, giving them an idea of whether the world they’re looking at might be habitable.
It stands to reason that intelligent extraterrestrials with the same level of technology could find Earth the same way – and in fact, they might already have done so.
“If any of these planets host intelligent observers, they could have identified Earth as a habitable, even as a living world long ago and we could be receiving their broadcasts today,” the authors write in their paper.
The scientists propose that we should focus our alien-hunting efforts on Earth’s own transit zone – a thin slice of space, about half a degree wide, but potentially less for atmospheric detection – from which our planet’s passage in front of the Sun can be detected from elsewhere in the Milky Way.
That slender window in space is where we’re most visible to anybody out there, so that’s where we should be looking – or listening – for any kinds of extraterrestrial broadcasts or communications.
“As an ultimate consequence,” the researchers write, “even if our species chose to remain radio-quiet to eschew interstellar contact, we cannot hide from observers located in Earth’s solar transit zone, if they exist.”
The Perseverance rover’s tracks during its 4 March drive on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on 18 February, it has been doing as much science as it can during the testing phase of its scientific instruments. That has involved driving short distances and taking pictures of the rocks near the landing site.
“So far, all of this has been going exceedingly well,” said Ken Farley at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, during a presentation at the virtual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on 16 March. “We’ve had no major technical issues.” The rover’s first drive on 4 March – which lasted 33 minutes and covered about 6.5 metres – demonstrated that it can, in fact, rove, and the other tests are going smoothly as well, he said.
Perseverance has a microphone, which has allowed us to hear the Red Planet for the first time. It recorded more than 16 minutes of audio as it drove around on Mars on 7 March, and some of that is below.
“If I heard these sounds driving my car, I’d pull over and call for a tow,” said Dave Gruel at JPL in a statement. “But if you take a minute to consider what you’re hearing and where it was recorded, it makes perfect sense.” However, one of the high-pitched scratching noises in the recordings was unexpected and NASA engineers are now trying to figure out what is causing it.
Perseverance has also zapped several of the rocks near its landing site with its laser to determine their chemical compositions. They are similar to basaltic rocks on Earth, and some of them also appear to have water locked up in their molecular structure. Many of the nearby rocks contain visible holes, some of which were probably bored by wind, whereas others may have been sculpted by flowing water.
All of these findings are exactly what scientists expected. Basalts form from molten rock and we knew that Jezero crater, where Perseverance landed, ought to have volcanic rocks that were once covered by the lake that used to fill the crater.
One of the images taken during testing even showed a Martian dust devil – a rotating column of dust – moving across the surface. These are common on Mars – most of the spacecraft we have sent there, including the Viking landers in the 1970s, have spotted them at some point.
Perseverance’s next major task will be to test Ingenuity, the small helicopter that the rover carried to Mars in its belly. For that, Perseverance will drop Ingenuity off, drive a short distance away and attempt to take a video of the helicopter as it lifts into the Martian air.
After Ingenuity’s test flights, which are expected to happen this spring, the rover will be free to drive further afield and begin its science phase in earnest. At that point, it will begin searching for signs of ancient life and take samples to be returned to Earth by a later mission planned for 2026.
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The Best UFO Sightings Videos & Encounters Of 2021
The Best UFO Sightings Videos & Encounters Of 2021
We start 2021 very much in the same way we began 2020 – with an apparent expectation of a huge release of information combined with an admission of prior knowledge about the existence of UFOs and alien life. Essentially, “disclosure”. Of course, whether that disclosure arrives remains to be seen....
The U.S. Navy has patents on weird and little understood technology. According to patents filed by the Navy, it is working on a compact fusion reactor that could power cities, an engine that works using “inertial mass reduction,” and a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” Dubbed the “UFO patents, The War Zone has reported that the Navy had to build prototypesof some of the outlandish tech to prove it worked.
Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais is the man behind the patents and The War Zone has proven the man exists, at least on paper. Pais has worked for a number of different departments in the Navy, including the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAVAIR/NAWCAD) and the Strategic Systems Programs. (SSP) The SSP mission, according to its website, is to “provide credible and affordable strategic solutions to the warfighter.” It’s responsible for developing the technology behind the Trident class nuclear missiles launched from Submarines.
The patents all build on each other, but at their core is something Pais called the “Pais Effect.” This is the idea that, “controlled motion of electrically charged matter via accelerated vibration and/or accelerated spin subjected to smooth yet rapid acceleration transients, in order to generate extremely high energy/high intensity electromagnetic fields.”
Essentially, Pais is claiming to use properly spun electromagnetic fields to contain a fusion reaction. That plasma fusion reaction he claims to have invented will revolutionize power consumption. Experts theorize that a functioning fusion reactor would lead to cheap and ubiquitous energy.
One of Pais and the Navy’s patents described what the propulsion system and fusion drive would be used for—a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” According to the patent, the craft could travel land, sea, and outer space at incredible speeds. Other patents invented by Pais and filed by the Navy include a “high temperature superconductor,” a “electromagnetic field generator,” and a “high frequency gravitational wave generator.”
It all sounds like science fiction, and the Navy has been skeptical too. Navy authorities called bullshit on Pais’ inventions and his patents went through a lengthy internal review at NAVAIR. The War Zone obtained emails about the bureaucratic fight between Pais and the Navy through a Freedom of Information Act Request and revealed that the mad scientist won. According to the patents, some of the technology is “operable.” That means the Navy is claiming some of Pais’ wild tech works and has been demonstrated to Navy officials.
The physics of what Pais is claiming are beyond theoretical and beyond the ken of the layman or lowly science reporter. But a paper about his compaction fusion reactor was accepted by the peer reviewed Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Plasma Science and published in its November 2019 issue. “The fact that my work on the design of a Compact Fusion Reactor was accepted for publication in such a prestigious journal as IEEE TPS, should speak volumes as to its importance and credibility - and should eliminate (or at least alleviate) all misconceptions you (or any other person) may have in regard to the veracity (or possibility) of my advanced physics concepts,” Pais told The War Zone in an email.
Pais continued to toot his own plasma horn. “Do realize that my work culminates in the enablement of the Pais Effect (original physical concept),” he said. “Such high energy [electromagnetic] radiation can locally interact with the Vacuum Energy State (VES) - the VES being the Fifth State of Matter (Fifth Essence - Quintessence), in other words the fundamental structure (foundational framework), from which Everything else (Spacetime included) in our Quantum Reality, emerges. The Engineering of the Pais Effect can give rise to the Enablement of Macroscopic Quantum Coherence, which if you have closely been following my work, you understand the importance of.”
If the email Pais sent sounds like the jargon filled ramblings of a mad scientist, you aren’t alone.
The Pais emails sound like the jargon filled ramblings of a mad scientist, but the Pentagon does have a history of successfully fostering cutting edge technology. More than 100 years ago, nuclear weapons were science fiction. GPS, the TOR network, and the internet itself all began life as Pentagon programs. Perhaps the Navy will soon revolutionize the way we think about energy and transportation.
Having taken a look at the FBI’s files on both George Adamskiand George Van Tassel, I thought I would share with you the reasons why some of the other “Contactees” of the 1950s and 1960s were carefully watched by government agencies. We’ll begin with yet another FBI file on a certain friend of the Space Brothers. The man: George Hunt Williamson. It’s intriguing to note that the primary reason why Williamson had a file on him was because he was suspected of smuggling ancient artifacts over the Mexico border and into the United States. Something like that is all but guaranteed to ensure a file will be opened on you. For a while the FBI deeply pondered on whether or not they should get further involved in the pursuit of a potential crime that had occurred outside of its jurisdiction and in another country – Mexico – but finally dropped the matter; rather fortunately, it must be said, for Williamson. There is one particularly curious aspect of this particular affair: a number of the relevant documents are heavily censored according to category 1 of the Freedom of Information Act. Notably, 1 covers nothing less than matters that may have a potential effect on US national security. That strongly suggests there was something about Williamson that we still don’t know of to this very day.
Then, there’s the FBI file on Truman Bethurum, the man who, in the early 1950s, claimed to have met (on more than a few occasions) with a hot alien babe known as “Aura Rhanes.” As for why the FBI took so much interest in the Bethurum, the answer is very simple. The government was already keeping tabs on Bethurum, for one particularly interesting reason: he had made certain statements linking his experiences with Aura Rhanes to matters of a communist nature. In Bethurum’s own words: “Two or three fellows who had sons in Korea and who read a lot in the newspapers about the Communist underground in this country, were convinced in their own minds that I was, if making contact with anyone at all, making it with enemy agents. They even went so far as to tell me belligerently that they intended to get guns and follow me nights, and if they caught up me having intercourse with any people from planes, airships of any kind, they’d blast me and those people too.” And, as an amusing aside, it also led the FBI to refer Aura Rhanes in its files as a “ravishing woman commandant”! Even the Bureau, it seems, was infected by Aura’s intergalactic hotness!
Aura Rhanes, the alien who got Truman Bethurum’s blood-pressure in a dangerously high state!
George King’s Aetherius Society, which was also very much Contactee-driven from the late-1950s onward, was the subject of a secret file created by an arm of the U.K. police force called Special Branch. That file is now in the public domain, thanks to the terms of the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act. The file does not show that Special Branch was worried about alien encounters. Rather, the papers demonstrate that Special Branch was concerned by the fact that the Aetherius Society was allying itself with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was created in 1the 1950s. Special Branch certainly viewed King as, in their words, a “crank.” Special Branch came to quickly realize that King was highly motivated when it came to getting the word out regarding his views on nuclear weapons and the Russians. That alone was certainly a matter of deep concern to the authorities. The surveillance, hardly surprisingly, continued at a steady and secret pace. A Special Branch document from 1959 provides the following on the Aetherius Society: “It crusades for the suspension of the H-bomb tests and supports the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It took part in what became known as the 1958 Aldermaston March and holds public meetings from time to time. One was held on 23rd August 1959 when 200 persons formed a ‘quiet, amused’ audience. It was covered by Special Branch.” Special Branch eventually discontinued its surveillance of the Aetherius Society. The strange affair was finally over.
Abducted, She Escapes From An Alien Reptilian Ship! via Elena Danaan
Abducted, She Escapes From An Alien Reptilian Ship! via Elena Danaan
Abducted, She Escapes From An Alien Ship!
Two experiencers answer questions about how they escaped a reptilian mothership and how you can protect yourself.
Do not mistaken me for a New Age guru. I don’t pretend having the whole infused science. The humble knowledge I share is the result of my personal connexion with the Universe. Concerning aliens, all I know is what was shown to me by real ET’s, and my own physical experience. I am an experiencer with a scientific background and a training in ancient Earth traditions. As everyone, I have walked my path and I do my best at service of balance & justice.
What I do not know is greater than what I know. I feel it is my duty to speak honestly, to chase away the clouds of Artificial Ignorance put upon us to make us lose our way. The answers are to be found within. We have them all. Everything. Darkness tricks us to scatter ourselves that we never stand as a complete sovereign being in full power. If you don’t know how powerful you are, the slaves’ masters know it well and that’s why they keep us in the ignorance of our own selves. Discover who you truly are… you are all the answers.
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Steve Quayle: Stargates, UFOs and Demons and Fallen Angels
Steve Quayle: Stargates, UFOs and Demons and Fallen Angels
Steve Quayle is a researcher and author of over a dozen books dealing with advanced ancient technology and civilizations. His documentary film production company Gensix Productions films the “True Legends The Series” all over the world in search of the Lost Cities and the giants of history who were the builders of the great megalithic structures of the ancient world.
Steve is a former talk radio show host who has been warning against genetic armageddon and the end of the human race for decades. He claims transhumanism and the hybrid age is the most dangerous advancement in the technological war against humanity in history.
I’ve discussed this time period for a few months now and we are almost there. plus, i will probably be out of pocket during this time period. Stay aware & Stay cool.
Major Eatchquake Forecast For March 23rd through March 26th.
Tictac UFO Over Jupiter, Florida 3 Videos! March 22, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Tictac UFO Over Jupiter, Florida 3 Videos! March 22, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 22, 2021 Location of sighting: Jupiter, Florida, USA
This eyewitness recorded a long tictac UFO over Jupiter, Florida today. They were confused at what it might actually be and thought it may be a plane. This object has no sound, no wings, no windows and no propulsion of any kind. This could be a blimp, but I see no undercarriage that would hold people and I see no tail fins to steer it. So I rule out blimp. This looks like a real UFO flying low and boldly over the city of Jupiter. Note, I have said many times that there is an alien base off the Florida coast, which I attribute the abundance of UFO sightings too.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I want to know what it is . It looked like an airplane.
Fox News: Deadline for Pentagon to disclose UFO report draws closer
Fox News: Deadline for Pentagon to disclose UFO report draws closer
FOX News report with John Ratcliffe who served as the Director of National Intelligence under former President Trump, speaks about Government UFO UAP investigation AATIP UAPTF ongoing motion to investigate strange objects performing impossible maneuvers in the skies around the world, reportedly detected and witnessed by the Navy, the Air Force, and even tracked via satellites.
The interview answers some questions on Unidentified Flying Objects, aka Unidentified Aerial Phenomena but also opens up so many more questions.
There is a lot of anticipation for the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and Department of Defense report which is due for inspection by a congressional committee.
Do the objects represent a threat? Are the UAPs piloted by extraterrestrials? Are aliens visiting Earth?
It is important to note that while some are awaiting a form of UFO Disclosure to the public at large, the mystery of the UFOs in the skies of our planet will more than likely not occur with the release of such a report, but in fact may instigate further investigations that can hopefully draw more interest from leaders in Washington to notice what many are calling for, which is a more transparent investigation into sightings, especially those who are witnesses in the Armed Forces.
With that said, given some of the comments spoken about by John Ratcliffe, members of Congress have already been briefed on various aspects of the phenomenon, and maybe have been alerted to some form of established threat identification.
UFOs UAPs have been seen penetrating sensitive military and commercial airspace on many repeated occasions, tracked on radar, and witnessed by reliable sources.
This interview seems to hint at what we may expect to come in the next 60 days, but more importantly, it brings the topic out of the fringes it has resided in for many years, into a far more serious mode of understanding, and the public wants to know!
Editor's note:Be aware for a false flag alien attack!
In politics, it’s always easier to admit to things and make promises when one is out of office. That’s especially true on the national level and one field that suffers from these “I didn’t reveal the secrets when I was in office but there’s a lot of them and I’ll do better next time” pronouncements is UFOs and UAPs. Think John Podesta, who claimed he regrated not digging deeper into UFOs and offer some disclosure while working for President Bill Clinton, promised to do better if Hillary Clinton was elected and still hasn’t revealed anything. Now comes John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence under former President Donald Trump. He had this to say during a recent interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo (summarized by the Washington Examiner):
“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain. Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
Former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe is referring to incidents like the Navy Tic Tac UFO sightings, which all happened before he became Director of National Intelligence in May 2020. Nothing new here.
“When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection. Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things, and … some of these are unexplained phenomenon, and there is actually quite a few more than have been made public.”
There’s Ratcliffe’s “I knew about this but didn’t tell you when I could have” confession. Then comes the “hint about aliens without admitting anything” moment.
“Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances. Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or than we realized. But there are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.”
Why would the former Director of National Intelligence be hinting about extraterrestrials now? He’s out of office and has no chance of getting his old position back for at least four years. Ratcliffe was also a member of the House of Representatives. Could he be planning another run so he can get back to Congress, become the next Harry Reid and influence disclosure?
Former Senator Harry Reid
Sorry, that’s not it either. Ratcliffe’s hints are coming ahead of the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill that former President Trump signed into law in December, which contained the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 which stated that the Intelligence Committee must reveal any threats posed by “unidentified aerial phenomena” and submit them “in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.” Being the former director, Ratcliffe ‘should’ known what’s in the report. If it’s a real revelation, he can take credit for it since it was committed to under his brief watch. If it has nothing new, he can blame it on the new administration and its director for withholding information. It’s a win-win for Ratcliffe … and nothing as usual for the American UFO-disclosure-seeking public.
Unless there’s really some disclosure in it. The report is supposed to be released by June 1, but anything with “national security” in its content often has a way of being withheld or heavily redacted. All we can do is wait … and elect officials who will really do what they promise, at least when it comes to UFO/UAP disclosure.
Does an area become a UFO hotspot because it has a lot of UFOs or a lot of UFO spotters? A case could be made for the latter in Argentina, where a dedicated group of UFO/UAP hunters added another to their collection with a recording of a “ufo flash” over Pie de Palo in the west-central Argentine province of San Juan. Is it time for the Guardianes del Cielo (Guardians of the Sky) Cuyano to go international?
“Hello friends!!! We told you that a couple of weeks ago, as a result of some complaints received from people in the Caucete area regarding some curious lights that can be observed in the well-known Cerro Pie de Palo in the province of San Juan, we began to make a series of vigil around the area which we came across this event that the locals told us … We are in the process of investigation soon we will upload more of these events.”
A video was uploaded on YouTube recently (watch it here) by the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano of lights over Pie de Palo which they recorded after residents concerned about them received no explanations from officials. This was quickly picked up by San Juan media, which left it to the Guardians to speculate what the UFOs might be. And speculate they did!
“The supposed UFO that appears in the images, would fall into the category of” ufo-flash “. Ships of unknown origin that appear and disappear for brief moments. One more mystery in this great enigma that is the probable presence of alien life on the planetary ground.”
Before you skeptically scoff at the “alien life” assessment, Tiempo de San Juan beat you to it. Prior to reporting on this sighting, a reporter interviewed members of the Guardianes back in December 2020. The group began in 2011 when current president Jorge “Toto” Pérez and some friends met weekly on a Pocitana mountain to eat barbecue. After seeing a white “watermelon seed” UFO repeatedly, they dedicated themselves to studying unexplained aerial phenomena, eventually forming Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano to follow up on the sightings of others in the region. They purchased an image intensifier – a low-light device used in night-vision goggles – and set up a Facebook group, which attracted members who helped expand the group. A satellite tracking system helps them distinguish human-made aircraft from unidentified flying objects or anomalies. As a result, they have become a go-to group for UFO sightings in Argentina.
“It is seen that there is a greater maturity about this phenomenon, they no longer take it so hard.”
As we are seeing in the U.S., the search for UFO is gaining “maturity” as they’re reported in the mainstream media and slowly confirmed by the government. Argentina is one of the countries that has a dedicated government department for UFOs, and the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano are playing an important part in “declassifying” documents. Unfortunately, while they have a good record of types of UFOs, neither the video nor the article explain why they suspect “alien life” for the recent UFOs in Pie de Palo.
On the subject of the cause of UFO hotspots, Elentrios.com also reported in December on the increase in sightings in Argentina and notes that there are a number of groups like Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano in that country, and the clear skies from less traffic during the pandemic lockdown coupled with the number of people with more time on their hands to look up has certainly resulted in more sightings. But … these groups were there before pandemic … which means the UFOs were there as well.
Is there something that attracts UFOs to Argentina? Are the Guardianes del Cielo Cuyano correct to speculate on and search for aliens on the ground summoning them? We’ll keep our eyes on the group for further information.
If you peer into the deep reaches of time and space to glimpse the universe when it was just a few billion years old, you’ll see an ancient era populated by many massive galaxies. Simulations suggest these galactic behemoths must have been fed by cold gas in dark matter filaments—structures that make up the cosmic web that connects galaxies in the universe—but the nature of these gas infusions has remained murky in the absence of direct observations.
Now, scientists led by Hai Fu, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Iowa, have spotted what they describe as a “pipeline” gas filament feeding an enormous galaxy that formed when the universe was 2.5 billion years old, about one fifth of its current age.
The discovery, which was years in the making, confirms long-standing models that suggest star-forming material is delivered to huge galaxies via these cosmic filaments, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal.
“This is by far the best evidence we have” for the mysterious gas streams, said Fu in an email. While previous studies have detected possible filaments in the past, they weren’t able to capture detailed chemical information “to support their origin as inflows,” he added.
Fu and his colleagues, in contrast, were able to identify the chemical signatures of the gas stream in the galaxy they studied, thanks to the very rare and fortuitous alignment of giant luminous bodies around it. The galaxy, which is known as SMM J0913, is part of a larger cosmic neighborhood that contains two radiant quasars, which are special galactic cores that are among the most brightest phenomena in the universe.
Because the two quasars are located behind SMM J0913 from our perspective on Earth, the brilliant objects backlight the foreground galaxy, enabling Fu’s team to view never-before-seen details of the gas stream that nourishes this growing entity.
“The stream stood out in silhouette against two bright quasars,” Fu explained.
DIAGRAM OF COLD GAS PIPELINES THAT SURVIVED DESPITE HOTTER SURROUNDINGS AND ALLOWED THESE GALAXIES TO FORM STARS.
IMAGE: HAI FU, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Using spectral information captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), currently the largest radio telescope on Earth, the team probed the abundance of chemicals in the filament.
The results showed that the stream lacked heavy elements such as aluminum, carbon, iron, and magnesium. Since the environment inside massive galaxies like SMM J0913 is constantly being enriched with heavy elements, which are spewed out by the explosion of stars, this telltale hint demonstrated that the gas was getting piped in from outside of the galaxy, from a depleted environment.
Cosmic simulations have proposed that these narrow filaments can explain how cold gas gets pumped into galaxies without being disrupted by the hot atmospheric surroundings of such gargantuan entities. But actually detecting these filaments is a tough hurdle to clear; Fu and his colleagues pored over observations of 70,000 galaxies over a period of five years before they tracked down the perfect system that contained SMM J0913.
“The understanding of the system took many years, so it has been a gradual realization synthesizing data from various telescopes,” he said. He added that he was excited when “the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle was in place” and felt “a tremendous relief” when he received the spectral information from ALMA that confirmed SMM J0913 was the exact right type of galaxy needed to illuminate this question.
“It showed that I didn't waste the precious telescope time and we indeed found something interesting,” Fu added.
While the new study represents a breakthrough in our understanding of how massive galaxies formed in the early universe, there’s still plenty of work left to be done. The team only looked at two points along the stream, leaving room for follow-up studies to attempt to “see its full physical extent,” Fu said, which he hopes to attempt to do in March using the Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
“In the long term, we would need to find more streams around other massive galaxies,” he concluded, “and I wonder how we can achieve that efficiently, using existing telescopes.”
Summary/Description: The Mundrabilla incident of a few years ago received much media publicity. The Knowles described how the UFO shot over their car and lifted it off the road. Their voices changed in pitch, the family dog in the car went crazy, and the car started shaking. The news media described the incident as a ‘UFO attack’ and reported that the car was covered by strange dust. [map id=”380″]
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January 20 1988 was the day that the Knowles family and their two dogs had an unexplainable experience whilst travelling across the Nullarbor Plain in the early hours of the morning.
At about 4.00am, Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne 18 were between Madura and Mundrabilla with Sean driving and Patrick next to him in the front seat when a bright light was seen ahead of them. Sean thought the light strange and asked his brother if he thought it was a spaceship. This idea was rejected by his brother, but Sean’s interest was piqued and he sped the car up in order to catch up to the object and get a closer look. At about 20 metres from the object the family say they were confronted with a white blinding light that moved along in front of their moving vehicle. It was about 1 metre wide and described as a slightly angular egg in an egg-cup shape with a yellow centre. The object, which at first appeared to be either on the ground or immediately above it then began to move back and forth. Sean swerved the car to the opposite side of the road to avoid a collision with the object, but then nearly collided with a station wagon towing a caravan coming in the other direction. (The occupants of this second car have never come forward) The object then circled around to the right side of their car and appeared to give chase to the second vehicle towing the caravan. The Knowles made at 2 u-turns at this point, the first to give chase to the object, and the second to abandon this idea as they had grown frightened. They had at this point gained the idea that the object was after them.
At some point the family felt that the UFO had returned and had landed on their vehicle. They heard a clunking sound and felt that the car was being pushed down by a weight that rested on top of it.
By now the family was understandably frightened, and the following events are difficult to unravel in retrospect. The family believed that the car was lifted above the road, though none of them were able to estimate for how long or how high. Mrs Knowles wound down a rear window and reached for the roof. She felt something soft and rubbery that was hot but did not burn her hand, and when she brought her hand back into the car she found it covered in a blackish dust. This event caused a panic in the rest of the family. Patrick wound down his window, only to be covered in the fine dust, which was accompanied by a foul smell that was likened to dead bodies. A high-pitched sound was then heard, which sent the dogs into a frenzy. The family became disoriented and felt that their voices had become slower, and lower in pitch. They believed at this point that they were going to die. Patrick said that he felt that his ‘brain was being sucked out’, and Mrs Knowles likened it to having something ‘going into our heads’.
A while later, the family felt the car forced back down onto the road, bursting the rear right tyre. Sean brought the car to a sudden stop and then blacked out. The family left the car hurriedly and hid in some bushes by the side of the road. They remained there for 15 minutes before changing the tyre and continuing on to the nearest town.
Unknown to the Knowles’, a truck driver, Mr Graham Henley also saw, at the same time and in the same area, a strange light in his rear view mirror. He described as being like a strong spotlight and like a ‘big fried egg hung upside down”. He kept the object in view for 5 minutes and did not see any car headlights beneath it. Shortly after Henley pulled into Mundrabilla, he saw the Knowles’ car arrive, and was confronted by the frightened family all trying to describe their experience. He looked over their car and confirmed the presence of black ash in various areas, both inside and on the exterior of the vehicle, and likened it to fine silicon sand with a burnt odour to it. He also noted four indents in the roof of the car and the damaged tyre. Henley and two of his friends also surveyed the scene of the incident, finding skid marks, footprints and tread tracks that they felt confirmed the Knowles account of their incident.
The family had by this time arrived at Ceduna and been interviewed by the police there, who confirmed that the family were visibly shaken. They also reconfirmed the presence of the four dents and the fine dust. UFO Research South Australia was contacted and arrangements were made for the Knowles’ to continue to Adelaide for further investigation. Keith Basterfield was at this stage brought into the investigation, and he stated that it “appeared to be an extraordinary example of a close encounter that had left physical traces.” However, owing to the story reaching the media, serious investigation became obstructed by chequebook journalism, with investigators needing to mediate with a television station to be able to talk to the Knowles’. The TV station did, however, commission a laboratory investigation of the vehicle, which concluded that ‘no significant dust was observed on the vehicle as presented for inspection’. Ufo researchers did manage to obtain samples themselves, which they forwarded to Dr Richard Haines, a NASA scientist at the time, who concluded that the dust taken from the interior of the car was different to the dust sampled from the exterior. Further tests by different analysts have provided no evidence of it being alien or unusual.
Unfortunately none of this is conclusive. There were other UFO reports in the same area at the same time, which tends to imply that something unusual occurred. The only conclusion we can safely come to though, is that something happened, and that the family witnessed an unusual light and were extremely frightened by its effects. All we have is an interesting story, and still no clear idea of exactly what happened.
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1988, DNA Sample From Khoury Abduction Raises Big Questions
1988, DNA Sample From Khoury Abduction Raises Big Questions
Mystery Blonde Leaves Hair Behind -- But Who Was She?
An abduction case from Australia has resulted in what may be the world's first DNA test of abduction-related biological material.
The intriguing results raise many questions about the physical nature of abduction and also illustrate the need for more intensive scientific research on this worldwide mystery.
The full case report by leading Australian researcher Bill Chalker was published in the Spring 1999 edition of International UFO Reporter, the quarterly journal of the Chicago-based J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). The following summary is published with Chalker's permission and assistance.
Peter Khoury, the subject of this case, was born in Lebanon in 1964 and moved to Australia in 1973. There he met his future wife Vivian at school in 1981. Peter and Vivian were married in 1990 and now have two children. They live in Sydney. Peter works in the building trades and has owned his own business in cement rendering.
Peter and Vivian had their first UFO experience in February 1988, a simple sighting of unusual moving lights. But in July of that year, Peter had a deeply disturbing, consciously remembered contact experience that, he says, changed his life. While lying on his bed, he felt something grab his ankles. He suddenly felt numb and paralyzed, but remained conscious.
Then he noticed three or four small hooded figures alongside the bed. He experienced telepathic communication with one or more of these beings; he was told to relax and not be afraid because "it would be like last time." He then saw that they were about to insert a long needle into the side of his head, whereupon he blacked out.
He jolted awake some time later, leaped out of bed and ran into the living room where he found his father and brother apparently dozing. Both he and his brother felt that only 10 minutes had passed since they had last been awake, but they soon realized that an hour or more had passed. The next morning, Peter and Vivian noticed that there was an obvious puncture mark on the side of his head, with a trace of dried blood.
At this time, Peter had never heard of alien abduction. His memories were vivid and alarming, but he could find neither answers nor comfort from friends and acquaintances. Then, some months later, he and Vivian drove by a roadside billboard with an image of Whitley Strieber's book "Communion," and they immediately got the book. Peter found numerous details in Strieber's account that matched his own strange experience.
Peter's subsequent attempts to connect with local UFO groups and experiencers proved frustrating. Eventually, in April 1993, he resolved to found a new group in Sydney, the UFO Experience Support Association (UFOESA), dedicated to helping people understand and cope with their unusual encounters. He remains the coordinator of that group today.
In July 1992, Peter had the experience that became the focus of this case study. Because the experience had disturbing sexual aspects, Peter was very reticent to talk about it. He first mentioned it to Bill Chalker, one of Australia's leading researchers, in 1996. He showed Chalker that he had recovered an unusual strand of hair from the encounter.
At the time, Chalker felt he could not do anything with the physical evidence, but over the next several years, he assembled a group of scientists and forensic investigators willing to work on UFO-related cases.
With his "invisible college" associates, Chalker discussed the possibility of doing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA that might be recovered from Peter Khoury's hair sample. In early 1998, these researchers -- now calling themselves the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group -- agreed to do the DNA testing on the hair sample.
Chalker points out that "alien" beings are most often described by experiencers as having no visible hair. But one type -- sometimes called "Nordic" -- is described fairly often as having distinctly human-like features including hair, often (though not always) blond in color.
A number of well-known abduction cases have involved human-looking beings with hair, including the 1975 abduction reported by Travis Walton in Arizona, and the 1957 Brazilian abduction reported by Antonio Villas Boas. Peter Khoury's case has some similarity to that of Villas Boas, who said he was forced to have sex with an aggressive humanoid female aboard a landed UFO.
Khoury told Chalker that his encounter of July 23, 1992 began at 7:30 in the morning while he was in bed. He had recently been injured at work and was taking pain medication. Earlier that morning, he had driven his wife to work, then returned home and went back to bed for a short while. Suddenly, he bolted wide awake and sat up. There were two humanoid females sitting on the bed, both entirely naked.
These two women looked human in nearly every way. They had well proportioned adult bodies. One looked somewhat Asian, with straight dark shoulder-length hair and dark eyes. The other looked perhaps Scandinavian, with light-colored ("maybe bluish") eyes and long blond hair that fell half-way down her back. Her hair was especially notable to Peter Khoury. "I had never seen a hair style like that. It was curled something like Farrah Fawcett, but to an extreme... It just looked really exotic in a way," he told Chalker.
But Khoury felt that these women were not exactly human. Their faces were somewhat odd -- not unattractive, but too chiseled, with very high cheekbones and eyes that were two or three times larger than normal. Khoury took special notice of the blonde. Her face was too long, he felt. "I have never seen a human looking like that," he said.
The blonde, who was sitting in a kneeling position on the bed, seemed to be in charge. Khoury thought she was communicating telepathically with the dark-haired woman, who was sitting with her legs partly folded under her. There was something stiff, almost blank, in the expressions of the women, Khoury thought.
Though stunned by the sudden appearance of the women, Khoury had only a few moments to consider how they could possibly have arrived in his bedroom before the blonde reached out with both her hands and cupped the back of his head, drawing his face toward her chest. He resisted. She pulled harder.
He kept pulling back. "She was pretty strong," he told Chalker. "She pulled me over and my mouth was basically on her nipple. And I bit."
Khoury said he doesn't know why he bit the woman, but even though he felt a small piece of her nipple come away in his teeth, she did not cry out. But "the expression on her face was like, 'this isn't the way.' In a way it was shock or confusion... She looked at the Asian one... and looked at me like, this isn't the way it's supposed to happen. You've done this wrong."
Involuntarily, Khoury swallowed the small fragment in his mouth, and it caught in his throat. He went into a coughing fit. Suddenly, the two women simply disappeared.
Once he realized the women were gone, he tried to clear his throat by drinking water. It didn't work. Then he had an urge to go to the bathroom. He realized that his penis felt very painful. Standing in the bathroom, he pulled back the foreskin and found two thin blond strands of hair wrapped tightly around.
He struggled to unravel the pieces of hair as the pain became an intense burning sensation. Finally he managed to removed the two pieces of hair and immediately put them in a small sealable plastic bag.
"The reason I did that was because I knew that there was no way, no way at all, that a hair that size and wrapped around the way it was should have been there.... Thinking of these women, the thing in my throat, the hair, something bizarre had just happened." Khoury resolved to keep the hair sample in case it should ever prove useful in shedding light on his experiences.
The thing in Khoury's throat stayed there for three days. He coughed constantly. He tried clearing his throat with water, bread, anything he could think of, but nothing helped. On the third day, the feeling in his throat just went away.
He did not want to tell his wife how his coughing fit had come about, but two weeks later he decided to tell her. "I was shocked," he told Chalker. "She accepted it better than I did."
The pieces of hair, carefully stored away since the encounter, became the subject of the first openly-reported scientific DNA test on a possible abduction-related sample.
The blond hairs were extremely thin and almost clear in color. It was determined that the hair was not chemically treated, because if it had been, little or no mitochondrial DNA could have been recovered. However, using the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) process, good quality DNA was recovered.
For comparison, samples were also taken of Peter Khoury's hair and that of his wife Vivian. DNA was successfully extracted from Peter's hair, but no usable DNA was recovered from Vivian's hair, possibly because of chemical treatment.
After thorough testing of the hair samples, the scientists of the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group arrived at a startling conclusion. The thin blond hair, which appeared to have come from a light-skinned caucasian-type woman, could not have come from a normal human of that racial type. Instead, though human, the hair showed five distinctive DNA markers that are characteristic of a rare sub-group of the Chinese Mongoloid racial type.
A detailed survey of the literature on variations in mitochondrial DNA, comprising tens of thousands of samples, showed only four other people on record with all five of the distinctive markers in the blond hair. All four were Chinese, with black hair.
Mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mother to child and therefore offers a means of tracing ancient ancestry on the mother's side. The findings suggest that all four of the Chinese subjects share a common female ancestor with the blonde woman. But there is no easy explanation for how this could be.
Testing for nuclear DNA, if such could be recovered from the blond hair, would be more complex and expensive than the tests run so far, but might show that the lineage of the blonde's father was even stranger than that of her mother. But such testing must await funding that has yet to be found. So far, the members of the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group have financed all their work themselves.
Without the blond hair sample, the story told by Peter Khoury is but one more in an almost endless sequence of wrenching, but unprovable, abduction accounts. The hair, however, changes everything. It undeniably exists, and thorough forensic testing shows that it is anomalous. It seems likely that no person with blond hair and an exact DNA match to Khoury's blonde could be found in the city of Sydney, nor on the continent of Australia, nor -- probably -- anywhere in the world.
Who then was the being whose blond hair inexplicably became wrapped around Peter Khoury's penis?
"Are we dealing with 'humans' from elsewhere, namely those with human DNA, albeit very rare and somewhat anomolous?" asks Bill Chalker. "This case raises all sorts of issues, such as human 'panspermia'" -- the theory that human-like beings may have migrated to Earth in the fairly recent past from elsewhere in the galaxy, perhaps giving rise to the sudden appearance of modern homo sapiens sapiens, a species not directly descended from their immediate predecessors, the Neanderthals.
"Also, given the Asian mongoloid connection, we looked at the problem of European-like rare Asian types in the past," Chalker says. "The controversial saga of the Taklamakan mummies in remote Western China is turning the early history of China on its head. These mummies include people who are quite tall, some 6 feet or so, and some are blond. I'm not suggesting a connection here, but you can understand this investigation has opened up all sorts of interesting possibilities about the biological nature of some of the beings implicated in abduction cases."
These questions will not be easy to answer. But supporting the work of the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group could help. Those able to offer financial assistance are urged to contact Bill Chalker at bill_c@bigpond.com for more information.
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written by Bill Chalker
Originally published: 1999 edition of International UFO Reporter (CUFOS quarterly)
Lying off the coast of Uruguay, in South America, is a tiny speck of rock called Isla de Lobos, meaning “Island of the Fur Seals.” It is nothing more than a desolate slash of rock patrolled by its titular seals and not much to see except a spire reaching up towards the grey sky that is the island’s lighthouse, which at 66 meters in height is among the tallest lighthouses in the world. Although it is now fully automated, there was a time when a garrison of men was required to live in isolation at this remote place in order to operate it, and our story here comes from that era. Here we get into a strange alien encounter from a faraway, remote place, which has never really been adequately explained.
In October of 1972, a total of five men were stationed at the Isla de Lobos lighthouse, working a shift of 15 days, after which another crew would come in and take over. At the time the lighthouse was operated by the Navy, and stationed there were Corporal Juan Fuentes Figueroa, enlisted men Jose Gomez and Hector Gimenez, a telegraph operator Jose Lima, and the sub-officer in charge, Francisco Cascudo. On the evening of the 28th, at around 10 PM Corporal Fuentes went out on a routine patrol to check on the power generators at the back of the facility, but his attention was caught by some strange lights in the sky hovering near the top of the generator building, seemingly right above a terrace that was situated up there about 20 feet above the ground. The lights looked to him like car headlights, although this was of course impossible, and they seemed to be flashing and oscillating between a mix of white, yellow and violet.
Isla de Lobos lighthouse
Fuentes was so unsettled by the sight that he went back to get his pistol, oddly not telling any of the other men what was going on. When he went back outside to approach the generator building again, this time he could see that there was an object up there apparently landed on the terrace, escribed as a metallic, copper-colored object shaped like an inverted bowl, standing on some sort of landing gear and with a rotating antenna of some sort on its top. What’s more, in the eerie illumination of the lights there was what looked to be a figure standing beside the object, and a second and third figure were descending from the craft. They seemed to be wearing some sort of dark suits akin to diving suits, their heads appearing somewhat elongated and oversized, and one seemed to be noticeably taller than the others, although Fuentes could not make out a lot of details. He then realized that they had turned towards him and seemed to be very aware that he was there.
At this time, Fuentes was overcome with fear and panic, and raised his pistol to point it up at the craft. It was at this point that he felt a strange sensation throughout his body like a vibration that sent his hair standing up on end, and found that he was unable to move, as if paralyzed, all while a voice boomed through his head that said “Don’t shoot because it is useless.” After this, the strange entities went back up into their ship, seemingly walking up steps of some kind, appearing to be pulling themselves up with handrails, after which the craft closed and began to lift off as its landing legs retracted telescopically. It hovered up in the air momentarily, then silently sped off at breathtaking speed with a flash of bright light like a fireball. At this point, Fuentes ran back to the others and told them what had happened, but no one believed him. Considering he was the superior officer and no one believed him, this came as a shock, but it would seem that at least one of the men, Francisco Cascudo, thought it was odd enough to pass it along to a superior officer.
Not long after their tour at the lighthouse ended, Fuentes was called aside by high-ranking officials, who interviewed him at length on what he had allegedly seen. Fuentes would claim that there were also two men who he believed to be from the U.S. Embassy lurking in the background taking notes, and who were later identified as officers of the “Spatial Affair Service.” Fuentes was also shown various pictures of different UFOs and asked to point out which were most similar to what he had witnessed and then dismissed. At no point was he ever directly questioned by the mysterious Americans, but he could see them excitedly talking to his interrogators in another room, making it obvious they were very interested in his sighting. After this, the case came to the attention of the Uruguayan UFO Investigation Center, who subjected Fuentes to some psychological tests and came to the conclusion that he was a solid witness, described as “sincere, uncomplicated and simple, with no tendency to fabrication or fantasy and lacking an average imagination.” It was also noted that Fuentes had no previous interest in or knowledge of UFOs, and they came to the conclusion that he at least truly believed he had seen what he claimed. Sub-officer Cascudo would back this up, describing Fuentes as a “simple and honest man, incapable of inventing a story of this nature.”
Skeptics of the case have speculated that Fuentes merely saw a helicopter and its occupants, who had panicked and flew off when he had aimed his pistol, but how does this explain the mysterious paralysis or the voice in his head? Also, why would a trained Navy man mistake a helicopter for a UFO, especially since he was painted as an honest man with no propensity towards jumping to far out claims? The case of the Isla de Lobos UFO encounter has never been solved, and we are left to wonder whether this was all tall tales, misidentification, or perhaps a true bizarre phenomenon at work.
Sightings of what have become known as “Black Helicopters” and “Phantom Helicopters” have been reported for decades. There’s no doubt, however, that the 1970s was the period when things really took off. In the latter part of 1973, a series of distinctly unusual events began to quietly unfold above the green fields and rolling hills of northern England that subsequently triggered a strange, and still-ongoing operation coordinated by an elite division of the British Police Force. Remarkably, that operation was (and, to an extent, still is) designed to carefully monitor the activities of certain key players within the public UFO research arena in Britain. And it all began with something known as the phantom helicopter. Of the varied elements that make up what is popularly known as the “UFO Phenomenon,”” there can be few so strange as the phantom helicopter and its close relative, the even-more-sinister black helicopter. For at least four decades, numerous people throughout the world have reported seeing helicopters, very often completely black in color and with no identifying markings, in areas that have been subjected to intense UFO activity. This has led a number of commentators to speculate that the helicopters are operated by covert groups from within the military-industrial complex and that they are involved in a surreptitious UFO monitoring program.
One of the most confounding features of numerous reports is the ability of the helicopters to operate in almost complete silence. To many, the idea of a “silent helicopter” is manifestly absurd. However, more than a decade ago the much-respected publicationAviation Week and Space Technologyreported that: “…the U.S. military has been working for years on at least two helicopter projects. The more recent is development of a light, very quiet helicopter with a mast-mounted light.” (Aviation Week and Space Technology. Vol. 142, No. 6, 1995.) The magazine continued: “The program’s existence was under scored on Apr. 9, 1991, during an…interview with a former Lockheed official. When asked if he had heard of something called a ‘quiet helicopter,’ the official responded, ‘Absolutely…a very quiet helicopter. But I can’t talk [about it]; that’s getting into very sensitive [areas].” It is undoubtedly the case that the majority of phantom helicopter encounters originate in the United States, and it is worth examining the background to – and history of – this mystery before addressing the British angle.
One of the earliest episodes on record dates from 11 October 1966 and concerns a helicopter-UFO event at the Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey. The encounter began with the sighting of a disc-shaped UFO by a number of policemen as it passed over the reservoir. Emitting a dazzling white light, the object then headed towards an area of forest where it was eventually lost from view. As soon as the UFO had vanished, however, at least ten aircraft, as well as six or seven helicopters suddenly appeared on the scene. The point of origin of the vehicles was never determined. On the night of 26 September 1974, a father and son, Walter and Dan Richley, saw a strange object hovering high above their farm at Lynchburg, Ohio. As there was a powerful searchlight mounted on the family’s pick-up truck, Walter and Dan decided – “as an experiment” – to try to get a better view of this object that was taking so much interest in their farm.
As the beam of light touched the UFO, the Richleys found themselves bathed in an equally bright beam of red light that emanated from the UFO. Frightened out of their wits, both father and son ran for the safety of their home. As they did so, the UFO began to retreat over the horizon until it finally disappeared from view. At 11.00 p.m. on the following night, Dan was sitting up in bed, reading, when he was suddenly jolted by a loud noise coming from outdoors. On running to the widow he was amazed to see a large helicopter descending. “I then got dad out of bed,” said Dan. Mr. Richley quickly assessed the meaning of the helicopter’s presence: “I think I put my light beam on something that was a military secret. That ‘copter came here to warn me.” The UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, who conducted a personal investigation of the case, asked Walter Richley if he had received an apology or re-numeration for the damage caused by the helicopter as it blew debris around his yard. ““No, and I’m not about to press it; I’d rather forget it,” replied Richley.
Since at least 1967, the United States has been beset by a disturbing phenomenon: cattle mutilations. Exactly who, or indeed what, is responsible for the widespread killing of cattle under very bizarre circumstances is far from clear. On many occasions, farmers, police officers, and veterinarians throughout North America have come across cases where cattle have been subjected to unusual surgical procedures, such as having organs expertly removed and being completely drained of blood – and also in the exact locations where both UFO and phantom helicopter activity is prevalent, too. This has inevitably led to suspicions that extraterrestrials are engaged in a covert, and possibly sinister, program that may relate to the attempted introduction of a lethal virus of truly cosmic origins into the human food chain. The destruction of the human species in a War of the Worlds-style scenario may not be the only way to systematically wipe us out, adherents of such theories suggest.
A report from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, dated 2 February 1979, lends credence to the possibility that the phantom helicopters are implicated in the cattle mutilation mystery to some degree; but suggests that the mutilators may have a far more down to earth point of origin, and may be utilizing the UFO mystery as a convenient cover for clandestine bacteriological and biological warfare activities: “For the past seven or eight years mysterious cattle mutilations have been occurring throughout the United State of New Mexico. Officer Gabe Valdez, New Mexico State Police, has been handling investigations of these mutilations within New Mexico. Information furnished to this office by Officer Valdez indicates that the animals are being shot with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the animal after an injection of an anti-coagulant. It appears that in some instances the cattle’s legs have been broken and helicopters without any identifying numbers have reportedly been seen in the vicinity of the mutilations. Officer Valdez theorizes that clamps are being placed on the cow’s legs and they are being lifted by helicopter to some remote area where the mutilations are taking place and then the animal is returned to its original pasture. Officer Valdez is very adamant in his opinion that these mutilations are the work of the US Government and that it is some clandestine operation either by the CIA or the Department of Energy and in all probability is connected with some type of research into biological warfare.”
Cattle mutilations continue – albeit not on the scale that occurred in the 1970s. Black helicopters are also still seen. In other words, the mystery hasn’t gone away.
On the evening of January 23, 1974, something occurred on the Berwyn Mountain range in North Wales that for some within the UFO researcher community has come to be known (to some…) as the definitive British Roswell. As researcher Andy Roberts stated in his excellent book, UFO Down?: “Running south-west to north-east across central North Wales, the Berwyn Mountains separate the flatlands of Shropshire from the Snowdonia National Park. Rising almost 900 metres above sea level, they have played host and borne silent witness to human occupation for millennia.” Andy elaborated: “Prehistoric man lived and worshipped on the mountains leaving behind him a dramatic, ritual landscape dotted with stone circles, standing stones and other once-sacred megaliths – many of which have stood for over two and a half thousand years. Not surprisingly, the area is rife with stories of ghosts and eerie presences. Folklore tells us that these mountains are haunted by many types of aerial phenomena, including the spectral Hounds of Hell: those who saw them recalled how they flew through the night sky baying as though pursued by Satan himself. To the south of the Berwyn’s at, Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant, the locals were plagued by a ‘flying dragon’ – intriguingly, a common name for UFOs in times gone by.”
And as Andy also carefully noted: ““It is against this backdrop of history and myth that on the evening of 23 January 1974 an event took place on the Berwyn Mountains that was to perplex locals and spawned a veritable cascade of rumors, culminating in an incredible claim that, if true, would irrevocably change our view of history and make us revise our plans for the future of both our planet and our species. The claim was that a UFO piloted by extraterrestrials crashed, or was shot down, on the mountain known as Cader Berwyn and that the alien crew, some still alive, were whisked off to a secret military installation in the south of England for study.” Since then, the issue of what did or did not occur on the Berwyn Mountains on the fateful night in question has been the subject of several books, intense controversy, heated debate and, at times, unbridled fury. That something happened at around 8.30 p.m. on the night in question is not in doubt, however.
“I saw this bright light hanging in the sky,” said Mrs. Anne Williams of Bro Diham, Llandrillo. “It had a long fiery tale which seemed to be motionless for several minutes, going dim and then very brilliant, like a dormant fire which keeps coming to life. It would have been like an electric bulb in shape, except that it seemed to have rough edges. [It] then fell somewhere behind the hills at the back of my bungalow and the earth shook.” That the events caused considerable excitement and concern was something also noted by Police Constable Gwilym Owen, who was off-duty at the time and having a pint of beer in the nearby Dudley Arms public house. He stated shortly afterwards: “There was a great roar and a bang and the glasses shook. The sky was lit up over the mountains. The color was yellowish but other people in the valley described seeing blue lights.” Five miles away, Police Sergeant Gwyn Williams was at home in Corwen: “The walls shook and the mirror swung away from the wall,” he recalled. “My first thought was that a big lorry had hit the cinema – it was that kind of a roar and bang. Everyone ran into the street.”
Berwyn Mountains
At 838 p.m., the Global Seismology Unit of the Institute of Geological Sciences at Edinburgh, Scotland, recorded an earth tremor between 3.5 and 4 on the Richter scale. In response to questions posed by eager journalists, Dr. Roy Lilwall, the Senior Scientific Officer at the Institute, said that he had been told that a meteorite had possibly come down on the mountain and, had it been responsible for the “earthquake” that had been recorded at Edinburgh, it would have to have weighed several hundred tons. Approximately ninety minutes after the events on the Berwyns, Ken Haughton of Betws-y-coed viewed a “luminous sphere,” some 400 feet across and traveling at an approximated height of 15,000 feet. It was Haughton’s opinion that as he watched the sphere, it proceeded to descend into the sea in the area of the town of Rhyl, or possibly in the Dee Estuary.
Andy Roberts added, “Following the explosion, Llandrillo district nurse Pat Evans ran out into the village street. She saw no lights but the explosion and the accounts of other villagers convinced her that something had crashed on the mountains. It took her a while to get through to the police as the ‘phone lines were jammed with 999 calls [Note from the author: the equivalent of the United States’ 911 emergency telephone number], but eventually she spoke to Colwyn Bay Police HQ. They suggested it could have been a ‘plane crash so she bundled her two young daughters into the car and set off up the mountain, intending to offer help until the emergency services arrived.
As Mrs. Evans reached the point where the B4391 mountain road levels out she was puzzled by what appeared to be a large illuminated ball of light on the hillside. Unable to identify it was she drove on for a few minutes before returning to the same spot. The light was still there so she parked and observed it for a while. A light drizzle was falling but the night was otherwise clear and Mrs. Evans was able to describe the ball as ‘large,’ and forming a ‘perfect circle.’ But it didn’t appear to be three-dimensional. In an interview she recalled, ‘There were no flames shooting or anything like that. It was very uniform, round in shape…it was a flat round…’ As she watched in puzzlement the light changed color several times from red to yellow to white. Smaller lights, ‘fairy lights’ in Mrs. Evans’ words, could be seen nearby. It was too far away to reach on foot and so she returned home to bed.”
On the following day, 24 January, a Royal Air Force mountain rescue team from Anglesey was dispatched to the Berwyn Mountains and, along with personnel from Gwynedd Police, searched the location for any sign of the object or its impact point. In turn, they received assistance in the search from the RAF station at Valley, Anglesey, who flew two aircraft to conduct a detailed photographic survey of the area. Nothing was reportedly found. Adding to the mystery, and on that same day, Men-in-Black-style rumors were rife among the local and close-knit communities, suggesting that the area had been descended upon by shadowy government figures that were intent on interviewing anyone and everyone with knowledge of the incident. And only hours later, an unusual aerial object was seen by David Upton at nearby Gobowen. As he went out of the backdoor of his home at about 7.15 p.m., he was immediately struck by the brightness of an object in the western sky and quickly ran back into the house for a pair of field glasses. To his complete amazement, these revealed a disc-shaped object that seemed to be divided up into four distinct sections, each of which was of a different color – red, green, yellow, and purple. David Upton’s sister, Elizabeth, a twenty-year-old bank clerk, then took over the glasses, followed shortly thereafter by their mother, Mary Upton. Both verified David’s description.
“I had been watching it for about ten minutes and thought perhaps I should tell someone about it,” said Elizabeth Upton. She telephoned the local police, and they said that they would dispatch someone to the area. A minute or so after the call, the UFO disappeared behind a cloud. “We waited for the cloud to pass and when it did the disc had gone too,” she explained, adding: “When I first came out of the house the light from the object was dazzling, like a street lamp. When we looked through the field glasses we could define its overall disc-shape and the four sections.” Two people known to have been involved in the affair were Doctors Ron Maddison and Aneurin Evans of Keele University. Both expressed the theory that a meteorite had been the culprit. However, if the object was a meteorite they said, then it had to have (a) completely disintegrated upon impact; and (b) not left a crater, as Dr. Maddison noted carefully that: “…the only changes we could see were recent disturbances of surface soil in some areas, but we were hampered to some extent by light snowfall.”
Two days later, it was stated in the local press that “police and RAF rescue experts” had come to the conclusion that the strange lights seen throughout the area were due to meteorite activity seen – coincidentally – at the same time that a group of men were out on the mountain range hunting hares with powerful lamps. Any link with the “earthquake” was entirely coincidental. RAF search team leader, Sergeant H. Oldham, said that another search of the area was “unlikely” to occur unless further information surfaced that attributed the lights to another source. Perhaps not surprisingly, the “hare” explanation received short shrift with the local witnesses, as can be seen fin the following extract taken from a letter sent to the Wrexham Leader newspaper: “Regarding your front page article ‘Mystery Tremor’ in the issue of January 25, I find the explanation given absolutely ludicrous. The tremors shook houses over a 60-mile radius, and the lights were seen clearly miles away – this was reported by the national press and radio. I know nothing about ‘Hare hunting’ but unless the hunters use aircraft searchlights and kill their prey by lobbing a small atom bomb at them, then I fail to see how anyone can accept such an explanation.”
So what, exactly, did happen on that fateful night of 23 January 1974? Did the strange lights provide firm evidence that a malfunctioning UFO was hurtling towards its doom on the Berwyn Mountains? And was the so-called “earthquake” evidence that this same UFO had almost immediately thereafter slammed at high speed into the bleak and harsh mountain known as Cader Berwyn? Or, was the entire event the result of a large-scale misconception of a curiously synchronistic combination of a meteorite shower, an earth tremor, and a group of men hunting for hares on the mountain and armed with powerful lamps – all in the same location and at practically the same time? The questions are still being answered to this day.
Having shared with you the story of how and why the FBI took an interest in the antics of Contactee George Adamski, I thought I would give you the story of how the FBI took interest in another famous Contactee, George Van Tassel. Born on 12 March 1910 in Jefferson County, Ohio, George Wellington Van Tassel maintained that he experienced face-to-face contact with very human-looking alien entities following a claimed encounter in August 1953 near his Yucca Valley home in California. The complete history of Van Tassel’s exploits with apparent extraterrestrials is highly bizarre, involving weird accounts of meetings with imaginatively named aliens, including Numa of Uni; Ah-Ming of Tarr; Rondolla of the Fourth Density; and Zolton, the Highest Authority in the Sector System of Vela. According to the now-declassified records of the FBI on Van Tassel, before moving to Yucca Valley in 1947, he was employed by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation in Santa Monica; and Hughes Aircraft, where he worked in an assistant capacity to Howard Hughes. He also worked – the FBI learned – for both Universal Airlines and Lockheed. Exactly what it was that prompted Van Tassel to uproot his family and transfer them to Yucca Valley is something now lost to history. However, along with his wife and children, Van Tassel soon settled into his new surroundings: his famous (or perhaps infamous would be a better description!) cave under Giant Rock – an area leased from the Government.
The image of a 20th Century family living in a cave situated beneath a sixty-foot-high rock, twenty-eight miles from Joshua Tree, California, cannot fail to conjure up the scenario of a prehistoric family struggling to live in less-than-friendly conditions. Always resourceful, however, the Van Tassels soon began to earn a comfortable living from an airstrip they rented – the Giant Rock Airport – and a small restaurant. As time passed, Van Tassel began to improve the family’s living facilities and the cave became a friendly environment. Fully furnished, it was equipped with electricity, had its own supply of water, a large library, and, as the journalist Ed Ritter noted in 1954, “a comfortable living room where [Van Tassel] studies and entertains guests.”
George Van Tassel
As a result of his alleged August 1953 encounter, Van Tassel compiled the first issue of what he titled TheProceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom, a small journal that served as a mouthpiece for not only Van Tassel but for his supposed cosmic friends, too. In the first issue, Desca, like Rondolla, also of the Fourth Density, urged Van Tassel’s followers (whose number would very quickly reach four figures) to “remove the binding chains of limit on your minds, throw out the barriers of fear [and] dissipate the selfishness of individual desire to attain physical and material things.” In the edition of the Proceedings dated 1 December 1953, Van Tassel stated that, less than a month previously, a “message was received from the beings who operate the spacecraft,” with orders from Ashtar, “the Commandant of Space Station Schare” (pronounced Share-ee) to contact the office of Air Force Intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Van Tassel went on to advise the Air Force that: “The present destructive plans formulated for offensive and defensive war are known to us in their entirety…the present trend toward destructive war will not be interfered with by us, unless the condition warrants our interference in order to secure this solar system. This is a friendly warning.”
Were Van Tassel’s contacts genuinely of unearthly origin? Were they the rants of a sadly deluded mind? Or were they possibly a part of a sophisticated Communist-inspired intelligence operation designed to disrupt the internal security of the United States? This third possibility was definitely of concern to a Yucca Valley resident who on 5 August 1954, wrote to the FBI suggesting that Van Tassel be investigated to determine if he was working as a Soviet spy. Seriously concerned that Van Tassel was either a witting or an unwitting player in an ingenious, but subversive, Communist plot, the FBI sought to ascertain the full picture. On 12 November 1954, Major S. Avner of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations met with N. W. Philcox – who was the FBI’s point of liaison with the Air Force – to discuss the growing controversy surrounding Van Tassel. Three days later, Avner re-established contact with Philcox, and advised him that the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base “has information on Van Tassel indicating that he has corresponded with them regarding flying saucers.”
Giant Rock, California
Very probably this was a reference to the letter that Van Tassel wrote to ATIC at the request of the mysterious Ashtar, who had offered a “friendly warning” with respect to plans formulated for offensive and defensive war. As a result, and not surprisingly, the Air Force offered, “to furnish the Bureau with more detailed information.” One day after Major Avner of AFOSI spoke with Philcox, two Special Agents of the Los Angeles FBI office met with Van Tassel at his Giant Rock home. In a memorandum to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover dated 16 November 1954, the agents wrote: “Relative to spacemen and space craft, VAN TASSEL declared that a year ago last August, while sleeping out of doors with his wife in the Giant Rock area, and at about 2.00 a.m. he was awakened by a man from space. This individual spoke English and was dressed in a grey one-piece suit similar to a sweat suit in that it did not have any buttons, pockets, and noticeable seams. This person, according to VAN TASSEL, invited him to inspect a spacecraft or flying saucer, which had landed on Giant Rock airstrip. VAN TASSEL claimed the craft was bell shaped resembling a saucer. He further described the ship as approximately 35 feet in diameter and is now known as the scout type craft. Aboard this craft was located three other male individuals wearing the same type of dress and identical in every respect with earth people.”
The FBI continued: “VAN TASSEL claims that the three individuals aboard the craft were mutes in that they could not talk. He claimed they conversed through thought transfers, and also operated the flight of the craft through thought control. He stated that the spokesman for the group claimed he could talk because he was trained by his family to speak. The spokesman stated that earthmen are using too much metal in their everyday work and are fouling up radio frequencies and thought transfers because of this over use of metal. According to VAN TASSEL, these individuals came from Venus and are by no means hostile nor do they intend to harm this country or inhabitants in any manner. He declared they did not carry weapons, and the spacecraft was not armed. He mentioned that a field of force was located around the spacecraft which would prohibit anything known to earth men to penetrate. VAN TASSEL claims this craft departed from the earth after 20 minutes and has not been taken back since.”
Van Tassel added that, “through thought transfers with space men,” he had been able to ascertain that a third world war was on the horizon, which was likely to be “large” and “destructive;” that much of this correlated directly with certain biblical passages; that the war would not be “universal;” and that the “space people are peace loving and under no circumstances would enter or provoke a war.” And to illustrate their benevolence towards humankind, the aliens, Van Tassel told his FBI visitors, had bestowed upon him some remarkable data, including information relating to the way in which the human lifespan could be extended to anywhere between three hundred and fifteen hundred years. “This principle was not developed by Van Tassel,” said the FBI. Van Tassel then described his newsletter to the FBI agents, as J. Edgar Hoover was informed:
“In connection with his metaphysical religion and research, he publishes bi-monthly a publication in the form of a booklet called PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLLEGE OF UNIVERSAL WISDOM, YUCCA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. He declared this publication is free and has grown from an original mailing list of 250 to 1,000 copies. VAN TASSEL stated that he sends his publication to various individuals, Universities, and Government Agencies throughout the world. He declared this publication is forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, D.C. He stated that he has donated 10 acres of his ranch holdings to the college. He mentioned that many of the buildings will be made free of metal; which will be keeping within the request of the spacemen.”
Particularly eye opening was the FBI’s concern about who was funding Van Tassel’s operations, on what was certainly a large scale: “[Van Tassel] declared that for the most part he secures money for his needs of life, for the furtherance of his religion, research, and college through the generosity of certain individuals, number about 100. He failed to identify any of these people. He also mentioned that he derives income from his airstrip and a very small restaurant which is located at Giant Rock. VAN TASSEL voluntarily stated that he is not hiding anything nor is he doing anything against the laws of this country in his research at Giant Rock. He voluntarily mentioned that he is a loyal American and would be available at any time to assist the Bureau. VAN TASSEL did not volunteer the names of any individuals whom he was soliciting for funds except his statement above that he sent his publications to various individuals, universities and Government agencies and also the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC.”
At the conclusion of the interview, the two agents secured copies of Van Tassel’s Proceedings that were then forwarded to Washington for study and became the subject of a confidential report, that in part stated: “One of the pamphlets contains an article by Van Tassel claiming that Jesus Christ was born of space men and that the Star of Bethlehem was a space craft that stood by while Jesus was born.” As a result of his growing reputation as someone with detailed knowledge of alien intelligence, Van Tassel became increasingly in demand on the lecture circuit, where he espoused at length on his dealings with extraterrestrials, their intentions for the human race, and their overall philosophy. On 17 April 1960, Van Tassel gave a lengthy speech at the Phipps Auditorium, Denver, Colorado, having been invited by the Denver Unidentified Flying Objects Investigative Society. To ensure that the lecture was a success, the society took out advertising time on local radio, that caught the attention of the Denver FBI, who subsequently directed a special agent to attend and report back the details of Van Tassel’s talk, which he did and in great detail: “The program consisted of a 45 minute movie which included several shots of things purported to be flying saucers, and then a number of interviews with people from all walks of life regarding sightings they had made of such unidentified flying objects. After the movie GEORGE W. VAN TASSEL gave a lecture which was more of a religious-economics lecture than one of unidentified flying objects.”
From then on, Van Tassel was only watched on a few occasions – and in relation to matters of no particular interest. He died in 1978.
James Ralph Jarrett was born on September 11, 1923. In December of 1966, 43 year old Ralph was working as a mechanical engineer for Union Carbide and living at 2523 Winter St., which was located in the River Lake Estates subdivision of St. Albans, WV. That December would be one that would change the course of his entire life.
At around 1:50 p.m. on Saturday, December 3, Mr. Jarrett and his brother were working on the north side of his Winter St. home. The day was cold, but it was calm, and the sun was very bright. The brother, Hugh Jarrett, was the first to see the unidentified object and alerted Ralph. The two men observed what they described as a wobbling piece of aluminum foil 200 feet above the Coal River. The object was gaining altitude, but Ralph managed to grab his binoculars within 40 seconds of the initial sighting, and further watched the object. He couldn’t make out much detail as it was fairly far away, but could tell that it was disc-shaped, and that it reflected the sun. It made no noise and emitted no exhaust.
On Saturday, January 14, 1967, Ralph and his father, Hugh Jarrett Sr., spotted ANOTHER unidentified object. It was another clear day, but the temperatures were much milder on this day. At about 5:50 pm, as dusk was setting and a bright red sun was on the horizon, the two men stepped out into the backyard of Ralph’s home. Ralph looked straight up and saw what he described as a brilliant star, brighter than anything else in the sky, moving south very quickly. But, once again Ralph was quicker. This time, instead of running to grab his binoculars, he ran next door and grabbed his neighbor, Donald Reitz, and Reitz’s son, Karl, to witness the strange event before the object disappeared over the horizon.
A third sighting took place on Monday, January 23rd. It was a mild, clear night about 7:10 pm and Ralph was walking east in front of his home when he saw a weird light effect in the trees atop a steep cliff, due north behind his home. He thought it may have been a car’s abnormally bright taillight, but then he realized he could see both the white light AND the orange-red light at the same time, and further, a car couldn’t reach that point on the cliff.
Jarrett shows a map of recent UFO sightings. January 29, 1967 edition of Gazette-Mail.
Around this time, local newspapers reported three additional sightings from the nearby area. On January 19th, Tad Jones had his infamous close encounter with a spherical craft on Interstate 64 near Dunbar. On Tuesday, January 24th, two boys in Nitro’s River Dell Acres saw a ball of light on the mountain. And finally, on Wednesday, January 25th at about 6:20 am, Mrs. Robert Drake of Sun Valley Drive, St. Albans saw an oval-shaped, glowing, pulsating object just below the moon and near the crest of a hill about a quarter of a mile away (believed to be the same hill/cliff where Jarrett saw the object).
Jarrett reached out to all the witnesses, and compiled data about each sighting, plotting all the information on a map, which he sent to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C. He was convinced that if this wasn’t the same object, these sightings within such close proximity of each other must be related in some other way. His interest in UFO research would only grow from there.
By February 1967, he had built a simple device to detect magnetic mass, and thus, hopefully detect UFOs. Jarrett stated his theory behind the device in a February 5 article in the Sunday Gazette-Mail. He believed that such an object to move without noise and exhaust and in such as manner must be utilizing magnetic field, and thus, “a permanent magnet when suspended from its midpoint will align itself with the earth’s magnetic field. If extraneous electrical fields are brought within the limits of the magnet, it immediately re-aligns with the fields and will experience movement.”
Jarrett’s UFO detection machine. February 5, 1967 edition of Sunday Gazette-Mail
Ralph continued to read articles, interview UFO witnesses around the area, and speculate as to what so many people, including himself were seeing in the skies. His interest led him to become president of UFO Investigators, a coalition of UFO researchers and investigators. This group not only investigated UFO sightings, but was instrumental in bringing UFO education to the Kanawha Valley.
The group sponsored a presentation by the infamous UFO researcher from Clarksburg, Gray Barker in April of 1968, and set up a PO Box that people could write to to share their experiences or request further information. One of the more significant events held by the group was the 6th Annual Convention of The Congress of Scientific Ufologists. Ralph, along with Gray Barker, put in a bid to have the convention held in Charleston, WV because, as Ralph states, West Virginia was a ‘ufo capital’ because the state had more sightings per capita and of a greater variety than any other state in the union.
The convention was held June 20th and June 21st, 1969. The first night was a closed session, open only to members of the Congress of Scientific Ufologists, and held at the Daniel Boone Hotel in Charleston. The next evening, the event was open to the public, and offered both a ‘flea market’ where attendees could purchase books, magazines and other UFO-related materials as well as a line-up of various speakers. It was held in the Little Theater section of the Charleston Civic Center and admission cost $1.50.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find much more about Ralph Jarrett’s involvement in the UFO community past the 1960′s. He passed away on August 2, 2007. I’m so glad I recently stumbled upon his name while researching the Tad Jones sighting. Although I’ve lived within 15 minutes of St. Albans my entire life and have had an interest in paranormal phenomena as long as I can remember, I had never heard of him and his close involvement with West Virginia’s UFO history!
I believe this is the property where Jarrett’s three UFO sightings happened
Forbidden Archaeology, Is it Possible Human Beings Have Existed for Hundreds of Millions of Years? A Massive Cover-up? You Decide - Must Watch (The Michael Decon Program)
Forbidden Archaeology, Is it Possible Human Beings Have Existed for Hundreds of Millions of Years? A Massive Cover-up? You Decide - Must Watch (The Michael Decon Program)
Michael Cremo is a member of the History of Science Society, the World Archeological Congress, the Philosophy of Science Association, the European Association of Archaeologists and a research associate in history and philosophy of science for the Bhaktivedanta Institute. After receiving a scholarship to study International Affairs at George Washington University, Michael began to study the ancient histories of India known as the Vedas. In this way, he has broadened his academic knowledge with spirituality from the Eastern tradition.
Michael is on the cutting edge of science and culture issues. In the course of a few months time he might be found on pilgrimage to sacred sites in India, appearing on a national television show in the United States or another country, lecturing at a mainstream science conference, or speaking to an alternative science gathering. As he crosses disciplinary and cultural boundaries, he presents to his various audiences a compelling case for negotiating a new consensus on the nature of reality.
Michael Cremo discussed his continuing work in forbidden archaeology and human origins, including artifacts and discoveries of extreme antiquity that don’t fit into conventional timelines. He also shared his theories, which integrate science and spirit, and his interest in ancient Vedic wisdom traditions and cosmology.
The Vedic Sanskrit texts say that in a previous age, “living things including human beings were larger than today,” he cited, and there’s a story of a warrior who lived in that era who fought for the demi-gods in their battle against demons. The demi-gods awarded with him a great sleep of thousands of years in a cave, and when he awoke, he discovered that the people, animals, and plants had all shrunk down in size. As evidence for giants, in the 19th century, a French archaeologist discovered bones of a human who was estimated to be 11 ft. tall, Cremo reported. He also talked about the Kali Yuga cycle, a final age described in a cosmological Sanskrit text from 5,000 years ago. It was predicted that the Kali Yuga would be a time of significant social disturbances, government exploitation, and virulent diseases, which he likened to what we’re experiencing now.
It’s an interesting, credible report, offered in its time-frame so it’s saved from accretions that tend to accumulate upon early flying saucer reports that UFO “researchers” muck around in.
But two 1948 accounts that are well-known and intriguing are the Mantell UFO chase that killed him and the passenger plane pilots Chiles and Whitted who were skirted by a cigar-shaped craft that whizzed by their airplane, offering a stimulating observation and report.
First, the Mantell chase of a huge UFO over Kentucky has been determined by many ufologists to have been a skyhook balloon that the F-51 pilot mistook for a strange craft that took him beyond an oxygen level not amenable to consciousness causing Captain Mantell to blackout, ultimately losing control of his plane bringing it down into a disintegrated mess.
But reading the Fawcett account, not long after the devastating “accident” raises questions about that scenario, although I thought it reasonable. However, a listing of Mantell’s record and military demeanor undercuts the skyhook possibility, especially since another like-UFO was reported at Lockbourne Air Force Base later that day, traveling at 500 mph.
(The Air Force initially said that Mantell was chasing the planet Venus.)
The passenger plane pilots Chiles and Whitted were supported by a passenger, all three seeing something large whiz by their aircraft, the pilots providing sketches of what they saw:
The observational differences make the sighting somewhat iffy, but do not destroy the credibility of Chiles or Whitted, as witnesses to startling events are prone to see different aspects of what occurred.
The Fawcett account presents a sensible, journalistic rendering of the episode. I think Kevin Randle has dealt with this sighting several times at his blog [kevinrandle.blogspot.com].
While searching for some pics of both events, I came across a web-site from Keith Braithwaite:
Night Vision UFOs 4th Generation Livestream Hotspot via Leak Project
Night Vision UFOs 4th Generation Livestream Hotspot via Leak Project
Night Vision UFOs 4th Generation Livestream Hotspot via Leak Project
Rex, I have found that when trying to capture evidence of UFOs or extra extraterrestrial beings you have to think of something else that has nothing to do with what your doing. The reason is that they are telepathic and will hide from sight if the know your trying to capture them on camera. Just try it next time you sense something and want to photograph it. KB
UFO Sighting over Toronto, Canada March 20, 2021, MUFON Report.
UFO Sighting over Toronto, Canada March 20, 2021, MUFON Report.
Date of sighting: March 20, 2021 Location of sighting: Toronto, Canada Source: MUFON
Watch this video and it feels almost as if you are actually there. You can feel the excitement in the eyewitness voice and the shock and dismay over the events unfolding. He records several UFOs over the neighborhood and three of them are in military triangle formation. Yet a few others were seen rising up from behind the buildings. Possible having landed for a few minutes then left. These glowing orbs are being seen daily worldwide. Why its dramatic increase of sightings this last month alone...is unknown, but the increase is 3X what is normal per month. This is true alien activity over Canada.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Girlfriend and I first observed several glowing orange red orbs in triangle formation around 9 pm. They hovered and moved north for several minutes before eventually disappearing behind trees. we followed outside. saw a plane coming in for comparison...then immediately noticed 3 glowing orbs in triangle formation directly behind us. they were silent and were observed for several minutes before they disappeared from view.
Triangle UFO filmed over Thornhill, Ontario, CA 20-Mar-2021
Triangle UFO filmed over Thornhill, Ontario, CA 20-Mar-2021
This triangular-shaped UFO formation was caught on tape in the night sky above Thornhill, a suburban community in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada on 20th March 2021.
Witness report:
Girlfriend and I first observed several glowing orange red orbs in triangle formation around 9 pm. They hovered and moved north for several minutes before eventually disappearing behind trees. we followed outside. saw a plane coming in for comparison…then immediately noticed 3 glowing orbs in triangle formation directly behind us. they were silent and were observed for several minutes before they disappeared from view.
Alien abduction cases have become so numerous that it is hard to even keep track of them anymore. Many of them follow the same beats as well, which can cause the effect of melding them all together until one doesn’t know which one is which. Yet, there are some that stand tall above the crowd in their sheer, absurd bizarreness, and that is what we are here to look at. There are not many alien abduction cases that come away with hard evidence, but here we have one that not only produced evidence, but allegedly also a sample of alien DNA. Down the rabbit hole we go.
The man known as Peter Khoury came from Lebanon to Australia with his family in 1973, and he at the time already had experience with strange UFO phenomena. In 1971, he had had his first encounter back in his home country at the age of 7, on a seemingly normal day when he was out playing with some other children. According to him, at some point he had noticed that the other kids had become somewhat frozen in time, like insects in amber or statues, and above them there had been hovering a mysterious egg-shaped craft. These kids would later wake from their frozen status with no memory of what had happened, leaving Khoury as the only witness to the whole outlandish thing. The incident would hang in the back of his mind for years, and it would seem that this would not be the last of his strange UFO experiences.
By 1981, Khoury had fully adjusted to his new life in Australia and had met his future wife, Vivian. The two dated for years, eventually marrying in 1990, but it was in 1988 that they would have a very bizarre shared experience of seeing a UFO, but it would get weirder. He claims that on the evening of July 12 of that year he had been lying in bed with Vivian and woke up with the sensation that someone was grabbing his ankles, after which he was suddenly paralyzed and unable to move. He then saw four dwarf-like hooded entities enter the room, accompanied by a taller creature with golden skin and oversized black eyes, this latter one approaching him to stick a needle right into his head. As the entity did this, it assured him that it would be “just like last time” and told him not to panic. Throughout it all, Vivian remained totally asleep and oblivious to it all. Khoury then lost consciousness.
The next morning, Khoury told his wife what had happened, and examining his head she found a spot of blood and puncture mark that corroborated his wild tale. It seems as if he was very confused at the time, having no knowledge of the greater phenomena of alien abductions and so unable to come to terms with what was happening to him. This was the main thrust that pushed him into the UFO field, even inspiring to start his own contactee support group called the UFO Experience Support Association. However, for as bizarre as this all was, it was nothing compared to what was in store for him.
One evening in 1992, Khoury came home and lay down, as he was not feeling well in the wake of an injury he had sustained at work. He drifted off to sleep but was jolted awake to find two women sitting on the edge of his bed, one Nordic in appearance, one Asian, and both with oversized eyes, impossibly chiseled features, and incidentally both completely naked. The Nordic woman then apparently grabbed Khoury and pulled his face to her breast, and in his panic he bit her, taking off a piece of her nipple in the process, but this caused no bleeding or reaction of pain from the woman. She merely stopped her assault and the two women sat there watching Khoury as he experienced an intense coughing fit. He doubled over coughing, and at some point realized that the two women were now gone. Khoury then went into the bathroom coughing uncontrollably, and it was there where he would realize that he had the overwhelming desire to urinate, which was painful and as he did so noticing that there were some blonde hairs wrapped around below down there. This was incredibly odd, as there was no way they should have been there, so he saved them in a plastic bag, convinced they must have come from the blonde stranger, who he was starting to think had not been totally human. So far so weird, but it gets even weirder. All of this came to the attention of Australian ufologist Bill Chalker, who had a look at the hair himself and decided to pursue genetic testing on it with a group of scientists and forensic investigators. Chalker would say of the enigmatic hair:
I began an investigation into the hair sample, when biochemical colleagues agreed to undertake what was the world’s first PCR (polymerase Chain Reaction) DNA profiling of biological material implicated in an alien abduction experience. The analysis confirmed the hair came from someone who was biologically close to normal human genetics, but of an unusual racial type – a rare Chinese Mongoloid type – one of the rarest human lineages known, that lies further from the human mainstream than any other except for African pygmies and aboriginals. There was the strange anomaly of it being blonde to clear instead of black, as would be expected from the Asian type mitochondrial DNA. The thin blond hair, which appeared to have come from a light-skinned caucasian-type woman, could not have come from a normal human of that racial type. Instead, though human, the hair showed five distinctive DNA markers that are characteristic of a rare sub-group of the Chinese Mongoloid racial type. A detailed survey of the literature on variations in mitochondrial DNA, comprising tens of thousands of samples, showed only four other people on record with all five of the distinctive markers in the blond hair. All four were Chinese, with black hair.
We had the shaft with one set of DNA, and the root showing a different type, and we could not understand it. And eventually, we concluded that this seemed to be the result of some sort of advanced cloning technique. And also we had evidence in the nuclear DNA that this person who needed to hear I guess, you could say, had what appeared to be CCR five dilution factor, which is an interesting property, because it leads you to be perhaps impervious to things like smallpox and AIDS, that kind of thing. So that would be a very handy thing to have. But unfortunately, it’s not shared that widely around the Earth. They have this constellation of unusual DNA properties within one small hair sample. It was bizarre. To keep a very complex story somewhat uncomplicated, what seems to be suggested by the range of findings is possible evidence for advanced DNA techniques and DNA anomalies & findings, for which we are only now discovering or starting to make sense of in mainstream biotechnology.
It is all pretty wild. A look through vast databases of DNA samples showed that no person with blonde hair could be found in Australia who shared these unique genetic characteristics, leaving it a mystery and potentially solid physical evidence of something very strange going on. What was going on here? Where did this hair come from and what does it all mean? Chalker himself would say of it:
Are we dealing with ‘humans’ from elsewhere, namely those with human DNA, albeit very rare and somewhat anomalous? This case raises all sorts of issues, such as human ‘panspermia'” — the theory that human-like beings may have migrated to Earth in the fairly recent past from elsewhere in the galaxy, perhaps giving rise to the sudden appearance of modern homo sapiens sapiens, a species not directly descended from their immediate predecessors, the Neanderthals. Also, given the Asian mongoloid connection, we looked at the problem of European-like rare Asian types in the past. The controversial saga of the Taklamakan mummies in remote Western China is turning the early history of China on its head. These mummies include people who are quite tall, some 6 feet or so, and some are blond. I’m not suggesting a connection here, but you can understand this investigation has opened up all sorts of interesting possibilities about the biological nature of some of the beings implicated in abduction cases. While such cultural and mythic connections are fascinating speculations, they provide for an interesting perspective on the many stories of Nordic type beings implicated in UFO abduction and contact cases.
Khoury would go on to have other abduction experiences, such as one in 1996 in which he was woken to see small hooded figures seeming to pass through a mirror, after which they levitated him off the bed to pull him towards them before he blacked out, but nothing comes close to the story of the hair. In the meantime, the story was printed in an article in the Center for UFO Studies publication International UFO Reporter, entitled Strange Evidence, and Chalker included it in a whole book on cases like this, called Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abductions. Of course there is plenty of skeptical input on this all. Not only does the story not make much sense in some respects, but it does not seem that these scientists supposedly analyzing this supposed alien DNA have ever come out officially to publish the findings in any sort of peer reviewed journal and we obviously have not been hit with any news that alien DNA has officially been found. It all ends up another wild ride that leads off into the murk where we are not sure what is going on. Is there anything to this, or is it just a sensational yarn? Time will tell.
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They Tried To Hide This In Antarctica! Massive Triangular TR-3B Discovered! 2021
They Tried To Hide This In Antarctica! Massive Triangular TR-3B Discovered! 2021
They Tried To Hide This! Massive Triangular TR-3B Discovered In Antarctica! 2021
Interesting triangle. Agree it could be a Tr3B, but perhaps too pale a grey and too thin in vertical dimension. It seems perhaps more like a Kiily-Tokurt (malevolent) black triangle. Did you notice the possible single figure perhaps some hundreds of feet below view of the craft? GL
Indeed, I was fortunate to be rescued by benevolents from the KT in a black triangle craft some 50 years ago. They have left me alone since I have protection thankfully. GL
I’m gonna send you some of my research on Antarctica. I got a bunch of pictures from google earth also. I’ll send them through Messenger and you can share them if you’d like. ST
Secret NASA Footage Shows Manned Mars Mission in 1973
Secret NASA Footage Shows Manned Mars Mission in 1973
A film was allegedly leaked from NASA. The footage which is not very clear is apparantly from a manned mission to Mars – in 1973.
Metro.co.uk reports:
The film, which shows some wobbly-cam footage of the planet, begins with a sign saying, ‘Not for public distribution.’
Must be real, then.
Conspiracy theorists believe that there was a ‘secret space programme’, codenamed Project Redsun, when humans landed on Mars in the late 60s or early 70s.
Conspiracy theorists believe that this is being kept from the ordinary public for various sinister reasons – and that NASA and other governments are covertly in contact with aliens.
Some of these theorists believe that the current Curiosity Rover is a giant hoax – pointing to the vehicle’s shiny solar panels as ‘evidence’ that they are being polished by humans already on Mars.
Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, says, ‘These accounts of secret space missions seem to be growing in number and remind me of the infamous Project Serpo.’
‘In November 2005, a contact called ‘anonymous’, who said they worked for the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) started sending information about an extraordinary alien exchange programme, called Project Serpo. Basing his claims on a 3,000-page document written in the late 1970s, he boldly claimed that six aliens were recovered from the Roswell crash.’
‘Claims that aliens living and/or dead were recovered from the Roswell crash are nothing new, but in this case it was stated that an alien survivor from the crash, called EBE 1, helped to organise twelve specially trained people to visit his home planet Serpo in the Zeta Reticuli solar system. This mission occurred in 1965 and they remained there until 1978. During their stay two of them died, two remained on the planet and the rest, after returning to Earth, have died because of the high levels of radiation they were exposed to on Serpo.’
‘Bill Ryan who posted these claims online concluded that ‘the Serpo story is a mixture of disinformation (i.e. truth mixed with added fictional elements) and naturally occurring compounded errors…surrounding a core of extraordinary truth.’
Black Triangle On Earths Sun For Over 1 Year! UFO Sighting News
Black Triangle On Earths Sun For Over 1 Year! UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: March 2021
Location of sighting: Earths sun
Source: Helioviewer.org
I was looking at the sun on Helioviewer this week and noticed the black triangle that I discovered over a year ago is still there. It seems to move every 3 months. I mean every 3 months it moves in the opposite direction. Very odd, but check out the video I made. It will all make sense. Now this could be a giant triangle ship, but I have seen some white cubes coming out of it, so I am wondering...if its a doorway from a hollow sun? Or a open wormhole used for universal transportation? There are so many possibilities...but all of them point to intelligent alien life being responsible for this phenomenon.
This interesting footage of an unidentified flying saucer was filmed over Burbank, California on 11th November 2020 but it was just today released on MUFON’s website.
Witness report:
Mid-November 2020 at around 8:30 pm I was in my backyard with my dogs when I saw what, at first, appeared to be a comet/asteroid, at a very high speed, streaking in from the NW and then just stopped. It hovered for a moment and then began moving downward, as if just falling. It then shot to the left and down, then up again at an impossible rate of speed. I immediately ran in to get my cellphone and began shooting. It was still there and was moving around left, then right, then falling and shooting up again. It was a cloudless night. Both the Moon and Venus were a bit higher and to its right. It would vanish and then reappear, like it was going behind a cloud, but there were no clouds. I could see it shoot up, again at incredible speed, with my eyes and then vanish. I moved the camera upward and it caught sight of it, began to glow brightly (to the eye it was green, on the camera it appears white). At the end it began falling and then just vanished. It did not reappear that I could see although I waited for a while.
This is the second report I have given to MUFON. The first was a sphere that appeared directly in front of me, also in my backyard, at 4:00 am in the morning in August 2020. It remained hovering around 8 to 9 feet in front of my lemon tree. It was 6 to 7 feet in diameter with a pale aqua blue ring surrounding it, which looked like it had some sort of liquid in it. It was completely silent, all the crickets had stopped chirping and there no sound whatsoever. I live up in the hills of Burbank so it’s like a graveyard here at night with the exception of crickets. I was stunned and excited – began speaking with it saying how excited I was to see it, that I always knew non-terrestrials were here and so blessed to be able to see them. I place my hand over my heart in a gesture of gratitude while saying how grateful I was for the experience. The sphere (with the most beautiful white light I’ve ever seen – that cast no shadow) blinked brightly twice at my remark and gesture. At some point I broke off the conversation and went back inside. I looked out of my blinds in the den and it was still there – stationary, hovering. I thought I should get my camera but then after about a minute, maybe less, it just vanished the same way it appeared. I saw nothing come down and nothing go up. Just vanished into thin air.
Weeks later I was speaking with my Chris who lives two blocks over from me and higher up the hill. I told him what happened and thought he would think I’m a total moron. To my shock he said he’d also seen the same sphere, but moving up and down the mountain then vanishing at a high rate of speed, two years ago. Chris is a pilot so he understands that this was a technology we do not have. He said the pressure from those movements would make pumpkin seed out of a human being. Since that time I have photographed and seen multiple different ships. One of them, I call the worm, is always showing up. I know that Skunkworks used to be housed at Burbank Airport down the hill – it’s the only thing Chris and I can come up with for why they’re here so much. At any rate, I will send you my video from November and some images of the worm at 5 x zoom.
Solar energetic particles (SEP) are pretty weird. They’re not photons, though they can reach a speed comparable to that of light. They’re made of protons, electrons, and a type of ion and carry a lot of energy.
SEPs were first noticed in the 1940s, and that’s also when researchers started to get worried about them. They can fry sensitive spacecraft electronics and pose serious risks to human astronauts — but at the same time, they’re rare and unpredictable. They can pop up at any minute and in any direction and without a clever setup, it’s hard to trace them.
Luckily, we have a clever setup. NASA’s Heliophysics System Observatory is a fleet of Sun-studying spacecraft strategically scattered throughout the solar system. With each new spacecraft added to the fleet, it gets more and more capable — and with its current capability, researchers have been able to pinpoint where SEPs are coming from.
“We have for the first time been able to pinpoint the specific sources of these energetic particles,” said Stephanie Yardley, space physicist at the University College London and coauthor of the paper. “Understanding the source regions and physical processes that produce SEPs could lead to improved forecasting of these events.”
Study authors David Brooks, space physicist at George Mason University in Washington, D.C., and Yardley published their findings in Science Advances on March 3, 2021. They divided SEP events into two types: impulsive and gradual. The impulsive ones form after solar flares and quickly quiet down.
“There’s this really sharp spike, and then an exponential decay with time,” said Lynn Wilson, project scientist for the Wind spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who was not involved in the study.
A close-up view of one of the flares from AR 11944 emitted on January 7th, 2014. This flare may be how the SEPs detected by Wind were released from the Sun.
Credits: NASA/SDO
The gradual ones are more mysterious. They tend to come in swarms, which makes them more dangerous. But they also seem to have a weird mixture of atoms, different from the solar material streaming in the solar wind — which led many researchers to believe that they form deeper in the sun.
To find out where SEPs come from, Brooks and Yardley undertook some detective work, tracing gradual SEP events back to their origin on the Sun. They focused on a region called Active Region 11944, a bright area of strong magnetic field with a large dark sunspot visible from Earth, looking for places that matched the chemical signature of gradual SEPs.
“There is often less sulfur in SEPs compared to the solar wind, sometimes a lot less” said Brooks, lead author of the paper. “This is a unique fingerprint of SEPs that allows us to search for places in the Sun’s atmosphere where sulfur is also lacking.”
They found it, but not where they were expecting it: in the layer below where solar flares and coronal mass ejections form.
“I really thought we were going to find it at the edges of the active region where the magnetic field is already open and material can escape directly,” Brooks said. “But the fingerprint matched only in regions where the magnetic field is still closed.”
This is surprising because solar wind can escape easiest by finding open magnetic fields. In fact, researchers aren’t exactly sure how the SEPs escape the Sun. But they know where they form, and that narrows it down tremendously.
Researchers emphasize that none of this would have been possible without observations coming from the fleet of NASA spacecraft.
“It’s a way of thinking about all the spacecraft that are in flight that you can use to do a single study,” Wilson said. “It’s like having a bunch of weather stations — you start to get a much better picture of what the weather is doing on a larger scale, and you can actively start to try to predict it.”
When most people hear that one side is colder than the other, they often think it’s in reference to beds and the common complaint of couples whose temperatures clash and interfere with getting a good night’s sleep. However, when scientists from the University of Oslo say it, they’re referring to the planet Earth, where one side is becoming colder much faster than the other. Do we need planet-sized quilt? Would it help to move all the hot-blooded people to that side?
“Earth’s interior is cooling because its rate of heat loss exceeds its rate of internal heat production. Heat loss happens at the Earth’s surface and is highly variable, with thick continents providing strong insulation to Earth’s interior and thin seafloor allowing more rapid heat transfer.”
According to the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, the surface of the Earth is indeed like a bed and the continents are blankets which don’t quite cover everything. In particular, the oceans are the spots where feet would get cold in this planetary bed. While the heat generated by the Earth’s core emanates evenly, it doesn’t get to us in the same way. As explained in Popular Mechanics, the researchers at the University of Oslo wanted to know why, so they built a model dividing Earth into African and Pacific hemispheres, then dividing the surface into a grid by half degrees latitude and longitude. After feeding in the continental positions during the last 400 million years – including the supercontinent Pangea – they cranked out the temperature model. The results surprised them.
“We find that heat loss was on average 25% higher in the past than it is today, which implies more rapid overall cooling than expected. We also find that the Pacific side of the world has lost heat at a much faster rate than the African side. This is partly due to positioning of continental landmasses, including the supercontinent Pangea, on the African side for most of the past 400 million years. By contrast, the oceans on the Pacific side offered “poor insulation” that led to ∼50°C more cooling of the Pacific mantle compared to its African counterpart. The extra heat lost from the Pacific side may have been trapped there by Rodinia, an older, long‐lived supercontinent that covered the Pacific mantle about one billion years ago.”
The Pacific side lost its Rodinia ‘blanket’ about 600 million years ago, while Pangea began to break apart about 175 million years ago, providing heat longer on the African side of Earth. What does all of this mean for people sleeping (and living) on the Pacific side of the Earth bed? You know how being cold causes a lot of tossing and turning in a real bed?
“Was it covered by landmass at some point in the far distant past, keeping more heat inside? There are other possible explanations, but either way, the Pacific’s high tectonic activity today points to a heat disparity. The meltier the mantle, the more the plates can slide and slam together.”
Popular Mechanics points to this lack of a warm quilt as a (if not THE) reason for the increase in volcanic and earthquake activity along the Pacific rim. Unfortunately, there’s no electric blanket or separate-side-temperature-controlled sheets for an Earth-sized bed. And moving all of the hot-blooded people there won’t help – they’d drown before their side warmed up. The best bet is to move in the opposite direction away from the tectonic activity caused by the cold feet of the Pacific Ocean.
Born in Poland in 1891, George Adamski had the distinction of being the most supported, celebrated and ridiculed of those who claimed direct contact with human-like extraterrestrials. The controversy largely began on 20 November 1952, when, along with six other people, Adamski claimed that he witnessed the landing of a UFO in the Californian desert and then made contact with its pilot. FBI documentation, however, showed that Adamski’s interest in UFOs preceded the 1952 date by at least two years; and the author Timothy Good stated that Adamski claimed to have had other-worldly contact as a child, and to have later received instruction from them in Tibet, hence his 1936 book, Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East, published by The Royal Order of Tibet.
At the beginning of its surveillance of George Adamski, the FBI did not apparently have any awareness of his earlier claims of contact; however a document dated 28 May 1952 references his 1950 encounters, and also reveals that – as with George Van Tassel – the FBI considered Adamski to be a subversive. A study of the documentation shows that much of the FBI’s initial data on Adamski came from a source (whose name the FBI has chosen to keep classified) that revealed the facts to its San Diego office on 5 September 1950: “[Source] advised the San Diego Office that he first met Adamski about three months ago at the café which is named the Palomar Gardens Café, owned and operated by Adamski, at the road junction, five miles East of Rincon, California, at a point where the highway branches off leading to Mount Palomar Observatory.
George Adamski
“[Source] became involved in a lengthy conversation with Adamski during which Adamski told them at great length of his findings of flying saucers and so forth. He told them of a spaceship which he said he saw between the earth and the moon, which he estimated to be approximately three miles in length, which was flying so fast that he had to take about eighty photographs before he could get three of them to turn out. According to [source] Adamski stated that the Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of the ‘Military Government’ of the United States, has established communication with the people from other worlds, and has learned that they are so much more advanced than the inhabitants of this earth that they have deciphered the languages used here. Adamski stated that in this interplanetary communication, the Federal Communications Commission asked the inhabitants of the other planet concerning the type of government they had there and the reply indicated that it was very different from the democracy of the United States. Adamski stated that his answer was kept secret by the United States Government, but he added, ‘If you ask me they probably have a Communist form of government and our American government wouldn’t release that kind of thing, naturally. That is a thing of the future – more advanced.'”
Adamski’s comments that his alien friends were communists caused – at the very least – raised eyebrows within the FBI, and led to continued monitoring of his activities: “Adamski, during this conversation, made the prediction that Russia will dominate the world and we will then have an era of peace for 1,000 years. He stated that Russia already has the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb and that the great earthquake, which was reported behind the Iron Curtain recently, was actually a hydrogen bomb explosion being tried out by the Russians. Adamski states this ‘earthquake’ broke seismograph machines and he added that no normal earthquake can do that.
“Adamski stated that within the next twelve months, San Diego will be bombed. Adamski stated that it does not make any difference if the United States has more atom bombs than Russia inasmuch as Russia needs only ten atom bombs to cripple the United States by placing these simultaneously on such spots as Chicago and other vital centers of this country. The United States today is in the same state of deterioration as was the Roman Empire prior to its collapse and it will fall just as the Roman empire did. The Government in this country is a corrupt form of government and capitalists are enslaving the poor.”
From thereon, Adamski was officially considered by the FBI to be a “security matter.” In January 1953, he was again the subject of FBI interest when the San Diego office began to hear rumors to the effect that: “Adamski had in his possession a machine which could draw ‘flying saucers’ and airplanes down from the sky.” Despite his the-aliens-are-Communists-style statements of 1952, Adamski was concerned that the device that supposedly operated on the principle of “cutting magnetic lines of force,” could be used against American aircraft; and it was Adamski himself initiated who initiated a meeting with both the FBI and the Air Force of Special Investigations, and that occurred on 12 January 1953.
From the beginning of the meeting, Adamski was careful to make it clear that the machine was the creation of another person, and that regardless of what the FBI thought it knew or had been told to the contrary, Adamski had not yet seen the device – he had only been told of its existence. He did, however, apparently know enough about both it and its creator to suggest that production of the device might not be in the best interests of the Government, since the person concerned “was not entirely loyal.” On this matter, at least, Adamski cooperated fully, and provided both the Bureau and the Air Force with sufficient information to allow a formal investigation of the machine’s “inventor” to begin.
In that same meeting, Adamski could not let the opportunity pass by to discuss with both the FBI and the Air Force his claimed encounter of 20 November 1952 out in the deserts of California, as the FBI carefully noted in its write-up of the interview: “At a point ten and two-tenths miles from Desert Center on the road to Parker and Needles, Arizona, [Adamski] made contact with a space craft and had talked to a space man. Adamski stated that he, [deleted] and his wife Mary had been out in the desert and that he and the persons with him had seen the craft come down to the earth. Adamski stated that a small stairway in the bottom of the craft, which appeared to be a round disc, opened and a space man came down the steps. Adamski stated he believed there were other space men in the ship because the ship appeared translucent and could see the shadows of the space men.”
Adamski also revealed that the alien was “over five feet in height, having long hair like a woman’s and garbed in a suit similar to the space suits or web suits worn by the US Air Force men.” And in a similar fashion to George Van Tassel, Adamski related to the FBI and OSI agents that he conversed with the being by means of sign language, but felt that his mid was being “read.” As evidence of this, Adamski said that as he was about to take a photograph of the aliens’ craft, the humanoid “motioned” him to stop. Adamski told the agents that he took his photograph regardless, but that this was not to the liking of the cosmic visitor, who grabbed the material evidence out of Adamski’s hands and soared off into the sky!
Adamski’s adventures with the aliens were not over, however. Once again, according to the FBI: “Adamski further advised that he had obtained plaster casts of the footprints of the space man and stated that the casts indicated the footprints had designs on them similar to the signs of the Zodiac. On January 12, 1953, Adamski advised that on December 13, 1952, the space ship returned to the Palomar Gardens and came low enough to drop the [film negative] which the space man had taken from him, Adamski, and had then gone off over the hill. Adamski stated that when he had the negatives developed at a photo shop in Escondido, California, that the negative that the space man had taken from him contained writing which he believed to be the writing of the space men. Adamski furnished the writer with copies of the space writing and photographs of the space ship.”
However, from another source, the FBI was told that: “The photographs were taken by setting the camera lens at infinity, which would sharpen the background of mountains and trees and blurs the saucer, which was probably strung on a thin wire. [Source] advised that if the camera were set at infinity the wire would not show.” Indeed, what all of this tells us is that until his death in 1965, Adamski was a controversial character – whether within the field of Ufology, or with the special-agents of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
This sand dune, known as Dingo Gap, was crossed by Mars Curiosity in 2014. This image has been ... [+]
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When we look out at our planet Earth from space, we see a myriad of diverse colors. The sky itself is blue, as the atmosphere preferentially scatters shorter-wavelength blue light in all directions, giving our atmosphere it’s characteristic color. The oceans themselves are blue, as water molecules are better at absorbing longer-wavelength red light than they are blue light. Meanwhile, the continents appear brown or green, dependent on the vegetation (or lack thereof) growing there, while the icecaps and clouds always appear white.
But on Mars, one color dominates: red. The ground is red: red everywhere. The lowlands are red; the highlands are red; the dried-up riverbeds are red; the sand dunes are red; it’s all red. The atmosphere itself is also red in every location we can measure it. The lone exception appears to be the icecaps and clouds, which are white, albeit with a reddish hue as observed from Earth. Yet quite surprisingly, the “redness” of Mars is incredibly shallow; if you dug just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, the redness vanishes. Here’s the scientific story behind just what makes the red planet so red.
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From space, there’s no denying the red appearance of Mars. For all of recorded history in a wide variety of languages, the redness of Mars has been its most prominent feature. Mangala, the Sanskrit word for Mars, is red. Har decher, its ancient name in Egyptian, literally means “red one.” And as we’ve progressed into the space age, photos that distinguish the surface from the atmosphere clearly show that the air above Mars itself has an intrinsically red color.
In Earth’s atmosphere, Rayleigh scattering dominates, casting blue light in all directions while the red light travels relatively undisturbed. However, the atmosphere of Mars is only 0.7% as thick as Earth’s, rendering Rayleigh scattering from the gas molecules in Mars’s atmosphere a negligible effect. Instead, dust particles in the Martian atmosphere dominate in (likely) two ways:
greater absorption at short optical wavelengths (400-600 nm) than at longer (600+ nm) wavelengths,
and that larger dust particles (~3 microns and larger) scatter longer-wavelength light more efficiently than atmospheric gas particles scatter shorter-wavelength light from Rayleigh scattering.
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J.F. BELL III, D. SAVRANSKY, & M.J. WOLFF, JGR PLANETS, 111, E12 (2006)
If you look at the suspended atmospheric dust in detail on Mars, and ask, “what is it like,” the answer is incredibly informative. Just from looking at its spectral properties — or “how it affects the light” — we can see that the dust is very similar to the regions on Mars that:
are high in reflectivity,
represent bright soil deposits,
and are rich in iron: i.e., containing large amounts of ferric oxides.
When we look at the dust in detail, particularly with the OMEGA instrument on ESA’s Mars Express mission, we find that the most common type of dust comes from nanocrystalline red hematite, which has the chemical formula α-Fe2O3. The particles that make up this hematite are small: between about 3 and 45 microns in diameter. That’s the right size and composition so that the rapid Martian winds, which typically blow at speeds close to ~100 km/hr, continuously sweep large amounts of dust up into the atmosphere, where it remains fairly well-mixed, even when there are no dust storms.
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When we look at the Martian surface itself, however, the story gets far more interesting. Ever since we began examining the Martian surface in detail — first from orbiting missions and, later, landers and rovers — we noticed that surface features would change over time. In particular, we’d notice that there were darker areas and brighter areas, and that the dark areas would evolve in a particular pattern:
they’d begin dark,
they would get covered in dust that we suspect was from the brighter areas,
and then they would go back to being dark once again.
For a long time, we didn’t know why, until we started noticing that the dark areas that change all had a few things in common, particularly when compared to the dark areas that didn’t change. In particular, the dark areas that changed over time had relatively lower elevations and smaller slopes, and were surrounded by brighter areas. By contrast, the higher-elevation, steeper-sloped, and very large dark areas didn’t change in this way over time.
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It was a duo of scientists — one of whom was Carl Sagan — who puzzled out the solution: Mars is covered with a layer of this thin, sandy dust that’s driven by winds all across the Martian surface. This sand gets blown from area to area, but it’s easiest for that dust to:
travel short distances,
travel either from higher to lower elevations or to comparable elevations, rather than up to much higher elevations,
and to get blown off of areas with steeper slopes, as opposed to areas with shallower slopes.
In other words, the red dust that dominates the color palette of Mars is only skin deep. That’s not even a poetic turn of phrase in this case: most of Mars is covered by a layer of dust that’s only a few millimeters thick! Even in the region where the dust is thickest — the large plateau known as the Tharsis region, consisting of three very large volcanoes just offset from Olympus Mons (which appears to the plateau’s northwest) — it’s estimated to be a meager 2 meters (~7 feet) thick.
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) colorized topographic map of the western hemisphere of Mars, ... [+]
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You might look at these facts, then, and wonder the following: do we have a topographic map of Mars and a map of the ferric oxides on Mars, and do these maps correlate with one another in any way?
It’s a smart thought, and one that we’ll take a look at in just a second, but “ferric oxide” doesn’t necessarily mean “red Mars dust” the way you might think. First off, ferric oxides are present everywhere on the planet:
within the crust,
found in lava outflows,
and in the Martian dust that’s been oxidized by reactions with the atmosphere.
Given that the atmosphere, even today, contains significant quantities of both carbon dioxide and water, there’s a readily available source of oxygen to oxidize any iron-rich material that makes it to the surface: where it contacts the atmosphere.
As a result, when we look at a ferric oxide map of Mars — again, made by the fabulous OMEGA instrument aboard ESA’s Mars Express — we find that yes, the ferric oxides are everywhere, but the abundances are highest across the northern and mid-latitudes, and lowest across the southern latitudes.
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On the other hand, the topography of Mars shows that the elevation of the red planet varies in an interesting way across its surface, and in a way that’s only partially correlated with the abundance of ferric oxides. The southern hemisphere, predominantly, is at a much higher elevation than the lowlands in the north. The greatest elevations occur in the ferric oxide-rich Tharsis region, but in the lowlands to the east of it, the abundances of ferric oxides plummets.
What you have to realize is that the red hematite form of ferric oxide, which is possibly the culprit for the “redness” of Mars, isn’t the only form of ferric oxide. There is also magnetite: Fe3O4, which is black in color instead of red. Although the global topography of Mars appears to play a role in the abundances of ferric oxide, it clearly isn’t the only factor at play, and might not even be the primary factor in determining Mars’s color.
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument, part of Mars Global Surveyor, collected over 200 ... [+]
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What we think is occurring — and this has been a consistent picture for many years — is that there is a bright, globally distributed, globally homogeneous set of dust that gets swept up into the atmosphere and remains there. That dust is basically suspended in the thin Martian atmosphere, and although events like dust storms can increase the concentration, it never drops to a negligibly low value. Mars’s atmosphere is always rich with this dust; that dust provides the atmosphere’s color; but the color features of Mars’s surface aren’t uniform at all.
The “settling of atmospheric dust” is only one factor in determining the surface color of various regions of Mars. This is something we’ve learned very well from our landers and rovers: Mars isn’t a uniform red color at all. In fact, the surface itself is more of an orangey shade of butterscotch overall, and that various rocky objects and deposits on the surface appear to have a variety of colors: brown, golden, tan, and even greenish or yellow, depending on what minerals make up those deposits.
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One question that’s still under investigation is the exact mechanism by which these red hematite particles form. Although there are many ideas that involve molecular oxygen, it’s only found in tiny, trace amounts from the photodissociation of water. Reactions involving water or high temperatures are possible, but those are thermodynamically disfavored.
My two favorite possibilities are reactions involving hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which occurs naturally on Mars in low abundances, but is a very strong oxidant. The fact that we see large amounts of α-Fe2O3 but no hydrated ferric iron minerals could be an indication of this pathway.
Alternatively, we might get hematite simply from a purely physical process: erosion. If you mix together magnetite powder, quartz sand, and quartz dust together and tumble it in a flask, some of the magnetite converts to hematite. In particular, a “black” mixture (dominated by magnetite) will appear red, as the quartz gets fractured, exposing oxygen atoms, which attach to the broken magnetite bonds, forming hematite. Perhaps the notion of “water is responsible for ferric oxides” is a literal red herring after all.
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So, all in all, Mars is red because of hematite, which is a red form of ferric oxide. Although ferric oxides are found in many places, only the hematite is largely responsible for the red color, and the small dust particles that are suspended in the atmosphere and that coat the top few millimeters-to-meters of Mars’s surface are wholly responsible for the red color we see.
If we could somehow calm the atmosphere for long periods of time and let the Martian dust settle out, you might expect that Rayleigh scattering would dominate like it does on Earth, turning the skies blue. This is only partly correct, though; because the Martian atmosphere is so thin and tenuous, the sky would appear very dark: almost completely black, with a slight bluish tint to it. If you could successfully block out the brightness coming from the planet’s surface, you would likely be able to see some stars and up to six planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, and sometimes Uranus — even during the daytime.
Mars might be the red planet, but only a tiny, minuscule amount of it is actually red. Fortunately for us, that red part is the outermost layer of its surface, pervasive in the Martian atmosphere, and that accounts for the color we actually perceive.
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The foreman of the shipyard late in the evening of October 11, 1973, went fishing with a workmate, 19-year-old Calvin Parker. Hickson himself was 42 years old at the time. The men were fishing from an abandoned pier on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. And suddenly they heard a whistle, turning into a hiss, which came from above and behind. They turned around. A meter from the ground and about 15 meters away from them hung either a disk or a cylinder with two flashing lights or windows.
I don't know if it was round or oblong. I could see the little dome from above, but I couldn't see the whole thing. I didn't even know what size it was.
Charles said later:
The thing opened the hatch. Three figures emerged from it. And they went to the fishermen. And why didn't I jump into the river to get away from them?
Parker had wondered for years:
The creatures looked terrible: gray, wrinkled skin, very long arms that ended in what looked like claws, legs that looked like an elephant's. The heads grew straight out of the shoulders. That is, the necks of the creatures were missing. There were protrusions where people should have had noses, like the carrots of snowmen. Similar formations stuck out on the sides in place of the ears. They were drawn in and out.
Right under the front "carrots" were narrow slits, vaguely resembling mouths. The aliens either had no eyes at all, or they were lost in the folds of their skin.
The creatures swam up to Hickson without moving their legs. Two men grabbed him from both sides. Something pricked my arm and made it impossible to move. Charles could only watch as the creatures dragged him into their machine. The third elephant was carrying Parker's limp body.
There were no seats or equipment visible inside the ship, just a very bright light. Hickson hung in the air like an astronaut in zero gravity. Something that looked like an eye popped out of the wall, moving back and forth as if examining Hickson carefully. Then the creatures turned the captive over, and the " eye " continued its examination.
Finally, the "elephants" pulled their prey back onto the pier. And released. Hickson immediately fell backward - his legs would not obey. Parker stood motionless beside him, his arms outstretched as if in a deep trance. The brigadier crawled to his comrade but soon realized that he could get up. At that moment, the machine took off and disappeared flashing blue lights. The whole incident lasted about 20 minutes.
For a long time, Parker refused to tell what happened to him in the UFO, saying that he lost consciousness, I don't remember anything. But after 20 years, he started talking: they brought him to another room and put him on an inclined table. There was a "small" creature, in Parker's mind, female. It examined him. And then it stuck a needle in the "manhood", telepathically informing that there would be no harm from it.
Four hours later, the fishermen, having recovered a little, hurried to the police. Sheriff Fred Diamond and Captain Glen Rader saw that they were clearly shaken to the core, but did not believe the story about the UFO.
To catch the narrators, the police took them to a separate room, turning on a hidden recording. But even in private, the fishermen were shaking with fear, exchanging fragmentary phrases. And Calvin just got down on his knees and started praying.
After listening to the tape, Raider realized that the men were not joking, and contacted the Kiesler Air Force Base. There, the "contactees" were examined by army doctors. After making sure that Hickson and Parker were physically healthy, the military cross-examined them. At the same time, police officer Tom Huntley was present, who drew attention to the fact that the military behaved as if they heard about the abductions on board the UFO every day. When Hickson mentioned that the creatures ' hands were like claws, the two colonels looked at each other, apparently familiar with the detail.
it was definitely something extraterrestrial... One can only guess where they came from and why, but the fact that they were here is a truth that cannot be doubted
Ufologist James Harder, who took over the baton from the military, came to the conclusion:
I have no doubt that these two people have experienced something terrible.
Allen Hynek-Confirmed:
Charles Hickson passed a lie detector test. When the test was over, the operator exclaimed, "It looks like that son of a bitch is telling the truth!"
The official conclusion of the test was not so emotional: "The subject sincerely believes that he saw an extraterrestrial ship and was taken on board by some creatures."
It soon became clear that the UFO over Pascagoula was seen by three other people-police officer Raymond Broadus, city councilman Eugene Sagalas and a woman who did not want to identify herself. The ship was exactly the same shape as the one described during the interrogations of the abductees. In 2001, retired Navy officer Mike Cataldo said that that evening he and two of his companions also saw an object over the docks. In the morning, he called Kiesler Air Force Base and left a phone number, but no one contacted him to clarify the details.
When the grueling tests and interrogations were over, Parker was admitted to the hospital with a nervous breakdown and was treated for a long time. Even a few months later, his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't work. Hickson proved to be more resilient - the brigadier's nerves were hardened in Korea, where he fought and was awarded five medals. However, his adventures are by no means over…
In January 1974, Charles was hunting and finally sat down for a snack, resting his rifle on his lap. Suddenly he felt that everything around him seemed to freeze, the sounds disappeared and there was complete silence. The same ship that had appeared in the clearing three months ago-not landed but appeared out of nowhere. The words rang out in his head: "We don't want to hurt you or anyone else.
You will be able to communicate with us in the future. You passed the test. You are the chosen one. Don't be afraid. We'll get back to you.
Then the aliens found Hixon right in the courtyard of the house. He didn't see the UFO, but the words came back to him: "You must tell the people that we will do no harm. Your world needs help. We will help in the future before it's too late. You're not ready to understand it yet. We'll be back soon."
Hickson, of course, was in no hurry to make a fool of himself, but on May 12, they actually returned, and in front of other eyewitnesses. As Charles was driving in the car with his wife, sister, and friends, a ship appeared, as if about to land right in front of the hood. Hickson realized that they had come for him, and asked the driver to stop, but the passengers fell into hysterics, demanding to leave as soon as possible.
At that moment, Hickson "heard" a voice: "Go ahead. There will be another time and place to meet." The ship was no longer moving and disappeared from sight around another bend. Hickson met the anniversary of the kidnapping on the same pier with William Mendez of Michigan College. The night passed without incident, and they decided to go to the ufo center "Starlight "( where experts tried to contact the UFO with lasers, searchlights, and other equipment).
On October 12, a UFOthe size of a full moon appeared in the sky, from which two vibrating lines in the form of the letter V radiated downwards. The scientists focused their lenses, but before they could take pictures, the ship took off and disappeared. Hickson had no doubt that the aliens were watching him, but there were no telepathic messages this time. Until his death, Charles waited for the aliens to return, deliberately went to remote places. But they never fulfilled their promise…
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Tiny Asteroid To Skim Earth Almost As Close As The Moon Tomorrow Morning
Tiny Asteroid To Skim Earth Almost As Close As The Moon Tomorrow Morning
Alexandra Lozovschi
A tiny asteroid is gearing up for a very close Earth approach tomorrow morning, but there's no reason to panic. While the object is predicted to graze almost as close as the moon, it will safely pass by us at a distance of about 372,000 miles, scientists at NASA’sCenter for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) have announced.
Known as 2021 EM4, the asteroid is racing through space at a speed of 14,920 mph and will be closest to Earth at 6:27 a.m. on March 19. Approximately four hours later, the rock will swing by the moon, coming within 559,200 miles of the lunar surface.
Given that the average distance between Earth and the moon is 238,900 miles, the rock will dart past us at 1.59 times the lunar distance without posing any threat to the planet.
Discovered Just Three Days Ago
Perhaps the most notable thing about 2021 EM4, other than its impeding close brush with Earth, is that it was only recently uncovered. The rock was detected by NASA asteroid trackers on March 15 and has since been studied extensively by astronomers looking to determine its orbit and how closely it will skim Earth.
According to a report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 2021 EM4 belongs to the Apollo asteroid class, which is known to potentially cross Earth's orbit. The rock orbits the sun once every 418 days or about 1.14 years, periodically swinging through our neck of the cosmic woods, sometimes even twice a year.
Its Second-Closest Approach To Earth
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Although we've only been keeping tabs on 2021 EM4 for a short amount of time, the space rock had been regularly visiting Earth for the past century or so. Based on orbital observations, the JPL team compiled a list of the rock's close Earth approaches dating back to 1909 and stretching into the future as far as the year 2065.
Interestingly enough, tomorrow's flyby will be the rock's second-closest encounter with Earth. Its closest-ever approach occurred exactly 112 years ago to the date and brought the asteroid within 325,500 miles of Earth.
The asteroid is due for another visit later this year, on October 4. However, its next trip will take it significantly farther away from Earth -- some 19,54 million miles away, to be exact.
House-Sized Asteroid
As NASA points out, 2021 EM4 is estimated to be house-sized. CNEOS data shows the rock can range between 36 feet and 78.74 feet in diameter.
Even at the upper end of that size estimate, 2021 EM4 is still a fairly small asteroid. By comparison, the Apollo asteroid that crept closer than the moon on Monday was up to 124,67 feet wide, as reported by The Inquisitr.
Little as though it may be, 2021 EM4 could still pose some serious concern should it wander too close for comfort. After all, the smaller, 65.5-foot Chelyabinsk meteor caused a substantial amount of damage when it exploded in the sky over Russia on February 15, 2013, destroying more than 7,200 buildings and injuring nearly 1,500 people.
Nevertheless, NASA assures the upcoming flyby will proceed without incident.
Second Asteroid In Tow
Tomorrow's celestial visitor comes with another, slightly larger asteroid in tow. Hot on the heels of the 6:27 a.m. near-miss, a second Apollo asteroid dubbed 2021 EY2 will whizz by at 9:33 a.m.
Unlike its predecessor, 2021 EY2 will travel at a much greater distance from Earth's surface, cruising some 2.23 million miles away at a breakneck speed of 21,608 mph.
The double asteroid flyby will be followed by a momentous encounter on March 21, when a giant 2,230-foot rock is expected to buzz Earth at a staggering 77,000 mph
They're Here & Making Themselves Known, Definitive Disclosure, Ralph Blumenthal, Latest
They're Here & Making Themselves Known, Definitive Disclosure, Ralph Blumenthal, Latest
They’re Here & Making Themselves Known, Definitive Disclosure, Ralph Blumenthal, Latest
Ralph Blumenthal was a reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, and has written seven books based on investigative crime reporting and cultural history. His upcoming book The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack will be published by High Road Books of the University of New Mexico Press on March 15, 2021.
It’s the first biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Psychiatrist John E. Mack (1929-2004) who risked an esteemed career to investigate stupefying accounts of human abductions by aliens. Vanity Fair excerpted the work-in-progress in 2013.
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15 Amazing Technology Trends We Must Embrace in the Next Decade
15 Amazing Technology Trends We Must Embrace in the Next Decade
According to CompTIA 2020, the global technology industry is forecasted to reach $5 trillion in 2021. If this prediction comes true, it will represent a growth rate of 4.2%.
With today’s rapid pace of change, it gets challenging to predict the evolving state of technology in the future. The ghastly COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the innovation process. It has reshaped the technology trends and digital ecosystem. As our perspective on life has also changed for the better, we are digging for ways to be more competitive and productive through technology.
The next few years will be full of technological surprises and disruption. In this light, let us examine the emerging technology trends that will significantly impact the economy and our lives in the coming decade.
1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Become a Conventional Reality
According to Deloitte 2021, AI-based revenues are anticipated to hit $100 billion by 2025.
We have already witnessed what AI is capable of, and the next decade will take things a notch higher. AI can help medical patients through the use of different kinds of robots. Assistive robots can help with manipulation tasks like grasping or feeding disabled patients. Further, AI can also help chemists and druggists analyze data and recognize treatments efficiently based on the disease’s direct cause. This could lead to a reduction of up to $2.6 billion in the treatment development process.
2. 5G Technology Will Soon Become a Boon for Businesses
According to IDG, 5G latency is predicted to range between 1 and 4 milliseconds- a far cry from 4G’s 50 to 100 milliseconds. By 2023, 5G subscriptions are forecasted to reach 1.3 billion worldwide (Statista, 2021).
What Is 5G Technology And How Must Businesses Prepare For It?
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The term 5G has been creating a buzz for more than half a decade and has been a matter of debate on most technical essay writer forums. The emergence of 5G is one of the most enigmatic, new upcoming technologies that could impact businesses in 2021.
Huawei says, “5G wireless networks will support 1000 fold gains in capacity, connections for at least 100 billion devices and a 10GB/s individual user experience of extremely low latency and response times. Deployment of these networks will emerge between 2020 and 2030.”
3. Emergence of Easy and Safe Autonomous Driving
You must have heard of well-known companies like Alphabet, Tesla, and Waymo. Do you know what is common between them? Their impeccable objective is to craft amazing autonomous vehicles.
Luxury Sedan oft he future The Aicon is Audi’s design vision for autonomous driving. Passengers should have the feeling of first-class air travel: leather seats, on-board entertainment and maximum leg room.
Tesla’s founder Elon Musk already has a future design for autonomous vehicles. Remarkable functions like lane-changing, automated braking, and automation of other in-car systems will be streamlined with the guidance of data capture and analytics.
Although the existing infrastructure needs tweaks, we certainly cannot rule out the possibility of autonomous vehicles in 2020.
4. Considerable Advancement in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
As per a survey by Statista in 2020, the market size of AR is presently at $12 billion, and by 2023 AR users are estimated to reach 2.4 billion. Augmented reality has turned out to be another major game-changer across numerous industries. Advances in AR, VR, and MR will continue to be at the forefront of attention in the upcoming decade. Once only found in video gaming, R+ will quickly become a useful tool in manufacturing, healthcare, engineering design, space exploration, and many other areas.
5. Rise of The Internet of Behaviors
The Internet of Behaviors is only meant to captivate the ‘digital dust’ of the lives of people from various sources. According to Gartner, more than half of the global population will be under an IoB tool by 2025. Given the implementation of COVID-19 protocols, we will only experience a boom in the internet of behaviors in the year 2021 and further on. This would be phenomenal in monitoring and enhancing customer choices, priorities, and actions.
6. Increasing Popularity of Distributed Cloud Services
Currently, cloud-based applications have taken the markets by storm. As more than 90% of firms switch to cloud-based operations, distributed cloud services will get allocated as per their physical location through public cloud providers. In 2021, distributed cloud technology will flourish for its numerous advantages, like less latency, physical proximity, and lower data cost. It can be said without a shade of doubt that cloud distribution is the future and new normal that we should embrace wholeheartedly.
7. Growth of Digital Sectors By Leaps And Bounds
When COVID-19 revealed our systems’ fragility, digital medical examinations and digital health came to the rescue of humanity. Globally, the digital health market was worth around $88 billion in 2018, but now it is expected to grow to over $500 billion by 2025. In this decade, the digital health sector is expected to develop sustainable, scalable, and affordable health solutions. If anything, we know how rapidly our world will embrace these technological leaps.
8. DARQ- An Asset for Hiring And Training
The technology market of DARQ (Distributed Ledger Technologies)has generated revenue of $640 million in 2019 and is expected to rise at a CAGR of 16.5% during 2020-2025. Volkswagen is already cashing in on this technology trend to use quantum computing to test traffic flow optimization and accelerate battery development. Taking all these cases of DARQ into consideration, eminent tech essay writers and researchers believe that its existence in the coming decade is beyond doubt.
9. Growth of E-Sports
A decade ago, the popular concept of online gaming, virtual matches, and sports was challenging to comprehend. The past few years and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the growth of the e-sports market, predicted to surpass $1.5 billion by 2023.
When the pandemic hit us, it was observed that 1/3 of online consumers subscribed to virtual sports avenues. A flux of digital consumers was seen on video gaming, cloud gaming, and the virtual sports portal. Gen Z and millennial customers are leaning towards E-sports more than ever.
“More than half of the employers questioned said their companies do not currently have a written policy on the ethical use of AI or bots."
10. Rise Of Ethical AI
In the past, firms that adopted AI technologies and machine learning paid little heed to their ethical impact. In the present day, value-based consumers and employees expect various companies to adopt AI responsibly. Although over 50% of AI adopters have major concerns regarding the potential risks of their AI plans, only 4 in 10 reported that their organizations were prepared to address them. Over the next few years, firms will deliberately choose to do business with partners who commit to data ethics and values.
11. Increasing Use of Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency
A digital asset or the online monetary equivalence, Cryptocurrency is a giant market worth over $265 billion. We will observe a steady increase in Cryptocurrency users (presently around 40 million) in the upcoming years. We can expect blockchain tech and Cryptocurrency to shine through digital transactions in 2021 due to the increasing interest of business in digitalization.
12. The Empowered Edge
According to Grand View Research, the value of the global edge computing market is estimated to reach $3.5 billion by 2027. In 2021, innovations in next-generation communications, cloud-native technologies, and edge computing architectures have come together to create breakthroughs in cloud-to-cloud integration. By 2023, Gartner believes there will be up to 20 times as many smart devices at the edge of the network.
13. The Rise of AI Security
Perhaps one of the most undeniable trends that we will most likely see in the upcoming decade is an increasing need for privacy and security in the artificial intelligence environment. As companies worldwide continue to embrace machine learning and AI, it only makes sense that we will want these environments to become as secure as possible. This will compel CIOS and eminent business leaders to think diligently about improving the cloud computing environment.
14. Human Augmentation
A vital topic that Gartner has considered in its recent report of disruptive tech trends for the upcoming decade is Human Augmentation.
As per Gartner, human augmentation is the wing of technology that can be used to deliver cognitive and physical improvements to the human experience. Certain aspects of human augmentation may incorporate more wearables to complete tasks every day. Gartner also feels that human augmentation will soon become more evident over the next ten years.
15. Global IoT Security Breaches
Analyst firm Gartner predicts that 20.4 billion connected things would be in use worldwide by 2030. And with the steep rise of autonomous things, there is an excellent chance that many of these things will have a weak security level.
In 2021, it will be essential for IoT manufacturers to significantly increase security for all the products in the market. Whether it is a drone or a refrigerator, manufacturers should implement security to keep hackers at bay.
Final Note
The future is uncertain, and it is difficult to predict how technology will evolve. Innovations will emerge from left-field and surprise the world. But, that’s what makes it excessively exciting! We hope this gives you a comprehensive idea of the 15 technology trends to keep an eye on in the upcoming decade. Let us embrace the changing times with gusto!
Clara Smith is an eminent technology consultant and part-time blogger hailing from the USA. A part of Allessaywriter.com for 10+years now, he is quite popular among students for catering to ‘write my essay’ requests.
Five Strong Signs That Aliens Have Already Been On Earth
Five Strong Signs That Aliens Have Already Been On Earth
The existence of aliens has long been a debating point among conspiracy theorists and space experts. Even though space agencies like NASA have long refuted claims of alien existence, they are still on the hunt to find extraterrestrials which may be living in the outer space.
However, conspiracy theorists strongly argue that aliens have been visiting earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and they are blaming the government and space agencies like NASA for covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Here is a glance at five strong signs often put forward arguing that aliens have already been on earth.
1. Flying saucers everywhere
Surfing the internet using the word ‘UFO’ will populate too many videos showing unidentified flying objects hovering across the skies in various parts of the world. Even though many of these videos are being made using CGI, there are some authentic clips which still remain unanswered and mysterious.
One such authentic clip was captured from Turkey on May 13, 2009, at around 2.20 AM. The video shows an eerie flying object hovering across the skies, and interestingly, through the transparent UFO, we can also see two aliens sitting on the deck.
As the video turned viral on the internet, the Council for Scientific and Technological Research set up a team to check the authenticity of the clip. After nine years of extensive research, the team found that the flying object spotted in the video did not have an earthly origin. The report also added that the video was not subjected to any kind of editing.
UFO research agencies like MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) are getting regular reports of UFO sightings which happen in various corners of the globe, and this clearly indicates that some strange phenomenon is going on in our skies.
However, a section of people believe that these crafts are actually secret military crafts developed by the United States and Russia. The imminent question is — Do these craft have an alien origin, or are they secretive military vessels like the alleged TR-3B?
2. Ancient cave paintings hide a million mysteries
A few years ago, archeologists in India discovered some bizarre cave paintings in rocks at Charama, Chhattisgarh.
Interestingly, these rock paintings depicted alien-like figures wearing suits very similar to modern day space suits. The startling drawings also featured disc-shaped flying saucers, each with a fan-like antenna and three legs.
After analyzing the cave drawings, archeologists came to the conclusion that these cave drawings were painted before 10,000 years. For humans beings, space travel became a reality in the 20th century, then how can ancient Indians draw paintings featuring aliens and flying saucers?
Another popular depiction of aliens in cave paintings can be seen in Christina Lake, British Columbia, Canada. These paintings feature flying saucers with large wings hovering above a group of people.
Recently, renowned television anchor Giorgio Tsoukalos, known for presenting ‘Ancient Aliens’ in History Channel revealed that aliens used to visit humans in the ancient ages.
The television conspiracy theorist also revealed that ancient humans have misrepresented alien visitors as deities and their advanced technology was interpreted as magic. Those who believe in this theory argue that aliens had brought these advanced knowledge and culture to the human civilization on earth.
3. Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
In December 2017, Pentagon shocked the entire world by admitting that they have conducted a UFO search program under the name ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program’. The million dollar project was carried out to unravel the mysteries surrounding UFO sightings.
The US Defense Department also released a video featuring an unidentified flying object being trailed by a US F-18 jet. Interestingly, the UFO spotted in the video flew across the sky defying all the known laws of physics, and it indicates that this object is made from advanced alien technology.
4. Impeccable ancient structures
There are several structures on the earth like Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Giza, Nazca lines, and Sacsayhuamán that are too big, too complex and too heavy for the ancient humans to build.
Even in the modern days, humans will find it hard to build such marvelous structures with impeccable architecture. So, who built these massive structures? The answer still remains an enigma.
5. Admission from a top Canadian Minister
Paul Hellyer, the former Canadian Minister of National Defence, emerged out of nowhere to claim that aliens have been visiting earth for thousands of years.
The former cabinet minister also said that the US Air Force has been using weapons and crafts made with alien technology since the 1960s.
The Perseverance team posted two GIFs on social media, one showing a wider look and one showing a zoomed-in view.
"You can see it in the distance behind my robotic arm in this enhanced/processed view," NASA wrote. "The dust devil is moving right to left and creating whirlwinds of dust in its path."
Mars is a notoriously dusty and windy place, making it the perfect environment for dust devils, some of which can reach towering proportions.
This may mark the Perseverance rover's first dust devil sighting, but it won't be its last. NASA's other functioning Mars rover, Curiosity, has seen its share of the feisty vortexes.
The meteorite which has been named Erg Chech 002 or EC 002, according to researchers was created within the crust of an ancient protoplanet -- essentially known as a building block for planets
It actually consists of several meteorites that together weigh around 70 pounds
The meteorite is 58 percent silicon dioxide that suggests that it is an ancient parent body with a crust made from andesite rock -- different from basalt rock
They are of the belief that EC 002 was ejected from its parent body, decades after the protoplanet’s crust cooled and crystallized while also showcasing details about the evolving cores of the planets in a time when Earth didn’t exist.
Researchers have discovered a hunk of meteoric rock in the merciless Sahara desert that’s actually older than Earth. The rock is a rare piece of an embryonic planet that existed even before our planet came into existence.
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The meteorite which has been named Erg Chech 002 or EC 002, according to researchers was created within the crust of an ancient protoplanet -- essentially known as a building block for planets. This, according to them, is the oldest known lava that has fallen to the Earth. It also offers a perspective on the way planets were formed during the early days of the solar system.
The rock was discovered in Algeria’s Erg Chech dune sea, that is also how it got its name. It actually consists of several meteorites that together weigh around 70 pounds. After getting their hands on the samples, researchers were able to discover when this piece of crust that melted as lava, crystallized into a solid form.
Protoplanet meteorite rock
Research of magnesium and aluminium isotopes dated the rock back to 4.566 billion years ago, which is the oldest known piece of igneous rock ever found, according to the study. To put things in perspective, the last known oldest igneous meteorite dubbed NWA 11119 is around 1.24 million years younger than EC002. Earth on the other hand only emerged several million years after these rocks came into existence.
The meteorite is 58 percent silicon dioxide that suggests that it is an ancient parent body with a crust made from andesite rock -- different from basalt rock that’s otherwise commonly found in volcanic regions around our planet. They reveal that these crusts were commonly found in asteroids and protoplanets during the solar system’s early days but have become extremely rare today.
The study was led by Jean-Alix Barrat, a professor of geochemistry at the University of Western Brittany, in France. She explained in the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “EC 002 is clearly distinguishable from all asteroid groups, and no object with spectral characteristics similar to EC 002 has been identified to date,” while claiming that “the remnants of primordial crusts are not only rare in the meteorite record, but they are also rare today in the asteroid belt.”
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Researchers added, “This suggests that the earliest differentiated protoplanets that populated the solar system, as well as most of their debris, were certainly destroyed or subsequently accreted to the growing rocky planets, making the discovery of meteorites originating from primordial crusts an exceptional occurrence.”
They are of the belief that EC 002 was ejected from its parent body, decades after the protoplanet’s crust cooled and crystallized while also showcasing details about the evolving cores of the planets in a time when Earth didn’t exist.
The first interstellar object to pass through the solar system has finally had its identity revealed.
‘Oumuamua, which means ‘scout’ or ‘messenger’ in Hawaiian, was originally spotted in 2017. The mysterious object was moving at 196,000 miles per hour, and while it looked similar to a comet there were aspects to it that simply did not add up.
While the strangely flat object moved like a comet, it appeared to have a surface made of solid nitrogen – similar to the surface of Pluto.
A new study, published as a pair of papers in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, sheds more light on this theory.
“This research is exciting in that we’ve probably resolved the mystery of what ‘
is and we can reasonably identify it as a chunk of an ‘exo-Pluto,’ a Pluto-like planet in another solar system,” said Steven Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University and an author of the new study.
“Until now, we’ve had no way to know if other solar systems have Pluto-like planets, but now we have seen a chunk of one pass by Earth.”
The scientists believe that ‘Oumuamua was knocked from the surface of a Pluto-like world half a billion years ago, rejected from its own solar system as it headed towards our own.
‘Oumuamua likely gained its flat appearance when its mass melted away as it flew close to our sun, according to Alan Jackson, a co-author of the study. More than 95 per cent of the comet’s body was reduced, he adds, making it more flattened than any other known solar system object.
“Being made of frozen nitrogen also explains the unusual shape of ‘Oumuamua. As the outer layers of nitrogen ice evaporated, the shape of the body would have become progressively more flattened, just like a bar of soap does as the outer layers get rubbed off through use,” Jackson said.
It also acquired a push from the Sun known as a ‘rocket effect’ that was greater than would usually be expected.
“That was an exciting moment for us,” Desch said. “We realized that a chunk of ice would be much more reflective than people were assuming, which meant it could be smaller. The same rocket effect would then give ‘Oumuamua a bigger push, bigger than comets usually experience.”
Finally, ‘Oumuamua also lacked a visible tail that is a key characteristic of most comets, implying that there was not gas escaping from the cosmic rock.
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“We knew we had hit on the right idea when we completed the calculation for what albedo (how reflective the body is) would make the motion of ‘Oumuamua match the observations,” Jackson said. “That value came out as being the same as we observe on the surface of Pluto or Triton – bodies covered in nitrogen ice.”
When ‘Oumuamua was first detected its inexplicable origins led some to speculate that it was a piece of alien technology. While many will be disappointed that this is not our first official encounter with extra-terrestrial life, the discovery allows scientists to examine extrasolar systems in a new way.
“It’s hoped that in a decade or so we can acquire statistics on what sorts of objects pass through the solar system, and if nitrogen ice chunks are rare or as common as we’ve calculated,” Jackson said.
“Either way, we should be able to learn a lot about other solar systems, and whether they underwent the same sorts of collisional histories that ours did.”
The study used measurements gathered from Mars-orbiting spacecraft, rovers and meteorites.
Researchers then developed a computer simulation of how water was lost from the planet over time.
More than four billion years ago, Mars was warmer and wetter - possibly with a thicker atmosphere. Water coursed through rivers, cutting channels in the rock, and pooled in impact craters.
The Red Planet could have held enough water to cover its entire surface in a layer measuring between 100m and one kilometre deep.
Around a billion years later, Mars had made the transition to the colder, desolate planet we recognise today.
"We have known for a long time that Mars was much wetter in its early history. But, the exact fate of that water has been an ongoing problem," said planetary scientist Dr Peter Grindrod, who was not involved with the latest study.
Dr Grindrod, from London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News: "We already know from studies of the atmosphere of Mars that some of that water was lost to space, and ice deposits on and just below the surface tell us that some water became frozen."
Escape to space
Earth has a magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, that helps prevent the atmosphere from escaping. But Mars' magnetic shield is weak and could have allowed elemental components of water to escape from the planet.
But the rate at which hydrogen - one chemical constituent of water - escapes from that atmosphere today suggests this can't be the whole story.
If it's assumed that the current loss rate for hydrogen was the same in the past, "it's a pretty small amount of water that you would have lost through this escape process", said co-author Eva Linghan Scheller, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.
In other words, most of the water must have gone elsewhere.
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Nasa's latest rover will explore a geological feature called a delta, laid down in the presence of flowing water
The results of the team's computer modelling work show that between 30% and 99% of Mars' initial water was incorporated into minerals and buried in the planet's crust.
Co-author Prof Bethany Ehlmann, also from from Caltech, explained that, "by studying data from Mars missions, It became clear that it was common - and not rare - to find evidence of water alteration".
She continued: "When the crust becomes altered, it takes water - like liquid water - and sequesters it in a hydrated mineral that has water in its structure so that it is effectively trapped."
The authors suggest that most of the water was lost between about 4.1 and 3.7 billion years ago - during a stretch of Martian history known as the Noachian Period.
Martian climate change
Dr Michael Meyer, lead scientist for Nasa's Mars exploration program, said: "The original overarching role of Mars exploration has been to follow the water, since it plays such a central role in the geology, climate and life of the planet.
"This is a very important paper to understand how much water was on Mars, how it might have been lost and where it might be today."
Dr Grindrod added: "What this new study tells us is that a lot of that water, possibly the majority, could have actually been locked into the rocks on Mars. This process of hydration is capable of storing large volumes of water, up to an amount equivalent to a global layer a kilometre deep."
"Although most of the liquid water had probably disappeared after about one and a half billion years after Mars formed, we see evidence of hydrated minerals at the surface today, in areas like Jezero Crater, which is currently being explored by the Perseverance rover.
"The early climate of Mars remains one of the most important topics in planetary science, and this study will help our understanding of the processes responsible for water loss."
Whether you believe extraterrestrials exist on other planets or in other galaxies, or you believe they’re already here, your challenge is to identify them – hopefully to welcome them to Earth. But, how can one do this if we don’t know what ETs look like? A zoologist has an answer and his new book might be the perfect handbook for both astronauts and the Earth welcoming committee – or the committee that decides whether the ETs are here to greet us, beat us or eat us.
“The most important rule is that life arises by natural selection. Life adapts to its environment. Complex aliens will have evolved from simple aliens, to solve the problems on their planet. Problems like finding food, avoiding becoming someone else’s food, and reproducing.”
University of Cambridge astrobiologist and zoologist Arik Kershenbaum is the author of a new book: “The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy“. In an article in Science Focus, he explains that his zoological description of aliens is based on Darwin’s theory of evolution – specifically, the idea of natural selection. That idea would restrict the development of ETs just as it restricted the development of life on Earth, allowing species to move up based on successfully conquering the conditions of the moment. Kershenbaum believes that these “universal laws of biology” of biology are in effect on all planets regardless of their environments.
“Aliens will have predators, and they will have prey. Predators will need to be like predators on Earth: fast or stealthy – their prey won’t want to be eaten! Prey will need to defend themselves: by camouflage or by armour? And maybe, like on Earth, some creatures will solve their problems in a special way: by grouping together. Wolves hunt in a pack, and zebras stay in a herd to keep safe from lions. Some aliens will be solitary, but some will also be social.”
All of those things can happen in any environment, right? Kershenbaum gives some examples. If their planet is a water or liquid world, the aliens probably developed fins or jet propulsion – both effective means of movement in liquid. Legs win out on a solid surface over rolling, flopping and other methods of movement. Since the search for food is universal, the means to find it should be as well – combinations of the senses of touch, smell, sight and hearing would be successful developments on Mars or on exoplanets. Here’s another universal trait Kershenbaum sees.
“Symmetrical animals move so much faster than non-symmetrical ones, they have a real advantage. That doesn’t mean that circular (or even triangular) aliens are impossible. But think about how they evolved: why did they get an advantage by being circular or triangular? Maybe circular creatures could evolve in a bottomless ocean, where there’s no advantage to crawling.”
Symmetry means balance, which is required no matter how much or how little gravity a planet has. A New York Times review points out that Kershenbaum predicts some aliens will exhibit social cooperation, technology and language, and some will have intelligence – perhaps enough to do those things with us. The real question is … will there be some that are MORE intelligent than us?
Kershenbaum doesn’t provide any drawings of aliens or detailed descriptions – four eyes, eight arms, green skin, forked tongue, big head, pointy ears – but it’s easy to see that starting with “natural selection” ends up with ETs resembling life on Earth. Does this also mean that if there are aliens among us, they will evolve to look exactly like us?
It at first might not seem that scientists and the paranormal really get along most of the time. After all, paranormal phenomena are often seen by many as lying outside of the wheelhouse of science, and mainstream scientists are often likened to a sort of enemy in a sense, as they are seen as not willing to look into these strange things. However, science is not always the enemy, and there have indeed been very well-known, respected scientists who have gone down rabbit holes that lead them into the paranormal. One of these was a brilliant physicist who entertained the thought that humans could unknowingly exert psychic influence on the outside world around them, which he thought had also actually manifested in himself.
Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate, professor of theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and early pioneer in quantum mechanics, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli is largely considered to be one of the most brilliant physicists to have ever lived. He was the first to propose the existence of the neutrino in 1930, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945, was widely praised by Albert Einstein, won the Max Planck medal in 1958, and was instrumental to the development of many areas of theoretical physics and quantum theory. Pauli was highly respected among his peers, an impeccable scientific mind like no other, but he also had some rather strange ideas and oddness orbiting him, with one of these being what would later be called “The Pauli Effect.”
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
It began when people, including Pauli himself, noticed that whenever he was around in a lab there was an inordinate number of freak mishaps and malfunctions of equipment. Almost without fail, when Pauli entered a lab, things would break, electrical systems would malfunction or go haywire, beakers would crack, bunsen burners would fail to ignite, and various equipment would either stop working or experience some sort of disturbance, with even fires breaking out on occasion. Colleagues jokingly referred to it as “The Pauli Effect,” stating as one of its laws “a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room,” but as it continued it became very noticeable that it seemed to all be beyond coincidence and jokes. The effect even seemed to work through walls or across distances. One popular anecdote is that one time Pauli was passing the railway station of Göttingen, when at that moment several pieces of lab equipment at the nearby University of Göttingen exploded without any apparent reason. Similarly, another story has it that when Pauli was visiting Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study the Princeton University physics department’s massive cyclotron particle accelerator inexplicably burst into flames and burned for more than 6 hours before being put out.
As weird incidents like this increased in frequency, Pauli’s peers went from joking about it all to starting to believe there was something truly weird going on in the physicist’s presence, and that there was perhaps something to it. It is rumored that the experimental physicist Otto Stern once even banned Pauli from his lab for fear that he would break something or ruin an experiment. It is interesting to note how these serious, top level scientists were starting to elevate The Pauli Effect to a superstition, seeing it as beyond rational explanation. One science photographer by the name of David Fathi would once say of this:
I had a lot of problems trying to understand how some of the brightest minds of their time could give in to ideas that seem like pure superstition. But now I think that to work in a field like quantum physics, so abstract and far removed from common intuition, you probably have to be predisposed at thinking far out of the box, and you have to be creative and open to weird ideas.
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Pauli himself began to seriously consider that there was some as yet unexplained phenomenon behind it all, convinced that it was all real. This was not a big jump for him, as he was already curious about parapsychology and subscribed to C. G. Jung’s ideas on synchronicity, which Jung described as “circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection,” as well as the hidden meaning of dreams. Pauli began to come up with some way to explain it all, theorizing that certain people had the ability to somehow affect technical equipment in their vicinity through forces not yet understood. Pauli was so convinced that this was a real mystery that he discussed it at length with Jung. One of his ideas was that this was due to a sort of psychokinesis, in which mental energy is projected to have an effect on physical surroundings. Pauli would say:
The existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego…All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.
It is interesting that Pauli’s musings on this are some of the earlier ideas put forth on psychokinesis, in an era before it even had an official, agreed upon name. Pauli was never able to prove any of this, but he allegedly spent much time pondering it and writing of it in his journals. He often lamented that there was no way to prove any of this under strict lab conditions, that in the end it was mostly based on anecdotal evidence, and that it was probably doomed to forever remain misunderstood. However, he maintained that the Pauli Effect was real, that people could mentally influence surrounding objects and electronics right up until his death in 1958. So was this just superstition among scientists or was there anything to it at all? It is hard to know just how grounded this was in reality, but it remains a curious little piece of lore merging science and the paranormal, as well as a strange little historical curiosity.
NASA deelt voor het eerst geluidsopname van robotjeep Perseverance die over Mars rijdt
De Amerikaanse Marsjeep Perseverance Mars heeft voor het eerst laten horen hoe hij over de Rode Planeet rijdt, zo heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA (plaatselijke tijd) meegedeeld.
De robotjeep zette zich op 7 maart met zijn zes wielen voor het eerst in beweging na op 18 februari succesvol te zijn geland. Van dat ritje over 27,3 meter heeft een gevoelige microfoon nu een geluidsopname van meer dan zestien minuten gemaakt. De NASA heeft die beklijvende opname woensdag vrijgegeven.
"Als ik met mijn auto zou rijden en die geluiden zou horen, dan zou ik stoppen en een takelwagen bellen", zegt hoofdingenieur Dave Gruel van het camera- en microfoonsysteem. "Maar als je er even bij stilstaat wat je hoort en waar het is opgenomen, is het volkomen logisch."
Aanvankelijk was het de bedoeling naar het landen te kunnen luisteren, maar de leiders van de missie wilden ook geluiden van op het Marsoppervlak laten horen.
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Mars Life Past and Present
Mars Life Past and Present
It’s almost a mantra these days: find life on the Red Planet. That’s why we’ve sent so many probes to Mars since the early 1960s. Each orbiter, lander, and rover was sent to look for evidence of Mars life in places like the scene above. This is the Octavia E. Butler Landing site for the Perseverance rover. The rocky outcrop in the short distance is a sedimentary deposit that was once part of a river delta. On Earth, this would be a perfect place to look for life.
Since the Martian surface is so barren-looking, the search for evidence of life—or, for life itself—has to be painstaking. There are no trees or plants or Martians waving at our cameras. All we see are rocks, plains, craters, mountains, and ice caps. Yet, those areas all hold clues to the Mars of the past. Those clues may even point to the existence of life there today. We just have to keep collecting data to find it.
It’s interesting to think about how we’d do the same search on Earth if we were, in fact, Martians. First, we’d train telescopes on Earth and try to figure out what the markings on the surface were. The blue color is a pretty strong hint of water on the planet. The clouds would also provide clues about the atmosphere and how “wet” it is. On the landmasses, some areas do change color with the seasons, but you’d need stronger proof than that. So, we theoretical Martians would send spacecraft with cameras, spectrometers, and other instruments, to get “up close” images and data.
Looking for Life in Hard Places
What if we theoretical Martians happened to land our spacecraft on Earth and managed to totally miss the oceans? There are some really barren parts of Earth that look totally devoid of life. Imagine showing up at the dry Antarctic valleys or the high altitude deserts of Chile. What conclusions would we come to about the possibility of life on the planet? What would we be looking for there in terms of life?
Such extreme environments would not necessarily be barren, particularly if there’s any water available. According to Nathalie Cabrol, director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute, life-hunters from another world would probably be searching out microbes. There are extreme environmental conditions in some of Earth’s areas that seem barren to us but definitely support thriving microbial colonies. “You can walk on the same landscape for miles and find nothing,” she points out. “Then, maybe…the slope changes by a fraction of a degree. Or, the texture or the mineralogy of the soil is different because there is more protection from solar ultraviolet light. And, all of a sudden, life is here.”
Getting back to Mars, then, is to consider that the Red Planet is a whole world of extreme environments that are similar—but much harsher than—what we see on Earth. And, what matters on Mars, is to look for clues that life might exist there now. The first clue is the existence of water. The second clue might be to look in a relatively protected area. That might be just underneath the surface regolith. Or, perhaps, underground in a hydrothermal system rich with water or in subsurface ice. Microbes might even be hidden away in something as unexpected as a crack in the crystalline structure of a rock.
Life is Tenacious
On a world full of extreme environments such as Mars has, it makes much more sense to analyze it as an extreme biosphere. You can’t assume that Mars life will be like it is on Earth or that life will just migrate to places based on what we know about Earth.
Think of it this way: if you grow up in a wet climate, you’re going to think about safe places to live in a way that’s very different from a being that grew up in a very dry, inhospitable climate. Desert-dwellers here on Earth know this all too well and they can find sustenance in places that rain-forest dwellers wouldn’t even notice. Maybe Mars life has experienced such a change in environments through no fault of its own.
Past Mars and Current Mars
We all know that Mars was very different in the ancient past. The ancient Martian biosphere was warmer and wetter, at least for a time. But, it had to change when the conditions changed that supported that life. Today, any microbial colonies are living under vastly different conditions than they did in the past. When the environment shifted on Mars, so did the habitats. That change happened about 3.5 billion years ago. Before that, any life that existed was dispersed around the planet through the actions of rivers and oceans, windstorms, and other actions. Today, wind and dust storms still exist, and they could be an active transport mechanism for whatever life is eking out an existence.
Cabrol thinks that there is, indeed, Mars life today. However, it’s obviously not on the surface. That means the habitats are underground. If this is correct, then the ongoing observations of Mars by our spacecraft and landers will certainly give us good data on the surface conditions, but we’ll have to modify our definition of what are called “special regions” (where life could exist).
Understanding Mars Life and Habitats
What’s it going to take to understand the existence of microbial life on Mars, given that it’s hidden from our view? Mars scientists need a lot more data about Mars on a global scale, particularly the environment. That’s a big first step towad understanding the Martian biosphere. Even more crucial, they don’t yet have a way to “see” the regions where microbes could be existing now. That’s going to take ever-more specialized missions, and eventually, a “bootprints on Mars” human exploration approach to the search for life there. For the time being, however, we are learning more each day from rovers such as the Perseverance craft, which is just beginning its exploration of the Red Planet.
Giants, Ancient Aliens, Hidden Human Origins & Escaping The Prison Planet
Giants, Ancient Aliens, Hidden Human Origins & Escaping The Prison Planet
Brad Olsen joins me on this episode of KBS & the conversation that ensued was mind blowing! We discuss Brad’s latest book ‘Beyond Esoteric’ & our conversation covers so many of the topics found in the book. From giants & the Announaki, all the way to the holographic nature of reality & how we escape the matrix, we cover it all, and then some!
We open up the conversation by diving into the world of giant skeletons. Brad covers this extensively in the book & its also something that we talk about a lot on KBS. Brad talks the giant skeletons that were discovered in the Love Lock caves in 1912. As is the case with so many of these types of discoveries, information about the find was quickly suppressed by the Smithsonian Institute. This is something that multiple guests have covered on the show before.
What some people might not know is that its rumored that the billionaire Robert Bigalow purchased one of the Love Lock cave giant skeletons. Bigalow is a very interesting character & the man behind Bigalow Aerospace, the organisation that was working with the Pentagon’s AATIP (Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program) on advanced projects & allegedly working with materials covered from downed alien technology.
Bigalow was also the one time owner of Skin Walker Ranch, a location that arguably, as we cover on the show, some kind of active stargate with crafts coming & going all the time, in addition to the other high strangeness associated with the property in Utah. One thing I will say for sure is that Bigalow sure does have a thirst for all the types of information & woo that we here on KBS crave to know more about.
Back to the show & we also talk about elongated skulls. One of the skulls we discuss comes from Chullpa in Peru. The image below shows the type of skulls we discuss on the show & really must make one question just what it is we are looking at. Is it just the result of binding as main stream antropologists & archaeologists would have us believe? Or could it be that we are looking at a lost race of humans, or perhaps this is evidence of the giants & maybe, just maybe…. ancient aliens!
HIDDEN HISTORY
If you have followed the shows here on KBS then you will be well aware of my fascination with history, archaeology & just where it is we come from. Its with this in mind that I get Brad to talk about the amazing location in Texas that appears to show dinosaur footprints & human foot prints together, set in stone from millions of years ago. I mean, how can you see that & not wonder just what on earth the actual timeline of the human story looks like
I also get Brad to talk about the idea that Australia is in fact the cradle of civilization, and as opposed to the ‘out of Africa’ theory, how about the ‘into Africa’ idea, and im thinking more along the lines of ‘out of Australia’! Brad adds to this by talking about his time down under & gets into how some of the oldest knowledge comes from the Aboriginal people of Australia
We also talk about a recent video I watched with Michael Tellinger presenting evidence of a potential giant foot print set in granite in South Africa. I get Brad to discuss this & more evidence of giants.
THE ANNOUNAKI
I get Brad to talk about the story of the Announaki & what evidence there may be in our own DNA that there was some kind of genetic manipulation in the past.
Brad talks about the work of Zacharia Sitchen & the arrival of a race of aliens called the Announaki. Its said that these beings came down here to mine gold to use in their own atmosphere of their home planet that is called Niburu. Brad talks about the Rh Negative factor in the blood & how it just appeared out of nowhere. Something strange is going on here for sure & add to that the Rh Negative people having traits that the rest of the population dont have. Are we looking at evidence of ancient aliens using something akin to CRISP-R kits to create a species that would mine the gold for them?
I have often thought about the story of the Announaki & there is something that rings true in my opinion. Whether or not they did come here is always going to be up for debate, but try and think about it this way…. if we eventually end up an interplanetary civilization that is out there exploring the galaxy, what would we do if we came across a habitable planet that was rich with priceless resources? I’ve thought about this, and I cant get away from the notion we would be right down there to get our hands on the loot, and we sure as hell would use CRISP-R kits on any creature that we may be able to enhance genetically to our advantage. So, if we would do it in our future, which i think we will, then who is to say that it hasn’t already happened here?
This is one of the amazing things about being alive at this unique time. We have so much information at our fingertips, like at no other time in recorded history, that we know of anyway & I dont think its an accident its all come together at a time when everything is going through great changes. We are living in apocalyptic times, in the truest meaning of the word, for the ‘apocalypse’ is the revealing of everything, good & bad, and that is what is going on right now. Yes, these truly are some of the most testing of times, but as we discuss on the show, both Brad & I are optimistic about the future. Things may actually get worse before they get better, but never forget, the darkest hour always comes right before the down.
Please listen to the conversation with Brad, keep an open mind & make sure you share it with just one other person. We cant change the world overnight, but we can change the worlds of those around us. Think global, act local & never forget this….. YOU ARE THE CHANGE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR IN THIS WORLD!
Where do we come from? Did we really come out of Africa like the ‘experts’ tell us? What if our history has it completely wrong? Well, its just so happens that we didn’t come out of Africa & in this episode of KBS you will hear an alternative theory, one backed by science.
Forget Africa, think Australia!
Steven & Evan Strong joined me all the way from Australia to discuss their “Forgotten Origin: Out Of Australia Theory”. We talk about the evidence for humans coming out of Australia & also get into their latest work on “Our Alien Ancestry”.
Steven & Evan have been working for over 15 years on piecing together the oldest story ever told. Its a story that has been passed down orally through the generations & remains a part of the Dreamtime.
The Dreamtime is a commonly used term for describing important features of Aboriginal spiritual beliefs and existence. It is not generally well understood by non-indigenous people.
Aboriginals believe that the Dreamtime was way back, at the very beginning. The land and the people were created by the Spirits. They made the rivers, streams, water holes the land, hills, rocks, plants and animals. It is believed that the Spirits gave them their hunting tools and each tribe its land, their totems and their Dreaming.
Steven & Evan present the stories of the Elders relating to the time of our creation. They also get into the scientific evidence that backs up the “Out Of Australia Theory”. We discuss how some of the oldest skeletons found the in the US were unmistakably Australian in origin. This hints to the First Nations people of Australia making it all the way around the world, with evidence of their presence in countries like Egypt & beyond.
One of the most jaw dropping pieces of evidence that we get into on the show is the image of a skull that Steven helped to excavate. This is one of the skulls that point towards something very alien going on in Australia at one time & whats even more interesting is that this was found buried next to Aboriginal people, something that typically would never happen if we were dealing with a deformity or mutation.
We are aware of four skulls spread across three states separated by over 2,000 kilometres, that tick no sapien or hominid box. They are not mutations, as the skulls come from four different tribal estates, and more importantly, at the burial site I examined the Alien being was fully intact buried with great respect. His knees and arms were wedged up against her chest and the body was facing east. The two front teeth were extracted, and the removal was clean as nothing remained. This type of ceremony was still taking place on this country until Cook and the British invaded. So, with this combination of numbers and ritual, we can summarily dismiss any notion of a lesser mutation or genetic cul-de-sac.
Undeniably the size of the eye sockets of the reconstructed skull made from eight pieces from another site, more than fifty photographs of the complete buried skeleton and skull plus the other two skulls found elsewhere, is massive by comparison. We feel the reconstructed skull is male, as it is two centimetres larger than his colleague at the burial site. This non-hominid has eyes 46% larger than those of any sapien. But there is more than just big eyes to this deviation from the human norm, much more.
Just above the eyes is something we all share, an eyebrow ridge which has a slight depression between the eyes. However, that is not the case here, in the same place the opposite is occurring, in that between the eyes is a protruding crest. Also positioned between the eyes is of course the nose, it is a composite construction being partially bone, but primarily ligament. For sapien skulls that non-bone segment leaves a circular shaped hole, when it comes to the Alien being the residual shape is much larger and more triangular. Remaining at this unusual nasal display, this non-hominid has a nose that begins over a centimetre higher than ours.
Continue reading full article with images…..
THE ULURU CEREMONY
Steven & Evan describe a ceremony that took place at Uluru in December last year. They talk about how the Australian government did everything they could to prevent people gathering at Uluru for a ceremony that the elders explained had to take place at this time due to the changes we & the planet on the whole are going through.
We talk about intention frequently on the show & what took place in December is phenomenal. There were approx 15 million people all around the world doing focused meditation & at the very same time there was a significant uptick in the Schumann resonance of the planet. We look at some of the other evidence that great changes are taking place right now, within us, within the animals, everything is going through change.
One thing we touch on close to the end of the show is how to best navigate through these times. It’s hard to accept, but not everyone is going to fully wake up & move on to the next level. Around the world people are starting to ask more & more questions as this awakening picks up pace. Its important to remember that you are on your personal journey & its your journey, no one else.
On the flip side of that, we encourage people not to spend too much time trying to convince people to $$wake up, because unfortunately the time for that has passed. Its easy to see this as being selfish, but its truly not. For you are responsible for the journey you are on, as is everyone else & we all have free will. All we can do is sow seeds along the way in the hope that one day they will take root & help others in their journeys, but if not, its ok.
With so much going on in the world right now its very easy to get emotionally caught up in things. Online there has never been such division & its no coincidence that its happening right now at this time of great change.
We need to reconnect with the planet, the animal, the cosmos, for we are all from the stars… and one day soon we may just make it back there.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/SHOWS ON THE TOPIC
For some time we have been extremely blessed to have come into contact with so many amazing people from Australia. They have been long time listeners to KBS & in recent times have become regular speakers on the show.
I must state here how grateful I am to archaeologists Dan & Jessica Knigge for putting us in contact with Uncle Donny & Auntie Luna, both of whom have shared information that rarely is given away so freely to us White Fellas. Its an honor for me to help them get their message out to people who need to hear these stories for all our Elders.
We are very lucky indeed to have so much wisdom being shared on the show at a time when people need to hear this information most.
For if we want to move forward & make it our future, we must look backwards to the past so we can remember who we are, where we come from & where we are going.
Below is a play list of the shows we have done so far on the Out Of Australia subject & includes the episodes with Uncle Donny & Auntie Luna
Stephen Hawking has been gone for three years this month, but he lives on in reruns of “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Simpsons” and “Futurama,” as well as in physics, cosmology and the many other fields his genius influenced. Now he has a chance to be famous in the far reaches of the solar system in a new(ish) but unproven theory that the mysterious Planet Nine exists, but not as a planet. Searching for Hawking radiation, some scientists think they can prove it’s actually a black hole using a high-speed spacecraft flyby. Could proving this convince the cast to reunite for one more “The Big Bang Theory” and toast Stephen Hawking?
I was right!
“Since this planet has not yet been observationally found with conventional telescope research, it has been argued that it could be a dark compact object, namely a black hole of probably primordial origin. Within this assumption, we discuss the possibility of detecting Planet 9 via a sub-relativistic spacecraft fly-by and the measure of its Hawking radiation in the radio band and conclude that it is too faint compared to the CMB. We thus present other perspectives with rather a satellite mission and conclude that smaller black holes would give much more interesting signals. We emphasize the importance of the study of such Hawking radiation laboratories in the Solar System.”
In a pre-print paper titled “Detecting Planet 9 via Hawking radiation” and another titled “Hawking radiation by spherically-symmetric static black holes for all spins: I — Teukolsky equations and potentials,” Alexandre Arbey and Jérémy Auffinger from the University of Lyon explain – in detail far beyond this writer’s pay grade – that a planet’s Hawking radiation would be too weak to detect with Earth telescopes but that of small black hole might be unusual enough to be picked up. It could then be inspected by a next generation New Horizons-style spacecraft designed to fly faster and farther. That mission would also help pinpoint its location so that more powerful telescopes could look at it.
“Nevertheless, if P9 were indirectly localized using for example spacecraft trajectory measurements or LSST flares, an orbital mission would be of great importance to study the properties of black holes and Hawking radiation, and would allow for more advanced measurement techniques, for example by screening the CMB and focusing the antenna on P9. Finally, we extrapolated the present discussion to lighter PBHs that could have been captured by the gravitational field of the Sun and concluded on the advantages of these configurations for the detection of Hawking radiation, since their emissivity would be dominant as compared to the CMB.”
In essence, Black Hole 9 would be the closest black hole to Earth, thus making black hole research much easier to accomplish. This would help all astronomers by providing more data on how to better search the Cosmic Microwave Background for the anomalies that indicate black holes and more. Finally, it would open the door to the possibility that the Sun has more primordial black holes in its grasp than just Black Hole/Planet 9.
Stephen Hawking
If Hawking radiation really proves that Planet 9 is actually Black Hole 9, what would Stephen Hawking say? Not sure about that, but there’s a good chance that if he reads this “way out of my league” review, he’d says something like he did to another poor soul on “The Big Bang Theory”:
“You made an arithmetic mistake on page 2. It was quite a boner.”
In 1977, the FBI declassified its UFO files under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. It was something that led to close to 2,000 pages of UFO-themed material being placed into the public domain. Since then, even more UFO-connected material has been made available by the FBI for one and all to see – such as files on cattle mutilations, the so-called Conatctees (George Adamski, George Van Tassel and so on), and UFO research groups. One of the first pages of material the FBI released back in 1977 was a letter sent, in the summer of 1947, to the FBI by a scientist. His name: Edwin M. Bailey. He was also a man who had some deep worries about the suddenly growing UFO phenomenon. Probably because of Bailey’s standing, the FBI didn’t waste any time in contacting him for a chat. J. Edgar Hoover’s agents were keen to see what Bailey had to say. After all, this was the dawning of the “Flying Saucer” age and just about everyone was fascinated by what was afoot.
In their papers on Bailey, the FBI stated: “Bailey prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamid Research Laboratories on West Main Street in Stamford, Connecticut, in the Physics Division. Bailey further indicated that during the war he was employed at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory which Laboratory is connected with the Manhattan Project. Bailey advised that he is thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona.”
Before I continue with the story, here’s a bit of background on Bailey’s employer, American Cyanamid Research Laboratories: “American Cyanamid Company was a leading American conglomerate which became one of the nation’s top 100 manufacturing companies during the 1970s and 1980s, according to the Fortune 500 listings at the time. Founded by Frank Washburn in 1907, the company grew to over 100,000 employees worldwide, and had over 200,000 shareholders by the mid-1970s. Its stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ACY. It was repeatedly reorganized after the mid-1990s, merged with other firms, and saw brands and divisions sold or spun off. The bulk of the former company is now part of Pfizer, with smaller portions belonging to BASF, Procter & Gamble and other firms.
“Although originally a manufacturer of agricultural chemicals the product line was soon broadened into many different types of industrial chemicals and specialty chemicals. The company then diversified into synthetic fibers, pharmaceuticals, surgical products, plastics, and inorganic pigments before World War II; and later added, by acquisitions, cosmetic and toiletry products, perfumes, building products, home building, and several smaller product categories following World War II.”
The FBI continued and listened carefully to Bailey’s thoughts on the Flying Saucer mystery. In the FBI’s records we’re provided the following on the man and his ideas: “Bailey stated that the topic of ‘flying saucers’ had caused considerable comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he himself had a personal theory concerning the ‘flying saucers.’ Prior to advancing his own theory, Bailey remarked that immediately after the conclusion of World War II, a friend of his, [Deleted], allegedly observed the ‘flying saucers’ from an observatory in Milan and Bologna, Italy. He stated that apparently at the time the ‘flying saucers’ had caused a little comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they immediately died out as public interest. Bailey stated that it is quite possible that actually the ‘flying saucers’ could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom bombs which are circling the orbit of the earth and which could be controlled by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire of the agency or country operating the bombs.”
Although just about everything Bailey said – and suspected, too – was speculative, the FBI was concerned by the matter of those “germ bombs.” Whether the FBI may have heard of such theories from other people, I don’t know; the files don’t make that clear. That Bailey became of interest to the FBI, though, showed that when the UFO enigma began on June 24, 1947 – the date on which the famous Kenneth Arnold case took place – J. Edgar Hoover’s agents were taking things carefully and quickly. Maybe with a degree of concern, too.
Dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing biblical text are discovered in Israel's 'Cave of Horror' having been hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome 1,900 years ago
Dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing biblical text are discovered in Israel's 'Cave of Horror' having been hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome 1,900 years ago
The fragments of ancient parchment were discovered in the 'Cave of Horror' which is south of Jerusalem
This is the first item discovered from an archaeological dig in the Judean Desert in more than 60 years
The pieces of parchment found inside the cave include Greek lines of biblical text from Zechariah and Nahum
Other items found in the cave include a 10,000 year old woven basket and the skeleton of a young girl
Dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to have been hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome 1,900 years ago have been found in a cave.
The fragments include lines of Greek text from the biblical books of Zechariah and Nahum and were radiocarbon dated to the 2nd century AD, experts confirmed.
The Israel Antiquities Authority say more than 20 fragments were found in a remote canyon in the Judean Desert, south of Jerusalem - the first find of its kind in 60 years.
They were discovered in the Cave of Horror, named in the 1950s after 40 skeletons of women, men and children were found after excavations - they were hiding from Roman soldiers during the 2nd century Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt.
To get into the cave, which is well secluded from view and difficult to access, teams of archaeologists and other experts had to repel down the side of a 260ft cliff.
A number of items were found in the cave, including a 10,000 year old woven basket, the skeleton of a girl dating back 6,000 years and the biblical fragments.
They were discovered in clumps and rolled up within the cave - so far 11 lines of Greek text translated from the books of Zechariah and Nahum have been revealed.
The Israel Antiquities Authority is displaying the newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Dead Sea scrolls conservation lab in Jerusalem
Israel Antiquities Authority conservator Tanya Bitler says they were likely hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago
An expert points at fragments of ancient text scrolls that are shown in the Scrolls Sections at the laboratorires of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in Jerusalem
CAVE OF HORROR: 40 SKELETONS FOUND IN THE 1950s
Excavations of a cave in the Judea Desert in the 1950s revealed skeletons of 40 men, women and children.
It is in the southern cliff of Nahal Hever near the Cave of Letters where writings on the revolt were uncovered.
They were Jewish rebels hiding from Roman troops during the Bar Kochba Revolt from 132-136 AD.
It is thought Roman soldiers continued to besieged the camp until the inhabitants succumbed to starvation.
The new pieces are believed to belong to a larger set of parchment fragments that include a Greek rendition of the Twelve Minor Prophets.
It is thought the newly found fragments are the missing parts of those scrolls, which were first found in 1952. They include Micah's prophecy about the End of Days.
The IAA explained that while it is written in Greek, the new scroll fragments include the name of God in ancient Hebrew letters from the First Temple Period.
The scrolls themselves come from a time before the modern 'Old Testament' was finalised in the form we know it today, experts explained.
The fragments were found in a site known as The Cave Of Horror, which lies in the southern cliff of Nahal Hever, near the Cave of Letters where many documents from the Bar Kochba Revolt were uncovered.
The revolt involved an armed Jewish uprising against Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, between 132 and 136 AD.
The revolt was the result of religious and political tensions in Judea, linked to the establishment of a large Roman military presence in the region.
When the cave was excavated in the 1950s archaeologists found skeletons of 40 men, women and children who had sought refuge in the cave during the revolt.
A coin from the 'Cache of Bar Kokhba'. To get into the cave, which is well secluded from view and difficult to access, teams of archaeologists and other experts had to repel down the side of a 260ft cliff.
The Israel Antiquities Authority say they were found in a remote canyon in the Judean Desert, south of Jerusalem - the first find of its kind in 60 years
A basket believed to be around 10,500 years old and found in the Muraba'at Cave.
The lid of a basket discovered that could be 10,500 years old based on radiocarbon dating. That pre-dates the arrival of pottery in the region
There was also a cache of coins from the same time period, bearing the typical Jewish symbols of the time including a harp and date palm.
The remains of a Roman camp have previously been found on a cliff close to where the cave is located. Researchers believe the Romans besieged the cave until rebels inside starved to death or succumbed to thirst.
As well as the fragments, the team also found what could be the oldest surviving basket in the world, made of woven reeds.
The artefacts were found during an operation by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Judean Desert to find scrolls and other artefacts to prevent possible plundering
An expert points at fragments of ancient text scrolls. The new pieces are believed to belong to a larger set of parchment fragments that include a Greek rendition of the Twelve Minor Prophets
They were found in a site known as The Cave Of Horror, named for the 40 skeletons found there during excavations in the 1960s, experts explained
An Israel Antiquities Authority worker shows silver coins struck by rebels in the Jewish uprising against Rome between 132 and 136 AD that were found during its sweep of more than 500 caves in the desert
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH IN THE NEW SCROLL FRAGMENTS
Zechariah 8:16-17 from the new Cave of Horror fragments:
16: These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates.
17: And do not contrive evil against one another, and do not love perjury, because all those are things that I hate – declares the Lord.'
Zechariah 8:16-17 from the King James Bible version:
16: These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
17: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.
It has a lid and could be 10,500 years old based on radiocarbon dating. That pre-dates the arrival of pottery in the region.
'As far as we know, this is the oldest basket in the world that has been found completely intact and its importance is therefore immense,' said the IAA.
The archaeologists also uncovered the skeleton of a young girl dating back about 6,000 years that had been mummified and tucked into a blanket.
'It was obvious that whoever buried the child had wrapped him up and pushed the edges of the cloth beneath him, just as a parent covers his child in a blanket. A small bundle of cloth was clutched in the child's hands,' said historian Ronit Lupu.
It is thought the scrolls and basket survived due to the heat and aridity in the region.
'The desert team showed exceptional courage, dedication and devotion to purpose,' said Israel Hasson, director of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
He said the work involved 'rappelling down to caves located between heaven and earth, digging and sifting through them, enduring thick and suffocating dust, and returning with gifts of immeasurable worth for mankind.'
'The newly discovered scroll fragments are a wake-up call to the state. Resources must be allocated for the completion of this historically important operation.
'We must ensure that we recover all the data that has not yet been discovered in the caves before the robbers do. Some things are beyond value,' Hasson said.
The objects were discovered as part of a wider mission to find prehistoric and biblical relics in the region to reduce the risk of looting.
Archeologist Haim Cohen looks at a woven basket that is more than 10,000 years old
This is the remains of a sandal found within the Cave of Horror during an excavation that also revealed bible fragments
Ancient samples of grains and seeds were also uncovered from the cave where fragments of biblical scrolls were found
This is a fragment of an ancient arrow nock from prehistoric period Judea - found in the Cave of Horror
Caves and ravines are being combed by experts, as part of the project that first started in 2017.
'For years we chased after antiquities looters. We finally decided to pre-empt the thieves and try reaching the artefacts before they were removed from the ground and the caves,' said Amir Ganor, head of the IAA's Theft Prevention Unit.
A coin from the 'Cache of Bar Kokhba' likely belonging to the Jewish rebels hiding from Roman soldiers
The fragment of an ancient arrow from prehistoric and Roman periods discovered in the cave
The fragment of an ancient rope that could come from the prehistoric era Judea Desert
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s.
They date from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD and include the earliest known copies of biblical text and documents.
The original scrolls were found by shepherd Muhammed Edh-Dhib as he searched for a stray among the limestone cliffs at Khirbet Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea in what was then British Mandate Palestine - now the West Bank.
The fragment of an ancient, about 2,000 years old lice comb found in the Cave of Horror
Fragments of various ancient finds from the cave reveal an insight into the long history of the region from the Neolithic through to biblical periods and Roman occupation
Fragments of ancient arrowheads from prehistoric and Roman eras were also among the items discovered within the cave
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1946 and 1956 and date back 2,000 years
Discovered between 1946 and 1956, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 ancient manuscripts dating back to 2,000 years ago.
The texts include tends of thousands of parchment and papyrus fragments and in rare cases entire manuscripts.
They contain parts of what is now known as the Hebrew Bible as well as a range of extra-biblical documents.
The scrolls were found by shepherd Muhammed Edh-Dhib as he searched for a stray among the limestone cliffs at Khirbet Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea in what was then British Mandate Palestine - now the West Bank.
The story goes that in a cave in the dark crevice of a steep rocky hillside, Muhammed hurled a stone into the dark interior and was startled to hear the sound of breaking pots.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include tends of thousands of parchment and papyrus fragments (file photo), contain parts of what is now known as the Hebrew Bible. They also feature a range of extra-biblical documents
Venturing inside, the young Bedouin found a mysterious collection of large clay jars in which he found old scrolls, some wrapped in linen and blackened with age.
The texts have since been excavated by archaeologists, who are now racing to digitise their contents before they deteriorate beyond legibility.
The texts are of great historical and religious significance and include the earliest known surviving copies of biblical and extra-biblical documents, as well as preserving evidence of diversity in late Second Temple Judaism.
Dated to between 408BC and 318AD, they are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus and bronze.
The scrolls are traditionally divided into three groups.
'Biblical' manuscripts, which are copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible comprise 40 per cent of the haul.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found by shepherd Muhammed Edh-Dhib as he searched for a stray among the limestone cliffs at Khirbet Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea
Several items of historical significance have been found in a cave in the Judean Desert. The most incredible find was a 2,000-year-old biblical scroll which makes it the first time that such an item has been found since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Archaeology Department of the Civil Administration conducted several very difficult operations to explore all the caves in the area, although only about 80 kilometers (50 miles) of caves have been surveyed so far during their operation and around half of it still hasn’t been touched.
The scroll and other artifacts were found at a location called the “Cave of Horror” (named after 40 human skeletons were found there in the 1950s) in the Judean Desert reserve’s Nahal Hever. The cave, which is located about 80 meters (262 feet) beneath the clifftop, is only accessible by rappelling down with ropes.
Bronze coins were found in the cave (not a photo of the ones mentioned in this article.)
The scroll, which had passages from the Minor Prophets (which included Nahum), were written in Greek, however, God’s name was in paleo-Hebrew. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Dr. Oren Ableman from the IAA Dead Sea Scroll Unit explained the biblical texts in further detail, “More than 80 fragments of different sizes have been uncovered, some of them carrying text, some not.” “Based on the script, we dated them to the end of the first century BCE, which means that by the time it was brought to the cave, the scroll was already a century old.”
The scroll referenced the biblical Book of Zechariah with one of the excerpts containing a version never seen before where the word “gates” was replaced by “streets” in Verses 16 and 17 of the eighth chapter.
The biblical texts weren’t the only significant items found in the cave. Numerous bronze coins that were minted by the Jewish rebels who were under Bar Kokhba’s leadership were discovered with a palm tree and vine leaf on them.
What may be the world’s oldest basket was recovered from the cave as well. The woven basket, which could hold up to 90 liters, dates back approximately 10,500 years – an astonishing 1,000 years before pottery was invented.
An ancient basket was also found (not a photo of the one mentioned in this article.)
Exceptionally well preserved human remains belonging to a child (between 6 and 12 years of age) who lived around 6,000 years ago were also found. IAA prehistorian Ronit Lupu explained how they found the child’s skeleton, “By moving two flat stones, we discovered a shallow pit intentionally dug beneath them, containing a skeleton of a child placed in a fetal position,” adding, “It was obvious that whoever buried the child had wrapped him up and pushed the edges of the cloth beneath him, just as a parent covers his child in a blanket.”
Pictures of the artifacts found in the cave can be seen here.
Grote asteroïde vliegt zondag relatief dicht bij de Aarde
De grootste asteroïde die volgens wetenschappers dit jaar dicht bij de Aarde komt, vliegt zondag langs onze planeet. Het hemellichaam met de naam 2001 FO32 nadert onze aardbol dan tot ongeveer 2 miljoen kilometer. Dat is meer dan vijf keer zo ver als de afstand van de Aarde tot de Maan. De diameter van het object bedraagt enkele honderden meters.
Er is geen gevaar voor een botsing. Nu niet, maar ook niet in de toekomst. "We kennen de baan van 2001 FO32 rond de Zon heel goed. We hebben hem gevolgd sinds hij twintig jaar geleden ontdekt werd. De asteroïde kan nooit dichterbij komen dan 2 miljoen kilometer”, stelt Paul Chodas van NASA.
2001 FO32, die eens in de 810 dagen om de Zon draait, zal met een snelheid van ongeveer 124.000 kilometer per uur langs ons scheren. Pas in 2052 zal hij opnieuw passeren, op 2,8 miljoen kilometer afstand dan.
NASA-wetenschappers willen zondag van de gelegenheid gebruik maken om de asteroïde nader te onderzoeken. Ook amateur-astronomen kunnen met zelfs niet al te grote telescopen naar het object loeren, zegt Chodas. Voorwaarde is wel dat u in het zuidelijk halfrond woont.
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Invisible Control Grid & Lost Advanced City in the Grand Canyon, Latest
Invisible Control Grid & Lost Advanced City in the Grand Canyon, Latest
Invisible Control Grid & Lost Advanced City in the Grand Canyon, Latest
How about someone get a couple native elders to give a brief? Share some knowledge with those of us who want to learn and understand. They have so much wisdom, wisdom that might help us understand what we need to accomplish. Just an idea.. the Intuit Elders talk to outsiders. MM
I wonder if the resurgence of the “grid” is causing or facilitating the appearances of cryptids and other strange unidentified phenomenon? RG
Bombshell Underground DUMBs Bases Revelations and Fallen Angels and UFOs via Justen Faull
Bombshell Underground DUMBs Bases Revelations and Fallen Angels and UFOs via Justen Faull
New Underground DUMBs Bases Revelations and Fallen Angels and UFOs via Justen Faull
Justen Faull: Underground Bases Revelations and Fallen Angels and UFOs
Justen Faull is a filmmaker and producer for Faull Brothers Productions, Best known for his films “Higher Entities”, “Belly of the Beast”, and “The Hollow Earth Chronicles”. In this interview, we talk all about UFOs, Aliens, Underground Bases, and Fallen Angels.
Do Supermassive Black Holes Come From Supermassive Stars?
Do Supermassive Black Holes Come From Supermassive Stars?
The gargantuan supermassive black holes at the center of seemingly every galaxy are among the most fascinating and extreme objects known to modern astronomy and cosmology. With masses well in excess of millions, and sometimes billions that of our Sun, it is nearly impossible to comprehend the extraordinary size of these celestial leviathans. One of the great mysteries of modern astrophysics is answering how such enormous objects got started. In a press release published on March 10th, researchers propose that the origins of supermassive black holes may lie with long since extinct, first-generation stars with masses far above the most massive stars in the modern Universe. Not only do they propose such giants existed, but also they suggest that they’ve found a way to detect a particular subset of these stars. This breakthrough is thanks to our old friend, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
The most massive stars in the Universe today weigh in near 150 solar masses. The primordial supermassive stars thought to be the origin or seed of supermassive black holes are believed to be orders of magnitude more massive. We’re talking in the 10,000-100,000 solar mass range! When stars enter this mass regime, their behavior is markedly different than that of more modern and modestly massive stars.
A model showing the predicted supernova behavior of a supermassive star. Credit Dr. Ke-Jung Chen, ASIAA
When these vast stars burn out at the end of their lives, the gravity is so strong that they can collapse directly into a black hole without the spectacular supernova explosions that we associate with massive star death today. This poses a real problem when it comes to detecting these events. Obviously, black holes are dark, and without a bright, signature supernova, these extreme stars would be rendered essentially undetectable. Keep in mind that since these stars only existed for a short time during the earliest stages of galaxy formation in the young Universe. We can only see their neighborhoods by looking billions of light-years away, and thus billions of years into the past.
I spoke with one of the lead researchers about the ingenious, relativistic solution to this seemingly unsolvable mystery. Dr. Ke-Jung Chen of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taipei, Taiwan, commented on a ‘sweet spot’ in the mass of these stars revealed by extensive modeling.
Another supernova model that Dr. Chen dubbed the ‘brainstar’. Credit Credit Dr. Ke-Jung Chen, ASIAA
“The model showed that at about 55,000 solar masses, there was a very interesting behavior due to general relativity.” Chen explained, “…because Einstein says the energy of everything, photons, gas, etc., contribute to the gravity field. The pressure starts to contribute to the gravitational field… it starts a violent nuclear reaction and then releases a large amount of energy and a supernova explosion.”
Dr. Chen went on to explain that this occurs only at the sweet spot of 55,000 solar masses. Less than that and the relativistic contribution is too little to cause these particular violent nuclear reactions. More and the gravity is so extreme that everything ends up within the black hole and all we see is darkness. With the billions of galaxies out on the edge of the observable universe, it is incredibly likely that at least some of these goldilocks 55,000 solar mass supernovae should be detectable.
Another question that immediately comes to mind when considering these primordial stellar giants: Why don’t we see stars this size in the modern Universe?
Supermassive black holes like the one at the center of galaxy M87 (pictured above from the famous event horizon telescope observations of 2019) are millions or billions of times the mass of the sun. Their mysterious origins may be explained by primordial supermassive stars in the early Universe. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
“We believe a supermassive star can only form in the early Universe. This is because of metals, that is, elements other than hydrogen and helium. In the Big Bang, we only have hydrogen and helium and a tiny amount of lithium. We don’t have carbon, oxygen, elements required to make life, etc. Because those (metals) elements have large atomic numbers and many electrons in their orbits, they can form molecules and compounds. This will cool the (surrounding) gas efficiently, leading to collapse and the formation of a star cluster.” Essentially, without heavy elements leading to local cooling and condensation of gas clouds, a large volume of gas in the predominantly hydrogen and helium environment of the early Universe is more likely to collapse into a supermassive star rather than a multitude of stars as we see in the open clusters of the modern Universe. This conversation also highlights a fun habit of astronomers that drives some chemists mad, which is referring to all elements heavier than hydrogen and helium as metals!
Chen described his hopes for detecting the signature supernovae of those supermassive stars whose mass happens to land right on the 55,000 solar mass sweet spot. “These observations are possible, especially for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.” If so, the observations will shed light on the very nature of galaxy formation and evolution itself.
Artist’s concept of James Webb Space Telescope Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator
The fundamental nature of supermassive black holes may be linked to these supermassive stars. Sweet spot supernovae may light the way to a new era of cosmology. Dr. Chen beams with a sense of curiosity and a passion for discovery and exploration when describing his research. It’s hard not to feel the same sense of excitement, both for the fantastic observational and theoretical achievements that have led us here and the massive (pun intended) discoveries just around the corner.
Lead Image:Colors reveal complex interactions of oxygen abundance driving a supernova in a 55,000 solar mass star.Credit Dr. Ke-Jung Chen, ASIAA
Did UFOs form a crop circle in England in 1996? & Other Top Reddit UFO Posts
Did UFOs form a crop circle in England in 1996? & Other Top Reddit UFO Posts
In this video, UFOJane shares the top posts on Reddit/r/UFOs, which includes a UFO over Mexico, UFOs forming a crop circle in England, and the mysterious disappearance of a pilot who witnessed a UFO while flying.
Did UFOs form a crop circle in England in 1996? & Other Top Reddit UFO Posts
Did UFOs form a crop circle in England in 1996? & Other Top Reddit UFO Posts
In this video, UFOJane shares the top posts on Reddit/r/UFOs, which includes a UFO over Mexico, UFOs forming a crop circle in England, and the mysterious disappearance of a pilot who witnessed a UFO while flying.
I was searching through a Mercury map from the old Messenger mission and found something that really struck me. It was a square structure on the inside of a crater. It was actually attached and built into the crater. This looks like an alien structure to me. The small square area has four perfect 90 degrees angles...just as any square building might have. This is not a small structure. Its about 1.5km across by 1.5km. Not sure how anyone at NASA could have missed it. This thing really stands out. This is 100% proof that aliens are living on Mercury right now.
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UFO Over St Petersburg, Florida April 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News. MUFON
UFO Over St Petersburg, Florida April 29, 2016, UFO Sighting News. MUFON
Date of sighting: April 29, 2016
Location of sighting: St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON
Here is an old case I wanted to take a closer look at. A long cigar shaped UFO crossed the sunset over Florida back in 2016. But what was it? In the video at the end, I made a close up, then another close up with added contrast to show more detail. Also the above screenshot shows its true shape. Notice the front of the craft has a hard right angle to it. It doesn't resemble any known craft. The huge craft was heading into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico where an alien base sits, about 6km below the ocean floor. This video is 100% proof that aliens exist and have bases here on Earth.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was approximately 7:45 PM. Our house is located right on the water next to Tampa Bay.I walked outside to the back of my house to let our dog out. I then noticed a strange cigar like object moving SE to S that I couldn't identify. It was completely transfixing. About 45 seconds into my observation, a orange orb instantly appeared directly to the right of the craft, then blinked out after about 2-3 seconds. It was at this point that I pulled out my iPhone and captured about 25 seconds of relatively shaky video. You can definitely make the object out though. There were no discernable normal aircraft lights and the craft made no sound. In my video, a bird flies by in the foreground of the craft which gives the craft considerable scale. You could also probably determine the speed of the craft, as it's flying just above some cloud cover which should provide reference points for speed determination. As the object moved further away, I stopped taking video and ran inside to grab my binoculars. When I returned a few seconds later, the object was gone.
Some early-bird skywatchers got a surprise before dawn Sunday (March 14).
This photo by Eduardo R. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Chesapeake Beach, MD. (Image credit: Eduardo R. )
"Is it a fireball?" "Is it a space jellyfish?" Nope, it's a SpaceX rocket.
Some observers along the U.S. East Coast saw a strange sight in the dark, early morning sky on Sunday (March 14): a bright object streaking across the sky, leaving a ballooning, illuminated trail behind it. The pre-dawn sky made this spectacle even more striking and the American Meteor Society (AMS) received about 120 reports about "an observed object in the sky," the AMS tweeted. However, the sighting was actually of a SpaceX rocket, not a fireball, the AMS confirmed.
At 6:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT) Sunday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a fresh batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit. People all along the East Coast, from Florida up to Maine, saw the rocket's brilliant streak across the sky.
This photo by Warren L. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021, as seen from Front Royal, Virginia.
(Image credit: Warren L. )
This photo by Cory B. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Lebanon, PA.
(Image credit: Cory B. )
This image was taken by Monita S. of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on March 14, 2021, as seen from Pleasantville, NJ.
(Image credit: Monita S. )
This photo by Jonathan W. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Holly Springs, NC.
(Image credit: Jonathan W. )
This photo by Paul H. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Frederick County, MD.
(Image credit: Paul H )
Skywatchers sent the AMS photos of the "fireball," showing the striking image of the rocket midflight. Florida launches like this one are often visible along the East Coast. But this time, because the launch happened in the predawn hours, the sun illuminated the rocket's plume and created a unique atmospheric effect that only happens at dawn and dusk, where the light looks like a "space jellyfish" in the sky.
This sighting isn't the first time that skywatchers have mistaken a rocket launch for something stranger in the sky. SpaceX launches have sparked claims of UFOs, as they sometimes create strange, squiggly "clouds" in the sky.
As during SpaceX's other Falcon 9 launches, the reusable rocket's first stage fell back to Earth shortly after launch; it landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You," which was posted in the Atlantic Ocean, the ninth time for this booster.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX is working to launch the massive constellation of Starlink internet satellites to create global internet coverage and provide internet connectivity for those in rural or remote areas that otherwise don't have access.
Email Chelsea Gohd at cgohd@space.com or follow her on Twitter @chelsea_gohd. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - PART I
Kennewick, Washington Cylinder —on March 11, 2021
Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - 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: Astronaut Tim Peake’s UFO Sighting? Navy Aircrews are Chasing UFOs, Ancient Aliens by Erich von Däniken, and Chariots of the Gods, Mayor De Blasio Criticizes Gov. Cuomo for Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, Columbia, France, Mexico, Portugal, England in the United Kingdom and Zaire.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Astronaut Tim Peake’s “UFO Sighting?
Astronaut Tim Peake’s “UFO Sighting” in Space January 9, 2021 UFOs Latest posts, NASA 0. Four mysterious lights threw the first Brit in space for a loop!
Peake mistook ‘lights’ in space for a UFO but had actually spotted urine leaking from a Russian probe.
The astronaut, 48, said he had seen lights ‘moving in formation’ during his trip. He said his team was ‘perplexed’ before they realized it was droplets of liquid. Peake became first official British astronaut to join International Space Station.
Editor’s Note: Astronaut Peake, is aboard the ISS so what is the manned Russian probe with urine leaking from it?
Anything seen in space has various explanations; I’ve been told the public doesn’t have the right to know what was actually seen. So it’s difficult to know what was actually seen. Astronaut Tim Peak. Why announce it to the world that what they saw was urine>
Navy Aircrews are Chasing UFOs
USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier F-18 Aircrew’s have continued to gather eyewitness accounts like these: “It’s white. It has no wings. It has no rotors.”
“It didn’t fly like an aircraft. It was so unpredictable—high g, rapid velocity, rapid acceleration.”
“I didn’t see a trail.” “It was going 70-plus knots underwater.”
F-18s chase Tic Tac
Those reports—from Navy fighter pilots, radar operators and other witnesses from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group incident from November 2004—were among a handful of shocking encounters the Unidentified team explored. When Elizondo ran the Defense Department initiative, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, he compiled a list of extraordinary, logic-defying capabilities most commonly associated with unidentified aerial phenomena sightings. He calls those traits the “five observables”:
1) Anti-gravity lift
Unlike any known aircraft, these objects have been sighted overcoming the earth’s gravity with no visible means of They also lack any flight surfaces, such as wings. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses describe the crafts as tubular, shaped like a Tic Tac candy.
2) Sudden and instantaneous acceleration
The objects may accelerate or change direction so quickly that no human pilot could survive the g-forces—they would be crushed. In the Nimitz incident, radar operators say they tracked one of the UFOs as it dropped from the sky at more than 30 times the speed of sound. Black Aces squadron commander David Fravor, the Nimitz-based fighter pilot who was sent to intercept one of the objects, likened its rapid side-to-side movements, later captured on infrared video, to that of a ping-pong ball. Radar operators on the USS Princeton, part of the Nimitz carrier group, tracked the object accelerating from a standing position to traveling 60 miles in a minute—an astounding 3,600 miles an hour. According to manufacturer Boeing, the F/A 18 Super Hornet fighter jet typically currently reaches a maximum speed of Mach 1.6, or about 1,200 miles an hour.
Tic Tac UAP/UFO
3) Hypersonic velocities without signatures
If an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound, it typically leaves “signatures,” like vapor trails and sonic booms. Many UFO accounts note the lack of such evidence.
4) Low observability, or cloaking
Even when objects are observed, getting a clear and detailed view of them—either through pilot sightings, radar or other means—remains difficult. Witnesses generally only see the glow or haze around them.
5) Trans-medium travel
Some UAP have been seen moving easily in and between different environments, such as space, the earth’s atmosphere and even the ocean water. In the Nimitz incident, witnesses described a UFO hovering over a churning “disturbance” just under the ocean’s otherwise calm surface, leading to speculation that another craft had entered the water. USS Princeton radar operator Gary Vorhees later confirmed from aunderwater Mothership about 1,500 feet long, Tic Tac is about 60 feet length, USS Nimitz, length is 1,092 feet
Navy sonar operator in the area that day that a craft was moving faster than 70 knots, roughly two times the speed of nuclear subs.
No one has yet gotten close to crafts that display these traits, so their origins are still unknown. Are they a super-top-secret U.S. defense project? Do they hail from Russia? China? Or from even further afield? The only thing we do know is that their sixe and capabilities exceed any technologies currently in the U.S. arsenal. “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,”
Ancient Aliens by Erich von Däniken
Amelia Wynne writes, In the 1970s, Erich von Däniken was invited to a secret speech at NASA where he met NASA’s Josef F. Blumrich. The two spoke about von Däniken’s ancient astronaut theory from his book.
Chariots of the Gods, notably the idea that Ezekiel’s visionwas that of a space shuttle, rather than a divine chariot. This conversation led Blumrich on a mission to disprove von Däniken’s seemingly absurd theory, so he did some research of his own and started writing a book. However, the evidence was overwhelming and Blumrich had an epiphany. Ezekiel was undoubtedly describing an advanced spacecraft. Blumrich even used Ezekiel’s description of the craft to patent his own version of an omnidirectional wheel.
Chariots of the Gods suggests that extraterrestrial beings influenced ancient technology. Von Däniken suggests that some ancient structures and artifacts appear to represent higher technological knowledge than is presumed to have existed at the times they were manufactured almost 2500 years ago. . Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from them.
The Baptism of Christ, 1710 it was painted by Dutch artist Aert De Gelder in the 18th century. UFO hunters suggest that the disc-like object, s shown shining light onto John the Baptist and Jesus could be a UFO.
Art experts suggest that this painting is a reference to a religious passage: ‘The heavens opened, and the Spirit descended like a dove and (put) lighting upon him’.
Such artifacts include the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Moai of Easter Island. Further examples include a medieval Piri Reis Map, which von Däniken describes as showing the Earth as it is seen from space,[7] and the Nazca lines in Peru, which he suggests may have been constructed by humans as crude replicas of previous alien structures, as a way to call the aliens back to Earth.
Ezekiel is a key figure in Judaism and is also prominent in other biblical texts. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon (now Iraq) in the first captivity of Israel and is described as a prophet. One of the interesting characteristics of The Book of Ezekiel as a biblical text is that it is written using the pronoun, “I,” clearly showing it being written by Ezekiel himself as a first-person account, unlike many biblical texts written in the third person. This seems to lend a little more credit and personality to the story as it is told shortly after its occurrence.
Ezekiel describes seeing a wheeled chariot descend toward him from the sky, piloted by beings with the “likeness of a man.” While many biblical versions of the story describe this being the chariot of God, von Däniken points out that the original Hebrew version never mentions God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s description of the wheeled chariot landing sounds much like that of the landing of a spacecraft. The windstorm, flash of lightning, and brilliant lights are reminiscent of a spacecraft coming down for a landing and kicking up dirt in a spectacle never before seen by someone of such a primitive era. Ezekiel even describes the fire powering the chariot as appearing as ‘glowing metal.’
“4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.” – Ezekiel 1
Blumricks Study of Ezekiel as NASA Scientist
I was quite impressed when I originally read Blumrich’s book 40 years ago. But when I then started reading the entire Book of Ezekiel—including the extensive prophecies and messages that claim to be from the God of the Bible—
Some people who examine Spaceships decide that Blumrich originally planned to refute von Däniken but realized the story was factual by agreeing. I have researched Blumrich extensively and there is absolutely no question that he honestly believed what he wrote. After Spaceships he wrote another book on the legends of the Hopi Indians who also describe UFOs aliens and spaceships. He published unpaid articles, gave lectures and unpaid interviews and participated in Paleo-SETI groups that research “ancient astronauts as gods” theories. ` His also likely new NASA was regularly seeing UFOs even though they are kept secret.
Much of the way Ezekiel’s vision is portrayed in biblical artwork. Pictures often leave out the details involving the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted crystal encasing over the heads of the human-like creatures.
“15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around… 22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome.” – Ezekiel 1
These creatures with the ‘likeness of man,’ then take Ezekiel with them in their craft, bringing him to a ‘temple’ on top of the highest mountain. During his flight there, Ezekiel mentions feeling the hand of God on him, which could be interpreted as the force of gravity, or g-forces, felt when lifting off? He is taken to these beings’ ‘temple,’ which is likely a staging area or city where they reside.
Examples such as: Ezekiel‘s revelation in Old Testament, which he interprets as a detailed description of a landing spacecraft with angels in the likeness of man.
Ark of the Covenant
Moses and the directions ‘God‘ gave him to construct the Ark of the Covenant, which is assumed to be a communication device with an alien race. Lot and his extended family being ordered by human like ‘angels‘ to go to the mountains, due to the destruction of the city of Sodom by God. His wife looked back at the possible nuclear explosion, and fell “dead on the spot”. Däniken attempts to draw an analogy with the “cargo cults” that formed during and after World War II, when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for gods.
So, according to Christian interpretations, in prophetic visions Ezekiel saw Jesus. The “Commander” who Ezekiel saw was God—and whenever God appeared in human form in the Bible; it was in the form of Jesus.
Corroborating Evidence
Throughout an array of biblical stories, the Ark of the Covenant presents itself as an artifact of interest for von Däniken’s theory. But it’s mention in the Kebra Nagast, an account of Christianity in Ethiopia under King Solomon, is where he sees the most relevancy. In this account, he says that it was known that King Solomon had flying machines that weren’t mentioned in the Bible as well as possession of the highly coveted Ark. King Solomon built likeness of the UFOs where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea that still stand today.
King Solomon probably the greatest and wisest King of Israel had two columns erected to match the UFO on both coasts 400 years after the miracle crossing from Egypt. King Solomon’s sea port was at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba at Eilat and he was very familiar with the Red Sea crossing. The King reigned from 970 BCE to 931 BCE, making the cylinder statues almost 3,000 years old at the entrance and exit to the Red Sea Crossing.
These two columns look very similar to those photographed today
The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002) about a spaceship that was observed by the prophet Ezekiel, written while the author was chief of NASA’s Systems Layout Branch of the Program Development Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center
Two column’s wee built by King Sol omen 3000 years ago that resemble the UFO Cylinders we see today
According to Christian theology, “the Angel of the LORD” in the Old Testament was Jesus.
Both the Hebrew word (ma-lach) and the Greek word (ággelos) can be translated either “angel”, i.e., “a supernatural created spirit-being” or “messenger”. So, malach-Yahweh can be translated either “Angel (created being) of the LORD” or “Messenger of Jehovah”.
The beginning of the Gospel of John calls Jesus the Word of God. So, saying that the “Messenger of Jehovah” is the same person as the “Word of God” is no great leap. So, according to Christian interpretations, in prophetic visions Ezekiel saw Jesus. The “Commander” who Ezekiel saw was God—and whenever God appeared in human form in the Bible; it was in the form of Jesus.
These texts note that people were afraid of the Ark, as it often killed those who were in close contact with it. Was this because it was radioactive or electrically charged? Was the Ark of the Covenant a plutonium reactor?
Erich Von Däniken says he believes there are other Bible verses that fit into his ancient astronaut theory, including some that hint at similar ‘temples’ or landing areas for spacecraft, (perhaps Heaven
Angel of the Lord’s Craft 3,000 years old or a base much like the one Ezekiel was brought to. One such temple known as, Chavin de Huantar can be found in Peru, sitting thousands of feet high on a mountain from a culture of which little is known with strange sculptured faces and a pyramid.
The bird Nazca lines points to Chavin de Huantar, in Peru
The 1200 BCE temple is decorated with winged figures and sculpted heads that appear to be wearing helmets. Von Däniken says he believes these to be of similar origin to those described by Ezekiel in the Bible.
Ezekiel’s calling was to Israel. Jesus would also say that He was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15:24).
The name Ezekiel means: “God gives strength.” God addresses him as Ben Adam, “Son of man”
Ezekiel the prophet, together with King Jehoiachin, and many noble of the people of Judah had been brought to Babylon in 597 BC.
God stated, “I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his death.”
Erich von Däniken is perhaps the greatest advocate of this hypothesis, giving an extremely convincing contention to an elective understanding of the Book of Ezekiel. Thus, convincing that his hypothesis even turned around the whole postulation of a NASA researcher’s NASA’s Josef F. Blumrich’s book pointed toward refuting his case.
Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods
Ezekiel is a vital figure in Judaism and is additionally unmistakable in other Abrahamic scriptural writings. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon in the principal bondage of Israel and is portrayed as a prophet. One of the intriguing attributes of The Book of Ezekiel as a scriptural book is that it is composed utilizing the pronoun, I, plainly showing it being composed by Ezekiel himself as a first-individual record, not at all like numerous scriptural writings written as an outsider looking in. This appears to loan somewhat more credit and character to the story as it is told not long after its event.
Ezekiel depicts seeing a wheeled chariot plummet toward him from the sky, steered by creatures with the “similarity of a man.” While numerous scriptural variants of the story portray this being on the chariot as God, von Däniken brings up that the first Hebrew form never specifies God, this word was added later.
Ezekiel’s depiction of the wheeled chariot landing sounds similar as that of the arrival of a space apparatus. The windstorm, blaze of lightning, and splendid lights are suggestive of a shuttle descending for an arrival and kicking up earth in a scene at no other time seen by somebody of a particularly crude time. Ezekiel even depicts the fire controlling the chariot as showing up as ‘shining metal.’
“I looked, and I saw a windstorm emerging from the north—a monstrous cloud with blazing lightning and encompassed by splendid light. The focal point of the fire appeared as though sparkling metal, 5 and in the fire was what resembled four living animals. In appearance their structure was human, 6 however every one of them had four countenances and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet resembled those of a calf and sparkled like shined bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. Each of them four had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one contacted the wings of another. Everyone went on; they didn’t turn as they moved.” – Ezekiel 1
Chariots-of-the-Gods
There is obviously some error between this depiction and a large part of the manner in which Ezekiel’s vision is depicted in scriptural craftsmanship. Pictures regularly leave out the subtleties including the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted precious stone encasing over the tops of the human-like animals.
“15 As I took a gander at the living animals, I saw a wheel on the ground close to every animal with its four appearances. 16 This was the appearance and design of the wheels: They shone like topaz, and every one of the four seemed to be indistinguishable. Each had all the earmarks of being made like a wheel meeting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any of the four bearings the animals confronted; the wheels didn’t alter course as the animals went. 18 Their edges were high and magnificent, and every one of the four edges were brimming with eyes in general… Spread out over the tops of the living animals was what looked something like a vault, shining like gem, and marvelous.” – Ezekiel 1
These animals with the ‘similarity of man,’ at that point take Ezekiel with them in their art, carrying him to a ‘sanctuary’ on top of the greatest mountain.
During his trip there, Ezekiel makes reference to feeling the hand of God on him, which could be deciphered as the power of gravity, or g-powers, felt when taking off. He is taken to these creatures’ ‘sanctuary,’ which is likely an organizing territory or city where they live.
Supporting Evidence
Ezekiel accurately foretells the future? He foretold Israel becoming a nation.
Judah and Israel Together Again
15 The Lord said:
16 Ezekiel, son of man, get a stick and write on it, “The kingdom of Judah.” Then get another stick and write on it, “The kingdom of Israel.”[b]17 hold these two sticks end to end, so they look like one stick. 18 And when your people ask you what this means, 19 tell them that I, the Lord, will join together the stick of Israel and the stick of Judah. I will hold them in my hand, and they will become one.
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Hold these two sticks where they can be seen by everyone 21 and then say:
I, the Lord God, will gather the people of Israel and bring them home from the foreign nations where they now live. 22 I will make them into one nation and let them once again live in the land of Israel. Only one king will rule them, and they will never again be divided into two nations. 23 They will no longer worship idols and do things that make them unacceptable to me. I will wash away their sin and make them clean, and I will protect them from everything that makes them unclean. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Their king will always come from the family of my servant King David and will care for them like a shepherd. The people of Israel will faithfully obey my laws. They and their descendants will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, just as their ancestors did. 26 I solemnly promise to bless the people of Israel with unending peace. I will protect them and let them become a powerful nation. My temple will stand in Israel for all time, 27 and I will live among my people and be their God. 28 Every nation on earth will know that my temple is in Israel and that I have chosen the Israelites to be my people.
Asteroid Fly -by
Asteroid Near Earth
On Marcy 13, 2021 a likely asteroid flew horizontally across New Jersey creating a large fire in the sky with a long contrail. UFOs do not normally have contrails. .
Mayor De Blasio Criticizes Gov. Cuomo for Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking on Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid the governor’s sexual harassment scandal. The mayor on Thursday criticized Cuomo for his response to the allegations against him by seven women on his staff.
BILL DE BLASIO: He was disrespectful to the people of New York City.
MARCIA KRAMER: Governor Cuomo’s favorite punching bag punched back today. Mayor de Blasio was furious that even in the middle of an emotional apology to three women he’s accused of sexually harassing, the governor found time to knock New York City and, by extension, the man in charge.
ANDREW CUOMO: You also have New York City, which is in a very precarious situation. It’s teetering, to use a word. Crime is way up. Homelessness is way up. We have to get New York City functional again and safe again.
President Biden was strongly considering Cuomo for the attorney general job and that Biden is considering him for the role based on their decades-long friendship. He was pulled when the scandal broke. Thanks to CBS2 Marcia Kramer
To some, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s early pandemic nursing home policy was a disastrous mistake; to others, a crime. For President Joe Biden, it represented the gold standard. Is that still the case now that Cuomo is no longer the protected golden boy of the left? New York Governor Cuomo signed into law a bill that legalize abortions up to birth. . While that has been the main focus of the legislation, the new law also revokes medical care for babies who are born alive after botched abortions.
With White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dancing around the question and the president avoiding it entirely, it’s difficult to tell. But Psaki did say the president will continue to work with Cuomo, “just like we work with governors across the country,” even if she won’t “give new labels or names from the president.”
With all the public outrage against Governor Death and even his own staffers turning on him, how long can Biden ignore this millstone around his neck before it pulls him under, too?
The Fall of a Golden Boy
Secretary Melissa DeRosa
Leesa K. Donner probably said it best: “Putting people with COVID into nursing homes may be a dereliction of duty, but lying about the number of deaths caused by such an action and then covering it up constitute political suicide.”
Is it any wonder an investigation seems imminent? For all her efforts to shift the blame onto Trump, secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa all but confessed to a crime on behalf of the Cuomo administration.
Secretary Melissa DeRosa “We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” she rambled. In much simpler form: We didn’t tell the truth because we were afraid it would result in an investigation.”
Failing that, covering up the truth just makes one look guilty – and, of course, like it wasn’t an accident.
President Biden is having a tough time of late as well. Those on the right have pointed for years to the elder statesman’s integrity problem, but now it seems the more progressive elements of the Democratic Party are catching on. Black Lives Matter and Antifa continued to engage in mostly peaceful protests, racking up millions of dollars in damage with no end in sight, while it seems Biden wouldn’t deliver on the promises they felt he had made. At a recent town hall, last week Biden also met with Cuomo and other governors to discuss the president’s American Rescue Plan. They did not discuss the disastrous nursing-home decision by Cuomo or the fact that afterward Biden called Cuomo the gold standard in leadership. Evidently, it wasn’t relevant to the topic at hand – a COVID relief bill that earmarks more than $50 billion dollars for New York. thanks to Liberty Nation.
Congressman Sherries criticized Biden for calling Governor Cuomo the Golden Boy and not commenting on the 6,000 who died when sick patients were put in the Nursing Homes. Before Cuomo’s downfall Cuomo was a top selection for Attorney General.
Shadows
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 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - PART II
Kennewick, Washington Cylinder —on March 11, 2021
Filer’s Files 11 2021 Ancient Aliens by von Däniken - 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: Astronaut Tim Peake’s UFO Sighting? Navy Aircrews are Chasing UFOs, Ancient Aliens by Erich von Däniken, and Chariots of the Gods, Mayor De Blasio Criticizes Gov. Cuomo for Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Canada, Columbia, France, Mexico, Portugal, England in the United Kingdom and Zaire.
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
Arizona Light
Phoenix– on March 1, 2021, took a picture of a blue heart that the clouds formed in the blue sky when I caught this golden spiral. Looks like there is something cloaking in the clouds.
California Triangle
Yucca Valley– On December 13, 2020, I was getting home when I saw this object and I was reminded of another triangle I saw in 2013. I had no picture of it but if I did would be way better than this one cause it had a big red light like fire in the middle. Also it had three white lights on the rounded corners and I was really close to it. That triangle was close to the ground but I have a picture of this triangle. There are visible lines or a pattern on the triangle.
Colorado Disc
Palmer Lake – November 19, 2019, took a photo overlooking the lake following a long bike ride from Colorado Springs. I was admiring the scenery off to the North hillside across the lake. I didn’t hear or observe anything in the sky until I looked at this photo. There were people fishing but no one acted as if they had seen anything.
Connecticut 3 Light
Stamford– on March 8, 2021, I witnessed six or more glowing lights from my 13th floor apartment. These orbs were flying in seemingly random directions above an area facing the New York City. These lights then began to form what seemed to be flight formations. I took several photos and after 25 minutes the lights disappeared one by one.
Florida Cylinder
Pensacola – on December 28, 2020, at 5:04 pm. driving on the interstate we spotted the object. At first we thought it was the remainder of jet exhaust or chemtrail. Only it did not dissipate but became more defined with dark areas. It hovered silently like nothing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a jet in the sky that didn’t move and made no noise. That is no jet.
Massachusetts Cylinder
Chicopee – on October 24, 2020, my boyfriend and I were driving west on the Mass Pike when we both saw this giant “craft” hovering in the sky far off in the distance. He said “hurry take a picture!” We probably saw it hovering for maybe a minute after I took the picture and all of a sudden it was gone. At the time he described the lights on it as “riveted” multiple bulbs. MUFON website has similar sighting of “giant cigar shaped sighting”.
New Jersey Object
Lindenwold – on December 18, 2020, I was outside of work when I noticed the sun rays piercing thru the clouds. Afterwards upon looking at the picture and zooming in I noticed this object. I did not see or hear anything, but can’t explain what the camera captured. The object can be seen above the center light ray thru the clouds. Slightly above center screen.
Ohio Horseshoe
Ironton – on March 16, 2007, my sighting was on Wednesday at 10 AM, of a glowing yellowish orange football shaped object at low altitude. Photos were taken with a disposable camera.
These are close up cropped images of the object I saw when I pulled over to get a better look, as it was as bright as a welder’s arc and as big as a car. Note: The witness described the object as shaped like a football. The enlargement of the object shows that it was more “horseshoe shaped.” Thanks to Will Pucket http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Oregon Cross
Portland – on March 7, 2021, we were coming home in and we live on the Columbia River. My daughter wanted to take a picture of the sun because it was about to set. She had the Live Photo feature on her iPhone turned on when she was taking the picture. We noticed a cloud that looks like a dog and wanted to get it in the picture. When we got inside she noticed something black above the sun so she zoomed in and could see a giant cross structure above the sun. I held the picture to see the short video from the Live Photo feature and noticed that the structure did not move with the camera has she moved. But also noticed there was a green orb with a honey comb pattern and floating and making quick movements at the top right of the video. You can zoom in on the sun in the picture to the see the cross structure.
Tennessee Object
Hillsboro – on July 20, 2021, appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.
Washington Cylinder
Kennewick—on March 11, 2021, was standing across the street from where I work at 4:52 am looking at a stationary object in the sky. When I saw something flies very quickly by me on my phone screen. I then looked up and observed a moving object that was flying around the stable object and took off. Two minutes later a long bright tube came from the south.
West Virginia Lights
Huntington– on February 22, 2021, his video was taken on the west end of town, filmed by a high school friend. I think it was just after 9 PM my friend said he was staring at the sky and thought out loud: “If you guys are out there, then why won’t you show yourselves?” And then they appeared. His teenage son can be heard cursing in the back. My wife has had many sightings with me and my mother remembers her sighting of a saucer in Wheeling, WV at 8 years of age. She blacked out and was missing for almost 6 hours. She has no memory of what happened, but had night terrors afterwards. Thanks to Will Pucket http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Lights
Cordoba– on April 21, 2020, the video was taken with a borsch ip7000 70 fps camera that is ready to observe these types of events since they are repetitive. Sometimes when there are storms they can be seen moving on the edges of the clouds then suddenly disappear at great speed.
Canada Lights
White Rock, BC. – on March 1, 2021, I was taking pictures of the sunset, I could see something like a small ball of light moving around on my IPhone screen that wasn’t visible to the naked eye. I took my sunset pictures and later looked closely to find an interesting small UFO object in all three pictures. The object was not visible to the naked eye. Note: Light is most likely lens flare. Thanks to Will Pucket http://www.ufosnw.com/newsite
Abbottsford – on March 11, 2021, I look up my driveway and see this strange moving row of lights emitted from the cigar shaped craft with no wings and no sound heading NE at slow speed. It’s longer than a passenger jet with bright headlights on its side.
Columbia Object
Bogota— on January 24, 2021, at 5:56 p.m. on the flight that leads from La Vega to Bogota, there was a UFO sighting.
France Cylinder
Wattignies– January 18, 2021, at 30 second intervals, observation of two very bright orange shapes that spin in a straight line. I called my husband on the second pass because it was quiet and strange. Time to react, we made a few seconds of video
Mexico Disc
September 7, 2008, flying object, very stable despite the air, moves and small objects appear around it.
Portugal Disc
Vizla –January 1, 2021, This is a story related in 3rd person since I’m the boyfriend of the witness and friend of the others: 8-10 years old She was playing hide and seek with friends at night and then she and her cousin saw what they thought to be a plane showing a lot of lights, they both starting looking at the “plane” until it got closer and closer to about 15m. The numerous lights, constant, red, blue, green and looked metallic grey, no body panels, one solid piece, at the top looked like it had a dome that could be opened, it wasn’t rotating, slowly coming down , they had no fear, 2-3 minutes of contact, no sound at all, no heat, wind…
UK/England Cigar
Dorcaster – on February 28, 2021, he Object was stationary above my property for 25 minutes. We first observed it after seeing a helicopter pass below the object. The helicopter seemed to not notice the object at all. The object was seen as three vertical bright lights at first at around a mile high. It wasn’t until I observed it through binoculars that I could see that it was Y shaped and made up of 4 metallic shapes. A reddish Tic-Tac shaped middle section with two struts sticking out of the top at angles, with a goldish orb atop both struts. Underneath the Tic-Tac was another strut with a silver orb. There were bright light on each of the orbs which was visible when it turned its sides towards us.
Port Alfred – on March 10, 2021, superfast crossing of sky in the SW direction for a straight path towards Antarctica. It was literally so fast that a normal eye would not even notice I just happened to see it like a streak.
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Nieuwe fragmenten uit mysterieuze Dode Zee-rollen ontdekt in grotten in woestijn van Judea
Israël heeft in grotten in de woestijn van Judea fragmenten van een boekrol met oude Bijbelteksten ontdekt. Het zou gaan om onderdelen van de zogenaamde Dode Zee-rollen, die eind jaren veertig opgegraven werden in hetzelfde gebied en die de oudste gekende versie van het Oude Testament bevatten. De Israël Antiquities Authority (IAA) maakte het nieuws dinsdag bekend. De nationale oudheidkundige autoriteit spreekt van “een historische vondst”.
De geschriften dateren uit de periode rond de Joodse opstand van Bar Kokhba tegen de Romeinen, van 132 tot 136 na Christus. Ze zijn opgesteld in het Oud-Grieks. Stukken van de manuscripten hebben onderzoekers geholpen om passages uit het boek van Zacharia en het boek van Nahum te reconstrueren. Die boeken maken deel uit van het Twaalfprofetenboek, dat geschriften van twaalf kleinere profeten verzamelt.
Bezet
De geschriften zijn gevonden in een rotsgrot in het natuurreservaat rond de stroom Nahal Hever, die loopt van de Dode Zee tot in de Westelijke Jordaanoever. Dat gebied bezet Israël al sinds 1967.
Naast de geschriften brachten de archeologische opgravingen ook zeldzame voorwerpen zoals munten, pijlpunten, kleding, sandalen en luizenkammen aan het licht. De archeologen ontdekten zelfs een gemummificeerd kinderskelet van wel 6.000 jaar oud, dat in doeken was gewikkeld, en een mand van meer dan 10.000 jaar oud. Met zijn gezegende leeftijd van 10.500 jaar zou het de oudste mand ter wereld zijn, aldus de IAA.
“De vondsten zijn niet alleen belangrijk voor ons cultureel erfgoed, maar ook voor de hele wereld,” zei Avi Cohen, het hoofd van het ministerie van Jeruzalem en Cultureel Erfgoed.
Dieven
Israel Hasson, directeur van IAA, stelt de voorwerpen tentoon in zijn laboratorium in het Israëlmuseum in Jeruzalem. Volgens hem heeft de nationale operatie, waarvan de archeologische opgravingen in de woestijn van Judea deel uitmaken, als doel de “zeldzame en belangrijke erfgoedstukken uit de klauwen van dieven te redden”. Sinds de ontdekking van de Dode Zee-rollen in de grotten van Qumrân eind jaren veertig, zijn de rotsachtige grotten in de woestijn van Judea immers het doelwit van plunderaars.
Het negenhonderdtal manuscripten van de Dode Zee-rollen wordt beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste archeologische ontdekkingen ooit, omdat de geschriften religieuze teksten in het Hebreeuws, Aramees en Grieks bevatten, evenals de oudste gekende versie van het Oude Testament. Het eerste geschrift werd gevonden door een herder, daarna werden meer fragmenten ontdekt.
It is no secret, at all, that I am distinctly skeptical of the idea that aliens met their deaths in the desert on that long gone day in July 1947. And I consider that should we one day uncover the true story of what really occurred outside of Roswell, it will likely be one of secret military experimentation born out of the early years of Cold War shenanigans. But, I may well be 100 per cent wrong in my suspicions. Keeping in mind the sentence immediately above, what if the Roswell affair is explainable in a very different, and wildly alternative, fashion? What if the weird craft and its strange crew were not the denizens of another galaxy, or even of the military of the immediate post-World War II era, after all? What if, incredibly, their point of origin was…a far flung future of a distinctly human nature? While such a scenario may sound extreme and incredible to many – even to those who are of the opinion that something truly anomalous occurred in Lincoln County, all those years ago – such theories have been expressed, and endorsed too. One of those who revealed his thoughts on this particular scenario was Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso, co-author with William Birnes of the much-debated 1997 book, The Day after Roswell.
The sensational, and also rightly questioned and criticized, story told of Corso’s alleged personal knowledge of the Roswell affair while serving with the military, and of the way in which he allegedly helped to advance the United States – both scientifically and militarily – by secretly feeding certain fantastic technologies found in the craft recovered at Roswell to U.S.-based private industries and defense contractors. Despite the fact that many have championed Corso as a solid proponent of the idea that extraterrestrials plunged to earth in New Mexico in 1947, in reality, Corso was willing to consider something very different. The unusual bodies found within the wreckage of the craft, Corso maintained, were genetically created beings designed to withstand the rigors of space flight, but they were not the actual creators of the UFO itself. Right up to the time of his death in 1998, Corso speculated on the distinct possibility that the U.S. Government might still have no real idea of who constructed the craft, or who genetically engineered the bodies found aboard or in the vicinity of the wreckage.
Corso gave much consideration to the idea that the Roswell UFO was a form of time machine, possibly even one designed and built by the denizens of an Earth of the distant future, rather than by the people of a faraway solar-system. Of course, it’s vital that I make it clear Corso’s story has been the subject of a great deal of intense debate – I don’t believe it. Bit, I do think it’s worth sharing the story for, if nothing else, a debate. Corso’s account relative to Roswell has been both vocally championed and loudly denounced. Others seem unsure what to make of it all. But, unfortunately for those trying to make some sense of the situation, Ufology has always been like that when it comes to matters of a highly volatile nature. We never get a definitive answer. It always ends up, to use a terrible but appropriate pun, in a “grey” area.
If history shows there’s nothing to the story of Philip Corso, then so be it. But, if there is even a small nugget of truth to the story, then here is something we should muse upon: Maybe, by studying the Roswell materials, officialdom has learned something deeply troubling and terrible about our future, something it dares not share with us, the populace at large. Ever. Is this, perhaps, the reason why the Roswell affair is one still shrouded in overwhelming secrecy, more than 60 years after it occurred? To paraphrase The X-Files, when it comes to UFOs and Roswell, “the truth” may not be “out there” after all. Instead, it might be countless millennia ahead of us.
Water op Mars verdween niet in ruimte maar werd opgezogen door bodem volgens nieuwe studie
Een grote hoeveelheid van het water op Mars ontsnapte niet in de ruimte toen de atmosfeer van de planeet verdween, maar werd opgezogen door de bodem. Dat staat te lezen in een nieuwe studie die vandaag verscheen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Science.
Miljarden jaren geleden zag onze buurplaneet er veel meer uit zoals onze Aarde nu, met zeeën en rivieren van vloeibaar water. Volgens wetenschapper Eva Scheller van het California Institute of Technology was er op Mars zelfs genoeg water om de volledige oppervlakte in een oceaan te veranderen van 100 tot 1.500 meter diep. Pas drie miljard jaar geleden werd het er poederdroog.
Veel studies gingen er tot nu toe van uit dat het water op Mars op hetzelfde moment verdween als de atmosfeer van de planeet en dat het de ruimte in verdampte. Dat mechanisme kan echter niet de hoeveelheid water hebben laten verdwijnen die theoretisch op Mars aanwezig was, klinkt het nu.
Simulaties
Scheller maakte op basis van onder meer observaties van Marsrover Curiosity en de analyse van meteorieten op de planeet simulaties die moesten tonen wat er met de rest van het water gebeurd was. Het resultaat stelde ze vandaag voor op de virtuele Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Volgens de simulaties verdween al het water niet in de ruimte, maar werd tussen 30 en 99 procent opgezogen door de bodem van de planeet. Daar ging het onomkeerbaar deel uitmaken van de moleculaire structuur van mineralen.
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The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy... New Evidence Proves Authenticity
The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy... New Evidence Proves Authenticity
The Alien Autopsy Footage Controversy… New Evidence Proves Authenticity
The Alien Autopsy ignited controversy as one of the first pieces of evidence for alien contact. 25 years later, Paola Harris and Italian researcher Maurizio Baiata bring forth the evidence gathered to prove this leaked film is indeed authentic. In this conversation, Regina Meredith speaks with researcher Paola Harris and Maurizio Baiata, an Italian journalist and UFO researcher who was one of the first to see the autopsy footage.
They compare what was known then, with what has been discovered since. This initial discovery has been followed by many others, adding to the evidence that we are not alone.
Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power
Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power
Linda Moulton Howe: Strange Discoveries in Alaska & Ancient Pyramid Power
Who built the ancient pyramid in Alaska and is it an energy source? Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe shared her findings in an interview with Regina Meredith. Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She reports her findings on earthfiles.com.
The Secret Vatican Vaults... E.T. Visitations That Remain Concealed!
The Secret Vatican Vaults... E.T. Visitations That Remain Concealed!
Rumor has long held that deep within the vaults of the Vatican library lie the answers we seek concerning extraterrestrial visitation upon our world. Through legal maneuvering, one man has chanced an encounter with these enigmatic documents, Daniel Sheehan. In this interview with Regina Meredith, he discusses the many trials and tribulations he endured as navigated the complex legal system which seems bent upon keeping this important information forever concealed.
Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School-trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. Dan’s work as a Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Educator has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world. In 1977, he served as a “Special Counsel” to the United States Library of Congress’ investigation into the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence that had been expressly requested by then President Jimmy Carter.
In 2001, Dan was invited to serve as General Counsel to The Disclosure Project.
I was looking at a video by Youtuber 2018 Flatearth and noticed his 4k telescope was showing incredible detail. Even better than NASA shows in their maps and photos online. So I began to go through one of them. At 13:43 into a video I easily spotted three alien structures. The structures are each hidden inside of craters. Aliens do this to fool long distance astronomer into thinking "oh its shadows," or worse, "its rocks." But the detail here throws those two theories out the window. This 4k telescope is showing a whole new story to the moon. One that we haven't been told of before.
The tools at our disposal are all around us. Just because others don't use those tools, doesn't mean they aren't useful for task. What I'm saying is...we no longer need NASA, when we can produce better quality video and photos than they can.
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Sailors witnessed mysterious light in the sky over the Indian Ocean
Sailors witnessed mysterious light in the sky over the Indian Ocean
Crew member Shomuddro Bilas who witnessed the strange appearance in the sky states:
On March 12, 2021, while our ship was in Indian ocean sailing towards Bangladesh, we saw a mysterious light show on the night sky for 20 minutes around 08.00 pm.
Our 3rd mate called me and told me about it and to bring my camera to photograph the moment. I went to bridge a minute later. There were also other people on the bridge including our Captain and Chief Engineer.
We all saw the same thing. The Captain was the first one who noticed the light. I saw it 2-3 minutes later as the 1st picture on the video. Our captain said, initially when he saw it, it was more smaller and much brighter.
I started to capture a time-lapse with 1s exposure and 1 second interval and record 400 photos as you can see it was glowing and expanding in the time-lapse, easily visible in naked eye at night.
After the light disappeared, I took a photo of our ship's position (Latitude, Longitude, UTC time). We discussed about it, but nobody was sure about what it was or never saw this kind of light before.
A huge and luminous Submarine-UFO was photographed over a crowded city in China
A huge and luminous Submarine-UFO was photographed over a crowded city in China
I just received this UFO report at my email.
Hello, I am a UFO enthusiast from China. I took a picture of a huge and luminous Submarine-UFO at 20:12 on June 2nd, 2018, over a crowded city.
Discussion of supernatural phenomena is not welcome in China，hope It can be provided to you for research.
My English ability is not good，the translation may be inaccurate, I am sorry.
Sincerely, Mr. Wang
Chapter 1 More Confusion The sightings were compiled by witnesses in February 2021, in which three aspects were particularly strange:
The UFO disappeared about 10 seconds after coming into view.
The UFO was enormous and appeared over the city where people were gathered. The photographer, Mr. W, saw it, but his companion, Ms. B did not see it, nor did any other passersby.
The sky was some light when Mr. W witnessed the UFO. The captured UFO pictures were incredibly distorted in their overall color and had brightness values about twice as high as other photos. The iPhone X had difficulty taking the pictures (when the iPhone X was taking pictures, it was seriously disturbed).
Chapter 2 Witnesses and Photos The story goes like this. Mr. W is a Chinese lawyer, on the afternoon of June 2, 2018, Mr. W and his companion Ms. B drove to County Miyi, City Panzhihua, Province Sichuan to handle some affairs, and to enjoy the scenery on both sides of River Anning and the night scene along the way. See below the “Aerial view of County Miyi, City Panzhihua”. After driving away from the highway and entering the county, Mr. W parked his car in a parking spot, then together with his companion, Ms. B walked through the Bridge Renminlu below, and then along the viewing road by the river on the left, then they advanced to Bridge Dragon above.
See below “Original Picture 1 (Mobile No. IMG_1631, 20:12 photographed)”. Mr. W, located near the restroom, suddenly saw a UFO-like object, Its shape and size resembled a large submarine, over the buildings across the river. It was silent and motionless and glowed with slight light like the afterglow of the sun penetrating through thin clouds. It was obviously incompatible with the surrounding clouds and was very dazzling and eye-catching. Its magnificence dumbfounded Mr. W. However, the sun should not appear near in the position of Submarine-UFO in the sky at this time, after all, it was already past 8 p.m. Mr. W immediately took a picture of the Submarine-UFO with the iPhone X in hand at the approximate position shown in Figure 1, and then couldn’t wait to see the details of the UFO through the zoom function of the mobile phone. But it was quite inconceivable that the photo had a serious color cast (or/and the brightness was high) and was very unusual, far from what Mr. W had witnessed with his eyes. The reason might be that, to go to the bathroom, Mr. W walked in front of his companion Ms. B. When Ms. B approached Mr. W, Mr. W originally intended to watch the strange object together with her. But Mr. W was surprised to find that perhaps within 10-30 seconds when he looked down at the photos, the Submarine-UFO had disappeared without a trace. At that time, many people walking along the viewing road of the riverside after enjoying their dinner. People would look at the river and the scenery on the opposite bank. The two banks of the river were very wide, and the huge Submarine-UFO should have been seen or photographed by more people. But what is unbelievable is that Mr. W felt that people were not aware of this UFO, and even his companion Ms. B also said that she saw nothing. The iPhone X photo has a resolution of 4032 x 3024, 5.88 times the video resolution 1920 x 1080, so Mr. W chose to take pictures and then to shoot a video. However the Submarine-UFO disappeared too fast, and unfortunately, there was no chance to shoot the video. The 576 million pixels of the human eye is 48 times the 12 million pixels of the iPhone X photo, so Mr. W felt amazed at what he witnessed at the time and how it was completely different from the situation as shown by the photo. It’s a magnificence that can never be copied and imagined unless you are personally on the scene!
Chapter 3 Details of Photos Description of photo details:
See below the “enlarged view of drew outline”. The Submarine-UFO has obvious geometric lines, the front resembles a streamlined structure of a revolving body, especially the front end looks like a cone or ellipse, and a small part of the middle area below the axis is protruding and similar to the pod parts (This feature may also be an illusion caused by part of the UFO being blocked by clouds). The back is similar to the stern structure, which is flat and inclined downward.
See below the “enlarged view of increased saturation”. The surrounding light clouds are floating around the dark Submarine-UFO and are incompatible with each other, and the latter shows no signs of being squeezed by the former.
See below the “iPhone X gallery thumbnails”. Except that the photo of the Submarine-UFO Figure 1 taken by the mobile phone shows the color cast or/and shiny effect as a whole, the color or/and luminance of other photos appear to be more normal thus an exception exists.
Chapter 4 Follow-up Observations See below “Original Picture 2 (mobile phone number IMG_1632, 20:16 photographed)”. Mr. W saw a group of birds flying in the sky over the area, then using a mobile phone took pictures of the flying birds at the approximate position shown in Figure 2, but the traces of the Submarine-UFO were already gone. The local weather recorded on the Internet was “breeze, without continuous wind direction”. There was no surging wind and clouds were in a calm sky, and the UFO never re-appeared.
See below “Original Picture 3 (mobile phone number IMG_1633, 20:19 photographed)”. Mr. W and Ms. B walked to the highest point of the Dragon Bridge, using their mobile phones, they took pictures at the location shown in Figure 3 facing the direction they had just come from. At this time, the colorful lights on the building were brilliant and colorful, and the night was very charming, end.
Chapter 5 Photo Data Attached photo data description: The luminance of Figure 1 is 2.77, approximately 2 times the luminance of Figure 2, at 1.36. When consulted what condition could increase the luminance of a picture taken by iPhone X, the Chinese Apple customer service technician answered that the luminance of the subject itself increased. Relevant experts also believe that the flash of mobile phones will not affect the brightness of the distant view (especially buildings, the sky, and the Submarine-UFO on the other side of the river).
Figures 4 and 5 are photos taken at 21:51 after Mr. W and Ms. B arrived on the other side of the river. In close-up photography of people at night, Figure 5 has a flare brightness of about -2.16, an increase of 0.5 as compared with the -2.66 of Figure 4, taken without a flash.
The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
“It almost seems like a magical thing,” said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.
An animation shows how sodium atoms ejected from the lunar surface are affected by the moon’s orbit around planet Earth. Video by James O’Donoghue/@PhysicsJ, based on simulations by Jody K. Wilson.
By Robin George Andrews
Carl Sagan once said that Earth is but a “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” He would probably be thrilled to know that, around the time of a new moon, Earth is a speck of dust suspended in a moon tail.
The moon, lacking an atmosphere to shield it, is constantly under attack. When meteorites bombard its volcanic surface, sodium atoms fly high into orbit. The sun’s photons collide with the sodium atoms, effectively pushing them away from the sun and creating a tail-like structure flowing downstream from the moon.
“It makes the moon sort of look like a comet,” said Jeffrey Baumgardner, a senior research scientist at Boston University’s Center for Space Physics. “It has a stream of stuff coming off it.”
For a few days each month, when the new moon moves between Earth and the sun, this comet-like tail dusts the side of our world that is facing the sun. Our planet’s gravity pinches that sodium stream, narrowing it into a beam, invisible to the naked eye, that wraps around Earth’s atmosphere and shoots out into space from the opposite side of the planet.
You can’t see it here, but it has a tail.Credit...Mariana Suarez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
This moonbeam can be seen by special cameras as a spot in twilight skies. Sometimes it appears brighter, sometimes dimmer. Ever since the tail and its beam were first seen back in the late 1990s, scientists have been wondering what controls the beam’s brightness. As reported Wednesday in a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 14 years of observations suggests meteors — particularly larger, faster ones that bombard the moon at random — may explain what controls its flicker.
“Does this have a practical application? Probably not,” Mr. Baumgardner, the study’s lead author, said. This research was driven by nothing more than curiosity, he said, a desire to simply learn more about that beautiful volcanic pearl in the sky and its mystifying moonbeam.
“I think it’s very cool,” said Sarah Luettgen, an undergraduate at Boston University and a co-author of the study. “It almost seems like a magical thing.”
Boston University has placed several all-sky-imaging cameras — essentially fish-eye lenses that see the entire visible sky — around the world. Originally designed to spot auroras, they can see sodium in Earth’s atmosphere with a filter. They commonly observe it when meteors burn up before reaching our planet’s surface.
In November 1998, during the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower, a team working with one such camera at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, hoped to see those sodium flares. They were puzzled when, just after the peak, a spot of sodium persisted in the sky for three nights. This spot, appearing on the side of the world facing away from the sun, brightened as the new moon approached, then quickly faded.
After additional work, including models that simulated where the sodium spot could be coming from, the team concluded that it must be the result of a comet-like tail of sodium stretching out at least 500,000 miles from the moon.
The tail may be sprinkling the world with sodium, but it is extremely diffuse, so there’s no chance any moon dust dandruff will gather on our heads, said Luke Moore, a senior research scientist at Boston University and a co-author of the study.
The November 1998 moon spot appeared particularly bright after the peak of the Leonid meteor shower. It was also seen during other new moons without concurrent meteor showers, but it was fainter. The scientists therefore suspected that these meteor shower impacts were chipping off enough sodium to fuel a particularly luminous spot.
But the all-sky-imager camera situated in the El Leoncito Observatory in Argentina, which took 21,000 images of the moon from 2006 to 2019, tells a slightly different story.
Annual meteor showers — like the Leonids, one of the most intense — can coincide with a brighter moon spot. But this isn’t always the case, perhaps because their impacts are not always energetic enough to jettison lunar sodium far away enough from the moon so that it can contribute to the comet-like tail and its moon spot.
Impacts by sporadic meteors, those that don’t appear in regular showers, have a stronger correlation with the moon spot’s brightness. This is possibly because they can be more massive, speedier and can collide with the moon head-on, meaning they are capable of expelling more sodium into a higher orbit.
If a suitably sizable asteroid slammed into the moon with enough momentum, it might be able to expunge enough sodium to produce a moonbeam anyone could see with the naked eye, said James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency who wasn’t involved with the research. And if you could observe it, “it would be a fuzzy patch of light about the size of the belt stars of Orion,” Mr. Baumgardner said.
But even invisible, knowing that Earth has a meteor-fueled moonbeam is satisfying enough — a reminder of the moon’s dynamism.
“I think we definitely take it for granted,” Dr. O’Donoghue said.
Hannah, Rob and Cathryn are celebrating an extraordinary find
"We're still pinching ourselves - to believe that this actually happened on our drive!"
Rob Wilcock, his wife Cathryn and daughter Hannah are astounded to find themselves at the centre of a major scientific discovery.
It was their property in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, that was hit by the most valuable space rock ever to fall on the UK.
The meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy.
It's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 billion years ago, and, as such, could give us fresh insights on how the planets came into being.
The first thing the Wilcock family knew about it was when they heard a dull thud outside their house on the night of Sunday 28 February.
"When I heard it drop, I stood up and looked out the window to see what was there," recalled Hannah. "But because it was dark I couldn't see anything.
"It was only the next morning when we went out that we saw it on the drive - a bit like a kind of splatter. And in all honesty, my original thought was - has someone been driving around the Cotswolds lobbing lumps of coal into people's gardens?" she told BBC News.
"Either that or someone had upturned a barbecue tray," chimed in Cathryn.
Scientists knew fragments of a meteorite must be in the Gloucestershire area. Their cameras had recorded the rock coming through the atmosphere that Sunday night, creating a huge fireball in the process.
media caption"It blows your mind": The people of Winchcombe react to the meteorite discovery
Imagery from multiple angles allowed researchers to narrow the drop zone, and when they went on the media to make an appeal on the Monday, they hoped one or two people might come forward with an interesting find.
In fact, they were inundated with pictures. Most had nothing to do with meteorites, but when Open University planetary scientist Richard Greenwood looked at the Wilcocks' picture, he was blown away.
"It was one of those moments when your legs start going wobbly. I saw this thing; it was like a splat across [the Wilcocks'] drive; and it had all these rays coming off it; and I just thought - that is a meteorite. It was instantaneous," he said.
With all the hullabaloo that was bound to follow the discovery, Rob's initial reaction was to try to stay out of the limelight - to be anonymous.
But when he thought it through a little more, Rob said the three of them recognised they should talk about what had happened to them.
"We've been wrestling with the question of whether we should talk about it, and in the end we decided we should. There seems to be such a lot of genuine public interest in the find," Rob told BBC News.
media captionThousands of people reported seeing the fireball
"We're absolutely thrilled that something that's going to be so valuable to science, to the human understanding of the world and of the Solar System has happened, and that we can be a small part in it."
The family have donated the meteorite remains to the national collection held by the Natural History Museum in London. They were determined the rock should not go to a dealer, but to science.
The last meteorite fall to be picked up in the UK was 30 years ago. That was an "ordinary chondrite" - a common type of space rock.
The Winchcombe meteorite is far more valuable. Studying its chemistry - and what it can tell us about the conditions that went into building the planets - will keep scientists busy for years.
As for the small Gloucestershire market town - it's now firmly on the map.
"We always felt that the Cotswolds is a wonderful place to live. But now the whole world seems to know about us," reflected one local resident on Tuesday afternoon.
Today, we know that the Basilosaurus is the first ancient whale humanity has ever found. But back when it was first described, the animal’s huge proportions earned it the name of ‘king lizard’. And although technically incorrect, the name isn’t undeserved; during its day, the Basilosaurus ruled the waters of Tethys with an iron flipper and a really impressive set of teeth.
Basilosaurus isis skeleton at the Nantes History Museum. Image via Wikimedia.
This creature lived 40 to 35 million years ago, during a part of geologic time known as the late Eocene. The dinosaurs were quite well gone by this time, and mammals were well on the way to dominating the planet. The Basilosaurus was also a mammal — a whale, no less — and could grow up to 60 feet (a bit over 18m) in length. Needless to say, you can’t skip meals and grow so large. But this species likely had no issues getting full, as the Basilosaurus was, by all indications, a formidable apex predator.
It was first described in 1834 from fragments of a skeleton found in the US. Due to the sheer scale of the fossils, their striking similarity in shape and function to marine predatory dinosaurs, poor availability, and the limits of paleontological understanding of the day, the species was initially assumed to have been a dinosaur — and christened the ‘king of the lizards’, Basilosaurus
How come?
The academic story of this genus starts with B. cetoides, the first ancient whale species ever discovered, which was unearthed in Louisiana around 1830 by Richard Harlan and still serves as the type species of Basilosaurus.
Details from the dig and the wider goings-on around the fossils aren’t very good from the time, but we do know that bones from this dig were sent to the American Philosophical Society by Judge Henry Bry of Ouachita County, Louisiana and Judge John Creagh of Clarke County, Alabama, according to theEncyclopedia of Alabama. Here, they were examined by Richard Harlan, one of the US’s earliest paleontologists and naturalists, who would end up christening the new species.
Upon first examination, Harlan was very excited. Comparing the bones he received to those of Plesiosaurus and Mosasaurus, two species of marine dinosaurs that were already described at the time, he concluded that the new species grew no less than 80–100 ft (24–30 m) long. Still, there were enough structural similarities between its vertebrae and those of Plesiosaurus, as well as between its skull and that of Mosasaurus, for Harlan to assume that the species were related. At the very least, he assumed, they lived around the same time.
The first signs that this name wasn’t really spot-on came when Harlan took his specimens to the UK for consultation with his peers there. Richard Owen, a controversial figure but a superb paleontologist, observed that the animal’s molars were two-rooted. No known fish or reptile at the time showed the same structure, and Owen suggested the animal might have been a whale instead. The two even agreed to rename it Zeuglodon cetoides (“whale-like yoke teeth”).
A few years later the other known species, B. isis, would be described based on fragments of bone recovered from Egypt. Although the first full skeleton of B. isis wouldn’t be unearthed until 2016, the discovery of this species and its fossil association with species that were known to have been whales at the time further suggested that all Basilodons were, in fact, mammals. This was helped by the fact that Basilosaurus fossils actually became quite common over time, so much so that in the 19th century they were even used as andirons, furniture, or decoration.
Over the years, paleontologists have wisened up to the fact and tried to change the genus’ name. However, zoological naming conventions meant that the original name stuck. Today, the Basilosaurus is the state fossil for Alabama and Mississippi.
How did it used to live?
One thing that Harlan got right about the Basilosaurus was that it was large. This whale was bigger even than some predatory dinosaurs that came before it, and it undoubtedly threw its weight around the ancient, lost sea of Tethys.
Another thing it definitely threw around were bites. Unlike most whales today, Basilosaurus didn’t filter feed, it hunted. Its jaws were lined with several types of teeth, including molars and canines, which are specialized for chewing and ripping, respectively. Such teeth are characteristic of meat-eating species.
Two other important characteristics of the species are a skull asymmetry and a relatively low intracranial volume. The first is a trait it shares with modern toothed whales such as orcas. Today, this asymmetry is associated with whales’ ability to produce high-frequency sounds for echolocation; Basilosaurus likely didn’t have this ability, however, and its skull was asymmetrical in order to house a fatty sensory organ meant to help it hear underwater. The lack of room for a big brain inside its skull likely means that Basilosaurus was not a social species, like whales are today, and that it also wasn’t as capable from a cognitive standpoint.
Such traits can be indicative of an evolutionary ‘work-in-progress’. The Basilosaurus seems to have been the first whale species to live entirely underwater, marking the point where the lineage of walking whales finally took the plunge.
It most likely spent its day as a solitary hunter, or at most, one that lived in small groups. Social interactions are extremely demanding, from a cognitive point of view, and Basilosaurus’ brain just seems to have been too small to adequately navigate living in a group.
Still, who needs big brains when you have big brawns? Analysis of fossilized, scarred Dorudon skull bones — this is another genus of prehistoric whale that was the preferred prey of Basilosaurus — suggests that the king of lizards could bite down with 3,600 pounds per square inch (PSI).
To put things into perspective, that’s 233 times more pressure than a fully-loaded M1A2 main battle tank exerts on the ground under its tracks. Most industrial hydraulic presses in use today exert between 1,000 to 3,000 PSI, which is still under the estimated high ofr Basilosaurus. You do not want to get bitten by one of these.
With big bites, however, also comes good manners. Wear patterns on Basilosaurus teeth suggest that the animal bit and then chewed its food, unlike most predators today, whose teeth are specialized in ripping chunks of meat off the bone, that are then gulped up whole. In regards to what they ate, stomach contents seem to indicate that B. cetoides hunted fish and large sharks exclusively, while we know from Dorudon skulls that B. isis would also hunt these. Dorudon was a larger animal, related to today’s dolphins, and B. isis likely focused on delivering a killing blow to its head before tearing it apart while feeding (many Dorudon skeletons, especially those showing signs of predation from Basilosaurus, are found disarticulated).
King no more
The Basilosaur genus went extinct, with our last fossil evidence of them hailing from around 40 million years ago. They didn’t leave behind any direct descendants which, judging from their teeth, isn’t the worst thing to have ever happened.
We’re not entirely sure why they disappeared. Sometime around 40 million years ago, something happened to bring these toothy kings low. However, the fact that other toothed and baleen whales are around today suggests these smaller relatives of the Basilosaurus out-competed them in the end. It might have been their big brains, it might have been their social nature, it could even have been their more modest appetites; for now, it remains a mystery.
Jacco van Loon, Astrophysicist and Director of Keele Observatory, Keele University
Humans have been trying to contact aliens for many years, but do the aliens want to contact us?
– Sai, aged eight, London, UK
This is a great question – and the truth is that we don’t know the answer.
For starters, we haven’t found any aliens yet, so we haven’t been able to ask them and receive a reply. When we try to answer the question “do they want to contact us”, we have to put ourselves in their shoes – that is, if they have feet.
The question presumes that aliens do exist. And again, because we haven’t found any yet, we don’t know if they do. It is possible they may exist, for one simple reason: we exist. Whatever made the likes of bacteria evolve into complex bodies with intelligent brains on Earth may have also occurred on another planet.
On Earth this transformation seems to have taken place quite suddenly some 700 million years ago. At that time the Earth was already almost 4 billion years old, and had been inhabited by simple lifeforms such as bacteria for much of that time. Why did it not happen sooner? And what made it happen? Until we find the answers to those questions we cannot tell how likely it is that it also occurred elsewhere.
If there are aliens out there, they might want to contact us for the same reasons we want to contact them.
One reason why scientists on Earth are looking for aliens is that we are curious. We want to know if they exist, what they are like, and what our relationship with them might be. Curiosity is a powerful force, leading us to look beyond the horizon and to try new things. It is how we have developed science and technology, why we can have video calls with friends on the other side of the world and why we can now venture out into space. Aliens may be curious about us, too.
(Image credit: The Conversation)
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But there are other reasons why we want to contact others. We have sometimes needed help from others, or companionship. Perhaps aliens, too, would look to us for help or friendship.
They may also be interested in our planet. Earth has perfect conditions for life. Aliens might need another home, if for some reason – such as climate change, nuclear war or an enormous asteroid impact – they had to leave their own planet.
Earth is a perfect place for life.(Image credit: NASA)
It’s also possible that they would not be looking for friendship. There are plenty of examples from our history of times when humans have travelled somewhere on Earth and acted cruelly, killing or enslaving the people that lived there. Aliens settling on Earth might want us out of their way. There’s another reason – humans are predators who eat other lifeforms. Aliens might find us nutritious or tasty too.
These are all possible reasons why aliens might want to contact us. But what if they didn’t? Some aliens might find us boring, hard to understand, too primitive to deserve their attention, or potentially bearing disease. Conversations across the vastness of space take many years, and travel much longer still. Some aliens might simply not be interested in life beyond their own world.
On the other hand, it may be that life such as ours is actually very common. With so many worlds and civilisations to choose from, we may simply not yet have caught their eye. If that is the case, we might soon detect alien life around nearby stars for ourselves.
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San Diego often tops the lists of people looking to move to a place with great temperatures, great beaches, and great amenities. It rarely appears on the lists of places with great booms – until recently when the beautiful California city was suddenly hit by mysterious booms that no one seems to know the source of or wants to take credit for. Residents, tourists bureaus, animals at the San Diego Zoo – they all want to cool it with the boom booms. Will that happen or will San Diego end up like so many other locales around the world with no answers to the mysterious sounds they’re being plagued by?
“People from Del Mar to Chula Vista took to social media Wednesday afternoon to report a “boom” that shook doors and startled pets, leading many to speculate that the region had experienced a short, mild earthquake. Posts on Twitter and Facebook described a loud boom, accompanied by shaking doors and cabinets.”
That afternoon boom was reported by the San Diego Tribune on January 15, 2020. A U.S. Geological Survey spokesman quickly said it wasn’t an earthquake, an ongoing exercise at Camp Pendleton with artillery fire had been canceled for the day, the San Diego-based Naval Air Forces said none of the Navy’s aircraft were the source of the boom, and Marine Corps officials from the MCAS Miramar-based 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing also denied responsibility. That boom remained unsolved.
“Some sort of weird shaking thing happened in San Diego a few minutes ago. Didn’t feel like an earthquake. More like a bizarre wind gust. Not sure what it was, but I’m not in favor of more bad things happening.”
One year later, on the afternoon of February 16, 2021, San Diego got hit by another boom which the USGA quickly reported was not an earthquake. Reports on this one came from Rancho Bernardo on the north side, 30 miles south from Chula Vista and 30 miles east from El Cajon. This time, no reported comments from the military.
“For the second time in about three weeks, residents from across San Diego County reported feeling a mysterious shaking — or in some cases hearing a loud boom — late in the afternoon Wednesday.”
That was around 5 pm on March 10, 2021, and the USGA reported that it was not an earthquake. (Do you detect a pattern here?) Again, no reported comments from the military, but local officials seem to be ruling out sonic booms or artillery fire anyway. A new theory came from Humberto Mendoza Garcilazo, a researcher at the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education, who suspected stormy weather and atmospheric pressure changes, but National Weather Service meteorologist Brandt Maxwell told the San Diego Union Tribune there were no thunderstorms in the area and “even with a strong cold front, you won’t get that kind of rumbling.”
So, no answers … only denials and silence. The booms occurred in the same area at about the same time of day. Earthquakes and weather are easy to rule out – records of both are in the public domain. The military is supposed to notify the public of unusual noise occurrence due to exercises or testing – but no one would be surprised if secret operations were not reported until possibly later with an “Oops, we’re sorry.” However, that hasn’t happened in San Diego. These booms bracket the coronavirus pandemic – could they be from secret military operations related to it? If the military is ruled out, what else could they be?
That’s the question being asked around the world as these mysterious sounds are heard more and more frequently. The media seems concerned in the moment, but quickly moves on to the next big news. Is it time for an independent organization to investigate these booms? Are there secret files or a secret internal group for mysterious booms like there is for UFOs? Both are possible security threats.
We’ll continue to report these mysterious sounds until someone gives an answer. Until then, report, record and repeat.
San Diego residents left baffled by mystery BOOM which shook the city for three seconds - and no one can explain what happened
San Diego residents left baffled by mystery BOOM which shook the city for three seconds - and no one can explain what happened
Mysterious boom was heard across San Diego at 4.52pm on Wednesday
Residents reported feeling shaking for about three seconds, echoing similar incidents last month and last year
People reported feeling the windows and doors of their homes rattle as the United States Geological Survey said it did not record even a slight earthquake
The thunderous noise caused social media users to contemplate what may have caused the sound
The top theories, fighter jets from the nearby Camp Pendleton military base and stormy weather, may have been ruled out
A mysterious boom was heard across San Diego at 4.52pm on Wednesday and residents reported feeling shaking for about three seconds, echoing similar incidents last month and last year.
People reported feeling the windows and doors of their homes rattle as the United States Geological Survey said it did not record even a slight earthquake, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.
However, one Twitter user noted that the Southern California Seismic Network, a co-operative project of Caltech and the USGS, recorded what appears to be the boom on a live feed on YouTube of its seismograph.
A mysterious boom was heard across San Diego at 4.52pm on Wednesday afternoon
Residents reported feeling windows and doors shake across the San Diego area on Wednesday
One Twitter user noted that the Southern California Seismic Network, a co-operative project of Caltech and the USGS, recorded what appears to be the boom on a seismograph
The thunderous noise caused other social media users to contemplate what may have caused the sound, with top theories being: fighter jets from the nearby Camp Pendleton military base and stormy weather.
However, the military theory may have been ruled out, the Union Tribune reported.
'That wasn't one of ours,' Cmdr. Zachary Harrell, a Navy spokesman, told the outlet.
Harrell noted that military jets are required to break the sound barrier far off the coast where they would not be heard.
One Twitter user speculated the sound came from artillery rounds at Camp Pendleton.
'Live in Valley Center, North County and assumed it was just a much louder round of artillery at Camp Pendleton. Website says they are doing Mortar Fire all day and I thought I heard some earlier and again this evening,' @scarrcats tweeted.
Officials with Camp Pendleton confirmed to KGTV that soldiers were conducting artillery training on Wednesday but could not confirm if that was responsible for the boom.
“Some sort of weird shaking thing happened in San Diego a few minutes ago. Didn’t feel like an earthquake. More like a bizarre wind gust. Not sure what it was, but I’m not in favor of more bad things happening.”
The Marines and local defense contractors that operate at Pendleton and other nearby bases did not respond to requests for comment from the outlet.
Some Twitter users speculated that the boom was caused by the nearby Camp Pendleton
One resident tweeted that she thought that the boom was a noisy neighbor moving furniture
Another Twitter user simply surmised 'aliens' after the boom was felt in San Diego on Wednesday
San Diego County Sheriff's Department received calls about the boom but KSWB-TV that they did not know what caused it.
A researcher at the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education told the Union Tribune that supersonic airplanes could have caused the 'rumble.'
But Humberto Mendoza Garcilazo also suggested it could may have been caused by stormy weather and atmospheric pressure changes, the Union Tribune reported.
National Weather Service meteorologist Brandt Maxwell told the outlet he was skeptical that it was caused by weather.
There were no thunderstorms in the area at the time of the boom and 'even with a strong cold front, you won't get that kind of rumbling,' he told the outlet.
Not Science Fiction: German Physicists Say Traversable Wormholes Possible
Not Science Fiction: German Physicists Say Traversable Wormholes Possible
German physicists explore the possibility of tunnels in spacetime.
Wormholes play a key role in many science fiction films — often as a shortcut between two distant points in space. In physics, however, these tunnels in spacetime have remained purely hypothetical. An international team led by Dr. Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo of the University of Oldenburg has now presented a new theoretical model in the science journal Physical Review Letters that makes microscopic wormholes seem less far-fetched than in previous theories.
Wormholes, like black holes, appear in the equations of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published in 1916. An important postulate of Einstein’s theory is that the universe has four dimensions — three spatial dimensions and time as the fourth dimension. Together they form what is known as spacetime, and spacetime can be stretched and curved by massive objects such as stars, much as a rubber sheet would be curved by a metal ball sinking into it. The curvature of spacetime determines the way objects like spaceships and planets, but also light, move within it.
“In theory, spacetime could also be bent and curved without massive objects,” says Blázquez-Salcedo, who has since transferred to the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. In this scenario, a wormhole would be an extremely curved region in spacetime that resembles two interconnected funnels and connects two distant points in space, like a tunnel. “From a mathematical perspective such a shortcut would be possible, but no one has ever observed a real wormhole,” the physicist explains.
Moreover, such a wormhole would be unstable. If for example, a spaceship were to fly into one, it would instantly collapse into a black hole — an object in which matter disappears, never to be seen again. The connection it provided to other places in the universe would be cut off. Previous models suggest that the only way to keep the wormhole open is with an exotic form of matter that has a negative mass, or in other words weighs less than nothing, and which only exists in theory.
However, Blázquez-Salcedo and his colleagues Dr. Christian Knoll from the University of Oldenburg and Eugen Radu from the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal demonstrate in their model that wormholes could also be traversable without such matter.
The researchers chose a comparatively simple “semiclassical” approach. They combined elements of relativity theory with elements of quantum theory and classic electrodynamics theory. In their model, they consider certain elementary particles such as electrons and their electric charge as the matter that is to pass through the wormhole. As a mathematical description, they chose the Dirac equation, a formula that describes the probability density function of a particle according to quantum theory and relativity as a so-called Dirac field.
As the physicists report in their study, it is the inclusion of the Dirac field into their model that permits the existence of a wormhole traversable by matter, provided that the ratio between the electric charge and the mass of the wormhole exceeds a certain limit. In addition to matter, signals — for example electromagnetic waves — could also traverse the tiny tunnels in spacetime. The microscopic wormholes postulated by the team would probably not be suitable for interstellar travel. Moreover, the model would have to be further refined to find out whether such unusual structures could actually exist. “We think that wormholes can also exist in a complete model,” says Blázquez-Salcedo.
Reference: “Traversable Wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell Theory” by Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Christian Knoll and Eugen Radu, 9 March 2021, Physical Review Letters. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.101102
The scientists conducted the research for their paper within the Research Training Group “Models of Gravity” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is headed by Oldenburg physicist Prof. Dr. Jutta Kunz together with Prof. Dr. Claus Lämmerzahl from the Centre of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen. In addition to the University of Oldenburg, several other universities and research institutions are also involved in the programme.
Wormholes Could Allow Travel Across the Universe, as Long as Your Spacecraft is Microscopic
Wormholes Could Allow Travel Across the Universe, as Long as Your Spacecraft is Microscopic
In my last post, I talked about the idea of warp drive and whether it might one day be possible. Today I’ll talk about another faster-than-light trick: wormholes.
Wormholes are an old idea in general relativity. It’s based on work by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, who tried to figure out how elementary particles might behave in curved spacetime. Their idea treated particle-antiparticle pairs as two ends of a spacetime tube. This Einstein-RosenBridge would look like a black hole on one end, and an anti-black hole, or white hole, on the other end.
A traversable wormhole would be a shortcut through space. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
The particle physics idea never panned out, but work inspired other researchers to study ER-bridges as a possible shortcut through space. If wormholes were traversable, you could burrow through spacetime like a worm burrowing a hole through an apple. It didn’t take long for theorists to discover this wouldn’t work. Although wormholes are valid solutions to Einstein’s equations, they collapse so quickly you’d never have time to go through them. In general relativity, wormholes aren’t traversable.
Of course, impossibility never stops a persistent theoretician, and soon they figured out you could make a wormhole traversable by lining it with some kind of negative energy. The same kind of negative energy that could be used for warp drive. But as I mentioned last time, matter with negative mass/energy doesn’t seem to exist.
At small scales gravity must have a quantum nature. Credit: The Wolfram Physics Project
But all is not lost. We know that Einstein’s theory must break down at quantum scales because it is a classical theory. Presumably, there is some quantum theory of gravity that supplants general relativity. We don’t yet have a complete quantum gravity model, but we do have several approximate models that will point us in the right direction.
One of these models is known as the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory. It is so named because it includes aspects of Einstein’s theory of gravity, Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, and Dirac’s theory of quantum particles. Recently a team found a wormhole solution to the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell equations.
The team found that their wormhole solution was fully traversable. What’s more, the solution doesn’t require any negative-energy states. In principle, that would allow you to travel through the wormhole without needing negative mass. The only catch is that you would need to be in a quantum state. So microscopic clumps of atoms could travel through this wormhole, but not people.
While this is interesting work, it is just a toy model. There are lots of solutions to Einstein’s equations that can’t exist for reasons beyond gravity. The team plans to explore their idea further to see if their solution is yet another impossible idea, or whether there might be a way to create this kind of quantum wormhole. And if this idea does work, it will still be easier to pass through the eye of a needle than it will be to enter the distant heavens.
UFO Sighting News, Dogs Bark At Lights Over Ponce, Puerto Rico, 3-12-2021. MUFON.
UFO Sighting News, Dogs Bark At Lights Over Ponce, Puerto Rico, 3-12-2021. MUFON.
Date of sighting: 3-12-2021
Location of sighting: Ponce, Puerto Rico
Source: MUFON 114177
An eyewitness in Puerto Rico yesterday noticed some strange lights moving around the sky. Then dogs began barking for no reason. Just like in many past UFO reports...animals often sense the alien presence nearby and began to panic. Here we hear the dogs barking crazily. This is a sign...that the sighting is real. Some people will mistakenly call these search lights, but they are not. They are alien entities that are made of pure energy.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Me and my family saw it on the sky and some friends saw it a few miles away from another city.
UFO Sighting, 4 UFOs On Space Station Cam, 3-13-2021, MUFON News.
UFO Sighting, 4 UFOs On Space Station Cam, 3-13-2021, MUFON News.
Date of sighting: March 13, 2021 Location of sighting: space station
Source: MUFON
This eyewitness recorded several UFOs near the space station on live cam. There is at least four UFOs flying past all in different directions. But there may be more. The live ISS cam is aimed at the earth, so the objects are flying between the space station and the earths orbit. One of the objects comes very close to the space station and should have aroused alarms to awaken the astronauts on board the station. NASA doesn't tell us what these things are, but they could be UFOs. They could also be satellites. This year seems to have had hundreds of satellites released into earths orbit by SpaceX. So...its hard to say what these thing really are. But one thing is for sure...they are unidentified, they are flying and they are objects...UFOs.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
this is better quality footage as in case 114150 , orb activity seen from iss over the north pacific ocean east from Japan 13-03-2021 .
UFO Sighting Over moon by Astronomer in Italy While Cleaning Telescope April 29, 2007.
UFO Sighting Over moon by Astronomer in Italy While Cleaning Telescope April 29, 2007.
I re-loaded my own video again today, for those who haven't seen it. SCW Original from 2007 is at https://youtu.be/4Wg0lR0FIoM
On April 29, 2007 Alberto Mayer who lives in Busto Arisizio, Italy and is an amateur astronomer found an incredible discovery almost by accident. He states that while adjusting the focus of his telescope that night at 10:52 pm, when he spotted and tracked on video a UFO as it flew across the surface of the moon. The short two-minute video he made seems more that of a professional astronomer than an amateur, but he prefers to be called amateur. The video shows the portions of the moon that he was focused on in close up mode while tracking a solid black round object as it flew over the surface of the moon at an elevation he measured to be 214 meters above the moons surface. This video is absolutely amazing, both in the way he put it together and in its organization. The round black item is tracked as he catches it on its journey beginning just after it passed Wallace crater and then passes over Wallace Alps, then on its way it passes below or near these craters, Egede, Eudoxus, Plana. As it passes Plana crater and comes between Daniell & Grace crater, it hovers and hesitates for about 15 seconds, before it makes a sudden change of path at an exact 45-degree angle. Also note that before it turned, 32 seconds into the video it abruptly slowed down to half its original speed before it suddenly hesitated for 15 seconds, and then moved upward at a 45-degree angle. As it moves upwards, you can see it passed the labeled craters on the moon in this order, Grace, Plana, Borg, Bally A, Bally, Gartner, Democritus, Moigno A, Baillaud, and De sitter before it disappears around the moons edges to the dark side, out of the telescopes view. As the black UFO passes by Grace crater, it began to not only speed up, but also continue to pick up momentum until it was 1.75-2.0 times faster than it was when first seen traveling past Wallace Alps! This video can be seen on at Alberto Mayer's official website at http://www.makina.it/SAA/Home.html
Daytime UFO sighting of a fast UFO over Newcastle , UK 13-Mar-2021
Daytime UFO sighting of a fast UFO over Newcastle , UK 13-Mar-2021
Spherical like object travelling at high speed over Newcastle upon Tyne in UK, the most populous city and metropolitan borough in North East England. Filmed on 13th March 2021.
Witness report:
Reflective flash drew my attention to the object which i thought was a helium balloon at first, then noticed it was traveling at speed towards my location horizontally. Flight path was in front of low clouds, clear sunny day not raining, ufo disappears out of sight behind tree branches. After looking at video a couple more ufo’s appears to be present to the right hand side tree. After looking at video frame by frame it looks like it moves from point to point. In one frame two ufo disappear from screen and appear to leave a white mark in the cloud and then reappear.
Fast UFOs making maneuvers over Penrith, Australia 13-Mar-2021
Fast UFOs making maneuvers over Penrith, Australia 13-Mar-2021
Here’s one fresh new UFO video filmed over Ponce, Puerto Rico on 12th March 2012. It shows these strange lights “dancing” in the sky above Ponce on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico.
20,000-year-old “submerged pyramid”: Atlantis described by Plato?
20,000-year-old “submerged pyramid”: Atlantis described by Plato?
The golden dream of archeology would be to find Atlantis . For some a fantastic place, however, there are records of this continent for centuries. Now, a submerged pyramid reopens the debates about its existence.
The pyramid could be 20,000 years old and be in the same location where Plato claimed to have found the mythical city.
The birth of the legend
It is Solon the Athenian politician, legislator and statesman who makes Atlantis known to the world, after his meeting with the Egyptian priest Sonchis de Sais, on one of his trips to the African country.
The priest told the story of a city that existed some 9,000 years before his time . In Plato’s dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias” Solon invokes Plato and claims that it is he who will tell the location of Atlantis.
For Plato, Atlantis is the source of history , an energetic island that appears as a great military power 9,000 years before the legislator Solon.
Larger than Libya and Asia Minor together, located after the Pillars of Hercules. Its power was so immense that it conquered Western Europe, North Africa, until Athens could stop it.
It was at the same time that an unprecedented cataclysm completely wiped out the armies and the island.
Plato mentions:
“Through violent earthquakes and floods, in a single day and night of misfortune … [The entire race] … was absorbed by Earth and the island of Atlantis … disappeared into the depths of the sea.”
The sea where Atlantis was located was no longer navigated because there were very few survivors, Athens and Greece forgot the disaster .
The submerged Pyramid found measures 8,000 square meters and 60 meters high.
However, Egypt does remember the stories of that city. A manuscript that mentions Citrias, says that his legacy was preserved for thousands of years until he reached Solon.
Submerged pyramid would reveal the existence of Atlantis
Experts wonder what exists behind the columns of Hercules that could suggest that Atlantis was there?
Currently there are 9 volcanic islands that make up the Azores, a place located more than 1,000 kilometers from Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
In recent years, experts have identified a huge structure near the islands of São Miguel and Terceira in the Azores that could be a submerged pyramid.
Surprisingly, the islands of the Azores is the exact place that Plato mentions as the area where Atlantis existed.
Several experts discovered that the submerged pyramid is perfectly square , with an equally exact orientation at its cardinal points .
Scientists confirm that the structure has been under the sea for at least 20,000 years. Or from the time when the glaciers on Earth melted, after the last Ice Age.
The Portuguese media attributed their find to Diocleciano Silva . According to his estimates, the pyramid measures at least 8,000 square meters and 60 meters high.
A new find sheds more light and controversy on the legend of Atlantis. Could this submerged pyramid be proof that it existed there?
NOTE PETER2011:
If you watch all these selected videos, you will see some ancient cities, found under wader on the sea or ocean floor as well as some pyramids. What great natural disaster led to this? How many extensions have happened in the past? Is there a truth in Velowsky's theory and his book "Worlds in Collision" ... Is petroleum the result of extinct animals and humans? What great secrets of the past is our planet still hiding from us?
A mysterious video recently submitted to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), a US-based non-profit organization that studies alleged UFO sighting is now the hottest debating topic among conspiracy theorists and alien believers. In the video, apparently shot from Tennessee, a glowing disc-shaped flying object can be seen hovering in the night skies. Even though the video clip was shot last year, it was submitted to MUFON recently.
Eyewitness statement about UFO
The eyewitness who saw the alleged UFO sighting claimed that the event took place in Hillsboro. Initially, the eyewitness thought that the glowing object could be Venus, but he decided to take a closer look using his telescope, as the planet appeared on the wrong side of the sky.
Alleged UFO sighting that happened in TennesseeUFO SIGHTINGS DAILY
"Appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jellyfish-like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim," said the eyewitness.
After watching the video, several people started claiming that aliens have visited earth, and they could be gearing up for an invasion.
Alien hunter assures presence of extraterrestrials on earth
The video was later analyzed by self-styled alien hunter Scott C Waring, who is known for making unbelievable claims regarding extraterrestrial existence on earth. Waring, on his website UFO Sightings Daily claimed that the disc-shaped UFO spotted in the skies, had an antenna on its top center and a glowing window around its center.
"It's actually a classic disk but is attempting to create a cloud form around it causing it to appear thicker than it really is. The second photo above is proof of this. This is a rare sighting of a real glowing disk at night over Tennessee. The real kicker is that it has an antenna on its top center...just as scientist Bob Lazar who worked in Area S4 inside Area 51 said some disks have and will fly tiling at an angle. The antenna is actually the source of its movement. Not engines...but direction movement. The actual propulsion systems are separate," wrote Waring on his website.
A few weeks back, Haim Eshed, a former Israeli space security chief had claimed that alien existence on earth is real. He also added that the United States and Israel are working together with an advanced alien species.
Clever camerawork allowed scientists to view an elusive cloud that streams away from Mars’ volcano Arsia Mons and determine how it’s formed.
A long, thin cloud – which comes and goes with the Martian seasons – appears in this September 2018 photo from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. This cloud has been seen to stretch 1,100 miles (1,800 km) and span some 93 miles (150 km) in width. This week, scientists said they now understand what creates the cloud.
Image via Flickr/ ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin/ J. Cowart, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Scientists announced on March 9, 2021, that they’ve unraveled the mystery of what creates a regularly occurring, long, thin cloud seen to stream away from the now-extinct Martian volcano named Arsia Mons. The cloud formation – which occurs seasonally – appears to be produced by a combination of the volcano’s height plus meteorological conditions in that part of Mars on spring and summer mornings. These conditions both cause the cloud to form, these scientists said, and explain why the cloud dissipates by midday.
Arsia Mons is the southernmost volcano of a row of three prominent volcanoes found near Mars’ equator. It rises more than 12 miles (20 km) above the Martian surface. In comparison, our earthly Mount Everest is only about 5 1/2 miles (9 km) tall, and Olympus Mons, the highest mountain on Mars and in the solar system, is 16 miles (25 km) tall. Orbiting spacecraft still see signs of ancient lava produced by this volcano millions of years ago.
The cloud flowing from Arsia Mons is similarly impressive in size. It can stretch as long as 1,100 miles (1,800 km) and span some 93 miles (150 km) in width.
A study published December 20, 2020, in the peer-reviewed journal American Geophysical Union explains how climate systems similar to those on Earth produce the cloud. Martian geography – the specific arrangement of Mars’ physical features, for example – pushes the feature to extremes.
This view of Mars’ southern highlands from September 2018 shows the cloud and Arsia Mons at left and the south polar cap at right. The wider view gives a better impression of the great length of the cloud.
Image via Flickr/ ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin/ J. Cowart, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Scientists nabbed a series of photos of the cloud by using the Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera. The camera’s original purpose was to confirm that the mission’s Beagle 2 lander had separated from the Mars Express orbiter. The mission team recently reclassified the camera for scientific research. It’s not a new camera; the Mars Express mission launched in 2003, and thus the camera’s resolution is similar to a computer’s webcam from 2003. But this camera had other advantages that let scientists monitor the cloud’s movements. Jorge Hernández Bernal, lead author of the paper from the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, explained:
Although it has a low spatial resolution, [the Visual Monitoring Camera] has a wide field of view – essential to see the big picture at different local times of day – and is wonderful for tracking a feature’s evolution over both a long period of time and in small time steps. As a result, we could study the whole cloud across numerous life cycles.
The images showed that the cloud formation appeared in the spring and summer months every morning before dissipating in the afternoon. The cloud follows a daily pattern of appearing around dawn at an altitude of 28 miles (45 km), then expanding for 2 1/2 hours as it’s pushed westward at immense speeds of 373 miles (600 km) an hour, until the cloud detaches from Arsia Mons and evaporates before noon in the warming air.
These observationsgave scientists clues about what formed the cloud. They said they now believe it’s formed due to a process called orographic lift, or the rising of air as it flows over rising ground.
Watch the evolution of the cloud at Arsia Mons over the course of approximately 3 hours.
When spring arrives in southern Mars, a cloud of water ice emerges near the volcano Arsia Mons, rapidly stretching out for many hundreds of miles before disappearing hours later. A detailed long-term study reveals the daily and seasonal behavior of this cloud, using new observations from the Visual Monitoring Camera on ESA’s Mars Express, along with data from other Mars orbiters.
Orographic lift occurs among earthly clouds as well. It happens when a flowing air mass meets a large obstruction, such as a mountain or volcano, and is forced upward. As the air mass rises higher in altitude, the cooler temperatures so far above the surface allow moisture to condense into clouds. This orographic cloud is the largest ever seen on Mars. Co-author Agustin Sánchez-Lavega, also of the University of the Basque Country, said:
Although orographic clouds are commonly observed on Earth, they don’t reach such enormous lengths or show such vivid dynamics. Understanding this cloud gives us the exciting opportunity to try to replicate the cloud’s formation with models that will improve our knowledge of climatic systems on both Mars and Earth.
By the way, spacecraft images of the white cloud flowing off Arsia Mons have been captured before. In the 1970s, Viking 2 caught the first images of a cloud in this region of Mars. These observations were followed up by many spacecraft over the years, including the Indian Space Research Organization’s Mars Orbiter Mission; two NASA missions, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; and ESA’s Mars Express.
Despite all these eyes on the red planet, the constraints of earlier spacecraft didn’t allow for continuous or extended observations of this curious cloud feature until recently. In fact, most cameras orbiting Mars were in orbits that only let them observe this region of Mars in the afternoons.
And that made this morning-loving cloud an unsolved mystery, until now.
Bottom line: Clever camerawork enabled scientists to view an elusive cloud that streams away from Mars’ volcano Arsia Mons and explain how it’s formed through orographic lift (rising air over a mountain) during the morning hours.
Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest scientific minds our world has ever known. Although mysteriously absent from school textbooks, he accomplished much in his lifetime, discovering radio and remote control — the backbone of NASA’s current technology — drone technology, cosmic radio waves, and more. He was also a big proponent of free, unlimited energy for everyone.
Tesla publicly demonstrated his first working model of a robot guided by radio waves, unveiled to many astonished viewers at the Electrical Exposition held at Madison Square Garden, in May 1898. This was front page news in America at that time. It marked the first time that radio waves were used to guide the movement of a robot — 11 years before Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radio in 1909.
In today’s world of science, few remember that most of our pioneering physicists and chemists were mystics. Certainly this is the case for Tesla, whose idea of free energy was greatly influenced by Vedic philosophy. It is an unfortunate reality that even someone as brilliant as Tesla would be maligned as a pseudoscientist by mainstream researchers if he were alive and working today.
Tesla wasn’t just a proponent of wireless communication and energy. He also believed we are not alone in the universe — a conclusion which has become blatantly obvious, even to many mainstream scientists. In fact, a recent congressional hearing in the United States saw top U.S. astronomers tell Congress that extraterrestrial life most certainly exists, without question. And a number of scientists and military and political personnel have told us that we are not alone, and that we have been being visited by intelligent extraterrestrial life for a long time.
Tesla offered these remarks in an interview he gave to Time at the age of 75:
I think that nothing can be more important than interplanetary communication. It will certainly come someday, and the certitude that there are other human beings in the universe, working, suffering, struggling, like ourselves, will produce a magic effect on mankind and will form the foundation of a universal brotherhood that will last as long as humanity itself.
Few people know that in 1899, while working at his Colorado Springs laboratory, he announced that he had received extraterrestrial radio signals. The scientific community thought he was nuts, and in fact, cosmic radio signals didn’t even exist at the time. One an easily imagine how alone and misunderstood Tesla must have felt.
The Black Knight Satellite
It’s known as the “Black Knight Satellite,” and although it wasn’t confirmed by scientists until 1932, Tesla discovered it in 1899 while in his Colorado Springs laboratory, hearing strange rhythmic sounds on his radio receiver. The confirmation in 1932 gave birth to the field of radio astronomy, which is now used to decode and detect messages from distant stars and other mysterious celestial sources. Tesla writes:
I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth. Even now, at times, I can vividly recall the incident, and see my apparatus as though it were actually before me. My first observations positively terrified me, as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night; but at that time the idea of these disturbances being intelligently controlled signals did not yet present itself to me.
The changes I noted were taking place periodically, and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause then known to me. I was familiar, of course, with such electrical disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis and earth currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these variations were due to none of these causes. The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes being produced by atmospheric disturbances, as has been rashly asserted by some. It was some time afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. . . . I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth. (source)(source)
Tesla believed that the signals he was picking up on were from Mars. Here’s another statement he gave on what he found:
Others may scoff at this suggestion…[of] communicat[ing] with one of our heavenly neighbors, as Mars…or treat it as a practical joke, but I have been in deep earnest about it every since I made my first observations in Colorado Springs… At the time, there existed no wireless plant other than mine that could produce a disturbance perceptible in a radius of more than a few miles. Furthermore, the conditions under which I operated were ideal, and I was well trained for the work. The character of the disturbances recorded precluded the possibility of their being of terrestrial origin, and I also eliminated the influence of the sun, moon, and Venus. As I then announced, the signals consisted in a regular repetition of numbers, and subsequent study convinced me that they must have emanated from Mars, the planet having just then been close to the earth. (source)
According to theAmerican Physical Society Physics, Tesla concluded that these signals, or this strange unnatural object they originate from, was indeed extraterrestrial, or an effort to “communicate with Earth by alien beings.”
This was one of multiple incidents in which Telsa intercepted what he thought were intelligent signals from space. He states that even the simplest form of communication (such as the interchange of numbers) could represent a form of intelligible transmission from extraterrestrials.
Today, we know for sure that these signals are of extraterrestrial origin, but it’s assumed that they are radio waves from planets, comets, stars, or galaxies — not ‘ET.’
More than 30 years after the confirmation in 1932, a graduate student by the name of Jocelyn Bell noticed some strange data coming from her telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO). After a few weeks, she noticed that the signal being produced could not have originated from any known natural source, and she (and her team) ruled out every conceivable explanation, such as multiple sources of human interference, other radio astronomers, radar reflected off the moon, orbiting satellites, television signals, and more. Nothing could explain these strange signals.
She eventually published a paper in the scientific journal Nature, despite the fact that the source of the sound, though they knew it to be artificial, had not been determined.
These announcements caused quite a commotion at the time, and today it is common for strange signals, determined to be coming from ‘non-natural’ sources, to be detected. But who knows what they are?
Just last year, strange radio wave flashes from far outside of our Milky Way galaxy (or in it) had scientists completely confused; you can read more about that here.
I just want to make it clear that this type of stuff is always going on.
Declassified CIA Document Claims Carl Jung Accused U.S. Air Force of Covering Up Truth About UFOs
Declassified CIA Document Claims Carl Jung Accused U.S. Air Force of Covering Up Truth About UFOs
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
A document archived by the CIA from 1959 and later declassified claims Carl Jung accused the U.S. Air Force of a UFO coverup. Fast forward to 2021 and we now know that the Air Force and other agencies have surrounded this topic with secrecy.
Reflect On:
Can we rely on government agencies and mainstream media for any type of truth on this topic, or will they attempt to manipulate and control our perception of it for other purposes? Is "contact" a citizens initiative?
What Happened:
Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the very first director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once said that “It is time for the truth to be brought out…Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officials are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects
He said this decades ago. Hillenkoetter is also mentioned in this declassified document archived and released by the CIA. This particular document also mentions Carl Jung. It reads as follows:
This is a reply to the letter (Aug. 6) criticizing Dr. Carl Jung for his belief in flying saucers and his charges that the Air Force has been covering up the truth about these objects. I would like to point out that Dr. Jung is not the first person of integrity and reputation who has made such charges. He is merely the latest. Exactly the same charge has been made by Admiral Delmar Fahrney, former director of the naval guided missile research program, and by R.M. Hillenkoetter, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. Both of these men would be in a position to know how much the AF investigation of saucers really found.
The piece was written by Fred A. Kirsch, a well known UFO researcher.
So what did they really find? Keep in mind this document is from 1959, it’s now 2021. How much has been discovered and how much has been kept from the public? In his very last interview before his death, Colonel Robert Friend, who from 1958-1962 was a director of Project Blue Book (U.S. Air Force UFO investigation project) suggests the U.S. Air Force knew what these object were. Fast forward to today, and we now have “abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.”
(Dr. Brian O’Leary, former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor)
The document goes on:
If Jung were the only responsible person to make such charges, we could brush the whole thing off as nonsense. However, when a number of pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers agree that the UFOs are real, a serious reappraisal of the situation is in order.
Today, UFOs have gone mainstream, and the same information is being emphasized. For example, Christopher Mellon, who was the former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Intelligence from 1997 to 2002, recently made an appearance on CNN stating the same facts about these objects. Many people have concerns about “mainstream UFO disclosure” given the fact that governments and mainstream media, according to many, have deceived the public on so many occasions. You can read a deeper discussion about that here, if interested.
The same year that this document pertaining to Jung was written, he released his book called Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, which examines “not the reality or unreality” of the titular phenomena, but their “psychic aspect,” and “what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time” — the Cold War — “when humankind is menaced as never before in history.”
It seems, in my opinion, he was quite convinced of the phenomenon. Especially given the fact that he accused the Air Force of a cover-up. Again, fast forward to today and we now know he was right.
In 1957, New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison wanted to get this Jung’s perspective on UFOs in his magazine. You can see (via The Awl) a scan of Jung’s response to Harrison’s query, the text reads as follows:
The problem of the Ufos is, as you rightly say, a very fascinating one, but it is as puzzling as it is fascinating; since, in spite of all observations I know of, there is no certainty about their very nature. On the other side, there is an overwhelming material pointing to their legendary or mythological aspect. As a matter of fact the psychological aspect is so impressive, that one almost must regret that the Ufos seem to be real after all. I have followed up the literature as much as possible and it looks to me as if something were seen and even confirmed by radar, but nobody knows exactly what is seen. In consideration of the psychological aspect of the phenomenon I have written a booklet about it, which is soon to appear. It is also in the process of being translated into English. Unfortunately being occupied with other tasks I am unable to meet your proposition. Being rather old, I have to economize my energies.
Jung’s approach to UFOs was clearly binary. It would seem, especially given the claims in the CIA document that he believed them to be real, but was uncertain of their very nature and what they actually represented.
At the time, “academics” were well aware of the UFO phenomenon. Many decades ago Wernher Von Brauns mentor Hermann Oberth, the founding father of rocketry and astronautics, also known as the ‘father of Spaceflight’ stated his belief that “flying saucers are real” and that “they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.” He wrote these words in “Flying Saucers Come From A Distant World”, The American Weekly, Oct 24, 1954.
It’s hard to believe that for all these years, despite the fact that evidence clearly suggested otherwise, that UFOs were thrown into the “conspiracy theory” bucket and one was made out to be a lunatic for even mentioning the possibility that they were real and possibly extraterrestrial. Today, it’s a much different story, but there is still a lot to uncover.
The Takeaway:
Collective Evolution has written about the UFO phenomenon in depth since our inception in 2009. We’ve covered countless stories and revelations regarding the phenomenon. If you’d like to sift through our UFO/extraterrestrial article archive (from most recent to last) to learn more about the phenomenon you can do so HERE.
You can also find some good stuff on CETV, a platform created to help combat the censorship and demonetization we’ve experienced here at Collective Evolution for quite some time now. It’s how we are able to continue, and are attempting to continue doing what we do.
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again, the the UFO topic leaves no aspect of humanity untouched. It’s truly a catalyst, as are many other things, to expand human consciousness and really ask deeper questions about the nature of our reality and what we think we know about it. Ultimately I believe the phenomenon will force us to ask more questions about ourselves, where we come from, why we are here and most importantly, why we live and act the way we do here on planet Earth.
Debunking misinformation: FLIR1 (UAP) is really a jet
Debunking misinformation: FLIR1 (UAP) is really a jet
When it comes to the highly complex issue of UFOs (UAPs), the debunking of misinformation is critically important. Most notably, it becomes imperative to ensure that ‘Unidentified’ objects don’t get labeled as ‘extraterrestrial’. This is misinformation, mainly due to the fact that it is not supported by facts or solid evidence. Only an established government task force or DOD program that has access to radar data and/or certain materials should ever have the authority to determine such an extreme classification.
And this works both ways. We should not label various UAP military encounters as planes, balloons, drones or birds without official classification of an appropriate government investigation body. Unfortunately, that is exactly what is happening. Established debunker and sceptic Mick West has taken to trying to explain away the Gimble, Go Fast and FLIR1 videos as planes, balloons, drones or birds. Most recently Mick tries to imply that the FLIR1 object captured by Lt. Chad Underwood was a fighter plane without clarifying the alternatives as to why it might not be a plane, or without clarifying that the official DOD classification itself was ‘Unidentified’ and not a plane.
For anyone who has worked in academia or research, they would know that when you propose a hypothesis you must work to disprove it as much as you are looking to prove it. Science doesn’t care what the end result is, it cares about using an appropriate assessment methodology, accounting for all the factors, not just the ones which build your own narrative to reach the final conclusion.
Mick West isn’t doing that. That’s not a criticism against him as a person, but his methodology is highly flawed. There are critical issues within his approach across all three UAP videos, from Go Fast, to Gimble to FLIR1, all of which arguably stem from researcher bias. Then we have the issue of ‘disassociating data’. In order to fully understand the mindset we need to think like Mick.
Let’s work backwards from the assumption FLIR1 is a plane. I ask myself, how could I do it?
Ok. We know it’s a simple case of misidentified plane, so let’s work to see HOW we can prove it’s a plane. Firstly, we need to set about separating the Chad Underwood video from the eye witness accounts of Cmdr. David Fravor, James Slaight and Anon female wing pilot. Through doing we can eliminate the tricky issue of having to deal with a lot of well meaning, but confused pilots. Also, by doing this we reduce the chances that the ‘hyper acceleration’ of the plane was anything unusual and in fact just a locking glitch issue.
It’s important at this point that we ignore the relevance of missing radar data, because surely that radar data would track the planes final destination or origin as it engaged highly sensitive military airspace.
Another issue to overcome, planes don’t evade the most sophisticated, billion dollar defense strike groups that includes fighter jets and a AN/SPY1 tracking system that reaches over 300km (186 miles), particularly when they have entered into military airspace. So we have to imply and work on the assumption that the plane was misidentified by the military and somehow they weren’t able to identify it as a plane.
Another problem I face is that somehow I have to convince people that the nuclear strike group Nimitz and multiple Navy Pilot’s have never encountered another plane or captured one on FLIR gun camera footage prior to that moment. Simply put, I won’t mention it.
Also, it important to ignore other additional data such as other navy pilots such as Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, a Marine Hornet squadron commanding officer who intercepted the Tic-Tac.
With this in mind, it is also important that we not mention missing testimony of three additional airmen/pilots on Chad Underwood’s encounter (2 fighter jets, 4 people). It’s also imperative that we don’t make a point of not requesting the data be forthcoming. What would be the point, we know it’s a plane, we’ve established it’s a plane and any incoming data might only serve to damage that established fact.
At this point, we should move forward on a two pronged approach. Firstly, we create multiple video that have scientific merit in their own right, but have little relation the real world incident. Secondly, we repeat the claim over and over, without ever conceding, which acts as a psychological stimulus under an ‘illusion of truth’ approach.
That’s how I would have ensured FLIR1 object was presented as a plane. Obviously, as you can see, there are multiple critical flaws in my approach. Overall, I am ignoring the overall, holistic picture with regard to FLIR1 + Tic-Tac, and the entire initiative.
The U.S. Government (The Senate Armed Forces Committee and the Select Senate Committee for Intelligence) created a UAP Task Force to investigate objects such as the ones reported on record in classified congressional briefings. These same Navy pilots involved have been in front of congress.
“In regards to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force mentioned in Times, Gough confirms the Department of Defense “is creating a task force to gain knowledge and insight into the nature and origins of UAPs,” as well as their “operations, capabilities, performance, and/or signatures.
The mission, Gough says, “will be to detect, analyze, catalog, consolidate, and exploit non-traditional aerospace vehicles/UAPs posing an operational threat to U.S. national security and avoid strategic surprise.”
The acknowledgement from the SSCI that there is an unidentified phenomenon engaging the military is a massive issue for Mick West. Generally, a UAP task force isn’t created on the misidentification of planes, balloons or birds. Given the advanced billion dollar technology of the Department of Defense it is highly unlikely that such identification systems could fail so badly to the point misinformation reached congress and then they act on that data.
‘The SPY-1 can maintain continuous radar surveillance while automatically tracking more than 100 targets at one time. Public numerical figures on the SPY-1 detection range claim that it can detect a golf ball-sized target at ranges in excess of 165 km. When applied to a ballistic missile-sized target, the SPY-1 radar is estimated to have a range of 310 km. The system is designed forblue water and littoral operations however SPY-1 configuration must be modified to look above the terrain to avoid causing excessive false targets from land clutter. Configuration changes to mitigate this technical issue have made it more difficult for AN/SPY-1 to identify and track low and fast targets.‘
And finally, with regards to FLIR1, the DOD gave the object a classification of ‘Unidentified’.
‘DOD is releasing 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. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as “unidentified.”’
That means that the incursions and the objects in the three videos have (as you would might expect) been thoroughly analysed to reach a classification of Unidentified.
There are some very interesting questions and answers, but, no more so than the very last question 7.
7) Q: If an observer initially characterize an observation as unidentified
aerial phenomena, that he or she cannot
immediately identify, and the
observation cannot later be explained
after an analysis by the UAPTF, or any
other component, what will such
observation be categorized as?
A: ‘Unidentified’
- Glassel, R., 02/09/2020
That means that to reach the classification of ‘Unidentified’, a thorough assessment by DOD is performed. So in summary, and in the case of FLIR1, for it to be a plane it means that the United States government is unable to identify a plane as it enters the secure airspace of a nuclear strike group. This is misinformation and needs to be stamped out in all forms, whether it be claims of extraterrestrials or planes, we simply don’t have the data to conclude.
Here is the answer: say ‘I don’t know, we need more data from the government’
Sitting out in Lincoln National Forest, near Ruidoso, not far from Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a reservoir that at first might seem to be a perfectly peaceful and placid place. It’s called Bonito Lake, and among locals it is a popular place to go for a day outdoors. Here one can see fishermen, campers, and families having picnics at the lakeshore, making it all seem like a nice little spot for a day out. Yet beneath its placid water Bonito Lake holds a dark secret that many of the visitors might not be aware of, and indeed the very area is pervaded by a grim history of disaster, murder, and hauntings that thrums below the quiet exterior.
In the mid-1800s, the Gold Rush in California and the southwest was causing a major epidemic of gold fever. People from all over the country were rushing in with dreams of striking it rich, with mining camps springing up anywhere gold was rumored to be, and Bonito City, New Mexico, was one of these places. Starting as a simple ragtag collection of dusty miner tents, as more gold hungry people flooded in it grew exponentially, until by the mid-1880s it included many permanent structures such as a schoolhouse, three general stores, a saloon, a post office, a hotel, a boarding house, a blacksmith and even a law office. At one point, Bonito City and Lincoln country was supposedly the most populous place in New Mexico, but it was also a lawless, wild place full of outlaws, thieves, bandits, and other unsavory elements, as well as a place of frequent violence such as shootouts and even a Lincoln County War, but one gruesome incident in particular would stick into the region’s history like a thorn.
Bonito Lake
In 1885 a miner by the name of Martin Nelson came to town looking to get rich just like everyone else, although many in town saw him as nothing more than a drifter up to no good. As soon as Nelson arrived, there was a wave of thefts, usually small but noticeable in how frequent they were. A lot of people suspected that Nelson was a thief, but no one could prove it. At the time, Nelson was staying at the town boarding house, run by a family called the Mayberrys, where he shared a room with a Dr. William H. Flynn of Boston. According to the tale, one day, Nelson couldn’t resist stealing Dr. Flynn’s fancy watch, but he was caught in the act. Nelson called out to the Mayberry’s and they came running to the room, where Nelson was caught red-handed and panicked. Unfortunately for Flynn and the Mayberrys, Nelson was usually armed, and in his panicked state he fired on them with his .38 caliber rifle, killing Flynn, John Mayberry, Sr., and his two sons, John Jr. and Eddie. Mrs. Mayberry, as well as wounding Mrs. Mayberry and her daughter Nellie, who tried to flee. Not wanting any witnesses, Nelson allegedly chased them to shoot them both in the back and kill Mrs. Mayberry, but for some reason he spared Nellie and let her live. The carnage increased when the saloon owner Pete Nelson (no relation), came running to see what the commotion was about and he was shot and killed too. After this a standoff ensued, with Nelson killing another man, grocer Herman Beck, as he made a run for it. After this, Nelson didn’t get far, either shot by the Sherriff or killed by a posse, depending on the version of the story. At the time it was an absolutely shocking development, one of the worst atrocities the region had ever seen, and historian Lynda Sanchez has said of it:
Even the bloody Lincoln County War with its mayhem and destruction seems a bit pale by comparison to that one night of rampage by Nelson, the man to whom these murders were attributed. The violence, the blood, the macabre scenario that will forever haunt that beautiful lake country is difficult to comprehend. Was it greed only, or someone gone mad at the wrong time? What tipped the balance of sanity and changed him into a devil whirlwind of destruction? There are many theories. It probably was the wantonness and the suddenness of the murders that shocked everyone, she said. During the time of Billy the Kid, there were two sides to that violence and the conflict went on for months and many more were killed, but that situation was a ‘war. You knew what to expect. But to have this fiend from hell come at you in the middle of the night must have been indescribable.
This is the main narrative, but details vary in different versions of the event, yet they nevertheless all agree that Nelson went on a deadly shooting massacre, and that after his death, Nelson was unceremoniously buried in a simple wooden box on unconsecrated land outside the city cemetery. In the wake of this horrific bloodbath, the Mayberry boarding house was closed and left abandoned, and it did not take long at all for it to start gaining a reputation as being haunted. People described lights on in the boarding house when no one was there, anomalous noises including disembodied screams and phantom gunshots, and bloody footprints appearing and disappearing. Even scarier were reports that the ghosts of both Nelson and the victims of his murderous crime could be seen lurking about on the property. Those who were brave enough to try and enter the boarding house were said to come out screaming or to go mad from what they had seen inside. The place was considered haunted, cursed, or both, prowled by ghosts and its very walls imbued with its bloody history.
Things went on like for decades, then in 1920 the Southern Pacific Railroad began construction of a dam in the area, which meant that Bonito City was soon to become a lake. The city had already been steadily on the decline, with less and less gold being found and shops closing down one after the other. The remaining residents were told that they had to leave, the remaining buildings either torn down or left abandoned as is to await their watery fate. Eventually, by 1930 the entirety of what had once been Bonito City was underwater, now Bonito Lake. The graves of Nelson’s victims were moved to another cemetery in nearby Angus, New Mexico, before this happened, but Nelson’s body remained.
It is likely that this is why even to this day Nelson’s restless spirit is said to haunt the lake. Visitors have reported seeing the apparition of a man in old fashioned clothing, thought to be Nelson, wandering along the lake shore only to vanish into thin air, and he has even purportedly been seen eerily floating about under the surface of the water. Interestingly, most of the many visitors to the lake are completely unaware that there was once a city beneath the waves here, nor that it was the scene of such a dark piece of local history. Are there mysterious forces surrounding this place? Does this location’s dark roots imbue it with supernatural phenomena? Who knows, but it is all an interesting piece of lore and an intriguing supposed local haunting all the same.
If a UFO falls in Siberia, can any Russian officials agree on what it was? If the recent bright ball of flaming UFO recorded passing over the village of Ust-Nera is any indication, the answer is a resounding “Nyet!” Some say rocket, some say meteor, some say falling batteries (really!), but no one seems to be saying “Da, I agree with you.” Could it have something to do with the fact that the road leading into Ust-Nera is called the “Road of Bones”?
“A video from the remote, frozen northern Russian village of Ust-Nera has gone viral online after locals spotted a seemingly burning unidentified flying object, with a clearly visible trail in the pitch-black Siberian night sky. Ust-Nera, which has a population of around 5,000, is one of the world’s coldest permanently inhabited settlements, with current temperatures dropping to around -32C at night. Founded in the 1930s, it is located on what is known as the ‘Road of Bones’.”
Rt.com reported that the flaming object passed over Ust-Nera at 8 pm on March 12 and posted a video from a witness (watch it here). The initial theory as to the cause of the UFO came from Viktor Grokhovsky, “an expert on meteorites at the Russian Academy of Sciences,” who blamed the UFO on 2.5 tons of dead batteries reportedly dumped by the crew of the International Space Station on March 11. Grokhovsky doesn’t say if they were Russian or American batteries, but Georgy Goncharov from the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences disagreed, saying he thought it was a meteorite.
“Judging by the US Air Force data published on the website space-track.org, this object could well have been the Fregat upper stage, which in 2009 put the Meteor-M satellite into orbit.”
Ironically named Meteor satellite
While the U.S. space program seems to have no official comment on the UFO, Sputnik News (via Urdupoint.com) reports that Russian space expert Igor Lysov checked it out with the US Air Force website space-track.org and thinks the object was part of a Russian rocket used in 2009 to launch a Meteor-M weather satellite — a series of spacecraft that date back to the Soviet Union days, as do the “Fregat” upper stage rockets. The Russian site Yakutia.mk.ru reported that Roscosmos, the Russian space program, approved that message.
Rocket launching Meteor series satellite
So, why did one scientist blame ISS batteries (which, by the way, won’t burn out in the atmosphere for at least two years) and another blame a meteor? Could it have something to do with the Road of Bones? R504 Kolyma Highway is so cold, drivers won’t turn their ignitions off for fear of not being able to start them up again and freezing to death. However, the “Kolyma” in its name refers to a different kind of bones – the bones of those who died in Gulag camps along the Kolyma riverbed. Former Kolyma prisoner Varlam Shalamov wrote of working outside in temperatures as low as -50°C (-58°F) to mine iron ores, radioactive uranium and gold. Gold in Siberia?
“One of the most difficult labor was gold mining – workers had to wash up gold in water, even in the coldest days. They were not fed enough, they didn’t have proper clothes for such frost and their gloves (if they ever had ones) didn’t dry out. They constantly got frostbites and suffered from a range of illnesses, from dystrophy to tuberculosis, which they couldn’t get treatment for.”
As Russia Beyond explains, Russian officials cared more for the materials than the men, so they built more than 3,000 km (1864 miles) of roads, including a more than 2,000 km (1,242 miles) stretch from the city of Magadan to Yakutsk – the ‘Kolyma tract’ that earned its nickname — ‘Road of Bones’ – by taking 20 frigid years to build in order to take minerals out of a Gulag that killed more than more than 125 thousand people while it was in operation.
Is the ‘Just a rocket part from 2009 … nothing to see here … move along’ statement by Russian officials an attempt to hide the shame of the Road of Bones? Perhaps we should thank the UFO for lighting up Ust-Nera. Sadly, there are far too many things in this world we should “never forget.”
There Should be About 7 Interstellar Objects Passing Through the Inner Solar System Every Year
There Should be About 7 Interstellar Objects Passing Through the Inner Solar System Every Year
InOctober 19th, 2017, the first interstellar object ever detected flew past Earth on its way out of the Solar System. Less than two years later, a second object was detected, an easily-identified interstellar comet designated as 2I/Borisov. The appearance of these two objects verified earlier theoretical work that concluded that interstellar objects (ISOs) regularly enter our Solar System.
The question of how often this happens has been the subject of considerable research since then. According to a new study led by researchers from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is), roughly 7 ISOs enter our Solar System every year and follow predictable orbits while they are here. This research could allow us to send a spacecraft to rendezvous with one of these objects in the near future.
Oumuamua as it appeared using the William Herschel Telescope on the night of October 29. Queen’s University Belfast/William Herschel Telescope
The study of ‘Oumuamua in October of 2017 set off a revolution in astronomy and the study of celestial objects. Not only was this an object that had formed in another star system, but its arrival and detection implied a large population of such objects. The detection of 2I/Borisov in 2019 confirmed what many astronomers already suspected – that ISOs enter our Solar System on a pretty regular basis.
In addition to being a physicist with the i4is (and the lead author on the study), Marshall Eubanks is the Chief Scientist of Space Initiatives Inc. and CEO of Asteroid Initiatives LLC. As he told Universe Today via email, the discovery of ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov is significant in a way that cannot be understated:
“[J]ust by proving that they exist, it has had a profound impact, creating a field of study almost from nothing (a field that funding authorities are just beginning to recognize). Interstellar Objects provide us with the opportunity to study, and in the future literally touch, exobodies decades before the earliest possible missions to even the nearest stars, such as Proxima Centauri.”
This led to multiple proposals for missions that could rendezvous with future ISOs that were spotted passing through our system. One such proposal was Project Lyra, which researchers from the i4is shared in a 2017 study (with support from Asteroid Initiatives LLC). There’s also the ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission, which they plan to launch in 2029 to rendezvous with a long-period comet.
Artist’s impression of the interstellar object, `Oumuamua, experiencing outgassing as it leaves our Solar System. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser
“We started working on potential missions to interstellar objects in 2017, right after the discovery of ‘Oumuamua and we initially rather focused on chasing that specific object, in contrast to Seligman & Laughlin, who focused on ISOs that might be discovered in the future,” said Eubanks. “The Comet Interceptor mission would fall into a similar category (build-and-wait).”
Given that ISOs formed in another star system, the opportunity to study them up close would offer scientists insight into the conditions that are present there. In fact, the study of ISOs is the next best thing to sending interstellar probes to neighboring star systems. Of course, any such mission entails a lot of technical challenges, not to mention the need for advance warning. As Eubanks explained:
“There are two basic types of missions here – plan and wait, or launch and wait, missions, such as the ESA Comet Interceptor, and chase missions, such as would be needed to reach 1I/’Oumuamua. It is very unlikely that any chase missions will be able to rendezvous with a retreating ISO – these will almost certainly be restricted to fast flybys. Rendezvous missions, missions to match velocities and orbit or land the ISO, will need advance warning.”
To illustrate, when astronomers first became aware of ‘Oumuamua, it was only after the object had already made its closest approach to the Sun (aka. perihelion passage) and made a close pass by Earth. Because of this, observers had only 11 days to conduct observations as it made its way out of the Solar System and was beyond the reach of their instruments.
Artist’s impression of 2I/Borisov beyond our Solar System. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello
In the case of 2I/Borisov, amateur astronomer and telescope-maker Gennadiy Borisov caught sight of it on August 30th, 2019, roughly three months before it reached perihelion (December 8th, 2019). But for future missions to rendezvous with them, it is imperative to know as much as possible about how often ISOs arrive and how fast they are traveling when they do.
For the sake of their study, Eubanks and his colleagues sought to place better constraints on these two variables. To do this, they began by taking into account how an interstellar object’s velocity is influenced by the local standard of rest (LSR) – the mean motion of stars, gas, and dust in the Milky Way in the vicinity of the Sun:
“We assume that ISOs come from or are formed with stars and their planetary systems, and that after they are on their own they share the same galactic dynamics as stars do. We use the two known ISOs, 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, and the efficiency of past and current astronomical surveys to estimate the number of these objects in the galaxy, and stellar velocity estimates from the Gaia mission to estimate the velocity spread we should expect.”
What they found was that in an average year, the Solar System would be visited by up to 7 ISOs that are asteroid-like. Meanwhile, objects like 2I/Borisov (comets) would be rarer, appearing around once every 10 to 20 years. They further found that many of these objects would be moving at velocities greater that of ‘Oumuamua – which was moving at over 26 km/s before and after picking up a boost from the Sun.
Swarm of laser-sail spacecraft leaving the solar system. Credit: Adrian Mann
Knowing these parameters will help scientists prepare for possible rendezvous missions with ISOs, something which Eubanks and his colleagues covered in more detail in a previous study – “Interstellar Now! Missions to Explore Nearby Interstellar Objects.” As Universe Today reported at the time of its release, the study addressed a wider range of potential ISOs and the feasibility of reaching them.
In the meantime, this latest study provides basic information that will support the planning and implementation of these missions. In addition to Project Lyra and the ESA’s Comet Interceptor, there are numerous proposals for spacecraft that could rendezvous with interstellar objects (or even make the interstellar journey themselves).
These include Project Dragonfly, a small spacecraft and laser sail that was the subject of a conceptual design study hosted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4iS) in 2013. Another is Breakthrough Starshot, a concept put forward by Yuri Milner and Breakthrough Initiatives that also calls for a tiny spacecraft to be sent to Alpha Centauri using a lightsail and a powerful laser array.
This proposal has been articulated in recent years by Prof. Abraham Loeb and Prof. Manasvi Lingam. Whereas Leob is the founder of the ITC and Chair of the Starshot Advisory Committee, Lingham is a longtime researcher with the ITC and a co-author on the “Interstellar Now!” and this latest paper. In addition to going interstellar, these concepts have been proposed as a possible way of “chasing objects” that enter our Solar System.
One way or another, we will be peaking at other star systems soon! And knowing how to intercept and study the objects they periodically kick our way is a good way to start!
Dr Steven Greer: This Is How We Stage UFO & Alien False Flag Events
Dr Steven Greer: This Is How We Stage UFO & Alien False Flag Events
Dr. Steven Greer reveals startling information about the government briefing on UFOs and the control of information. Secret government programs on UFO technology is now being passed out to defence contractors. Thousands of people have been already briefed on the subject of extraterrestrials and their craft but can never talk about it, but slowly the truths are being leaked to the general public. The biggest global change has to take place.
Steven Greer reveals the technology and tactics used to create events that appear to be aliens or UFOs but are highly sophisticated false-flag events. This can include staging scenarios that appear to be UFO crash landings, alien abductions, strange implants or psychic attacks.
UFO Sighting Of 2 Long Craft Over Clovis, California 3-10-2021, MUFON.
UFO Sighting Of 2 Long Craft Over Clovis, California 3-10-2021, MUFON.
Date of sighting: 3-10-2021 Location of sighting: Clovis, California, USA Source: MUFON
Now, I went through this video and I saw something moving past the lens...then I realized...its rain. This is more proof that what the eyewitness said is true. He said he saw the UFO during a storm. And actually there are two of them. I have to admit, I'm a bit stumped by this one. He said he didn't see the UFO till later when he reviewed the video. But the digital eye is more perfect and can sometimes record cloaked objects, where the human eye is flawed and weak. Excellent proof aliens are over California.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I did not see the object when i was recording as i was watching the top and right leading edges of the thunderstorm looking for rotation. that is why i was panning round. sorry. only after i reviewed the video did i see the object just appear, hover, then blink and disappear. i immediately tried to debunk it. i was shooting through the patio door, right up against it, and no lights nor tv were on behind me. i had turned those off because of the lightning in the area before i went to look for funnel clouds. the video is all i have.
UFO Crash In Sverdlovsk, Russia 1969, Secret KGB UFO Files, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Crash In Sverdlovsk, Russia 1969, Secret KGB UFO Files, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: 1969 Location of discovery: Sverdlovsk, Russia
I first learned about this crash about 10-13 years ago. I posted the raw film footage onto my channel, but decided to repost it today to remind people of the incident. If we refuse to learn from this kind of evidence, then...there is no point moving forward at all. Because this is real, 100% fact.
The details of a Russian Crash on or about 1969 are few, because of the high level of secrecy of its subject. This case comes from the "Secret KGB Files," which were reportedly smuggled out of the former Soviet Union. Reportedly, $10,000 was paid for the information. The details of these secret files were first offered to the general public on 9-13-98 as part of a TNT special titled "The Secret UFO Files of the KGB." The show featured extraordinary film and still photographs of the UFO recovery, and also a portion of autopsy film on part of an alien body.
The event itself, according to the KGB files, occurred in the state of Sverdlovsky, which was formerly Yekatrinburg of the USSR. The crash story follows a familiar pattern normally associated with this type of report. The fiery crash of an unknown object occurred in March 1969. The site was secured by the Russian military, and one dead alien was found in the wreckage. The remains of the craft and alien were brought to a secure location, and the alien body was autopsied. Both still and moving pictures were taken of the craft, its retrieval, and the alien autopsy. The autopsy shows only an alien torso and arm. From the size of the body parts, the alien would have been an extremely small being.
The footage at the crash site is 100% authentic at least on several points. The truck in the film is a circa 1950 model ZIS151, which has not been used by the military for quite some time, and the truck would have been difficult to find to stage a hoax with. Other elements of the film do not exhibit any obvious signs of a hoax, as to the movement of the soldiers, the timing of the film as to shadows, and the UFO itself.
Strange burning object moves through the sky over Ust-Nera in Yakutia (video)
Strange burning object moves through the sky over Ust-Nera in Yakutia (video)
According to the Siberian Times, a large chunk of space debris, a spent upper stage Fregat rocket used to launch the Meteor-M satellite in 2009 filmed on March 12, 2021 over the village of Ust-Nera in Yakutia, some 870 kilometers northeast of the republic's capital Yakutsk.
But they are not sure if it was indeed the used Frigate upper stage rocket or something else.
Remarkable, an unknown bright sphere can be seen in front of the burning object..
Ons zonnestelsel kreeg aliens op bezoek, stelt astronoom Avi Loeb
Ons zonnestelsel kreeg aliens op bezoek, stelt astronoom Avi Loeb
Volgens Harvard-professor Avi Loeb hebben buitenaardse wezens het zonnestelsel al bezocht. Dat meent hij in alle ernst. In een nieuw boek licht hij niet alleen zijn opmerkelijke hypothese toe, maar wijst hij ook op een crisis in de wetenschappen. ‘Mijn werk is niet mainstream, maar onderzoek naar de snaartheorie of het multiversum is dat wel? Dat is al te gek.’
Avi Loeb schuwt de controverse niet. De productieve astrofysicus van Harvard University verrichte zowel pionierswerk als provocerend onderzoek naar zwarte gaten, uitbarstingen van gammastraling, het prille universum en andere standaardthema's uit de astronomie. Al meer dan tien jaar verdiept hij zich ook in een meer omstreden onderwerp: buitenaardse wezens en hoe je die opspoort.
Tot voor kort was zijn meest spraakmakende wapenfeit rond dat laatste zijn betrokkenheid bij Breakthrough Starshot, een project gefinancierd door Silicon Valley-miljardair Yuri Milner, dat lichtzeilen – ultradunne lasergestuurde reflecterende ruimtetuigen – met hoge snelheid op ruimtereis naar nabijgelegen sterren wil sturen.
Maar in het najaar van 2017 kwam daar verandering in. Overal ter wereld verdrongen astronomen zich om de raadselachtige interstellaire bezoeker te bestuderen die heel even binnen het bereik van hun telescopen was gekomen, de allereerste ooit waargenomen.
De ontdekkers van het object noemden het 'Oumuamua, een Hawaïaans woord dat zoveel betekent als 'boodschapper die van ver komt'. Vroeg onderzoek toonde aan dat deze ruimtepassant verschillende eigenschappen had die een eenvoudige natuurlijke verklaring lastig maakten. De vorm van 'Oumuamua, een soort sigaar of pannenkoek van honderd meter lang, leek in niets op bekende asteroïden of kometen. Ook de helderheid was totaal anders. 'Oumuamua bleek minstens tien keer meer licht te weerkaatsen dan typische ruimterotsen uit ons zonnestelsel. Dit hemellichaam glimde zo hard dat het aan gepolijst metaal deed denken.
Heel vreemd was ook dat het object, toen het voorbij de zon dook en wegstoof, bijzonder hard versnelde. Die versnelling viel niet te verklaren door de afnemende zwaartekracht van de zon alleen. We zien zulke versnellingen wel bij ordinaire kometen: ze ontstaan door het stuwende effect van de verdampende gassen, die wegschieten wanneer het zonlicht hun ijzige oppervlakte opwarmt. Maar rond 'Oumuamua namen astronomen geen tekenen van dat soort stuwing waar.
De volgens Loeb meest plausibele verklaring is even voor de hand liggend als spectaculair: de merkwaardige versnelling die 'Oumuamua maakt zou perfect logisch zijn als het object een lichtzeil zou zijn. Misschien is het wel een overblijfsel van een of andere galactische cultuur die al lang is verdwenen. Door zijn jarenlange zoektocht naar mogelijke bewijzen voor kosmische beschavingen ergens in het heelal raakte Loeb er steeds meer van overtuigd dat 'Oumuamua zo'n bewijs was. Dit object had óns gevonden.
Bij zijn korte passage in 2017 beschreef ‘Oumuamua een L-vormig traject doorheen ons zonnestelsel.
In het najaar van 2018 publiceerde Loeb samen met Shmuel Bialy, een postdoctoraatsonderzoeker aan Harvard, een paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Daarin betoogden zij dat 'Oumuamua niets minder was dan het eerste contact van de mensheid met een artefact van buitenaardse intelligentie.
De paper scoorde bij journalisten, maar kon de meeste van Loebs collega-astrobiologen niet bekoren. Zij vinden 'Oumuamua evenzeer merkwaardig, maar klasseren de eigenschappen toch binnen de natuurlijke fenomenen. Iets anders beweren is volgens hen op z’n best tactloos en op z’n slechtst destructief. Dit onderzoeksdomein kampt al lang met de stigma’s van ontvoeringen door ufo’s en aliens, terwijl het een legitieme plaats binnen de wetenschappen verdient.
Loeb brengt zijn verhaal nu ook naar een breder publiek met Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Het boek vertelt niet alleen het levensverhaal van de auteur maar buigt zich ook over de fundamentele mysteries van 'Oumuamua. Een gesprek over zijn controversiële hypothese en de crisis die de wetenschap volgens hem doormaakt.
Avi Loeb
Abraham Loeb (°1962) is een Israëlisch-Amerikaans theoretisch fysicus, gespecialiseerd in astrofysica en kosmologie. Hij is hoogleraar aan Harvard University, waar hij het Black Hole Initiative oprichtte. Voorts zit hij in de adviesraad van het Breakthrough Starshot-project van de Israëlisch-Russische miljardair Yuri Milner, dat ruim- tevaartuigen met lichtzeilen naar sterren wil bren- gen. In 2012 selecteerde het magazine Time Loeb als een van de vijfentwintig meest invloedrijke per- sonen in de astronomie. Hij schreef acht boeken.
Hoe gaat het?
‘Goed, al slaap ik te weinig om te kunnen ingaan op alle persaanvragen. Om 1.50 u 's nachts en om 3 u 's ochtends had ik noog interviews. Tel daar nog heel wat televisieoptredens bij. De komende weken moet ik zo'n honderd podcastinterviews doen. Ik heb al lange gesprekken gehad met Lex Fridman en Joe Rogan voor hun shows. Zoiets heb ik nog nooit meegemaakt, de interesse voor mijn boek is enorm. De voorbije weken ben ik door tien filmmakers en producers uit Hollywood gecontacteerd! (Lacht:) Als hier een film van komt, wil ik door Brad Pitt gespeeld worden.’
De gelijkenis is treffend. Gezien uw productiviteit heb ik altijd al de indruk gehad dat u nooit veel slaapt.
‘Gewoonlijk sta ik elke ochtend om vijf uur op en ga ik joggen. Het is prachtig als er buiten nog niemand is – alleen ik en de vogels, eenden en konijnen. Door de pandemie zijn de voorbije tien maanden inderdaad de productiefste uit mijn carrière geweest. Ik hoef niet naar het werk te pendelen. Ik heb geen afspraken met massa's mensen. En het belangrijkste: ik hoef me niet bezig te houden met alle foute uitspraken van anderen!’
Over één ding zijn we het alvast eens: in de wetenschappen moeten we eerlijk met elkaar omgaan. Dat zeg ik omdat u in uw boek beweert dat u niet in de schijnwerpers wil staan en niet geïnteresseerd bent in zelfpromotie. Hoe rijmt u dat met dit gesprek?
‘Met de pers praten is belangrijk, omdat ik op die manier mijn boodschap, die anders niet zoveel aandacht zou krijgen, met een breed publiek kan delen.’
Wat is uw boodschap precies? Ik vermoed dat u het niet alleen over 'Oumuamua wil hebben.
‘Mijn boodschap is dat het tegenwoordig niet meer zo goed gesteld is met de gezondheid van de wetenschappelijke wereld. Al te veel wetenschappers worden nu in de eerste plaats gedreven door hun ego, door eretitels en awards, of door hun neigen om aan collega’s te demonstreren hoe slim ze wel niet zijn. Zij behandelen wetenschap meer als een monoloog over zichzelf dan als een dialoog met de natuur. Ze bouwen echokamers met studenten en postdocs die hun mantra's herhalen, zodat hun stem steeds luider klinkt en hun imago wordt gepromoot. Dat is niet het doel van wetenschap. De essentie van wetenschap is proberen de wereld te begrijpen. Dat is bedoeld als leerervaring, waarbij je onderweg risico's neemt en fouten maakt. Als je in de frontlinie staat, kun je nooit op voorhand zeggen welke weg vooruit de juiste is. Dat leer je alleen door feedback uit experimenten.’
‘Snaartheorie, het multiversum: tegenwoordig houden gerenommeerde wetenschappers zich te veel bezig met zaken die niet te toetsen zijn’
‘Zo komen we bij het volgende actuele probleem in de wetenschap: mensen worden niet alleen door de verkeerde motivatie gedreven, maar laten zich ook niet meer leiden door bewijzen. Bewijzen houden je bescheiden, omdat je iets voorspelt en dat toetst, waarop de bewijzen soms aantonen dat je fout zit. Vandaag houden heel wat gerenommeerde wetenschappers zich echter bezig met wiskundige gymnastiek over allerlei zaken die niet te toetsen zijn: snaartheorie, het multiversum, zelfs de theorie van de kosmische inflatie. Ooit vroeg ik aan Alan Guth, de bedenker van die theorie, of kosmische inflatie falsifieerbaar is. Waarop hij antwoordde dat dat een dwaze vraag was, omdat er voor alle mogelijke kosmologische data die een experiment kan opleveren altijd wel een inflatiemodel is dat hierbij past. En daarom bevindt inflatie zich in een heel sterke positie, omdat het alles kan verklaren. Ik zie dat net als een zwakke positie, omdat de theorie van alles soms een theorie van niets is. Misschien is er wel geen verschil tussen die twee.’
‘Die bubbel van imaginaire dingen voelt voor mij als trippen op drugs: je kunt high worden en je inbeelden dat je rijker bent dan Elon Musk. Je kunt je daar geweldig bij voelen en er met je vrienden over praten. En als je in een grote gelijkgezinde gemeenschap zit, kunnen jullie elkaar steunen en respecteren, en elkaar met awards belonen – fantastisch, toch? Het is pas wanneer je je geld wil opvragen en effectief wil spenderen dat je beseft dat je eigenlijk niets hebt. Experimenten kunnen dienen als reality check, net zoals naar de bankautomaat gaan. Die toetsing is essentieel in de wetenschappen – voorspellingen doen die getoetst kunnen worden en waarbij je iets op het spel zet – omdat we anders nooit iets nieuws leren. Ik denk dat dit niet meer voldoende erkend wordt.’
Speculeren over de snaartheorie en multiversums is slecht, maar speculeren over buitenaardse beschavingen en hun artefacten die door het zonnestelsel passeren mag wel? Je kunt toch ook zeggen dat een beroep doen op 'aliens' alles kan verklaren?
‘Het verschil is dat je voor dat laatste voorspellingen kunt doen die je kunt toetsen; deze speculaties komen vanuit een voorzichtig-conservatieve positie.’
‘Als 'Oumuamua één van de vele objecten zou zijn die zich op een willekeurige baan voortbewegen, dan kun je wel schatten dat we heel binnenkort elke maand nog gemiddeld één ander dergelijk object zullen vinden, zodra de Vera C. Rubin Observatory (spiegeltelescoop met immense digitale camera onder constructie in Chili, red.) online gaat. We kunnen een systeem van instrumenten uitbouwen die de hemel afspeuren, en die ook in staat zijn om te reageren wanneer zulke objecten naderen. Zo kunnen we foto’s nemen zodra ze binnenkomen, in plaats van ze achterna te zitten wanneer ze weer weggaan, want ze bewegen heel snel. Bovendien hoeft niet al het werk in de ruimte te gebeuren: je kunt ook denken aan meteoren van interstellaire oorsprong en daarnaar op zoek gaan. Als je er dan ergens een vindt die op het aardoppervlak aan zijn eind is gekomen, kun je die misschien zelfs met je eigen handen onderzoeken.’
‘Mensen vragen mij waarom ik al die media-aandacht krijg. De enige reden is dat mijn collega's hun gezond verstand niet gebruiken’
‘Mensen vragen mij waarom ik al die media-aandacht krijg. De enige reden daarvoor is dat mijn collega's hun gezond verstand niet gebruiken. Plaats de snaartheorie en multiversums eens tegenover wat ik en vele anderen zeggen, gebaseerd op data van de Kepler-missie van NASA: ruwweg de helft van de zonachtige sterren in de Melkweg heeft een planeet met ongeveer dezelfde grootte als de aarde. Die planeten bevinden zich bovendien op ongeveer dezelfde afstand van de aarde tegenover de zon. Vloeibar water op het oppervlak en de chemie van het leven zoals wij dat kennen, zijn dus mogelijk. Als je miljarden keren de dobbelstenen over het leven in de Melkweg gooit, hoe groot is de kans dan dat we alleen zijn? Hoogstwaarschijnlijk is die miniem. Zeggen dat je een soortgelijke uitkomst krijgt als je soortgelijke omstandigheden voorziet, is volgens mij het meest conservatieve standpunt denkbaar.’
‘Mijn werk is niet mainstream, maar onderzoek naar de snaartheorie of het multiversum is dat wel? Dat is al te gek’
‘Ik zou dan verwachten dat de meeste mensen dit onderschrijven, mij omhelzen en zeggen: ‘Fantastisch, Avi, je hebt gelijk. We zouden naar die dingen moeten kijken omdat zij heel waarschijnlijk zijn.’ In de plaats zie ik een tegenreactie die getuigt van een dolgedraaid intellectueel kompas. Hou kun je anders verklaren dat er aan extra dimensies van de snaartheorie of het multiversum gewerkt wordt, terwijl er geen enkele aanwijzing is voor hun bestaan? Maar dát wordt dus als mainstream beschouwd? Dat is al te gek.’
‘Vandaag zie ik astronomen praten over toekomstige telescopen die miljarden kosten. Hun belangrijkste motivatie: leven vinden door in de atmosfeer van exoplaneten naar zuurstof te zoeken. Maar als je naar de eerste 2 miljard jaar van de aarde kijkt, zie je dat onze planeet niet veel zuurstof in zijn atmosfeer had, terwijl er toch al veel microbieel leven was. En zelfs als er zuurstof is, kan die ook afkomstig zijn van natuurlijke processen, zoals het uiteenvallen van watermolecules. Dus zelfs als je al die miljarden uitgeeft en zuurstof vindt, dan nog zullen mensen daar eeuwig over blijven redetwisten. Kijk maar hoeveel discussie er is over de mogelijke vondst van fosfine op Venus, een heel ongewone molecule in vergelijking met zuurstof.’
‘Mijn punt is dat je met dezelfde instrumenten en zonder extra investeringen eigenlijk sluitend bewijs kunt vinden voor leven, intelligentie en technologie. Wat zou dat bewijs kunnen zijn? Industriële vervuiling in de atmosfeer. Je zou kunnen zoeken naar chloorfluorkoolstofverbindingen (cfk's), de complexe molecules die enkel op aarde worden geproduceerd voor koelinstallaties. Als je die op een andere planeet zou vinden, weet je dat die molecule onmogelijk op een natuurlijke manier geproduceerd kon worden. Dan zou je een onweerlegbaar bewijs hebben dat er leven – en meer – heeft bestaan.’
‘Wat is dus het probleem met zeggen dat zoeken naar industriële vervuiling de moeite loont? Is dit niet gewoon een psychologische barrière die sommige wetenschappers tegenhoudt om toe te geven dat zij eigenlijk willen dat de zoektocht naar technologische signalen van buitenaardse beschavingen een randfenomeen blijft, met heel weinig fondsen? Ik vind dat we van dit soort zaken een prioriteit moeten maken. Het zou zelfs conservatief zijn om te doen, want het zou ons de meeste informatie opleveren over het bestaan van buitenaards leven. Toch doen we nu precies het omgekeerde.’
De LSS-telescoop aan het Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chili zal tien jaar lang om de zoveel nachten de hemel fotograferen.
Geloven dat 'Oumuamua een buitenaards artefact is, kan volgens u leiden tot een revolutie in de ruimtewetenschappen. De focus zou dan komen te liggen op de zogeheten search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Maar uw critici zeggen dat u meer kwaad dan goed doet. U zit in een van de populairste podcasts ter wereld, die van Joe Rogan. Hij staat erom bekend foute informatie in zijn podcasts te verspreiden. Waar trekt u de grens voor publieke optredens die het risico op hoongelach verhogen en zo alle vooruitgang van SETI dwarsbomen?
‘In grote lijnen financiert het publiek de wetenschappen. En dat publiek is bijzonder geïnteresseerd in de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven. Als wetenschappers door het publiek gesteund worden, hoe durven zij die vraag dan uit de weg te gaan, terwijl zij daar met de technologieën die ze ontwikkelen wél kunnen op ingaan?’
‘Er zijn natuurlijk sciencefictionverhalen over aliens en heel veel ongegronde ufomeldingen. Stel dat er wat literatuur zou bestaan over de magische eigenschappen van covid-19 die niet gestoeld zijn op de realiteit. Zou dat dan betekenen dat wetenschappers niet aan een vaccin voor deze pandemie moeten werken? Natuurlijk niet! Ik beschouw de zoektocht naar tekenen van buitenaardse technologie niet als iets anders dan de zoektocht naar de aard van zwarte materie. We hebben honderden miljoenen dollars geïnvesteerd in speuren naar massieve partikels die zwak interageren, omdat het belangrijke kandidaten zijn voor zwarte materie. Tot dusver heeft dat niets opgeleverd. Dat betekent niet dat al die investeringen een verspilling waren. Doodlopende sporen horen nu eenmaal bij de wetenschappelijke methode.’
‘In de wetenschappen worden we verondersteld om alles open op tafel te gooien, wat de risico’s ook inhouden. We kunnen ideeën niet zomaar uit de weg gaan gewoon omdat we vrezen voor de discussie die erover zou ontstaan. Want ook dat houdt grote risico's in. Het zou hetzelfde zijn als Galileo verbieden iets te zeggen over de aarde die rond de zon draait, of om door een telescoop te kijken, omdat dat gevaarlijk is voor de op dat moment heersende filosofie. We hebben een open dialoog tussen wetenschappers nodig, waarbij mensen verschillende opvattingen voorstellen en we de bewijzen laten bepalen wat er klopt. In de context van 'Oumuamua zeg ik dat de beschikbare bewijzen doen vermoeden dat dit specifieke object artificieel is. De manier om dat te testen is om meer voorbeelden van hetzelfde te vinden en die te onderzoeken. Zo eenvoudig is dat.’
‘Hoe kun je die situatie veranderen? Volgens mij is het antwoord: door ze zoveel mogelijk naar het grote publiek te brengen.’
In uw boek linkt u uw openheid over 'Oumuamua aan een zinsnede, een ethos dat u tijdens uw dienstplicht voor het Israëlische leger leerde: ‘Je lichaam op de prikkeldraad leggen.’ Persoonlijke offers brengen voor het grotere goed. Moet u voor dit doel dan een martelaar zijn? Heeft u hierdoor vrienden of respect verloren?
‘Niemand heeft me agressief aangevallen of zo. Maar misschien praten mensen wel achter mijn rug. Dat lijkt me logischer, gezien mijn leidende posities. Maar ik weet het dus niet. Ik laat nul sporen achter op sociale media. Al moet ik waarschijnlijk zeggen dat de critici die zich het luidst met giftige opmerkingen op Twitter of elders laten horen vrij middelmatige wetenschappers zijn. De meeste goede wetenschappers zouden zich niet op die manier gedragen – zij zouden argumenten formuleren voor of tegen mijn beweringen en dat zou volstaan. Gemene opmerkingen hebben weinig zin, behalve dat het mij niet zou verbazen dat veel van die critici, diep vanbinnen, eigenlijk wel geïntrigeerd zijn door de idee dat 'Oumuamua artificieel is. Maar dat willen ze niet toegeven. Dus verkondigen ze met veel lawaai het tegenovergestelde.’
‘Waarom zoeken we op planeten altijd naar zuurstof en niet naar tekenen van industriële vervuiling? Dat zou onweerlegbaar bewijs vormen’
‘Helaas verschilt mijn situatie van die van jonge postdoc-onderzoekers met wie ik heb gewerkt, omdat zij voor een job moeten solliciteren. Ik ben er zeker ven dat zij al benaderd werden met 'kijk, dit is gevaarlijk voor je', waarop zij elk onderzoek staakten dat ook maar ergens in die richting ging. Dat verbaast mij niet. Als je een vijandige intellectuele cultuur creëert, waarin SETI niet wordt gewaardeerd, zullen verstandige jonge mensen die weg ook niet inslaan. Maar je kunt niet op het gazon stappen en dan klagen dat het gras niet groeit op de plek waar je staat. Houd briljante onderzoekers niet tegen om zich in te zetten voor SETI en dan te zeggen: ‘Kijk, we vinden niets. SETI is een mislukking!’’
‘Dit alles betekent niet dat álle ruimtewetenschappen zich met hetzelfde moeten bezighouden. Kijk maar eens naar de commerciële wereld van Bell Labs vroeger of Google nu: zij moedigen hun personeel aan en laten hen vernieuwende 'onrendabele' research te doen, die dus niet meteen tot concrete winst leidt. Maar als je naar de academische wereld kijkt, zie je dat zij conservatiever zijn dan de commerciële sector. Dat klopt niet.’
Kwatongen zouden kunnen zeggen dat u vooral hard probeert om rijke weldoeners, zoals Yuri Milner, gunstig te stemmen. U bent ook adviseur van zijn Breakthrough Initiatives-programma, dat onderzoek financiert verwant aan SETI en lichtzeilen.
‘Het klopt voor mij – en voor iedereen, denk ik – dat mijn verbeelding begrensd wordt door wat ik weet. Ik kan niet ontkennen dat mijn betrokkenheid bij Breakthrough hier een invloed had. Ik was het die het lichtzeil (voorgesteld door natuurkundige Philip Lubin, red.) in de eerste plaats aan Yuri Milner suggereerde als concept voor een interstellair ruimtetuig. Het zat dus in mijn woordenschat en bijgevolg stelde ik me dit voor toegepast op 'Oumuamua. Nu kun je je afvragen of dat geen bevooroordeelde visie is. Maar ze komt regelmatig voor in de fysica en in SETI. In het kader van SETI zijn we de hemel beginnen afspeuren met radiosignalen zodra we die radiotechnologie hadden ontwikkeld. Hetzelfde voor lasers. Zodra je aan een bepaalde technologie werkt, is het heel normaal dat je denkt dat die misschien al ergens bestaat en zoek je ernaar.’
‘Ik ontken dus niet dat de reden waarom het lichtzeilconcept in mijn hoofd zat was dat ik er eerder al had aan gewerkt. Maar dat heeft niets te maken met pogingen om Yuri aan te sporen. Waarom zou ik dat op die manier doen, als ik hem op elk moment ook gewoon rechtstreeks kan benaderen om mijn visie te verdedigen? Mijn werk over 'Oumuamua werd ook niet gecoördineerd of gefinancierd door Breakthrough Initiatives. Zij hebben geen persberichten over mijn ideeën verspreid. Integendeel, misschien zijn ze zelfs ongerust. Omdat ze hun eigen reputatie moeten bewaken enzovoort. Ik heb over het thema geen enkele steun of communicatie met hen gehad. Ik heb 'Oumuamua niet gebruikt als een of ander politiek vehikel in het kader van Breakthrough. Dat heeft niets met mijn motivatie te maken.’
Wat komt er voor u na dit? Heeft u plannen?
‘Ik heb net mijn voorzitterschap van het departement astronomie aan Harvard neergelegd. Ik kan nu dus inderdaad naar de volgende fase overgaan. De vraag is: wat wordt die? Een andere leidende positie zou wel aanlokkelijk zijn, omdat ik zou kunnen proberen de realiteit anders vorm te geven dan vele anderen. Zoiets zou ik niet aan mij voorbij kunnen laten gaan. Maar misschien krijg ik geen aanbiedingen meer door mijn opvattingen over ‘Oumuamua. In dit geval zou ik meer boeken schrijven, meer onderzoek doen en nog steeds elke ochtend gaan joggen.’
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Researchers have devised an artificial eye that mimics the structure of the human eye, which has important applications in robotics, scientific measurements, as well as cyborg-like prosthetics that restore vision.
Artist impression of an artifcial eye. Credit: Yaying Xu.
The proof-of-concept, which was recently described in the journal Nature by a team led by Zhiyong Fan from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is about as sensitive to light at its natural counterpart. What’s more, it even has a faster reaction time than the real thing (30 to 40 milliseconds, rather than 40 to 150 milliseconds).
The human eye is nothing short of spectacular — and much of what it’s capable of doing is owed to the dome-shaped retina, an area at the back of the eyeball that is littered in light-detecting cells.
There are around ten million photoreceptor cells per square centimeter, enabling a wide field of view and excellent resolution that has yet to be replicated by any man-made technology.
For many years, scientists have sought to replicate these characteristics in synthetic eyeballs. However, such efforts proved extremely challenging due to the inherent difficulties in mimicking the shape and composition of the human retina.
Fan and colleagues devised a hemispherical artificial retina, measuring only two centimeters in diameter and containing densely packed, light-sensitive nanowires made from a perovskite — a promising material that is very popular in solar cell manufacturing. The purpose of these nanowires is to mimic the photoreceptors of the human eye.
Schemtic of the artificial eye. Credit: H. JIANG/NATURE 2020.
The artificial eye’s hollow center is filled with a conductive fluid, whereas the human eye is filled with a clear gel called vitreous humour.
In an experiment, the artificial eye was hooked up to a computer and could “see” by reconstructing the letters ‘E’, ‘I’, and ‘Y’.
However, this is a far cry from the capabilities of the biological eye. The array consists of just 100 pixels, where each pixel corresponds to three nanowires.
This is a proof of concept, though, and Fan is confident that his design can be scaled so that the artificial eye can obtain a resolution ever higher than the human eye. According to Fan and colleagues, the density of nanowire can be enhanced to cover ten times the number of photoreceptors in the human eye.
Each nanowire could theoretically function as a small solar cell, which means that artificial eyes might not require an external power source as the researchers’ device currently requires.
The researchers envision applications in scientific measurements and advanced robotics. But, theoretically, the artificial eye could also be connected to an optic nerve, enabling the brain to process information received from the device like it would with a real eye. This latter prospect, however, is years and years away — but the prospect is still incredibly exciting.
The For All Moonkind Moon Registry catalogs all of the robotic and human missions that left items on the surface. (Image credit: For All Moonkind via collectSPACE.com)
The moon may be devoid of humans (at least for now), but there is plenty of humanity to be found strewn across the lunar surface. A new website catalogs the human heritage items that were left behind on the moon, for posterity and for the public to reference.
The Moon Registry, presented by For All Moonkind, celebrates the sites and hardware that can now be found on Earth's natural satellite. The free resource provides overviews of every robotic and human mission that made contact with the moon, including details on the objects related to those excursions that also remain there today — from commemorative medallions and flags to rovers and scientific experiments.
"The history of humans on the moon belongs to everyone on Earth," Michelle Hanlon, co-founder of For All Moonkind, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human heritage in space, said in a statement. "We are working to obtain international recognition and protection for sites in space that have universal historic value. As part of that effort, we want to make sure the details of humanity's incredible journey to space — past, present and future — are accessible to all."
Launched on Thursday (March 11), the For All Moonkind Moon Registry contains entries for both robotic and crewed missions to the moon dating back more than 50 years. Each record has a brief description and photographs about the mission, as well can a section for related items.
For example, each of the Apollo moon landings has an entry for the lunar module descent stage that brought the astronauts to the surface, as well as an area to list the individual equipment and mementos that the crew members left behind.
"Visiting the moon was an incredible privilege and experience," said Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charlie Duke, the tenth person to walk on the moon. "I can't wait for someone to go back and find the picture of my family that I left behind. In the meantime, the For All Moonkind Moon Registry is a spectacular resource. It's one small way to share this accomplishment of humanity with humanity."
A work in process, the Moon Registry invites crowdsourcing to correct any errors, contribute technical details and provide information regarding future missions. The site is also collecting personal stories from the people who made contributions to space exploration and, specifically, the flights to the moon.
"An interactive registry for all the material on the moon introduced by human activity is a worthy cause, without a doubt," said Apollo 17 astronaut and geologistHarrison Schmitt, who flew on the last Apollo mission to land humans on the lunar surface in 1972.
Mission entries in the For All Moonkind Moon Registry include the details about the spacecraft and related items that were left on the lunar surface, like Charlie Duke's family photo. (Image credit: For All Moonkind via collectSPACE.com)
Designed by creative director Bernie Hogya, the Moon Registry is initially intended to serve as an educational resource and outreach tool for For All Moonkind. The platform, however, can also support a variety of services for historians, engineers, archaeologists and future lunar enterprises.
"When you consider how important history is as a compass for our future, it's shocking to realize how inaccessible it is," said James Hansen, historian and the author of "First Man," the authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong. "The For All Moonkind Moon Registry is like an all-access pass to the history of human activity on the moon."
"Even better, the crowdsourcing function will allow the people who worked on missions like Luna and Apollo to connect directly with the very students who will be inspired by their work to develop innovative solutions we cannot yet even comprehend," said Hansen.
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Scientists think they've spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one.
That's according to a new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope observations gathered in 2017 of a planet dubbed GJ 1132 b. The world tightly orbits a red dwarf star located about 41 light-years from Earth, completing one circle every 1.5 Earth days and soaking up lots of stellar radiation in the process. And now, scientists think they see signs of a secondary atmosphere, one that was born of the exoplanet itself long after the planet formed.
"It's super exciting because we believe the atmosphere that we see now was regenerated, so it could be a secondary atmosphere," study co-author Raissa Estrela, an exoplanet scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said in a statement.
An artist's depiction of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b, which orbits a red dwarf star about 41 light-years away from Earth and may sport lava continuously oozing up from cracks in its crust. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech))
"We first thought that these highly irradiated planets could be pretty boring because we believed that they lost their atmospheres," Estrela said. "But we looked at existing observations of this planet with Hubble and said, 'Oh no, there is an atmosphere there.'"
An atmosphere is a tricky thing to hang onto. Earth's is held fast to the planet, mostly by our magnetic field, but other worlds aren't so lucky. Mars once had a thick atmosphere, for example, but most of it was stripped away after the planet lost its global magnetic field about 4 billion years ago.
Something similar can happen with exoplanets. Scientists think the result is sometimes dramatic, rapidly turning gassy planets smaller than Neptune into bare worlds.
This atmospheric loss can produce a planet about the same size as Earth, but one with a very different history than that of our home world. "How many terrestrial planets don't begin as terrestrials?" Mark Swain, lead author of the new research and an exoplanet scientist at JPL, said in the same statement.
The researchers think that GJ 1132 b took things one step further. After the planet lost its hydrogen- and helium-rich basic atmosphere, it became a bare world. But the Hubble observations suggest that, today, GJ 1132 b is swathed in a mix of hydrogen, hydrogen cyanide, methane, and aerosol-rich haze that may resemble Earth's smog.
To understand what's happening in the system, the scientists are eyeing GJ 1132 b's close relationship with its star, which tugs the world enough to keep the same side of the planet facing toward it at all times, mimicking how the moon orbits Earth.
An infographic compares the surface of GJ 1132 b with that of Earth and Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Both GJ 1132 b and Titan offer strange parallels and stranger differences to Earth. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lizbeth B. De La Torre)
But because of the particulars of the planet's orbit, the researchers suspect that in this case, the star pulls strongly enough on GJ 1132 b to dramatically heat the planet. The result could be a volcanically active world, the researchers concluded.
The strange atmosphere, then, could be born of gases leaching out of molten rock in the planet. In particular, the scientists paint a portrait of a molten world covered in a thin crust that may be cracked like an eggshell. Such cracks, created by the tug of the star on the planet, would allow gas to seep out, creating a second atmosphere.
The scientists hope that NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch this fall, will be able to see the surface of GJ 1132 b in infrared light, which is tied to temperature.
"If there are magma pools or volcanism going on, those areas will be hotter," Swain said. "That will generate more emission, and so they'll be looking potentially at the actual geologic activity — which is exciting!"
The research is described in a study that has been accepted by The Astronomical Journal; a pre-publication version is available at arXiv.org.
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"There is no threat of a collision with our planet now or for centuries to come."
The largest asteroid to zoom past Earth this year will do so on March 21, NASA says.
Astronomers will get a valuable opportunity to observe a space rock up close as asteroid 2001 FO32 swoops past our home planet on March 21, but the rock won't come closer than 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced today (March 11) in a statement.
"There is no threat of a collision with our planet now or for centuries to come," the statement read.
This image shows the path of the asteroid 2001 FO32, which will fly safely by Earth on March 21, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
"We know the orbital path of 2001 FO32 around the sun very accurately, since it was discovered 20 years ago and has been tracked ever since," Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which is managed by JPL, said in the same statement. "There is no chance the asteroid will get any closer to Earth than 1.25 million miles."
The asteroid, which is estimated to be 1,300 feet to 2,230 feet (440 to 680 meters) wide, will zoom past us at a whopping 77,000 mph (124,00 kph), which is faster than most asteroids travel near Earth. Its unusual speed is due to its elongated and highly inclined orbit around the sun, according to JPL. As the rock nears the inner solar system, it picks up speed before whipping back around toward deep space before turning back towards the sun, orbiting once every 810 days.
The rock is deemed a "potentially hazardous asteroid," or PHA, by the CNEOS. The CNEOS monitors PHAs like 2001 FO32 using ground-based radar and telescopes, tracking their movement in case they get close enough to Earth to pose an impact risk.
While the asteroid orbits the sun once about every 2.25 years, 2001 FO32 won't come this close to our planet again until 2052, when it will pass by at 1.75 million miles (2.8 million km), according to JPL.
Although the upcoming "close" pass doesn't pose a risk for those of us living on planet Earth, the flyby does provide an opportunity for astronomers to get a good look at 2001 FO32.
The proximity will allow astronomers to better observe the asteroid's size and brightness and give them a better idea of its composition, essentially doing "geology with a telescope," Vishnu Reddy, an associate professor at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, said in the same JPL statement.
Now, while professional astronomers are planning their observations for the flyby with telescopes like NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawaii, "amateur astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere and at low northern latitudes should be able to see this asteroid using moderate-size telescopes with apertures of at least 8 inches in the nights leading up to closest approach, but they will probably need star charts to find it," Chodas said.
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The near-Earth asteroid Apophis (artist’s impression) will fly within 40,000 kilometres of the planet in 2029 — much closer than it came this month.
Credit: Detlev van Ravensway/SPL
A 340-metre-wide space rock named Apophis whizzed safely past Earth on 6 March. The next time it returns, in 2029, won’t be so uneventful: Apophis will come within 40,000 kilometres of the planet, skimming just above the region where some high-flying satellites orbit. It will be the first time that astronomers will be able to watch such a big asteroid pass so close to us.
Last week’s fly-by gave scientists a chance to test the worldwide planetary defence system, in which astronomers quickly assess the chances of an asteroid hitting Earth as they follow its path across the night sky. “It’s a fire drill with a real asteroid,” says Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson who coordinated the observing campaign.
The Apophis fly-by highlights how much astronomers have learnt about near-Earth asteroids — and how much they still have to learn. Since 1998, when NASA kicked off the biggest search for near-Earth asteroids, scientists have detected more than 25,000 of them. And 2020 turned out to be a record year for discoveries. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting many of the surveys, astronomers catalogued 2,958 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids over the course of the year (see ‘Space rocks’).
Source: NASA Center for Near Earth Object Studies
A large number came from the Catalina Sky Survey, which uses three telescopes in Arizona to hunt for threatening space rocks. Operations closed briefly last spring because of the pandemic, and a wildfire in June caused a longer closure, yet the Catalina survey still discovered 1,548 near-Earth objects. These included a rare ‘minimoon’ named 2020 CD3, a tiny asteroid less than 3 metres in diameter that had been temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity. The minimoon broke away from Earth’s pull last April.
Another batch of discoveries last year — 1,152 — came from the Pan-STARRS survey telescopes in Hawaii. The finds included an object named 2020 SO, which turned out to be not an asteroid, but a leftover rocket booster that had been looping around in space since it helped to launch a NASA mission to the Moon in 1966.
Close calls
Some of the asteroids discovered last year came close to Earth — at least 107 of them passed the planet at a distance less than that of the Moon. Last year’s close shaves included the tiny asteroid 2020 QG, which skimmed just 2,950 kilometres above the Indian Ocean in August. That made it the closest known approach — a record broken just three months later by another small object, 2020 VT4. That one passed less than 400 kilometres from the planet, and wasn’t spotted until 15 hours after it had whizzed by. Had it hit, it would probably have broken apart in Earth’s atmosphere.
All of these discoveries are making astronomers more conscious of the billiard-ball nature of the Solar System, where plenty of asteroids ping around in the space near Earth. The recent push to observe Apophis highlights how astronomers around the world can work together to assess the threat posed by asteroids, says Reddy. “It’s been a huge international effort,” he says, “and a lot of fun.” By the time Apophis comes around again, in eight years’ time, scientists will have an even more detailed census of threatening space rocks.
Obviously, as the name implies, nobody knows who or what was piloting the flying objects, or where they came from, but we may have more information in roughly three months.
Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb doesn’t require any further evidence to arrive at his conclusion that aliens are real, and his confidence comes via the 2017 sighting of an unusual object that was travelling through the solar system.
It was dubbed ʻOumuamua, and shaped “like a 100-metre-long cigar or pancake”, meaning it didn’t resemble any known asteroid or comet, and was seen travelling at a speed “faster than could be explained by our star’s waning gravitational grip alone”.
Mutliple plausible explanations for this were shot down, and then Loeb came along from way out of left field, reports Scientific American:
To Loeb, the most plausible explanation was as obvious as it was sensational: taken together with its possibly pancakelike shape and high reflectivity, ‘Oumuamua’s anomalous acceleration made perfect sense if the object was in fact a light sail—perhaps a derelict from some long-expired galactic culture.
Primed by years spent pondering how we might someday find evidence of cosmic civilizations in the sky’s depths, he became increasingly convinced that, with ‘Oumuamua, the evidence had instead found us.
In late 2018 Loeb and his co-author Shmuel Bialy, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters arguing that ‘Oumuamua had been nothing less than humanity’s first contact with an artifact of extraterrestrial intelligence.
He outlines his theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our planet. A mind-bending journey through the furthest reaches of science, space-time, and the human imagination, Extraterrestrial challenges readers to aim for the stars-and to think critically about what’s out there, no matter how strange it seems.
Cue The X-Files music.
There’s a series Netflix should snap up. I wonder if it holds up?
OK, back to Loeb, who has given a score of interviews to drum up interest around his book.
One that keeps things relatively simple is the interview he gave to VICE News, which, if you want to know more about how he arrived at the alien hypothesis, is worth watching:
Watch a Harvard Professor Explain Why He Thinks Aliens Visited Us Already
Watch a Harvard Professor Explain Why He Thinks Aliens Visited Us Already
Most scientists think the first interstellar visitor to our solar system has a natural explanation. Harvard professor Avi Loeb makes the case for an alien origin.
In October 2017, scientists spotted an interstellar object in our solar system for the first time in history. Named ‘Oumuamua after the Hawaiian word for “scout,” the bizarre visitor was detected as it passed by Earth on a rapid trajectory that was consistent with an origin outside our own solar neighborhood.
The discovery of ‘Oumuamua was an immensely exciting milestone, though it was traveling so quickly that observatories were only able to keep their sights on it for a few brief weeks before the object exited the solar system. Those observations revealed that this interstellar interloper had many odd characteristics, such as extreme dimensions and unexpected brightness.
Most scientists think ‘Oumuamua was a space rock from another star system, albeit a rather weird one, but Harvard professor Avi Loeb has proposed that the object could have an artificial origin. In his new book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Loeb makes his case that the object could be an alien artifact.
“We don’t really know because we don’t have enough evidence,” Loeb said in a VICE News interview, regarding the exact nature of ‘Oumuamua. However, he speculated that the object could be a piece of “space trash” or a spacecraft not unlike the probes that humans have sent, or are sending, into interstellar space, such as NASA’s Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons missions.
Loeb is an outlier in this opinion; the vast majority of the scientific community thinks ‘Oumuamua has a natural origin. Some have proposed that the object could be a splinter of a distant planet, a hunk of frozen hydrogen, or a dusty cloud of debris. The uncertainty over its nature stems from the short observational period that was available to study it, which has left scientists of all persuasions with many more questions than answers.
Fortunately, ‘Oumuamua will not be the last interstellar object to grace our solar system. An interstellar comet named 21/Borisov was discovered in 2019, and next-generation observatories are expected to spot many more of these outsiders, which will help to provide context for all of the mysteries that ‘Oumuamua left in its wake.
“The key to doing science is to get as much evidence as possible because it can guide you,” Loeb said. “Sometimes nature’s imagination is greater than ours.”
The range of types of UFO encounters is wide, and for the most part they tend to inspire awe and wonder as to what could be behind it all. Yet, in some cases this awe turns to dread and even terror, as it seems that not all UFO phenomena are friendly in nature. Within the annals of UFO incidents there are some that inspire dread and a definite sense of foreboding, and one of these is certainly the time aliens apparently invaded a small island in Brazil.
Beginning in the spring of 1977 a very strange and ominous phenomenon began at a little known place called Colares Island, in the remote Brazilian region of Pará. Frightened locals began to report an intense amount of UFO activity in the skies, describing all manner of luminous spheres, glowing orbs, balls of fire, saucers, cigar shaped metallic objects, and more, but what really stood out was how aggressive these objects seemed to be. There were numerous reports that these unidentified objects were actively chasing and attacking people, shooting vivid thin rays of light that would leave injuries such as burns or holes in the skin, as well as other instances when they were reported as approaching to actually suck blood from victims. In many cases the beams projected were described as being “always sharply defined, directed with perfect precision towards any target – houses, people, boats, trees, even the Brazilian Air Force’s helicopters deployed over the island during the investigations.”
Some of the accounts were quite spectacular, as with a boat full of fishermen near Ilha dos Caranguejos who would claim that an intense ball of light had positioned itself over their boat and fired off beams at them, burning several of them and even supposedly killing a man. Another such such frightening report would come from a local man named Carlos Cardoso de Paula, who says one evening an orb of light entered his room and tried to get blood from him. He says of his surreal experience:
Everybody else was asleep. I was just still having my last smoke when suddenly a ball of fire entered our house up near the ridgepole of the gable. It started shooting round and round the room, and then finally came right close to my hammock. It ran up my right leg as far as the knee (without touching my skin). I watched with much curiosity as it then moved across to the other leg. Then I started to feel feeble and sleepy. My cigarette fell from my hand and I came to and let out a yell. The fireball quickly vanished and everybody woke up. I think it had been searching for a vein in my body but didn’t manage to do so. As its brightness grew, I felt a sort of heat coming from it.
Many of the people targeted by these mysterious lights described a wide range of negative physical injuries and effects, such as fainting, nausea, tremors, migraines, giddiness, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, burns, anemia, bruising, blistering, perforations in the skin, paralysis, searing pain, and blood loss. In fact, terrified residents were so convinced that the lights were trying to suck their blood that the phenomena were being called the Chupa-Chupa, or “sucker suckers.” In the meantime, hospitals were soon experiencing a deluge of people claiming to have been attacked by the UFOs. Also odd was that many of the patients were found to indeed be missing blood, and their blood tests also showed certain anomalies common to all of them such as anemia and dehydration, and it was all quite baffling for medical personnel. One local doctor Wellaide Cecim Carvalho would explain of these patients:
All of them had suffered lesions to the face or the thoracic area. The lesions began with intense reddening of the skin in the affected area. The injuries varied in extension. First it started with an intense reddishness in the hit area, known as hiperemia. Later, the skin of the affected region started to fall (alopecia) and days later the skin peeled off. Later the hair would fall out and the skin would turn black. There was no pain, only a slight warmth. One also noticed small puncture marks in the skin. The victims were men and women of varying ages, without any pattern. With the increase of hurt people, I started to give more attention each time in the existing injuries. I saw things that do not exist in my medical books.
In most of these inexplicable cases, the strange symptoms would linger for days or even weeks, requiring hospitalization, and others would not recover at all, with some deaths even reported. In the meantime, reports kept flooding in nightly, increasing in intensity as the months went on, until by August of that year it is estimated that thousands of people all over the island had either seen or been chased or assaulted by the mystery UFOs, which seemed to always come from the north and in some cases were described as detaching from a “mother ship” or even coming from below the waters of Marajo Bay. People were in a hysteria, afraid to go out at night and huddling into large groups where they sought safety in numbers. Some people would light bonfires or launch armed patrols in an effort to scare the Chupa-Chupas away, and it was eerily quiet on the streets, as noise was thought to lure the hungry UFOs in. One local mayor would say of the tense situation:
Yes, indeed I can tell you, there wasn’t a moment of peace. The people were terrified by that “Chupa-Chupa” affair. I even managed to see one of the injured victims myself – Dona Mirota, a lady who was receiving medical treatment at the Health Clinic. The people were terrified because this beam of night light had already assaulted several people. The whole community was packed in only three houses, praying, sometimes singing some religious songs!
There were even reports of people apparently seeing the actual occupants of these craft, who were apparently quite hostile. One local resident named Claudomira Paixao claimed to have had just such an encounter after waking one evening to find everything bathed in a greenish glow, which would steadily become red. It was at that point that she realized it was a beam being directed right at her, and she then saw something very weird indeed, of which she says:
In one of these days, after midnight, I woke up because of a strong flash, a sort of focused bright green light ray that came down from the top roof to my left chest. I tried to shout, but my voice did not function. I felt an exquisite heat… Later, that beam of light diminished and I saw that I was burnt. I could see a creature, like a man, wearing a jumpsuit just like a dive suit. He pointed it at me, and the object shone three times, striking my chest during the three occasions, almost in the same place, it was hot, it wounded me, it seemed that I had needles pierced at all three points. I was terrified, I could not move my legs! It was hot, and it hurt. It was like a needle stick. My health never came back to be the same since that night.
Of course, considering that these reports and the panic they caused were becoming national news it was only a matter of time before the military would be drawn to this remote locale. In late October of 1977, the Brazilian Air Force would launch an investigation under Captain Uyrange Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima, which would take it even further into the realm of the bizarre. They would investigate the injuries of the victims, gain eyewitness accounts, and even collect a good amount of purported photographic evidence of the phenomena. Even weirder is that during the military presence on the island it would be alleged that that even the Air Force would come under attack by the lights, one such incident of which one resident Sra. Alba Câmara Vilhena would say:
On one occasion some people saw one of the craft. It was round, and all luminous. Just at that moment, a helicopter of the F.A.B. (Brazilian Air Force) was flying quite near to our house. Then we saw the UFO direct a very powerful beam on to the helicopter, obliging it to land on the São Pedro Airfield. That happened at about 8.00 pm one evening. The helicopters that appeared from time to time, bringing materials and personnel, attempted to chase the UFOs but without much success. Indeed, on the contrary, it was the UFOs that chased them!
The military would do its study and then pack up and leave in January of 1978 without offering the populace any sort of explanation, and labelling the whole investigation as classified. At the time there seemed to be some efforts to explain it all away as weather balloons or atmospheric phenomena, but this was obviously not really bought by the people who claimed to have been attacked by the craft and left with injuries. There seemed to have been some cover-up going on, and making this all the more sinister was that Captain Hollanda would turn up dead three months later, allegedly by suicide, although no further details were given, making some wonder if this was really a suicide or not. After 1978 the incidents would die down, but not stop with sporadic accounts coming in throughout the decades since. What was going on here? It is all so spectacular and dramatic that one is left to wonder just what all of this entails. Were these actual UFOs, and if so what did they want and why did they attack people? Was there a government cover-up? Or was this all just mass hysteria and seeing things? Without a doubt, the “Cloares Invasion” remains a very harrowing, and yet remarkably obscure case of the darker side of UFO encounters.
Mysterious Alien Woman Arrival On Brazilian Island & Beginning Of UFO Sightings In 1970s
Mysterious Alien Woman Arrival On Brazilian Island & Beginning Of UFO Sightings In 1970s
The second country with the most UFO sightings and alien encounters after the US is Brazil. Very few of us know about the “Operation Saucer” also known as Operação Prato carried out by the Brazilian Air Force under the command of Colonel Uyrangê Hollanda to investigate the series of UFO sightings that happened in the mid-1970s that included attacks by light rays. Before the beginning of all these, a mysterious woman arrived at Ilha do Meio, situated in the Brazilian State of Pará.
Researcher Vitorio Peret recalled that in 1975, a woman named Elizabeth Quimine Berger arrived in Urumajó, now Augusto Corrêa. Her intention was to purchase lands on the Island of Meio, located 200 km from the city. She was a white blonde with blue eyes. The woman claimed to be a divorcee and a fashion designer by profession. Interestingly, according to locals, she was very short, only 132 cm. She was born in Switzerland, had an English passport, and was a resident of Paris.
Researcher Vitorio Peret was involved in Operation Saucer when the Brazilian Army learned facts related to extraterrestrials in the 70s
There was one boatman named João Olaya, who could carry travelers across the island. She got acquainted with him and asked him to take her to the island where she offered the locals to sell their lands to her in exchange for good cash. At first, the locals had no intention to sell their properties to some strange foreign woman. But later, she offered them a huge amount of money and bought plots on the island. Soon, she purchased all other properties near to her previous purchases. Although she became the owner of many lands, the mysterious woman used to spend very little time there as she was mostly out of the island.
Ilha do Meio via Google maps
In some time, the local fishermen and other people started spotting strange lights over the island, and this sparked a rumor that the woman was an extraterrestrial. Some fishermen reported seeing her taking a group of white people with blond hair (around 40-50) to the island. She also used to buy large quantities of fish (around 400 kg of fish) every month from the local fishermen.
Illustration of Ilha do Meio report sightings of UFOs
According to the reports, the locals saw a white ball of lights that looked like “small moons” that landed on the island. What’s more, at the time when the UFO sightings began in the area, Berger was reportedly seen going out in the middle of the night. Some boatman who had access to traveling to the island once followed her and saw her walking on the water without any clothes. The woman became popular among the locals after such details. Some of them even complained to the police about it.
She was questioned by the police three times but was always released as they had never found any strong evidence against her related to the strange light phenomenon. Colonel Uyrangê Hollanda became aware of the strange resident and suspected that she had been feeding guerrillas, as they said that she regularly was seen with dozens of men.
Photographs of bright lights in the sky, taken by officials during Operation Saucer
Only when she was on the island, strange cylindrical lights and objects, looking like probes, appeared and evolved at night. The colonel searched her place and was surprised. The house had no windows, no doors, no dishes, no furniture. Just a bed and two chairs, Peret said.
Peret recalled that an American arrived on the island in 1975 when there were already reports of the phenomena that affected the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Some people were hit by beams of light, including that caused burns. This American claimed to be a commercial pilot who joined NASA and appeared on Mosqueiro Island amid evidence of extraterrestrial activities in the area.
“His neighbors on the island reported that he had very modern equipment for the time and in relation to what was in the region, such as a structure for radio communication that did not even exist in Belém, and even a notebook, something unthinkable for the time. his was the fastest in the region and he never bought anything on the island. Not even a loaf. Twice a week, he went out on a speedboat and came back with groceries,” said Peret.
Peret was suspicious of the NASA interference in Operation Saucer because when the room of that man was searched, his walls were full of formulas, and images of space and rockets were found on the site where his house was. He died on the island in 1982.
Meanwhile, when Berger was arrested the third time, she was escorted by four policemen but vanished soon after she asked to go to the bathroom. It is shocking that she could disappear from the bathroom which had only one door and a small window.
According to Ufologist Moacyr de Mendonça de Uchôa, she was seen dressed as a nurse in Los Angeles 1985/1986 Earthquakes, helping the wounded. Interpol tried to track her but failed. Later, she was seen in South Korea. Later, the police found out that her passport fake, and Elisabeth Queminet Berger was a Swiss woman who died in 1937.
It is one of the unsolved mysteries that still astonishes people. There is a theory that she was either an extraterrestrial or a time traveler who traveled to Earth for some business but had to go due to too much interference by the Brazilian officials.
The Prophet Mohammed described seeing it, 17th century astronomer Cassini studied it, and now Danish scientists working for NASA say they’ve cracked the mystery of ‘false dawns’ and it’s down to Martian dust leaking into space.
Also known as ‘zodiac light’, the false dawn phenomenon is a band of light that appears just after sunset and is at its brightest for people living in the northern hemisphere in March and April. In the southern hemisphere, the effect is most notable after sunset in the late summer and brightest before sunrise.
Scientists had thought it was caused by dust in space that came from asteroids and comets as it was illuminated and reflected by the Sun. Now, Danish researchers who designed the navigational system on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter say the dust particles actually hail originally from Mars.
The team from the Technical University of Denmark had designed and placed four cameras to be used to navigate the Juno orbiter for its launch in August 2011. The craft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.
While traveling to the gas giant, the orbiter passed through a dust storm - but only now have the researchers had a chance to analyze the findings. The dust particles hit Juno with force but were too small to be initially picked up on the cameras.
Professor John Leif Jorgensen, who co-authored a study in the scientific journal of Geophysical Research published online on Tuesday, told TV2 that there were so many small objects, it looked as if someone had shaken a tablecloth full of bread crumbs out the window. His team found at least 23,000 pieces when they analyzed the recordings.
The team calculated that because of where the material hit Juno along its journey to Jupiter, it had to be dust escaping from the gravitational field of the red planet.
If you’ve ever rolled out of bed before dawn – or rolled home at that time – and were surprised to see the sky lit up in a strange way without any hint of the sun creeping up over the horizon, you were most likely witnessing an appropriately named phenomena known as a “false dawn.” If the light looks triangular, you’re not hallucinating (OK, you might be, but that’s your problem) – that’s the shape it takes. And if you’re afraid to tell anyone else because they might think you’re crazy, they probably already do – but you’re in good company … the ‘false dawn’ has been reported pre-Columbian Mesoamericans, astronomers as early as the 1600s and even the prophet Muhammed. They all asked the same question you probably did: “What IS that?” Good news – unlike them, you’re about to find out … and it’s not of this Earth.
“The Zodiacal light is sunlight reflected by dust in the inner solar system. Variations in the Zodiacal light with ecliptic latitude reveal discrete bands of dust orbiting near the ecliptic plane. The Juno spacecraft, in transit from earth to Jupiter, recorded a sufficient number of impacts with this dust to characterize their distribution in space for the first time.”
Juno
In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Danish astronomers led by Professor John Leif Jørgensen from the Technical University of Denmark dug deeper into photographs taken in 2016 by advanced Danish cameras onboard the Juno spacecraft as it approached Jupiter. That’s when Juno unexpectedly encountered a dust storm which was invisible to the cameras but hit Juno with such force that they knocked particles off of the surface of the craft. And not just a few – a count by Jørgensen’s team found at least 23,000 small pieces.
The dust itself was not a surprise – there is an elliptical plane of dust throughout the solar system, as the study notes. And it has been speculated that the ‘false dawn’ phenomena – called Zodiacal light by astronomers – was caused by this dust reflecting sunlight. However, Juno gave the astronomers the first chance to identify where the dust came from – and the answer shocked them
“The radial distribution of the dust suggests a primary source of dust with the orbital elements (inclination and eccentricity) of Mars, scattered into a secondary population at higher inclination to the ecliptic.”
Up until now, astronomers speculated that this dust came from asteroids and comets traveling through the solar system. In fact, the cameras were on Juno to look at asteroids, not dust. Once they knew what it was, they realized the distribution matched the dust around Mars – another planetary mystery, as dust can’t escape the gravitational field of Earth because the atmosphere traps it. Mars has a thin, dry atmosphere and its gravitational field is very weak, but the team can’t explain how so much of its dust escapes – especially to Earth where it helps create false dawns in the spring in the Northern Hemisphere and in the late fall in the Southern Hemisphere.
“The IDP environment recorded by Juno on its journey to Jupiter has potentially significant implications for the design and qualification of space flight hardware as well as mission design.”
While the ‘false dawn’ discovery was interesting, the team was concerned about the impact of the interplanetary dust particles (IDP) from Mars on Juno – the reason why they could see it. Juno was solar-powered, but its solar array was strong enough to survive the impacts. Next generation solar-powered deep space crafts will have ultra‐thin, flexible solar arrays. Will they survive?
There’s something to ponder during your next false dawn.
David Wilcock: Ancient Lost Knowledge... The Earth's Cycle and Hidden Meanings
David Wilcock: Ancient Lost Knowledge... The Earth's Cycle and Hidden Meanings
David Wilcock: Ancient Lost Knowledge… The Earth’s Cycle and Hidden Meanings
David Wilcock maps out the three 3rd density cycles which have shaped the history of intelligent life on Earth. The first cycle, with Lemuria, degraded as many different off-world cultures did not integrate well. Thus, this first cycle was a failure. The second cycle came and went quietly with few ascensions. As we approach the end of the third cycle, are we doomed to repeat the mistakes that have locked humanity in 3rd density? David examines these cycles in association with Atlantis and ancient texts from around the world.
UFO On UK TV Broadcast Feb 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO On UK TV Broadcast Feb 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 1, 2021 Location of sighting: London, England
This UFO was seen and recorded by Youtuber UFO London. He caught an unknown flying object shooting past the UK news reporter.
The video is slowed down and shows close ups to help us better see the object. What looks like one UFO is actually two! The UFOs are flying side by side. This is similar to USAF military jet formation where a US fighter jet always takes off with a wingman. A wingman is a second fighter jet that follows along side you to watch out for you. 100% proof of UFOs Over London!
UFO Over San Pedro valle ,Colombia On Feb 11, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over San Pedro valle ,Colombia On Feb 11, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 11, 2021
Location of sighting: San Pedro Valle, Colombia
Colombia is well known for its UFO sightings and here in this video is more evidence to such. The UFO is seen flying over the forest area along some mountains and was noticed by Youtuber Anderson Osorio who recorded its movement for us. The video was taken late at night and shows an unknown glowing object. Its amazing to watch this object moving across the sky like that. Its at cloud level and moves very fast. Defiantly a UFO.
Orb Seen Over Oahu, Hawaii On Feb 7, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orb Seen Over Oahu, Hawaii On Feb 7, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 7, 2021 Location of sighting: Makaha Oahu, Hawaii, USA
UFOs are often come from underwater base and wander to the shores to explore. Here we have just such a UFO. The craft is coming very close the top of the building where it can scan and study the humans inside. I really like this video, because she has a steady hand with the camera and we get to see the movement of the UFO really well. At the end of the video, one person laughs and says its a plane, but honestly he is just guessing. There is no sound, no aircraft lights and no wings for him to jump to such a conclusion. This is a UFO.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This is the 2nd of the two UFOs my friends and I saw on 2/7/21 at Makaha Beach on Oahu in Hawaii. I have never seen anything quite like these before. It was amazing. I'll definitely be going back to this spot and trying to call them back down! If anyone has a better camera than my Galaxy S9... please send it to me! 😆 Lol. Also if anyone knows how to get it squared up and more zoomed in I'd be interested to see what else people can extract!
UFO Fleet Over Israel Fired Upon By Iron Dome Defense, Dec 11, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Israel Fired Upon By Iron Dome Defense, Dec 11, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Dec 11, 2020 Location of sighting: Isreal Source: Email report
Here is an interesting report that I have never seen before. It was sent to me by email from one of my subscribers.
I tried to figure out what the lights could be other than UFOs. At first I thought it might be the Israeli Army firing at a distant enemy. Then I thought it could be the famous Iron Dome defense system shooting at in coming missiles. But artillery fire is incredibly fast, unlike the lights we see here. I have watched videos of the Iron Dome defense system...This is the only likely possibility.
But what if the Iron Dome defense system, which was made to defend Israel from Palestinian missiles...what if the Iron Dome accidentally attacked a UFO fleet passing over Israel? That is what it looks like to me, I see a combination of both glowing UFOs and explosive smoke in the sky. I will put the comparison screenshot above to compare and contrast yourself.
Multiple fastwalker UFOs in the sky above Syracuse, NY 9-Mar-2021
Multiple fastwalker UFOs in the sky above Syracuse, NY 9-Mar-2021
A lot of strange UFO activity was filmed in the night sky above Syracuse in New York on 9th March 2021. Here a author’s statements…
Witness report:
Multiple orbs hovering and moving at impossible speeds at varying heights. Orbs appear directly overhead after being circled with a laser pointer. BACKGROUND: Since I first saw a large red orb in August of 2020 (MUFON report 110659) I have documented on video hundreds of orbs of varying sizes, colors and distances appearing over Central New York. These orbs are an every night event, if the sky is clear these strange orbs are visible. I have purchased two nightvision cameras in order to document and attempt to explain what I am seeing but the events I capture are getting stranger over time.On Tuesday March 9th, 2021 I went outside during my usual nightly filming session at 645 and set up one camera in a fixed location on a tripod and another on a monopod that I could use to control. I was on an elevated pool deck where I saw the typical orbs I see on a nightly basis and recorded those.
Throughout the night I observed multiple orbs moving through the airspace at speeds that I’ve never seen some were captured some were not. Around 750PM I saw a rather bright orb through my second camera and was tracking the object as it flew over my neighborhood. I used a green laser pointer to circle the object and upon doing this it seemed as though I provoked a response. The object began to move much more rapidly and also dimmed as it was very bright before. I eventually lost the object over the southern sky. I looked up and there were 2 very bright orbs directly over me. One orb seemed to circle and another orb slowly moved passed me until moving over the nearby treeline where I lost sight. I noticed a lot of movement in the sky above me but was unable to see anything else with my eyes. Unfortunately the video recording from the camera I was using is somehow corrupted despite all other files being intact. My other camera managed to record audio and video from the incident but was pointing slightly off from where I was. Upon playback of the videos recorded from my secondary camera, I realized how many objects had been above me that night.I have 100s of videos of these strange orbs flying over a densely populated city. I use star charts, air traffic radar, satellite tracking etc to debunk and I still cannot figure out what I am witnessing. I have uploaded a few videos to youtube in hopes of finding answers but I am not sure where to go now.
The singed hunk of asteroid was discovered in the driveway of a house in Winchcombe, a small town in the county of Gloucestershire in southwestern England. The rock, which weighs nearly 10.6 ounces (300 grams), is the first meteorite found in the UK since 1991, experts said, and the first known carbonaceous chondrite ever discovered in the country.
Carbonaceous chondrites are especially pristine and primitive meteorites that generally contain lots of organic material, including complex molecules such as amino acids. Studying carbonaceous chondrites can shed light on the early solar system and how the building blocks of life found their way to Earth, researchers say.
The Winchcombe meteorite weighs nearly 10.6 ounces (300 grams). (Image credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London)
Such study is already under way at the Natural History Museum in London, where the meteorite now resides.
"This is really exciting. There are about 65,000 known meteorites in the entire world, and of those only 51 of them are carbonaceous chondrites that have been seen to fall like this one," Sara Russell, a meteorite scientist at the museum, said in a statement.
"It is almost mind-blowingly amazing, because we are working on the asteroid sample-return space missions Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx, and this material looks exactly like the material they are collecting," Russell said. "I am just speechless with excitement."
The newfound meteorite was spotted shortly after it came down. Residents of the Winchcombe house saw black smudges on their driveway on the morning of March 1, the day after the fireball blazed bright in England's skies. They soon collected pieces of the space rock that had made the marks and contacted the UK Meteor Observation Network, which then got in touch with Natural History Museum personnel.
"For somebody who didn't really have an idea what it actually was, the finder did a fantastic job in collecting it," Ashley King, another meteorite researcher at the museum, said in the same statement.
"He bagged most of it up really quickly on Monday morning, perhaps less than 12 hours after the actual event. He then kept finding bits in his garden over the next few days," King added. "It looks a bit like coal. It is really black, but it is much softer and is really quite fragile. It is exciting for us, because this type of meteorite is incredibly rare but holds important clues about our origins."
The parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites can hit Earth's atmosphere going more than 150,000 mph (240,000 kph), King said. But the Feb. 28 fireball came in much more slowly, at "only" around 31,000 mph (50,000 kph), which explains why some pieces of the rock survived the fiery ordeal.
"The fact that it was going quite slowly, and then that it was collected so quickly after landing, avoiding any rainfall that could change its pristine composition, means that we've just really lucked out with everything," he said.
A number of fireball cameras captured the Feb. 28 event, allowing researchers to calculate a probable landing zone for meteorites and determine a rough trajectory for the parent body. These analyses indicate that the object came from the outer region of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists said.
There may well be more meteorite fragments from the Feb. 28 fireball waiting to be found. If you spot something in the Gloucestershire area that you suspect is a space rock, photograph it and record its location, Natural History Museum personnel said. Then collect a sample using a gloved hand, store the stuff in aluminum foil and contact the museum.
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.
The Viking 1 orbiter captured this image of Mars, highlighting its thin atmosphere, in 1976.
NASA
At least once in its past, Earth existed as a roiling ball of molten rock that might have had the consistency of room-temperature oil, but would been untouchable at some 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,090 degrees Celsius).
As magma oceans ebbed and flowed, the tumult might have launched elements conducive for life out of the rock and into our atmosphere. Researchers previously thought that maybe similar fluid dynamics — and the resulting spewing of life-supporting materials — likewise happened on Mars. But new research suggests that's not the case.
“We’ve had so little time to think about how a planet would evolve without a melting step, it’s hard to tell if this is a net positive or net negative for [the possibility of] life,” says Francis McCubbin, a NASA national materials coordinator and researcher who co-authored the new research.
By studying meteorites that came from Mars, McCubbin and his colleagues determined that the planet hosts two regions where the rock contains different ratios of hydrogen varieties. If the planet had once been awash in liquid rock, the same ratio of hydrogen types would be found all over the place, the team concluded in their Nature Geoscience paper.
Hydrogen analysis is one way to figure out whether Mars ever had a global magma ocean, McCubbin says. Other, yet-unstudied chemical systems on the planet could reveal ocean formation. That’s part of why McCubbin says it’s too early to consider this finding a thumbs-down for the possibility of life on Mars — and why their team plans to keep looking for signs of a once-liquid planet.
Goodness gracious, great balls of magma
Before our solar system had planets, it had dust and gas. When those particles started clumping together, researchers think the clumps collided again and again until entire planets formed. Eventually, the clusters melted into an ocean of magma. Like a blender mixing strawberries and bananas into a smoothie, liquifying would swirl all the deposits from the early solar system together. The process would also churn material from inside the planet core and release it into the atmosphere, McCubbin says, including elements and chemicals necessary for life.
McCubbin and his colleagues, including first author Jessica Barnes, a University of Arizona cosmochemist whom McCubbin calls a “rock star” in the field, studied whether that potentially life-giving magma formed by first looking at two meteorites. These rock chunks are pieces of Mars’ surface, or crust, that crash-landed in Africa and Antarctica. Researchers have calculated that one last interacted with martian water 3.9 billion years ago, and the other 1.5 billion years ago.
McCubbin and his team found that there are different versions of hydrogen in those two rocks, and that the proportions of each element variety are similar. A comparable hydrogen ratio also appears in more recent examinations of the planet’s crust, including in data from the Mars rover Curiosity. When the team compared all this information to Mars meteorites that originated from a deeper rocky layer in the planet, however, they saw something else. The hydrogen ratios in the deeper samples didn’t share the same ratio.
Other clues of planetary churning
Two mixes of hydrogen varieties suggest two spots of water formation on Mars that didn’t ever meet, and that subsurface, molten churns never happened. “A lot of what could have nurtured life in the atmosphere didn’t get there — maybe,” McCubbin says.
There are other ways material from the core of Mars could have reached the atmosphere, like constant volcanic activity or hydrothermal vents, McCubbin says. Additionally, planetary scientists need to look at other chemicals on Mars and see if they counter the hydrogen finds and support the concept of a magma ocean.
This research project relied heavily on studies from a range of meteorites — “it was sort of fortuitous that we could take a lot of data and compare them to our crustal samples,” McCubbin says. Future work will need to keep analyzing a whole suite of Mars samples. But don’t worry: NASA adds new Mars meteorites to their collection on a regular basis, McCubbin says. We’re retrieving more from Mars, too. The Perseverance rover will hit the planet to search for life in 2021, while another project might bring rock samples back a decade later.
If all goes according to plan, the team won’t be running low on samples to help them assess the Red Planet’s past anytime soon.
Le CNES vient de dévoiler les enregistrements réalisés depuis plusieurs semaines grâce au microphone qui équipe l’instrument Supercam embarqué sur le rover Perseverance.
C’est historique. Après un premier son dévoilé par la NASA peu de temps après l’atterrissage du rover Perseverance au mois de février dernier, le CNES dévoile aujourd’hui plusieurs enregistrements. Ils ont été réalisés grâce au microphone de sa SuperCam, un instrument de pointe qui embarque 5 techniques pour sonder le sol et l’environnement martien. « La qualité du signal est excellente », s’est félicitée Naomie Murdoch, Professeur à l’ISAE SUPAERO.
On peut donc entendre aujourd’hui le vent souffler sur Mars mais aussi les tirs lasers qui sont commandés à distance pour analyser les roches.
A découvrir aussi en vidéo :
Des données sur la vitesse du vent et les turbulences
Le son ne se propage pas de la même manière sur Mars que sur la Terre. « Deux personnes qui se parlent auraient du mal à s’entendre », a expliqué Naomie Murdoch. « La pression martienne est 150 fois moindre et il y a de l’oxyde de carbone dans l’atmosphère. Le microphone devait donc être très sensible pour que l’on puisse entendre les sons malgré la forte atténuation sur cette planète », complète-t-elle.
Outre l’émotion qui accompagne cette première, ces sons vont compléter les informations sur les propriétés physiques des roches, leur composition chimique et la minéralogie des sites. « Cela peut nous indiquer si la surface est dure ou molle et permettre ainsi de différencier les matériaux », a précisé Naomie Murdoch. Ce n’est pas tout. Ecouter le vent permettra de connaître son sens et sa vitesse mais aussi d’étudier les turbulences dans l’atmosphère.
330-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Monolith or Tower Found Near Area 51 using Satellite Images – In The Middle of Nowhere (video)
330-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Monolith or Tower Found Near Area 51 using Satellite Images – In The Middle of Nowhere (video)
A group of ufologists made a marvelous discovery when analyzing some of the photographs in Area 51, situated in Nevada. Area 51, according to conspirators, is the location where US armed forces execute extraterrestrial technology tests.
It’s a triangular monolith or tower with a rather modern theme. The tower lies on a circular foundation and is measured to be around 330 feet tall. The coordinates are: 37º14’44” N 115º49’22” W
Civilians are not permitted to reach this base, of course. Most conspirators assume that this is a kind of contact station for extraterrestrial cultures. Others assume that this structure is used for teleportation.
Another hypothesis supports the notion that the structure is built to monitor the classified aircraft manufactured by the Americans. Finally, a tiny number of ufologists claim that the system is nothing but a hologram.
The members of Area 51, however, fail to make any statements on the intent of this structure. They always demand that all interested people don’t place their noses where they’re not being questioned. As long as we don’t realize the true facts, we can just guess.
Have a peek at the video below and share your impressions with us.
A Secret Property is a thinly-veiled, fictional version of what happened at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980. It’s author: the late Ralph Noyes who rose to a significant position in the U.K. Ministry of Defense. Consider the following: in Noyes’ story we have a Colonel Hoyt, a military base called Bentbridge, and mysterious action deep in the woods. And, Noyes had the absolute gall to deny that his story was a roman-à-clef. The Grammarist says: “A roman-à-clef is a novel which depicts real-world people and events, with fictional names. Usually, details concerning the people and events are changed in minor ways in order to sustain the pretense of fiction. The amount of fictionalization in a roman-à-clef can vary widely.”
In Noyes’ case, the amount was huge. Most important of all, it is not the matter of how much data and material Noyes chose to fictionalize in A Secret Property. Rather, it’s the theme of Noyes’ story that is so important and relevant to us – more than thirty-five years after his book was published. In her 1991 book From Out of the Blue, Jenny Randles said of Noyes’ story that it involved a technology that “produces etheric visions of aliens and spaceships” and that can “effect the real world in various hazardous ways.” We’re talking about the Rendlesham event being a secret experiment undertaken by military personnel, intelligence agencies and more.
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In her third book on the subject of Rendlesham – UFO Crash Landing?– Randles got right to the heart of the matter, pointing out something that has been largely overlooked by so many in Ufology. Jenny said that Noyes’ scenario in A Secret Property brought together “sophisticated computer-controlled technology with the power within human consciousness and the natural forces of the Earth itself. Blending both mind and electronics together, it endeavored to forge a powerful ‘psychic’ weapon.” Just about everything Noyes wrote about in his 1985 novel – and that Randles discussed in relation to Noyes – smacks of classified operations, visionary experiences, and strange technology; all of which are at the heart of the overall “secret experiment” scenario for what happened at Rendlesham Forest more than forty years ago. Randles may not have realized how close she came to penetrating the truth of the matter. I would say she was right on the cusp of one of the most important parts of this overall story. Unfortunately, yet predictably, in the 1990s mainstream Ufology was still way too excited – years after Rendlesham occurred – by tales of aliens and extraterrestrial spaceships. Much of that was prompted by the influence that the hugely popular show The X-Files had on the U.K.’s ufology.
Noyes knew something of what happened in the woods – or, at the very least, he had his suspicions about the genuine scenario. Perhaps, those suspicions came via government sources – possibly, even, from retired colleagues from the MoD, who may have provided a few snippets of information and strategically-placed clues. In all probability, though, Noyes never knew the full story, but learned enough of it to allow him to blend the shocking truth into a readable page-turner. Noyes did us all a service by trying to get the truth of Rendlesham into the open, and without causing himself problems with his old employers at the Ministry of Defense. He was, after all, on a government pension, something that would certainly have led him to tread very carefully.
Ralph Noyes was interviewed by Andy Roberts and Dr. David Clarke, who have both taken an interest in the Rendlesham case. Noyes told the pair: “In the several capacities which brought me into touch with UFO reports during my 28 years in the MoD, I encountered several reports, particularly those from military establishments, which indicated ‘high strangeness.’ I, and military colleagues, had little doubt something had taken place for which we had no explanation.” On the matter of what happened in those woods – or what didn’t happen, depending where you’re coming from – Noyes offered the following to Clarke and Roberts: “There is no doubt at all that the MoD played a thoroughly dishonest game over the Rendlesham affair…The case itself is complex. I have given my own views about it–essentially that Halt and several others came face to face with a striking manifestation of the ‘UFO phenomenon’ whatever that may be, in the December of 1980.”
Noyes also made this highly valid statement: “Unless Lt. Col. Halt was out of his mind, there is clear evidence in his report that British airspace and territory were intruded upon by an unidentified vehicle on two occasions in late December 1980 and that no authority was able to prevent this. If, on the other hand, Halt’s report cannot be believed, there is equally clear evidence of a serious misjudgment of events by USAF personnel at an important base in British territory. Either way, the case can hardly be without defense significance.”
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La Chine et la Russie signent un accord pour la construction d'un village lunaire
La Chine et la Russie signent un accord pour la construction d'un village lunaire
Rémy Decourt - Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] Bientôt une base permanente sur la Lune ?La Lune est l’astre le plus proche de la Terre. Pourtant, depuis la fin du programme Apollo, notre satellite naturel n’a plus connu de visite. Cela pourrait bientôt changer car l'Agence spatiale européenne (Esa) prépare la construction d’une base permanente à sa surface. La chaîne Euronews nous parle de ce projet ambitieux dans ce nouvel épisode de Space.
Pour ne pas laisser les États-Unis, seuls sur la Lune, s'accaparer des ressources naturelles et s'approprier de grands territoires comme le permet le Space Act of 2015, la Chine et la Russie ont décidé de coopérer dans la réalisation d'une station internationale de recherche lunaire. Cette station pourrait soit être une base en dur installée au pôle sud, soit une station spatiale orbitale. Un mémorandum d'accord vient d'être signé entre les agences spatiales chinoise et russe qui invitent également tous les pays à y participer.
ObjectifLunepour la Chine et la Russie. Les deux puissances spatiales veulent également leur « part de la Lune » mais aussi ne pas trop se faire distancer par les États-Unis dont les ambitions lunaires inquiètent les deux pays, traditionnellement opposés à Washington.
Ce 9 mars, dans un communiqué conjoint, Zhang Kejian, directeur de l'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA, China National Space Administration), et Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, directeur général de Roscosmos (Russian National Aerospace Corporation), ont annoncé avoir signé un « Mémorandum d'accord entre le gouvernement de la République populaire de Chine et le gouvernement de la Fédération de Russie pour la construction en coopération d'une station internationale de recherche lunaire. »
S'inspirant du concept de « village lunaire » ou « Moon Village » proposé par le directeur général de l'ESA, l'Allemand Jan Woerner, ce projet sera ouvert à tous les pays intéressés. Des partenariats internationaux qui « visent à renforcer la collaboration en matière de recherche et à promouvoir l'exploration et l'utilisation de l'espace à des fins pacifiques dans l'intérêt de toute l'humanité », souligne le communiqué. Cela dit, la Chine et la Russie cherchent surtout à fédérer autour d'elles les puissances spatiales des pays émergents d'Asie, d'Afrique et d'Amérique du Sud qui ne participent pas au programme Artemis des États-Unis. Quant à l'Agence spatiale européenne, il ne fait guère de doute qu'elle participera d'une manière ou d'une autre à cette initiative russo-chinoise. Difficile d'imaginer l'ESA faire l'impasse sur un projet aussi ambitieux, avec d'importantes retombées technologiques, scientifiques et économiques, elle qui coopère déjà avec ses deux puissances spatiales sur plusieurs programmes d'exploration et d'observation de la Terre et qui participe à de nombreuses activées liées aux vols habités.
Concept d'une base lunaire au pôle sud de l'Agence spatiale chinoise.
Incertitude sur la nature de cette future station de recherche : base au sol ou station en orbite
Cette annonce, qui ne surprend pas les spécialistes, est tout de même assez vague. Bien que cela fasse plusieurs années que Russes et Chinois tendent à se rapprocher autour d'ambitieux programmes spatiaux, on peut s'étonner que ce mémorandum ne précise pas s'il s'agit d'une base habitée sur la surface ou d'une station en orbite à proximité de la Lune. Le communiqué conjoint se borne à préciser qu'il est question d'une « Station internationale de recherche lunaire (ILRS, International Lunar Research Station) [qui] consiste en un ensemble d'outils de recherche expérimentaux créés à la surface ou en orbite de la Lune et conçus pour mener des travaux pluridisciplinaires.»
À cela s'ajoute qu'aucun calendrier n'a été annoncé et encore moins le budget que les deux puissances prévoient d'allouer à ce projet. Cependant, une feuille de route devrait être rendue publique « sous peu » fixant des objectifs calendaires avec, en point de mire, une date de mise en service, vraisemblablement dans le courant de la décennie 2030.
Cela dit, on imagine mal les Chinois, voire les Russes, se cantonner à l'orbite lunaire et ne pas débarquer des taïkonautes et des cosmonautes sur la Lune alors qu'Américains y séjourneront et travailleront d'ici moins d'une décennie. Il faut savoir que les plans de l'Agence spatiale chinoise prévoient la construction d'une base lunaire près du pôle sud qui devrait être mise en service vers 2035, suivie d'une présence humaine prolongée et permanente pour la période 2036-2045. À suivre donc.
CE QU'IL FAUT RETENIR
Ensemble, la Russie et la Chine souhaitent conquérir la Lune.
Bien que la Chine ait rattrapé son retard sur la Russie, certaines technologies lui manquent, mais elle pourra peut-être les acquérir à bon compte grâce à ce partenariat spatial.
De son côté, la Russie, en se tournant vers la Chine, se prépare à la fin de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) et de ses obligations vis-à-vis des partenaires occidentaux liés à ce programme.
POUR EN SAVOIR PLUS
Pour explorer la Lune, la Chine renforce ses partenariats avec la Russie
La Chine et la Russie ont décidé de renforcer leurs liens dans le domaine spatial. Cette coopération sera officialisée cet automne. Elle engagera les deux pays sur des programmes emblématiques et d'envergure, notamment l'exploration de la Lune.
Les sanctions occidentales mises en place contre la Russie suite à l'annexion de la Crimée en mars 2014 pénalisent l'économie russe à court terme. Toutefois, ces mesures éloignent la Russie du monde occidental et la poussent vers d'autres pays, comme la Chine et l'Inde. Dans le domaine spatial, malgré des relations de travail excellentes avec la Nasa et l'ESA (le programme de la Station spatiale internationale est un exemple de relations pragmatiques et intelligentes entre tous les partenaires), la Russie se tourne vers les Brics (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine et Afrique du Sud) et d'autres pays comme l'Indonésie, les Émirats arabes unis, le Vietnam et l'Iran.
Dans ce contexte, la Russie et la Chine ont décidé de renforcer leurs partenariats dans le secteur spatial. Cet automne, ces deux pays signeront des accords de coopération pour la période 2018-2022 dans de nombreux domaines. Ils prévoient notamment une exploration commune de la Lune, d'importants transferts de technologies et des partenariats dans le domaine de l'accès à l'espace et le partage de données liées à l'observation de la Terre. Cependant, la Russie ne va évidemment pas réduire son avantage technologique en matière de nouvelles technologies spatiales.
Résoudre certains problèmes technologiques
Ces deux pays ont également décidé de rendre compatibles entre eux les systèmes de navigation et positionnement par satellites Glonass (Russie) et Beidou (Chine). Des stations sol de ces GPS russes et chinois seront notamment installées sur le territoire de chacun.
Pour la Chine, ces futurs partenariats arrivent à point nommé : ils pourraient l'aider à résoudre un certain nombre de problèmes technologiques clés pour les étapes futures de son programme spatial. En s'associant à la Russie, la Chine choisit ainsi une manière de contourner les effets des embargos et autres restrictions Itar auxquelles elle est encore soumise.
Wetenschappers willen Ark van Noach bouwen op de maan
Wetenschappers van de universiteit van Arizona hebben een opmerkelijk voorstel uitgewerkt dat het leven op Aarde zou kunnen redden mocht het ooit tot een Apocalyps komen. Ze willen een Ark van Noach bouwen in de lavatunnels op de maan, waarin erfelijk materiaal bewaard zou worden van 6,7 miljoen schimmel-, plant- en diersoorten. Inclusief menselijke zaad- en eicellen.
Het idee werd gepresenteerd op de IEEE Aerospace Conference, die momenteel (virtueel) plaatsvindt. Zelf noemen de wetenschappers het een “verzekeringspolis voor de Aarde”. Volgens professor Jekan Thanga is de kans groot dat de Aarde ooit geconfronteerd wordt met een natuurramp of een menselijke bedreiging zoals een globale nucleaire oorlog, waardoor een groot aantal soorten in korte tijd uitgeroeid zal worden.
De oplossing is volgens zijn team de bouw van een Ark van Noach op de maan. En dat plan is verrassend realistisch. De Ark zou ondergebracht worden in de lavatunnels op onze satelliet. Die werden voor het eerst ontdekt in 2013, zitten 80 tot 100 meter onder de grond en er heerst een vrij constante temperatuur van -25 graden Celsius. Ze zouden al drie tot vier miljard jaar ongerept gebleven zijn. “Ze zijn ook maar vier dagen van de Aarde verwijderd”, aldus Thanga. “En ze zijn een perfecte schuilplaats tegen de temperatuurschommelingen aan de oppervlakte van de maan, kosmische straling en het inslaan van kleine meteorieten.”
Doomsday Vault
De Ark zou het aardse leven bewaren in speciale modules, bij een temperatuur van minder dan -180 graden Celsius. Op die manier kan het honderden jaren overleven, volgens de wetenschappers. Het zou om een opzet gaan dat te vergelijken is met de Doomsday of Global Seed Vault. Die zit een paar honderd meter onder de eilandengroep Spitsbergen vlakbij de Noordpool en herbergt 556 miljoen zaden. De zaden zouden daar veilig moeten zitten voor het geval een gigantische ramp alle gewassen op aarde zou vernietigen. Een soortgelijke kluis op de maan zou echter nóg veiliger zijn, volgens de Amerikaanse wetenschappers.
Energie opwekken voor het project zou geen probleem mogen zijn op de maan. Met amper 190 vierkante meter aan zonnepanelen zou het moeten lukken, volgens de wetenschappers. Zowel de levering als de constructie van de Ark zou niet evident zijn, maar ook niet onmogelijk.
Het vervoeren van de stalen naar de maan zou volgens Thanga met 250 vluchten geklaard kunnen worden. Ter vergelijking: de bouw van het internationaal ruimtestation ISS gebeurde met 40 vluchten. Zelf vindt hij dat dit meevalt. “We hadden verwacht dat het er veel meer zouden zijn”, zegt hij.
Hindernissen
Maar eerst moeten nog een aantal praktische hindernissen overwonnen worden. “Ons onderzoek leert ons dat er nieuwe technologieën nodig zijn om dit tot een goed einde te brengen", klinkt het. “Er zijn ook investeringen en nieuwe ontwikkelingen nodig in de robotica, om onder de extreem koude temperaturen te kunnen opereren.”
60 jaar oude fysicavoorspelling komt uit: universum spuugt deeltjes uit met enorme energie
Ons universum spuugt deeltjes uit met energieën die wij op aarde nooit zouden kunnen bereiken. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de VUB-groep astrodeeltjesfysica, waarvan de resultaten in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift Nature gepubliceerd werden. Daarmee is een 60 jaar oude fysicavoorspelling realiteit geworden.
In 1960 voorspelde Nobelprijswinnaar Sheldon Glashow een proces binnen het Standaardmodel, het belangrijkste model van de deeltjesfysica. De theorie beschrijft de interactie van een antineutrino (spookachtige subatomaire deeltjes, onder meer afkomstig uit de meest extreme omgevingen in het heelal) met een elektron waarbij een nieuw deeltje geproduceerd wordt. Maar geen enkele deeltjesversneller op aarde is in staat dit proces te laten plaatsvinden, omdat dit extreem hoge deeltjesenergie vraagt.
Het IceCube Neutrino Observatorium, een enorme telescoop die in de gletsjer van Antarctica is ingegraven, heeft nu echter waargenomen dat er in ons universum toch natuurlijke versnellers zijn. Er werd een (anti)neutrino ontdekt dat vanuit de ruimte naar de aarde raasde en 6,3 peta-elektronvolts (PeV) aan energie vervoerde. Diep in de ijskap op de Zuidpool botste het tegen een elektron en produceerde een deeltje dat snel verviel in een douche van secundaire deeltjes. IceCube had daarmee de Glashow-resonantie waargenomen, het fenomeen dat in 1960 werd voorspeld door de Nobelprijswinnaar.
Daarmee is bewezen dat er in ons universum wel degelijk natuurlijke versnellers zijn. Superzware zwarte gaten in de centra van melkwegstelsels en andere extreme kosmische gebeurtenissen kunnen deeltjes opwekken met energieën die onmogelijk op aarde kunnen worden gemaakt. “Dit toont duidelijk het belang van de astrodeeltjesfysica bij fundamenteel onderzoek op de hoogste energieschalen”, aldus Nick van Eijndhoven, leider van de VUB-groep astrodeeltjesfysica. “En niet enkel dat: de technologieën die voor dergelijk onderzoek ontwikkeld worden, zoals dataverwerking of radiotechnologie, vinden hun toepassing in de hele maatschappij.”
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Anunnaki *****Breaking news*****
Anunnaki *****Breaking news*****
ANUNNAKI….
The Annunaki are the ones that began civilization on Earth, by creating Man with part of their own DNA. And yes, Man was initially created as a goldmining slave. The Annunaki then upgraded Man to become sentient and gave him this world to have dominion over.
The Reptilians then came to Earth, and they have secretly enslaved Man ever since. The Annunaki have returned to free Man from this bondage….there was a lot of Pleiadian seeding in the Nordic lines, but since the Pleiadians and
Annunaki are essentially the same base race, there isn’t a lot of difference.
If you are Rh-, you have a direct connection to the Annunaki. If you are Rh+, your line is one of the created lines.
High IQ, eyes in the hazel, blue to green spectrum, industrious/innovative, protective of family, very high ethical and moral code, physically attractive (though this is of course in the eye of the beholder). But again, one should not assume that any of these traits denote “superior” genetics, because the infusion of other seeder groups has made such an assumption impossible.
There’s an old saying… “What you are is God’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God.”
Because the body affects the spirit.
A man born in Iceland is different than a man born in Africa. These differences affect how a person will be embraced by those around him. Each world that created seedlines here, wanted to harvest souls that would fit into their world’s homogenous culture. Since mixed seedlines have learned to live harmoniously together her (occasionally), then this world will be used for mixed seeds that are found worthy.
Annunaki teleportation technology isn’t quite the same as what you’ve seen on Star Trek. The Annunaki are masters of transphasic technology, which is the science of changing the molecular vibration of an object, so it can operate within the laws of a different phase… I’ll explain.
If you wanted to transport from the planet to an orbiting ship, a transtator beam would vibrate your body at the molecular level, taking you out of phase with your surroundings, this allows you to pass through solid matter. A second magnetic (tractor) beam would lock onto the magnetic poles of your molecules.
The magnetic beam lifts and delivers you to the waiting ship, where a third transtator beam returns your vibration to its original phase.
We often use a variation of this that doesn’t change the phase of the person, but instead changes the phase of anything the person passes through during transport.
The Galactic Federation of Light (GFL) just takes UFO footage and claims it for themselves. The UFO wave that is now filling your skies, came right after Lord RayEl announced their imminent arrival, so those ships are NOT GFL, they are Annunaki ships, under Lord RayEl’s command….our Lord wants you to love and learn, but this is also the time of judgment, so there will be fear in the hearts of those who are not worthy.
Enki stayed after Enlil left, so history recorded his version of events, but it was Enki that caused the worker revolt so that the necessity of creating slaves would arise, then Enki made the slaves in such a way, that they would be part Annunaki, and thus, an obligation to preserve them was forced upon the Annunaki. And why did Enki do all of this? Because he wanted to create a kingdom on Earth for himself, with obedient slaves. Hardly humanity’s hero.
Enlil was the responsible one, he was the one against creating a retarded version of the Annunaki, simply to enslave them, his decisions were based on morality and mercy. Once there was no turning back, it was Enlil who nurtured humanity along its path to sentience.
2 Timothy 3:1-3 Is absolutely today’s world
What are angels?
“Angel” is an occupational designation within the Annunaki Empire. There are people who have volunteered for angelic duty from many races within the Empire.
Transtator technology is behind our interstellar communications and the way in which our ships travel faster than light. The visible light spectrum you all see is only the smallest fraction of light’s full spectrum, and at different levels in the light spectrum, light travels at different speeds. We change the phasic state of a wave or an object, to match the vibration of these higher
levels, and then we can move an object within those physical laws of speed. When we return to this phase, we’ve, by relativity, traveled farther and faster than the speed of light in this spectrum.
What are Reptilians?
The Reptilians are the armies of Satan, and the Anunnaki fleet has arrived to assist Lord RayEl to remove Satan and his legions from Earth.
Reptilian cloaking technology
Eyes and teeth are quickly covered and uncovered by lids and lips. The visual masking device the Reptilians use sometimes has a short lag time because of the rapid lid and lip movement. It’s basically a system glitch.
This is why in the old days, commoners were forbidden to look royalty in the eyes.
Everything is energy, and when broken down to its base form, one could call it a hologram.
Almost every public figure is either Reptilian or under Reptilian control. This has been a very large operation, and influencing/educating the masses has been their priority one, so they have left nothing to chance.
The Nephilim
The Nephilim were the giants, they were crossbreeds between Annunaki men and Earth women.
Genesis 6:1-4 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man for ever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Yeshua’s imprint on the Shroud of Turin
The imprint on the shroud was caused by the old-style transporters the Annunaki used. Back then they were not used on living things, only for transporting cargo, because the process of molecular acceleration used to make an object change its phasic state, allowing it to pass through another object, caused the accelerated object to heat up considerably. As most of you know from basic physics, molecular acceleration produces heat, hence the scorching of the shroud. Fortunately, the modern transporters use a cool-beam technology….the acceleration process does release light. And no, there is no published information on the cool-beam method the Annunaki uses… At least not yet….it is a matter of degrees, but there is a level that is acceptable to the rest of the neighborhood. Man has been quarantined here, so he could reach that level, and not pose a danger to others in this region of space.
In fairness, your species started off from a deficit position, and you’ve come a long way in a relatively short period of time.
The Pleiadians are real, they are “cousins” of the Anunnaki, and they have been working on Earth for a long time. Most of their work involved seeding the Nordic lines. The video is not made by real Pleiadians though. They are both capable of both good and evil, but they possess an enlightened moral core that drives them to do good.
Lord RayEl is half Anunnaki, and half Human. His body is Human, but (as we all watched during the Jerusalem Holy Spirit event) his Spirit is Anunnaki. Lord RayEl announced “The Armies of Heaven are fast approaching” on May 21,
2011 address. They were still about 6 months away, traveling toward Earth at high speed. The majority of the fleet arrived in November through January, and have been parked in orbit by Earth, Mars, and the Sun ever since.
One must be careful not to turn the Anunnaki into magicians. They are immensely powerful, but they do obey most of the laws of physics. When they needed gold, they dug for it.
The heaviest Anunnaki and Pleiadian strains are usually found in caucasian lines, but the Reptilians spread their seedline almost everywhere, so there really isn’t a good way to differentiate seedlines by sight. We know how people love to segregate themselves and assume superiority/inferiority, based on things that don’t matter as much as a person’s quality of character, so we are saving this for last, so as not to put another reason for discrimination on the table.
Anunnaki spirit yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that his last incarnation on Earth was as a British King. The reason that the last language on Earth shall be English, is because the Anunnaki speak this as their preferred language. It was introduced and promoted on Earth for this reason.
Zephaniah 3:9 “For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.”
Different groups have made individual contacts, but not to create human ambassadors or channels. The Anunnaki run the show on Earth, so no alien group is going to speak unauthorized. Now that Christ is here, everything official comes through us.
As to the aliens in question, there is no such thing as “interdimensional beings”, we all have height, width, and depth, which means that we all occupy 3-dimensional space. What is described as interdimensional beings, are simply aliens using transphasic technology. This technology allows them to vibrate at different frequencies, thereby removing themselves from your visible light spectrum.
Time does not exist, it is not a dimension nor a physical construct, it is an artificial metric used for measuring growth and duration. Do not be fooled by physicists with unquantifiable theories. Gravity is simply magnetism, and localized gravitational fields can interrupt the pull of the Earth’s field.
The NSA conducts covert operations of this nature, as a branch of the U.S. Intelligence infrastructure, they engage in both active and responsive projects under the umbrella of National Security. The FBI is a law enforcement agency.
Some have asked why seedline mixing was so hated among the ancients? As we’ve explained, the groups that seeded this world wished to harvest matured souls at the end of this process and return them to their worlds. Their worlds are homogenous, so as to keep them peaceful, and here is an example of why they prefer a homogenous society. Iceland is one of the most homogenous societies on Earth, and a society that carries some of the strongest concentrations of Annunaki/Pleiadian seedlines. It is modern, peaceful, and nearly free of violent crime.
Unfortunately, racism does creep into homogenous societies, but it is also in non-homogenous societies, the difference being that in non-homogenous societies, racism often leads to violence. Don’t worry, a good soul is a good soul, and that is the criteria by which residency in the New Kingdom shall be judged.
The Annunaki were somewhat like humanity at one time, but they will better explain their history later. God is divine, but Man doesn’t fully understand what that means. The Bible never says that God created the universe. He created the Heavens and the Earth. Heavens are settled planets within the Empire, as Earth shall soon be. Satan is not God’s enemy, Satan is Man’s adversary. There are other rulers of planets, but they are part of the Council of the Empire. Yes, Lord RayEl can and will save the world.
The Empire is vast, but the Council exists because of different ideologies. There are worlds outside of the Empire, but I don’t personally know of anyone desiring to be among them. The Empire is mostly centered in this galaxy, but there has been tremendous expansion recently. I really should leave it to them to explain fully.
Once souls have reached a safe level of sentience, maturity, and enlightenment, they are allowed to join the greater communion of worlds.
The people of Earth (those who have reached this level), are about to graduate into this communion. There is a cooperative agreement between all of the seeders, but the original plan was to segregate the seed-lines, so the harvest would be simple. Mature souls from each seed-line would just go back to their homeworld, but the mixing of seed-lines has forced other options.
As anyone who has studied the history of the gods knows, the Anunnaki were/are very incestuous, which is why today’s royal families are so incestuous. BUT… The Anunnaki see people as spirits, not bodies, to them the body is only a suit that can be easily changed, so to them, it isn’t incest like humans see it. Actually, we are debating which form of transportation to use at the moment. If things are still relatively calm, then we will just use standard transportation, but if things are really bad, the Annunaki fleet is on standby.
And you will all have the opportunity to meet and work alongside Lord RayEl at the Ops Center. Triangles are the easiest shape to create and maintain with force fields when ships gate through stars. The biggest hassle for moving ships through interstellar space is fuel storage, but when using stars as “gas stations”, one can fuel up at one star and use that fuel to travel to the next star, so travel then becomes quite efficient.
Generally, the only fuel stored when “gating”, is the fuel that will be used while traveling at the destination system. When ready to travel to the next star, the course is plotted, a rather large thrust is engaged, and because of the relatively low drag of space, it is like riding a bullet from one star to the next. This method is not the same as subspace (warp) travel, which takes a ship into a higher spectral bandwidth, allowing it to reach near-light speed in that bandwidth, and faster than light speed (relative) in this bandwidth.
Black people are part Anunnaki, but “Humans” came later. The original creations were called “Man”, but when the Reptilians took over the project,
they infused their DNA into parts of the population, creating HU-Man (HU is an ancient word for serpent gods). Man and HU-Man later intermixed naturally, creating “human beings”, which were considered monsters by early society. Enki wanted to keep black people as slaves, so he refused to give them enough Anunnaki DNA to evolve them genetically, so the only way to get more of the Anunnaki DNA, was to integrate black people into Western societies, where natural intermixing increased the infusion of Anunnaki DNA. If you look at a black man from Canada, compared to one whose family line has never left.
Africa, you can really see the difference. It was a rough process, but the black man has made it. As disgusting as slavery is, it was the fastest way to force integrate Africans into Western society. There was no other way the white man would have accepted the black man into Western culture at the time… This way, as harsh as it was, both sides gave the other something needed. Because it most closely resembles Anunnaki society. The New Kingdom will closely resemble a modern and matured version of the West. I’m glad to help brother.
Satan does what he does because God wants him to strengthen Man through adversity because adversity does build character. There is of course a limit to that. A child starving to death in an Ethiopian desert isn’t learning anything that will make him worthy of the New Kingdom, he is only suffering needlessly… But his suffering is teaching a valuable and terrible lesson to others.
The reason for all the madness in the world is because Christ/Isa/HaMashiac has returned and is walking the earth today. And the media & governments are trying to cover it up.
'World's oldest impact crater' isn't an impact crater at all! 62-mile-wide Maniitsoq structure was created by geological processes 3 billion years ago and NOT a meteorite strike, scientists claim
'World's oldest impact crater' isn't an impact crater at all! 62-mile-wide Maniitsoq structure was created by geological processes 3 billion years ago and NOT a meteorite strike, scientists claim
Experts argued in 2012 that the Maniitsoq area of Greenland was an impact site
The crater had been eroded away, but deep signs of shock remained, they said
Such included signs of rocks being pulverised and a large magnetic anomaly
However, researchers led from Canada have rebutted this controversial concept
Some rocks in the 'crater' are identical to those found outside of the 'impact' site
And there was not evidence of impact shock in tiny grains of the mineral zircon
The 'world's oldest impact crater' — the vast Maniitsoq structure that lies on the coast of west Greenland — is actually nothing of the sort, geologists have claimed.
In 2012, an international team of researchers proposed that the 62 mile (100 kilometre) -wide structure was formed by a giant impact some 3 billion years ago.
There is no crater-shaped bowl in Maniitsoq. This, the researchers argued, eroded away, as the present surface was buried 14 miles down at the time of the impact.
Instead the team pointed to a magentic anomaly as well as signs of circular deep-crustal crushing — which they said was evidence of the penetrating impact shock.
This was met with scepticism, however, with some experts claiming that the Maniitsoq structure did not meet enough of the criteria to be classified as a crater.
Now, researchers led from Canada have shown that the structure was indeed created by the exact same, regular geological process as the surrounding area.
In fact, some of the magmatic rocks at the core of the alleged crater were identical to those found in an adjacent region, outside the proposed impact zone.
The 'world's oldest impact crater' — the vast Maniitsoq structure that lies on the coast of west Greenland — is actually nothing of the sort, geologists have claimed. Pictured: Finnefjeld mountain, which researchers claimed back in 2012 was the core of a remnant impact structure
In 2012, an international team of researchers proposed that the 62 mile (100 kilometre) -wide structure was formed by a giant impact some 3 billion years ago. Pictured: a geological (main) and aeromagnetic (inset) map of the Maniitsoq region on Greenland's western coastline
THE ARCHEAN EON
The Archean is the second of Earth's geological eons, spanning from around 4–2.5 billion years ago.
At this time, the planet had cooled sufficiently for the continents to form and life on Earth was just beginning.
Rock outcrops dating back to the Archean eon have been found in various places across the globe — including Australia, Greenland, Scotland and Wyoming in the US.
They usually appear as granite-rich remains of continental crust, or heavily metamorphized deep-water sediment.
The hunt now continues for impact craters from the Archean eon, 4–2.5 billion years ago, when the continents were newly minted and life on Earth was just beginning.
Evidence for intense impact activity during this period can be found in the iconic craters on the moon's surface — but their terrestrial counterparts remain elusive.
It is possible than none actually remain, and that any evidence that once existed has been long ago eroded away or buried underneath much younger rock.
The study debunking the impact hypothesis was undertaken by geologist Chris Yakymchuk of the University of Waterloo, in Canada, and his colleagues.
'Our results conclusively rule out the proposal that much of the rock mass in the Maniitsoq region formed by an Archean meteorite impact,' the team wrote.
This, they added, 'leaves the 2.23 billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure in Western Australia as the oldest confirmed terrestrial impact structure.'
'The source craters for Archean-aged impact ejecta remain elusive on Earth.'
In their study, Professor Yakymchuk and his team combined mapping of geological outcrops in the field with rock dating and chemical analysis to get to the bottom of how the Maniitsoq structure was formed.
They found that the odd magnetic readings identified in the previous study do not persist over the wider area, as would be expected if this signature was formed by an impact event — and nor did magnetic scans reveal any circular impact structures.
The researchers analysed 5,587 grains of a mineral called zircon, looking for evidence of impact shock on their crystallographic structure.
'Zircon crystals in the rock are like little time capsules,' said Professor Yakymchuk.
'They preserve ancient damage caused by shockwaves you get from a meteorite impact. We found no such damage in them.'
The researchers analysed 5,587 grains of a mineral called zircon, looking for evidence of impact shock on their crystallographic structure — but found none. Pictured: a selection of zircon grains analysed by the researchers, as seen through a scanning electron microscope. The colours indicate the orientation of the crystal structure. Had the grains been subjected to a massive impact shock, this deformation would manifest as different colours in single grains
Moreover, analysis of a oxygen isotopes in zircons revealed no evidence that the rocks in the Maniitsoq structure were ever subject to an influx of hot seawater through impact-forged cracks, as had previously been proposed.
Had water altered the rocks in the area, they would have become enriched in a lighter isotope of oxygen that is relatively more common in seawater than rocks.
The team's investigation also revealed that some rocks that were claimed to have melted and reformed as a result of the high-energy impact were actually some 40 million years younger than previously thought.
Finally, the team found a swathe of rocks cross cutting the proposed impact site that were at least 100 million years younger but had also been subjected to burial, heat and deformation.
It would not be possible, the researchers explained, for these rocks and evidence for an ancient impact to co-exist together in the rock record — the latter would not survive such modification processes.
The study debunking the impact hypothesis was undertaken by geologist Chris Yakymchuk and colleagues. 'Our results conclusively rule out the proposal that much of the rock mass in the Maniitsoq region formed by an Archean meteorite impact,' the team wrote
'I try to keep an open mind about everything in science, especially until you see the rocks themselves,' Professor Yakymchuk told Massive Science.
However, he added, 'after seeing the rocks, it was kind of "Huh? These don't look that different from rocks I've seen elsewhere in the world."
'So either we missed impact structures everywhere on Earth or this wasn't one.'
'You have to take everything together and say, okay, what is the simplest explanation for all the features we see?' Professor Yakymchuk continued.
'And the simplest explanation is that this is not an impact,' he concluded.
If you look at the moon on a clear night through a pair of ordinary, hand-held binoculars, you'll see a multitude of meteorite craters.
Some are larger than 621 miles (1000 kilometres) in diameter and readily visible with the naked eye.
Through the first 500 million years of Solar System history, both the Moon and the Earth were constantly bombarded with a multitude of small and large meteorites and comets.
Some scientists even think that life was brought to the Earth by comets.
The Moon has preserved the remains of thousands of impacts, but on Earth only about 180 such impact structures are known, and most of them are very small, young and rapidly decaying.
Contrary to the Moon, the Earth is a dynamic planet with plate tectonics, mountain belts and erosion.
This means that most impact structures are eroded away, destroyed by mountain building processes or gradually buried by younger deposits over the course of geological time.
World's Oldest Meteor Crater, Not Caused by Impact Meteorite Impact
World's Oldest Meteor Crater, Not Caused by Impact Meteorite Impact
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of normal geological processes.
Credit: NASA
During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo’s Chris Yakymchuk found the features of this region are inconsistent with an impact crater. In 2012, a different team identified it as the remnant of a three-billion-year-old meteorite crater.
Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland
Credit: University of Waterloo
“Zircon crystals in the rock are like little time capsules,” said Yakymchuk, a professor in Waterloo’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. “They preserve ancient damage caused by shockwaves you get from a meteorite impact. We found no such damage in them.”
Additionally, there are multiple places where the rocks melted and recrystallized deep in the Earth. This process—called metamorphism—would occur almost instantaneously if produced from an impact. The Waterloo-led team found it happened 40 million years later than the earlier group proposed.
“We went there to explore the area for potential mineral exploration, and it was through close examination of the area and data collected since 2012 that we concluded the features are inconsistent with a meteorite impact,” Yakymchuk said. “While we were disappointed that we weren’t working in a structure that was the result of a meteorite hitting the planet three billion years ago, science is about advancing knowledge through discovery, and our understanding of the Earth’s ancient history continues to evolve. Our findings provide scientific data for resource companies and Greenlandic prospectors to find new mineral resources.”
Stirred not shaken; critical evaluation of a proposed Archean meteorite impact in West Greenland.
Chris Yakymchuk, Christopher L. Kirkland, Aaron J. Cavosie, Kristoffer Szilas, Julie Hollis, Nicholas J. Gardiner, Pedro Waterton, Agnete Steenfelt, Laure Martin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021; 557: 116730 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116730
UFO Shoots Past helicopter Bangkok, Thailand, March 11, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Past helicopter Bangkok, Thailand, March 11, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 11, 2021 Location of sighting: Bangkok, Thailand
This eyewitness was recording a helicopter flying over the neighborhood just at the right moment. A small black UFO sees the helicopter and shoots close to it, curving slightly, then shooting away before the helicopter pilots notice it. This is 100% typical behavior of alien drones. They are programed to find, investigate, record all data of flying technology. Flying technology is a priority for aliens to gather data on...because this allows them to accurately predict when humans will be capable of long distance space travel.
The 6 Most Mysterious UFO Crashes That Happened BEFORE Roswell
The 6 Most Mysterious UFO Crashes That Happened BEFORE Roswell
Some skeptics would have you believe that the Roswell UFO crash set the trend for reporting this type of strange event. But that’s not true.
Unidentified objects had been falling from the skies years before that. Here are 6 of the most intriguing cases.
6. Aurora, Texas – 1897
A good 50 years before the Roswell event started the craze, a large UFO allegedly crashed in the small town of Aurora, Texas. The object was silver in color and shaped like a cigar.
According to an article published in the Dallas News, the UFO had been steadily losing altitude when it struck Judge Proctor’s windmill. The explosion wrecked the windmill tower and scattered debris over several acres.
The article also reported that a well had been also damaged in the crash and its water tainted, leading the locals to bury it.
The article read:
”the pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only on board and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.”
A small ceremony was held at the local cemetery where the small alien body was buried. The tombstone was stolen in 2012 but from the existing photos one can clearly see it depicted a crudely-carved cigar-shaped object with portholes on its sides.
Unfortunately for everyone, at the time of the crash, a spotted fever epidemic was wreaking havoc in the area so the event quickly faded out of view.
Another interesting aspect is that in 1945, Judge Proctor’s property was bought by Brawley and Etta Oates. The entire Oates family began suffering serious health problems because they had re-dug the well. Before her death, etta became convinced the water was radioactive.
5. Indian Ocean – September 1862
This unusual incident was reported in the May 2, 1897 issue of The Houston Daily Post and centered around a story told by one of the few men who had survived to tell the story – a Dutch sailor.
He had been part of the crew aboard a ship called Christine. In the autumn of 1862, following a storm in the Indian Ocean, the ship sank. The crew members who had been lucky enough to survive suddenly found themselves on a small, deserted island completely devoid of life.
While on the island, they witnessed an extraordinary event: a giant UFO fell from the sky, crashing into a jagged cliff. It was as big as a battleship and had four huge wings on its sides.
The men mustered the courage to examine the wreck and, amid the debris, found the bodies of several 12 foot-tall men with strange clothing and bronze-colored silky beards. This gruesome discovery was too much to bear for the starving, desperate men and some of them even went mad.
Only a handful of people survived until rescue came in the form of a Russian trawler, among them, the Dutchman.
While this might be nothing more than a sailor’s story, it makes for a very interesting one nonetheless.
4. Stavropol, Russia – late 1800s
In the 1960s, a Soviet investigation uncovered clues about a UFO crash landing that took place towards the end of the 19th century. Several witnesses reported that “a strange apparition flew into a village of the Stavropol province” and that its passengers had survived the crash.
“Three dark-skinned men came out of it. They were breathing hard, making signs and soon died since they could not breathe air. The village residents quickly pulled apart the thing in which they landed.”
As the investigation progressed, the officials began receiving letters corroborating the story. A woman named Irina Danilova recalled a story told by her grandfather, who had personally witnessed the event.
According to Danilova’s grandfather, the craft was shaped like an arrowhead and was quickly dismantled by the locals, who used the metal to manufacture household goods.
The bodies were “buried without cross or ritual.”
3. Carolinas – 1941
This report comes from noted UFO researcher Leo Stringfield’s book UFO Crash/Retrievals: Search for Truth in a Hall of Mirrors. Stringfield tracked down and spoke with the mother of Guy Simeone, a soldier in the 26th Infantry Division prior to the United States’ involvement into the Second World War.
In October 1941, Simeone was taking part in a military maneuver “in the Carolinas” when an unidentified object crashed in the area. Interests rapidly shifted towards recovering the “crashed round, metallic object” and “little dead bodies from space.”
The craft was taken to a nearby Army post. It measured about 15 feet in width and 10 feet in height and housed a control room with four seats. The silver UFO had otherworldly inscriptions both on its exterior shell as well as inside.
The four recovered bodies were described as small and with large, insect-like eyes.
Unfortunately, there is little evidence to support this incident, apart from the accounts of second-hand witnesses. Nobody knows what happened to the craft or the body of its passengers.
2. Dundy County, Nebraska, 1884
The June 8th, 1884 edition of The Nebraska State Journal ran an article about the crash of a mysterious object and subsequent retrieval of very unusual debris.
According to the journal, local rancher John Ellis and other locals witnessed a burning object similar to a meteor falling from the sky.
The men rode their horses to the crash site in order to investigate the incident. When they arrived, they found a large number of incandescent objects strewn across the crash site.
The objects were so hot and burned so bright that none of the men dared approach them. The ranchers resolved to come back the following day.
When they returned, the men noticed the objects were, in fact, mechanical parts resembling gears, wheels and propeller blades. All of them appeared to have been made from an extremely light and durable metal. No bodies were found.
Nobody knows what became of the wreckage.
1. England – WWII
Former intelligence officer and Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon Creighton launched an investigation into the crash of a UFO on British soil, at the height of the Second World War.
The craft wreckage was reportedly retrieved and studied by British authorities.
He learned about the incident from a 1955 article published in the Los Angeles Examiner by journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.
Here’s an excerpt:
“I can report today on a story which is positively spooky, not to mention chilling. British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet.
“The source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who prefers to remain unidentified.
‘We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men—probably under four feet tall. It’s frightening, but there’s no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.’
“This official quoted scientists as saying a flying ship of this type could not have possibly been constructed on Earth. The British Government, I learned, is withholding an official report on the ‘flying saucer’ examination at this time, possibly because it does not wish to frighten the public.”
After the article was published, Creighton attempted to contact Dorothy Kilgallen and ask for further information.
She died shortly after, leading the researcher to believe that “she had been effectively silenced.” But as it turns out, Kilgallen was not the only source of information regarding this incident.
Brazilian UFO researcher Olavo T. Fontes also claimed to found out about this retrieval from sources inside Brazil’s Naval Intelligence but had only sparse details.
Another interesting detail was revealed in 1988 by former CIA pilot John Lear. His sources revealed that the UFO had been “strapped to a Boeing B-17 and transported to the States.”
It seems the British Government managed to keep a tight lid on this enigmatic crash, because nothing else is known about it.
Perseverance keeps notching milestones on the Red Planet.
Our growing list of sounds on Mars now includes lasers.
NASA's Perseverance rover has begun using its rock-zapping SuperCam instrument on the Red Planet, mission team members announced today (March 10). SuperCam is equipped with a microphone, which has picked up the gentle whoosh of the Martian wind as well as the not-so-gentle snaps generated by the laser when it hits a rock target.
"These recordings have demonstrated that our microphone is not only functioning well, but we also have a very high-quality signal for our scientific studies," SuperCam team member Naomi Murdoch, a researcher at the Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace in Toulouse, France, said during a live webcast today.
"In the SuperCam team, we're extremely excited about the perspectives and the scientific investigations that we're going to be able to do with the microphone data," Murdoch said.
This image shows a close-up view of the rock target named "Máaz" from the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. It was taken by SuperCam’s Remote Micro-Imager on March 2, 2021. "Máaz" means Mars in the Navajo language. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS)
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The car-sized Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, landed on the floor of Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. The rover's main tasks involve hunting for signs of ancient life within the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero, which harbored a deep lake and a river delta billions of years ago, and collecting dozens of samples for future return to Earth.
SuperCam, which sits on Perseverance's headlike mast, is one of the seven science instruments the rover will use to do this off-world work. SuperCam fires a laser at targets up to 23 feet (7 meters) away, generating a cloud of vaporized rock, the composition of which can be determined by the instrument's cameras and spectrometers.
As Murdoch and her colleagues announced today, such rock zapping has already begun. SuperCam fired on a target named Máaz, the Navajo word for Mars, on March 2. (Perseverance is exploring a part of Jezero the team has dubbed Canyon de Chelly, after a national monument on Navajo land in northeastern Arizona.)
The SuperCam observations allowed the team to determine that Máaz has a basaltic composition. Basalts are igneous, or volcanic, rocks that are common on Mars as well as Earth. But it's unclear at the moment if Máaz itself is volcanic, said SuperCam principal investigator Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy facility in New Mexico.
It's also possible that Máaz "is a sedimentary rock composed of igneous grains that were washed downriver into Jezero Lake and cemented together," Wiens said during today's update.
The SuperCam mic recorded audio of the Martian wind during Perseverance's first few days on Mars, the instrument team announced today. The microphone also captured the countless rapid-fire snaps of the Máaz work, which came from shock waves generated by the heat and vibration of the rock vaporization.
Such audio will be quite useful to the SuperCam team, Murdoch said. For example, details of the snaps will reveal the hardness of each rock target, a detail that cannot be determined from composition alone. (Chalk and marble have the same chemical composition, as Murdoch pointed out.)
SuperCam recordings will also help the Perseverance team keep tabs on the rover and its various subsystems and allow researchers to better understand the thin, carbon-dioxide dominated Martian atmosphere, Murdoch said.
Perseverance carries another microphone as well — one that's built into its entry, descent and landing (EDL) camera system. The EDL mic didn't record sound during the rover's "seven minutes of terror" touchdown on Feb. 18, but it has captured audio on the Martian surface.
These two microphones are the first ever to record true audio on Mars. And they may work together at some point; mission team members have discussed the possibility of operating both mics simultaneously to capture stereo sound on the Red Planet.
Perseverance has not begun its science work in earnest yet. The first big task for the rover involves finding a suitable airfield for the rover's helicopter, a 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) craft named Ingenuity, to make its technology-demonstrating flights.
Perseverance will attempt to document Ingenuity's forays into the Martian sky. And this might even be a multimedia extravaganza: It's possible that one or both mics could capture the sounds of Ingenuity's rotors churning through the thin Martian air, mission team members have said.
On March 9, the mission released three SuperCam audio files. Obtained only about 18 hours after landing, when the mast remained stowed on the rover deck, the first file captures the faint sounds of Martian wind.
First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars: This recording was made by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 19, 2021, just about 18 hours after landing on the mission’s first sol or Martian day. The rover’s mast, holding the microphone, was still stowed on Perseverance’s deck, and so the sound is muffled, a little like the sound one hears listening to a seashell or having a hand cupped over the ear. Just a little wind can be heard.
The wind is more audible, especially around the 20-second mark, in the second sound file, recorded on the rover’s fourth Martian day, or sol.
Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam Records Wind on Mars: This recording was made on Feb. 22, 2021, on the fourth sol (Martian day) by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover after deployment of the rover’s mast. It provides a different overall sound than the SuperCam audio recording from the mission’s first sol. Some wind can be heard, especially around 20 seconds into the recording. Rover background sounds have been removed.
SuperCam’s third file, from Sol 12, includes the zapping sounds of the laser impacting a rock target 30 times at a distance of about 10 feet (3.1 meters). Some zaps sound slightly louder than others, providing information on the physical structure of the targets, such as its relative hardness.
First Acoustic Recording of Laser Shots on Mars: This is the first acoustic recording of laser impacts on a rock target on Mars from March 2, 2021, the 12th sol (Martian day) from Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument. The sounds of 30 impacts are heard, some slightly louder than others. Variations in the intensity of the zapping sounds will provide information on the physical structure of the targets, such as its relative hardness or the presence of weathering coatings. The target, Máaz (“Mars” in Navajo), was about 10 feet (3.1 m) away.
“I want to extend my sincere thanks and congratulations to our international partners at CNES and the SuperCam team for being a part of this momentous journey with us,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “SuperCam truly gives our rover eyes to see promising rock samples and ears to hear what it sounds like when the lasers strike them. This information will be essential when determining which samples to cache and ultimately return to Earth through our groundbreaking Mars Sample Return Campaign, which will be one of the most ambitious feats ever undertaken by humanity.”
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.
No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
by Lisa Zyga , Phys.org
This is an artist's concept of the metric expansion of space, where space (including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe) is represented at each time by the circular sections. Note on the left the dramatic expansion (not to scale) occurring in the inflationary epoch, and at the center the expansion acceleration. The scheme is decorated with WMAP images on the left and with the representation of stars at the appropriate level of development. Credit: NASA
(Phys.org) —The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once.
The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a "Big Bang" did the universe officially begin.
Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity.
"The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there," Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, both in Egypt, told Phys.org.
Ali and coauthor Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, have shown in a paper published in Physics Letters B that the Big Bang singularity can be resolved by their new model in which the universe has no beginning and no end.
Old ideas revisited
The physicists emphasize that their quantum correction terms are not applied ad hoc in an attempt to specifically eliminate the Big Bang singularity. Their work is based on ideas by the theoretical physicist David Bohm, who is also known for his contributions to the philosophy of physics. Starting in the 1950s, Bohm explored replacing classical geodesics (the shortest path between two points on a curved surface) with quantum trajectories.
In their paper, Ali and Das applied these Bohmian trajectories to an equation developed in the 1950s by physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri at Presidency University in Kolkata, India. Raychaudhuri was also Das's teacher when he was an undergraduate student of that institution in the '90s.
Using the quantum-corrected Raychaudhuri equation, Ali and Das derived quantum-corrected Friedmann equations, which describe the expansion and evolution of universe (including the Big Bang) within the context of general relativity. Although it's not a true theory of quantum gravity, the model does contain elements from both quantum theory and general relativity. Ali and Das also expect their results to hold even if and when a full theory of quantum gravity is formulated.
No singularities nor dark stuff
In addition to not predicting a Big Bang singularity, the new model does not predict a "big crunch" singularity, either. In general relativity, one possible fate of the universe is that it starts to shrink until it collapses in on itself in a big crunch and becomes an infinitely dense point once again.
Ali and Das explain in their paper that their model avoids singularities because of a key difference between classical geodesics and Bohmian trajectories. Classical geodesics eventually cross each other, and the points at which they converge are singularities. In contrast, Bohmian trajectories never cross each other, so singularities do not appear in the equations.
In cosmological terms, the scientists explain that the quantum corrections can be thought of as a cosmological constant term (without the need for dark energy) and a radiation term. These terms keep the universe at a finite size, and therefore give it an infinite age. The terms also make predictions that agree closely with current observations of the cosmological constant and density of the universe.
New gravity particle
In physical terms, the model describes the universe as being filled with a quantum fluid. The scientists propose that this fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypothetical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity. If they exist, gravitons are thought to play a key role in a theory of quantum gravity.
In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.
Motivated by the model's potential to resolve the Big Bang singularity and account for dark matter and dark energy, the physicists plan to analyze their model more rigorously in the future. Their future work includes redoing their study while taking into account small inhomogeneous and anisotropic perturbations, but they do not expect small perturbations to significantly affect the results.
"It is satisfying to note that such straightforward corrections can potentially resolve so many issues at once," Das said.
Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das. "Cosmology from quantum potential." Physics Letters B. Volume 741, 4 February 2015, Pages 276–279. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.12.057. Also at: arXiv:1404.3093[gr-qc].
Saurya Das and Rajat K. Bhaduri, "Dark matter and dark energy from Bose-Einstein condensate", preprint: arXiv:1411.0753[gr-qc].
4. a meteor on januari 16 , 2017 was visible from Missouri to Ontario
3. a meteor over Arizona on June 2, 2016 glowed blue on camera 3
2. a bright, fast meteor over Alberta, canada on februari 22, 2021
1. a fireball scattered around Chelyabinsk, Russia on februari 15, 2013
Feb 15,2013 - A "small" meteorite streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region. The blast, equivalent to 300,000 tons of TNT, shattered windows, damaged more than 3,000 building and injured over 1,000 people.
8 months after the incident, the meteorite, weighing in at 570 kg, was pulled out of Lake Chebarkul, making it one of the biggest meteorites ever recovered.
Is the future of deep-sea exploration soft? Researchers have developed a new type of soft robot designed to cope with the crushing pressures at the bottom the ocean.
Inspired by the deepest-living known fish, the Mariana snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei), researchers used soft materials and distributed electronics to create a machine that can withstand extreme pressure. They say that a soft robot could be more versatile and reliable at depth than other machines which require bulk materials or pressure compensation systems.
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Sperm and egg samples from 6.7 million of Earth's species should be sent to an ark built on the moon as a 'modern global insurance policy', scientists have proposed.
The lunar gene bank — which could also house seed and spore samples — is envisaged as being built under the lunar surface, in a hollow, cooled lava tube.
Specimens deposited in the ark would be kept refrigerated at cryogenic temperatures, with the facility powered by solar panels on the lunar surface.
The ark would preserve Earth's genetic diversity in the event of a global catastrophe, such as might be caused by climate change, a supervolcano or an asteroid impact.
Sperm (left) and egg samples from 6.7 million of Earth's species should be sent to an ark built on the moon (right) as a 'modern global insurance policy', scientists have proposed
The lunar gene bank — which could also house seed and spore samples — is envisaged as being built under the lunar surface, in a hollow, cooled lava tube. Pictured: a cross-section of how the lunar ark might look buried beneath the surface of the moon in a hollow lava tube
HOW WOULD YOU GET 6.7MILLION SPECIES TO THE MOON?
Building a genetic storage facility on the moon would be a significant undertaking — but one that Professor Thanga says would be possible.
According to his 'back-of-an-envelope' calculations, transporting some 50 samples for each of the 6.7 million target species would require 250 rocket launches.
For comparison, it took a total of 40 rocket launches to assemble the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
'It's not crazy big. We were a little bit surprised about that,' Professor Thanga said.
'Earth is naturally a volatile environment,' said study author and mechanical engineer Jekan Thanga of the University of Arizona.
'As humans, we had a close call about 75,000 years ago with the Toba supervolcano eruption, which caused a 1,000-year cooling period and, according to some, aligns with an estimated drop in human diversity,' he added.
'Because human civilization has such a large footprint, if it were to collapse, that could have a negative cascading effect on the rest of the planet.'
The idea of creating gene banks to restore lost biodiversity in the future is not new — more than a million seed samples are currently stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the island of Spitsbergen in the Artic Sea, for example.
However, Professor Thanga and colleagues explained that locating such facilities on Earth leaves them also vulnerable to accidental loss.
Climate change, for example, has the potential to push many species into terminal decline in the future — and, at the same time, the rising sea levels which will accompany global warming will see the Svalbard vault lost beneath the waves.
Removed but still accessible, the moon may present a safer location.
Building a genetic storage facility on the moon would be a significant undertaking — but one that Professor Thanga says would be possible.
The idea of creating gene banks to restore lost biodiversity in the future is not new — more than a million seed samples are currently stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (the entrance to which is pictured) on the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Sea, for example
According to his 'back-of-an-envelope' calculations, transporting some 50 samples for each of the 6.7 million target species would require 250 rocket launches.
For comparison, it took a total of 40 rocket launches to assemble the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
'It's not crazy big. We were a little bit surprised about that,' Professor Thanga said.
The team propose to establish the lunar ark within a lava tube (pictured, bottom left) — a hollow tunnel formed billions of years ago when molten rock flowed underground, ultimately leaving behind a network of hundreds of tubes each some 100 metres in diameter
The team propose to establish the lunar ark within a lava tube — a hollow tunnel formed billions of years ago when molten rock flowed underground, ultimately leaving behind a network of hundreds of tubes each some 100 metres in diameter.
Despite the sci-fi image of glass habitation domes adorning the lunar surface, it is much more likely that future lunar residents would want to settle underground, where they would be shielded from solar radiation, meteorites and temperature flux.
In the researchers' proposal, the ark facility would be accessible via two or more elevator shafts to the surface — one of which would be dedicated for the moving of construction materials into the base, so it can be extended along the lava tube.
The initial setting up of the base could be aided by another project from Professor Thanga's team, specifically tiny flying and hopping robots dubbed 'SphereX'.
These machines could be used to enter lava tubes in teams to collect samples of lunar dust and rock and collect data on the layout, temperature and makeup of the caverns which could be used to determine suitability for construction.
The initial setting up of the base could be aided by another project from Professor Thanga's team, specifically tiny flying and hopping robots dubbed 'SphereX' (left). These machines could be used to enter lava tubes in teams (right) to collect samples of lunar rock and collect data on the layout, temperature and makeup of the caverns before construction commenced
The main backbone of the base would be a series of cylindrical 'cryo-preservation' modules, in which stacked rows of petri dishes containing the sample material would be neatly archived.
The seeds, the team said, would need to be cooled to a chilly -292°F (-180°C), while stem cells would need to be kept colder at -320°F (-196°C).
(For comparison, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is stored at just -94°F [-70°C].)
Operating a facility at such temperatures comes with its own problems — risking metal base components freezing up, jamming or even cold-welding together.
On the other hand, such conditions could let us to take advantage of a special phenomenon called quantum levitation— allowing shelves of samples to float above metal surfaces, tended to by robots similarly flying above magnetic tracks.
The main backbone of the base would be a series of cylindrical 'cryo-preservation' modules, in which stacked rows of petri dishes containing the sample material would be neatly archived. The seeds, the team said, would need to be cooled to a chilly -292°F (-180°C), while stem cells would need to be kept colder at -320°F (-196°C)
The ultracold conditions needed to store the samples could let us to take advantage of a special phenomenon called quantum levitation — allowing shelves of samples to float above metal surfaces, tended to by robots similarly flying above magnetic tracks (left). Quantum levitation is achieved by placing a cryo-cooled superconductor above a powerful magnet, at which point the former will to float a fixed distance above the latter (as pictured right)
Quantum levitation is achieved by placing a cryo-cooled superconductor material above a powerful magnet, at which point the former will float a fixed distance above the latter, as if they were connected.
'It's like they're locked in place by strings, but invisible strings. When you get to cryogenic temperatures, strange things happen,' said Professor Thanga.
'Some of it just looks like magic but is based on tried and laboratory-tested physics principles at the edge of our understanding.'
Realising such a lunar ark, however, is still a long way off — with researchers first needing to determine, for example, how the facility would communicate with the Earth and what impact the low-gravity environment would have on the samples.
'Projects like this […] make me feel like we are getting closer to becoming a space civilization and to a not-very-distant future where humankind will have bases on the moon and Mars,' added Álvaro Díaz-Flores, also of the University of Arizona.
'Multidisciplinary projects are hard due to their complexity, but I think the same complexity is what makes them beautiful.'
Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person to set foot on the moon.
Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin followed Neil Armstrong on to the surface of the moon. His popular nickname gave itself to the animated characte Buzz Lightyear.
3 + 4. Apollo 12 - November 19 and 20, 1969
Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the moon walkers on the Apollo 12 mission.
The Apollo 12 crew experienced two lightning strikes just after their Saturn V rocket launched.
5 + 6. Apollo 14 - February 5, 1971
Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell who were part of the Apollo 14 mission. They launched on January 31, 1971, and landed in the Fra Mauro region of the moon, the original destination for Apollo 13.
7 + 8. Apollo 15 - July 31, 1971
David Scott and James Irwin landed on the moon and stayed for three days, until August 2nd.
9 + 10. Apollo 16 - April 21 1972
John Young and Charles Duke were the next men to walk on the moon. When the crew reached lunar orbit, the mission almost had to be aborted because of a problem with Command/Service Module’s main engine.
11 + 12. Apollo 17 - December 11, 1972
The final people to walk on the moon were Eugene (Gene) Cernan and Harrison (Jack) Schmitt.
Before he left the moon, Cernan scratched the initials of his daughter Tracy into the lunar regolith. Since the moon does not experience weather conditions like wind or rain to erode anything away, her initials should stay there for a very long time.
Cave entrances like this one in Mare Tranquilitatis may open into lava tubes. Credit: NASA.
Researchers at the University of Arizona have proposed an audacious plan to backup Earth’s biodiversity in the event of a planetary obliteration, i.e. nuclear war. The idea is to store the genetic material from millions of species below the moon’s surface in lava tubes, which could act as a ‘lunar ark’ that preserves Earth’s most cherished resource: the evolution of billions of years of life.
This project is similar to Norway’s “Doomsday” Seed Vault, which hosts more than 850,000 different seed samples in the frigid Arctic. Seeds are kept at -18 °C (-3 °F) and should be protected against a number of potential disasters, ranging from global warming to nuclear war.
Likewise, the lunar ark would deposit cryogenically frozen seeds, spores, sperm, and egg samples from millions of species of animals. In order to protect these precious samples, the ark would be stored inside one of the more than 200 lava tubes identified so far beneath the moon’s surface.
A lava tube, or pyroduct, is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava from a volcanic vent that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.
These yawning, subterranean caverns can have heights that dwarf Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. Untouched for the last billions of years, these lava tubes provide the perfect shelter from punishing solar radiation, which is why they’ve been identified as sites for future human bases.
But if we ever colonize the moon in a lava tube, why not take the extra step and build a genetic ark. Besides the ample space and radiation shielding, the temperature inside the lava tubes hovers around a constant -25° Celsius (-15° F), which is ideal for storing sensitive biological samples.
This lava tube is in Hawaii, but the features could be even bigger on the Moon.
Earth also has lava tubes formed during its early years, but these are much smaller, about the size of subway tunnels, and have been eroded over time by earthquakes, plate tectonics, and other natural processes. The lunar caverns are much better suited to acting as a genetic vault.
“Earth is naturally a volatile environment,” said Jekan Thanga, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona College of Engineering. “As humans, we had a close call about 75,000 years ago with the Toba supervolcanic eruption, which caused a 1,000-year cooling period and, according to some, aligns with an estimated drop in human diversity. Because human civilization has such a large footprint, if it were to collapse, that could have a negative cascading effect on the rest of the planet.”
Of course, building an ark on the moon is a huge undertaking. By Thanga’s calculations, it would take at least 250 rocket launches to carry about 50 samples from each of the 6.7 million species on Earth. For comparison, it took about 40 rocket launches to build the International Space Station.
These samples would be housed in an underground facility powered by solar panels positioned on the moon’s surface. Two or more elevator shafts would lead down to the facility where biological samples would be housed in various cryogenic preservation modules.
Artist impression of the proposed underground lunar ark. Credit: University of Arizona.
Inside the modules, the samples would float above metal surfaces thanks to a phenomenon known as quantum levitation. Maintenance would be ensured by robots navigating above magnetic tracks.
All of this may sound wack, but it definitely is in the realm of possibility — we already have the technology at our disposal after all. It’s just a matter of directing resources and gaining public support.
Just the other day, China and Russia announced that they have plans to build a lunar outpost together. Elsewhere, the US has plans for its own lunar base called Artemis after it lands astronauts back on the moon in 2024.
“What amazes me about projects like this is that they make me feel like we are getting closer to becoming a space civilization, and to a not-very-distant future where humankind will have bases on the moon and Mars,” said Álvaro Díaz-Flores Caminero, a University of Arizona doctoral student leading the thermal analysis for the project. “Multidisciplinary projects are hard due to their complexity, but I think the same complexity is what them beautiful.”
An ancient, meteorite, or achondrite, was discovered in the Sahara desert last year that has now been identified as chunk from a protoplanet that formed before Earth came into existence.
The space rock, named EC 002, dates back 4.6 billion years and consists mostly of volcanic rock, leading experts to believe it came from the crust of a very early planet.
The team of French and Japanese scientists determined that the rock was once liquid lava, but cooled and solidified over 100,000 years to form the 70-pound piece that eventually made its way to our planet.
Researchers also note that no asteroids have been found with similar properties, which suggests the protoplanet it came from has since disappeared by either becoming parts of larger bodies or 'were simply destroyed.'
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An ancient achondrite was discovered in the Sahara desert last year that has now been identified as chunk from a protoplanet that formed before Earth came into existence. The stony meteorite, named EC 002, dates back 4.6 billion years
Anchondrites originate from early planetary bodies that have reformed from molten fragments and were flung into space as a result of another collision.
These rocks also resemble those on Earth at first glance, deeming them a rare discovery in the scientific community.
The latest anchondrite has been named after its landing site in Algeria's Erg Chech dune sea, which consist of several meteorites that collectively weight some 70 pounds, Motherboard reports.
Only a few thousands of these have been analyzed, most of which are basaltic, but EC 002 is made mostly of volcanic rock - making it rich in sodium, iron and magnesium.
The rock consists mostly of volcanic rock, leading experts to believe it came from the crust of a very early planet. The team describes EC 002 as 'relatively coarse grained, tan and beige,' noting that it was also spotted with yellow and green bits
The latest anchondrite has been named after its landing site in Algeria's Erg Chech dune sea, which consist of several meteorites that collectively weight some 70 pounds
With this in mind, the team says EC 002 'is also the oldest magnetic rock ever observed.'
Researchers determined its age by studying the rock's magnesium and aluminum isotopes, which showed it formed about 4.566 billion years ago – while Earth is said to be 4.543 billion years old.
The team describes EC 002 as 'relatively coarse grained, tan and beige,' noting that it was also spotted with yellow and green bits.
They also note that when they looked at other celestial bodies, focusing on their wavelengths, they found nothing that matched the wavelength reflected by EC 002.
The meteorite is also 58 percent silicon dioxide, making it even rarer than others previously found on Earth, as this mineral is commonly found in volcanic regions on our planet.
'However, no asteroid shares the spectral features of EC 002, indicating that almost all of these bodies have disappeared, either because they went on to form the building blocks of larger bodies or planets or were simply destroyed.'
Explained: The difference between an asteroid, meteorite and other space rocks
An asteroid is a large chunk of rock left over from collisions or the early solar system. Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt.
A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the solar system.
A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up.
This debris itself is known as a meteoroid. Most are so small they are vapourised in the atmosphere.
If any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it is called a meteorite.
Meteors, meteoroids and meteorites normally originate from asteroids and comets.
For example, if Earth passes through the tail of a comet, much of the debris burns up in the atmosphere, forming a meteor shower.
The meteorite, which was discovered in the Algerian part of the Sahara Desert, dates from 4.6 billion year ago — before the Earth was truly formed. It’s one of the first building blocks of our solar system. It’s not just any old meteorite: analysis shows it formed volcanically so it was once part of a proto-planet, maybe even one that never really made it.
A piece of the meteorite.Image in public domain. Credits: A. Irving.
“Numerous stones containing distinctive large greenish crystals were found in May 2020 near Bir Ben Takoul, southern Algeria, within the Erg Chech sand sea,” reads a rather dull entry regarding the meteorite. But right from the get-go, researchers knew something was unusual.
No known asteroid looks like EC 002 (the official name of the meteorite) — because almost none of these ancient relics still exist. Since they were formed so long ago, they’ve been either reintegrated into planets or smashed to bits. Meteorites like EC 002 are also very rare, due to its composition.
Most meteorites we’ve found so far are chondritic: stony (non-metallic) meteorites that haven’t been melted. Meanwhile, EC 002 is essentially anigneous rock— an andesite, to be more precise, which is also unusual. Out of theover 50,000 meteoritesdiscovered so far, just3,179are not chondrites. Out of these, most are basalts, which makes EC 002 very rare.
Basalt is a common igneous rock not just on Earth but also elsewhere in the solar system. It’s formed by the rapid cooling of basaltic lava, often at the surface (or very close to the surface).
Andesite shares some similarities to basalt, but it has a different chemical make-up and is characteristic of areas where tectonic plates are either sliding by each other or being destroyed one under another. This makes it even rarer because it takes a very special set of circumstances for andesite to reach meteorites. But the surprises kept coming in.
The rock was once molten, and it solidified some 4.565 billion years ago, in a parent body that accreted 4.566 billion years ago. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, so it’s already older than the Earth. We’re not sure where it formed, but whatever celestial body it formed on, it must have been in its very early days, a part of its primordial crust.
“This meteorite is the oldest magmatic rock analysed to date and sheds light on the formation of the primordial crusts that covered the oldest protoplanets,” the researchers wrote in their paper.
Further analysis also showed that it took the lava over 100,000 years to solidify, indicating that the lava must have been unusually viscous. A lava’s viscosity is given by its temperature, chemical composition, and volatile gas content, so already, geologists can infer certain properties.
It’s always difficult when studying something so old, but finds like this can help shed new light on how our corner of the universe formed and evolved.
Gareth Dorrian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan blasted off from the Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon in their lunar module Challenger on December 14 1972. Five days later, they splashed down safely in the Pacific, closing the Apollo 17 mission and becoming the last humans to visit the lunar surface or venture anywhere beyond low-Earth orbit.
Now the international Artemis programme, lead by Nasa, is aiming to put humans back on the Moon by 2024. But it is looking increasingly likely that this goal could be missed.
President Nixon welcomes astronauts aboard the USS Hornet. (Image credit: NASA)
History shows just how vulnerable space programmes, which require years of planning and development spanning several administrations, are. After Apollo 17, Nasa had plans for several further lunar Apollo missions, even including a possible flyby of Venus. But budget cuts in the early 1970s and a reprioritising of human spaceflight to focus on the Skylab project precluded any further lunar missions at that time.
It was not until July 20 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, that President HW Bush inaugurated the Space Exploration Initiative. This involved the construction of a space station called Freedom, which would later become the International Space Station, aimed at returning humans to the Moon, and eventually undertaking crewed missions to Mars.
The project was to take place over an approximately 30-year time frame. The first human return flights to the Moon would take place in the late 1990s, followed by the establishment of a lunar base in the early 2010s. The estimated cost for the full programme, including the Mars missions, was US$500 billion (£350 billion) spread over 20-30 years. This was a fraction of what would be spent on the Iraq War in 2003 but, the project nevertheless ran into opposition in the Senate, and was later cancelled by the Clinton administration in 1996.
Orion, optimised for extended trips beyond low-Earth orbit, was to be developed by 2008, with the first crewed mission no later than 2014, and the first astronauts on the Moon by 2020. To lift the Orion and Altair spacecraft a new series of launchers would be developed under the name Ares, with Ares V having lift capability more akin to the massive Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.
President Obama took office in 2009 and in 2010 instituted a review of US human spaceflight - the Augustine Commission. It found that the Constellation programme was unsustainable with current Nasa funding levels, was behind schedule, and that a human Mars mission was not possible with current technology. The prototype of the Ares I rocket was nonetheless launched on a successful test flight from the Kennedy Space Centre on October 28 2009.
The Constellation program was cancelled by President Obama in 2010. This was the same year in which private company SpaceX made their first flight with the Falcon 9 rocket. Obama’s space plans were praised by some, including SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk, but criticised by others, including several Apollo astronauts.
The only significant survivor of Constellation was the Orion spacecraft which was repurposed and renamed the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV. The Augustine Commission recommended a series of more modest space exploration goals for the US, which included Orion flights to near-Earth asteroids or to the moons of Mars, rather than the planet’s surface. Orion’s first, and so far, only test flight in space (without astronauts) took place on December 5 2014.
The future of Artemis
In December 2017, President Donald Trump signed “Space Policy Directive 1”, which reoriented Nasa to a lunar landing by 2024. Nasa implemented the Artemis programme in the same year and it has been endorsed by the new Biden administration. This is the first time in decades that a new US administration has continued with the deep space human spaceflight policies of the previous one.
Artemis is also an international programme, with the Lunar Gateway - an international orbital outpost at the Moon - being an essential part of the project. The international nature of Artemis might make the programme more robust against policy changes, although the Lunar Gateway has already been delayed.
Officially, the first uncrewed test flight of Orion to lunar orbit, Artemis 1, is scheduled for later this year, with the 2024 return to the lunar surface still on the books. The effects of the pandemic and recent engineering concerns with the new and still unflown Space Launch System, may push this back. Furthermore, in 2020 Nasa requested US$3.2 billion (£2.3 billion) in development costs for the Human Lander System, a critical component of the first lunar landing mission, Artemis 3. Congress approved only a fraction of what was requested, putting the 2024 landing date in further jeopardy.
A delay of any more than a year would move Artemis 3 beyond the end of President Biden’s first term in office. This would make it vulnerable to the many vagaries of US deep space human spaceflight policy that we have seen for most of the spaceflight era.
By contrast, Nasa’s Mars Exploration Program, which began in 1993 and whose goals are driven primarily by scientists rather than politicians, has resulted in a series of highly successful robotic orbiters and landers, most recently the spectacular landing of the Perseverance Rover at Jezero Crater. Undoubtedly, the robotic exploration of Mars carries less political weight than human missions and is considerably cheaper – with no inherent risks to astronauts.
If the current Artemis 3 schedule holds, then 52 years will have passed between Cernan and Schmitt departing the lunar surface in Challenger and the next human visitors to the Moon, in 2024.
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Severed Head of Stone Age Woman Found Lodged in Rocks of Italian Cave
Severed Head of Stone Age Woman Found Lodged in Rocks of Italian Cave
Archaeologists arrived at Marcel Loubans cave near Bologna, Italy, in 2017 to embark on a unique rescue mission . Their goal was to extract a solitary human skull that had somehow become marooned on a rocky ledge deep inside the cave, at the top of a 40-foot (12 m) vertical shaft that could only be reached with specialized climbing equipment. Fortunately, the archaeologists were able to successfully retrieve the severed head, which consisted of a cranium with no jawbone attached. It was found encrusted within multiple layers of sediment and covered with a thin layer of calcite cave rock, suggesting that water had been flowing over the top of it for centuries.
After retrieval, the cranium was shipped to the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology at the University of Bologna. Over the past three years a team of researchers from the Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Bologna have been playing the role of historical detectives, applying the very latest in advanced exploratory technology to unlock the secrets of the detached skull, and reveal more about the life and experiences of its former owner. In a study just published online in the open access, peer reviewed journal PLOS ONE , the scientists have revealed their full findings to the public for the first time—and they have quite the tale to tell.
Archaeologist Lucia Castagna recovered the ancient severed head within the Marcel Loubans cave in Italy.
Severed Head Provides Clues to a Stone Age Life and Death
Through radiocarbon dating, the researchers were able to establish that the person it belonged to died sometime between the 3630 and 3380 BC. This meant she lived during a period of the Neolithic Age known as the Eneolithic Age (or alternatively as the Copper Age , in recognition of the metalworking practices most common to that time).
By performing a CT (computed tomography) scan, they were able to determine that the skull had belonged to a young female, who was between the ages of 24 and 35 when she met with her demise. There was no way to tell exactly how her head had become disconnected from her body. But a set of lesions on the cranium revealed that the tissue on her face had been cut and scraped off sometime shortly after she had died.
These scrape marks, plus the separation of the head from the body, allowed the researchers to make a definitive conclusion about the cranium’s origin and the young woman’s fate. They knew that her head had been severed from her body, and the skin and underlying tissue removed from her face, in preparation for an elaborate Neolithic era funeral ritual . Her head would have been buried separately from the rest of her skeletal remains, which also may have been split up and buried in multiple locations.
The scientists have done an in-depth analysis of the severed head discovered in a cave in Italy to understand more about its unique history.
Similar Funerary Practices Discovered in Northern Italy
Other Neolithic finds in the same region of Northern Italy had already provided evidence of this type of funeral practice. In Re Tiberio cave, in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, the arm and leg bones of 17 deceased Neolithic Age individuals were found neatly arranged, in a manner that suggested ritual significance. But their heads were nowhere in sight.
In other caves in the region, Neolithic Age skulls with post-mortem cutting and scraping marks had been found, in contexts that indicated they had been prepared for interment. Combining geological knowledge with anthropological insight, the Italian scientists developed a plausible story to explain how the young woman’s skull had ended up in its final precarious resting place.
The shaft with the ledge where her skull had been resting had once been located near the entrance to a sinkhole, where water and mud had rushed in continuously until it had carved out a larger cave beneath the initial opening. If the woman’s head had been buried nearby, the regular runoff and flooding that created and gradually deepened the sinkhole could have washed the skull loose from its original resting place. From there, the skull would have ridden on a wave of flowing water and mud on down into the earth, where its descent was halted when it became lodged on a rocky ledge.
Based on a careful analysis of the sediment layers deposited on top of the cranium, and on the thickness of the calcite rock that covered the sediment, the scientists concluded that the skull must have plunged over the edge of the sinkhole approximately 1,370 years earlier. And there it had remained stuck in the accumulating muck for centuries, waiting to be discovered.
A Perilous Journey through the Neolithic Age
According to Live Science , study of the severed head has revealed additional details about the life of its owner. The Marcel Loubens skull belonged to a young woman. Overall, it seems her health had not been good. The woman had miniscule holes on the top of her skull, which may have been a side effect of inflammation caused by chronic anemia.
She also had two thick, ivory spots on her skull, an effect consistent with the presence of benign tumors. In her mouth she had multiple cavities and poorly developed tooth enamel, indicating that she suffered from malnutrition during childhood and had continued to consume a less-than-optimal diet in adulthood.
An additional indentation was found on the skull, surrounded by parallel grooves that indicated possible cranial surgery . She may have undergone an ancient medical procedure known as trepanation, which involves the intentional drilling or scraping of holes in the head to relieve pressure caused by head injuries or painful inflammation.
Somewhere between five and 10 percent of all Neolithic skulls recovered from across the world exhibit damage consistent with trepanation, which highlights just how common this practice was at that time. It is impossible to tell for sure how the woman died. But this cave discovery has uncovered a life was filled with peril—as was the journey of her disembodied skull after she had passed away.
Top image: The new study explores how the severed head ended up within the Marcel Loubens save in Italy.
Major Megalithic Cemetery Discovered with Dozens of Tombs
Major Megalithic Cemetery Discovered with Dozens of Tombs
Archaeologists have discovered a large and unique megalithic cemetery in south-central Poland. It has been dated to 5,500 years old, contains dozens of tombs, and researchers say, “a similar establishment is unknown in Poland.”
How Did Archaeologists Find the Megalithic Cemetery?
Researchers first noticed the site by studying satellite imagery of a field. A geophysical survey of the area and excavations carried out in the summer of 2019 and 2020 revealed a megalithic tomb and dozens of burials surrounding it.
Researchers first noticed the megalithic cemetery by studying satellite imagery.
Archaeologist Marcin M. Przybyła, part of the megalithic cemetery discovery team, says that this may be “one of the largest megalithic cemeteries in Poland.” He describes the site as having “longer walls reinforced with wooden palisades , while the short eastern walls contained the entrance to a kind of tomb chapel - a vestibule.”
Discovery Highlights
The megalithic cemetery is near a village called Dębiany in Świętokrzyskie Province.
It is 5,500 years old and one of the largest megalithic cemeteries in the country.
Unlike other Polish megalithic cemeteries, this one was lined with wooden poles, not stone.
The raised burial mound has an elongated trapezoid shape and a wooden palisade with outer ditches that are 40-50 meters long (131.23-164.04 ft.)
Most of the remains and grave goods are gone.
A square defensive feature found around some of the tombs suggests the site may have served as a temporary military camp in 9th-10th century BC.
The site is believed to be 5,500 years old and one of the largest megalithic cemeteries in Poland.
Speaking on the lack of artifacts at the site, Przybyła said, “Unfortunately, most of the remains of the deceased and grave goods were removed from these burials while the cemetery was still in use. It was a ritual behavior that we often encounter in cemeteries from that period.”
Most of the human remains and grave goods are gone, but this was a common ritual behavior at the time.
Another Polish megalithic complex is currently making archaeological news – the so- called “Polish pyramids” in Kujawy. This site has been studied for over 100 years, but it is only now that archaeologists have discovered the builders’ settlements. Polish News reports that archaeologists have identified 150 small settlements which probably housed no more than 10 families each. Archaeologists say that the inhabitants of several villages likely banded together to build the large tombs.
Megalithic Polish burial mounds discovered in the forest area of Góry in Wielkopolska have also made the headlines over the years. But unfortunately, that set of 5,500-year-old megalithic tombs was built on top of a coal deposit . This has sparked debate between people who want to save the structures built by the Funnel Beaker culture and those who back the coal mining company.
The so-called “Polish pyramids” are an important part of the country’s history and researchers plan to continue studying the megalithic cemetery near Dębiany, where they expect more tombs will be discovered.
Top Image: Excavations at the megalithic cemetery found in south-central Poland.
Pavlopetri: 5,000-Year-Old Town Discovered Underwater in Greece
Pavlopetri: 5,000-Year-Old Town Discovered Underwater in Greece
Nothing sparks the imagination of history enthusiasts quite like underwater discoveries, ranging from sunken cities to the millions of shipwrecks still unexplored on the seabed. The bottom of the seas and oceans of the world have been described as the biggest museum of the world, with less than 1% of the ocean floor having been surveyed to date. The remains of the Bronze Age port of Pavlopetri were discovered as recently as the 1960s and some argue that they may have been the basis for the legendary story of Atlantis.
The ruins of Pavlopetri are located a short distance from the coastline, just a few meters underwater in Vatika Bay in southern Greece.
Discovery of Pavlopetri: The Oldest Underwater Town in the World
In the 1960s, Nic Flemming from the Institute of Oceanography at the University of Southampton, rediscovered the remains of a submerged settlement believed to date back as far as 5,000 years ago. Located in the Peloponnesus region of southern Greece, near a small village called Pavlopetri, the archaeological site lies 4 meters (13.12 ft) underwater and is now believed to be the oldest known planned underwater town in the world. It therefore joined the ranks of other mysterious underwater settlements, towns, and cities which have captured the imagination of history enthusiasts including:
The perfectly preserved ancient Chinese city of Shi Cheng (the Lion City)
The mythical submerged temples of Mahabalipuram in India
The site had been originally identified by the geologist Folkion Negris in 1904, but after Flemming rediscovered the site, it was surveyed in 1968 by a team of archaeologists from the University of Cambridge. Then in 2009, under the direction of John C. Henderson, the University of Nottingham began a five-year project with the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research to study the town at Pavlopetri.
The resulting Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project used a novel combination of archaeology, underwater robotics and state-of-the-art graphics to survey the seabed and bring the ancient town back to life before the fragile remains are lost forever due to lack of protection, pollution, waves, currents, and tourism. Thanks to the project, Pavlopetri became the first underwater town to be digitally surveyed in 3D using sonar mapping technology . This fusion of cutting edge marine technology and movie industry computer graphics allowed them to generate stunning photorealistic 3D digital reconstruction images which revolutionized underwater archaeology.
The resulting research project used a novel combination of archaeology, underwater robotics, and state-of-the-art graphics to survey the seabed and bring the ancient town back to life.
The research project identified thousands of artifacts at the site which help create a deeper understanding of everyday life at Pavlopetri from about 3000 BC until it “sank” around 1100 BC, probably due to earthquakes that are common in the region, erosion, rising sea levels, or even a tsunami. The remains are the first of a sunken city in Greece that predates Plato’s story of Atlantis.
As a snapshot of life 5,000 years ago, Pavlopetri was incredibly well designed with roads, two storey houses with gardens, temples, a cemetery, and a complex water management system including channels and water pipes. In the center of the city, there was even a square or plaza measuring about 40 by 20 meters (131 x 65 ft) and most of the buildings had up to 12 rooms inside. “There are older sunken sites in the world but none can be considered to be planned towns such as this, which is why it is unique,” explained Dr. Jon Henderson, from the University of Nottingham team who managed the Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project, in The Guardian .
The city is so old that it existed in the period that the famed ancient Greek epic poem Iliad was set in. Research in 2009 revealed that the site extends for about 9 acres (36,421 m2) and evidence shows that it had been inhabited prior to 2800 BC. Despite sinking so long ago, the arrangement of the city is still clearly visible and at least 15 buildings have been found. The city’s arrangement is so clear that the head of the archaeological team from Nottingham were able to create what they believe is an extremely accurate 3D reconstruction of the city.
Historians believe that the ancient city was a center for commerce for the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. Scattered all over the site there are large storage containers made from clay, statues, everyday tools, and other artifacts.
The original name of the city is unknown, as well as its exact role in the ancient world. “It’s a rare find, and it is significant because, as a submerged site, it was never reoccupied and therefore represents a frozen moment of the past,” explained Elias Spondylis of the Greek Ministry of Culture in the New Scientist .
A digital reconstruction of the buildings at Pavlopetri being submerged by the sea about 1100 BC.
Probably the most surveyed seabed in the world, the coverage the Pavlopetri site has been channeled into protecting the archaeological remains. In 2011, the BBC produced a stunning documentary entitled Pavlopetri – The City Beneath the Waves , which focused on the way technology was used by the University of Nottingham team to create a photorealistic impression of the seabed. In 2016 Pavlopetri was included on the World Monuments Watch , a global program which works to protect heritage locations under threat, to support local conservation and protection efforts - which included a Watch Day organized by the Greek Chapter of ARCH International to raise awareness about the site.
Since then the Watch Day has incorporated the Pavlopetri Eco-Marine Film Festival , which showcases films and documentaries about the marine environment, as well as underwater snorkel tours over the ancient city. Thanks to these actions, in August 2016 the area was demarcated by buoys to protect it from small vessels and in 2018 the site became the first in Greek waters to be included in marine charts provided to mariners by the Hydrographic Service of the Greek Navy.
Top Image: The University of Nottingham conducted a research project at Pavlopetri which combined archaeology, underwater robotics and state-of-the-art graphics. This allowed them to generate stunning images to rebuild the ruined town. Here you can see the underwater remains and the digitally reconstructed pillars and walls of one of the buildings. Source: Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project
I’m endlessly fascinated by stories of the quirks that were built into the TV system where the well-laid plans of the system simply fell apart because it was asked to do too many things.
Nearly five years ago, I wrote about one of them, the tale of how radio broadcasters were able to shoehorn an additional FM station into the radio because of the proximity of TV’s channel 6 to the rest of the radio feed.
So when I was informed that there was another oddity kinda like this involving the TV lineups, I decided I had to take a dive in.
It’s a tale that centers around channel 37, which was a giant block of static in most parts of the world during the 20th century.
The reason for that was simple: it couldn’t fend off its scientific competition.
1952
The year that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission opened up the television system to use UHF, or ultra high frequency signals. The practical effect of this addition of bandwidth was that the total number of potential TV stations increased dramatically, from 108 to 2,051, overnight. The first UHF applications were granted on July 11, 1952, according to The History of UHF Television, a site dedicated to the higher-frequency television offerings.
THE RADIO TELESCOPE AT THE VERMILLION RIVER OBSERVATORY, NEAR DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.
IMAGE: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
The radio telescope that became a headache for the television industry
Within a 600-mile radius of the city of Danville, Illinois, population 31,246, are numerous major cities — among them Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Toronto, and Washington, DC.
Nearly the entire length of the Mississippi River fits into that radius. If Danville was located just a little farther to the east, the radius would also include Philadelphia and New York City. For all intents and purposes, a 600-mile radius from Eastern Illinois covers basically the entire East Coast except the state of Florida and the Northeast.
(Importantly to this story, New Jersey generally does not fall into this 600-mile radius.)
But there was something located in Danville that was important enough to scientists that they didn’t want to share it with anyone else.
And that thing was a 400-foot-wide radio telescope, operating along the 610 MHz frequency. It was something of a monster of astronomy at the time, operating 12 to 16 hours per day, and researchers at the University of Illinois aimed to keep it that way.
The research that led to the creation of the radio telescope was, basically, an accident — but a fundamental one that taught us more about the universe than we might have learned with a mere optical telescope.
In 1931, a radio engineer and Bell Laboratories employee named Karl Jansky was trying to uncover the source of static that was interfering with radio waves … and found it had an extraterrestrial source, particularly at the center in the Milky Way galaxy.
Jansky wasn’t an astronomer, but an engineer, and despite discovering a new field of astronomy, his position at Bell Labs did not allow him to pursue it further.
But after World War II ended, others eventually did pursue radio astronomy, including George C. McVittie, a British cosmologist who built the astronomy department at the University of Illinois in the 1950s, and George Swenson, who helped to build the university’s radio telescope.
Speaking to the Royal Astronomical Society as part of an oral history in 1978, McVittie, who played a central role in the creation of the telescope, stated that the device was developed in the late 1950s with a goal of being cost effective:
Well, we wanted to build this parabolic cylinder. I sent George Swenson on a tour of radio astronomy outfits in the world, Australia, England and so on, and he came back with the idea of the parabolic cylinder, a fixed transit instrument that sweeps out the sky simply by the earth rotating. And we decided for engineering reasons that we could only build a really big one if we had a frequency round about 600 megahertz. Otherwise, the perfection of the reflector, if we went to a shorter wavelength, was not something that you could [do] by the acre, at least not at that time, which was the late 1950s. And so we picked upon this 610 megahertz band as the observing frequency.
(The telescope was more expensive to maintain than to build, McVittie added.)
The area around the 610 MHz band has, over the years, gained a reputation as being important to scientific research because of its placement in the context of two other frequencies important to radio astronomy, 410 MHz and 1.4 GHz.
As space and astronomy writer Bob King of Universe Todayput it in 2013: “Without it, radio astronomers would lose a key window in an otherwise continuous radio view of the sky. Imagine a 3-panel bay window with the middle pane painted black. Who wants THAT?”
There was just one problem — the sudden, high popularity of television made the general bandwidth area where the telescope operated, 608–614 MHz, a bit of a hot commodity. It was literally the spot where channel 37 was supposed to go — and broadcasters wanted access to that channel.
It threatened to cover up a key window.
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The number of stations that had been allocated to use channel 37 in the U.S. in 1952, according to The History of UHF Television. One of those communities was Paterson, New Jersey, located within the New York City metro area — which is relevant to this story. In the end, no channel 37 actually ended up on the air in analog form in the U.S., though you may find a digital equivalent today thanks to differences in how signals are allocated.
IMAGE: PATRICK TOMASSO/UNSPLASH
Why the existence of channel 37 became such a problem for scientists
At the time the University of Illinois had built out its radio telescope, television was still in its infancy, and not every TV could actually access UHF signals. But soon, UHF went from optional upgrade to standard feature on television sets, and that meant this radio telescope was in the way.
Fortunately for the scientists that relied on this telescope, they had the support of the global community. A meeting of the International Telecommunication Union in 1959 set aside a series of frequencies that were important for different scientific and technical uses. One of those frequencies was where channel 37 sat.
The University of Illinois, wanting to protect its radio telescope investment, went to the FCC basically immediately after the ITU meeting. In 1960, it asked that channel 37 be allocated to radio telescopes exclusively.
As McVittie recalled, fellow scientists considered the push to block out an entire television channel a big ask:
Most of our radio astronomy friends said, “Look here, you two, Swenson and McVittie, you are just crazy. Do you mean to say you are asking the American public to give up one television channel for science? Who ever heard of anything so absurd?” So we said, “Well, the channel isn’t being used.” “Yes, that’s true, it’s not being used very much but it is being used in the neighborhood of New York, and places like that.” So I said, “We’re not in the neighborhood of New York.” Anyway, we got laughed at.
The FCC disagreed with the university’s assessment, feeling that it was too early to make such a call.
But just a couple of years later, stations were starting to call the FCC up for access to that specific station — particularly one directly outside of the antenna’s 600-mile radius, in New Jersey. (According to reports from the era, prospective broadcasters wanted to put a Spanish-language network in the spot.)
Because of FCC rules and limitations elsewhere, the city of Paterson had no other options to bring a TV station on air other than channel 37. But even with the channel being located hundreds of miles away and targeted at the New York City market, there was concern among scientists that even far-away interference could get in the way of scientific research.
The regulators, faced with a conflict that pitted a niche use case against a massive commercial windfall, tried to come up with a compromise. The compromise included:
No stations on channel 37 within a 600-mile radius of the antenna until at least 1968, allowing one specific scientist, McVittie, to complete a survey of radio star sources he was doing on the 610 MHz frequency.
No stations anywhere listed under channel 37 could air anything between midnight and 7 a.m. Keeping in mind time zones, this effectively would give McVittie four hours a night that were open to allowing for such research.
The FCC’s attempt to balance science and commerce was not well-accepted by said scientists, who took their story to the media.
What initially was seen as an absurd ask, even a silly one, gained momentum among fellow scientists. A letter sent to the FCC in regards to the debate puts the passion around the conflict into focus: “The FCC Docket suggests an appalling lack of comprehension within the FCC of the nature and needs of radio astronomy and yet the Commission has power to cripple and perhaps even destroy radio astronomy.”
That’s from an October 1963 document from the FCC that announced the commission’s decision to bar the use of channel 37 in the U.S. — while encouraging its neighbors in Canada and Mexico to do the same.
(The FCC did defend itself against the observer’s claim, writing: “Assertions charging the Commission with a lack of comprehension of the nature and needs of radio astronomy and implications that the Commission might cripple and even destroy radio astronomy are unjustified and can not be supported by facts.”)
The FCC agreed to a 10-year moratorium on channel 37 being used, which eventually became permanent.
The fun part about this is that McVittie, who helped to set the wheels in motion for the blanket ban of channel 37 in the U.S., never learned exactly why the FCC made the decision to flip its mindset on this issue. He speculated that media attention put the issue in front of the average person, allowing for wide-scale public support to mount up in favor of radio astronomy:
Somehow the news got around that here was this new way of listening to little green men on Mars. This is what radio astronomy seemed to the ordinary public. And the FCC was preventing it from being developed in the United States. We got rumors, George particularly from friends he knew, that gradually a huge accumulation of letters arrived at the FCC, protesting against this nonsupport of this new science, whatever it was. And that this finally persuaded the FCC that they’d better give in. Nobody knows.
Fortunately, we have the document explaining its thinking, and the thinking was essentially this:
It is probable that channel 37 operations at Paterson, New Jersey would interfere with observations at Danville to a certain extent. Also, (since interference from different sources would probably not occur simultaneously) the situation would be complicated by interference from other channel 37 stations if authorized. Moreover, any interference which would exist, even though for only a small percentage of time, might occur at critical times in the observing process. To the extent that observation programs would be interfered with, the time of completing them might well be substantially increased, so that a longer period of protection would be required to achieve the same results.
In other words, the commission didn’t necessarily know how putting channel 37 on the dial was going to impact scientific research in the long run, so best not risk it.
Ultimately, channel 37 went completely unused throughout the analog era in much of North America as well as most other countries — with a handful of exceptions, particularly in the Caribbean countries of the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago. (Today, channel 37 technically can appear as an over-the-air digital channel, but it is usually a so-called “virtual channel,” allowing a network to be positioned there no matter its position in the spectrum.)
In the end, the scientists won.
2000
The year that the FCC allowed for the use of wireless medical telemetry services (a.k.a. devices that allow for the tracking of patient vitals, like heartbeat, wirelessly) on the same band as channel 37. “Despite existing constraints in these bands, this allocation is flexible enough to allow spectrum to be available for medical telemetry services in all locations while protecting radio astronomy and government operations currently operating in the allocated spectrum,” the commission said at the time. Despite occasional rumors that the spectrum would go unlicensed eventually, it has yet to happen.
The tale of channel 37 reflects one thing: Without resistance, a commercial use case will usurp a noncommercial use case for a given resource.
A 1963 op-ed in The Harvard Crimson put it best: “Because the communication industries try to send strong signals to all parts of the globe and radio astronomy tries to receive weak extra-terrestrial signals, the growth of these two fields must inevitably lead to conflict.”
Think about this in terms of other things that have nothing to do with astronomy, like the internet. A year or two ago, there was a big conflict involving who owned the .org top-level domain, with commercial interests attempting to hone in on something intended to support nonprofits. The only reason it didn’t happen, just like the Channel 37 saga, was because people in the world of nonprofits and technology came together to lobby against it.
Ultimately, in the case of channel 37, scientists were able to save a small sliver of what was mostly going to be otherwise used commercially. Perhaps it looked like static to everyone else — but it was worth fighting for.
A version of this post originally appeared onTedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. Also published at https://www.vice.com.
Have You Seen a UFO? I Have, And Was Investigated by Project Blue Book
Have You Seen a UFO? I Have, And Was Investigated by Project Blue Book
Unidentified flying objects or UFOs are back in the news again. During the first week of February a couple of Evansville Police officers saw a string of strange lights while sitting in their patrol car. The same lights were reported in Louisville. These reports brought up memories for me of something I saw in 1967. It even made the official US Government investigation of UFOs.
In '67 I was working as the 6PM to midnight DJ on a radio station in Orlando Florida. Here I am standing in front of the studio and transmitter building of radio station WHOO on my first day at work.
The important thing to know is that the transmitter and broadcast studio that you see in the polaroid were located together on the very flat west side of Orlando with not too many lights to pollute the night sky. The station was 50,000 watts east-west directional which meant several very tall towers were located within a few hundred feet of the building.
The Milwaukee Braves baseball team had recently moved to Atlanta and on the night I spotted my UFOs we were carrying a Braves game. I had plenty of time to kill as I waited to insert local commercials into the broadcast. Suddenly the phone lit up. This was odd because not that many people could have been listening to the Braves getting clobbered again. Caller after caller asked about strange lights in the sky over the western part of the city. I knew McCoy air force base was located just a few miles away and since the Vietnam war had heated up in '67, heavy traffic in the sky wasn't uncommon. Also Cape Canaveral was sending space rockets up frequently. But the calls didn't stop. More and more people wanted to know what these strange sights in the night sky were.
When I had a break in the game I ventured outside and immediately I could see the lights. There were several travelling very fast in formation and would frequently change colors. they seemed to be able to dip and swerve faster than any plane possibly could. I watched as long as I could and headed back inside to the windowless studio where the phone was still lit up with more calls, I called McCoy air force base and they couldn't give me any information but they did take my name a the phone number at the radio station.
US archives www.archives.gov
The next day I got a call from the radio station receptionist to tell me an air force officer was waiting in the lobby to see me. Since I lived just a short drive away I got there in just a few minutes. I was greeted by a very stern US air force major. He represented the official US air force UFO investigation--Project Blue Book.
The reason the major wanted to interview me that day in '67 was that our radio towers were all logged on the air force maps of the Orlando area. The tower heights and exact locations were all plotted on those official charts. The Major had me take him to the exact location where I was standing when I saw the UFOs. He asked me where the lights were in relation to our towers. I remember his question about the size of the lights, "If you held a match at arms' length, how big was the light compared to the match head?". He had me fill out a questionnaire that was several pages long. At the end of our interview I asked him, "Did anyone at McCoy air force base see the lights"? He just looked at me with a little smile and said something that would be the modern equivalent of "Have a nice day". I never heard anything else from him.
Project Blue Book had begun in 1949 and ended in 1969, not long after I filed my sighting. The report was confidential until just recently. The main goal of the Blue Book investigation was to determine if the UFOs were any threat to US national security. It was determined that they were not. The project did collect a bunch of home movies of various sightings. Here are a couple of still shots of the better ones
photo from national archives www.archives.gov
photo from National Archives www.archives.gov
If you want to take a look at the de-classified videos you are welcome to by going to the national archives site. That will get you started and there's a lot to read.
NASA deelt nieuwe geluidsopnames van Mars (en je kan nu ook horen hoe jouw stem er zou klinken)
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft enkele nieuwe geluidsopnames gedeeld die de robotjeep Perseverance maakte op Mars. Daarop zijn de allereerste geluiden te horen die de rover opnam na zijn aankomst, maar ook de wind en een laser. Met een speciale toepassing kan je nu ook horen hoe jouw stem zou klinken op de Rode Planeet.
Koen Van De Sype
First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars: This recording was made by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 19, 2021, just about 18 hours after landing on the mission’s first sol or Martian day. The rover’s mast, holding the microphone, was still stowed on Perseverance’s deck, and so the sound is muffled, a little like the sound one hears listening to a seashell or having a hand cupped over the ear. Just a little wind can be heard.
“Een verre, eenzame wind... alleen onderbroken door het geluid van een laser”, omschrijft de NASA de meest recente opname die ze gisteren online zette. Ze werd op 2 maart gemaakt door de SuperCam op Perseverance. De laser in kwestie wordt gebruikt om informatie te verzamelen over de structuur van stenen in de Jezerokrater, het uitgedroogde meer waarin de rover op 18 februari landde. Hij schiet in dit geval stralen af op een rots die 3,1 meter ver ligt. Op de opname zijn dertig inslagen te horen, sommige luider dan andere.
Er is nog een tweede opname waarop de wind te horen is. Die dateert al van 22 februari en achtergrondgeluiden werden daarop weggefilterd.
Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam Records Wind on Mars: This recording was made on Feb. 22, 2021, on the fourth sol (Martian day) by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover after deployment of the rover’s mast. It provides a different overall sound than the SuperCam audio recording from the mission’s first sol. Some wind can be heard, especially around 20 seconds into the recording. Rover background sounds have been removed.
Het derde fragment geeft het allereerste geluid weer dat op Mars werd opgenomen. Dat dateert van een dag na de landing van de rover. Het geluid is een beetje gedempter omdat de mast met de microfoon nog niet uitgeklapt was. Ook hier is wind te horen, alleen een beetje stiller.
First Acoustic Recording of Laser Shots on Mars: This is the first acoustic recording of laser impacts on a rock target on Mars from March 2, 2021, the 12th sol (Martian day) from Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument. The sounds of 30 impacts are heard, some slightly louder than others. Variations in the intensity of the zapping sounds will provide information on the physical structure of the targets, such as its relative hardness or the presence of weathering coatings. The target, Máaz (“Mars” in Navajo), was about 10 feet (3.1 m) away.
Om je gerust te stellen: je zal je stem nog herkennen, maar het gaat om een stillere en gedemptere versie van jezelf. Dat komt doordat de atmosfeer op Mars honderd keer minder dicht is dan die op Aarde. Het zou ook iets langer duren eer je het geluid zou horen als je ter plaatse was. Ook dat komt door de atmosfeer, die maakt dat geluidsgolven zich veel trager verplaatsen.
Het grootste verschil in geluid zit overigens in de hoge tonen. Enkele geluiden zoals fluitjes of de zang van sommige vogels zijn bijna onhoorbaar op Mars.
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Perseverance Rover's SuperCam Science Instrument Delivers First Results
Perseverance Rover's SuperCam Science Instrument Delivers First Results
SuperCam Close-Up of ‘Yeehgo’ (‘Yéigo’) Target: Combining two images, this mosaic shows a close-up view of the rock target named “Yeehgo” from the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars. The component images were taken by SuperCam’s Remote Micro-Imager (RMI). To be compatible with the rover’s software, “Yeehgo” is an alternative spelling of “Yéigo,” the Navajo word for diligent.
Data from the powerful science tool includes sounds of its laser zapping a rock in order to test what it’s made of.
The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was developed jointly by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French research laboratories under the auspices of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). The instrument delivered data to the French Space Agency’s operations center in Toulouse that includes the first audio of laser zaps on another planet.
SuperCam Close-Up of ‘Máaz’: This image shows a close-up view of the rock target named “Máaz” from the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. It was taken by SuperCam’s Remote Micro-Imager (RMI). “Máaz” means Mars in the Navajo language.. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS. Full image and caption
“It is amazing to see SuperCam working so well on Mars,” said Roger Wiens, the principal investigator for Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. “When we first dreamed up this instrument eight years ago, we worried that we were being way too ambitious. Now it is up there working like a charm.”
“The sounds acquired are remarkable quality,” says Naomi Murdoch, a research scientist and lecturer at the ISAE-SUPAERO aerospace engineering school in Toulouse. “It’s incredible to think that we’re going to do science with the first sounds ever recorded on the surface of Mars!”
On March 9, the mission released three SuperCam audio files. Obtained only about 18 hours after landing, when the mast remained stowed on the rover deck, the first file captures the faint sounds of Martian wind.
First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars: This recording was made by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 19, 2021, just about 18 hours after landing on the mission’s first sol or Martian day. The rover’s mast, holding the microphone, was still stowed on Perseverance’s deck, and so the sound is muffled, a little like the sound one hears listening to a seashell or having a hand cupped over the ear. Just a little wind can be heard.
The wind is more audible, especially around the 20-second mark, in the second sound file, recorded on the rover’s fourth Martian day, or sol.
Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam Records Wind on Mars: This recording was made on Feb. 22, 2021, on the fourth sol (Martian day) by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover after deployment of the rover’s mast. It provides a different overall sound than the SuperCam audio recording from the mission’s first sol. Some wind can be heard, especially around 20 seconds into the recording. Rover background sounds have been removed.
SuperCam’s third file, from Sol 12, includes the zapping sounds of the laser impacting a rock target 30 times at a distance of about 10 feet (3.1 meters). Some zaps sound slightly louder than others, providing information on the physical structure of the targets, such as its relative hardness.
First Acoustic Recording of Laser Shots on Mars: This is the first acoustic recording of laser impacts on a rock target on Mars from March 2, 2021, the 12th sol (Martian day) from Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument. The sounds of 30 impacts are heard, some slightly louder than others. Variations in the intensity of the zapping sounds will provide information on the physical structure of the targets, such as its relative hardness or the presence of weathering coatings. The target, Máaz (“Mars” in Navajo), was about 10 feet (3.1 m) away.
“I want to extend my sincere thanks and congratulations to our international partners at CNES and the SuperCam team for being a part of this momentous journey with us,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “SuperCam truly gives our rover eyes to see promising rock samples and ears to hear what it sounds like when the lasers strike them. This information will be essential when determining which samples to cache and ultimately return to Earth through our groundbreaking Mars Sample Return Campaign, which will be one of the most ambitious feats ever undertaken by humanity.”
The SuperCam team also received excellent first datasets from the instrument’s visible and infrared (VISIR) sensor as well as its Raman spectrometer. VISIR collects light reflected from the Sun to study the mineral content of rocks and sediments. This technique complements the Raman spectrometer, which uses a green laser beam to excite the chemical bonds in a sample to produce a signal depending on what elements are bonded together, in turn providing insights into a rock’s mineral composition.
“This is the first time an instrument has used Raman spectroscopy anywhere other than on Earth!” said Olivier Beyssac, CNRS research director at the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie in Paris. “Raman spectroscopy is going to play a crucial role in characterizing minerals to gain deeper insight into the geological conditions under which they formed and to detect potential organic and mineral molecules that might have been formed by living organisms.”
SuperCam Calibration Target on Mars: Stitched together from five images, this mosaic shows the calibration target for the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars. The component images were taken by SuperCam’s remote micro-imager (RMI). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS. Full image and caption ›
More About the Mission
SuperCam is led by Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where the instrument's Body Unit was developed. That part of the instrument includes several spectrometers, control electronics and software.
The Mast Unit was developed and built by several laboratories of the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and French universities under the contracting authority of CNES. Calibration targets on the rover deck are provided by Spain’s University of Valladolid.
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
Did Supermassive Black Holes Form Directly From Dark Matter?
Did Supermassive Black Holes Form Directly From Dark Matter?
Supermassive black holes are just a little bit too supermassive – astronomers have difficulty explaining how they got so big so quickly in the early universe. So maybe it’s time for a new idea: perhaps giant black holes formed directly from dark matter.
The biggest black holes in the universe are frighteningly big, topping out at over a hundred billion times more massive than the sun. To make things even more frightening, we see these kinds of monsters very early in the history of the universe, when our cosmos was only 800 million years old.
This presents a bit of a challenge, since the only way we know how to make black holes is for giant stars to die. Then, those small black holes (usually only a few times more massive than the sun) need to grow, either by feeding on surrounding material or merging with other black holes.
That’s fine, but for the supermassive black holes to appear so early, it means that these processes have to go unnervingly fast after the formation of the first stars – perhaps too fast.
But what the early universe lacked in stars it more than made up for in dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 85% of all the mass in the universe.
According to Argüelles, “This new formation scenario may offer a natural explanation for how supermassive black holes formed in the early Universe, without requiring prior star formation or needing to invoke seed black holes with unrealistic accretion rates.”
As a further consequence of this model, the smallest galaxies wouldn’t have giant black holes. Instead, they would just have ultra-dense cores of dark matter.
“Here we’ve proven for the first time that such core–halo dark matter distributions can indeed form in a cosmological framework, and remain stable for the lifetime of the Universe,” added Argüelles.
These unknown lights in the sky were filmed over Washington a few days ago.
Witness report:
I saw Strange lights in Washington state,around Vashon Island.I recorded them for around 35 minutes going from 2 lights perfectly diagonal and then 3 suddenly.With them exchanging colors from white to orange subtly.Not moving at all, while helicopters and planes go past them without problem. Moving from close to far apart suddenly multiple times.Then eventually completely disappearing at 45 minutes of looking at it. Idk wut this is lol but i’m pretty sure stars don’t disappear and same with you and space stations after barley moving.
Astrophysicists have an idea that could help to solve two mysteries: the reason for the bizarre abundance of super-high-energy radiation shooting from the center of our galaxy and the identity of invisible stuff called dark matter that has perplexed the world since its discovery some 50 years ago.
And the idea has a super-cool name: gravity portals. The idea goes, when two dark matter particles (whatever they are) get sucked into one of these portals, they obliterate each other and spit out shockingly strong gamma rays.
This line of thinking can potentially explain why the galactic center — where dense clusters of dark matter are thought to lurk — is full of gamma rays; and it could shed light on how the dark matter behaves and might occasionally interact with the normal matter of our universe.
More than 80% of the matter in our universe is of a form unknown to the standard model of particle physics. Scientists call it "dark matter," because it does not interact with light. The first hint of dark matter's existence came in the 1970s, when astronomer Vera Rubin noticed that galaxies were rotating far too quickly — without an additional, hidden source of gravity, they should have torn themselves apart eons ago.
For decades, astronomers didn't know if they needed to change their understanding of gravity, add more regular-but-really-dim matter to the universe, or include a brand new ingredient. But year after year, observation after observation have limited the choices. No theory of modified gravity can explain all observations. And physicists have placed firm limits on the amount of normal matter (bright, dim and everything in between) in the cosmos.
That leaves dark matter to explain the speedy galaxies. This matter would be a new kind of particle, with some unknown identity (or identities). It doesn't interact with light, otherwise we would've seen it by now. It doesn't interact with the strong nuclear force — which binds together particles of matter — otherwise scientists would have detected its influence in atomic experiments. It might talk to the weak nuclear force, but that force is so feeble and short-range that observing any deviations in the expected results is challenging.
Trillions of dark matter particles may be streaming through you right now, invisible and silent.
However, dark matter betrays its presence through gravity, because every single form of mass and energy in the universe exerts some sort of gravitational influence. So the only surefire way to study dark matter is through its gravitational interactions with normal matter, such as the motions of stars inside galaxies.
But there may be another way.
The case of the excess electrons
In a study published Jan. 28 to the preprint database arXiv, physicists proposed a new theory to explain what dark matter is and how it behaves. But before diving into their idea, we have to introduce one more clue into this dark-matter hunt. The clue comes in the form of a strange abundance of gamma rays observed emanating from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of radiation possible, and they usually only come into existence from some seriously high-energy events, such as stars going supernova. But there are more gamma rays than you'd expect in the galactic center given how rare such cataclysmic events there are. So, it's possible, this theory proposed, that gamma rays may emerge as a byproduct of high-energy electrons.
These high-energy electrons, which are a kind of particle known as "leptons" and much easier to produce than gamma rays directly, emanate from some source and travel throughout the galactic center. The electrons themselves are undetectable (they are very, very tiny), but as they flood through interstellar space, they can occasionally slam into a random passing photon (a light particle).
That photon, most likely something innocuous and low-energy, collides with the aggressive electron; the collision boosts the photon's energy so much that it begins to give off gamma rays that we can see.
Those collisions potentially explain the excess gamma rays, but where do those high-energy electrons come from?
Jumping through the portal
Let's recap what we know. One, dark matter interacts only through gravity. Two, high-energy leptons floating around the galactic center could explain the extra gamma rays we see there. Three, because in our own galaxy the core has the highest density of matter, we think that there is also a large concentration of dark matter there.
Coincidence? Or conspiracy?
The link between these two observations has a suitably awesome name: leptophilic gravity portals, as detailed by Sun Xu-Dong and Dai Ben-Zhong, of the China Key Laboratory of Astroparticle Physics, in their arXiv paper. The study has yet to be peer-reviewed.
Let's start with the "gravity portals" part. As far as we understand gravity, it just pulls on stuff. Earth pulls on the moon; the sun pulls on Earth; stars in a galaxy pull on each other, and so on. And gravity does a really, really good job of pulling.
So on the face of it, the only thing gravity can do to dark matter is … pull.
But our understanding of gravity is incomplete. Physics can explain gravity operates on the large scale, but there's no so-called quantum theory of gravity, which would describe strong gravity operating at very tiny scales. And in this regime, gravity might have some surprises in store.
The other forces of nature are capable of annihilating, transforming and creating particles all the time. The weak nuclear force, for instance, can change a proton into a neutron, triggering radioactive decay. A particle and its antiparticle can connect via the electromagnetic force, annihilating each other in a burst of radiation.
So maybe gravity, in extreme cases, can bring two dark matter particles together and destroy them, turning them into … anything, really.
And according to the theoretical model outlined by the researchers, maybe those dark matter particles can transform into leptons. Hence the "leptophilic" part of the name, which means "lepton-loving."
According to the new theory, dark matter particles can occasionally annihilate each other through nothing more than chance gravitational interactions. These chance interactions are known in the physics jargon as "gravity portals," since they offer a way for particles to interact through gravity alone. The product of that collision is a high-energy electron. These interactions would be much more common in the galactic center, where the density of dark matter is likely highest. Those electrons would then travel on, eventually striking a low-energy photon and turning into a gamma ray, causing the excess that we observe.
Yes, this idea is a stretch. But given that physicists are in the dark when it comes to the identity of dark matter, new ideas are always welcome. And this theory was specifically designed to match the observation of the gamma rays. But once that doorway has been opened, allowing dark matter particles to transform into regular matter (leptons, in this case), more theoretical work can be done to see if there are other ways to test the theory.
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THEY FOUND A CHUNK OF AN ANCIENT PLANET IN AFRICA
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THEY FOUND A CHUNK OF AN ANCIENT PLANET IN AFRICA
AN ASTONISHING DISCOVERY.
Ancient Planet
According to a new analysis, ScienceAlert reports, a meteorite found last year in Algeria is actually older than the Earth itself.
Instead, an international team of scientists behind the research say, it appears to be a remnant of an ancient protoplanet — making the space rock an extraordinary curiosity that could offer unprecedented insights into the early years of our solar system.
Stuffed Crust
ScienceAlert reports that the rock asteroid was quickly identified as unusual after its discovery in the Erg Check sand sea last May, since unlike most meteorites, it had clearly been formed by a volcano — a suggestion that it had originated as part of a planet’s crust.
But as described in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an analysis of radioactive decay of the sample’s isotopes now shows that it formed around 4.566 billion years ago. That’s a bit longer than the Earth has been around, meaning that it’s likely part of a different — and probably now long-gone — world.
Distant Past
It’s not immediately clear what protoplanet the asteroid might have originated from.
But since it’s now the oldest magmatic rock ever identified, the researchers wrote in their paper, it’s almost certain to be an object of intense further analysis. And what scientists find by studying the ancient shard could shed new light on the history of our star system.
UFOs/UAPs in the mainstream crept up again when famous scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson was recently asked in an interview as to whether or not aliens exist
On March 4th, Tyson wrote a tweet stating
This tweet sent UFO Twitter into a frenzy, because Tyson has been very critical of the idea that space ships and little grey men are visiting the planet. As a scientist, he wants proof. He wants the landing on the front of the White House lawn. Now I am not a scientist, nor do I try to play one like some in the UFO community. But Tyson’s ignorance to look deeply into the topic really highlights some of the pitfalls we have in bringing the subject of ufology into the mainstream limelight. Like it or not, the To The Stars Academy was able to crash through that barrier with the media. But for scientists like Tyson, who have a lot of pull with the mainstream, it’s still a work in progress.
It doesn’t take a genius to be able to see the brilliant minds that are working on this subject from a scientific perspective. It’s actually quite easy. Harvard Theoretical Physicist Avi Loeb took a lot of heat from the scientific community for coming out and saying that Omuamua was likely something alien entering our solar system. There was no official picture of Omuamua, however, Loeb was convinced that this was some sort of visitation that couldn’t be ruled out, especially with the way the foreign object was acting and reacting to planetary gravity as it flew on by. Does this mean Loeb could be wrong? Of course it does. However, the possibility that Loeb is right, and we did get visited, well, to be honest it can’t be ruled out.
But back to Tyson. Over the last few years he has been highly critical of the evidence or lack there of when it comes to UFOs. He dismissed the three Nimitz videos, (Go Fast, Tic Tac and Gimbal), has too hazy to determine what the objects could be. He has dismissed, almost with an arrogance, all the pilots both commercial and military who’ve had close encounters with strange objects. Pilots are like Doctors, they are some of the most highly trained and brightest individuals on this planet. They work in an area where they can tell the difference between a batman balloon and an object making maneuvers and flying at speeds that are undeniable and go against established physics. How does a scientist, whose job it is to test the limits and to push to find what’s unknown, be so negative towards the ample amounts of evidence that is out there? But it goes further than this.
It’s obvious Tyson also ignores the work of the SCU, otherwise known as the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. This is a group of scientists from around the world that has come together to further the study of this phenomenon. On the SCU website, explorescu.org, it states “The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) is a think tank of scientists, researchers and professionals stretching across organizations, governments and industries to scientifically and publicly explore anomalous phenomena known around the world as UAPs, UFOs, USOs and OVNIs.” What they do? “We conduct, promote and encourage the rigorous scientific examination of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). We utilize scientific principles, methodologies and practices in the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena observed and reported around the globe. We provide scientific case analysis to support witness cases, other scientific organizations, and government entities who are looking for the certitude of facts for this phenomenon.”
Let’s talk about the other scientists and engineers that are working diligently on this subject to try and understand what’s going on? Dr. Diana Pasulka has been working on the history of ET and UFO phenomenon. What about Steve McDaniel who has engineered a machine, called SkyHub, that is working on tracking anomalous aerial phenomenon. Dr. Bob McGwier, who retired last year as one of the science and mathematics board members at Virginia Tech University. Is Bob all of the sudden not credible because he’s now searching for alien life? What about Dr. Eric Davis who has worked closely with the U.S. Government, as an Astrophysicist and advisor to the Pentagon regarding off-world vehicles? What about the late Stanton Friedman? The nuclear physicist, who was known in the scientific community for his research into everything from Roswell to dozens of UFO sightings and alien encounters around the world. Did he all of the sudden lose his credibility because he went into the world of ‘Woo’? Credible people from the late Ben Rich to Steve Justice, both formerly of Lockheed Skunkworks seemed to believe in the technology that was out there. You have to be pretty smart to be in the positions they were in. This list goes on and on. Has Tyson had conversations with Lue Elizondo, Chris Mellon, Stanford’s Dr. Gary Nolan, Jacques Vallee, Jim Semivan, Dr. Hal Puthoff, Dr. Michael Masters, and hundreds of others who are enlightened to the fact that the current evidence does show there is something going on! Apparently NDT didn’t get the memo!
Now I don’t know too much about science or how things work, but I’m bright enough to know that science is not opinion. To break science down to terminology the majority of us can understand, it’s the proving or disproving of theory. Yet when it comes to UFOs and the UAP Phenomenon, science really does seem to be thrown out the window. It’s about grants. It’s about tenure. It’s about position of authority to be a voice of reason. Tyson shows that he’s a brilliant man, but his opinion overtakes the reality of the evidence that is out there. Is it arrogance? Is it ignorance? I don’t know? I’ve never talked to the man. But it’s not doing him any favours to refute evidence when he refuses to believe the subject is very real.
Reptilians: The Serpent Connection From Ancient Myths To Modern Science
Reptilians: The Serpent Connection From Ancient Myths To Modern Science
This is a highly controversial and thought-provoking subject.
We will therefore investigate the topic from a scientific and mythological point of view. The human reptilian connection is very old. Reptilian-like humanoids and “Lizard- people” are described in many ancient texts and religions.
“As long as humanity has kept records of its existence, legends of a serpent race have persisted. These myths tell of a mysterious race of superhuman reptilian beings who descended from the heavens to participate in creating humankind and to teach the sciences, impart forbidden knowledge, impose social order, breed with us, and watch over our development.
“The serpent like beings were not alone, but were part of a retinue of super beings thought to be gods by the ancients.
“Yet, in cultures as widespread and diverse as those of Sumeria, Babylonia, India, China, Japan, Mexico, and Central America, reptilian gods have been feared and worshipped.
“To this day the dragon or serpent signifies divine heritage and royalty in many Asian countries, while in the West, the serpent represents wisdom and knowledge.
“The symbol of two serpents coiled around a staff (originally signifying the tree of knowledge of ancient myth), known as the caduceus, is today used by the American Medical Association as its logo,” wrote Joe Lewels, Ph.D in his article “The Reptilians: Humanity’s Historical Link to the Serpent Race”.
The subject of reptilians has become popular since some decades when, David Icke, stated that some human beings on Earth are not normal like us and they are reptilians.
So is it possible that we evolved from reptilians?
There are certain physiological similarities between humans and reptilians. We have what is known as the “reptilian brain”.
It controls vital functions such as heart rate, breathing, body temperature and balance.
Our reptilian brain also includes the main structures found in a reptile’s brain, namely the brainstem and the cerebellum.
The reptilian brain is reliable but tends to be somewhat rigid and compulsive.
Our eyes are also constructed like the eyes of reptiles. In both humans and reptiles, the eye acts as a box with a lens to focus the light that passes through it. Cells within the eye process the light and turn it into useful information.
Scientists have for long been aware of that the lizard has a heart that is virtually indistinguishable from a human embryonic heart. While the structure of the human heart has been known for a long time, the evolutionary origin of our conduction system has nevertheless remained a mystery.
Now, a century-old mystery has thereby finally been unravelled about the evolution of the human heart.
Researchers have finally succeeded in showing that the spongy tissue in reptile hearts is the forerunner of the complex hearts of both birds and mammals.
The new knowledge provides a deeper understanding of the complex conductive tissue of the human heart, which is of key importance in many heart conditions.
“The heart of a bird or a mammal – for example a human – pumps frequently and rapidly.
This is only possible because it has electrically conductive tissue that controls the heart.
Until now, however, we haven’t been able to find conductive tissue in our common reptilian ancestors, which means we haven’t been able to understand how this enormously important system emerged,” says Bjarke Jensen, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University.
Along with Danish colleagues and colleagues from the University of Amsterdam, he now reveals that the genetic building blocks for highly developed conductive tissue are actually hidden behind the thin wall in the spongy hearts of reptiles.
Is this who started our civilization?
Since the early 1900s, scientists have been wondering how birds and mammals could have developed almost identical conduction systems independently of each other when their common ancestor was a cold-blooded reptile with a sponge-like inner heart that has virtually no conduction bundles.
“We studied the hearts of cold-blooded animals like lizards, frogs and zebrafish, and we investigated the gene that determines which parts of the heart are responsible for conducting the activating current,” Dr Jensen.
“By comparing adult hearts from reptiles with embryonic hearts from birds and mammals, we discovered a common molecular structure that’s hidden by the anatomical differences,” he added.
Considering the number of similarities we share, such as the reptilian heart, brain and eyes, it’s wise to say there are strong indications that ancient reptilian-like humanoids hold secrets of mankind’s origin.
Reports of so-called hybrid children and hybrid babies are particularly notable, in the sense that encounters with these somewhat unsettling creatures more often than not follow certain, distinct pathways that crop up time and again. There is, for example, most assuredly a greater percentage of female abductees who have had interactions with the hybrids than there are male abductees. There appears to be a very good reason for this. Under hypnotic regression, numerous women have reported been taken on board a UFO, or, on more than a few occasions, to an underground installation, where they are introduced to the hybrids. Of course, the underground component/”little people” issue adds to the centuries-old fairy encounters, and the changeling phenomenon that has its undeniable parallels to today’s UFO scene. In such situations the woman will either be laying on something akin to an operating-room table, or sitting in a chair that resembles a dentist’s chair. It’s then that something remarkable happens – although, admittedly, others might call it terrifying.
As the abductee looks on, a group of three or four small, alien Grays will approach, with one of them holding in their hands a tiny baby that is clear not entirely human, even though it exhibit certain, physical, human traits. The abductee is then encouraged to take the baby from the Gray and to cradle it. Researchers of the phenomenon have suggested, probably correctly, that this procedure is undertaken to try and instill an emotional bond between the abductee and the hybrid. If this all sounds very calm and tranquil, it often is not. Many of the female abductees who report this bonding process – or attempt at bonding – were, months earlier, pregnant themselves. For a while, at least, they were. There are many reports on record where a pregnant abductee has experienced a sudden, unexplained miscarriage; a tragic event, to be sure. Or is there just an assumption they were miscarriages? Quite possibly, yes.
Those same abductees, when presented with a hybrid baby, develop sudden, unexplained suspicions that what they are being shown is the baby they were once carrying and which they assumed had miscarried. In this scenario, abduction researcher suggest, the abductees are impregnated during an earlier abduction, they then carry the fetus for a number of months, and then it is removed from the mother during a later abduction, and essentially “grown” in what we might call an artificial womb. A sensation – some might say outrageous – scenario, to be sure, but it’s not a possibility that can be dismissed. The reason why is as amazing as it is controversial: we, the Human Race, are now working – and working hard and fast – to develop artificial wombs.
The process of growing a fetus, and bringing it to full term in an artificial womb, is called ectogenesis. Much of the research is still at a theoretical stage, predominantly because of restrictions and regulations that govern the ethical, or non-ethical use, of human embryos in experimentation. But, not all of it is. As just two perfect examples, we have to first turn our attentions to Japan, and experimentation undertaken in 1997, at the Bunkyo, Tokyo-based Juntendo University. The program was led by Yoshinori Kuwabara – the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics at the university – who was successful in growing goat embryos that were contained in a machine filled with amniotic fluid, a yellow-colored fluid contained in the amniotic sac and which surrounds the growing fetus. Then there is the work of Cornell University’s Reproductive Endocrine Laboratory. In both 2003 and 2011 significant success was had by sustaining embryos in artificial wombs. In the 2003 experiment, the embryo was that of a mouse. Eight years later, however, it was nothing less than a human embryo, which was allowed to develop for ten days – with fourteen days being the absolute, legal time-limit on experimenting with human fetuses.
There is, however, one potential disadvantage, and it may prove to be a big one, should we, as a species, ever decide to go down this emotionless pathway. It is the matter of the deep bonding between the mother and the unborn fetus that quickly develops when pregnancy begins. Or, in the future, what might very well be a distinct lack of that bonding. Might we see a 23rd Century or a 28th Century in which, as a result of a factory-like environment in which babies are grown to order, specification, and design, that bond is completely lost? Might we see the Human Race, hundreds of years from now, reduced to nothing but cold, emotionless entities – in fact, just like the Grays – that will have no understanding of, or care for, the emotional angle of what it means to be pregnant? Such a thing, given that research in this field is pressing ahead, is not at all out of the question. This same situation may also explain why the Grays are forced to present hybrid children to human mothers, in an effort to induce bonding: the Grays are utterly incapable of comprehending how to make that bond themselves.
Anyone who has spent time studying UFOs and pondered the possible existence of and possible visitation by extraterrestrials has undoubtedly hear of the Fermi Paradox proposed by the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi, who one day looked up at the billions of stars that these ETs could have come from – or even just sent us greetings from – and asked (paraphrased), “So, where are the aliens?” If Enrico were alive today, he’d probably make a visit to China, where a new radio telescope was put into operation last year and has already detected enough fast radio bursts from those billions of stars that astronomers estimate Earth is hit by 120,000 a day or more. If these are sent by intelligent civilizations … Enrico? “So, where are the aliens?”
Enrico Fermi
“We report three new FRBs discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), namely FRB 181017.J0036+11, FRB 181118, and FRB 181130, through the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS).”
The latest edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters reports that Dr. Niu Chenhui, co-author from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered three new FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts) using the data from FAST – the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope ) in southwest China’s Guizhou Province that just became operational last year. With its size, new technology and the collapse of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, astronomers looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are going to FAST and coming away excited … and possibly frustrated. Excited because these signals were sent billions of years ago and are now being detected with a frequency that suggests they could hear 120,000 a day. Frustrated, because …
“More discoveries from FAST will thus help reveal the yet unknown origin of FRBs.”
Dr. Niu Chenhui’s paradox is similar to Fermi’s — if we’re seeing so many FRBs that could be created by intelligent life forms for billions of years … where are they?
The FAST telescope
“The phenomenon is a mystery to astronomy. We have clues about their origin but in reality we do not know well what it is. The information that the experts handle is that they are radio emissions. These radio waves constantly arrive from the deep Universe. They are like explosions that occur in the electromagnetic spectrum : a strong glow from a radio source is emitted for a few seconds very intensely.” (Google translation)
Aire Digital (Argentina) interviewed Dante Paz, a doctor in Astronomy and researcher at Conicet (The National Scientific and Technical Research Council) who was not part of the study, explains that FRBs are suspected of being created by intelligent civilizations because they are emitted in a very specific direction, as if being sent from an antenna. The intensity needed to travel billions of light years suggests equipment far greater that we can imagine, so most astronomer attribute them to natural phenomena with strong magnetic fields, like black holes, neutron stars or magnetars. However, those are also theoretical causes. Which brings us back to ETs. Which brings us back to Fermi.
“Where are they?”
Discoveries of FRBs are coming “FAST” and furious. Will we – and Enrico – see an answer soon? You may not be a brilliant physicist, but you can still be like Fermi – he hated paradoxes too.
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Meteor Over Vermont! Bigger Ones on the Way!
Meteor Over Vermont! Bigger Ones on the Way!
Meteor Over Vermont! Bigger Ones on the Way!
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A brightly lit meteor sped through the night sky in the US state of Vermont on Sunday, March 7. The meteor created a giant fireball and looked like a big light show over the Vermont skies. Read further ahead to know more details.
Breaking the Warp Barrier for Faster-Than-Light Travel
Breaking the Warp Barrier for Faster-Than-Light Travel
An astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovered new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutions for faster-than-light (FTL) travel.
If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. To date, even recent research about superluminal (faster-than-light) transport based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity would require vast amounts of hypothetical particles and states of matter that have “exotic” physical properties such as negative energy density. This type of matter either cannot currently be found or cannot be manufactured in viable quantities.’
Artistic impression of different spacecraft designs considering theoretical shapes of different kinds of “warp bubbles”.
Photo: E Lentz
In contrast, new research carried out at the University of Göttingen gets around this problem by constructing a new class of hyper-fast ‘solitons’ using sources with only positive energies that can enable travel at any speed. This reignites debate about the possibility of faster-than-light travel based on conventional physics. The research is published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
The author of the paper, Dr Erik Lentz, analyzed existing research and discovered gaps in previous ‘warp drive’ studies. Lentz noticed that there existed yet-to-be explored configurations of space-time curvature organized into ‘solitons’ that have the potential to solve the puzzle while being physically viable. A soliton – in this context also informally referred to as a ‘warp bubble’ – is a compact wave that maintains its shape and moves at constant velocity. Lentz derived the Einstein equations for unexplored soliton configurations (where the space-time metric’s shift vector components obey a hyperbolic relation), finding that the altered space-time geometries could be formed in a way that worked even with conventional energy sources. In essence, the new method uses the very structure of space and time arranged in a soliton to provide a solution to faster-than-light travel, which – unlike other research – would only need sources with positive energy densities. No “exotic” negative energy densities needed.
Image to show how long it would take different types of spacecraft to travel from our solar system to Proxima Centauri (the nearest known star). Currently, the only option would be to use a chemical rocket meaning a journey time of over 50,000 years.
Photo: E Lentz
If sufficient energy could be generated, the equations used in this research would allow space travel to Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, and back to Earth in years instead of decades or millennia. That means an individual could travel there and back within their lifetime. In comparison, the current rocket technology would take more than 50,000 years for a one-way journey. In addition, the solitons (warp bubbles) were configured to contain a region with minimal tidal forces such that the passing of time inside the soliton matches the time outside: an ideal environment for a spacecraft. This means there would not be the complications of the so-called “twin paradox” whereby one twin travelling near the speed of light would age much more slowly than the other twin who stayed on Earth: in fact, according to the recent equations both twins would be the same age when reunited.
“This work has moved the problem of faster-than-light travel one step away from theoretical research in fundamental physics and closer to engineering. The next step is to figure out how to bring down the astronomical amount of energy needed to within the range of today’s technologies, such as a large modern nuclear fission power plant. Then we can talk about building the first prototypes,” says Lentz.
Currently, the amount of energy required for this new type of space propulsion drive is still immense. Lentz explains, “The energy required for this drive travelling at light speed encompassing a spacecraft of 100 meters in radius is on the order of hundreds of times of the mass of the planet Jupiter. The energy savings would need to be drastic, of approximately 30 orders of magnitude to be in range of modern nuclear fission reactors.” He goes on to say: “Fortunately, several energy-saving mechanisms have been proposed in earlier research that can potentially lower the energy required by nearly 60 orders of magnitude.” Lentz is currently in the early-stages of determining if these methods can be modified, or if new mechanisms are needed to bring the energy required down to what is currently possible.
Gigantic Jet Found From Supermassive Black Hole in Early Universe
Gigantic Jet Found From Supermassive Black Hole in Early Universe
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles from a supermassive black hole in the early Universe, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
If confirmed, it would be the most distant supermassive black hole with a jet detected in X-rays, coming from a galaxy about 12.7 billion light years from Earth. It may help explain how the biggest black holes formed at a very early time in the Universe’s history.
The source of the jet is a quasar — a rapidly growing supermassive black hole — named PSO J352.4034-15.3373 (PJ352-15 for short), which sits at the center of a young galaxy. It is one of the two most powerful quasars detected in radio waves in the first billion years after the Big Bang, and is about a billion times more massive than the Sun.
How are supermassive black holes able to grow so quickly to reach such an enormous mass in this early epoch of the Universe? This is one of the key questions in astronomy today.
Despite their powerful gravity and fearsome reputation, black holes do not inevitably pull in everything that approaches close to them. Material orbiting around a black hole in a disk needs to lose speed and energy before it can fall farther inwards to cross the so-called event horizon, the point of no return. Magnetic fields can cause a braking effect on the disk as they power a jet, which is one key way for material in the disk to lose energy and, therefore, enhance the rate of growth of black holes.
“If a playground merry-go-round is moving too fast, it’s hard for a child to move towards the center, so someone or something needs to slow the ride down,” said Thomas Connor of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., who led the study. “Around supermassive black holes, we think jets can take enough energy away so material can fall inward and the black hole can grow.”
Astronomers needed to observe PJ352-15 for a total of three days using the sharp vision of Chandra to detect evidence for the X-ray jet. X-ray emission was detected about 160,000 light years away from the quasar along the same direction as much shorter jets seen in radio waves. By comparison, the entire Milky Way spans about 100,000 light years.
PJ352-15 breaks a couple of different astronomical records. First, the longest jet previously observed from the first billion years after the Big Bang was only about 5,000 light years in length, corresponding to the radio observations of PJ352-15. Second, PJ352-15 is about 300 million light years farther away than the most distant X-ray jet recorded before it.
“The length of this jet is significant because it means that the supermassive black hole powering it has been growing for a considerable period of time,” said co-author Eduardo Bañados of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany. “This result underscores how X-ray studies of distant quasars provide a critical way to study the growth of the most distant supermassive black holes.”
The light detected from this jet was emitted when the Universe was only 0.98 billion years old, less than a tenth of its present age. At this point, the intensity of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang was much greater than it is today.
As the electrons in the jet fly away from the black hole at close to the speed of light, they move through and collide with photons making up the CMB radiation, boosting the energy of the photons up into the X-ray range to be detected by Chandra. In this scenario, the X-rays are significantly boosted in brightness compared to radio waves. This agrees with the observation that the large X-ray jet feature has no associated radio emission.
“Our result shows that X-ray observations can be one of the best ways to study quasars with jets in the early Universe,” said co-author Daniel Stern, also of JPL. “Or to put it another way, X-ray observations in the future may be the key to unlocking the secrets of our cosmic past.”
A paper describing these results has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and a preprint is available online. The other co-authors of the paper are Chris Carilli (NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico); Andrew Fabian (University of Cambridge, UK); Emmanuel Momjian (NRAO); Sofía Rojas-Ruiz (MPIA); Roberto Decarli (INAF, Bologna, Italy); Emanuele Paolo Farina (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany); Chiara Mazzucchelli (ESO, Chile); Hannah P. Earnshaw (Caltech, Pasadena, California).
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray Center controls science from Cambridge Massachusetts and flight operations from Burlington, Massachusetts.
Other materials about the findings are available at:
Mysterious Explosion on the Sun almost crippled NASA's SOHO Spacecraft
Mysterious Explosion on the Sun almost crippled NASA's SOHO Spacecraft
On March 9, 2021 the LASCO C2 satellite recorded an enormous explosion on the Sun. Seconds before the explosion an unknown reddish triangular object appears from behind the black occulting disc near the area where the blast occurred.
What follows is an enormous explosion that almost crippled the satellite.
A few seconds after the explosion, the triangular object has turned from reddish to white and although it may just be a glitch, it remains very strange and does not explain the massive explosion on the sun
If we compare the blast to a solar flare, then we know it was not a normal solar eruption, so what caused this outburst, did something hit the Sun?
Journalist Tony Harris, along with forensic specialists, investigates a jaw-dropping viral video of UFOs captured in Miami, in this clip from Season 1, “Escape From Monkey Island.”
In a lecture at the Meta Tech Org. Conference, B. Robertson spoke on the subject: Secret Earth Activities of Some Extraterrestrial Groups, Especially the Markabs, Towards Takeover of Full Control over the Earth. Among other things, he spoke of the fact that over the last fifty years, at least 200,000 Markabians have been secretly immigrated to the country, trained as young civil servants, secret service agents, armed forces and police officers, entrepreneurs and financiers. The whole event was highly concealed not only before the Congress and the US Senate, but also before the world and the Great Galactic Council. The mission of this Marxian extraterrestrial contingent may well be the creation of a “fifth column”, destined to gradually conquer the Earth planet to connect the Earth as the eighth planet to the Markabian federation.
The production of human clones was acquired in 1977 according to the alien technology (Markabian-Sirians) at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) research laboratories. The world learned about it the same year when American television and television scientists and camera attendees the original man and his clone were shown. The session was interrupted at the command of the government and was never repeated. The actual production of clones takes place at the Mount Hood underground base (about 60 miles east of Portland) and has the character of biological manufacturing. The production of a fully grown human clone (replicator) lasts about 14 months (today it is reportedly a shorter period), but must take place in artificial mammals stored in locations with a stable geomagnetic field and must meet other specified properties.
In American underground literature, the Illuminati and their secret (gray) unpopulated government, which are in parallel with the official government appointed by the elected president, are often referred to in various contexts. Until recently, the existence of this secret government had been doubted until the high-ranking retired officials began talking about the secret government underground Mount Weather complex. Only a very small number of Americans and members of Congress are aware of the existence of this mysterious underground government base built deep within the Mount Weather at Bluemont in Virginia, just 74 miles from Washington DC. The Base Underground, also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations (WVOCCO), is hidden not only in hard granites but also thoroughly hidden. In March 1976, The Progressive Magazine published an astonishing article titled The Mysterious Mountain.
The rapporteur, Richard Pollock, was based on information based on the Senate Subcommittee inquiry committee report, interrogation records, and several confidential interviews with officials previously associated with Mount Weather. His report and article at The Time Magazine, 1991, called Doomsday Hideaway, gave a lot of information about what really is in the underground of Mount Weather. Ted Gup, writing for The New York Times, describes the underground base as follows:
“Mount Weather is an independent Federal Emergency Management Agency underground facility (FEMA). This facility is an operating center for approximately 100 other federal relocation centers located mostly in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Together, this network of underground facilities is the backbone of the US program “Continuity of Government.” In the case of nuclear war, or the declaration of martial law, or other cases of national emergency, I have to relocate the Wahington President and his Cabinet, and the rest of the executive forces would be ” resettled “.
Pollock’s report contains stunning information about the base staff. In this underground city, according to data from former senior officials of the base, a secret (gray) government of the United States is stationed. Information from high state resources, Pollock has only been given the promise of adhering to the strictest anonymity. Pollock told me that each of the federal departments represented in Mount Weather is headed by an individual who is titled as “Mr. Secretary” and is in direct contact with the official US government. It is unclear who appoints Cabinet members of this cabinet based in Mount Weather. The notion that President appointment is unstoppable, as the Many Through Several Administrations are many times longer than the elected presidents. It is therefore clear that this is a genuine duplication of the fundamental functions of the US government. There are nine Federal Departements (federal ministries: agriculture, trade, health, education and social care, housing and urban planning, labor, home affairs, state affairs, transport and finance) as well as at least five of the most important state bodies Special Services, Federal Military Obligation Commission, Civil Service Commission, and Veterans Administration). There are also two private companies located here: the Federal Reserve and the US Post Office. Pollock writes that he does not know how long the cabinet members (ministers) are appointed, perhaps by the president, but that is not certain. Time of service is not known with certainty either.
What is unclear is which political party is “at the oars” in this secret government. The appointed officials at Mount Weather remain in office for several election periods of official administration. Unlike other presidential nominees, these “apppointments” are assigned to a post without a public vote or Senate approval. It is not yet known whether there is also an alternate president and vice president in Mount Weather? If so, who selects and establishes? Pollock says only this: “It could be expected that Mount Weather is also a presidential office. The Federal Preparedness Agency (FEMA predecessor) apparently has set up a special regime for presidential sections that regularly accepts top-secret state security reports and raw data from each of the federal departments, and agencies. He questions the real reason behind the existence of a secret government in Mount Weather, when the United States and its allies themselves consider the Cold War to be over.
In my opinion, the actual secret government of the Illuminati, which is the potential executive power of the New World Order, is based in the underground of Mount Weather, which aims to take the government in the United States at the first appropriate occasion or at the first appropriate pretext. If I’m wrong, prove it to me! According to the records of the Constitutional Rights Senate Subcommittee’s 1975 hearings, Congress has almost no information, no knowledge, no budget reports or other areas related to the Mount Weather underground base. This circumstance is, in the state of shame of the highest democracy and the freedom of the individual, to be considered. Retired Air Force General Leslie W. Bray, in his testimony to the Congress subcommittee, said he could not freely describe what the role, organization, and location of Mount Weather was, and could not even specify any further details. The existence of this underground government center of the United States seems secret only to the US Congress and US taxpayers. But not to be blamed on a one-sided view, I also bring information from the second basket.
The New York Times of April 16, 1996, brought information to her correspondent Patricia Neill
About the mysterious base built by the Russians deep in the underground of the Ural Mountains, in the area called Jaman-Tau
“In a secret project reminiscent of the coldest cold war period, Russia is building a mammoth underground complex hidden inside the Jaman-Tau Mountain in the White Ural region of Albore, equipped with extensive surface and underground rail and road networks, the construction of which employs tens of thousands of workers.”
The New York Times cites the statement of an unnamed senior US official from Washington:
“We are not sure what the purpose of this facility is and the Russians are not very willing to let us in. It’s all built in style and it’s an important source of investment at a time when Russians complain that they have no resources to fund the nuclear missile destruction process under disarmament agreements “.
Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine writes:
“We are observing that the United States spends nearly $ 30 billion annually on obtaining information about the Russian Jaman-Tau complex without gaining reliable information about whether the complex has been completed.” The construction of this huge underground complex has been a subject of American interest since at least 1992 “.
Ashton Carter, Pentagon International Security Adviser, says:
“We do not know exactly what the mission of the Jaman-Tau facility is, it probably has no operational mission, and the Russians have offered” non-specific guarantees “that they do not threaten US security.”
In the Gambit Mahatsm book, I mentioned the case of a secret attempt by the American Illuminati on a surprising nuclear attack on the main Russian bases of Kosmosfer and Kosmos Perechvatchikos, located near Semipalatinska and Novosibirsk. It was supposed to retaliate the Illuminati for the destruction of American spy guns over the Soviet Union and for conquering and occupying US bases on the moon, which prevented the planned domination of the Illuminati by a gigantic gas laser and the installation of the Mindwreaker and Moonscan technology. The surprise attack, carried out by submarine Angelus carriers carrying Hybrid flying submarines Subfighter with allegedly Israeli pilots, has completely failed. According to unconfirmed information, the Russians have given the ultimatum that the US will publish this action with examples of destroyed supermodern US military techniques unless the US pays damages and reparations to an unplanned amount.
They estimate it could have been $ 10-30 billion. In order to deceive the world’s public, this payment was issued for US assistance in financing the destruction of surplus Russian nuclear missiles and tanks. Those who are just a bit confident about the pricing of rocket and armor dismantling must necessarily conclude that only $ 1-1.5 billion is enough for that. Most likely, the Russians, the lessons learned from the Illuminati, were used to finance the construction of the essentially impregnable Jaman-Tau complex. Almost all members of the US Congress also had a similar view.
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Film Prometheus Could Be Accurate. Science: You Have Extraterrestrial DNA
Film Prometheus Could Be Accurate. Science: You Have Extraterrestrial DNA
After another comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars aplenty, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently “junk Human DNA” was potentially created by some kind of “extraterrestrial programmer” and perhaps THIS is the missing link for the human race,
Professor Chang then further stipulates that:
“Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them.”
Professor Chang
Professor Chang further indicates that:
“What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code, and basic code.”
Mr. Chang then goes on to confirm that the “First fact is, the complete ‘program’ was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in ‘the game’.”
“Soon or later”, Professor Chang says “we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is.”
Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with “Human-looking Extraterrestrials”
The severe yet exciting implications of these scientific finds would FURTHER reinforce claims by other top leading scientists and observers of having contact with ‘off-world’ human-looking extra-terrestrials!
Human DNA encoded with extraterrestrial signals
In 2013, top scientists from Kazakhstan confirmed that that human DNA was encoded with an extraterrestrial signal by ancient alien civilizations which visited Planet Earth before our existence!
The Scientists now call it “biological SETI” and the researchers claim that the mathematical code in human DNA cannot be explained by evolution so this only comes to one conclusion, that we are of an Alien origin ourselves as a Species!
In a round about way, we are all a kind of living, breathing vessels for some kind of alien message, which is more easily used to detect extraterrestrial life than via radio transmission….perhaps this is why a lot of us are starting to ‘waken’!
“Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales; in fact, it is the most durable construct known,” the researchers wrote in the scientific journal Icarus. “Therefore it represents exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature.
“Once the genome is appropriately rewritten the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time.”
The scientists also claim that human DNA is ordered so precisely that it reveals an “ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language”.
Their important research has led the scientists to conclude that we were invented “outside the solar system, already several billion years ago”.
One mystery remains: If we were the creation of aliens, who created them?
SCIENTISTS DEVELOP MODEL FOR FASTER-THAN-LIGHT WARP DRIVE THAT BENDS SPACETIME TO SEND SHIPS TO THE STARS
SCIENTISTS DEVELOP MODEL FOR FASTER-THAN-LIGHT WARP DRIVE THAT BENDS SPACETIME TO SEND SHIPS TO THE STARS
‘A class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes, at least in principle, can be constructed based on the physical principles known to humanity today,’ the scientists say
Scientists claim they have developed a physical model for a warp drive - a device that would allow spacecraft to travel at faster-than-light speeds.
“We present the first general model for subliminal positive-energy, spherically symmetric warp drives”, the paper’s abstract states.
“Conceptually, we demonstrate that any warp drive, including the Alcubierre drive, is a shell of regular or exotic material moving inertially with a certain velocity. Therefore, any warp drive requires propulsion. We show that a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes, at least in principle, can be constructed based on the physical principles known to humanity today.”
The scientists’ theories are based on the Alcubierre warp drive, named after theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre. In his paper’s abstract, published in 2000, he wrote that the drive world work by modifying spacetime.
Credit: Gianni Martire (Applied Physics)
“By a purely local expansion of spacetime behind the spaceship and an opposite contraction in front of it, motion faster than the speed of light as seen by observers outside the disturbed region is possible,” Alcubierre wrote.
“The resulting distortion is reminiscent of the ‘warp drive’ of science fiction. However, just as it happens with wormholes, exotic matter will be needed in order to generate a distortion of spacetime”.
In theory, a warp drive would be able to work within the boundaries of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Faster-than-light travel would usually require an infinite amount of energy, but that restriction only applies to objects in spacetime rather than spacetime itself - which is how the universe could expand faster than the speed of light after the Big Bang.
Thenew paper, asPopular Mechanics reports, makes a key distinction between Alcubierre’s notions and its own: rather than using “negative energy”, a substance which does not exist in the universe, bubbles of spacetime could be used to make the drive possible.
The inside of the bubble would contain a passenger area, where the passage of time could operate differently from that outside the craft. “You cannot break the speed of light barrier for the passengers themselves relative to spacetime, so instead you keep them moving normally in the bubble [but] you move the bubble itself superluminally”, Professor and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Sabine Hossenfelder, explains.
Professor Hossenfelder goes on to say that to move faster than light, the spacecraft itself would require negative energy densities, and acceleration needs energy and momentum - although the paper does not explain how this could be managed, it assumes that it is possible because it fits with the scientific theory.
The paper does goes on to explain other designs the craft could take, such as seating passengers next to each other rather than behind each other - in contrast to traditional spacecraft.
This is because the amount of energy required depends on the shape of the bubble, and the flatter it is in the direction of travel (in the design of this warp drive) the less energy is needed.
The development of a warp drive has been a dream of space agencies for many years, but is difficult to achieve tangible results. Nasa has been attempting to research novel propulsion methods for space travel, but is clear in stating that it is not working on ‘warp drive’ technology.
Something Hit The Moon? Mysterious Undulation At The Edge Of The Moon. What Is It – Magnetic Storm?
Something Hit The Moon? Mysterious Undulation At The Edge Of The Moon. What Is It – Magnetic Storm?
Something hit the Moon? You are probably aware of this question today, but many on YouTube say they had a video about the Moon that was hit by something and that the video disappeared during the blackout. Is there any truth in that? Also, look at this, your web page to see that video could be here but you can not find it. WE WANT THE TRUTH .. !!!
Something very strange is going on in recent years in the atmosphere on the planet Whether it comes to aliens, changes in the earth’s core or UFO,CHEMTRAILS, HAARP?
This is one of the two objects that hit or land on the moon. It is questionable whether it is a giant ship or an asteroid or a meteorite.
Photos of the impact of a strange object on the Moon, while YouTube cut the transmission. Here are some photos of the live broadcast (supposedly) of a Marine on a US base who claimed that something was going to hit the Moon. ® The live broadcast reached more than 100K viewers before YouTube stopped shortly after the alleged impact.
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VIDEO: of the impact of a strange object on the Moon, while YouTube cut the transmission. Here are some photos of the live broadcast (supposedly) of a Marine on a US base who claimed that something was going to hit the Moon. The live broadcast reached more than 100K viewers before YouTube stopped shortly after the alleged impact.
People all around the world take photos of this strange phenomena. Why are they appear and what is the meaning of them? What is going on? Can it affect a human evolution? What do you think about that? Watch the video and judge for yourself.
Filer’s Files 10 2021 UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau - PART I
Sao Paulo, Brazil fast flying on February 22, 2021
Filer’s Files 10 2021 UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau - 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: UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau, UFO Briefings at the Highest Levels, Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs, General Twining’s Inspection of the Crashed UFOs, Mormon the Angel Moroni, It’s Difficult to find the Truth Anymore by Government, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvanian
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Mexico, 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
UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau Missouri 1941
Crash at Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1941
The MJ-12 JFK document dated Nov 12th 1963 addressed to CIA Director and signed by JFK corresponds with a document from the Kennedy library.
The document is a National Security Action Memo No. 271 to the NASA Administrator James Webb. The subject is “co-operation with USSR on outer space matters” and is dated Nov 12th 1963! White Hot Report Sept 19th 1947 – Page 20120 (Cover report with signatures) not available on internet
Wedemeyer was an expert on China, but no information available officially that he was involved with black projects. There are many signatures of Wedemeyer available officially and Stanton Friedman says that this signature on the White Hot Report is definitely Wedemeyers and authentic. If the White Hot Report is a hoax, someone did a lot of research on signatures. All signatures look authentic.
White Hot Report Sept 19th 1947 – Page 20133 (NB this doc is blanked out – see bottom of report) There are a couple of mentions in the documents about a virtually unknown UFO crash in 1941. Not a great deal of researchers know about this crash. There is very little reference to this in any UFO literature.
There are a small number of witnesses to a UFO crash in Cape Girardeau, South East Missouri in July 1941- A Letter was sent to UFO investigator Raymond Fowler and reprinted in a UFO crash retrieval report by Leonard Stringfield in July 1991 regarding this incident. The letter was from a woman called Charlotte Mann about her grandfather.
Reverend William Huffman
Southern Baptist Pastor the Reverend William Huffman who was born in August 1881. In the spring of 1941 at Cape Girardeau, he was asked by the Cape Girardeau police department to go to a plane crash outside of town.
The letter said “Grandfather said it wasn’t an airplane or like any craft that he had ever seen. It was broken and scattered all around, but one large piece was still together and it appeared to have a rounded shape with no edges or seams. It has a very shiny metallic finish. You could see inside one section and see what looked like a metal chair with a panel with many dials and gauges, not familiar looking to him. He said that when he got there, men were already sifting through things. There were some police officers, plain clothed people and military men. There were three bodies not human that had been taken from the wreckage and laid on the ground.
Grandfather said prayers over them, so that he got a close look, but he did not touch them. He didn’t know what had killed them, because they did not appear to have had any injuries and they were not burned. It was hard for him to tell if they had suits, or if it was their skin. But they were covered head to foot in what looked like wrinkled aluminum foil. He could see no hair on the bodies and they had no ears. They were small framed like a child, about 4 feet tall, but had larger heads and longer arms than a human child. They had very large oval shaped eyes, no noses just holes, no lips with a small slit for a mouth.” Thanks to Linda Moulton Howe for this report. Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit Summary July 9th 1947
UFO Briefings at the Highest Levels
F-18 chasing Tic Tac UFO/UAP
In June, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s FY2021 Intelligence Authorization Act contained an intriguing section titled report on “Advanced Aerial Threats.” In the inclusion, the committee gave an eye-opening official hint (in recent history) the government takes UFOs seriously by offering its support for the “efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence.” The Intelligence Committee additionally requested an unclassified report detailing the analysis of “UAP” or “Anomalous Aerial Vehicles.”
Though already acknowledged by the Intelligence Committee, in mid-August, the Pentagon formally acknowledged they had established a task force looking into UAP. In a press announcement, the Secretary of Defense’s Office stated, “the UAPTF’s mission will be to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.” According to the release, authority for the Task Force was approved by the DOD’s chief operating officer, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist.
The summer news of the establishment of the UAPTF seemingly suggests—for the first time since the shuttering of Project Blue Book (the Air Force’s official investigations into UFOs) in 1969—that the Pentagon is now taking the subject of UFOs seriously.
However, an internal email obtained by The Debrief shows that almost one year before the DOD’s announcement, the highest levels of the U.S. military were already being briefed on UAP.
Copy of the Email Obtained by the Debrief via FOIA.
The email, obtained via Freedom of Information Act request, shows an October 16th, 2019 exchange between then Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Burke, and current Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force General Stephen “Steve” Wilson.
In the email, Adm. Burke tells Gen. Wilson, “Recommend you take the brief I just received from our Director of Naval Intelligence VADM Matt Kohler, on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).” Adm. Burke concludes the email, “SECNAV [Secretary of the Navy] will get the same brief tomorrow at 1000.”
Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs
On Feb 21, 2021, at 2:54 AM, Julien Geffray wrote: “Such asymmetry can be engineered within the fields themselves as I understand, or by tweaking the physical geometry of the fuselage, or with a combination of both. However, I wonder if the larger area of that figure should always be at the stern (underneath when hovering above the ground) or if it could be made on the contrary at the bow of the aircraft (top area while hovering)? “
Sarfatti states No, no. No tweaking physical geometry, just the control fields suffice. The idea is that the fuselage meta-surface is tiled with meta-atoms which are tiny essentially pumped LCR oscillators like in Chi 23/24 of Feynman Vol. 1. Oddly enough I had this image back at ISSO with Creon Levit et-al 1999-2000 knowing nothing about meta -materials.
Jack Sarfatti
The relative phase between input EM field and output gravity field is individually controlled at each meta-atom. This requires at least a quantum AI to sense and control the value of cos (relative phase) + or – ~ 1 for gravity or antigravity near field at each meta-atom “lattice point.’ Therefore, any part of the fuselage can act as a “nose” or a “tail” explaining the sudden ZERO G-Force bizarre zig zag motions Fravor and other pilots report.
Introducing Physical Warp Drives
Alexey Bobrick, Gianni Martire Advanced Propulsion Laboratory at Applied Physics, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, 10022, U.S.
Because that would explain the typical shape of flying saucers as seen over seventy years, as reported for example in the famous “Twining Memo” back to September 1947. In this famous memorandum, General Nathan F. Twining summarizes the physical appearance of these crafts based on many reports:
This letter is of great historical importance, since General Twinning addresses the memorandum to Brigadier General George F. Schulgen who endorses it and passes the document to Major General Laurence Cardee Craigie, Chief of Staff at the Air Force, triggering the creation of Project Sign to study the UFO phenomenon according to a real “nuts & bolts” point of view.
In other words, does the Sarfatti-Wanser field equation explain the asymmetric shape of typical flying discs: Julien
Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs
Several military personnel have given sworn testimony that a UFO that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in June 1947 was taken to Wright Field the home of the Air Material Command. I have been informed that General Twinning personally saw the captured aliens and their craft. This is a transcription of General Nathan Twinning’s letter as Commander Air Material Command to higher headquarters. He indicates his best engineers and scientists examined the craft.
Later General Twining was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Air Force and on August 15, 1957, General Twining was formally sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the highest military position in the U.S. by President Eisenhower.
This is a transcription of General Nathan Twinning’s letter as Commander Air Material Command, dated September 23, 1947.
SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning “Flying Discs” To: Commanding General Army Air Force Washington 25, D.C. ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen AC/AS-2 1. As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called “Flying Discs.” This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.
It is the opinion that: a. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and motion which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled manually, automatically or remotely. e. The apparent common description is as follows:-
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface. (2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances where the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions. (3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top. (4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects. (5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted. (6) Level flight speeds normally above 300 knots are estimated.
f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided extensive detailed development is undertaken — to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in sub- paragraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.
Any development in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.
Due consideration must be given the following:- (1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin – the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command. (2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these subjects. (3) The possibility that some foreign nation has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.
It is recommended that:- Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and Code name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army, Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be affected. Note: General Twining flying discs are real and not visionary or fictitious. He suggests it is possible within the present U.S. knowledge — provided extensive detailed development is undertaken — to construct a similar piloted aircraft. His later positions of leadership would provide the authority to build copies of the alien craft.
Signed General Nathan Twining
Le 21 févr. 2021 à 04:23, JACK SARFATTI
PS, I am beginning to realize that none of these asymptotic warp drive metrics are essential to what we are doing at the moment.
First of all, I am only focused on actual evidence of UAVs in our atmosphere that hover, move slowly compared to planes, or at hypersonic v << c.
(Natural units G = c = 1)
We are only interested in what happens locally inside DWarp where
to cancel Earth’s surface g in weak field Newtonian approximation.
The dipolar T00 was Bondi’s essential idea 1950s which for us is cos(arg(S + argT00) < 0 at tail and cos(arg(S + argT00) > 0 at nose.
Jack Note how you and I talked on the phone on Thursday 2/18 about the need for front back asymmetry in order to have “propulsion”, and how this could be done with “negative energy density” contribution from the electromagnetic contribution to energy momentum tensor and phase shift control of individual elements.
This was done on my part without ever seeing the figure/”cartoon” you posted from the paper about “physical warp drives” in your email below. I never saw that figure until just now. In fact, I downloaded the paper and only briefly glanced at the abstract when it was first brought to our attention, I think by Art Wagner, several days ago.
I thought of the essential front back “dipolar” T00 while swimming in the Mission Viejo rec. center pool on Wednesday around 12:20pm, while trying to figure out a simple way to solve for a warp field in closed form. You pointed out how the front back asymmetry can be done with controllable phase shifts of individual elements.
I then pointed out today in my email to you within the last hour or so that one only need be below and above resonance to get a 180 phase change without dissipative effects. The dissipation just helps to allow for more controllable tunability of the phase shift instead of the discontinuous 180 deg. “jump” at w0 for an oscillator without damping. Keith
Editor’s Note: Honeycombs nearly identical bottom portions of these craft were found 6000 miles apart and 41 years later, Plains of St Augustin UFO crash debris honeycomb on left, and Southern Japan’s Shikoku Island debris found in 1971, on the right. A Mr. Shioto saw the UFO explode and found the debris.
The disc I examined had a central core and likely a ring or tube metal of some kind around the outer edge. The entire floor and bottom probably was made of a honeycomb material to keep the craft light. The floor and bottom are probably made with mega materials
This combination of anti-gravity materials and creates a cabin where there is not the feeling of flight or gravity.
All of the samples were tested with a volt-ohmmeter, and were found to conduct electricity. Fifty-six (56) elements were detected in at least one sample. The aluminum contained alloys not available in aluminum in 1947. The coatings on all metals were blended with metal and rich in silica, titanic, magnesia, sulfate, phosphate, and chloride, were almost certainly not available in 1947. The powder coatings are similar to those removed from people claiming alien contact. The samples still emit magnetic and electrical energy indicating these samples include metamaterials, nano technological smart metals and of probable alien origin. Analysis of some of the metal indicated it was not from Earth. Thanks to Timothy Good and Art Campbell
General Twining’s Inspection of the Crashed UFOs of Roswell and Plains of St Augustin
Roswell UFO Crash
General Twining made inspection of R&D facilities at Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico on 10th July 1947 – and then returned to Wright Field, Ohio. About 14 July 1947, General Nathan F. Twining’s Commander of Air Material Command abruptly changes his schedule and flies to Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico south of the crashes. He likely visits the sights or at least examines the UFO debris. General Twining and General Chidlaw had orders to attend a July 8th three days Bomb Commanders Course at Sandia Base in Albuquerque, which was likely a cover for inspecting the St Augustine c UFO crash. This excuse for the trip seemed very unusual for generals to attend. Sandia was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense where a crashed UFO’s propulsion system would likely be taken. The Roswell UFO was being taken to Wright Field at the same time. General Twining flight logs of 1947 have been released so his whereabouts between July 7th and July 9th 1947 have been confirmed. This trip to New Mexico was Twining’s one and only trip during summer of 1947. IPU Summary Page 4 states on 7th July 1947 – Twinning went to Alamogordo AAF for a secret meeting with Army Air Force Chief of Staff Spaatz to view recovered remains of craft from crash landing site 20 miles northwest of Socorro. 8th July 1947 – Twinning went to Kirtland AAF/ Sandia to inspect parts recovered from power plant. 9th July 1947 – Twining and staff went to White Sands Proving Ground to inspect pieces of craft being stored there. 10th July 1947 – Twining made inspection of R&D facilities at Alamogordo and then returned to Wright Field. Other key General’s and even President Truman apparently flew to see the crashed UFOs. There was no record of meeting with President Truman on Twining’s pilot flight log, but his pilot said Twining sometimes made secret flights himself, with Truman actually flying the plane.
I spoke with General Arthur Exon, Base Commander at Wright Patterson in the 1960s who reportedly flew over the crash site in 1947. He said, “” Later he attended advanced military classes and was told that part of the wreckage being tested was made of “specially processed” titanium. “
Mormon The Angel Moroni
The Angel Moroni is an angel whom Joseph Smith reported as having visited him on numerous occasions, beginning on September 21, 1823. According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, buried in the hill Cumorah near Smith’s home in western New York. The angels’ statue is on top of all Mormon Temples
In fact, Mormon associate Orson Pratt described young 14-year-old Joseph apparently seeing and watching a landed UFO near Palmyra, New York, in the spring of 1820, with two brilliant beings appearing and saying they were divine and the Father and His Son.
The Book of Mormon recounts that Jesus visited the Americas after He was resurrected. He taught people and established a church there.
Also the angel Moronic who was God’s messenger from the planet Heaven visited Joseph about eight times between 1823 and 1827 to give him advanced information and to tell him about the metal engraved plates of gold buried in a stone box on Hill Cumorah that Joseph and his wife Emma dug up on September 21-22, 1827, and translated into English with the Urim and Thummim optical instrument found with the buried plates and then published as The Book of Mormon in 1830. The Mormon’s Church official name is The Church of Jesus Christ.
I think devout Mormon former presidential candidate Mitt Romney should in his talks explain some of these significant events and in a way help people to progress toward the immortality and eternal life cited by Joseph Smith. This is also explained in John 3:16 in the Bible. To Mormons we are spirits in heaven who come to Earth to get physical bodies, and then we return to heaven again after we pass away.
The first Mormon Joseph Smith said, “God has a superior and glorified physical body as does Christ and glory of God is intelligence, Earth obeys laws of a celestial kingdom.”
Like others, I puzzle over Armageddon statements and that God will visit Earth with Christ in His promised second coming with angels to Earth–as if this took place after Armageddon and Megiddo battles 50 miles north of Jerusalem where God would pour down fire and brimstone to stop battles and establish peace, takes seven years to clean up battle scenes (due to nuclear wars between battling Earth-armies?) or nuclear war wastes, etc. Mormons write that they will return from Salt Lake City and other areas with others during drastic times to Missouri to build up city of Zion or New Jerusalem in Jackson County, Missouri.
Joseph Smith dedicated the Zion site at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, on August 3, 1831. Oddly, Joseph Smith (1805-1844) was also a legal American presidential candidate in 1844. He taught the ultimate aim for humanity is eternal life,
Ken Larson writes, “If the 1947 there were over 800 UFO sightings during June-July 1947 over America. Sightings of the UFOs have some relationship to the creation and mathematical-engineering-chemical design of the planets of the solar system.
Two luminous UFO occupants told miner Udo Wartena in May of 1947 near Townsend, Montana, “They cannot intervene on Earth.” He saw a large disc shaped object about 35 foot high and over 100 feet across hovering above a meadow. The object was a stainless steel disc in appearance. Thanks to Ken Larson
It’s Difficult to find the Truth Anymore in Government
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will not pursue charges against former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe for allegedly lying during an internal investigation. Now it appears the new FBI Director may be lying or is just misinformed.
OAN, Newsmax, and Fox News have claimed that “fake Trump protesters” were the orchestrators of the insurrection. This information was repeated by Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, to the FBI Director who added that law enforcement and the media are lying about white supremacists and attacks on the Congress. FBI Director Wray comes under renewed scrutinyfor denying that any left wing groups were participating in the January 6, protest. Video of Sullivan protesting at the Capital breaking windows and his speeches asking to destroy the government are frequently shown. · As it turns out, however, Sullivan is the founder of a far-left domestic terrorist group known as Insurgence USA. TRUTH LIVES on at Sullivan also just so happened to be present at the time Air Force veteran Ashli Babbit was shot to death by police inside the Capitol building. Sullivan actually filmed the shooting as it happened on January 6th to protest of the election fraud. Not even one gun was found with the protesters. with https://sgtreport.tv/
BI Director Christopher Wray
Faifax, Va. – NTD News worldtribune.com, patriotdailypress.org › As first reported by Infowars, the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) SEC filing from October 8, 2020, shows that Staple Street Capital received $400 million “with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities.” The filing reveals the Communist Chinese government purchased Dominion Voting Systems one month before the November 3 election. It appears that the Chinese government purchased one of the key electronic voting systems companies through a New York subsidiary of UBS Bank. The subsidiary has multiple board members with deep ties to the Chinese government. The implications of this revelation, which was first brought to light by attorney Lin Wood, are almost difficult to fathom as it calls into question everything we think we know about the integrity of our elections.
“In a nutshell, the Chinese hacked our elections, and purchased the machines that processed our elections. No state with fraud contentions should have certified any electors to the Electoral College as this true bombshell combined with the massive ballot box stuffing operation conducted by some local elections officials make it truly impossible to certify electors for any presidential candidate.”
Microsoft claims China has hacked large numbers of companies and government agencies.
“The actual worker level intelligence personnel report the heaviest hacking ever occurred during the election by China. “The Chinese have rigged our elections; they purchased the machines that processed our elections and followed up if all the machines could not be fixed hacking the remainder. They could easily change the outcome on voting machines simply by changing Trump “A” to “B” Biden. .
No state with fraud contentions should have certified any electors to the Electoral College as this true bombshell combined with the massive ballot box stuffing operation conducted by some local elections officials make it truly impossible to certify electors for any presidential candidate.” The nightly news told us the death of Capital Policeman Brian Sicknick, was caused by being hit by a fire Extinguisher in the head. His brother talked to him later and he said, “He was fine after the riot but died the next day from a stroke which likely was not caused by the intervention at the capital.” The nightly fake media lies over and over again about no evidence for election fraud.
Amid heightened border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hacker’s targeted India’s critical power grid system through malware, a US company said in its study; last year’s massive power outage in Mumbai was a result of online intrusion.
Warning some 12,000 unaccompanied children have illegally immigrated into the US at Biden’s invitation with at least 6% carrying the corona virus poor medical condition, without food, spare clothing, or the ability to speak English.
Shadows
No. 2 of The Seven trilogy
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
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Filer’s Files 10 2021 UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau - PART II
Sao Paulo, Brazil fast flying on February 22, 2021
Filer’s Files 10 2021 UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau - 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: UFO Crash in Cape Girardeau, UFO Briefings at the Highest Levels, Secret Air Force Evaluation of Flying Discs, General Twining’s Inspection of the Crashed UFOs, Mormon the Angel Moroni, It’s Difficult to find the Truth Anymore by Government, Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvanian
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Mexico, 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 Lights
Sacramento– on February 17, 2021, there were two lights traveling in a half oval shape then passes another glowing light going the opposite direction then the two slow down and start pulsating
Colorado Abduction
Colorado-– on February 19, 2021, the multi-colored craft that I was able to film had the abilities to move in unexplained ways. With my eyes it was just flash in multi colors. When I did zoom in it looked like many different shapes and colors. I have been able to see these UFO’s/orbs/spheres/triangles for 3 years now very consistent 3-5 sightings a week.
Florida Rectangle
Boca Rattan – on February 22, 2021, standing on the beach taking photos of the clouds didn’t notice the object right away until I got home and checked my pictures on my phone. That’s when I saw something that was very unusual.
Michigan Object
Ann Arbor– on May 12, 1976, the first sighting was more of an interaction since I was playing in the yard by an old farm house when along came a small silent silver airplane that was flying around the yard. It had two wing spans and it was following me around the yard. It matched the silver metal roof of our barn but it was smooth and rounded off. I didn’t feel any threat. After a while it flew away and I ran to tell my mom bit she just shrugged it off.
Montana Object
Glacier Park National Forest – on June 16, 2019, after a 3 mile hike up Grinnell Glacier Trail, we paused to rest. It was a cloudy day and I decided to take a surprise photo of her. I took 3 photos. The first she didn’t notice, the second she looked when I called her name, and the third she looked away. A week later, I went through our trip photos I noticed in the 2nd photo; way up on the ridge appeared a large circular orb! It was only in the second photo and no aircraft could fly there with the massive updrafts!
Stratham– on March 2, 2021, I was hanging out at a friend’s house and saw a slowly moving triangular object only a few hundred feet altitude. S lowly passing above I run back to my two other friends and they both witnessed this object.
New Jersey Triangle
Woodbridge – on March 1, 2021, riding and saw what I thought was an airplane. The object moved faster than a normal airplane, and then came to a stop and hovered. It did this several times before hovering near a cloud and then disappearing. I captured video on my dash camera.
New Mexico American Airlines Crew Reports UFO
Flight Path American Airlines Flight 2292.
Clayton — February 21, 2021, news report courtesy of an American Airlines passenger jet traveling from Cincinnati to Phoenix encountered an apparent UFO over northeastern New Mexico. The pilot on flight 2292 radioed around 1:00 p.m. CST and said that the unidentified object was flying right on top of them, according to a transmission recorded by Steve Douglass on his blog, Deep Black Horizon. American Airlines verified to Fox News that the transmission is from flight 2292. “Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” the pilot said in the radio transmission.
“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. It went right over the top of us.” Following a debrief with our American Airlines Flight Crew, we can confirm this radio transmission was authentic and the flight that landed in Phoenix, Arizona.
American Airlines spokesperson told Fox News. “For any additional questions on this, contact the FBI that did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Flight 2292 was around 37,000 feet at the time. Scott Stearns, of White Sands Missile Range stated, “The range is fully-instrumented, and was not testing anything on Sunday.”
Note:Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests have been submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for radar data, tower logs and voice tapes. A FOIA request has also been submitted to the FBI regarding what was reported and what (if any) investigations are planned or have been completed. Updates will be posted. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/ Thanks to Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com):
New York Cylinder
Lyndonville – on February 1, 2021, at 6 AM about 4 miles east, appeared a large hovering white cylindrical object. It was oriented north south, tip to tip, next to Lake Ontario, near Lyndonville. No wings no exhaust discharge, and no movement and no sound.
North Carolina Orb
Roan Mountain– on January 26, 2021, at 9:03 PM I was outside saw a dot couple times moving in a very erratic way. I got my phone in case I saw it again. And within a couple minutes I saw it 3 more times with a blue area just prior. I sent some video of a sighting.
I saw it with my eyes 3 times, which was when I got my phone. And the visual with my eyes was WAY better than the video and was not near the moon. It was very real and very vivid as the object was stationary and then took off. It zigzagged and then took off and was gone so fast I could not believe it.
Note:The object was not a bright planet. The witness saw the object move with his naked eye. This also eliminates a camera lens flare as an explanation. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Pennsylvania Object
Penn Hills, Verona – on February 22, 2021, noticed moon was going full in sky while still plenty of daylight so decided to take picture of it for neat conversation piece on FB . After taking picture noticed the dark triangular looking craft in picture did not see while taking picture
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Belgium Rectangle
Antwerp — on March 4, 2021, by accident I looked up in the sky and saw a strange coffin shaped object. I grabbed my iPhone and took several photos of it, I then observed it hovering for at least 10 minutes, and then it slowly disappeared out of sight. Drones do not look like this object.
NOTE PETER2011: According to Belgian researchers, this was a plastic bag, which was blown up by the wind .. Then a photo was taken of it ... I saw the original photo and this statement seems completely correct to me ...
Brazil Explosions Caused by UFO?
Sao Paulo– on February 22, 2021, this record was seen in Brazil and is the proof that I sought to inform that we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings, but even so with so much information, the mainstream media has not taken anything seriously.
Itaquaquecetub – on February 26, 2021, the UFO flew at a high speed and appeared and disappeared wherever it flew, leaving radioactive waves that destroyed the power cables with its radioactive frequency power that ended up causing a short circuit where it landed
Canada Cylinder
Calgary –on March 4, 2021, cigars shape light flying at 45 degree
Czech Republic
Prapořiště– on February 22, 2021, the round thing hovered in the sky and she glowed white.
France Triangle
Luxeuil Saint Sauveur — on May 28 or 29, 2010, I was a student in Nancy to finalize my license in psychology. I took D 314 road on a full moon night, around 11:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. I was driving with my Peugeot 206 and I and I observed a luminous object. I stopped and found myself in front of a silent stationary triangular object.
Mexico Black Object
Ciudad de México – on September 10, 2010, the object stayed in the same area all the time, with sudden changes of direction, drastic accelerations and decelerations, it reflected the sunlight, in the end it just disappeared, some classmates saw it with me. It can only be seen in a photo.
UK/England Lights
Read–on February 22, 2021, this is not a photo -just my Photoshop interpretation of the weirdest lights of what I just saw. I was on George Lane at 12 6.45pm when I spotted 3 hovering low lights just over the horizon. These were not stars as I know all my constellations. They faded one by one in 30 seconds.
Sheffield – on February 27, 2021, looking at a Full Moon, noticed something unusual, a dark spot at the top, so I got the Binoculars for a closer view. A black unusual object strange in shape seemed to glide left in front of the moon then disappeared. The black object was vivid against the white moon.
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Wetenschappers zijn erin geslaagd om een mysterie op te lossen waar ze zich al een tijdje het hoofd over breken. Op de planeet Mars is geregeld een vreemde langwerpige wolk te zien die zich tot honderden kilometers uitstrekt en dan in enkele uren weer verdwijnt. Met dank aan de Europese sonde Mars Express weten we nu eindelijk wat er aan de hand is.
De witte wolk hangt in de buurt van de vulkaan Arsia Mons, net ten zuiden van de evenaar. De Mars Express heeft de sluier gedurende de lente en de zomer dagelijks zien groeien en vervagen en heeft daar opmerkelijke beelden van teruggestuurd. Wetenschappers haalden er ook data bij van andere Marsverkenners.
De wolk was op zijn grootst zo’n 1.800 kilometer lang en 150 kilometer in doorsnee. Het bleek om een orografische wolk te gaan - de grootste ooit op de rode planeet gezien - wat betekent dat ze ontstaat door wind die door Arsia Mons omhoog wordt gestuwd. De vochtige lucht condenseert daarna op koelere hoogten.
Ochtend
De wolk kent een snelle dagelijkse cyclus die zich maandenlang elke ochtend herhaalt, meldt het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau (ESA). Ze begint voor zonsopgang te groeien op de westelijke helling van Arsia Mons en breidt zich vervolgens gedurende twee en een half uur in westelijke richting uit, waarbij ze op een hoogte van 45 kilometer opmerkelijk snel groeit, met meer dan 600 kilometer per uur.
Een beeld van Mars. Arsia Mons in de onderste van de drie vulkanen in beeld.
Dan stopt de wolk met uitdijen, maakt ze zich los van haar oorspronkelijke plaats en wordt ze nog verder naar het westen getrokken door de winden op grote hoogte. In de late ochtend verdampt ze weer als de luchttemperatuur stijgt met de opkomende zon.
De bevindingen zijn gepubliceerd in het vakblad Journal of Geophysical Research.
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A Single Dust Devil on Mars
A Single Dust Devil on Mars
Mars has a great combination of dust and wind. The result of that combination is often dust devils.
The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured several dust devils in action, including this lonely whirling dust cloud traversing across a small crater on the Red Planet.
A larger view of the a dust devil seen north of Antoniadi Crater on Mars by the HiRISE camera. Credit: NASA/JPL/UArizona.
The orbiter’s main objective of this observation, the HiRISE science team said, was to track changes over time of the dunes north of Antoniadi Crater. While HiRISE often catches nature in action (such as an avalanche on Mars), in this case, it’s a well-defined dust devil traversing the dunes, leaving exposed, darker subsurface material in its wake.
Scientists say that dust devils form when sunlight warms up the air near a dry surface. Warm air then rises quickly through the cooler air above and starts spinning, causing a forward motion. These spinning columns of air become visible by the dust they pull off the ground. The spinning, forward-moving cell picks up dust and sand as it advances, leaving behind a “clean” track.
The yellow circle is the area where the dust devil was seen in this full image from HiRISE. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
This black & white full image from HiRISE is less than 5 km across, while the lead image in enhanced color is less than 1 km across.
Over the years, scientists have monitored the appearance of dust devil on Mars. They have seen that on each Martian spring or summer day, dust devils can begin appearing about 10 AM (local time) as the ground heats, and start abating about 3 PM as the ground cools. The dust devils typically last only a few minutes.
A towering dust devil, casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
UFO Sighting News: Unknown Craft Over Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 8-2-2020, MUFON.
UFO Sighting News: Unknown Craft Over Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 8-2-2020, MUFON.
Date of sighting: 8-2-2020 Location of sighting: Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Source: MUFON 114052
Watch this strange craft flying across the sky over Pennsylvania last year. It was reported today. The object does not resemble a plane, rocket, helicopter or blimp. What ever this object is...one thing is for sure...its strange. Cools sighting and could be a plane if the sky, heat, wind and lighting were working together at the right moment, but seems like it something much more...this could be a UFO.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Unexplainable Object observed flying the evening of August 2, 2020. This object was observed flying in the sky on the eastern side of our house. In the video it appears white but to the eye it appeared to be a grey silver color. The object appeared to be shaped like an elongated tic tac or cigar shaped, no wings. The most alarming thing is that it didn't make a sound. Planes fly over here frequently, and when they fly as low as this object did they are normally so loud you can here them inside the house. This object also appeared to not be flying as fast as planes normally do. The video of it was taken on a Samsung Note 9. The sounds you here in the video is mostly the water running out of my fountain and into my pond. There's also the sound of my brothers fiance talking, and crickets chirping. The thing is flying without making a noise.
Clear Photo Of An Alien Craft Over L.a. California
Clear Photo Of An Alien Craft Over L.a. California
JANUARY 23, 2021……THOUSAND OAKS CALIFORNIA
We got another UFO sighting on our hands here in L.A., folks — but this one stands alone, as it offers some the best clear shots we’ve seen of what appears … well, you make the call.
An eyewitness shot these photos last Saturday while heading south on the 101 Freeway, just outside of Thousand Oaks as she was approaching Westlake Village around sunset. We’re told she was on her phone when she saw this thing hovering in the sky, flying in the same direction she was heading … with a group of lights trailing behind it.
The eyewitness says she shot three consecutive photos as quickly as she could, and as you can see … the unidentified object appears to have changed positions, both tilting ever so slightly and moving to a new spot in the sky. We’re told this UFO was only visible for a few seconds, before it literally vanished into thin air. We know … far-fetched, right?
That’s what we thought too — but we’ve been assured these photos are NOT altered, and they show what they show. We were skeptical — thinking these could’ve been tweaked in Photoshop — so we had one of our art gurus take a closer look to see what she thought.
Turns out, our own photoshop wiz seems to agree … these don’t look like fakes.
Our graphic artist tried an experiment with stock images of “glowing discs,” “UFO’s” and “flying saucers” … to see if the images could be manipulated in a similar fashion as the tipster’s photos. She concluded it would be hard to cut/paste these images with the exact angles of the tipster’s images. So, these photos do appear to be legit … or at the very least, probably not photoshopped.
We also reverse image searched these pics, BTW, and couldn’t track down ANY that were exactly the same — so again, it lends credence to the idea these were taken on the spot, without being doctored after the fact.
So, where does that lead us in the end??? Welp, depends on what you want to believe. On its face, this looks to be a straight-up UFO sighting. IF that is in fact the case — who woulda thought Hollywood had it right all along in its depictions?!?
UFO Sighting News: Glowing Lights Over Jersey City, New Jersey 11-5-2020, MUFON.
UFO Sighting News: Glowing Lights Over Jersey City, New Jersey 11-5-2020, MUFON.
Date of sighting: 11-5-2020
Location of sighting: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Source: MUFON 114047
This eyewitness was lounging on the roof when she noticed some glowing lights over a building in the distance. There were four lightings glowing over the building. The UFOs were probably checking out the activities of the people in the buildings and their current health levels. This way the UFOs don't need to come lower, but instead only need to got to the top of the building.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Hanging out in my complex we have an area that faces New York City. I always see them because the sky is open and they’re very obvious. That day it was strange because there were 4 just hovering together as though they were having a meeting. They were there for a very long time but seemed as though no one even noticed. I wanted to film it until they separated to see what would happen but they were there for too long, then out of no where they were all gone.
UFO Sighting News, Black Disk Over Keasbey, New Jersey, 10-18-2019, MUFON.
UFO Sighting News, Black Disk Over Keasbey, New Jersey, 10-18-2019, MUFON.
Location of sighting: Keasbey, New Jersey, USA
Date of sighting: 10-18-2019, but reported today.
Source: MUFON 114039
This event happened back in 2019, but was reported today by the eyewitness. The person was siting in the back seat of the car and noticed a black object in the distance. They recorded it with a phone best they could and the video it produced blows me away. At first I thought it was something stuck to the window, however I slowed it down and the UFO does pass behind the lamp poles (screenshot below). The object looks like a non reflective black disk. Similar to the one that Bob Lazar worked on at Area S4 many years ago. This thing was seen over New Jersey, so there is a huge chance that this is a USAF top secret project...using alien technology from Area S4.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
lack diamond in the sky. Video proof. On a road trip to Vermont. Visualized a black diamond in the sky and decided to film it. Wasn't driving, was in the back seat.
Black diamond shaped UFO hovering over Keasbey, New Jersey
Black diamond shaped UFO hovering over Keasbey, New Jersey
Witness was on a road trip to Vermont when he noticed the black diamond shaped UFO on which he decided to film the strange appearance in the sky over Keasbey, New Jersey.
Furthermore, Bright Jellyfish-like space creature in the sky over Hillsboro, Tennessee, Unexplainable object flying through the clouds over Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, Front door camera recorded mysterious Orb in North Brunswick, New Jersey and Strange Lights hovering over Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona.
UFOs over Phoenix filmed from a plane during landing
UFOs over Phoenix filmed from a plane during landing
This UFO video was filmed back in April 2019 but it was just published on MUFON’s website today. It shows these stationary UFOs hovering in the sky, witness caught this from a plane during landing.
Witness report:
As I was landing at Phoenix International airport I witnessed multiple lights to the right of the aircraft, outside my window. At first I thought it was the line of other flights to land after us, but after watching them for a few minutes I noticed our elevation changed but their did not. I decided to focus a bit more on them to see if they were blinking as beacon lights would on planes, but nothing. The lights stayed at the same elevation during my entire landing and I captured 3 of them with my iPhone just before we landed. You can’t tell in the video but we are already below the mountain peaks so this can’t be a landing line for planes. Others on the flight were talking about them but we don’t know what they were. I know at night our cameras create an “orb” effect than many mistake for UFO’s but that is not the case here. Take a look at the video, I’m sure many others saw these hovering.
Daytime UFO video of a bright unidentified flying object above Norwalk in California. This was filmed on 6th March 2021.
Witness report:
Round organic looking glowing orb with flashing white light randomly, also seemed to be spinning. I was looking up at a clear blue sky in the afternoon when I noticed this white glowing object moving with random flashing white lights moving quite fast in the sky. It seemed to be spinning around and when the lights were off it looked like a black mass, it was hovering ( still ) at times, and then moving again changing direction one time at a 90 degrees angle. It looked like it was very high up in the sky, so it must have been big in size ! Don’t know what it was, definitely no airplane or balloon or any other known craft. Also this was not the first time I have seen a sighting like this above my house, this was the fourth time I have seen an UFO like this in the past year, only this time I had a clearer view on it then before.
“Black diamond in the sky. Video proof.” Keasbey, NJ
“Black diamond in the sky. Video proof.” Keasbey, NJ
This diamond-shaped black UFO was filmed over Keasbey, New Jersey back in in 2019 (18th October) but it was just posted on MUFON’s website today!
Witness report:
Black diamond in the sky. Video proof. On a road trip to Vermont. Visualized a black diamond in the sky and decided to film it. Want driving, was in the back seat.
Tianwen-1 : ses premières images de Mars en haute résolution - Part I
Tianwen-1 : ses premières images de Mars en haute résolution - PART I
Rémy Decourt - Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] Pourquoi les lancements vers Mars ne peuvent se faire que tous les 26 mois ?Lancer un engin vers Mars, ce n’est pas facile. Il ne suffit pas d’attendre que notre Terre soit au plus près de la Planète rouge... Explications en vidéo !
Découvrez les trois premières images de la surface de Mars acquises par la sonde Tainwen-1. Ces images, rendues publiques par l'Agence spatiale chinoise, ont été acquises seulement quelques jours après l'arrivée de la sonde chinoise autour de Mars.
L'Agence spatiale chinoise a rendu publiques trois images de la surface de Mars acquises par la sonde Tianwen-1, arrivée autour de Mars le 10 février 2021.
Il s'agit de deux images en noir et blanc et une en couleur qui ont pour but de montrer les capacités des caméras embarquées à bord de la sonde. L'image en couleur, de moyenne résolution, montre le pôle nord de la planète et sa calotte polaire très représentative de cette région.
Des images techniquement attrayantes
Quant aux images en noir et blanc, elles ont été acquises avec une caméra ayant une résolution de 70 centimètres le pixel. Dit autrement, les plus petits détails visibles mesurent un peu plus de deux mètres. Une résolution inférieure aux images de la Nasa et néanmoins supérieure à celles obtenues par la sonde Mars Express de l'Agence spatiale européenne mais dont la conception remonte au milieu de la décennie 1990.
Ces deux images ont été acquises alors que la sonde se trouvait à environ 330 à 350 kilomètres au-dessus de la surface martienne. On peut voir des cratères, des crêtes de montagnes et des dunes de sables. L'Agence spatiale chinoise n'a pas fourni d'informations sur la localisation de ces deux sites.
Ces deux images en noir et blanc de la surface de Mars font partie de la première série d'images obtenues par la sonde Tainwen-1. Elles ont été acquises depuis une altitude entre 330 et 350 kilomètres, quelques jours après l'arrivée de la sonde autour de la Planète rouge. La résolution est de 70 centimètres, ce qui signifie que les détails les plus petits visibles mesurent un peu plus de deux mètres.
Après la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, c'est autour de la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 d'arriver autour de Mars au terme d'un voyage de sept mois. La sonde s'est insérée en orbite vers 14 h 00 (heure française). La Chine devient donc le sixième pays et groupe de pays à rejoindre la Planète rouge, neuf ans après une première tentative ratée (Yinghuo-1).
C'est fait ! Dix ans après l'échec de la mission Yinghuo-1, un petit orbiteur qui devait être amené autour de Mars par la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt, la Chine est en orbite autour de Mars. Oubliez l'échec de Phobos-Grunt, qui n'avait pas réussi à quitter la Terre, la sonde Tianwen-1 s'est mise en orbite autour de la Planète rouge. La sonde serait entrée en orbite autour de Mars un peu avant 14 h, heure française, avec un périgée de seulement 385 kilomètres. L'Agence spatiale chinoise devrait confirmer les paramètres orbitaux de la sonde dans le courant de l'après-midi.
La première image rendue publique de la Mars acquise par la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1, alors distante de quelque 2,2 millions de km de la planète rouge.
Cette mission chinoise est techniquement et scientifiquement très ambitieuse. Elle comprend un orbiteur, un atterrisseur et un rover. Depuis les missions Viking des années 1970, la Nasa a abandonné cette architecture de mission, lui préférant des missions uniques, c'est-à-dire soit un orbiteur, soit un lander, ou soit un atterrisseur avec un rover. La Chine n'a donc pas vraiment choisi la simplicité avec cette mission...
Étonnamment, l'atterrissage du rover est prévu fin avril-début mai. Pour comprendre ce délai de plusieurs mois après l'arrivée de la sonde, il faut savoir que l'Agence spatiale chinoise, contrairement à la Nasa ou l'ESA, ne dispose pas de cartes à haute résolution de la planète Mars. Ainsi, l'orbiter MRO (et sa caméra Hirise) de la Nasa a pu fournir des cartes très détaillées, de seulement quelques dizaines de centimètres de résolution, du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance bien avant son lancement.
Afin de préparer au mieux l'atterrissage du rover chinois, dans la partie sud d'Utopia Planitia, la sonde Tianwen-1 cartographiera la région de façon à tracer des cartes les plus détaillées possible. Le but est de localiser l'endroit le plus propice pour faire atterrir le rover en sécurité dans un environnement pas trop encombré de gros rochers et le plus plat possible. Dès le point d'impact connu et pour réaliser un atterrissage en douceur avec la précision requise, les contrôleurs au sol devront calculer le point d'entrée dans l'atmosphère martienne, qui ne sera évidemment pas choisi au hasard. Un calcul déterminant pour poser en douceur le rover.
Des objectifs ambitieux
Comme pour la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, les objectifs scientifiques de la mission sont annoncés comme élevés et focalisés sur une grande variété thématique (morphologie, géologie, structure interne minéralogie, eau, atmosphère, environnement spatial). Avec ces deux missions, la communauté scientifique s'attend à des avancées.
Parmi ces objectifs, on citera ceux qui font le pari de rechercher des signes de vie possibles ou des processus biologiques qui accréditeraient cette hypothèse. Le rover (240 kilogrammes environ) devrait photographier, étudier la composition du sol et fournir des informations sur l'environnement proche et l'atmosphère. Il recherchera également des traces d'eau à l'état solide, voire gazeux ou liquide, et son radar sondera le sous-sol afin d'obtenir des indices sur le passé de la planète. Quant à l'orbiteur, il se focalisera notamment sur l'atmosphère martienne et le méthane qui peut s'y trouver.
Mars en vue ! La sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 envoie sa première photo
Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 08/02/2021
L'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA), dont la sonde Tianwen-1 s'apprête à se mettre en orbite autour de Mars le 10 février, a rendu public un premier cliché de la planète Mars, acquis par la sonde. Et des images de Mars, la CNSA va en avoir besoin pour préparer l'atterrissage de son rover, en mai.
En février, les trois missions martiennes lancées à l'été 2020 devraient arriver autour de la Planète rouge. La sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis le 9 février, suivie un jour plus tard de la sonde Tianwen-1 de la Chine (10 février) et enfin l'Américaine Perseverance le 18 février.
À quelques jours de la mise en orbite de Tianwen-1, une phase très délicate, l'Agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA) a publié un premier cliché en noir et blanc de la planète Mars. Si peu de détails sont visibles, c'est tout à fait normal. La sonde a pris ce cliché quand elle se situait à quelque 2,2 millions de kilomètres de la planète Mars. D'une masse au lancement de cinq tonnes, Tianwen-1 est une mission de type Viking. C'est-à-dire qu'elle comprend un orbiter, une plateforme d'atterrissage et un rover conçu pour fonctionner et rouler pendant au moins 90 jours.
Atterrir dans la vaste plaine d’Utopia Planitia
Étonnamment, l'atterrissage du rover est prévu au mois de mai. Pour comprendre ce délai de plusieurs mois après l'arrivée de la sonde, il faut savoir que l'Agence spatiale chinoise, contrairement à la Nasa ou l'ESA, ne dispose pas de cartes à haute résolution de la planète Mars. Ainsi, l'orbiter MRO (et sa caméra Hirise) de la Nasa a pu fournir des cartes très détaillées, de seulement quelques dizaines de centimètres de résolution, du site d'atterrissage de Perseverance bien avant son lancement.
Afin de préparer au mieux l'atterrissage du rover chinois, dans la partie sud d'Utopia Planitia, la sonde Tianwen-1 cartographiera la région de façon à tracer des cartes les plus détaillées possible. Le but est de localiser l'endroit le plus propice pour faire atterrir le rover en sécurité dans un environnement pas trop encombré de gros rochers et le plus plat possible. Dès le point d'impact connu et pour réaliser un atterrissage en douceur avec la précision requise, les contrôleurs au sol devront calculer le point d'entrée dans l'atmosphère martienne, qui ne sera évidemment pas choisi au hasard. Un calcul déterminant pour poser en douceur le rover.
Tianwen-1 : lancement réussi de l'ambitieuse mission chinoise vers Mars
Article de Rémy Decourt publié le 23/07/2020
La Chine a lancé ce matin la mission Tianwen-1 à destination de la planète Mars qu'elle atteindra en février 2021.
Tôt ce matin, la sonde chinoise Tianwen-1 a été lancée en direction de la planète Mars pour un voyage long de sept mois. La sonde a décollé à bord d'un lanceur Long March 5 du centre spatial de Wenchang, située sur l'île de Hainan à 06 h 41, heure de France. Tianwen-1 doit arriver autour de Mars en février 2021 et s'installer sur une orbite elliptique avec un périgée à 265 kilomètres et un apogée à quelque 12.000 kilomètres. L'atterrissage du rover est prévu en avril dans d'Utopia Planitia, une vaste plaine de l'hémisphère Nord de Mars où des observations radar ont indiqué la présence de vastes quantités de glace sous la surface.
Cette seconde mission martienne de la Chine est très ambitieuse car elle prévoit l'atterrissage d'un rover et la mise en orbite autour de la planète d'une sonde. Neuf ans plus tôt, la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt, qui embarquait le petit orbiter chinois Yinghuo-1, avait raté son départ de Terre. L'orbiteur, qui embarque sept instruments, est conçu pour fonctionner pendant au moins une année martienne, soit deux ans. Quant au rover, il devrait rouler sur la planète pendant au moins 90 jours et dispose de six instruments.
Une mission scientifique annoncée comme ambitieuse
Tianwen-1 bénéficie de l'héritage technique du programme d'exploration lunaire chinois avec trois sondes et deux rovers sur la Lune, dont un est actuellement en activité sur la face cachée. Cela dit, malgré d'indéniables avancées technologiques et une politique cohérente de rattrapage dans les technologies spatiales, les Chinois ont tout de même été contraints de solliciter une assistance étrangère pour le bon déroulement de la mission et la fourniture d'instruments scientifiques. Il faut se rappeler que sur la quarantaine de missions lancées vers la Planète rouge depuis le début de la conquête spatiale, plus de la moitié ont échoué. Un peu d'aide de spécialistes étrangers n'est donc pas une si mauvaise idée que cela.
Comme pour la sonde Hope des Émirats arabes unis, les objectifs scientifiques de la mission sont annoncés comme élevés et focalisés sur une grande variété thématique (morphologie, géologie, structure interne minéralogie, eau, atmosphère, environnement spatial).
L'été 2020 s'annonce particulièrement propice aux lancements des missions martiennes. Ce jeudi, c'est la mission chinoise Tianwen-1 qui prévoit de quitter le plancher des vaches pour rejoindre la Planète rouge.
Le rover Hope des Émirats arabes unis et celui baptisé Perseverance par la Nasa ne seront pas les seuls à se rendre sur Mars ce mois-ci. La Planète rouge se trouvera en effet en opposition avec la Planète bleue vers la fin de l'année : elle, la Terre et le Soleil seront alors dans le même alignement, et Mars sera au plus proche de la Terre. Leurs positions respectives permettront par ailleurs aux missions de suivre une trajectoire optimale pour se rendre sur place. Les orbites asynchrones de la Terre et de Mars impliquent que les fenêtres de tir avantageuses sont rares, généralement espacées de deux ans. Mais l'année 2020 offre des conditions particulièrement propices pour les agences spatiales, qui ne connaîtront pas de nouvelle chance comme celle-ci avant 2033.
Trajectoire typique d'une mission vers Mars (ici, la mission Insight, lancée en 2018).
C'est pourquoi la première mission martienne entièrement conçue en Chine devrait se joindre au mouvement ce jeudi si tout se déroule comme prévu. Baptisée Tianwen-1 (un nom tiré d'un poème du VIe siècle avant notre ère, et signifiant littéralement « questions adressées au paradis »), elle se compose d'une sonde, d'un atterrisseur et d'un rover. Les appareils devraient se placer en orbite martienne en février 2021, avant que l'atterrisseur et le rover ne soient envoyés à la surface, dans la plaine Utopia Planitia, deux à trois mois plus tard.
L'ESA, le Cnes, et les agences spatiales argentine (Conae) et autrichienne (FFG) ont apporté leur soutien au lancement de la mission Tianwen-1.
La région sélectionnée par l'Agence spatiale chinoise possède plusieurs avantages notables pour le bon fonctionnement de la mission. Premièrement, l'atterrisseur devra traverser une plus grande couche d'atmosphère avant d'atteindre le fond du cratère d'impact formant Utopia Planitia (jusqu'à cinq kilomètres de profondeur), bénéficiant ainsi d'un temps supplémentaire pour ralentir sa chute. Deuxièmement, la zone possédera une exposition au Soleil suffisante pour alimenter les batteries du rover. Enfin, le terrain plat offrira une zone d'exploration idéale au robot, qui sera en opération pendant 90 jours martiens, équivalent chacun à 24 heures et 37 minutes sur Terre. Au programme : étude de la géologie martienne, analyse des sols et de la distribution d'eau glacée, mesure de l'ionosphère et des champs gravitationnels et magnétiques.
La Chine va lancer sa première mission d'exploration de Mars en juillet
Article de l'AFP-Relaxnews, publié le 25 mai 2020
La Chine investit des milliards d'euros dans son programme spatial et vise la Planète rouge avec une première mission baptisée « Tianwen ». Elle prévoit d'envoyer, en juillet, une sonde et un petit robot pour y mener des analyses.
La Chine prévoit de lancer en juillet une sonde et un petit robot téléguidé vers Mars, sa première mission en direction de la Planète rouge, a annoncé le promoteur du projet. Le pays investit des milliards d'euros dans son programme spatial : il lance des satellites, prévoit d'envoyer des Hommes sur la Lune, et vient courant mai de lancer un nouveau vaisseau.
« Notre objectif était d'envoyer la sonde vers Mars courant 2020, a indiqué la China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). Ce grand projet avance comme prévu et nous visons un lancement en juillet », a-t-elle souligné dimanche dans un communiqué.
L'atterrisseur du rover martien de la Chine testé dans des conditions simulant la gravité martienne.
Tianwen, la première mission chinoise à destination de Mars
Il faudrait sept mois pour parcourir la distance Terre-Mars et la sonde chinoise n'arrivera pas à destination avant 2021. La distance change constamment mais est au minimum de 55 millions de kilomètres. Baptisée Tianwen (Questions au ciel), la mission chinoise a trois objectifs : placer en orbite martienne une sonde, la faire atterrir sur la Planète rouge, puis téléguider à la surface un robot pour y mener des analyses. La Chine a déjà réalisé une opération similaire sur la Lune, où elle a déposé dès 2013 un petit « rover » téléguidé à roues (baptisé Lapin de jade), puis son successeur en janvier 2019 (sur la face cachée de l'astre lunaire, une première mondiale).
Le pays asiatique n'est pas le seul sur le créneau des missions martiennes. Les États-Unis, qui ont déjà envoyé quatre véhicules exploratoires sur Mars, doivent lancer entre juin et août leur cinquième (nommé Perseverance). Il devrait arriver vers février 2021. Les Émirats arabes unis vont lancer le 15 juillet la première sonde arabe en direction de la Planète rouge, depuis le Japon. Par contre, la mission russo-européenne ExoMars, victime de difficultés techniques aggravées par l'épidémie de Covid-19 et qui espérait lancer cet été un robot vers Mars, a été reportée à 2022.
La Chine dévoile des informations inédites sur sa mission martienne de 2020
Article de Rémy Decourt, publié le 26 août 2016
Après le lancement d'un satellite qui embarque un système de communication quantique, la Chine a profité de cette exposition médiatique internationale pour lever le voile sur sa première mission martienne. Quelques images de synthèse et une brève présentation d'un des responsables de la mission ont suffi pour susciter un vif intérêt en raison d'objectifs scientifiques passionnants et à la clé une course avec la Nasa qui s'ouvre...
La Chine qui depuis son premier vol habité réalisé en octobre 2003 est devenue une puissance spatiale de premier plan s'éloigne encore plus de la Terre. Après la Lune en 2013, elle met le cap à destination de Mars et vise un atterrissage en 2021. On rappellera que la République populaire de Chine a d'abord tenté de rejoindre la Planète rouge à bord de la sonde russe Phobos-Grunt sur laquelle se trouvait l'orbiteur chinois Yinghuo-1. Malgré un lancement parfait le 8 mars 2011, cette sonde n'a jamais réussi à quitter l'orbite terrestre pour rejoindre Mars. En janvier 2012, elle est retombée dans l'océan Pacifique.
A présent, la Chine vient de publier quelques images de synthèse de cette future mission martienne qu'elle compte lancer en 2020. Ces clichés, au-delà de l'aspect ludique, nous renseignent sur le profil et l'architecture de la mission. À cela s'ajoute qu'en marge de cette publication, Zhang Rongqiao, un des responsables de la mission, a profité de l'occasion pour donner quelques détails intéressants que nous synthétisons ci-dessous.
Pour une première mission à destination de Mars, avec un orbiteur, un atterrisseur et un rover, la première puissance économique mondiale n'a pas vraiment choisi la simplicité. Si la mission ExoMars 2016 de l'Agence spatiale européenne a la même architecture, la Nasa, qui lance une mission à chaque fenêtre de tir a pris le parti de lancer soit un orbiteur, soit un engin de surface (lander ou rover). Bien que la Chine ait réussi à poser avec succès un petit rover sur la Lune (décembre 2013), atterrir sur Mars est autrement plus difficile. Sans surprise, le site d'atterrissage se situera près de l'équateur, là où les conditions atmosphériques pour se poser sont les plus favorables.
Courte vidéo qui résume le voyage du rover chinois, de son départ de la Terre à ses premiers tours de roue sur la planète Mars.
2020, grande année de lancements à destination de Mars
Cette mission martienne sera lancée lors lors de la fenêtre de tir de 2020, à l'été en vue d'un atterrissage au printemps 2021. Cette fenêtre de tir verra également le décollage des rovers Mars 2020 de la Nasa et d'ExoMars 2020 de l’Esa ainsi que de la mission Hope des Émirats arabes unis. Il s'agit d'un orbiteur dédié à la météorologie martienne qui viendra compléter les données de la sonde Maven, de la Nasa.
Compte tenu d'un grand nombre d'instruments, les objectifs scientifiques sont nombreux et variés. Les plus excitants sont ceux qui font le pari de rechercher des signes de vie possibles ou des processus biologiques qui accréditeraient cette hypothèse. Le rover (200 kg environ) emportera 13 instruments qui lui permettront, entres autres, de photographier, d'étudier la composition du sol et de fournir des informations sur l'environnement proche et l'atmosphère. Il recherchera également des traces d'eau à l'état solide, voire gazeux ou liquide et un radar sondera le sous-sol afin d'obtenir des indices sur le passé de la planète. Quant à l'orbiteur, il se focalisera notamment sur l'atmosphère martienne et le méthane qui peut s'y trouver.
Battre la Nasa sur le fil
Alors qu'on doit aux Russes et aux Américains la plupart des grandes premières spatiales, la mission de retour d’échantillons martiens se fait toujours attendre. Et si la Nasa, qui a cet objectif en point de mire depuis plusieurs années, se faisait souffler la vedette ?
Vu la vitesse à laquelle la Chine rattrape son retard technologique, il y a fort à parier que vient de s'engager une course entre ces deux agences spatiales. La Nasa comme la CNSA visent toutes les deux le début de la décennie 2030. Avec sa mission Mars 2020, la Nasa devrait prendre un peu d'avance. En effet, elle prévoit de déposer dans des conteneurs quelques précieux grammes du proche sous-sol martien. Quant aux Chinois, cette première mission martienne leur servira à démontrer un certain nombre de technologies nécessaires à ce retour d'échantillons sur Terre.
MARS CITY DESIGN: 6 SCI-FI CITIES THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND "GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!"
MARS CITY DESIGN: 6 SCI-FI CITIES THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
AS PERSEVERANCE INSPIRES THE ENTIRE WORLD about the thrill of visiting our nearest solar neighbor, Mars, it's easy to start fantasizing about what it will be like when human beings regularly live on the red planet in the future.
6. BRADBURY CITY - MARS TRILOGY
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There are several fictional cities in Kim Stanely Robinson's seminal SF books about the settlement of Mars — Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars — so it's hard to pick just one. But, if you have to choose only one Martian metropolis from his books, Bradbury City is the way to go.
Named for Ray Bradbury, who wrote The Martian Chronicles, Robinson's Bradbury City is designed to recreate a city in Illinois. Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois. The Martian Chronicles features several unlikely Martian cities, some made by humans, some made by Martians. But, in almost all cases, like in "Night Meeting," these towns and cities often have gas stations and pickup trucks.
5. BOWIE BASE ONE - DOCTOR WHO
Bowie Base One in "The Waters of Mars."BBC
Not exactly a city per se, but certainly a great Martian settlement in the pantheon of science fiction — if only for its name.
In the 2009 David Tennant-era Doctor Whoone-off, "The Water of Mars," the Doctor battles a type of sentient alien water called "the Flood," that turns people into water zombies. Bowie Base One, in the Who-canon, is the first human colony on Mars, which leads to many, many others. Obviously, it's named for David Bowie and the song "Life on Mars."
4. UTOPIA PLANITIA - STAR TREK
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In the 24th Century-era of Trek, most of the best ships in Starfleet are built at the Utopia Planitia Shipyards in orbit of Mars. The Trek franchise rarely visited Mars, although the final episodes of Enterprise Season 4 — "Terra Prime" and "Demons" — had a lot of action on the Martian surface.
Both Star Trek: Picard and its prequel, "Children of Mars," revealed that the shipyards weren't just in orbit of Mars, but also on the ground, which meant that a huge civilization population lived and worked on Mars prior to the Sythn revolt in 2285.
3. LONDRES NOVA - THE EXPANSE
Mars in The Expanse.Amazon
More than any other contemporary science fiction series, The Expanse— both the books and the TV series — have made a convincing projection of what a future Martian colony might be like.
The capital city, Londres Nova, is sometimes called "New London." In the reality of The Expanse, what makes the settlement of Mars so interesting is the way in which it eventually just becomes totally independent from the Earth to the point at which its government is basically in direct competition with Earth for the entire solar system's resources. By the future time period of The Expanse, Mars is basically an alien planet, populated by humans.
2. MARS DOME ONE - BABYLON 5
Babylon 5 Mars Dome ONe.Warner Bros
Somewhat unique among science fiction, Babylon 5 started off with a lead character who was born on Mars, Commander Jeffery Sinclair. In B5, being from Mars isn't that weird, but the politics of Mars are integral to the overall story of the series.
Mars Dome One
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Mars Dome One is the biggest city there, and yes, it's a giant dome. But, Mars Dome One and other cities in Babylon 5 are fascinating because unlike Earth, there's more of an underworld on Mars, including an underground railroad for rogue telepaths.
1. CHYRSE - TOTAL RECALL
Mars in Total Recall.TriStar
The Martian city visited by Arnold Schwarzenegger's Quaid is by far the most memorable Martian city in science fiction, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
In the Philip K. Dick short story upon which Total Recall was based, "We Can Remember It For Your Wholesale," the lead character never actually goes to Mars, at least not in the realtime of the story. The triumph of Chryse in Total Recall is the edgy naturalism of this future city. It's sleazy, dirty, and dangerous.
Can you grab me a copy of Mars Today?TriStar
In Blade Runner, you're told that humans have emigrated to a variety of other planets. Chryse in Total Recall is like the Martian city equivalent of Los Angeles in Blade Runner. You can basically imagine them existing in the same shared universe. Would author Philip K. Dick approve? Maybe!
VIDEO:On Mars They Discovered A New Mystery: The Mysterious Statue Is A Proof Of Intelligent Life.
VIDEO:On Mars They Discovered A New Mystery: The Mysterious Statue Is A Proof Of Intelligent Life.
The Red Planet is a magnet for extraterrestrial survivors. They regularly come up with new information on what strange and mysterious they have been able to find on Mars. This time, it seems to them that aliens from space could even be religious foundations.
UFO lovers have recently been greeted by a NASA snapshot on a soche-like unit to prove the existence of intelligent life on the planet.
When Elon Musk said there’s a “good chance” the first settlers on the Red Planet will die there, at an August 31 conference, the outcome was easy to imagine. It is a dangerous place, after all. But that obscures the ultimate goal of any colony: to have people comfortably die on Mars after a long life of work and play that, we hope, looks at least a little like life on Earth.
Several necessities for achieving this feat are in use or development already. The long-term life-support technology aboard the International Space Station, for example, already recycles air and water. Mars, however, will require life support for the same group of people, not a group that rotates every few months with frequent short trips from Earth.
The key to surviving the desperate conditions that await the first Martian settlers lies in balancing our response to predictable events—limited water, no atmosphere, radiation—and developing a resiliency against unpredictable events, says Jennifer Buz, Ph.D., an areologist (one who studies Mars) at Northern Arizona University. “There’s a lot you can plan for, so you could kind of prolong your life to an extent, but there’s always going to be something that’s not perfectly accounted for.”
What will settlers need to do? “The first thing is figuring out the shelter and sealing it so you’re not losing all your resources,” Buz explains. “Shelter could be like a cave or a subsurface shelter; it doesn’t have to be an external thing. It’s so cold there, and because of the radiation, that’s going to be critical. If you’re in an enclosed place, you can keep your atmosphere.”
Plus, she says, you need “a way to get at the resources that it does have, like soil and water. A 2019 paper described how you could easily melt the subsurface ice and basically cover the planet in aerogel. You could put down a layer of it and it will heat the surface.” That research, started by the University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University and continued by Harvard and the University of Edinburgh, showed that the silica aerogel layer could block radiation, enable photosynthesis, and heat the ground to a stable point above freezing to create islands of habitability.
“If I can go to Mars and be a human guinea pig, I’m willing to sort of donate my body to science. I feel like it’s worth it for me personally, and it’s kind of a selfish thing, but just to turn around and look and see Earth. That’s a lifelong total dream.”
- Elon Musk
Even with the right structures and technology in place, if one piece fails, it can throw the whole system out of equilibrium. “Then you’re going to have a runaway effect,” says Buz. She cites an example of runaway effect from the science fiction series The Expanse. A carefully balanced space settlement loses its air supply after a single piece of hardware is disabled. “Their sunlight is reduced, so their plants produce less air. Slowly the air becomes harder to breathe and they start losing food,” she says.
Scientists at NASA and under Musk’s SpaceX umbrella can also only prepare so much before they run into the firm limitation of human factors like discipline and interpersonal dynamics, Buz says. “There’s not going to be options for people to interact with, and you have to constantly face your own mortality,” she says. “It will be very easy to die there—lose your atmosphere, lose your water—so you have to live a very rigid lifestyle.”
Humans have done it before. “Polar explorers like [Ernest] Shackleton planned everything well in advance since they couldn’t just eat whatever they wanted,” says Buz. “They had to be very careful because of the temperatures and because it was a very small group. They all had to pull their weight.”
Besides, added Musk at that conference, there’s an upside if you don’t fall to hardship or accident. “It’s going to be tough going,” he said, “but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.”
In the year 1981, Norwegian people started seeing something unusual in the sky. Tinted lights swung silently came into view above the vale.
Prying spectators discovered the strange lights are best seen from a grade at the north of the gorge, eyeing south, and within few years the UFO hunters started congregating on Hessdalen lights.
And there has been one of the longest and the most scientific of all UFO investigations.
It has been given many names; some call them ghost lights, some call them UFOs, whilst some call them Earthlights.
It hasn’t been cleared, yet, what these lights are exactly, however, Hessdalen’s inhabitants don’t look too worried.
Though some are still thinking over the fact- are Hessdalen lights real? The population of this village only consists of a few hundred people.
UFO researcher, Dr Erling Strand, in 1983, started a project and named it Hessdalen as a kind of core agenda for all the information obtained by UFO researcher and other examiners.
Strand was sure that some mysterious division of physics was liable for those strange lights, and he persuaded as many researchers as he could in order to merge with his project.
Project Hessdalen Lights
Project Hessdalen built on mechanized measurement station on the famous hill, with an evident view of the sky pointing south to the valley.
It was loaded with an amazing series of technical gear. It not only incorporated with tons of optical cameras, however, magnetometers, tools for measuring low rate electromagnetic energy.
Interestingly, the station incorporates a number generators that randomly generates numbers, as a part of the Global Consciousness Project, which strives for to prove that combined human awareness foresees crucial occurrences by changing the output of the random number generators.
Seemingly, this is to examine whether the emergence of the Hessdalen lights is some kind of psychic phenomenon.
The automated station discovered that the Hessdalen lights generally appears in the sky at night amid 9 pm and 1 am, especially during winters.
Numerous photographers have taken pictures of the Hessdalen lights and posted on several online websites.
The photos can be seen on the official website of Hessdalen lights at hessdalen.org.
When they emerge out in the sky, each light sustains a persistent color temperature, and its range stays unchanged.
Hessdalen Lights Solved
The researchers dig deep in order to attempt and track down this mysterious new section of physics.
One of the acquaintances of Dr. Strand, Dr. Massimo Teodorani, an astrophysicist and radio astronomer, suggested, out of several theories they studied that the Hessdalen lights might occur due to these possible activities;
solar activity, cosmic rays, ionosphere activity, magnetic monopoles, Rydberg matter, piezoelectricity, mini- black holes, and quantum fluctuation of the vacuum state.
None of these reasons could substantiate the Hessdalen lights, except for some characteristics of piezoelectricity, it was likely to discover some proof.
Teodorani gave a very different explanation. He theorized the whole scenario in a different manner.
He stated that water oozes into cracks in quartz in the gorge, and when the water freezes, it puts pressure on the quartz, triggering a piezoelectric effect that develops an electrical current.
He presumed the presence of a flying ball of plasma, probably fired by the piezoelectric current, and the equilibrium of his intricate theory includes the aspects of the plasma.
It attaches with water vapor, airborne mold microorganisms. It maintains itself in balanced because of complex contracts, and retain its shape due to a supposed ‘cool coat’ of ions and water.
This isn’t a very satisfying explanation; it is more likely an unconventional hypothesis.
It ties together some extreme assumptions, only a few of them are credible or have been paid attention to, ever.
What we have learned so far about the earth’s history is when water freezes inside rock cracks, it breaks the rock.
Not for once has it ever been perceived to leave the stone unharmed and release the energy by bringing into being an electrical current that develops flying plasma balls.
Another thing to look at is that natural quartz does depict the piezoelectric effect; however, there’s very small quartz in Hessdalen. It is almost schist and sandstone.
Even though the schist contains tales of quartz, it easily gets broken by ice and releases any force.
Ultimately, the piezoelectric effect in a few natural rocks exists, however, hardly visible.
Teodorani didn’t look into the root of what’s causing the emergence of lights in the sky; rather, it all started with the hypothesis that the cause is the distinct geophysical method that came out of the ground, drifting.
He came up with another hypothesis supporting this assumption. Beginning with a description, and performing in reverse in order to try and complement the examination, is contradictory to what an actual science does.
Hessdalen Lights Phenomenon
There have been sightings of 53 lightings during the field examination. Dr. Strand organized together with the author, the first international congress of the Hessdalen lights phenomena in the year 1994.
This meeting lured scientists from all over the world and improved scientific research in Hessdalen.
Reports from the Congress signify that descriptions of the occurrence could direct to new theories in physics.
The congress began the partnerships betweenVestfold University in Norway and CNR in Italy.
The author started the EMBLA project with Dr Stelio Montebugnoli, with the intent of researching the electromagnetic radiation and nature of the Hessdalen lights in Norway in 1999.
The Hessdalen lights still lit the skies up; however, their rate has been decreased to 20 observations each year.
The succeeding is the result from more than 25 years of research and when Italian SETI scientists got engaged with much highly technical equipment.
Hessdalen Lights Debunked
The flashy plasmic balls could be as huge as of a car. The scientists now conclude that the Hessdelan lights are the outcome of a natural battery hidden underground, developed by metallic minerals that respond to the sulfurous river running over it.
Some scientists believe that the Hessdelan lights are caused by a kind of plasma. Plasma is cold and could kill the micro-organisms, as well.
However, it’d need an extremely high temperature and a massive amount of energy to be manufactured.
Others think that the Hessdelan lights are some sort of ball lightning since similar ball lightning has been seen and examined in China exhibited they were developed of iron, silicon, and calcium, which are found in Hessdalen lights, along with an extra element called scandium.
However, the Hessdalen lights do not emerge when there is a bolt of lightning, directing Dr Hauge to propose another idea.
He suggested that the valley’s form, geology, and climate produces a huge electric charge and that still electricity on the foothills were beaten by strong winds.
Others consider that the flashing lights are fuelled by radioactivity and the deterioration of radon in the atmosphere.
According to them, the Hessdalen lights were ‘dusty plasma’ comprising ionized dust particles.
Coming back to Teodorani’s theory; he stated that a floating light rose out of the ground due to a unique geophysical process.
Even though this theory received any recognition, it still wouldn’t be a satisfactory one for the Hessdalen observations.
People live through the Hessdalen valley, and not any of the examinations have incorporated lights emerging out of the ground.
To have a sight of the Hessdelan lights, one has to climb the hill at the north end of the vale, and glance at the south.
He believed that the plasma balls are in the gorge and drifting in the air; contradictory to the researches that assert the lights are evident to the south of the watching point.
One local media report quoted the pilot recalling a metal ring wrapped around the object and a brilliant light coming from its centre.
The unidentified flying object was seen over Rahim Yar Khan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
The pilots were operating a routine flight from Lahore to Karachi.
The object periodically pulses as it hovers, 1,000ft above the cruising aircraft, as pilots watch it on a flight between Lahore and Karachi
Pakistani journalist Zain Khan, who tweeted the footage, wrote on Twitter: 'It is too early to say for sure what he had actually witnessed.
'It cannot necessarily be a flying saucer.'
Khan said the pilot immediately reported the incident when he saw it last Saturday, adding that authorities were now investigating as to what the object is.
A spokesman for PIA confirmed the captain of the flight saw an 'extraordinary object' flying 1,000ft over his aircraft, which was cruising at 35,000ft, and made a video which is being circulated on social media.
'At this time we don't know what the object was', the spokesman said.
When it comes to UFOs, most people accept the eyewitness accounts of astronauts, military and professional pilots over sightings by the general public. That may explain why a sighting by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilot and crew on a domestic flight over Pakistani airspace is getting intense scrutiny worldwide. It helps that someone in the cockpit captured the UFO on video and the sighting was in bright daylight against a clear blue sky. With that many witnesses, including reports from the ground, Pakistan International Airlines felt obligated to issue a statement. What did all of these people see? What did the airline think?
“The video was shot over Multan-Sialkot region by Captain Faisal Qureshi and his First Officer Captain Talha while piloting the Karachi-Lahore flight at an altitude of 35,000 feet.”
The Express Tribune reports that the UFO was spotted by the crew of domestic flight PIA flight PK304 from Karachi to Lahore. At about 4 pm on January 23 near Rahim Yar Khan, the pilot saw the UFO about 1,000 feet above the Airbus A-320. According to the records, Captain Qureshi immediately reported the sighting back to the control room. After landing in Karachi, the pilot shared the video with officials of Pakistan International Airlines. They were sufficiently concerned that a spokesperson made a statement to the public:
“It is too early to say what that object was. In fact, we might not be able to tell what the object was at all. However, something was spotted and it was reported in accordance with the required protocol.”
Better call the tower on this one.
Somehow, as usual, the 41-second video appeared on social media. (Watch it here.) Speaking in English, the pilot can be heard saying “It’s not a balloon, it’s not an aircraft.” Some of the video was censored due to language, but reports say the pilot was also heard commenting “The UFO was extremely bright despite the presence of sunlight” and speculating that it was not a planet but could be a “space station” or an “artificial planet.” One report also stated the pilot saw what looked like a metal ring surrounding the UFO and a brilliant light coming from its center.
Despite the pilot’s expert opinion that the object was not a balloon, that was the prevailing comment on media posts. The Express Tribune contacted Pakistan Meteorological Department spokesman Khalid Malik, who explained they have some balloons that fly at an altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet, and Radiosondes balloons which can reach 70,000 feet. However, private weather station operator Jawad Memon pointed out that Radiosondes, which he claims the Meteorological Department no longer uses, are non-reflective rubber while the UFO was obviously very shiny. Some commenters and media sites referred to the UFO as an alien Foo fighter, but that term – first used during WWII – has been explained to be either electrical discharge from the wings of a plane or reflective ice crystals – both of which follow the plane and are close to it, unlike the Pakistan UFO. And, since it was recorded on video, it’s not a hallucination due to fatigue or stress.
Foo fighter?
“A similar incident was also reported in January 2019 by PIA pilots in Karachi. A UFO was spotted by the flight crew flying 105 feet above the aircraft, while the plane was flying at an altitude of 2,500feet. The flight captain suspected it could be a drone. The incident was immediately reported to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) in Karachi.”
Was this one a drone too? The altitude rules out commercially available drones, but it could be a military drone, although the pilots didn’t make that connection. That puts this object solidly in the “unidentified” category with a slight lean towards “balloon” but a contrary pull towards UFO because of the inability of the pilots to identify it.
As long as the UFO phenomenon has existed there have been those looking to tap into it, shape it, mold it to their wishes, and convince others of their version of the “truth.” This way lies the myriad UFO cults existing out there, which range from the harmless to those that have ended in tragedy. These are some very weird stories of people who have somehow been convinced to believe some very fringe beliefs, often only on the word of one leader who exudes authority and who is respected as being in the know. Rarely have such UFO cults ended up in a good place, and here we will look at another such belief system based on UFOs and an enigmatic leader with some rather strange messages for the world.
The whole strange affair begins with a man named Sheldon Nidle. Born on November 11, 1946, he would later claim that almost from his very birth he had been contacted by alien intelligences from the planet Sirius, who were allegedly part of a larger “Galactic Federation.” These aliens apparently contacted him throughout his entire life, communicating with him telepathically, taking him into their spaceship, and implanting him with what he calls “direct core knowledge inserts.” He would claim that he was a “star seed from Sirius” destined to do great things. Nidle would say that he then ceased contact with the aliens for some time while he attended Ohio University and the University of Southern California, graduating with an M.A. in Southeast Asian government and an M.A. in American politics and international public administration, eventually earning a PhD and pursuing research into alternative energy sources. He is obviously no fool, well-educated and eloquent, but in the 1990s he would get back to talking about aliens again when he claimed that the Galactic Federation had approached him once more, making him their representative on Earth.
Sheldon Nidle
In 1996, Nidle began talking of telepathic communications he had had with the Federation that dealt with some urgent business, indeed. The aliens allegedly told him of an incoming cataclysm that would wipe out Earth as we know it. According to Nidle, the planet would be transformed into a more pristine state by passing into the path of what he called the “Photon Belt,” which was an area of space imbued with strange energy properties that would metamorphize human DNA and give us super powers and the ability to regenerate and live forever, as well as telepathic abilities. Are you with me so far? Sounds pretty awesome so far, but the intelligences also told Nidle that passing through the Photon Belt would destroy much of the surface of the planet, with only those who hid underground or were whisked away on spaceships assured to be safe. Luckily for us, Nidle also claimed that the aliens were drilling out subterranean caverns for us to cower in, as well as calling in a fleet of, wait, let me see if I’m reading this right, yes, 15 million spaceships ready to take many of us away from certain doom to join a “deep space brotherhood.”
At the time, we were running out of time, as the channeled messages stated that Earth would pass through this Photon Belt no later than December 17, 1996, but not to worry, because the fleet was closing in, due to arrive in early December, and most of humanity would be saved and achieve “a paradise of sociological and ecological evolution.” The ships on the way to our planet were said to be coming from numerous far-flung spacefaring races, such as the Pleiadians, Sirians, Cassopeans, and Arcturians, all of them willing to help us out, as well as apparently actual angels. Nidle would give one message that reads of all of this:
Our planet is moving from third dimensional awareness (physical-material reality-what you can see, feel, hear, taste and touch), to a fourth and a fifth-dimensional consciousness. In these dimensions you will be fully conscious, you will exist in a state of love not fear. You will be telepathic and have much more light in your body. You will be able to create anything you want with your mind and the new technology that will be provided for you. This technology will be beyond your wildest imagination. You will be able to live for hundreds or thousands of years. You will be completely healed of anything that is now wrong with you. You could be 85 years old now and manifest a 20-year-old body. Very soon, we will have millions of space ships and visitors from outer space on this planet. Our government knows this is happening but they want you to be afraid so they can keep life as it has been. Our visitors will be joined with angels that you will see coming down with the ships. They are benevolent and loving. They will bring counselors, supplies, teachers and new technology. We are being assisted by all of Creation – the Spiritual Hierarchy, Angelic Realms, the Galactic Federation of Light, Ascended Masters, and our space brothers and sisters.
You are very blessed and very special to be on this planet at this time. Within a short period of time our planet will be receiving the Photon Belt. This belt of light comes around every 25,000 years. This time it will be ushering in the Golden Age. The photon energy is an extremely loving energy that is comprised of Photons, Gamma Rays, and Anti-matter Particles. When the Photon Belt hits we will have three days of darkness and one day of coldness. Then we will have 16 years of light, 24 hours a day. You will become fully conscious within the first hour when the light beam hits your pineal gland. It will activate all 12 strands of your DNA and you will be able to use all of the rest (90%) of your brain that you currently have not been able to use. You will be able to create with your thought, whatever you need, light up a room, warm yourself, whatever you need. There is nothing to fear. A paradise is being created on this planet that is beyond your furthest imagination. We send much blessings of love and light to you.”
Pretty odd, indeed. There were some strict stipulations laid out for all of this awesome weird space stuff to pan out, such as neutralizing all earthly weapons, which were to be beamed up onto these spaceships, and all technology and mechanical devices were to be shut down upon the aliens’ arrival. We also had to agree to shut down all of our earthly government systems and give ourselves over to these beings, letting them take over with a “Spiritual Hierarchy,” which would help us ascend to higher beings. To help facilitate all of this, Nidle got online and began recruiting his “Ground Crew,” all of this almost exclusively done via the Internet, and this crew was given the task of acting as aides and ambassadors for the coming of the aliens, the training for which would be beamed into their heads as they slept through implant technology. They were also tasked with trying to raise spiritual awareness of what was to come, help us reach a “critical mass of spiritual energy,” and to carry out efforts to ecologically help out the planet. Unfortunately, even with all of these efforts, the aliens’ planned landing in December of 1996 never materialized. Many were dejected, but for Nidle this wasn’t a problem.
The leader of the Ground Crew simply blamed the failure of the arrival on numerous setbacks, such as solar storms, unforeseen technical issues, and humanity simply not being ready yet. It is pretty par for the course for any self-proclaimed prophet whose predictions did not come to pass, but he handled it like a pro. Nidle’s followers believed him and anxiously awaited their spiritual revolution. With the approach of the Hale-Bopp comet in February of 1997, Nidle found the perfect way to continue the mythology by working the comet into the lore, and for good measure he increased the number of approaching spacecrafts to 25 million (!). Nidle claimed that the comet was actually one immense starship with a crew of 20,000, that was merely using holographic cloaking technology to camouflage itself, and that it was followed not far behind by the rest of the massive fleet. To make it sound legit, Nidle even concocted a story that Ground Crew members had had a meeting with alien scouts in the Australian desert at Ayers Rock.
Of course, Hale-Bopp came and went with no such alien space force appearing, so Nidle was once again forced to think on his feet. He began spinning stories of “dark forces” seeking to sabotage the plans, forcing the benevolent forces to delay their arrival until “the right divine time.” According to Nidle, in the meantime we were to act as stewards of the planet and seek to help it recover ecologically and spiritually. Behind the scenes there was some turmoil within the organization, with Nidle clashing with his secretary and the Ground Crew’s chief administrator, Valerie Donnell, causing Nidle to break off and form the “Planetary Activation Organization,” still claiming to be the only one in direct contact with the aliens. His rhetoric would change and evolve, now saying that the aliens were placing “Star Gates” in the upper atmosphere and that there was a secret cabal of Earth leaders who were actively trying to stop the coming of the fleet. Somehow, even with the date of the supposed alien force pushed back again and again, Nidle was able to maintain hundreds of thousands of followers in 29 countries. The organization continues to this day, and we are left to wonder, how does this all keep chugging along? Whatever the case may be, it is certainly an entertaining and intriguing look into some far out stuff.
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Nearby “Super Earth” May Have an Atmosphere Worth Studying
Nearby “Super Earth” May Have an Atmosphere Worth Studying
A newly discovered exoplanet called Gliese 486 b may be able to help astronomers understand atmospheres on other rocky worlds. The planet is approximately 1.3 times bigger than Earth with a mass that’s about 2.8 times greater.
It takes Gliese 486 b just 1.47 Earth days to orbit a dim red dwarf star that is approximately 26 light-years away from us. This means that it is the third-closest “transiting” exoplanet that has been found thus far and since the star is around 30% as massive as our own sun, Gliese 486 b is the closest ever world that whips around a red dwarf with a measured mass.
The “super Earth” was discovered with the CARMENES spectrograph instrument on a telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain by Trifon Trifonov (from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and the lead author of the study) as well as his colleagues. Then they analyzed more data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find out more information about the planet and its host star (they also studied data collected by a spectrograph called MAROON-X on the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii).
(Not Gliese 486 b)
Based on their data, the experts believe that the exoplanet is made up of iron-silicate which is similar to Earth’s composition. It is tidally locked which means that only one side of the planet faces its host star at all times. The estimated surface temperature on Gliese 486 b is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (427 degrees Celsius) which means that although it’s very hot on the planet, it is more than likely cool enough to support an atmosphere that can be analyzed from right here on Earth.
Interestingly, the temperature on Gliese 486 b is very similar to Venus where it reaches about 880 degrees Fahrenheit (471 degrees Celsius), but that also means that there probably isn’t any life on the exoplanet.
(Not Gliese 486 b)
Nevertheless, since it is located so close to our planet, we will be able to study it in further detail and hopefully learn more about its potential atmosphere. And with the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we should find out even more data in the near future. “Future observations of Gliese 486 b will help us understand how well rocky planets can hold their atmospheres, what they are made of,” Trifonov stated, adding, “Optimistically speaking, in about 2.5 to 3 years from now, we may know if the planet has an atmosphere or not, and, if yes, what is its composition.” Artist impressions of Gliese 486 b can be seen here.
Artist's illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 486 b, which lies just 26 light-years from Earth.
(Image credit: RenderArea)
The newfound exoplanet Gliese 486 b orbits a red dwarf star about 30% as massive as Earth's sun.
(Image credit: RenderArea)
Artist's illustration of the surface of the newly discovered exoplanet Gliese 486 b. With a temperature of about 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius), Gliese 486 b possibly has an atmosphere.
(Image credit: RenderArea)
The study was published in the journal Sciencewhere it can be read in full.
On March 7, 2021 the Perseverance mars rover took a remarkable image of the sun, (Sol 16) with its left navigation camera (Navcam) but surprisingly the image also shows an unknown object next to the sun.
Maybe a sungazing comet that passes extremely close to the Sun or... could it be that the rover captured a huge spacecraft?
Suppose the object is not a comet, but artificial, then who designed this unidentified flying object capable of withstanding the extreme heat of the sun
Just a couple of weeks ago I was asked about the famous April 24, 1964 UFO case involving police-officer Lonnie Zamora. My view is that what was seen was a device of the U.S. military. And, I’ll explain why. First, some background on the case for those who may not be fully aware of it all. It was on the afternoon of the day in question that local police-officer Lonnie Zamora broke off from pursuing a teenager in a speeding car and headed to a nearby dynamite shack. The reason? A sudden roaring sound coming roughly from the area where the shack was positioned. Quite naturally, Zamora thought that there may have been an explosion at the site. He was wrong. What Zamora came across – many UFO researchers believe – was nothing less than a landed UFO, piloted by two smallish humanoids dressed in white. A close encounter? For many, yes. For me, too – but I just don’t think the incident had anything to do with aliens. Bear in mind that the location was barely any distance from White Sands, where, for decades, new devices and technologies have been flown. But, there’s another issue. For me, the most important angle.
One of the key things that Zamora said was that the craft spewed flames out of it. That suggests the craft was rocket-powered. As NASA state: “Rocket engines are distinguished b the type of mechanism used to produce exhaust material. The simplest ‘engine’ is a compressed air bottle attached to a nozzle. The exhaust gas is stored in the same form as it appears in the exhaust. Ejection of compressed air, or other gas, from a nozzle is a perfectly satisfactory rocket operation for some purposes. The most common rocket engine is the chemical type in which hot exhaust gases are produced by chemical combustion. The chemicals or propellants, are of two types, fuel and oxidizer corresponding to gasoline and oxygen in an automobile engine. Both are required for combustion. They may be solid or liquid chemicals.”
In light of all the above, I find it very difficult to believe that aliens from a faraway world (or even a far away solar-system or galaxy, even) would be using rocket-powered craft, even in certain stages of their time spent on our world – namely, when landing and taking off. Surely, by 1964, their technology would have been way ahead of ours by then? My line of thinking applies to another famous case, too. The Cash-Landrum incident of December 1980. Now, let’s have a look at that one.
When, shortly before 9:00 p.m., Vickie Landrum, her grandson, Colby, and Betty Cash exited the restaurant where they had just eaten a fine Texan dinner, they couldn’t imagine what was just around the corner. As they headed towards the town of Huffman, they were terrified by the sudden sight of an unknown object in the sky. Worse, it was descending on a flight-path guaranteed to ensure it landed on the road they were on. As they got closer, they could see the aerial thing was giving it out flames and shaped not unlike a diamond.
It reached a perilously low level of around twenty-five feet, something which ensured a screeching of brakes and the car brought to a shuddering standstill. The interior temperature of the car suddenly reached intolerable levels. The three jumped out of the vehicle and could only stare in awe and fear. Then, out of the blue, around two dozen, double-rotor helicopters were on the scene, clearly intent on caroling the UFO. Or, perhaps they were escorting it. Cash was sure they were Boeing CH-47 Chinooks. They watched as both the UFO and the helicopters left the area and were finally lost from sight. Within days, all three fell sick: nausea and vomiting were at the forefront. Betty Cash was the one affected most of all – which may be explainable by the fact that she was the one member of the group who got closest to the object. Her hair started to fall out, her skin was covered with pustules and blisters, and the nausea got worse.
Despite attempts to force the US Government to come clean on what went down, there was nothing but denial after denial from the authorities. The case is a puzzling one, with some UFO researchers believing the three encountered a real UFO, while others suspect they were unfortunate enough to cross paths with a top secret prototype aircraft that was in deep trouble. This makes me think it was not an extraterrestrial craft – because, again, “rocket-ships” would be way too primitive for an alien civilization far ahead of us. I should stress I don’t think the cases were hoaxes at all. I think the witnesses described exactly what they saw. But, that what they saw did not come from another world.
Are you frustrated with the quality of UFO/UAP sightings these days – the lack of details, the blurry photos, etc.? Do you fancy yourself as a Fox Mulder who would like to search for the truth that’s out there … if you only had the time, the training or the financial wherewithal? Good news, friends – you can now take the ‘wanna’ out of your ‘wannabe’ dreams and become part of a worldwide UFO-watching group with do-it-yourself equipment.
“Our mission is straightforward: connect a network of civilian-owned sensor arrays, use machine learning to catalogue anomalous events, and share this data with researchers.”
Sky Hub is the project of Chris Cogswell, host and creator of The Mad Scientist Podcast with a doctorate in chemical engineering and an interest in UFOs, and a team of hardware and software experts with an interest in UFOs. He explained recently to Space.com that Sky Hub’s recommended hardware – three do-it-yourself sensor kits based on the Jetson Nano and Jetson Xavier NX computers designed for running multiple neural networks – is in alpha testing and Sky Hub is looking for early adapters to help test them. The sensor or “tracker” kits – which run from $700 to $1400 — collect high-resolution data and upload it to an eventual worldwide, digital UFO database accessible to the public with Sky Hub’s open-source software.
“There are lots of reports of objects in the sky that we don’t know how to categorize that I think are interesting and worthy of study.”
Sky Hub is not in this for the money – while it sells the enclosure shell and asks for a monthly subscription to maintain the database and software, the rest of the components can be purchased off-the-shelf and it recommends to shop around for the best prices. The Jetson computers are easy to use and Sky Hub’s website has excellent instructions and chat services available for both setup and usage.
“In my opinion, there is something interesting happening here that’s worth investigating. You can’t deny that there are people who still make reports of UFOs every year. If it’s all fake, in my mind, that’s almost more interesting. How did something untrue become such a social phenomenon like this?”
Cogswell’s observation is interesting – there hasn’t been such strong interest in UFOs since the late 1950s and early 1960s — and prescient as well. Space.com points out that there are already a number of projects searching for UFOs, plenty of meteor trackers, astronomers and militaries all searching for UFOs and UAPs with far more sophisticated equipment – and those people have logical explanations like space objects, drones, secret test aircraft and the like. However, Cogswell is right – there are a few UFO/UAPs that have defied all explanation attempts … and coverups are indeed as interesting as actual sightings. That sounds like something one has to go to his podcast to discuss.
If nothing else, the Sky Hub do-it-yourself UFO/UAP kit sounds like a great project for riding out the pandemic lockdown.
Woo Ships – discussion about Mag Drive – Floaty cars – Woo Ships – Magnetic propulsion – How to become incredibly wealthy.
Clif High has a patent on computer-assisted reading technology which allows reading from computer screens at up to 2000 words per minute. Reaching into other areas of hidden potential within language use by humans, he has been developing a system of software internet agents (like search engines use) and other proprietary processing methods to predict future events. The software project, begun in 1997, captures near-real-time changes in language patterns within internet discussions. Then, employing radical linguistic techniques of his own devising, he develops a model which anticipates future events with some seeming accuracy. The processing has, at its core, a method of assigning emotional values to complex content and time carry-values to predict changes in future behavior based on how people are using language now.
Since June 2001 when the work projected a major ‘tipping point’, that is a ‘life-changing event’ with aspects of ‘military and accident’ that would forever change the way we live to occur inside 90 days, the web bot project has continued to give archetype descriptors of future events such as the anthrax attack in Washington, the crash of American 587, the Columbia disaster, the Northeast Power outage, the Banda Aceh earthquake and most recently the flooding of the Red River. As a continuing project, reports are offered from the extracted archetype information at his web site, www.halfpasthuman.com.
Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public
Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public
Antigravity Technology Hidden for Decades from the Public
Antigravity Technology is Hidden for Decades From the Public We have been indoctrinated to believe that antigravity technologies are not available to us and that most likely we’ll never get more.
Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project
Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project
Art Bell and Dr. Steven Greer on UFOs & E.T Disclosure Project
COAST TO COAST AM INSIDER Archived Show – Dr. Steven Greer joined Art to talk about ET disclosure. Dr. Greer had just returned from the Disclosure Project Press Conference from the National Press Club in Washington, DC. He mentioned that the BBC was covering the conference but that the US media often ignores this type of information. He discussed a government meeting with Ronald Reagan’s science team about an alleged UFO.
Our pal Dominick may find this tiresome, but it’s pertinent to the UFO discussion…
Why are we seeking to discover the source or essence of UFOs?
It’s not just to satisfy the long-desire to sate our curiosity as to what the phenomenon is.
That is a means to another end surely.
We, as a human species, need to know the purpose of our being, why we exist and to what end. It’s the enduring question of mankind, since the very beginning of human consciousness.
Where UFOs come from, what their essential substance is, who guides them, and all the other ufological questions point to a denouement that tells us the purpose of life.
Grabbing a Big Foot (Sasquatch, Yeti) or finding the Loch Ness “monster” will not answer those pertinent philosophical questions, just as philosophical debate can’t and hasn’t answered them either.
Trapping a ghost might provide the ultimate answer(s) but that probability is as ephemeral as the thing (ghosts) that some pursue relentlessly.
A UFO, on the other hand, can, I believe, tell us what reality truly is.
I keep harping on the matter but it seems to suit the possibility of what surrounds us as a reality.
In a protracted paper I’m working on for my new Substack account, I’m stymied by the origin of the “God idea.” It is surrounded by so many, ifs, ands, or buts, that one can get lost in the web of possibilities, snared by hypotheses or conjectures that intrigue but take us no further than the question “What is the purpose of existence, life?
Yet, a downed or captured UFO could slide us into an answer by telling us what reality is extant elsewhere, and I don’t mean just on another planet somewhere in the Cosmos.
The innards of a UFO – not some leftover debris from a supposedly crash “machine” – but the actual workings, possible entities (organic or machine-created), and other accoutrements can fill us in on what lies beyond our percepted reality.
Dominick and his “don’t muddy the UFO waters with philosophical/theological queries or suggestions” buddies are off-track. UFOs, without those inquiries, are as meaningless as the footprints of Sasquatch or humps on alleged sea monsters.
When I push for UFO sightings where appearances of “beings” show up in what may be windows, I’m trying to establish a possibility of some kind of rationale for reality from those “beings.”
But we don’t need those “entities.” Their “construct” can tell us as much as we need, without back-engineering their supposed crafts, although back-engineering could help.
Again, getting photos of UFOs, examining UFO debris, tracking UFO sightings, are as flimsy as the quest for existential meaning that absorbs philosophers and even scientists.
So, let’s have at UFOs by getting our hands on one or seeing what’s “inside” them. And let’s forget the dumpy idea that just congregating UFO information, by itself, is worthwhile. It isn’t.
[N.B. the picture of Preston Dennett’s book shown above doesn’t mean I’m recommending it as a panacea for my plea. Mr. Dennett’s book is replete with tales from people who are either deranged or foolish, but some who might have actually seen something worthwhile. Readers can decide.)
Images used are from peculiarium.com, magicball.net, and
UFO Sighting Over Hillsboro, Tennessee On 7-26-2020, MUFON News
UFO Sighting Over Hillsboro, Tennessee On 7-26-2020, MUFON News.
Date of sighting: 7-26-2020
Location of sighting: Hillsboro, Tennessee
Source: MUFON 114015
Watch this ten minutes of raw footage of a UFO over Tennessee last year. It happened last year, but was submitted today into MUFON. The footage shows a thick disk with an antenna on its top center and a glowing window around its center. It's actually a classic disk, but is attempting to create a cloud form around it causing it to appear thicker than it really is. The second photo above is proof of this. This is a rare sighting of a real glowing disk at night over Tennessee. The real kicker is that it has an antenna on its top center...just as scientist Bob Lazar who worked in Area S4 inside Area 51 said some disks have and will fly tiling at an angle. The antenna is actually the source of its movement. Not engines...but direction movement. The actual propulsion systems are separate.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.
Pink UFO Seen Over New York and New Jersey, March 3, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Pink UFO Seen Over New York and New Jersey, March 3, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 3, 2021 Location of sighting: New York and New Jersey, USA
Dozens of eyewitnesses in New York and New Jersey are reporting seeing a pink-red glowing object over the area. It's actually a glowing UFO over the area. Twitter lit up with these tweets and some of them included the most amazing photos. The eyewitnesses said that the glowing object was seen before, during and after sunset. This is an alien ship and it's lit up on purpose to try to slowly get people use to seeing aliens, to make them accustomed to them, to feel less afraid of them. The movies portray aliens as the enemy, but aliens want to be seen as friends.
NASA tried to tweet out that its not a UFO, but instead its the rocket exhaust from a recent launch. Thats typical of NASA to try to spread disinformation in hopes of confusing the public and creating doubt. NASA is an agency that was created to hide the alien evidence from the public. Doubt my words? What monumental discoveries were made from sending the last four NASA rovers to Mars? Yeah....none! That how they are, drop feed info to the public in order to control the publics curiosity of space. Check out the tweets below and decide for yourself. I know the truth, and I hope you do too.
Guys, I found something on Mars that is a little strange. I was looking at Sol 4 of the Mars Perseverance rover when I discovered that there is a baby bird sitting in the middle of it all. I say baby, because it looks like it has no feathers yet, but still has the feathery fuzz the chicks have. I can easily make out the black beak, white cheek and head, neck, tail, butt, wing and even the extra long feet are visible. Its feet are so long, it's more similar to penguin feet than anything else. So...If I had to guess...I would say it's a penguin. How it got there is anyones guess, but I have only two theories. First it could be an alien species of bird on Mars. Second it might not be Mars at all, but instead is actually on Devon Island, which...may have similar bird life there.
I also found a lot of other things of interest in the same photo. The screenshots can be found below.
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UFO Sighting News: Black UFO Over Bogota, Colombia Jan 24, 2021.
UFO Sighting News: Black UFO Over Bogota, Colombia Jan 24, 2021.
Date of sighting: Jan 24, 2021 Location of sighting: Bogota, Colombia
Source: MUFON
This report just came in today, but occurred back in January. A black disk was seen over the city edge of Bogota along the forest. The video shows some shaky footage, but three photos that came with the report show a more clear image of the craft. The photos reveal the incredible detail of the black craft. The eyewitness appears to be a high school boy wrote simply, "On January 24, at 5:56 p.m. on the road that leads from La Vega to Bogota, there was a UFO sighting." He gives no other details, but still very impressive. Most kids his age would not bother reporting a sighting. It takes real courage to report a sighting, in the face of ridicule from other non believers. This kid is a lion among men. This is 100% a real alien craft over the forest of Bogota.
Filer’s Files 9 2021 New Weapons of Stealth War - PART I
Filer’s Files 9 2021 New Weapons of Stealth War - PART I
Filer’s Files 9 2021
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Commander Graham Bethune UFO Sighting, UFO Crashes into Shag Harbor, New Weapons of Stealth War, Fukushima+Not+An+Accident, Shadows Book and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Idaho, New Jersey, New Mexico, Virginia, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Commander Graham Bethune UFO Sighting
Commander Graham Bethune is a retired Navy Pilot and a good friend. During his 26 years of active duty he qualified in over 100 different models of aircraft. In February 5, 1951, he and two other Navy Pilots were sent to Keflavik, Iceland on a Secret mission to meet with the Icelandic Government and Lockheed Overseas, personnel who managed the Airport regarding frequent UFIO sightings.
On February 10, 1951, while Piloting a four engine Navy R5D Transport returning from Keflavik, to Argentia, Newfoundland, he had an eight minute encounter with an “Unidentified Flying Object” that was 300 feet in diameter. The first chapter of Major Keyhole’s book “Flying Saucers Top Secret” is devoted to this famous encounter
During the Disclosure Project, Commander Bethune revealed his Flight 124 from Keflavik, Iceland was involved with a near miss of a UFO in 1951, about 300 miles outside of Argentia, Newfoundland, over the Atlantic Ocean flying a R5D aircraft.
R5D
Here is Graham’s account of his sighting.
My name is Graham Bethune. I am a commander, retired pilot from the Navy and I went through the regular Navy program of training pilots. I graduated in 1943 from Pensacola Academy Air. All Navy pilots are trained navigators, which is very important because we had to know all of the star systems. I navigated maybe 13 years around the planet with the stars. And when I first graduated from Pensacola in 1943 I went to the South Atlantic and we were hunting German submarines. This was all night flying.
Everything we did was at night in patrol planes. I was transferred to Air Transport Squadron One in 1950. I was sent to Keflavik, Iceland, along with two other officers after a meeting that they had in Washington, D.C., where Iceland was involved in seeing UFOs over Keflavik, Iceland, and they wanted troops up there to protect them.
During our Iceland meeting they were explaining to us why they had requested the troops and what they were seeing. And we asked them if they could really go into more detail about the type of craft that they were seeing. And their explanation was that they were seeing lighted circular craft at night. And we knew coming from a Naval Air Test Center, that we had nothing like that that we had tested.
So I asked them, well, what did our government tell you that they were? And they said, your government said“They were experimental, probably experimental Russian bombers.”
The flight hone was normally about ten hours. But this particular night we had a 16-knot head wind. About maybe 300 to 400 miles outside of Argentia, Newfoundland, I saw something below the horizon, on the water, that looked like approaching a city at night. It was just kind of an ambient light, no definition whatsoever. But it looked like we were approaching a large city at night. So I watched it for a while about 1:00 AM.
Finally I called my co-pilot Kinden’s attention to it, who was sitting in the right seat. He was route checking me. He took a look at it but didn’t know what it was. We couldn’t figure out what it was since there is only ocean out there. We had passed over the guard ship already. The guard ship had told us the weather was clear and no Northern Light activity, and there were no ships plotted in that area.
Control confirmed we were on course and hundreds of miles from land. So we watched it for a while and we were drifting to the right of it. Our heading was 222 degrees at 10,000 feet and we were 40 miles away originally. When we were about 25 or 30 miles away we could see defined lights and there was a pattern on the ocean. It was a strange circular very large pattern and we couldn’t figure out what was going on.
So I sent the crew chief back to get the other plane commander, Al Jones, because they wanted to land at Argentia. There were 31 passengers and we had two VIP crews that had pilots also, and patrol plane pilots. And at the time that they came forward, the lights went out. There was nothing on the water15 miles away. I mean it was just dark. Now standing behind me was the navigator, the radioman, and also the other plane captain the cockpit was full. All of a sudden we saw, on the water, a yellow halo that was very, very small, about 15 miles away. And it came up to 10,000 feet in a fraction of a second. And I thought that it was going to go right through us. So I disengaged the autopilot, pushed the nose over, because I was going to go under it at the angle it was coming toward us.
The minute I did that it was up at our altitude and I could see nothing outside of the cockpit but this craft. And so I didn’t know which way to go. And then all of a sudden I heard a racket. I didn’t know what it was. And I said, Fred, what the hell was that? He looked around and he said, “Everyone was ducking in the back of us and they collided and they are all lying on the deck back there, scrambling on the deck.”
When I looked back it wasn’t there. And he said, “It’s over here on the right hand side about a mile away. It kind of drifted forward, maybe to a position five miles away, and that’s where it stayed with us for quite some time.
This is when we could first see it was below our altitude. But it was still above the horizon where you could see the side of the craft. You could see the dome and you could see the color around the perimeter of the craft. And then we knew that it was a friendly encounter. We knew that it knew that we were there and had come out to see us. But we didn’t think the reason that it flew up was because they wanted to show us what the Icelanders were talking about. We watched it for a while and Al says, “Let him get in the seat.” So I let him get in the seat and he disengaged the autopilot and was going to chase it. We had a head wind of about 60-knots, so our ground speed was only maybe 125 knots. So he wasn’t going to go too far in chasing this thing. But he did turn to chase it.
Initially the UFO color was yellow. Since then I’ve learned from the boys upstairs why we saw different colors as it was coming toward us. The colors were around the perimeter. And it turned from a yellow to an orange to almost a fiery red and then almost a purplish red. And they said that that had to do with the amount of energy being used or dissipated. It had to do with the UFO power settings. When it slowed down, close to us, in a fraction of a second, it was back to the yellow range. And it was foggy around it or a plasma mist.
I decided to go back to see how the passengers reacted, and went to talk to the doctor. I said, “Doc, did you see what we saw?” He looked me straight in the eye and said, “Yeah, it was a flying saucer, I didn’t look at it because I don’t believe in such things.”
Well, it took me a couple of seconds to realize what he was saying. He couldn’t believe, being a psychiatrist, in that kind of thing. So I went back forward and I said, “Whatever you do don’t tell anybody we saw anything, they will lock us up as soon as we get on the ground. He says, “It’s too late. I just called Gander control, to see if they could track this by radar. So that how the story got out.
When we landed at Argentia, an Air Force officer interrogated us and showed us photos of UFOs asking me to choose the type we had seen. He made a good report, which went to the headquarters of the Air Force in Washington, D.C.
Commander Bethune flew Naval Transports for 12 years, was a “VIP Transport Plane Commander,” and held a “Top Secret” clearance. He was a test pilot and served six years with the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics. He accumulated over 10,000 Navy and civilian flying hours. He has flown the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Army, Chief of Naval Operations, Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Supreme Allied Commander, and the NATO Commander Admiral Lynde McCormick, and numerous admirals. If a UFO crashed or an important meeting concerning UFOs occurred he would be chosen to pilot the VIPs to their destination. The other event was in the American SW, I believe Commander Bethune had mentioned somewhere in Utah – this craft was also about 100′ in diameter and slightly oval – both events had high ranking US Army and Navy officers in attendance as well as scientists and academics from various stateside universities. Both discs were retrieved and brought back to Wright Patterson.
Apparent alien base several hundred miles off Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean with white spot to mark the underwater base.
Disc hovers above Aircraft Carrier
F rank Chili sent me this photo that was given to him by Commander Bethune. He was quite insistent that US Air Force was getting the focus of UFO attention from the public, but the real player in this and always behind the scenes was the US Navy. Graham was informed by Admiral Forney himself and Graham never doubted that a ploy was set-up to divert attention away from the Navy. He also claimed we had a base on the moon and we had a Navy space shuttle fleet. He felt truth is often stranger than science fiction that ET movies are supported by the government to create acceptance. Thanks to the Disclosure Project and Frank Chili.
UFO Crashes into Shag Harbor
Shag Harbor where UFO Crashed
This is not the first time that the Canadian Navy has been forced to investigate UFO phenomena. The Shag Harbor UFO incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbor, a tiny fishing village in Nova Scotia on October 4, 1967. Shag Harbor
At least eleven people saw a low-flying lit object head towards the harbor at about 11:20 p.m… Multiple witnesses reported hearing a whistling sound “like a bomb,” then a “whoosh,” and finally a loud bang. The object was never officially identified, and was therefore referred to as an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Government of Canada documents. The initial report was made by local resident Laurie Wickens and four of his friends. Driving through Shag Harbor they spotted a large object descending into the waters off the harbor.
Once at a better vantage point, Wickens and his friends saw an object floating 1000 feet offshore. Wickens contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) detachment and reported he had seen a large airplane or small airliner crash into the waters off Shag Harbor. The Canadian military became involved in a subsequent rescue/recovery effort. Assuming an aircraft had crashed, within about 15 minutes, 10 RCMP officers arrived at the scene as the object started to sink and disappeared from view.
But by the next morning, the RCMP had determined that no aircraft were missing.
Divers allegedly claimed they spotted a UFO conducting repairs at the bottom of harbor.
The cause of the incident was never solved by the Canadian authorities.
Brigadier General Robert Spalding shares how china took over while America’s Elite Slept. He was interviewed about his book, Stealth War that not all wars are violent. General Spalding told how Chinese Communist Party worked behind the scene to undermine the United States by co-opting our elite people and paying large sums of money to many like Hunter Biden. Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding III lived in and spoke Chinese for three years and assumed the duties of Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff in February 2018. .Why China has no intention of following through on the trade deal with the United States and included an escape clause. How the Trump administration has stopped China from taking advantage of the United States like they’ve done for over 40 years
Why the Chinese during COVID-19 did not allow domestic travel from Wuhan, China but allowed over 5 Million people to travel from Wuhan to all other parts of the world which allowed the CDVID- 19 virus to spread worldwide killing millions, and to kill a half million Americans.
We have already provided them with our advanced technology in aviation, missiles, nuclear weapons, economic leadership; military, economic with Confucius Institutes was a Chinese philosopher. There is shocking success in infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security. Brigadier General Robert Spalding Shares How China Took Over While America’s Elite and made many billionaires and millionaires…
Understanding what the Chinese Communist Party is and how they operate is crucial to fully grasping their intentions with America.
– Why China has no intention of following through on the trade deal with the United States that Trump made.
Chinese Communist Party Headquarters
The Chinese State Run News Media tells the people of China regularly that they are at war with the United States.
Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has a new documentary out, pushing his brief that the election was a fraud carried out by a massive China cyber attack on the voting machines. He claims lower level Intelligence personnel from several agencies have informed him of the massive cyber attack but high ups will not reveal it.
I was the 7th Air Force Intelligence officer Analyst in Vietnam and I put out a Daily Intelligence Message for Northern portion of South Vietnam that was sent all over the world and even to the White House. I predicted that the North Vietnamese would attack during the normal truce during the Tet Holidays when South Vietnamese soldiers returnee home. Our road watch teams picked up Communist made tanks from China moving down the Ho Chi Minh trail so I also predicted tank attacks but was severely creolized by General Westmorland, who had just returned from the States telling the public we were winning the war.
North Vietnamese Tank
My four stars Air Force General Momyer after being chewed out by General Westmorland came down hard on me for my wild predictions, but he was willing to put our air bases on alert just in case I was right, although the Army bases were not on alerted by MACV. I was right when the North Vietnamese attack occurred during the Tet Offensive and Lang Vie was overrun with tanks. I was suddenly a hero and I was forgiven. The point is lower level personnel are often are correct since they watch real factual intelligence that is not published because politics often changes the truth.
Not All Wars Are Violent
Communist Chinese Warfare is Devious
I fought Communism in Vietnam, Israel, and Yemen through much of my life and I know they are very clever and devious and underhanded. They are much smarter than most of our politicians.
I believe Chinese Communist Party of China is using every trick and method possible to destroy the U.S.
These include Geoengineering methods weather Control and bio-warfare
The HAARP and weather control threat has been called a conspiracy theory by the mainstream fake media and by most government officials, but we controlled much of the weather in 1968 and the Chinese have 39,000 weather control personnel in Shanghai alone near their HAARP facility.
During a Senate hearing on May 20, 2014, David Walker, Deputy Secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, dropped a bombshell in answer to a question asked by Lisa Murkowski in relation to the dismantling of our $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska.
Walker said this is not an area that we have any need for in the future” and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. “We’re moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do,” he said. “To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed.”
This is not the first time a public official has acknowledged that HAARP and weather control is not only possible, but has been and continues to be used as a “super weapon,” as evidenced by a statement in 1997 by former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen, where he said“Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts.”
Many believe HAARP was created and has been used for weather control, with enough juice to trigger hurricanes, tornadoes and even earthquakes and comments such as this bring about the question of whether conspiracy theorists are more on target than anyone has admitted to date.
– Why the Chinese did not allow domestic travel from Wuhan, China but allowed over 5 Million people to travel from Wuhan to all other parts of the world killing millions of people., which allowed the coronavirus to spread worldwide killing half a million Americans. They had an effective vaccine a year earlier than the US and claim only 15,000 Chinese died due to their advanced medical ability/
Five HAARPs (H) Facilities - Japan Earth Quake (EQ)
The Chinese Communists have at least five HAARP like facilities, three in the Gobi Desert, one near Shanghai, and a similar facility on the Hainan Island in the South China Sea. Some are also likely mounted on ships and able to move to key locations able to conduct geoengineering. Virtually everything we have like missiles, aircraft, weapons they have copied in larger numbers.
China has been branded the world’s worst executioner as the state kills thousands of people every year using firing squads, lethal injections and mobile death vans. The true numbers of those killed by the Communist Party are thought to be staggeringly high – but the regime keeps them closely concealed as state secrets.
Lordlangerz writes, following the recent Google Maps discovery of strange structures in the Chinese Gobi Desert (STORY) I decided to have a look around myself, whilst zooming in and out around the various sites.
The COVID-19 cost 13 million jobs in the US and increased Fentanyl Deaths and suicides to rise around 50,000 drug deaths a year. Fentanyl coming from Chins usually shipped through Mexican Cartel by forcing some of the 4,000 illegal immigrants a day to carry the drugs to the US cities.
The persecution of Falun Gong is the antireligious campaign initiated in 1999 by the Communist Party to eliminate the spiritual practice of the Falun Gong in China. They are strong believers in UFOs and aliens that may have upset the Communist Party It is characterized by a multifaceted propaganda campaign, the 6-10 Office was created a program of enforced ideological conversion and re-education and reportedly a variety of extralegal coercive measures such as arbitrary arrests, forced labor and physical torture, sometimes resulting in death.[
Everything in China is directed by the Communist Party for example Chinese pharmaceutical companies are often run by generals to make fentanyl and meth for profit.
Three million people mostly Moslems are in Chinese Communist’s concentration camps with smoking crematoriums.
Chinese Communist’s concentration camps
The Chinese Communist’s seem to control the US evening television news as I have I watched every night and have never heard a bad word about China ,while every night they downgrade Trump even now. The Communist Party has a constitution like ours but #9 Communist Party Document is opposite our Bill of Rights, the people really don’t have any rights unless they strictly follow all the rules and are under watch by constant digital cameras. The US is being bankrupt and they have the money to buy our key people and companies. China has recently sunk Philippine fishing boats and murdered 20,000 Indian troops on the border.
China has used the HAARP facilities to push and pull the jet stream that passes through China and is pushed north into Canada and the US bringing record cold temperatures. Where 70 did and Texas lost electrical power to three million homes partially because solar power and wind turbines froze.
HAARP has been blamed by conspiracy theorists for a range of events, including numerous natural disasters. That includes weather warfare, earthquakes, and hurricanes’ The idea behind Weather Control is simple, When you see and experience a strong thunderstorm, with a lot of lightning and thunder, what fact about this storm strikes you the most? Are you not impressed by the powerful display of energy that you witness? Energy is the primary ingredient behind nature’s storms. Therefore, you must believe that, just perhaps, if energy is the most dominant outward factor in all kinds of storms, then energy might be the key factor in creating such storms in the first place.
Dr. Begich explain this concept, “This invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art .
Fukushima+Not+An+Accident
ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY
Strange Clouds over Fukushima on March 11, 2011
A tremendous capability has been built into the newly created power transmission station in remote China. These power transmission towers are not your typical towers, as they are designed to generate power in such a way that it is beamed up into the ionosphere in tremendous quantities. This is a photo of the sky just before one of the greatest catastrophes that ever hit Japan on March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that destroyed several nuclear power plants. The theory is you can create Earthquakes on demand wherever and whenever you wish on the earth. The Alaska HAARP set up a with a ‘telecommunications shield’ of 350,000 copper needles tossed into the ionosphere.
On March 11, 2011 tremendous lightning was seen at sea.
This helped to ‘reflect radio waves and make reception clearer’, we then had the 8.5 Alaska earthquakes and Chile lost a good deal of its coast. That band of copper wires interfered with the planetary magnetic field. “Powerful radio waves were sent 100s of miles into the ionosphere affecting the electron density there that in turn affects the weather and lightning. On March 11, 2011 tremendous lightning was seen out at sear as the earthquake occurred and a gigantic tsunami was created off shore to flood and destroy the six Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants spreading radiation throughout Northern Japan and the Pacific Ocean. The earthquake occurred at just the right place to cause a tidal wave large enough to overcome large outer Sea Wall and the high walls of the plants. The tidal wave was higher and far greater than the design engineers thought possible suggesting it was not a natural earthquake. The chain of events caused radiation leaks and permanently damaged the reactors, making them impossible to restart. Three or four movies describe huge blue flashes of energy at the time of the earthquakes and Tidal wave. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors combined power of 4.7 GWe. making Fukushima Daiichi one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world.
Later explosions released radioactivity and triggering a 30 km (19 mi) evacuation zone surrounding the plant; the releases continue to this day. The human death toll of about 19,000 people and much damage to coastal ports and towns. Three movies have been made claiming this was not an accident but planned destruction. Dozens of buildings, structures and vehicles seem crushed by a powerful force of blue flashes from the sky.
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 9 2021 New Weapons of Stealth War - PART II
Filer’s Files 9 2021 New Weapons of Stealth War - PART II
Filer’s Files 9 2021
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Commander Graham Bethune UFO Sighting, UFO Crashes into Shag Harbor, New Weapons of Stealth War, Fukushima+Not+An+Accident, Shadows Book and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Idaho, New Jersey, New Mexico, Virginia, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Mexico, 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 — on ‘January 10, 2021, yes I have seen UFO’s and I have pictures. It is true, but I don’t like to talk about it. 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 moon and bright planets like Venus, Mars and Jupiter were not visible at the time of the sighting so the object is not celestial.
California Object
Porterville — on February 22, 2021, a black triangle with very dim blue light. Was observed and photographed.
Colorado Object
Florissant – on February 18, 2021, I went out on my deck to get a picture of the silky clouds flowing over the distance hills in front of the Great Continental Divide. When I went back inside and looked at the images there were 6 objects in the sky that I caught in the picture. I never saw these objects, never heard a sound. I took two pictures back to back and the second picture does not have the 6 objects in it. There is however two objects in the second image that were no longer there after the two pictures were taken. I live at 9000 foot elevation in the Front Range Mountains West of Colorado Springs. I was told there were no Military crafts up here when these were taken. I do not feel they were far from me, but since I never actually saw them, I am unsure how far away they may have been.
Florida Lights
Palm Bay – Palm Springs – on February 22, 2021,
Saw this when I was going to delete pictures
Idaho Light
Blackfoot – on February 1, 2021, I was driving west when I noticed a solid white object in the sky flying in a northern direction very slowly. As I continued to watch, the object slowed until it was just hovering in place. It continued to hover for about 2 minutes and then started slowly flying away to the Northwest until I could no longer see it. There was no sound and no visible means of propulsion. Also I don’t know if they are related but there was also a crop circle found in the area about a week later.
Indiana Triangle
Hobart— n the fall of 1973, October, I was 12 years old and took out the trash near a very large swamp area to burn. As I ran in my mother said “Greg, what IS that?” just after sunset, maybe 6 or 7 PM. I looked to where she was looking and saw some flashing light in the distance. It was low about 160 feet altitude and wobbling over the Interstate 65 viaduct that passed over the Nickel plate railroad tracks . The object was not a plane and made no sound. It had green, red and blue lights rotating around it, the 3 lights forming a triangle, and some whitish light were pulsing. The center was sliding forward into the space between the center sphere and the outer rotating ring with the 3 lights mounted on it. It came directly at me and then this huge craft silently floated directly above me very low. Looking straight up at its underside I could see now the center sphere had a larger unattached, or loosely attached, ring around it and the 3 colored lights were mounted on that rotating ring. I think I could see the night sky in the space between the sphere and the ring as it went around. I felt “a telepathic link to” whoever was flying the triangle. It was almost as big as a football field. It slowly flew east and back over I-65 again am disappeared. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
New Mexico Light
Roswell– on February 22, 2021, there were objects flying, one shaped like a missile or cigar and other shaped round. Both appear to be on fire or glowing with colors of silver/pink/orange. They flew to each other then changed directions and left together. I have several pictures and videos. Event happened on hwy 285 between Artesia and Roswell.
Virginia Light
Montvale – on February 2, 2021, Faces formed out of the clouds. I saw a dragon looked like it was breathing fire/ I’d like y’all to tell me what y’all see. I definitely didn’t go looking. I had my eyes on the road, driving home. It happened Friday & Sunday both around same time & area. There were 2 separate black blobs that kept drawing my attention. I snapped pictures with my phone.
Washington Lights
Rochester –January 22 2021, 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. I have observed this object near the same area in the past on several occasions as a pulsing red light with darken object trailing behind.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia
Cairns– on February 22, 2021, Observed ball of light initially and 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 also.
Brazil Light
Itaquaquecetuba– on February 1, 2021, detected something that flew upwards at an incredibly fast speed I thought it was a rocket being launched but it was very big and decreased in size when it got to the atmosphere so after that community shooting and I zoomed in on the camera the object seemed to be formed by fire strangely, he released an object that appeared to be a red light at a high altitude and this object ejected and followed a different path from the light that ejected it, I don’t know if it was a launched satellite or if it was a UFO
Mexico Lights
Rosarito– on February 20, 2021, 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
UK/England Huge UFO
South Shields –on February 26, 2021, I was tacking 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.
Humber-bridge,
North Lincolnshire — largest UFO sighting in history occurred 7th October 2020 Humber-bridge, Barton upon Humber, Ropewalk and Point at 2-3pm until 7pm I watched every type of UFO, Up to 12 miles long craft. I was probably the only witness to the event, as everyone was in lockdown and I had a meeting at 2pm, my town was crawling in black ops cars for hours leading up to the event.
Everyone in the town were oblivious to what went on, all craft were forms surrounded by Orgone Energy, which is black grey/silver, I ran up and down the rope walk which is a few hundred yards, from different angles to look at things from different perspectives as they came in, I sprinted over a third of a mile under the Humber-bridge check scale and perspectives just to see them. This was the Wing makers they were sending a signal to me by honoring the 2nd largest suspension bridge in the world as if to say, you’re are learning. This was for you the Orgone Energy looked like distorted clouds to the uninitiated, they all flew in precession around the South Tower of the bridge, no one other than me had the vision to stand back and see the full perspective.
This went on for 4-5 hours and ended at sunset around 7pm. No-one even saw it, people were oblivious to the whole air show, there were 1000’s of them every single type that ever existed. I wish you had been there. The cloud distortion of the Orgone is just like the Kate Bush music video ‘Running up That Hill,’ the other side of Wilhelm Reich’s work, and why the men in black took him out. The number of high performance cars on the town’s streets leading up to the event was phenomenal, no-one saw the synchronicity, the main carriers were just like Bill Tompkins described. I stood under the bridge and looked east to the horizon 6 miles to Hull, then West to the setting sun another 6 miles. These carriers had pods and decks that were the size of a typical small town in a quad style with the main landing deck at least 12 miles long as I measured the angle. There must have been 50 to a hundred large carrier types, all saluting the Humber Bridge, in my home town of Barton Upon Humber. Every person absolutely oblivious to it all, all shapes and sizes surrounded by Orgone, I was scared at first, but they were showing such power & control and slowly inched each craft around to show the control and size of large objects, to untrained observers they were just drifting aimlessly. As I stood near the Ropewalk Cafe, the Vista became clearer. It was the biggest intergalactic show of a power in the Universe, and only I saw it as far as I know, no-one in the town I’ve asked saw anything strange that day. Hidden in plain sight if they had dropped the Orgone cover for just one second it would of scared the hell out of the uninitiated public. This was for you Jeff, I wish you had been by my side, you couldn’t photograph these carriers they were incomprehensible, some just looked like Star Trek, or Battle start Galactica.
As I watched they all banked going around the South tower ‘clockwise’ and tip their wings in salute of the Humber bridge, I ran miles that day, every time I looked up there was another battle group, every flight pattern and configuration imaginable, hidden in plain sight.
I’ll be amazed if anyone even saw one craft, they pirouetted one by one, in an air show of a scale I never imagined, it was so large it made a 747 look like Tiger-moth. The most impressive was the Galactic carrier stationary over the bridge. How they actually built that was what they were showing to the initiated viewers in comparison to what we could build, the things we manufacture look like children’s toy cars compared to a real life sized car. No photograph would ever do this justice, this was a cosmic scale. This must have been orchestrated by the Wing makers; no-one could choreograph such a seemingly motionless and timeless event.
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Large ship floating in the sky - A glitch in reality?
Large ship floating in the sky - A glitch in reality?
David Morris and his son walking along a beach near Gillan in England when they noticed a huge ship apparently floating in the sky. Although they were stunned to see the strange phenomenon, they say that they had seen this phenomenon before.
Credit image: David Morris.
It turns out they witnessed a so-called superior mirage, an optical illusion which occurs because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion.
Although most of these phenomena are optical illusions, not all of these appearances can be explained. Apparitions or similar events that cannot be explained are often interpreted as a "holographic" display from a parallel universe or glitches in reality.
Glitches in reality, might just be some of the weirdest phenomenon occurring today. Also known as 'glitches in the matrix,' these unusual events help provide evidence to the theory that our existence may be nothing more than part of a computer simulation, a simulated reality that keeps humanity unaware that intelligent machines have actually taken over the world. In other words, the plot of the movie The Matrix is our reality.
Thousands of residents from Jiangxi and Foshan in China reported seeing a "floating city" in the sky earlier this month. The images and grainy video footage appear to show towering skyscrapers poking out of the clouds and looming over the ground below.
Of course, the news has got people's imaginations turned up to overdrive when trying to figure out what was going on. Explanations for the event have ranged from a glitch in the matrix, alternate universes opening up and NASA attempting to establish a new world order through a plan called the "Blue Beam Project".
However, it appears the explanation is actually a rare type of mirage called Fata Morgana. It’s essentially an optical illusion caused by specific weather conditions bending light rays. As Wired explains, it occurs when the Sun heats up a layer of the atmosphere but the layer of air below it remains cool. When different layers of the atmosphere are different temperatures, a temperature gradient is generated. These different temperatures also mean differing densities between the layers.
When light hits a boundary between two layers of the atmosphere that are different temperatures and thus densities, it is bent, or refracted, and subsequently enters the next layer at a different angle. Our brain can't automatically account for this, so when light hits our eyes, our brain assumes that it traveled in a straight path. When it has been refracted, we therefore perceive the object is where it would be if the light had run straight – which is higher than it actually is.
Fata Morganas have been confusing people and messing with minds for centuries. They’re named after Morgan le Fay, a powerful enchantress from the tales of King Arthur. It’s believed they are the explanation behind the legendary ghost ship the Flying Dutchman and sailor’s stories of floating castles which lured men to their deaths.
So there you have it. Although, we’ve got our eye on you NASA…
Strange UFO filmed with a telescope over Hillsboro, Tennessee
Strange UFO filmed with a telescope over Hillsboro, Tennessee
This strange object was hovering above the Hillsboro, Tennessee and it was filmed with a telescope. This happened last year on 26th July (2020).
Witness report:
Looked like Venus does in the evening but was way out of place so I grabbed my telescope to have a closer look. Appeared to be a planet like Venus looks in the evening but was in the wrong part of the sky. So I got my telescope out and was amazed at what I saw. Almost jelly fish like with bright blinding lights evenly spaced around the rim.
UFOs maneuvering over Lake Elsinore, CA 5-Mar-2021
UFOs maneuvering over Lake Elsinore, CA 5-Mar-2021
This UFO sighting was submitted to me a few minutes ago through our report form. This strange event happened over Lake Elsinore in California on 5th March 2021.
Witness report:
Just some orbs I seen in the sky. Never seen them before.
CIA Document Reveals the UFO Incident Before the Sickness and Death of Russian Pilots
CIA Document Reveals the UFO Incident Before the Sickness and Death of Russian Pilots
A CIA document released recently reveals the Russian pilot’s death and a draining illness of another after a close encounter with a UFO.
Soviet aircraft reported spotting a massive flying disk nearby emanating five beams of light. Three lights were beamed toward the ground, and two were directed upward when the mysterious object was first seen. The ground controller gave instruction to one of the planes to alter its course and fly toward the object, at which point the disk went to the same level and aimed one of its beams at the approaching plane, illuminating the cockpit.
At this time, the copilot was at the controls, observing the maneuver and raising his hand to shield from the unbearable light. The aircraft commander rested in the adjoining seat, and a bright beam of light projected a spot with a diameter of 20 cm, passed across his body. The duo felt the heat.
Both pilots became invalids shortly after the strange event. The copilot experienced a sudden deterioration in his health, including losing consciousness for prolonged periods and forced to quit his job. Within a few months, the aircraft commander died, with the cause of death being listed as cancer. Injury to the organism as a result of radiation from UFO was listed as a contributing factor.
Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses
Alien Abduction Of Linda Napolitano That Was Pulled Up Into Giant UFO, 23 Witnesses
Around 45% of Americans believe that UFOs exist and have visited the Earth, while 25% believe that aliens have similar societies like humans, according to Ipsos 2020 report. There are many victims who claimed to had been abducted by small gray-colored humanoids (Greys) and then taken to spaceships for some experiments or mating. Among them, Linda Napolitano’s case is the most well-documented UFO encounter.
Linda Napolitano (who uses the pseudonym Linda Cortile), a young woman in her 20s claimed that in November 1989 she had been pulled by grey humanoids from her bedroom window while her husband was asleep next to her. Soon after this horrific incident, she contacted Budd Hopkins, an American UFO researcher who even wrote a book entitled “The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions,” describing the UFO events that occurred on November 30, 1989.
Linda Napolitano
Napolitano, an Italian-American young woman said that on November 20, at 3:15 in the morning, she suddenly woke up, finding herself paralyzed, and saw three non-human figures, gray in color and with big heads that were floating in her bedroom. She could not call her husband as the beings told her in their language to stay quiet. She was pulled by a blue beam from her apartment’s window (on the 12th floor) in Manhattan. She was levitating inside that beam with three other aliens until they reached a giant spaceship that opened like a clam.
“I’m standing up on nothing. And they take me out all the way up, way above the building. Ooh, I hope I don’t fall. The UFO opens up almost like a clam and then I’m inside. I see benches similar to regular benches. And they’re bringing me down a hallway.
Doors open like sliding doors. Inside are all these lights and buttons and a big long table. I don’t want to get up on that table. They get me on the table anyway. They start saying things to me and I’m yelling. I can still yell. One of them says something that sounds like {Nobbyegg}. I think they were trying to tell me to be quiet because he put his hand over my mouth.”
Illustation of Linda’s abduction
Napolitano could not remember much about what had happened inside that ship but she recalled some sort of medical examinations that had been done on her, and she remembered that had passed through some procedures. Besides, she remembered that one of the aliens put something into her nasal cavity, and the pain was so unbearable that she lost her consciousness. Three hours later, she surprisingly found herself lying next to her husband who was still sleeping. Interestingly, she did an x-ray of her head, and the doctor found something strange lodged inside her nose.
This encounter was not just limited to Napolitano, there were other witnesses. Two security guards (Richard and Dan) confirmed to had been watching Napolitano with three humanoids, being pulled up to a large UFO, hovering near her apartment. One of the guards felt guilty for not helping her and even suffered a nervous breakdown.
Budd Hopkins
“There was an oval-shaped object hovering over the top of the apartment building two or three blocks up from where we sat.
We didn’t know where it came from. It happened too fast. Its lights turned from a bright reddish orange to a whitish blue coming out of the bottom. Green lights rotated round the edge of the saucer. A little girl or woman wearing a white gown sailed out of the window in a fetal position – and then stood in mid-air in this beam of light. I could see three of the ugliest creatures I ever saw. I don’t know what they were. They weren’t human.
Their heads were out of proportion, very large heads with no hair. Those buggers were escorting her into the craft. My partner screamed, ‘We have got to get them.’ We tried to get out of the car but couldn’t. After the woman was escorted in, the oval turned reddish orange again and whisked off.”
Actually, Hopkins got his interest in Napolitano’s case after he received a letter from Richard and Dan in 1991. Upon researching more on these two men, Hopkins found out that they were the bodyguards of an important political figure. Hopkins reportedly believes they were the bodyguards of former U.N. statesman, Javier Perez de Cuéllar.
The founder and director of Mutual UFO Network, Walter H. Andrus strongly believed Napolitano’s story and called it a “definitely authentic’ case of human abductions by aliens.”
An alleged photograph released several years after Linda’s abduction showing a strange object floating in the sky outside her apartment
However, there is much skepticism about Napolitano’s case. Some people compared it with the sci-fiction novel “Nighteyes,” originally published on March 1, 1989. But at the same time, there are 23 eyewitnesses who saw this strangeness that night.
A sharp-eyed individual watching an Israeli newscast noticed a curious ball of light hovering in the sky behind a reporter and some suspect that the oddity could be alien in nature. The puzzling moment reportedly occurred last Wednesday evening on the public broadcasting station Kan 11. As an anchor was speaking to a reporter stationed in Tel Aviv, a fairly sizeable orb appears over his left shoulder and slowly moves across the sky before vanishing.
As one might imagine, some observers have suggested that perhaps the anomaly was an ET craft, while more skeptical viewers have argued that it is either a helicopter or a drone. In this instance, the latter camp is likely correct, because it's hard to believe that an alien ship could appear for a considerable amount of time over a major city like Tel Aviv and the only documentation of such an event is an inadvertent sighting captured during a newscast. Be that as it may, we'll leave it up to you to decide. What's your take on the puzzling moment? Share your thoughts at the C2C Facebook page.
NEW DOCUMENTARY REVEALS HOW STAR TREK CHANGED NASA FOREVER
NEW DOCUMENTARY REVEALS HOW STAR TREK CHANGED NASA FOREVER
Woman in Motion highlights an overlooked and essential moment in spaceflight history.
SCIENCE FICTION FANS OFTEN THINK OF 1977 AS THE YEAR OF STAR WARS. But, more importantly, 1977 was when space exploration actually made strides toward Star Trek's vision of a diverse future. During a roughly four-month period in early 1977, Nichelle Nichols worked to recruit astronauts for NASA's then-new Space Shuttle program. Her goal was simple and self-fashioned: Get as many women and non-whites to apply as possible.
Nichols' 1994 memoir Beyond Uhura devotes less than one chapter to this astounding moment in history. Nichols' quest for diversity in space simply hasn't been talked about enough. That is, until now.
Just released on Apple TV+, the documentary Woman In Motionchronicles Nichols' quest. Inverse caught up with director Todd Thompson, who insists NASA wouldn't look the same without Star Trek and Nichols.
"When Nichelle started her campaign NASA had very few Black or female applicants," Thompson tells Inverse. "I'm not saying zero. But Sally Ride and Ron McNair; yes, they were there as a direct result of her campaign with NASA. "
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura in the original Star Trek.CBS
Nichols' involvement with the very first Star Trek conventions in the mid-1970s put her in contact with various NASA officials, including Dr. von Puttkamer. After attending one presentation about the future of space travel, she was struck with a problem:
"There was no one in the astronaut corps who looked anything like me. There were no women. No Blacks. No Asians. No Latinos."
Prior to working with NASA, Nichols started her own company, Woman In Motion Inc., to create new job opportunities for women. What she did next was to take the goals of that company and apply them to NASA. Unlike previous iterations of the space program — Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, et al. — the Space Shuttle program wasn't exclusively recruiting pilots and military officials. Like Star Trek's fictional Starfleet, a blend of civilians and specialists were needed to make the Space Shuttle fly.
Why didn't NASA have enough applicants? Nichols believed the problem was a matter of public trust. As the new documentary demonstrates, her belief was that people who might apply to be astronauts simply didn't believe that they would be taken seriously. She was also deeply concerned that if NASA didn't commit to the goal of diversity that what she was doing would be nothing more than a "media blitz."
As she says in the documentary, "If I put my name and my reputation on the line for NASA, and I find qualified women and minority people to apply, and a year from now I still see a lily-white, all-male astronaut corps, I will personally file a class action law suit against NASA."
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., the first Black American in space. Getty
Her determination worked. By 1983, Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. became the first Black American in space. In 1984, Ronald McNair became the second. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Thompson doesn't think Ride, Bludord, or McNair were hardcore Star Trek fans, but also doesn't see how history could have played out any differently.
"The best way I can answer the question — 'could it have happened without her?' — is that those applicants reached out for a reason," he says. "If we'd already had the diverse Trek universe up there in space, there probably wouldn't have been a need for Nichelle to you know, go on a rampage and rally NASA."
The stranger question that Woman In Motion poses isn't so much about the historical fact of Nichols' efforts in driving diverse NASA recruitment, it's more of a larger question of why this story isn't more famous.
"I was amazed that only portion of a chapter in her memoir was dedicated to it," Thompson says. "I thought, how could that possibly be? It seems so monumental because we're making an entire film about it. Maybe for her, it was just that when you're in the thick of it, you just don't realize or recognize the importance. When the job's done, when the mission's complete, you kind of check the box and move on to the next thing."
Woman In Motion lingers on Nichols in the thick of it and shows how she did more for space travel working with NASA than she ever really did in the 1960s Star Trek. She used her power as a pop culture celebrity to bring people to space who might not have made it there otherwise. In one scene in the documentary, we also get to see Nichols flying the flight simulator for the Space Shuttle. It's an amazing moment because you realize that this famous science fiction icon, was, actually piloting a version of a Space Shuttle. In the simulation, at least, she was able to land the orbiter unassisted. She probably could have handled the real thing.
When asked in the documentary about successfully flying the Space Shuttle simulator, Nichols responds with a joke, saying, "It was Lt. Uhura."
Perseverance : découvrez le laser de la SuperCam qui cherchera des traces de vie sur Mars
Perseverance : découvrez le laser de la SuperCam qui cherchera des traces de vie sur Mars
Rémy Decourt - Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] Perseverance : découvrez l'instrument SuperCam, ses yeux et ses oreillesPrésentation de l'instrument SuperCam qui équipe le rover Perseverance de la Nasa. Plus de 300 personnes en France ont été impliquées dans son développement et sa fabrication. SuperCam réalisera des tirs lasers dont l'objectif est d'analyser la composition chimique des roches et de détecter la présence éventuelle de molécules organiques.
Plus d'une semaine après l'atterrissage de Perseverance sur Mars, la mise en route et le check-up des sept instruments du rover se poursuivent. En attendant les premiers tirs du laser de SuperCam, qui serviront à déterminer la composition chimique et organique des roches martiennes, dont celles qui seront rapportées sur Terre, Futura s'est entretenu avec Franck Leibreich. Directeur des solutions laser chez Thales, Franck Leibreich nous explique ce laser français qui va chercher des traces de vie.
L'instrument SuperCam, qui succède à la version précédente à bord de Curiosity (ChemCam), est conçu pour déterminer la composition chimique et organique des échantillons des roches. Au cœur de cet instrument se trouve lelaserThales, « encore plus performant que celui déjà en opération depuis huit ans à bord de lamission Curiosity», nous explique Franck Leibreich, directeur des solutions laser chez Thales, dont l'entreprise a fourni les lasers des instruments ChemCam et SuperCam.
Pour cela, comme le laser de ChemCam, le laser de SuperCam pourra envoyer un « faisceau infrarouge pour chauffer la matière qu'il impacte jusqu'à une température d'environ 10.000 degrés Celsius et pour la vaporiser ». Cette méthode, appelée spectrométrie d'émission optique de plasma (Laser induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ou Libs) permet, en étant combinée à une caméra spéciale, de « déterminer la composition chimique d'un échantillon, en l'occurrence des roches martiennes, à partir de l'émission lumineuse du plasma ainsi créée ».
Mais, contrairement à ChemCam, qui ne faisait qu'une seule analyse de détection des atomes, le « laser de SuperCam peut émettre un deuxième faisceau laser » ! De couleur verte, ce deuxième faisceau « contribuera à déterminer la composition moléculaire des matériaux de surface ». Une avancée scientifique importante qui devrait permettre d'identifier de nombreuses molécules comme le carbone, le soufre ou, autre exemple, l'oxygène « afin de définir si Mars était habitable dans son passé ».
Ce faisceau vert excite les liaisons chimiques d'un échantillon et produit un signal différent selon les éléments liés ensemble. Cette technique d'analyse, appelée spectroscopie Raman, sera « expérimentée pour la première fois sur Mars et permettra de repérer d'éventuels marqueurs de la vie ». Le laser vert sera aussi utilisé pour faire fluorescer certains composés minéraux et organiques et pour permettre aux scientifiques de mieux déterminer les composants en présence.
Le laser de Thales Alenia Space installé dans SuperCam permettra de repérer d’éventuels marqueurs de vie sur la Planète rouge et de déterminer la composition chimique et organique des roches martiennes, dont celles qui seront rapportées sur Terre.
Alors que les tirs au laser de ChemCam ont montré l'existence d'un environnement favorable à l'apparition de la vie sur Mars dans un lointain passé -- qui se mesure en milliards d'années, mais sans savoir précisément à quelle époque et pendant combien de temps --, SuperCam pourrait nous raconter la suite de cette histoire en « montrant si Mars a été habitée ou pas par une forme de vie qui ne devrait pas avoir dépassé le stade de la bactérie ». La période d'habitabilité de Mars, estimée à quelques centaines de millions d'années, est trop courte pour avoir permis à des formes de vies plus complexes d'émerger.
SuperCam sera également utilisé pour guider Perseverance en direction des roches identifiées comme intéressantes qui seront ensuite étudiées de près par les instruments de contact (Pixl et Sherloc) et sur lesquelles seront prélevés des échantillons. En fonction des résultats, l'équipe du rover décidera de leur intérêt scientifique et s'il faut réaliser un prélèvement afin de le rapporter sur Terre. Dans ce cas, un carottage sera réalisé et l'échantillon placé dans un des 36 tubes. Ces échantillons seront récupérés par le Fetch rover de l'ESA qui sera lancé en 2026 sur l'atterrisseur américain équipé du MAV...
Une performance technologique remarquable
Malgré cette fonctionnalité supplémentaire, ainsi qu'un mode de commutation entre les fonctionnalités Libs et Raman, Thales a réussi à réaliser « l'équipement tout en gardant un volume et une masse identiques à celui du laser ChemCam ». Au-delà du défi de l'encombrement, les équipes ont également réussi à augmenter les capacités d'analyse de façon significative : « Le laser SuperCam peut enchainer des salves de tirs 10 fois plus longues, 1.000 tirs d'affilée contre 100 tirs maximum pour ChemCam, à une fréquence 3 fois supérieure (10 Hz) ».
Si une troisième version d'un laser devait être développée pour un futur instrument, une possible évolution pourrait être de le doter « d'une troisième fonctionnalité qui pourrait être une longueur d'onde dans l'ultraviolet», ce qui permettrait d'affiner les mesures (datation Argon/Potassium, spectroscopie Raman de contact, par exemple).
Note SuperCam est le fruit d'une étroite collaboration entre le Los Alamos National Laboratory (Lanl) aux États-Unis et l'Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (Irap, CNRS / Cnes / Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier) en France, avec des contributions de l'université d'Hawaï et de l'université de Valladolid (UVA) en Espagne. La conception et la fabrication du Mast Unit, partie française de SuperCam située en haut du mât du rover, ont été réalisées par un consortium de laboratoires français rattachés au CNRS, à des universités et à des établissements sous la direction scientifique des équipes de l'Irap et la responsabilité du Cnes. C'est dans le Mast Unit qu'est logé le laser fourni par Thales.
Just recently, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled: “Why Do So Many Bigfoot Researchers Ignore the Paranormal Side of the Mystery?” It was a study of how and why the Bigfoot creatures are not the equivalents of African gorillas. Rather, as I see it, they are 100 percent supernatural/occult in nature. So, with that in mind, today, I thought I would share with you my thoughts on how and why the equally supernatural aspect of the Men in Black mysteryis important. There’s no doubt at all that when those three words “Men in Black” are brought up in conversation, it creates images of “secret agent”-type characters. Certainly, the hugely popular (and massively entertaining) M.I.B. movies starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones helped to expand the idea that the Men in Black were (and still are) the employees of a government agency – or of more than one. The fact, though, is that the Men in Black do not come from any kind of government. They may not even be from the Earth.
Over the years, a number of books have been written on the Men in Black (and on the Women in Black, too). They include Jim Keith’s Casebook on the Men in Black; my The Real Men in Black and The Black Diary; and Jenny Randles’ The Truth Behind Men in Black). There’s a handful more too, such as those by Albert Bender and Tim Beckley. In all of those books, there’s a paranormal aspect to the M.I.B. puzzle. Albert Bender, of Bridgeport, Connecticut began the Men in Black mystery in the early 1950s. It’s very important to note that Bender, prior to his involvement in the M.I.B. mystery, was deeply tied to the domains of the occult and magic (no, not the “rabbits in hats” magic). He turned his attic-room into a “Chamber of Horrors,” and got into the worlds of Alchemy and the occult. It was after his digging into the occult that Bender was visited by the M.I.B. As for the three Men in Black that came to visit Bender, they were pale, gaunt and had shining, silvery eyes. In the wake of all that, Bender suffered from a case of what can only be described as “psychic backlash.” He got sick and, finally, walked away from the subject.
Most of the Men in Black that John Keel described in the pages of his classic book, The Mothman Prophecies, were downright weird. Most M.I.B. are described as pale, gaunt, sometimes with bulging eyes – and on occasion with wigs and make-up to hide their real appearances. In the 1970s, most of the Men in Black cases that Brad Steiger looked into were very much the same: vampire-like, sick-looking things. Nothing like anyone coming out of the Pentagon or of the CIA. And that’s not just in relation to what happened years, or decades, ago. Today’s Men in Black are still described as being cadaverous, pale, gaunt and not entirely human. Take my word for it: the Men in Black of Hollywood are totally different from the real world.
That all brings us to the matter of the real world. Forget the “secret agents” issue; that’s complete and utter nonsense. The genuine M.I.B. may very well be a combination of a number of things: Tulpas, paranormal creatures, biological robots and more. What they are not, though, are “secret agents” of the government. Or, of any government. Of course, that particular angle of “agents” is one that a lot of people like – and particularly when it comes to TV shows and movies. But, if you want to see what the real Men in Black look like, I recommend you watch the 1998 movie, Dark City. That’s right on target.
A newly discovered comet may provide us with a sky treat when it passes by Earth at the end of the year. In fact, it may even become the brightest comet of the year. Comet Leonard (or C/2021 A1) was first spotted on January 3rd by astronomer Gregory J. Leonard at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona.
When it was first discovered, the comet was exceptionally dim with a magnitude of 19 (approximately 160,000 times dimmer than the faintest stars we see in the sky with the naked eye) but that was because it was close to Jupiter’s orbit of about 5 astronomical units (AU) from our sun (the distance of Earth to the sun is equal to one AU).
When the comet was first spotted, it was beginning to feel the effects of the sun’s rays and slowly started transforming out of its completely frozen state with some pictures even capturing what appeared to be a tail on it.
(Not Comet Leonard)
Since it has an exceptionally long, flat elliptical orbit that can bring the comet as far away as 3,500 AU from the sun, it isn’t a “new” comet that came from the Oort Cloud (those comets have never traveled near the sun before). Instead, it is believed that it actually flew past the sun on at least one occasion around 70,000 years ago. This means that it wouldn’t have “new” materials on its surface like frozen carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide that would vaporize and end up not being as bright.
Based on how bright the comet currently is, it is believed that it will be bright enough by the year’s end to possibly be seen without any optical aid (maybe a brightness magnitude of 4).
Those who are willing to wake up a couple of hours before the sun rises, they’ll be able to see Comet Leonard in the lower portion of the east-northeast sky (traveling through the constellations Coma Berenices, Boötes and Serpens Caput) during the first two weeks of December. At that point, the comet will be visible with a small telescope or binoculars, and hopefully with the naked eye as well. It will make its closest approach to Earth on December 12th at a distance of 21.7 million miles (34.9 million kilometers) from us.
(Not Comet Leonard)
In the second half of December, the comet will approach the sun so the light of dawn will obstruct our view of it; therefore, the best time to see it would be in the very early morning hours from early to mid December. It will make its closest approach to the sun on January 3, 2022 at a distance of 57.2 million miles (92 million kilometers).
However, as we all know, comets can be unpredictable, but we’ll find out more information as the year goes on and Comet Leonard gets closer.
An image of Comet Leonard’s trajectory around the sun can be seen here.
The newfound comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will reach perihelion, its closest point to the sun, on Jan. 3, 2022.(Image credit: NASA/JPL)
Robotjeep Perseverance rijdt eerste meters op Mars
Perseverance heeft succesvol voor het eerst gereden op Mars. De robotjeep van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA legde enkele meters af. Via Twitter verspreidde NASA beelden van de bandenafdruk op de oppervlakte van de rode planeet.
Het eerste ritje van donderdagnamiddag volgde nade succesvolle landing van Perseverance twee weken geleden. NASA wilde testen of de zeswieler naar behoren functioneert.
Na vier meter gereden te hebben, roteerde Perseverance naar links, om vervolgens zowat 2,5 meter achteruit te rijden. Daarbij nam Perseverance een foto waarop de bandafdruk op de korst van Mars te zien is. Alles samen legde de marsjeep, die zowat even groot is als een SUV, 6,5 meter af in 33 minuten. Het tuig kan tot 200 meter per marsdag afleggen.
Hoelang duurt een dag op Mars?
Een zonnedag op Mars (ook wel ‘sol’ genoemd) duurt 24 uur, 39 minuten en 35 seconden. Dat is een tikkeltje (2,7%) langer dan een dag op onze aarde, waar een dag ongeveer 24 uur duurt.
"Onze eerste rit verliep ongelooflijk goed (...) Je kan de bandensporen zien die we op Mars achterlieten. Ik denk niet dat ik ooit al zo gelukkige geweest ben om bandensporen te zien, en ik heb er al veel gezien", zegt ingenieur Anais Zarifian van het Jet Propulsion Laboratory via de Twitter-account van Nasa. Het ‘JPL’ van NASA bouwde Perseverance.
Perseverance arriveerde op 18 februari op Mars, na een vlucht van 203 dagen en 472 miljoen kilometer door de ruimte. Het voertuig landde in de Jezerokrater, een uitgedroogd meer. Daar zal de komende twee jaar op zoek worden gegaan naar sporen van vroeger microbiologisch leven.
Elders op Mars rijdt nog steeds voorganger Curiosity rond. Die landde in 2012 op de planeet.
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This image was captured while NASA’s Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. One of Perseverance’s Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) captured this image as the rover completed a short traverse and turn from its landing site in Jezero Crater.
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Origin of Life: The Chicken-and-the-Egg Problem
Origin of Life: The Chicken-and-the-Egg Problem
A LMU team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information exponentially. tRNAs are key elements in the evolution of early life-forms.
Life as we know it is based on a complex network of interactions, which take place at microscopic scales in biological cells, and involve thousands of distinct molecular species. In our bodies, one fundamental process is repeated countless times every day. In an operation known as replication, proteins duplicate the genetic information encoded in the DNA molecules stored in the cell nucleus – before distributing them equally to the two daughter cells during cell division. The information is then selectively copied (‘transcribed’) into what are called messenger RNA molecules (mRNAs), which direct the synthesis of the many different proteins required by the cell type concerned.
A second type of RNA – transfer RNA (tRNA) – plays a central role in the ‘translation’ of mRNAs into proteins. Transfer RNAs act as intermediaries between mRNAs and proteins: they ensure that the amino-acid subunits of which each particular protein consists are put together in the sequence specified by the corresponding mRNA.
How could such a complex interplay between DNA replication and the translation of mRNAs into proteins have arisen when living systems first evolved on the early Earth? We have here a classical example of the chicken-and-the-egg problem: Proteins are required for transcription of the genetic information, but their synthesis itself depends on transcription.
LMU physicists led by Professor Dieter Braun have now demonstrated how this conundrum could have been resolved. They have shown that minor modifications in the structures of modern tRNA molecules permit them to autonomously interact to form a kind of replication module, which is capable of exponentially replicating information. This finding implies that tRNAs – the key intermediaries between transcription and translation in modern cells – could also have been the crucial link between replication and translation in the earliest living systems. It could therefore provide a neat solution to the question of which came first – genetic information or proteins?
Complex relationship
Strikingly, in terms of their sequences and overall structure, tRNAs are highly conserved in all three domains of life, i.e. the unicellular Archaea and Bacteria (which lack a cell nucleus) and the Eukaryota (organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus). This fact in itself suggests that tRNAs are among the most ancient molecules in the biosphere.
Like the later steps in the evolution of life, the evolution of replication and translation – and the complex relationship between them – was not the result of a sudden single step. It is better understood as the culmination of an evolutionary journey. “Fundamental phenomena such as self-replication, autocatalysis, self-organization and compartmentalization are likely to have played important roles in these developments,” says Dieter Braun. “And on a more general note, such physical and chemical processes are wholly dependent on the availability of environments that provide non-equilibrium conditions.”
In their experiments, Braun and his colleagues used a set of reciprocally complementary DNA strands modeled on the characteristic form of modern tRNAs. Each was made up of two ‘hairpins’ (so called because each strand could partially pair with itself and form an elongated loop structure), separated by an informational sequence in the middle. Eight such strands can interact via complementary base-pairing to form a complex. Depending on the pairing patterns dictated by the central informational regions, this complex was able to encode a 4-digit binary code.
It is therefore conceivable that such a replication mechanism could have taken place on a hydrothermal microsystem on the early Earth.PROF. DIETER BRAUN, SYSTEMS BIOPHYSICS, LMU
A step closer to the reconstruction of the origin of life
During the copying process, complementary strands (drawn from the pool of molecules) pair up with the informational segment of the template strands. In the course of time, the adjacent hairpins of these strands also pair up to form a stable backbone, and temperature oscillations continue to drive the amplification process. If the temperature is increased for a brief period, the template strands are separated from the newly formed replicate, and both can then serve as template strands in the next round of replication.
The team was able to show that the system is capable of exponential replication. This is an important finding, as it shows that the replication mechanism is particularly resistant to collapse owing to the accumulation of errors. The fact that the structure of the replicator complex itself resembles that of modern tRNAs suggests that early forms of tRNA could have participated in molecular replication processes, before tRNA molecules assumed their modern role in the translation of messenger RNA sequences into proteins.
“This link between replication and translation in an early evolutionary scenario could provide a solution to the chicken-and-the-egg problem,” says Alexandra Kühnlein. It could also account for the characteristic form of proto-tRNAs, and elucidate the role of tRNAs before they were co-opted for use in translation.
Laboratory research on the origin of life and the emergence of Darwinian evolution at the level of chemical polymers also has implications for the future of biotechnology. “Our investigations of early forms of molecular replication and our discovery of a link between replication and translation brings us a step closer to the reconstruction of the origin of life,” Braun concludes.
Contacts and sources:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Publication:
tRNA sequences can assemble into a replicator.
Alexandra Kühnlein, Simon A Lanzmich, Dieter Braun. eLife, 2021; 10 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.63431
UFO Sighting News, Jellyfish UFO Over Mexico, Video, On 3-1-2021.
UFO Sighting News, Jellyfish UFO Over Mexico, Video, On 3-1-2021.
Date of sighting:March 1, 2021 Location of sighting: Mexico
The eyewitness often scans the skies in search for UFOs. On March 1st, they got lucky and spotted a unique jellyfish like object floating over head. The object was very shiny and sometimes appeared white, but was not white itself, but instead it was a swirling of colors on a sometimes transparent craft. Jellyfish shaped UFOs with tentacles hanging are not unheard of. They are actually seen several times every year, but most often over land, flying low near the ocean.
UFO Sighting News. Mysterious Lights Over Missoula, Montana Disappear When Jet Appears! Feb 28, 2021.
UFO Sighting News. Mysterious Lights Over Missoula, Montana Disappear When Jet Appears! Feb 28, 2021.
Date of sighting: Feb 28, 2021
Location of sighting: Missoula, Montana, USA
Strange glowing lights appeared over Missoula, Montana on Feb 28. Each light seemed to have a mind of its own going into different directions. But as a jet was taking off from the airport the UFOs suddenly faded and disagreed. It seems only a UFO would have that ability to cloak suddenly to hide from other aircraft. Most UFOs do not show up on radar, but some rare cases do. Its clear these UFOs didn't want to get any more attention than they already did.
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Eyewitness states:
Multiple orange UFO lights over Missoula disappear and a jet avoids them after taking off from the airport.
UFO Fleet Over Indianapolis, Indiana On March 1, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Indianapolis, Indiana On March 1, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 1, 2021 Location of sighting: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
The eyewitness caught sight of somethings strange during a rainstorm in Indianapolis last week. They noticed a string of lights going up to the sky, holding position. The glowing lights were almost like the famous Star Link satellites from SpaceX, however the angle of the lights didn't line up with the correct location. These objects looks like a fleet of UFOs rising up from the ground to the sky. Strange indeed, especially since everyone would be hiding in their homes during the rain, no reason to fly drones, balloons or kites at all. So...if all that is ruled out, that leaves only UFOs. But...you knew that already.
Thousands of Stars Vanished from the Sky and Extraterrestrial advanced Civilizations is One of the Hypothesis
Thousands of Stars Vanished from the Sky and Extraterrestrial advanced Civilizations is One of the Hypothesis
Over a period of 70 years, thousands of stars have vanished from the sky; Which prompted a team of astronomers to shed light on this phenomenon .. and perhaps a (very weak) hope of uncovering traces of intelligent civilizations outside the planet.
In a report published by the French magazine "L'OBS", writer Jean-Paul Fritz says that when looking at the sky on a clear night, it is possible to notice that the thousands of stars that appeared in astronomical images taken 70 years ago have disappeared, which seems strange to the assumed age of the stars.
In light of the many questions and hypotheses about the secret of the disappearance of these stars, a team of researchers from the "Vasco Network" of astronomy launched a scientific study to monitor the causes of this phenomenon.
The lost blue star
In the Kinman dwarf galaxy, which is about 75 million ly away, there was a very massive blue star, and astronomers saw this star between 2001 and 2011, and it is about 2.5 million times brighter than the sun.
But when the European Southern Observatory's telescope focused on it in 2019, it did not appear in the image, nor did it appear in repeated observations during the following months.
What happened to this star?
This type of star - known as the "bright blue variant" - is unstable, but its disappearance in this way is incomprehensible because it is supposed to leave a mark!
For the researchers, there are two hypotheses: Either its recent explosion made it less bright and partially invisible due to interstellar dust, or it entered directly into a black hole without going through a "supernova" stage, which is a very rare event. Professor Jose Groh (one of the researchers involved in the study) comments, "We may have discovered that one of the largest stars in the observable universe slowly decays at night."
Study sample and alternative hypotheses
Given the various interpretations of this phenomenon, the Vasco network team - led by Beatrice Villarroil, a researcher at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics in Spain - outlined its goals in a study published in The Astronomical Journal in December 2019.
In the first phase of the study, the team decided to compare 600 million stars that appeared in images taken by the US Naval Observatory in the 1950s, with a recent database from the Pan-STARRS Observatory. In a sample of 150,000 cases of difference between the images of the two observatories, the researchers selected 100 stars to further study the phenomenon of star disappearance.
What could explain the disappearance of a star?
In theory, there are two main hypotheses: Either the star gradually changes and becomes a white dwarf due to the absence of nuclear reactions in its core, or it explodes in the last stages of its life, which is known as the "supernova" phenomenon. Either way, traces of these stars could be seen, but this was not the case for the lost stars studied by Vasco's team.
With the exclusion of the two previous hypotheses, the team had to find other causes for the disappearances, and scientists thought of other natural causes, such as the failure of the supernova process of the star, which may apply to the case of the disappearance of the blue star of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy.
There may also be another phenomenon that explains the matter, such as the passage of an irregular dark cloud of interstellar dust, which would obscure the star or reduce the brightness of its light; Hence, it cannot be spotted.
It can also be explained by what is known as a "gravitational micro-lens". In this case, a massive object might enlarge the image of the star behind it and make it appear temporarily even though it is not a star bright enough to see in normal situations. According to the author, these hypotheses seem interesting, and may lead to unprecedented discoveries that enrich our knowledge of stellar evolution.
Extraterrestrial advanced civilizations
Can we explain the disappearance of the stars by other reasons, and assume the existence of sane life outside the planet Earth? And can we think, for example, that very advanced civilizations may be the cause of this phenomenon because they built giant structures that mask the starlight.
This theory was formulated by physicist Freeman Dyson, and is known as "the Dyson ball," and he posits that there is a giant ball that captures the energy of the star in order to meet the needs of a more advanced civilization than ours.
The SETI project - which is concerned with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - is working to uncover any advanced extraterrestrial technology traces that could prove this theory.
According to the author, the study of Vasco can more accurately define the field of observation to try to understand these mysterious factors that lead to the disappearance of stars, which some explain by the existence of distant intelligent civilizations. By revealing where a large number of stars disappear, the SETI project or others interested in these theories can direct their observatories to try to discover the potential technological implications of these advanced civilizations.
It is unlikely, in any case, to discover any traces of strange civilizations, but the Vasco project will help solve a number of mysteries in space, and perhaps reveal phenomena not yet known.
"Finding a lost star or a star that appears out of nowhere will be a valuable discovery, and it will provide new knowledge of astrophysics, beyond the ones we have reached until today," says Beatrice Villarroil.
There’s one thing you can say for sure aboutthe Men in Black: they’re very weird. Witnesses to the M.I.B. describe them as looking pale and gaunt. Their skin sometimes appears plastic-like, and completely free of lines. Sometimes they wear wigs. On other occasions they sport large, wrap-around sunglasses. And, perhaps strangest of all, they seem to not understand what food is. If it is offered to them, they simply stare at it. There’s another aspect to the M.I.B. weirdness. It’s the matter of their vehicles. They are just as weird as the M.I.B. themselves. I guess it’s something we should expect. With that said, let’s now take a look at some of the stranger, car-based cases that have a tie to the Men in Black. We’ll begin with a friend of mine, Tracie Austin, author and radio-host. Like me, Tracie is originally from the U.K., but now lives in the United States. She told me of a very strange experience she had late one night back in the U.K. in the 1990s.
As she drove along the road, Tracie said: “…I noticed there was an old, black Lincoln car coming towards us in the opposite direction. Although it was old, it looked new, but it was an old style, and it was totally out of place. And, coming from England, in Cheshire, that’s just not the kind of car you see: an American Lincoln. That’s what I thought: what’s an American car doing here? As the car approached us – coming the other way – I tried to see who the driver was, but I couldn’t see anybody. I’m not saying the car was driving itself, but I just couldn’t make out anyone. No-one. I could see it had really shiny bumpers and there was no [license] plate, at all. And I noticed that with every car behind that Lincoln, it was like it was the leader of the pack. I could see the drivers of the cars behind were all kind of ‘switched off.’ It looked like an automatic mode. Like they were in a daze. It was very, very odd. We got down the road and my friend said: ‘Did you see the way that vehicle was moving?’ I said, ‘No, what do you mean?’ He said: ‘The wheels were going around, but they weren’t touching the ground.’ It was just like it was hovering, but not high, or I would have known. I was too busy trying to see the driver. I just said: ‘Oh, my God.'” Moving on to another case…
Nick Redfern and a sinister (but cool) car…
As bizarre as it might sound, there are a number of reports on record of black cars (A) entering and exiting UFOs late at night; and (B) of apparent aliens exiting UFOs and getting in cars. Yep, I know: it’s really weird. Back in 2009, longtime Ufologist Tim Beckley shared just such a story with me. Tim said: “I remember one incident where I was lecturing and a gentleman – a professor at the college where I was lecturing – came up to me and told this story about how he was driving outside of a town in Michigan. It was rather late at night, and he saw these lights in the woods. He pulled over, and there was no other traffic coming in either direction, but there was already another car parked at the edge of the road.” Tim continued: “He described seeing some sort of ship in the distance – a UFO. A group of human-like aliens got out of the UFO, walked to the car – which was a Cadillac, or something like that. He watched them and could see they looked human. They just got in the car and drove off. But then, a couple of weeks later, he sees one of the same guys in a supermarket. These reports sound farfetched, but there’s so many of them of what seem to be aliens being able to move among us.”
Dr. Josef Allen Hynek was provided with the details of a fantastically-strange MIB encounter, that occurred in a small Minnesota town in late 1975, and that falls firmly into just such a category. Ironically, no UFO was seen on this particular occasion, but the chief witness was harassed by the driver of a large, black Cadillac on a particular stretch of highway, and who nearly forced the man into an adjacent ditch. The irate man quickly righted his vehicle and headed off in hot-pursuit, only to see the black Cadillac lift into the air and, quite literally, disappear in the blink of any eye!
For Robert Easley, a resident of Defiance, Ohio, the weirdness began in the early hours of July 11, 1967. He was woken up by the sound of his phone ringing. Easley quickly answered it – perhaps fearing it was someone with bad news. It was actually a woman who wanted to report a sighting of two UFOs over the town – a sighting that was still going on. Easley jumped into his car and sped off into the night. It turns out that Easley was shadowed all the way by a black Cadillac, very often the preferred mode of transport for the MIB. The car had no license plates, which is typical, too. As for the driver, who kept very close to Easley’s vehicle, his upper body and head were silhouetted and dark. That was not good news. The MIB soon vanished, however, taking another road and leaving Easley worried and slightly paranoid. On the night of July 15, the MIB returned, yet again in his black Cadillac, following Easley for a number of nail-biting miles. Tim Beckley tells the story of what happened next: “When [Easley] pulled into his driveway, the unknown car sped off. Later that evening as he sat talking with his girlfriend on the front porch, the car came down the road and stopped right in front of the house, as soon as the topic of UFOs entered their conversation. Easley could feel the man looking at them. When they got off the subject the car left, but when they got back on it about an hour later, the same car came back again. It was as if the driver could hear what they were saying or read their minds.”
Présentation d'Athena, la plus grande et la plus ambitieuse optique à rayons X jamais réalisée, avec Andrea Martelli - PART II
Présentation d'Athena, la plus grande et la plus ambitieuse optique à rayons X jamais réalisée, avec Andrea Martelli - PART II
Découvrez Athena, le futur observatoire spatial européen
Article de Rémy Decourt, publié le 03/07/2014
L'Agence spatiale européenne a sélectionné la seconde grande mission de son programme scientifique Vision Cosmique. L'observatoire Athena, un satellite X conçu pour étudier l'univers chaud et énergétique, sera lancé en 2028 et remplacera, à lui seul, les satellites XMM-Newton (Esa) et Chandra (Nasa). Rencontre avec Étienne Pointecouteau, responsable adjoint du conseil scientifique d'un des deux instruments scientifiques.
En novembre 2013, l'Agence spatiale européenne décidait du thème de ses deux prochaines grandes missions spatiales. L'univers chaud et dynamique et la traque des insaisissables ondes gravitationnelles devenaient sa priorité. Aujourd'hui, elle confirme un de ses choix et sélectionne Athena, pour Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics, un observatoire spatial de pointe qui fonctionnera dans le domaine X. Pour l'équipe scientifique en charge du projet, cette sélection met fin à plus de 15 ans de travail, de propositions et de lobbying et va les occuper durant les 15 à 20 prochaines années.
Études conceptuelles du télescope Athena, de Thales Alenia Space (gauche) et d'Airbus Espace (à droite), qui ne préfigurent en rien le satellite qui sera construit. L'instrument devra être réalisé dans la décennie à venir et sera le meilleur du genre pour observer dans le domaine des rayons X.
Cet observatoire sera lancé à l'horizon 2028 par un lanceur européen qui devrait être une Ariane 5, voire une Ariane 6. Mis en orbite autour du point de Lagrange 2, choisi pour sa grande stabilité gravitationnelle et sa situation en dehors des ceintures de radiation, il sera positionné dans la direction opposée au Soleil. Il fonctionnera pendant au moins cinq ans mais la mission est conçue pour une décennie.
Athena remplacera XMM-Newton et Chandra, deux observatoires spatiaux. Si Chandra offre une meilleure résolution que XMM-Newton, lequel l'emporte pour la sensibilité, la mission Athena « fera plus que combiner les performances de ses illustres prédécesseurs, puisqu'elle dépassera de loin les capacités en spectro-imagerie des rayons X de XMM-Newton et Chandra », explique Étienne Pointecouteau, chercheur CNRS à l'Irap (Toulouse) et responsable adjoint du conseil scientifique de l'instrument X-IFU d'Athena. En effet, la surface collectrice de cet instrument surpassera d'un facteur 10 celle de XMM-Newton et d'un facteur avoisinant 40 celle de Chandra. Ainsi, avec ses 5" de résolution spatiale et sa très grande sensibilité, cet observatoire nous « apportera la spectro-imagerie de sources très peu brillantes, comme par exemple les premiers trous noirs ou les premiers groupes de galaxies formés dans l'univers ».
Cinq vues de la galaxie d’Andromède dans les domaines radio, infrarouge, optique, ultraviolet et X. Les longueurs d'onde X, absorbées par l'atmosphère terrestre, ne peuvent être étudiées que depuis l'espace.
Le principal objectif de cet observatoire est de répondre aux grandes questions posées par le thème scientifique l'univers chaud et dynamique. À savoir comment « la matière ordinaire s'assemble pour former les structures que nous voyons aujourd'hui à grande échelle et comment les trous noirs naissent, évoluent et façonnent l'univers tel que nous l'observons ».
Pour répondre à la première question, il est nécessaire de cartographier la distribution du gaz chaud dans les grandes structures de l'univers, « en particulier le gaz contenu dans les groupes, les amas de galaxies et le milieu intergalactique » et en déterminer les propriétés physiques ainsi que leur évolution au cours du temps. « C'est la clé de notre compréhension des processus gouvernant la formation des structures de l'univers de l'échelle des galaxies à celle des grands filaments de matière que nous observons aujourd'hui ». Quant à la deuxième question, il « nous faut étudier les trous noirs supermassifs au centre des galaxies, des environnements très obscurcis par la matière accrétante (gaz, poussières, etc.), jusqu'à leurs premières populations dans l'univers très jeune ». Il nous faut aussi comprendre leur cycle d'accrétion et d'éjection et les échanges de matière et d'énergie qu'ils induisent dans leur environnement (galaxies et gaz chaud). L'ensemble de ces éléments nous fournira une vue de la façon dont les galaxies et les trous noirs supermassifs qu'elles abritent évoluent ensemble.
Au-delà de ces objectifs scientifiques majeurs, Athena permettra un large spectre d'observations, de l'étude des sursauts gamma, « des explosions extrêmement énergétiques dont la nature est encore incertaine » à la caractérisation des explosions de supernovae et de leurs restes, lieux de la production de métaux et responsables de la génération de courants de matière et d'énergie à l'échelle des galaxies (les vents galactiques). Cet observatoire sera également utilisé pour l'étude des planètes du Système solaire qui donnera « une vue complémentaire des mesures in situ de l'interaction par exemple entre leur environnement magnétique (magnétosphère) et les particules énergétiques du vent solaire ».
Comme le souligne Alvaro Gimenez, le directeur de la science et de l'exploration robotique à l'Esa, « par rapport aux missions X précédentes, le bond en avant sera significatif ». Surtout, il permettra aux astronomes européens de rester en « pointe pour de nombreuses années dans l'étude du rayonnement de hautes énergies de l'univers ».
Le télescope XMM-Newton, ici en vue d'artiste, a été lancé en décembre 1999. Sa mission d'observation en rayons X se poursuit toujours, sur une orbite elliptique autour de la Terre, qui l'en éloigne jusqu'à 114.000 km.
L'instrument X-IFU, 60 fois meilleur que XMM-Newton et Chandra
Avec un poids d'environ cinq tonnes, Athena sera aussi lourd qu'un satellite de télécommunications. Il embarquera un miroir de trois mètres de diamètre, avec une surface collectrice efficace de 2 m2 à 1 keV et deux instruments focaux qui opéreront dans « la bande d'énergie des rayons X de basse énergie, c'est-à-dire 0,2 à 12 keV », la même gamme spectrale que XMM-Newton et Chandra. Cette gamme est notre « fenêtre sur l'univers chaud et énergétique ». De nombreux phénomènes physiques y produisent des émissions, comme l'ont montré les nombreux résultats de XMM-Newton et Chandra.
Des deux instruments, le spectromètre intégral de champ (X-IFU, pour X-Ray Integral Field Unit) est le plus novateur. Il permettra d'étudier le détail de nombreuses sources astrophysiques et autres processus physiques dont les émissions sont actuellement totalement hors de portée de XMM-Newton et Chandra. « Le X-IFU est considéré comme l'instrument le plus ambitieux jamais considéré pour une mission spatiale » tient à préciser Didier Barret, chercheur CNRS à l'Irap et investigateur principal de cet instrument à la tête du consortium européen dont les principaux contributeurs sont la France, l'Italie et les Pays-Bas.
Cet instrument, dont les détecteurs sont refroidis à une température proche du zéro absolu, sera doté d'une résolution spectrale de 2,5 eV sur l'ensemble de son champ de vue de 5 arc-minutes, « 60 fois mieux que les performances actuelles des spectro-imageurs embarqués par XMM-Newton et Chandra », précise Étienne Pointecouteau. Athena et X-IFU ouvriront donc les portes, via la très haute résolution spectrale en X, des détails de l'astrophysique des processus physiques énergétiques de l'univers. Le second instrument est sous responsabilité allemande. Il s'agit d'un imageur à grand champ (WFI pour Wide Field Imager) avec une excellente résolution spatiale.
Compte tenu de la complexité de la mission et son coût, l'Agence spatiale européenne souhaite l'internationaliser. Elle recherche des partenariats, notamment avec le Japon et les États-Unis. La Nasa a d'ores et déjà fait savoir son intérêt et se dit prête à fournir certains composants et systèmes. En 2019, l'Agence spatiale européenne devrait détailler la feuille de route de ce programme. Elle fixera un budget et choisira le maître d'œuvre du satellite et les industriels en charge de sa construction. Quant aux instruments, leur développement débute dès aujourd'hui.
Présentation d'Athena, la plus grande et la plus ambitieuse optique à rayons X jamais réalisée, avec Andrea Martelli- PART I
Présentation d'Athena, la plus grande et la plus ambitieuse optique à rayons X jamais réalisée, avec Andrea Martelli - PART I
Rémy Decourt - Journaliste
L'observatoire spatial Athena, qui promet des avancées majeures dans le domaine de l'astrophysique des hautes énergies, sera équipé d'un miroir de 2,5 mètres. Ce miroir est si ambitieux au niveau des prouesses scientifiques et de sa conception qu'il nécessite la réalisation d'un prototype grandeur nature pour valider le concept et les performances attendues. L'interview d'Andrea Martelli, responsable des avant-projets scientifiques chez Thales Alenia Space, nous explique les enjeux.
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Début janvier, l'Agence spatiale européenne a confié à Thales Alenia Space l'étude de la conception, la fabrication et le test du démonstrateur MAM (Mirror Assembly Module) destiné au futur télescope spatial Athena.
Cet observatoire spatial, dont le lancement est prévu en 2031, pourra sonder le cosmos 10 à 100 fois plus profondément que les précédentes missions dans le domaine des rayons X, afin d'observer les objets célestes les plus chauds et énergétiques. Nos articles précédents détaillent les objectifs scientifiques qui promettent des avancées majeures dans le domaine de l'astrophysique des hautes énergies.
Une toute nouvelle technologie optique à rayons X
Pour atteindre les objectifs scientifiques extrêmement ambitieux de cette mission, le miroir d'Athena sera la plus grande optique à rayons X jamais construite. En effet, ces objectifs exigent une grande surface effective dans ce spectre. Par conséquent, l'optique du télescope doit pouvoir collecter et focaliser les rayons X à travers une grande structure circulaire d'environ 2,5 m de diamètre. Cette structure comportera près de 600 modules de miroirs très précisément alignés grâce à la nouvelle technologie Silicon Pore Optics (SPO). Elle devra être extrêmement rigide et stable pour atteindre les performances optiques visées. Le module MAM sera ensuite pointé vers deux instruments distincts au moyen d'un système directionnel complexe ultra précis.
Thales Alenia Space sera chargé de concevoir, développer et tester un démonstrateur grandeur nature du MAM, afin de valider ses fonctions critiques préalablement à l'adoption de la mission. Thales devra démontrer la maturité globale de la technologie et du processus retenus pour la mise en œuvre du projet Athena qui débutera en 2022. Elle devra donc démontrer l'aptitude à fabriquer et intégrer le miroir à sa taille réelle et sa compatibilité avec l'ensemble des exigences fonctionnelles et d'interface de la mission Athena. Le succès de la mission reposera en grande partie sur cette technologie.
Andrea Martelli, responsable des avant-projets scientifiques chez Thales Alenia Space (TAS), répond à nos questions très techniques :
Pourriez-vous nous décrire la technologie SPO (Silicon Pore Optics) ?
Andrea Martelli : Cette technologie SPO est actuellement développée par la société Cosine aux Pays-Bas. Le site web de l'ESA et de la Communauté Athena l'explique très bien : « La technologie SPO repose sur l'emploi de plaquettes (wafers) en silicium disponibles sur étagère, dont la qualité de surface (texture et rugosité) est parfaitement compatible avec les applications optiques à rayons X. Un module SPO se compose de deux empilements (stacks) de wafers intégrés ensemble. Le premier stack est un jeu de plaques-miroirs concentriques et confocales qui représentent les paraboloïdes (1re réflexion) à l'intérieur d'un système Wolter de type I emboîté, tandis que le second stack fait office d'hyperboloïdes (2e réflexion) dans ce même système. Chaque module agit ainsi comme une petite lentille à part entière. Le miroir complet peut être constitué en plaçant les modules en anneaux dont la taille diffère en fonction de la position du rayon dans la structure ».
Représentation artistique de la technologie SPO (Silicon Pore Optics) de l’optique du télescope de 2,5 mètres d'Athena.
Quelles sont les autres contraintes techniques et technologiques ?
Andrea Martelli : Le miroir d'Athena est la plus grande optique à rayons X jamais fabriquée. La principale contrainte technique est donc liée à la taille de sa structure, qui fait office de banc optique (d'un diamètre de 2,5 m pour une épaisseur globale de l'ordre de 250 mm), ce qui ne va pas sans poser quelques problèmes de disponibilité et d'approvisionnement de la matière brute. Pour cela, Thales Alenia Space peut compter sur sa longue expérience de l'achat et de la qualification de différents matériaux pour ses applications spatiales, et a trouvé une solution potentielle qui doit désormais être entièrement adaptée au miroir d'Athena.
Ce dernier doit en effet être aussi rigide que possible, tout en tenant compte des contraintes habituelles inhérentes aux missions spatiales comme la masse, la réponse en fréquence, l'opérabilité, etc. Les contraintes technologiques sont ensuite essentiellement liées à la forme complexe de la structure qui comprendra 600 logements de modules co-implantés et alignés avec une précision extrême.
Dans un premier temps, il est donc absolument indispensable de développer et tester un démonstrateur MAM (Mirror Assembly Module) grandeur nature, afin de valider la faisabilité technique et technologique d'une telle structure de miroir.
En quoi le miroir d’Athena diffère-t-il des précédentes générations ?
Andrea Martelli : Le miroir est l'un des éléments clés de ce télescope dont les performances dépendent de lui. Capable de combiner à la fois grand champ et haute résolution angulaire, il offrira des capacités d'observation très largement supérieures à celles des précédentes missions comme le montre la figure ci-dessous :
Performances scientifiques du miroir de l'observatoire spatial Athena. Il sera capable de combiner à la fois grand champ et haute résolution angulaire, il offrira des capacités d’observation très largement supérieures à celles des précédentes missions, comme le montre la figure. De gauche à droite et de bas en haut : Surface collectrice, en cm² - 1 keV ; Résolution angulaire, en secondes d’arc ; Appauvrissement du flux de photons ; Le quadrant d’or ; Faible sensibilité ; Confusion des sources cosmologiques.
Pour rendre de telles performances possibles, le miroir obéit à un mode de conception et de mise en œuvre radicalement nouveau par rapport aux télescopes XMM-Newton, Chandra et autres satellites d'observation à rayons X. Par exemple, le module optique de XMM repose sur trois télescopes composés de 58 miroirs Wolter I à incidence rasante (coques monolithiques en nickel recouvertes d'une fine couche d'or) qui sont emboîtés dans une configuration coaxiale et confocale soudée à une extrémité sur une araignée. Une conception similaire a été adoptée pour Chandra et, plus récemment, Rosita.
Le miroir d'Athena est composé de 600 modules SPO répartis sur 15 rangées circulaires à l'intérieur de la structure. Par leur conception et fabrication, ces modules améliorent sensiblement la capacité de réflexion des rayons X vers les capteurs des instruments. Chaque module est relié à la structure au moyen de trois goupilles de positionnement qui, lors des phases d'intégration, calibration et test, permettent d'aligner parfaitement chacun de ces modules.
Le développement du démonstrateur MAM servira-t-il à d’autres applications ?
Andrea Martelli : Le développement du MAM défrichera le terrain pour d'autres applications spatiales, en particulier des missions scientifiques où les structures de miroir seront nécessaires pour servir de bancs optiques. Ce type de structures, soumises à d'importantes contraintes de stabilité thermique pour limiter les distorsions des optiques supportées, sont généralement fabriquées en matériaux céramiques ou métalliques à faible coefficient de dilatation thermique. Les matériaux céramiques sont cassants, nécessitent des procédés de fabrication très complexes et sont limités en taille en raison des contraintes des moyens de production.
Les dimensions et la complexité du miroir d'Athena ayant pratiquement exclu l'emploi de ce type de matériaux dans la conception, la solution adoptée par TAS pour ce programme repose sur une formule métallique qui répond au besoin d'un processus de fabrication plus simple et qui, par ailleurs, exige un strict contrôle des dilatations thermiques. La solution fait ainsi appel à un thermorégulateur actif dédié qui assure aux modules de miroir la stabilité requise. Elle pourra donc être exploitée dans le cadre de missions scientifiques spatiales pour des bancs optiques de tailles à la fois plus grandes et plus petites où le facteur coût peut aussi être intéressant.
Quelles sont les différences de technologies et de performances entre les télescopes XMM-Newton, Chandra et Athena ?
Andrea Martelli : Ces différences s'expliquent en partie par le niveau technologique propre à l'époque de chacune de ces missions, les missions XMM et Chandra remontant déjà à plus de 20 ans. Leur principale différence réside dans la technologie de fabrication du miroir, comme nous l'avons décrite dans cet article. Athena se distingue en particulier par la taille (2,5 m de diamètre) et la surface effective de son miroir ainsi que par la résolution en énergie et les dimensions générales du télescope, notamment sa longueur focale de 12 m (contre 7,5 et 10 respectivement pour XMM et Chandra), qui porte la longueur hors-tout du satellite à environ 15 m.
Enfin, toute l'électronique embarquée d'Athena sera au tout dernier standard technologique et contribuera ainsi au surcroît de performance et d'opérabilité du satellite.
En outre, les missions Chandra, XMM et Athena se distinguent par leurs opérations et activités scientifiques spécifiques. Le miroir optique de Chandra se focalise sur un point unique, ce qui oblige à déplacer les instruments montés dans le plan focal sur ce point au moyen d'un mécanisme dédié. En revanche, XMM est à même d'opérer ses instruments en parallèle par l'application d'un filtre sur le faisceau focalisé. Athena est, quant à lui, capable de déplacer tout l'ensemble miroir au moyen d'un mécanisme de basculement dédié pour focaliser le faisceau vers l'instrument cible.
Comparaison de la surface effective du spectromètre X-IFU d'Athena à celle de l’instrument XRISM Resolve, tous deux des spectro-imageurs. Deux spectromètres dispersifs actuellement en service, en l’occurrence le RGS de XMM-Newton et le HETG de Chandra, sont également indiqués. Notons que l’instrument X-IFU offre une capacité d’imagerie dont la résolution angulaire de l’optique est de 5", avec une taille de pixel inférieure à 5", contre une résolution angulaire de 1" pour l’optique XRISM et une taille de pixel de 30" pour l’instrument Resolve.
La fabrication du miroir d’Athena incombera-t-elle à TAS ?
Andrea Martelli : Le but du démonstrateur grandeur nature MAM (Mirror Assembly Module Demonstrator), qui permettra de valider les fonctions les plus critiques du système, vise à confirmer l'aptitude de TAS à réaliser la conception, la fabrication, l'assemblage et la campagne de tests dans les temps pour l'adoption de la mission Athena. Le cas échéant, TAS sera le candidat tout désigné pour fabriquer le miroir du satellite, même si la compétition est encore ouverte à ce stade.
CE QU'IL FAUT RETENIR
L'instrument X-IFU promet des avancées majeures dans le domaine de l’astrophysique des hautes énergies.
La mission Athena est la seconde mission de classe L (Large) sélectionnée par l’ESA en juin 2014 dans le cadre de son programme scientifique Cosmic Vision. Elle sera lancée au début des années 2030.
Athena est un observatoire spatial pour l’exploration de « l’Univers chaud et énergétique ».
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Le télescope spatial Athena X va révolutionner notre connaissance de l'univers
Le futur observatoire spatial X de l'agence spatiale européenne sera lancé au début des années 2030. Il embarquera X-ray Integral Field Unit, un instrument révolutionnaire qui a nécessité une étude de faisabilité pour s'assurer d'être en mesure de pouvoir le réaliser. Cette étude s'est conclue positivement ouvrant la voie à un instrument qui promet des avancées majeures dans le domaine de l'astrophysique des hautes énergies.
Aujourd'hui, les questions scientifiques et les progrès technologiques déclenchent de nouveaux projets spatiaux pour répondre aux questions générées par les données des instruments qui précèdent ces futurs projets. Un cycle sans fin qui pousse scientifiques et ingénieurs à réaliser des instruments très innovants dont certains nécessitent des sauts technologiques significatifs.
Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics), le futur observatoire spatial dans le X de l’Agence spatiale européenne n'échappe pas à cette règle. Le principal objectif de cet observatoire est de répondre aux grandes questions posées par le thème scientifique de l'Univers chaud et dynamique. À savoir, comment « la matière ordinaire s'assemble pour former les structures que nous voyons aujourd'hui à grande échelle et comment les trous noirs naissent, évoluent et façonnent l'univers tel que nous l'observons », explique Étienne Pointecouteau, chercheur CNRS à l'Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (Irap) et responsable adjoint du conseil scientifique de l'instrument X-IFU d'Athena.
Études conceptuelles du satellite Athena. L'encadré montre la chaîne cryogénique de l'instrument du spectromètre X-IFU.
Une étude de faisabilité pour s'assurer qu'il pourra être conçu !
Pour cela, il sera doté de deux instruments principaux dont le X-ray Integral Field Unit : un spectro-imageur haute résolution spectrale, bien plus puissant que ses prédécesseurs et qui promet des avancées majeures dans le domaine de l'astrophysique des hautes énergies. Pour vous donner une idée du saut de performance, X-IFU sera doté d'une résolution spectrale de 2,5 eV sur l'ensemble de son champ de vue de 5 arc-minutes, soit de 50 à 60 fois mieux que les performances actuelles des spectro-imageurs embarqués par XMM-Newton et Chandra.
Le X-IFU est considéré comme l'instrument le plus ambitieux jamais considéré pour une mission spatiale
Simulation des performances des observatoires spatiaux XRISM de la Jaxa et d'Athena (ESA). Elle permet de voir le saut technologique permis par Athena. La surface collectrice des photons (en cm2) est supérieure d’un facteur 45 à celle de XRISM qui devrait voler en 2021 (2032 pour Athena). La résolution spectrale est deux fois meilleure que XRISM, la taille des pixels est vingt fois plus petite, ce qui nous donnera des images de bien meilleure qualité.
La matrice de détecteurs (microcalorimètres), l'électronique de lecture et la chaîne cryogénique (les détecteurs seront refroidis à une température proche du zéro absolu), sont les technologies les plus innovantes. Pour s'assurer que le concept de l'instrument, défini par les exigences scientifiques, arrivera à des performances conformes aux spécifications émanant de l'équipe scientifique, une étude de faisabilité de 4 mois a été nécessaire.
Les conclusions de cette étude ont été présentées ce mardi 21 mai. L'agence spatiale européenne et le Centre national d'études spatiales ont confirmé la faisabilité de cet instrument. Celui-ci entre maintenant dans sa phase de définition préliminaire qui va durer environ 3 ans. Si le planning est respecté, la 06-03-2021 om 00:00
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It is possible that humanity may be at the threshold of the most important moment in its history; contact with an extraterrestrial civilization may be imminent.
Until now, this has been the topic of science fiction books and films. But scientifically speaking, the Universe is too big to maintain only one civilization, the human one.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) was started in the past century, with many projects that were funded by the U.S. government and by private sources.
For the moment, nothing has been found to confirm its existence, or if anything has been found, it has not been announced to the public. However, planets have been discovered in our galaxy that indicate similarities with Earth and possibilities of life on those planets.
A few months ago, according to unverified information, there was a meeting of a committee of the U.N., comprised of the permanent members of the Security Council that deals with such issues. It had been the first time in many years that the committee had met and of course very few humans know what was discussed.
Then something very interesting happened. One month after the visit of the Pope to the U.S., the Vatican daily, “L’Osservatore Romano,” hosted an interview on May 13 with the director of the Vatican’s Observatory, titled “The alien is my brother,” in which he says some very important things.
Let us read the contents of his interview.
When he was asked about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, he responded by saying,
“It is possible, even if until now we have no proof. But certainly in such a big universe, this hypothesis cannot be excluded.”
Asked if he sees a contradiction between the Catholic faith and believing in aliens he replied,
“I think there isn’t a contradiction. Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on the earth, so there could be other beings, even intelligent beings, created by God.
“This is not in contradiction with our faith, because we cannot establish limits to God’s creative freedom. To say it with St. Francis’ words, if we can consider some earthly creatures as brothers or sisters, why could we not speak of a brother alien? He would also belong to creation.”
It is important to note that the Vatican, for the first time in its history, issued a statement of that kind. And the Vatican never makes statements unless there is a reason.
Objectively there is no reason for the Vatican to make such a statement at this time
Subjectively there may be a reason that humanity does not yet know about.
Let us be more concrete.
When there were contacts between civilizations on Earth in the past, what usually happened was that the stronger one influenced or absorbed the weaker one or that the weaker one died out. This is one of the reasons that the Neanderthal race of humans disappeared and Homo sapiens prevailed.
If there was to be contact between humanity and an extraterrestrial civilization, the first casualty could be the religions of Earth, if it were proven that the existence of extraterrestrial life would contradict human religions.
In order to prevent the collapse of human religions, which could lead to chaos and to the loss of the planet’s religious institutions’ power, the Vatican made an effective pre-emptive strike by announcing that no such contradiction exists.
Consequently, it is possible that contact between humanity and an extraterrestrial civilization may be imminent and that technical details of such an encounter may be in the process of being worked out. This would explain the Vatican statement.
If that were the case, then all the other problems of the planet would become temporarily irrelevant, in view of the importance of such a contact.
But let us wait and see. Ponder our thoughts, dear humans, for your benefit.
Fin 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 son programme d'exploration lunaire, souhaite se doter de capacités suffisantes pour mener ses propres missions en toute autonomie. Elle a donc engagé les études d'un atterrisseur lunaire polyvalent et d'un croiseur lunaire de transfert cislunaire, s'appuyant sur l'héritage des modules de service d'Orion et de l'ATV. Ce croiseur lunaire serait utile à une grande variété de missions et pas seulement à destination de la Lune. Federico Massobrio, responsable des avant-projets dans le domaine de l'exploration chez Thales Alenia Space, répond à nos questions.
L'Agence spatiale européenne veut jouer un rôle moteur dans la conquête de laLuneet ses environs. Principale partenaire de laNasadans laconstructionduGatewayen réalisant lesmodules Esprit et I-HA, l'ESAfournit également le module de service du véhiculeOrionde la Nasa. Mais elle a aussi pour ambition de se doter d'unalunisseur logistique lourd européen(European Large Logistics Lander, EL3) ainsi que d'un véhicule de transfert polyvalent cislunaire pour ravitailler leGateway, s'appuyant sur l'héritage des modules de service d'Orion et de l'ATV.
L'ESA qui souhaite se doter de capacités suffisantes pour mener ses propres missions en toute autonomie (comprenez sans dépendre du bon vouloir de la Nasa), a trouvé avec l'atterrisseur lunaire polyvalent EL3 et le croiseur lunaire de transfert cislunaire, deux concepts intéressants. Notamment parce qu'ils permettent une grande variété de missions et, concernant le CLTV (Cis-Lunar Transfer Vehicle), il peut être utilisé pas seulement à destination de la Lune. En janvier, l'Agence spatiale européenne a donc signé deux contrats d'étude avec Thales Alenia Space et Airbus pour valider le concept de ce véhicule de transfert polyvalent cislunaire CLTV.
Le CLTV, un véhicule logistique polyvalent
Avc 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 (Space Launch System) 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.
Vous l'aurez compris, il ne s'agit pas d'un véhicule conçu pour le transport d'équipage mais d'un véhicule logistique polyvalent pouvant être utilisé dans le cadre de différentes missions d'exploration spatiale, de l'orbite terrestre basse à l'environnement cislunaire et lunaire. Ce véhicule sera lancé par une Ariane 6, voire un lanceur Vega C en cas de lancement multiple. Premier vol en 2027.
Cela dit, 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 du sort des projets EL3 et CLTV, soit en finançant un seul des deux ou les deux, voire en les abandonnant, ce qui paraît peu probable.
Concept de véhicule de transfert cislunaire dérivé de l'ATV, pour ravitailler le Gateway, étudié par Airbus.
Federico Massobrio, responsable des avant-projets dans le domaine de l'exploration chez Thales Alenia Space dont l'entreprise a remporté un contrat d'étude pour le CLTV, nous apporte des précisions.
Quelles sont vos idées générales, en matière d’architecture (forme) et caractéristiques (longueur, largeur, masse, capacité de transport de carburant, panneaux solaires…) ?
Federico Massobrio : Le véhicule est censé être très flexible au regard de la grande variété de missions qu'il aura à accomplir : ravitaillement logistique des modules pressurisés de la station spatiale cislunaire LOP-G (Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway), ravitaillement en ergols, transport d'infrastructures en orbite terrestre basse (LEO) et missions potentiellement complémentaires aux atterrisseurs lunaires. Par conséquent, les ressources du système et les capacités de transport associées dépendront pour beaucoup de sa destination finale.
Ce véhicule utilisera-t-il une version modifiée du module de service d’Orion (ESM) ou bien préférez-vous proposer à l’ESA un véhicule avec un module de service très différent de celui d’Orion ?
Federico Massobrio : Compte tenu du fait que l'ESM est spécifiquement intégré au composite Orion conçu pour être lancé à bord du SLS, avec un moteur principal fourni par les États-Unis, un dérivé direct de l'ESM est difficilement envisageable. Toutefois, des solutions européennes innovantes doivent être identifiées pour fournir à l'ESA un véhicule logistique et utilitaire compétitif.
Ce véhicule ressemblera-t-il à un cargo Cygnus propulsé par un module de service ?
Federico Massobrio : Pour la mission cargo pressurisée, les composantes les plus appropriées seront analysées et sélectionnées en fonction des exigences en matière d'environnement, interface et habitabilité, de durée de vie et coûts supportables. Cygnus n'est qu'une des solutions les plus prometteuses actuellement à l'étude.
Concept de croiseur lunaire pour desservir l'orbite basse, le Gateway ou la Lune.
Si la partie cargo de ce véhicule sera dérivée d’un module Cygnus, quelles seront les améliorations nécessaires (diamètre, dimension, radiations, micrométéorites...) ?
Federico Massobrio : Tout dépendra de la mission visée - si elle concerne l'orbite basse ou la LOP-G - ainsi que de sa durée et de son habitabilité. Quelle que soit la formule finale retenue, une approche modulaire permettra d'accomplir différentes missions avec un minimum de changements.
Le système d’amarrage sera-t-il le mécanisme d’amarrage conçu autour d'un standard universel IBDM de l’ESA ?
Federico Massobrio : Là aussi, tout dépendra de la cible (LEO, LOP-G, ou autre) et du type de fret (marchandises, ergols, infrastructures).
Ce véhicule passera-t-il « sa vie » dans l’espace ou bien retournera-t-il sur Terre de temps en temps ?
Federico Massobrio : Pour l'instant, une version réutilisable du CLTV n'est pas envisagée, sauf si un véhicule de rentrée dérivé du Space Rider est jugé potentiellement intéressant en matière de véhicule de transport.
Peut-on envisager un module de transport de fret/marchandises qui serait lancé en orbite puis un module de service pour le récupère et l’amener au Gateway ?
Federico Massobrio : Un scénario de lancement multiple est en effet à l'étude pour améliorer les capacités actuelles des lanceurs européens, mais se posera également la question des coûts et des opportunités commerciales.
Un dérivé de ce véhicule (tout, une partie ou quelques éléments) peut-il servir à d’autres projets en développement, par exemple le SpaceRider et les services en orbite ?
Federico Massobrio : La logistique spatiale, le ravitaillement en ergols, l'assemblage en orbite et l'OOS (on-orbit services) font assurément partie des projets spatiaux de prochaine génération. C'est pourquoi de futures synergies dans ces domaines seront activement recherchées dans l'avenir proche.
Former USAF Major Encounters Extraterrestrial Mothership
Former USAF Major Encounters Extraterrestrial Mothership
Over and over again, trustworthy commercial and military pilots risk their reputation and come forth with descriptions of UFO encounters. Why? Do they seek notoriety and present these stories in exchange for a bit of fame or is there any substance behind their encounters with flying saucers?
Naturally, we can’t answer this question in a way that would satisfy all of our readers so we’ll just portray one pilot’s testimony and let you decide.
Naturally, we can’t answer this question in a way that would satisfy all of our readers so we’ll just portray one pilot’s testimony and let you decide.
Former U.S. Air Force Major George Filer III
Filer is a stern believer in the alien presence on Earth and he thinks aliens have been visiting our planet for thousands of years. According to him, UFOs are encountered more often than we’ve been led to think and there is an ongoing effort to conceal their presence.
In January 1962, he was stationed as a pilot at the U.S. Air Force Base at Sculthorpe RAF Base in the U.K. During an aerial refueling mission taking place over the North Sea at an altitude of 30,000 feet, Filer was notified by London Control that their radar had picked up something anomalous.
He had just finished transferring fuel from his tanker aircraft and started heading toward the object. According to London Control, the unknown object was hovering over an area near Stonehenge, at an altitude of around 1,000 feet. The sun had just set and the skies were clear.
When Filer got within 30 miles of the UFO, his APS-23 Radar detected it.
“It was an exceptionally large radar return reminding me of a large bridge or ship. This craft was bigger than anything I had seen in the air before. It reminded me of the radar return from the Brooklyn Bridge (6,000 feet) or the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland (8,300 feet), over a mile long.
“The Return was sharp and solid as compared to the fuzziness of a rain cloud. I felt this craft must be made of steel or strong metal. We were doing around 425 mph as we approached to about 10 miles, when the UFO apparently realized we were intercepting,” Filer said.
Darkness had set so Filer and his copilot could see the spacecraft’s lights ahead of them. As they got closer, the lights turned from dim to bright while the UFO suddenly accelerated. It climbed with an unbelievable speed and was soon gone.
Filer asked London Control if any rocket launches had taken place in the area and received a negative response. Since there was nothing more he could do, Filer returned to base, recording the incident in his log.
It seemed Filer was the only one giving importance to the strange encounter but, several weeks later, he and his crew received an invitation to dinner from Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
As it turns out, Prince Phillip was very interested in hearing Filer’s account. The Duke had been intrigued by UFOs since his uncle, Earl Mountbatten had witnessed flying saucers from up close while in the Navy.
Prince Phillip told Flier he had debriefed aircrews who had encountered UFOs before and revealed that the phenomenon was of greater magnitude than most believe.
The incident turned Filer into a believer. He was especially intrigued by the fact that the large spaceship was hovering above Stonehenge and thinks there might be a connection between ancient megalithic monuments and the unidentified flying objects.
Now a regional director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), Filer continues to study and disclose his findings about the UFO phenomenon.
Satellite data showed a space hurricane in the upper atmosphere of our planet that was made of plasma (ionized gas), causing it to rain electrons. The 600-mile-wide cyclone-shaped auroral storm, which was spotted hundreds of miles above the North Pole, was the first ever space hurricane ever witnessed.
The incredible phenomena was found by researchers led by China’s Shandong University who searched through satellite data that revealed plasma swirling around in an anti-clockwise direction around the atmosphere instead of air. The storm lasted almost eight hours before breaking up and during that time, it rained electrons instead of water.
Space hurricanes have similar features as those in the lower atmosphere of Earth.
Based on this new data, space hurricanes could possibly exist on other planets and moons that contain plasma and magnetic fields. Professor Mike Lockwood, who is a space scientist at the University of Reading, stated, “Until now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation is incredible.”
He went on to say, “Tropical storms are associated with huge amounts of energy, and these space hurricanes must be created by unusually large and rapid transfer of solar wind energy and charged particles into the Earth’s upper atmosphere.” “Plasma and magnetic fields in the atmosphere of planets exist throughout the universe, so the findings suggest space hurricanes should be a widespread phenomena.”
As for what kind of damage it may cause to our planet, space hurricanes could possibly interrupt GPS systems. The study went into further details regarding this topic, reading in part, “A hurricane is clearly associated with strong energy and mass transportation, so a hurricane in Earth’s upper atmosphere must be violent and efficiently transfer solar wind/magnetosphere energy and momentum into the Earth’s ionosphere.”
Space hurricanes have calm, quiet centers just like Earth storms.
Interestingly, space hurricanes are in fact quite similar to hurricanes we often experience right here in the lower atmosphere of our planet. They both contain a very calm and quiet center section, with spiraling arms and spread out for many miles. (An illustration of the space hurricane can be seen here.)
An illustration of a space hurricane.
Pic: University of Reading
As if Earth hurricanes weren’t bad enough, now we have space hurricanes. The study was published in Nature Communications where it can be read in full.
Wie weet hebben ze de kreet Great Reset wel bedacht omdat dit is waar de aarde nu volop mee bezig is.
Een Great Reset die ook voor ons de nodige gevolgen heeft en die een probleem zal opleveren voor het verhaal van Greta Thunberg.
Eén van de grootste drijfveren volgens de geldende propaganda van de wereldwijde politiek is om te proberen de temperatuurstijging op aarde onder controle te houden. Want, het is volgens hen voor eenieder duidelijk dat de mens de oorzaak is van alle problemen met betrekking tot klimaat en daaruit volgende opwarming, dus het is ook de mens die het moet corrigeren.
Wij hebben in eerdere artikelen uitgebreid uitgelegd wat de achtergrond is van dit alles en hoe ook de zogenaamde "door de mens veroorzaakte klimaatopwarming van de aarde" een belangrijk onderdeel vormt van de grotere agenda om een fiks deel van de bevolking uit te roeien en de rest tot slaaf te maken.
Waar we echter wel werkelijk mee te maken hebben is de natuur en het feit dat de zon voor een groot deel bepaalt hoe ons klimaat op aarde eruit ziet. Daarnaast is uit de bestudering van duizenden jaren geschiedenis inmiddels duidelijk geworden dat alles in de natuur plaatsvindt volgens een aantal cycli.
Eén daarvan heeft onder andere te maken met dat de magnetisch polen op aarde als het ware op reis gaan. Dit is dan niet het volledig flippen van de magnetische polen, maar wel tijden waarbij de polen sterk bewegen vanaf hun oorspronkelijke locaties. Dit is een proces dat iedere 12.000 jaar voorkomt en iets waar wij ook op dit moment mee te maken hebben/krijgen gezien de snelheid waarmee de magnetische polen zich op dit moment verplaatsen.
Een proces dat zich niet alleen iedere 12.000 jaar afspeelt, maar ook voor de nodige problemen op aarde zorgt.
Dit alles heeft uiteraard niets te maken met wat de mens wel of niet doet.
Een ander proces dat onderhavig is aan meerdere cycli is de activiteit van de zon. Zo hebben we de bekende 11 jaar durende zonnecyclus, maar daarnaast kennen we ook daar grotere cycli, waarbij de zon gedurende langere tijd weinig activiteit vertoont.
Een dergelijke periode noemt men Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) en wij staan op dit moment op de drempel van een dergelijk GSM.
Zo hadden wij bijvoorbeeld in de Middeleeuwen te maken met een Grand Solar Maximum en daarna met het Maunder Minimum. Een warme periode, gevolgd door een koude periode. Deze koude periode, het Maunder Minimum, wordt ook wel de Kleine IJstijd genoemd, omdat in deze periode de temperaturen op aarde aanmerkelijk lager werden. De periode duurde ongeveer 70 jaar en het was ook een tijd waar oogsten aan de lopende band mislukten.
Volgens NOAA is er zelfs sprake van een wat men noemt "full blown GSM", wat zou betekenen dat wij hetzelfde kunnen verwachten als in de Kleine IJstijd.
Dit is nieuws wat je nergens op de voorpagina’s ziet van de mainstream media waar men gewoon blijft doorgaan met de door de mens veroorzaakte klimaatverandering hoax, met alle desastreuse gevolgen van dien.
Niet alleen zal het de komende jaren aanzienlijk kouder gaan worden, maar zelfs de komende decennia.
De Golfstroom, de krachtige warme stroming over de Atlantische Oceaan, is in duizend jaar niet zo zwak geweest. Dat schrijven Ierse, Britse en Duitse klimaatwetenschappers in een artikel in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature Geoscience. Ze vrezen dat verdere afzwakking in Europa zal leiden tot drogere zomers en strengere winters.
Niet eerder zwakte de stroming in zo'n korte tijd zo snel af, zeggen de wetenschappers. Klimaatverandering veroorzaakt door de mens is de waarschijnlijkste oorzaak, denken ze.
Net zoals bijna iedereen die doodgaat het stempel "coronadode" krijgt opgedrukt, zo krijgen alle natuurlijke cycli het stempel "veroorzaakt door de mens" opgeplakt.
Volgens David Dubyne in onderstaande video heeft het verzwakken van de Golfstroom dan ook totaal niets te maken met de mens, maar vormt dit ook weer onderdeel van een normale natuurlijke cyclus die ongeveer 1.600 jaar duurt.
Om er toch vooral maar voor te zorgen dat we de paniekverhalen over het warmer worden in stand houden haalt nu.nl een klimaatwetenschapper van het Nederlands Sjoemelinstituut (KNMI) van stal:
Die conclusie is onjuist, zegt klimaatonderzoeker Geert Jan van Oldenborgh van het KNMI tegen NU.nl. "Door de afzwakking wordt het oceaanwater tussen Groenland en IJsland koeler en in het zuiden nog warmer. Dat grotere temperatuurverschil tussen noord en zuid vormt 's winters de motor voor krachtiger westenwinden. Wij krijgen dus juist nog zachtere lucht en meer regen."
En wat Geert Jan beweert is precies dat wat er niet gebeurt zoals je op de volgende afbeelding kunt zien. Waar het water van de Golfstroom op de genoemde locatie zou moeten afkoelen, gebeurt dit niet.
Het bovenstaande plaatje net zoals degene hieronder, is afkomstig uit de onderstaande video van David Dubyne. David is er dan ook heilig van overtuigd dat we op het noordelijk halfrond te maken zullen krijgen met een aanzienlijke afkoeling.
Verder wijst David erop dat Afrika en dan met name de zuidelijke helft van dat continent, de ideale plek is om de komende heftige aardveranderingen uit te zitten.
Wat er allemaal gebeurt op onze aarde voor wat betreft klimaat- en aardveranderingen heeft niets met de mens te maken. Het is een combinatie van een aantal natuurlijke processen die eens in de zoveel tijd voorkomen en die je zou kunnen omschrijven als de Great Reset van de natuur.
Strange anomalies sticking out of Antarctica's ice sheet
Strange anomalies sticking out of Antarctica's ice sheet
Strange anomalies found in the middle of nowhere near Hut Point Peninsula located south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. Interesting fact: McMurdo Station and Scott Base, Antarctic research stations, are located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Object 1 looks like a delta-wing craft though the left wing could be a shadow of the right metallic looking part of 16 x 16 meters that sticks out of the ice sheet.
Object 2: White rectangular unknown object, size about 10x7x6 meters and what could be the unnatural looking oval shape underneath the object.
Object 3: White rectangular unknown object, size about 8x2x2 meters located between object 1 and object 2.
The shadows are the reverse projections of the objects blocking the light.
What are those anomalies sticking out of the ice sheet?
Dark Journalist speaks to psychic Joan Zink about her late husband, Dr. David Zink and his groundbreaking research in the Bimini HotZone to discover Atlantis working on the information in the readings of Edgar Cayce.
She goes deeply into the UFO File, the Tuaoi Stone Power Crystal submerged in the Bahamas and how she helped David with Psychic Archaeology.
One of the biggest questions of the universe continues to be whether we exist alone or not. One Wednesday night, an NFL quarterback turned a believer in space aliens.
Baker Mayfield of Cleveland Browns took to Twitter late night on Wednesday to say he and his wife Emily spotted a UFO. Mayfield claimed to have seen a beam of light while driving in his hometown close to Lake Travis just outside of Austin in Texas.
The 32-year-old Mayfield finished the 2021 regular season with 62.8 percent completed passes for 3,563 yards, 26 touchdowns, and eight interceptions. His 95.9 total quarterback rating finished 15th in the NFL.
Mayfield had 15 touchdowns and seven interceptions in the first half of the season and added 11 touchdowns to just one interception in the second half of the season.
Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said Baker became more comfortable with what they’re doing when asked the difference for Mayfield from the start of the season to the end.
As long as humans have realized that there are worlds out there beyond the confines of what we know, there have been those willing to go out and explore them. Our never-ending push past the boundaries of our own reality have brought back stories from intrepid adventurers of elusive unknown places beyond our wildest imaginings. History is populated by tales of mysterious lost lands and hidden places removed from civilization, with some of the greatest travelers tales revolving around enigmatic realms that have managed to evade understanding to lie out on the periphery of the known universe. One such tale concerns an alleged lost, ghostly continent found in the inhospitable frozen wastes of the far north, which captured the imagination of the era and spurred a doomed expedition to try and find it.
The strange story begins in 1906, when the American explorer Robert Peary attempted to become the first person to reach the North Pole. He was unable to do so, defeated by storms and dwindling supplies, but despite not achieving his intended goal, he would later claim to have made a groundbreaking discovery during the return voyage. Upon returning, he would make the incredible claim that while sailing west of Ellesmere Island and about 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, he had looked out across the grey expanse of storm-lashed sea to observer a previously unknown, massive landmass complete with soaring mountains and deep valleys, which he christened a new island or perhaps even a continent, a place he called Crocker Land, naming it after a banker who had helped fund his expedition. At the time of his alleged sighting, he was not equipped to approach or explore further, and in the meantime, the idea of a lost land lying out in the polar sea was generating a lot of discussion and excitement, and it even appeared on some maps at the time.
Robert Peary
There was some skepticism to Peary’s claims in 1909, when Frederick Cook and Peary went on a race to be the first to the North Pole, both of them claiming to have reached it. The thing was, Cook insisted that he had been all through the area where Crocker Land was supposed to be, but had seen nothing. Peary was adamant that it was real, and he had accrued plenty of those who believed him. One of these was the famed American Arctic explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer Donald Baxter MacMillan, who began putting together an expedition of his own to prove it, managing to gain sponsorship by such venerable institutions as the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois’ Museum of Natural History. The expedition meant to confirm the existence of Crocker Land and map its exact position, with MacMillan calling the mysterious realm “the world’s last geographical problem.”
When the expedition left aboard the steamer Diana from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on July 2, 1913, they did so with the backing of some of the most respected organizations in the world, well-supplied, the best equipment money could buy, and a crack team of seasoned professionals and experts. If anyone was going to find Crocker Land again, it was this team, and they left to much fanfare, but things would start to go sour almost from the beginning. Just two weeks after departing, the Diana crashed into some rocks along the Labrador coast while trying to dodge an iceberg, due to a Captain who was drunk behind the wheel and forcing them to change ships. They managed to reach Etah, Greenland, where they built a makeshift shed to use as a base of operations, complete with a radio system that sadly wouldn’t work. At this time the seas had frozen solid, forcing them to head out overland on dog sleds in March of 1914, where their woes only continued.
Members of MacMillan’s expedition
The weather conditions were horrific at the time, making the forbidding no man’s land even worse than usual. Many of the team got frostbite, others dropped from exhaustion, and a good number of the expedition quit and headed back. When they finally reached the Arctic Ocean, there were only four of them left, two of the original team members and two Inuit guides named Piugaattoq and Ittukusuk. They nevertheless set out across the grey expanse of frozen sea upon their dog sleds, braving the unknown and refusing to give up their mission. It was as they penetrated out into the cold domain, dodging thin ice patches, stretches of open water, and uneven terrain while hauling the sleds over steep hills and dropping caches of supplies and building igloos along part of the route, that an exciting sighting was made of what they believed to perhaps be the elusive Crocker’s Land. One day, an expedition member by the name of Fitzhugh Green claimed to have sighted a mysterious landmass in the distance, although it would turn out to be rather tenuous, and MacMillan would write of this:
April 21st [1914] was a beautiful day; all mist was gone and the clear blue of the sky extended down to the very horizon. Green was no sooner out of the igloo than he came running back, calling in through the door, ‘We have it!’ Following Green, we ran to the top of the highest mound. There could be no doubt about it. Great heavens! What a land! Hills, valleys, snow-capped peaks extending through at least one hundred and twenty degrees of the horizon. I turned to Pee-a-wah-to anxiously and asked him toward which point we had better lay our course. After critically examining the supposed landfall for a few minutes, he astounded me by replying that he thought it was poo-jok (mist) [a fata morgana illusion]. E-took-a-shoo offered no encouragement, saying, ‘Perhaps it is.’ Green was still convinced that it must be land. At any rate, it was worth watching. The day was exceptionally clear, not a cloud or trace of mist; if land could be seen, now was our time. Yes, there it was! It could even be seen without a glass, extending from southwest true to north-northeast. Our powerful glasses, however, brought out more clearly the dark background in contrast with the white, the whole resembling hills, valleys and snow-capped peaks to such a degree that, had we not been out on the frozen sea for 150 miles, we would have staked our lives upon its reality. As we proceeded, the landscape gradually changed its appearance and varied in extent with the swinging around of the Sun; finally, at night it disappeared altogether.
Somewhat disheartened by the fact that they had likely seen nothing more than a mirage, the team nevertheless soldiered on. MacMillan thought the land they had seen looked so clear and real, which is what had driven their mad dash towards it, but ultimately after five more days of failing to find it again he decided that it must have been a mirage, after which they were forced to give up the chase due to encroaching warmer weather and the increasing breaking up of the ice. The dejected MacMillan would write in his journal:
As we drank our hot tea and gnawed the pemmican, we did a good deal of thinking. Could Peary with all his experience have been mistaken? Was this mirage which had deceived us the very thing which had deceived him eight years before? If he did see Crocker Land, then it was considerably more than 120 miles away, for we were now at least 100 miles from shore, with nothing in sight. We were convinced that we were in pursuit of a will-o’-the-wisp, ever receding, ever changing, ever beckoning. My dreams of the last four years were merely dreams; my hopes had ended in bitter disappointment.
Unfortunately, this crushing realization that Crocker’s Land likely did not exist was not the end of their harrowing ordeal. When they finally got to solid land, Green and the Inuit Piugaattoq were tasked with scouting out a route west, but would face a disastrous sequence of events. As the two men ventured out to the west, they were hit with fierce weather, one of their sled dogs died, and they were forced to take shelter in a freezing ice cave. At some point the two got into an argument that turned ugly, ending when Green shot his companion dead with his rifle. When he got back to base camp, Green admitted to his American teammates about killing Piugaattoq, yet suggested they all keep it secret, telling the other Inuit that he had died in a blizzard. It was all swept under the carpet, Green never brought to justice for his crime. The ordeal continued when several attempts to rescue the expedition were defeated by poor weather, frozen seas, and harsh Arctic conditions, eventually causing some of them to head all the way back to America 1,000 miles overland down the western coast of Greenland by dog sled, while the others were finally rescued by a ship called Neptune after being stranded there for 3 full years.
Although they had not managed to find the fabled Crocker Land, the ill-fated expedition was not a complete wash. They did manage to collect photographs, data, geological samples, and artifacts from the region and its people, including 5000 photographs, thousands of specimens, and some of the earliest film taken of the Arctic, but MacMillan could never quite get over the fact that he had failed and been possibly misled by one of his idols. The whole thing had left a bitter taste in his mouth, but Peary continued to insist that it did indeed exist, yet by this time these claims by one of the most respected Arctic explorers were falling on deaf ears.
It was probably for the best, because in more recent years it is believed that Peary had made the whole thing up in order to drum up publicity and gain funding for further expeditions to the North Pole. Recent research carried out by historian David Welky, who wrote a whole book on it called A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier, found that not only did Peary’s diary contain no mention anywhere of Crocker Land, but he had not mentioned it at all until months after the expedition during which he had supposedly sighted it. There aren’t even any mentions of it in the earlier drafts of Peary’s book that first brought it up, Nearest the Pole. This suggests that he likely came up with the whole thing later on, spinning a yarn that managed to gain a foothold among other explorers and Arctic experts simply because Peary was well-respected and considered to be at the top of his field, one of the best Arctic explorers there was. Welky has said of it:
When Robert Peary comes back to the U.S., he says nothing about Crocker Land. I’ve been through his correspondence, including letters to George Crocker, and he says nothing about it for months after he returns. Then, in 1907, he releases his book, and suddenly here are these paragraphs about this amazing new land. It’s not for many months after his return that he finally says something. Crocker Land is a fabrication by Peary from the start. You can look at this in any number of ways, starting with circumstantial evidence. Obviously, Crocker Land isn’t there. So, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. What might he have seen and mistaken for land? It could have been an ice island, but ice islands don’t have peaks and valleys, they’re flat on top. Do we really think that the most experienced Western Arctic explorer mistook an ice island for a continent? It could have been a mirage. A fata morgana, as this particular kind of mirage is called. Subsequent explorers have seen fata morganas from that same spot. If you watch one, you will see it wobble and flicker and waver, and it’s obvious it’s not solid land. Nothing Peary might have mistaken for Crocker Land makes sense. That’s strike one.
We can also look at his care notes, the notes he leaves behind to prove he was there. They’re quite detailed notes. He talks about a hunting trip that day, climbing the hills to get this view, but says absolutely nothing about seeing Crocker Land. Several crewmembers also kept diaries, and according to those he never mentioned anything about seeing a new continent. We also have the typed drafts for his book, Nearest the Pole, and for an article he excerpted in Harper’s Magazine. But again there is no mention of this new land mass. In other words, sometime between the final manuscript and when the book comes out the paragraphs about Crocker Land mysteriously appear. It’s all pretty damning. They fell for it because they learned about it from the most authoritative source that Americans had on the Arctic. Robert Peary knew more about the Arctic than any other American or Westerner alive. In that sense, it was an unimpeachable source.
Was Crocker Land ever real? Probably not. It seems as if it was the invention of a man desperate for attention and funds, but it all played into the hunger for new places to discover and explore at the time, driven by his sheer standing as an intrepid explorer and expert. It is a desire we as a species still have deeply ingrained within us, so it is not all that surprising that it should catch on and inspire others to investigate for themselves. We now know that there is nothing there, and whether it was just a fabrication, a mirage, or what, it is nevertheless a peek into a great era of exploration, when there were still ill-defined areas on our maps and the horizon still held potential amazing surprises beyond it.
The Mars Helicopter Could Charge up the Atmosphere Around Itself as it Flies
The Mars Helicopter Could Charge up the Atmosphere Around Itself as it Flies
Plasma globes are a common enough sight in retails stores across the rich world. If you’ve ever seen one and gotten a chance to touch it, you’ve seen how the plasma will arc toward your touch creating a sense that you’re able to harness electricity likeThor.
That effect does not only take place on Earth – anywhere there is a charge build-up that causes a high enough electrical potential between two points to create an electrical glow or corona. Now a team at NASA think that a large charge build-up might occur when Ingenuity, Perseverance’s helicopter companion, takes to the sky.
Image of a plasma globe. Credit: Wikipedia User Diliff
The team, led by Dr. William Farrell at Goddard Space Flight Center, has been interested in the electrical properties of Mars’ atmosphere for decades, first beginning to study the subject in the early 90s. Reasons abound for wanting to understand these phenomena, not the least of which is understanding what impact it might have on any future human colony.
For now, humanity’s ambassadors on the red planet are robots, and they have their own challenges when facing electrical discharges. One particular robotic emissary is in a unique position amongst the current Martians when it comes to electrical discharges. Ingenuity will operate in a naturally dusty atmosphere and could even possibly create its own miniature dust cloud when it takes to the skies in a few weeks.
A favorite image of the effects of static electricity and tribocharging – a cat covered in electrically charged packaging peanuts. Credit: Wikipedia user Sean McGrath
With those dust interactions come electrical potentials, which are created when two dust particles run into each other or into the blades of the rotorcraft. The dust contacting the blades will likely cause a phenomena technically known as “tribocharging”. More commonly, people are familiar with this phenomena from rubbing balloons on their hair and then sticking them to a ceiling.
Tribocharging itself is not likely to cause any sparks to fly in Earth’s atmosphere. However, the conditions are different on Mars, whose atmosphere has a much lower “breakdown voltage” than that of Earth’s. While the research team is quick to point out there is no immediate danger to Ingenuity, or the rovers themselves, there is the potential to get some interesting data about the electric potential of Mars’ atmosphere.
Image of how the grains of dust will interact with Ingenuity’s blades. Credit: Farrell et all.
That data has been a long time coming, as attempts to study the electrical properties of Mars’ atmosphere have a history going back to the 1990s. Efforts have been plagued by the notorious difficulty of actually landing a craft on Mars. Attempts to send an instrument capable of detailed study were cut short when the Mars Polar Lander mission failed in 1999. That craft was part of the Mars Surveyor program, which was suspended following the loss of the Polar Lander.
One of those planned-but-never-executed Surveyor craft, Mars 03 Surveyor, was to have electrical instrumentation on it that would have allowed scientists to directly study the electrical properties of the atmosphere. A later mission, ESA’s Schiaparelli lander, would have had similar instrumentation, but it was destroyed along with the lander in a failed landing attempt in 2016.
Artist’s rendition of the failed Schiaparelli lander that would have carried some electrical instrumentation to Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG
Despite all these setbacks, interest has not waned in the topic. And Ingenuity’s takeoff allows a coincidental chance to at least get some data. The counterrotating blades the helicopter uses for stabilization will likely have the effect of creating a small Van de Graff generator, charging the helicopter body with high voltages when comparing to its surrounding atmosphere.
The best way to observe this phenomenon would be with dedicated instruments, such as an electrometer or radio antenna. In lieu of that, the best scientists can hope for in this mission is to observe Ingenuity while it takes off. Dr. Farrell and his team suggest that doing so at twilight would make for ideal observing conditions. However, mission planners much prefer operations with good lighting and calm winds – not necessarily at twilight.
UT video discussing the challenges of landing on Mars.
No matter the launch time, Ingenuity’s flight will be the first powered controlled flight by humankind on another planet. If it happens to take off with an amazing glow, it will not only result in great data for Dr. Farrell and his team, but also could be a spectacular show for those of us stuck watching on the ground.
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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after first successful landing
SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after first successful landing
In a classically spectacular fashion, a SpaceX Starship prototype has successfully touched down in one piece for the first time ever, only to explode minutes later after catching itself on fire.
Rolled from SpaceX Boca Chica Starship factory to test and launch facilities just a mile down the road on January 28th, Starship SN10 lifted off just five weeks later – the fastest factory-to-launch flow yet. The speed of that turnaround was mainly made possible thanks to an exceptionally smooth test campaign, passing cryogenic proof and static fire tests after only a few attempts.
Prior to its second launch attempt, Starship SN10 automatically aborted a few seconds prior to its first attempt after the rocket’s flight computer determined that its three Raptor engines were producing more thrust than expected. Within half an hour of the abort, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to reveal the cause and stated that SpaceX would be tweaking the flight software’s thrust limits and recycling for another shot at launch around two hours later.
Starship SN10 became the first of its kind to touch down in one piece – but not for long.
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Up to the last 20 or so seconds of the 6.5-minute flight test, Starship SN10’s launch debut was virtually identical to Starships SN8 and SN9, both of which made it just one or two dozen seconds away from a soft landing. However, after SN9, SpaceX optimized the landing process to add additional redundancy, meaning that SN10 reignited all three of its Raptor engines – instead of just two – for its flip and landing burn.
Exactly as planned, SN10 fired up those engines, autonomously analyzed their performance, and then shut down two Raptors to leave the best-behaving engine to complete the final landing burn. Unlike SN8 and SN9, that maneuver went about as well as it could have, nearly slowing SN10 to a hover with one (seemingly) healthy engine to take it the rest of the way to the ground.
SN10 touched down in one piece but remote firefighting hardware at the landing zone was ultimately unable to beat down an onboard fire that appeared to start during the Starship’s landing burn. Eventually, that fire somehow won out over Starship’s structure or pressure vessels, breaching its pressurized propellant tanks and triggering a massive explosion.
But that’s nothing compared to what happened next. Shortly after the rover started drilling into the floor of the Jezero crater, Perseverance found evidence of fossilized bacteria! The search for life on Mars finally struck paydirt! Okay, that didn’t happen… Not yet, anyway. But what if it does? After all, one of Perseverance‘s main objectives is to search for evidence of past life on Mars. What will be the impact if and when it finds it?
The Perseverance rover is NASA’s ninth mission to land on Mars and (like its predecessors) is tasked with characterizing the geology, atmosphere, and climate of Mars and help pave the way for human exploration. But the rover is also focused on astrobiology, which refers to the study of life throughout the Universe. As the next most-habitable place in our Solar System beyond Earth, Mars is a major focus of our astrobiological efforts.
Biosignatures, Anyone?
As Gentry Lee, the chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explained in a JPL press release:
“To quote Carl Sagan, ‘If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the discovery that life existed elsewhere in the universe would certainly be extraordinary.’”
Thanks to the many rovers, orbiters, and landers that explored Mars in the past, scientists understand that billions of years ago, Mars was a much different place than it is today. Its atmosphere was denser, its climate warmer, and liquid water flowed on its surface. This led to many of the features that are observable today, like the preserved river delta in the Jezero crater.
This feature indicates that ca. 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero was a lakebed that had water flowing into it. This caused sediment to build up over time, leading to the formation of a river delta that is rich in clays. While the lake may be long gone, scientists theorize that there could be biosignatures somewhere in this 45 km (28 mi) wide crater just waiting to be found.
Given the relatively brief window Mars had for habitability, odds are that only simple lifeforms (like single-celled bacteria) would have emerged. On Earth, some of the most ancient evidence for life comes in the form of microbialites, sedimentary deposits composed of carbonate mud that form with the help of photosynthetic cyanobacteria.
A possible route Perseverance could take across the Jezero crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Said Ken Williford, the deputy project scientist for the Perseverance mission:
“We expect the best places to look for biosignatures would be in Jezero’s lakebed or in shoreline sediments that could be encrusted with carbonate minerals, which are especially good at preserving certain kinds of fossilized life on Earth. But as we search for evidence of ancient microbes on an ancient alien world, it’s important to keep an open mind.”
Tools of the Trade
Using its advanced suite of scientific instruments, Perseverance will collect rock core samples in metal tubes and place them in a supply cache (which will be retrieved by a future mission sent by the ESA). These instruments include the rover’s suite of cameras, especially the one located on the rover’s mast that’s capable of zooming in to inspect targets (Mastcam-Z).
There’s also the SuperCam instrument, which is also located on the mast and can use a small laser to examine promising research targets. This is done by using the laser to create small clouds of plasma clouds, which will then be analyzed to determine the target’s chemical composition. If the data it obtains reveals something interesting, the rover will be able to examine it more closely with its two turret-mounted instruments.
Artist’s impression of Ingenuity on the surface of Mars with the Perseverance rover in the background. Credit NASA/JPL
Together, these two instruments will effectively create high-resolution maps of elements, minerals, and molecules in Martian rocks and sediments, which astrobiologists will use to determine which to collect and eventually send back to Earth. As Bobby Braun, the Mars Sample Return program manager at JPL, explained:
“The instrumentation required to definitively prove microbial life once existed on Mars is too large and complex to bring to Mars. That is why NASA is partnering with the European Space Agency on a multi-mission effort, called Mars Sample Return, to retrieve the samples Perseverance collects and bring them back to Earth for study in laboratories across the globe.”
“We have strong evidence that Jezero Crater once had the ingredients for life. Even if we conclude after returned sample analysis that the lake was uninhabited, we will have learned something important about the reach of life in the cosmos,” said Williford. “Whether or not Mars was ever a living planet, it’s essential to understand how rocky planets like ours form and evolve. Why did our own planet remain hospitable as Mars became a desolate wasteland?”
In short, the Perseverance mission is dedicated to the search for life and is equipped with the very best that modern science can offer. So it naturally begs the question, what happens if and when it succeeds?
This illustration shows Jezero Crater — the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover — as it may have looked billions of years ago on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
What’s Next?
Well for starters, the announcement would spread around the world like wildfire. Just imagine the headlines: “Perseverance finds evidence of Martian life!” “Humanity discovers extraterrestrial bacteria!” The excitement would be palpable and would be felt wherever the news reached. Of course, it would also raise some very important questions, the answers to which would have some rather drastic implications.
First of all, there’s the question of whether or not life on Mars is related to life on Earth. If the answer to this question is yes, then scientists would have solid evidence of lithopanspermia, where life is distributed between planets in a star system. Alternately, it could be an indication of panspermia, where life is distributed throughout the cosmos by celestial bodies like asteroids and comets.
In this case, it could be argued that Earth and Mars were seeded from the same source (though that would be extremely difficult to prove). Dr. Tanja Bosak, a professor of geobiology at MIT and the group leader of their Program in Geology, Geochemistry and Geobiology, is also theReturned Sample Science Lead for the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. As she told Universe Today via email:
“The most direct test of the genetic relatedness of any martian and terrestrial life would come from the comparisons of the information molecules (DNA, RNA) and the presence of such molecules in anything we find...In the best-case scenario, we’d find fossils of microbes or some such biosignature, but DNA and RNA do not preserve over billions of years, i.e., from the time when surface life was possible in Jezero crater. However, if we see something that looks like fossil cells upon sample return, and detect some organic biosignatures, that would automatically support the similarities between past life on Mars and life on Earth.”
Artist’s impression of water under the Martian surface.
Credit: ESA/Medialab
Second, the discovery of evidence for past life on Mars is likely to lend some credibility to the theory that life still exists there today. Much like the disappearance of Mars’ surface water, it is theorized that microbial life could have also migrated underground as a result of changes in the planet’s climate. In fact, research has been conducted that demonstrated how microbes could survive beneath the surface in briny patches of water.
As Dr. Bosak added, the scientific consensus is that modern surface life on Mars is highly unlikely, hence why Perseverance aims to collect samples that will preserve evidence of past life. Nevertheless, the existence of past life will make the issue of planetary protection all the more pressing when crewed missions to Mars commences, especially if they lead to an enduring human presence there.
Already, robotic missions are forced to exercise care in the vicinity of potential sites for microbial life, a good example of which is the time Curiosity came upon a discolored patch of sand (thought to be a surface brine) and was forced to divert its path to go around it. If human habitats are ever built on Mars (either temporary or permanent), the possibility that we could be causing harm to Martian organisms will always be there.
The Perseverance rover will not provide the final word on this subject, but the data it collects and the sample return it will perform will provide an essential piece to the puzzle. After all, the search for life on Mars is like the search for meaning in the Universe: ongoing! And while we’re waiting for answers, here’s some entirely appropriate music to help us pass the time. Take it away David Bowie!
Ancient Knowledge Foretells The Arrival of Extraterrestrial Visitors
Ancient Knowledge Foretells The Arrival of Extraterrestrial Visitors
Ancient Knowledge Foretells The Arrival of Extraterrestrial Visitors
Over 30 ancient cultures tracked the stars to learn when the Gods will return.It appears that all of these ancient peoples and who knows how many others believed in a very different model of history than that which predominates our modern age of so-called rationality. Essentially, the difference is that in these ancient cosmologies, both human consciousness and the motion of history were viewed as cyclical rather than linear. These ancient cultural beliefs are very tied in with the precession of the equinox. Have the Gods already arrived?
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Something Strange Is Surrounding Our Solar System! 10 Incredible Discoveries
Something Strange Is Surrounding Our Solar System! 10 Incredible Discoveries
Something Strange Is Surrounding Our Solar System! 10 Incredible Discoveries
Anyone who looks at the stars secretly wonders what is going on in the universe. For us humans it is almost unimaginable. For people in former times it was a much bigger mystery. Our modern civilization has recently been able to fathom, at least in part, what is hidden in space. Nevertheless, our knowledge is manageable and many explanations can only be given in our imagination – all the more important are all the discoveries made by space explorers and scientists.
In the following we present you with ten of the most exciting, mysterious, interesting and incredible discoveries from the near past, where you will wonder what the future will bring. Have fun with exciting facts about foreign planets, black holes, extraterrestrial life and much more.
Ancient Aliens: Secret Vatican Archives Contain Explosive Revelations
Ancient Aliens: Secret Vatican Archives Contain Explosive Revelations
Ancient Aliens: Secret Vatican Archives Contain Explosive Revelations
Well, I came here with an open mind, but JaCintas was a close friend of my greatgrandmother’s. That was not included in Mary’s message at all. I will be studying more into the first though, fascinating background. But as far as the children of Fatima, the recorded records plus personal testimonies and the children themselves said nothing of the sort. TannerDoer
UFO Sighting Over Neuquen Argentina, Feb 28, 2021, White Craft.
UFO Sighting Over Neuquen Argentina, Feb 28, 2021, White Craft.
Date of sighting: Feb 28, 2021 Location of sighting: Neuquen, Argentina
This UFO is actually triangle shaped. It has three distinct corners and is almost cloud like in appearance. UFOs have cloaks to appear as clouds, but this one instead has only turned its color to white, sill not having made a cloud around it. The sky is cloud less and really lets us see this thing really well. The detail is remarkable. The UFO is about the size of a car and is slowing down...watching the humans reaction to it. We watch them and they watch us. Interesting trade don't you think?
UFO Sighting Of Black UFO Passes Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Feb 23, 2021, News.
UFO Sighting Of Black UFO Passes Over Las Vegas, Nevada On Feb 23, 2021, News.
Date of sighting: Feb 23, 2021 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
This UFO was recorded two weeks ago over Las Vegas. That area is very close to the secret Nellis AFB which is connected to the same profited area of land controlled by Area 51. I have talked to sky watcher in Vegas over the years and some of them see UFOs on a daily basis moving about in the sky. Usually white orbs but this one is like a black shrimp object. Very strange, I can't say I have eve seen a C shaped UFO before but they do come in all shapes, sizes and colors. The largest part of the craft seems to be peering downward so the pilot can see the happenings below him. Vegas...is a UFO hotspot that I wish I lived in. Nice capture and 100% proof that UFOs frequent Vegas.
Are The Recent UFO Disclosures Setting Us Up for A Mass Deception of Epic Proportions?
Are The Recent UFO Disclosures Setting Us Up for A Mass Deception of Epic Proportions?
Below text is a concerpt from two separate recent articles published by Zerohedge and Alexander Evgenievich SEMYONOV, President Association "Ecology of the Unknown", Professor, Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
I highly recommend you to read both articles to find out what's going on and what we might expect soon!
Are The Recent UFO Disclosures Setting Us Up for A Mass Deception of Epic Proportions?
Have you noticed that UFO sightings have been in the news a lot lately? Even in the midst of all the other big events that are happening, evidence of mysterious objects flying through our skies continues to make headlines.
In the old days, the U.S. government would go to great lengths to deny that anything unusual was happening in our skies. But over the past couple of years, government officials have started to change their tune and openly admitting that UFOs exist.
After all this time, why would the federal government finally admit this?
Are they trying to mentally prepare us for something?
Yes, it seems they are going to prepare us for a global event, since the time is coming that the ‘Last Card’ (which is the name von Braun gave for the final, fourth stage of establishing of a new world order, gaining power over the entire planet Earth) is coming out of the shadow!
The fourth stage is the recognition of the existence of aliens and the fight against them in order to repel possible aggression and enslavement of humanity.
The introduction into public and state discussion of the fourth stage, which has been gradually preparing for more than 60 years – the "last card" – is not at all a fantasy. It may come out of the shadows by mid-2021.
It is highly likely that it will be announced in one form or another that one should prepare for the invasion of Earth from space by a new, very powerful enemy.
But remember it is all lies!
Is it possible to simulate an "alien" threat? Easy. The technical means of producing fakes in the media and computer networks are already well known. They can put up a reality show by using laser and optical methods (such as Project "Blue Beam") or creating over the selected territories of effects like mirages of religious, apocalyptic or ufological content or demonstration flights with simulated air attacks of "terrestrial" flying saucers may also come in handy with as a result mass panic can be guaranteed.
Such a false flag "alien" threat will play an important part of the 4th stage of the global restructuring of civilization – the formation of a new world order - with as a result the NWO gains absolute planetary power, to create a computer-consumer, moderately well-fed concentration camp in which the overwhelming majority of people will live with strict adherence to the appropriate rules of behavior, communication and thinking.
And yet another, more terrible prospect may be the prospect of the probable targeting and use of weapons launched into space against single or group unidentified aerial-space objects. The response can target not only a specific combat satellite, but the entire planet.
And one more thing!
Where did the opinion come from that representatives of civilizations from other planets and stellar systems, messengers of more complex dimensions and metrics of space-time are hostile to us? How and by whom has this been demonstrated and proved to be true?
Live 14 inch telescope footage of the lunar surface showing besides a UFO that appeared close to the moon, a capture of a second UFO hitting the moon.
Bruce also captured an unknown double explosion while filming the moon for two minutes. Take a look as we get in close and really slow it down and analyze the details of the UFO hitting the moon.
These unknown lights were filmed in the night sky above Ludhiana, Panjab, India on 25th February 2021 and it was just submitted to us through our Facebook page.
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UFO Spotted in Ludhiana? Residents Claim They Saw a Shiny Unidentified Object in Sky
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Many others also captured the alleged UFO and shared it on Twitter. Here are those videos:
Pilot described 'long cylindrical object' moving over the top of the plane, according to radio transmission
The FBI is "aware of" an American Airlines pilot’s report of an apparent UFO seen soaring over Northeast New Mexico earlier this week – but stopped short of confirming whether an investigation is underway, Fox News learned Thursday.
The pilot was maneuvering a plane bound for Phoenix, Arizona, from Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sunday afternoon when the flight crew spotted a quick-moving, unusual object flying above them, according to a radio transmission recorded by Steve Douglass on his blog, Deep Black Horizon.
"The FBI is aware of the reported incident," spokesperson Frank Connor wrote in an email. "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. Anyone who is aware of suspicious or criminal activity should contact their local law enforcement agency or the FBI."
In Sunday’s radio transmission, the American Airlines pilot could first be heard asking an unidentified person, presumably from air-traffic control, if they had "any targets up here."
"We just had something go right over the top of us," the pilot adds. "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 and went right over the top of us."
Fox News' Paul Best and Peter Aitken contributed to this report.
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Dozens of commercial and military pilots have reported unidentified flying objects in recent years.
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A radio transmission from an American Airlines from Cincinnati to Phoenix last weekend might have been ripped straight from the X-Files.
“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” said the pilot at 1:19 p.m. CST on Sunday. “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,” according to audio published on aviation blog Deep Black Horizon.
The blogger, Steve Douglass, intercepted the transmission accidentally as he was trying to pick up another aircraft with a radio scanner. “It was a pure coincidence,” he told The Arizona Republic.
Douglass used two flight tracking websites, Flightradar24 and Flight Aware, to determine that the exact position of the plane was “over the northeast corner of New Mexico west of Clayton, New Mexico” at an altitude of 37,000 feet.
Following a debrief with the flight crew, American Airlines confirmed that the radio transmission came from flight 2292.
Yesterday, the FAA released a short 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.”
While authorities may never be able to explain what the missile-like object was, it’s not the first time a pilot has spotted unexplained flying phenomena. In fact, it happens fairly regularly.
A remarkably similar incident occurred over the Sonoran Desert three years ago. On February 24, 2018, within minutes of each other, two pilots flying different aircraft — a Phoenix Air Group Learjet and an American Airlines commercial flight — both reported passing a mysterious object, according to audio recordings released by the Federal Aviation Administration to the Phoenix New Timesseveral weeks later.
“Was anybody above us that passed us like 30 seconds ago?” the Learjet pilot asked an air traffic controller. “Negative,” replied the tower.
In November 9, 2018, a British Airways pilot flying over Ireland reported seeing “a very bright light that disappeared at very high speed,” reported The Guardian. A Virgin Airlines pilot confirmed seeing it, too: “Multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory – very bright from where we were.”
Experts say there is usually a very logical explanation for UFO sightings, and the U.S. government has had a famously long history of being tight-lipped on the subject. In recent years, however, there’s been some notable movement on that front.
In 2017, the Pentagon acknowledged the existence of a $22-million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that had investigated reports of “unexplained aerial phenomena” from 2007 until it was shut down in 2012.
In April 2019 the U.S. Navy announced it was modifying how pilots reported UFO sightings in favor of a more data-driven approach, telling Politico that there had been “a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”
The next month, five Navy pilots told the New York Timesthat they had frequently seen unidentified flying objects that looked like white Tic Tacs or spinning tops off the Eastern seaboard from Virginia to Florida between 2014 and 2015. The objects, they said, reached hypersonic speeds and heights of 30,000 feet without any visible engine or exhaust trails.
One 10-year veteran, Lieutenant Ryan Graves, said he saw these objects on a daily basis. “These things would be out there all day,” Graves told the Times. “With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”
Of course, unexplained is not the same as extraterrestrial. “It's probably one part of the military not telling the other part of the military what they're up to,” speculated Bill Nye the Science Guy to CNN’s Brian Stelter at the time. (And to be fair, once in a while a military branch ‘fesses up.)
Last April, the Pentagon declassified and released three videos taken by Navy pilots — one from 2004 and the others from 2015 — 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,” per a statement, noting “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”
Americans wondering if the truth is out there will likely learn a lot more about UFOs later this year.
Buried deep in last December’s Covid relief bill, tucked into the “committee comment” section of the Intelligence Authorization Act, is a provisionthat requires U.S. intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs by mid-2021.
When not looking at the Sun, the Parker probe is focusing on comets. On 2019 September 2, it observed the comet 322P/SOHO in its closest approach to the sun. The spacecraft detected the dust particles being ejected through 322P’s tail. In 2020, a more interesting image showed the NEOWISE comet with its double tail — the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since. The astonishing photo of NEOWISE depicted above was made with Wide-Field Imager the instrument aboard the Solar Probe (WISPR), designed to provide images of the corona and inner heliosphere in visible light.
This time, WISPR brought us an incredible view of Venus. Parker Solar Probe is tightly intertwined with Venus, as the planet sustains the spacecraft’s orbit, and sometimes there is a good opportunity for a flyby. Scientists didn’t lose the opportunity of photographing the planet and the result was a stunning image of the Venusian surface.
Image of Venus by WISPR. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher
The shot was taken when the spacecraft was 12,380.68 km (7,693 miles). What grabs attention first is the aura-like around the planet which makes the dark sky a little brighter. Scientists believe it is like Earth’s airglow, an emission of light caused by particles in the atmosphere. This is notoriously difficult to overcome in astronomy photography.
If you take a closer look, you will notice a darker region on the surface of the planet. This is the Aphrodite Terra, a highland area roughly as big as the African continent. It seems darker because it is cooler than the surroundings. Aphrodite Terra also features some large mountains and lava flows, which you can’t really see in this photo.
It is however possible to see streaks all around the surface, although scientists are not sure yet what they mean. There are many possibilities, they could be cosmic rays, dust reflected by sunlight or even ejected by the spacecraft itself.
The team had already taken a similar shot with the latest flyby on 2021 February 20, This time they decided to observe in the near-infrared as well. This wavelength is the one used in remote controls of your TV. It is not absorbed by dust, so will be able to see a clear image of the surface of the planet. The results will be received by the end of April, so fingers crossed for more surprising announcements from Venus.
Russian Astronaut On The ISS Allegedly Sees 5 UFOs In New Footage
Russian Astronaut On The ISS Allegedly Sees 5 UFOs In New Footage
IN BRIEF
The Facts:
A Russian astronaut stationed on the ISS claims to have seen 5 'UFOs' in his video footage. The objects lasted in frame for about 52 seconds.
Reflect On:
Are we seeing greater news coverage of this type of story in mainstream media due to a greater public acceptance of the topic?
I’m not sure this story would have been so widely covered if it had happened 3 or 4 years ago, but given the rise in public awareness around UFOs, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner’s footage of what appears to be 5 lights ‘flying’ in unison was met with mainstream media curiosity.
Vagner referred to the lights as:
“Space guests, or how I filmed the new time-lapse […] you will see something else, not only the aurora”
He made these statements in a Tweet showcasing footage of a breathtaking time-lapse of aurora australis over the earth taken from the International Space Station (ISS) where he is stationed. Vagner does admit that these are only potentially UFOs as he writes in a follow up Tweet:
“At 9-12 seconds, 5 objects appear flying alongside with the same distance,” Vagner wrote in a follow-up tweet. “What do you think those are? Meteors, satellites or … ?”
In the footage, which you can see below, we see the aurora australis passing near Antarctica and Australia. At around the 9 second mark, you see what looks like 5 lights flying in unison coming up from the Earth horizon. The video you see below was shot in a time-lapse, therefor the brief images of the 5 objects you see coming up over the horizon lasted for about 52 seconds.
This is not the first time ISS related footage of what appear to be UFOs has been brought to public awareness. Although in previous incidents, the mainstream media was less interested in reporting on it. Perhaps due to the general lack of public acceptance? We wrote back in 2015 and 2016, about two separate occurrences where NASA cut live video feeds of the ISS following what appeared to be strange phenomenon caught on tape. Both incidents are linked above, and while neither can be proven as being an actual craft, it is interesting to note that live feed footage was cut on both occasions.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time, that their appearance is bizarre from any kind of traditional materialistic western point of view, that these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”
Dr. Brian O’Leary, former NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor (source)
The Takeaway
It is no secret that UFOs have become a much more widely accepted topic in recent years. This is primarily due to widespread mainstream media coverage of recent US Navy footage that was released and confirmed to be UFO in nature. This essentially means they do not know what these flying objects are. The next plausible question is “who is manning these craft?”
For those interested in exploring this topic further, it’s important to note that the evidence available in the realm of the UFO, ET and contactee phenomenon is extremely vast. It’s not a fringe topic where cheap evidence is brought forth in the form of grainy images or videos online, it’s a realm where high ranking military, government personnel, astronauts and more high profile figures have personally blown the whistle to share evidence with the public that western governments refuse to share at this time. We’ve covered this topic in great detail over the last 11 years and you can find tons of information going through our archives or by watching our coverage on CETV.
Schematic of the space hurricane (Credit: Zhang Qinghe )
Hurricanes are one of nature’s most powerful storms. They produce strong winds, storm surge flooding, and heavy rainfall, leading to inland flooding, tornadoes, and rip currents. They are characterized by a low-pressure center (hurricane eye), strong winds and flow shears, and a spiral arrangement of towering clouds with heavy rains.
Astronomers recently reported a long-lasting space hurricane in the polar ionosphere and magnetosphere during low solar and otherwise low geomagnetic activity. They spotted space hurricanes on Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter, similar to terrestrial hurricanes in the lower atmosphere.
Astronomers wondered if there is a hurricane in Earth’s upper atmosphere. If yes, it must be violent and efficiently transfer solar wind/magnetosphere energy and momentum into the Earth’s ionosphere.
Aurora observation from DMSP F16 and Field-aligned Current observation from AMPERE.
Can we find hurricanes in the upper atmosphere (ionosphere and magnetosphere) in any planet of our heliosphere?
An international team of scientists led by Prof. Zhang Qinghe has answered the question by discovering a space hurricane in the Earth’s polar ionosphere and magnetosphere. Using satellite observations and high-resolution 3D global MHD simulations, scientists found a huge and long-lasting (about 8 hours) cyclone-like auroral spot (diameter over 1000 km) with multiple arms and a trend of anti-clockwise rotation around the north magnetic pole from four DMSP satellites observations.
3. 3-D and 2-D view of simulated FACs and selected magnetic field lines by the PPMLR-MHD code.
This cyclone-like auroral spot is also associated with: a spot-like strong upward FAC (with sometimes a FAC hole developed in the center), zero horizontal flow near its center (the hurricane eye) as well as strong flow shears around the edges, ion upflows, enhanced electron temperature (about 1000 K enhancement), a negative-to-positive bipolar magnetic structure (implying a circular magnetic field perturbation), electron inverted-V acceleration to above ten keV, and large and rapid deposition of energy and flux into the polar ionosphere (much stronger precipitating electron energy flux than that during typical quiet and substorm conditions, and comparable to that during superstorms).
As these features are similar to the hurricane in the lower atmosphere, scientists named it as a space hurricane.
The detailed observations and simulation results suggest that the magnetic reconnection will steadily occur at the high latitude lobe region for an extended period of time during a several-hour period of stable northward IMF and very low solar wind density and speed.
After the lobe reconnection, the recently reconnected open field lines are draped by the solar wind to move downward and afterward tailward from the morning side to the afternoon side in the high-latitude lobe region and will slowly get back to their past positions and take an interest in another pattern of magnetic reconnection.
Schematic of the space hurricane and its formation mechanism during an extremely quiet geomagnetic condition with northward IMF and adominant by component (Credit: Zhang Qinghe ).
Their development will, in the end, form a tornado cyclone-shaped funnel of FAC with multiple FAC arms and a clockwise circulation of the plasma flow because of the pressing gradient and magnetic stresses on both sides of the funnel for completing the FACs and the flow shear and curve of the circular flow.
Inside the funnel, a corkscrew magnetic field forms with the circular flow and upward FACs, which accelerate electrons that precipitate into the ionosphere and create the auroral spot with multiple arms. This means that the space hurricane opens a rapid energy transfer channel from space to the ionosphere and thermosphere.
Scientists noted, “Our study suggests that even during an otherwise extremely quiet geomagnetic condition, there are still existing local intense geomagnetic disturbance and energy depositions which is comparable to that during superstorms. This will update our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling process under tranquil geomagnetic conditions.”
Journal Reference:
Zhang, QH., Zhang, YL., Wang, C. et al. A space hurricane over the Earth’s polar ionosphere. Nat Commun 12, 1207 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21459-y
Singapore-based Kelley Aerospace has officially launched the world's first supersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).
Called 'Arrow,' the drone is designed with a single-shell made of lightweight carbon fiber that allows it to reads speeds up to Mach 2.1 – exceeding the speed of sound.
The UCAV is fitted with a reduced radar cross-section and infra-red signature, and is designed for multiple combat or reconnaissance roles.
The firm says it has already received more than 100 pre-orders for the war machine, which costs between $9 million to $16 million.
Arrows maximum weight is 37,038 pounds, but its monocoque design 'endows the Arrow with outstanding strength and stiffness,' the firms shared in a statement.
Video: Drones are growing into a $100 billion industry (CNBC)
However, what makes this machine so special is that it is the first to travel faster than the speed of sound, which is Mach 1 – but Arrow can reach Mach 2.1.
It is estimated that it will not cost more than $16 million with prices going as low as $9 million.
Kelley notes that this 'allows more airframes to be purchased and yet, have a multi-role supersonic UCAV to perform high-risk missions as it does not necessarily need to return home.'
The firm conducted the first scale prototype test flights in 2014, Flight Global reports.
Kelley Aerospace plans to be a big player in the supersonic area, and its Arrow UCAV may be the push it needs to take over the space.
At a launch event in Singapore in December 2020, the company disclosed it was also developing a supersonic business jet.
And two prototypes are reporting undergoing testing in the USA and Sweden.
Kelley Aerospace chief executive Ian Lim says: 'UAVs are known for their persistence…loitering, [but] are never known for their speed. So with the Arrow supersonic UAV, you will overcome the issues of speed and reach.'
Other fighter jets do have the ability to reach supersonic speeds, but most are only capable of doing so for short bursts.
The jets, which have also been bought by the US Navy and Marine Corps, are at risk of 'structural damage' when hitting their top speeds of around 1,200mph, potentially hindering their ability to intercept other planes, according to a report by the US Department of Defense.
Last year, the Pentagon announced plans to commission a prototype for prototype of a new supersonic Air Force One that could one day ferry the president around the world at nearly twice the speed and half the time currently required to travel – but the innovation is still in early developmental phases.
There can be very few people – if any at all – who have never experienced the phenomenon of Déjà vu. There are two overriding theories for what causes Déjà vu: one is that now and again time itself has a glitch, albeit usually a very brief glitch that leaves us feeling slightly weird and a bit uneasy. The other theory is far more down to earth: that Déjà vu is caused by the occasional misfiring of the brain. Healthline have addressed the matter and provide us some fascinating material: ‘”‘Déjà vu’ describes the uncanny sensation that you’ve already experienced something, even when you know you never have. Say you go paddleboarding for the first time. You’ve never done anything like it, but you suddenly have a distinct memory of making the same arm motions, under the same blue sky, with the same waves lapping at your feet. Or perhaps you’re exploring a new city for the first time and all at once feel as if you’ve walked down that exact tree-lined footpath before. You might feel a little disoriented and wonder what’s going on, especially if you’re experiencing déjà vu for the first time.”
Scientific American have tackled this slightly jarring phenomenon, too: “Carrie-Anne Moss, as Trinity in The Matrix trilogy, tells us (and Keanu Reeves as Neo) that déjà vu is a ‘glitch in the Matrix’’ – the simulated reality that keeps humanity unaware that intelligent machines have actually taken over the world. That explanation is perfect for cyberpunk science fiction, but it doesn’t give us any scientific understanding of the phenomenon. We associate the feeling of déjà vu with mystery and even the paranormal because it is fleeting and usually unexpected. The very things that intrigue us about déjà vu are the same things that make it hard to study. But scientists have tried using tricks like hypnosis and virtual reality.”
Frontiers for Young Minds offer these words: “The percentage of people who experience déjà vu is probably somewhere between 30% (about 8 in a class of 30) and 100% (everyone in a class of 30). We are not sure about the exact percentage for two important reasons. First, we cannot ask everyone in the world so we have to use the results of surveys of small groups of people. This is a problem because surveys can give us quite different results depending on who we ask. Second, people can give very different answers depending on the definition we give of déjà vu. Asking the question in different ways can get very different results. We can also get an idea of how often déjà vu happens by asking people. Again, the answers they give depend on who they are and how we ask them the question, but most people report déjà vu somewhere between every few weeks and every few months. Typically, this means that déjà vu is not very common so if you have experienced it recently you are very lucky!”
Going back to the matter of the mind itself causing Déjà vu, Penn Medicine have some interesting data: “Though much rarer, déjà vu is sometimes a sign of a seizure, specifically an epileptic seizure. ‘About 60 percent of people with epilepsy have something called a focal seizure, which is in just one part of the brain. This can be in the same part of the brain where memory is stored: the temporal lobe,’ says Dr. Spears. Focal seizures can be hard to recognize as seizures because they are short and you remain conscious throughout. A person having one may look like they are having a staring spell or daydreaming.
“Some people who have focal seizures may experience intense feelings of déjà vu. This is often accompanied by: Motor feelings, which impact your ability to control your muscles, like twitching or the inability to move certain muscles; Sensory feelings, involving taste, touch, smell, vision, and hearing, like tasting or hearing something that’s not real; Sudden and unexplainable feelings of joy, anger, sadness, or nausea; Strange, repetitive behaviors, such as blinking, twitching, or moving your mouth involuntarily; An unusual sensation that a seizure is about to occur, called an aura.”
Despite the medical explanations for Déjà vu, what about the movie-themed explanation for the mystery? Did the Matrix movies inadvertently play into a real situation: that reality is not what it appears to be? And, just like the situation in the movies, time is not as we perceive it to be?
Two Suns Seen Over Isle Of Man, England On Feb 2, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two Suns Seen Over Isle Of Man, England On Feb 2, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 2, 2021
Location of sighting: Isle of Man, England
The eyewitness goes by the name GoldeNLemonZ on Youtube. He posted a video back on Feb 2 of not one, but two suns seen during sunset. The video was taken at Isle of Man, an island belonging to England. Now I believe that second sun is actually a round UFO that is trying to go unnoticed slowly into the ocean...matching speed with the sun setting, so everyone believes its a reflection, but its not. It's a cloaked UFO lowering into the ocean. Its also proof that there is an alien base in that location, about 5-6km below the ocean floor.
This bright unidentified flying object or orb was hovering in the daytime sky above Encinitas, California on 28th February 2021.
Witness report:
White orb travelled across sky. Stopped. Then changed direction and came towards us before ascending and vanishing from sight. On Sunday late afternoon, we watched and partially filmed a prominent white orb travel across the sky. It was moving from North to South, when we first saw it. I called for my son to go grab my cell phone. When he retrieved the phone he began to film it. He pointed the phone towards the eastern sky. At this time, the object stopped moving North/South and hovered in the eastern sky. It then proceeded to move from east to west towards the coast. We followed if for a couple of minutes before it ascended and disappeared from our view. In the video, the erratic movement is due to my son not holding the phone still. The object did not move erratically. it moved in a straight and deliberate path and hovered before changing direction (90 degrees). It was very high in the sky (near to wear we see airplanes). It was much larger than a balloon and smaller than an aircraft by my estimation. It was white, spherical, very reflective, and had no visible characteristics of a plane, common drone, or hot air balloon.
Approximately 15 minutes after it disappeared, a small non-military personal aircraft circled the exact location in the eastern sky where the object hovered. It did multiple, tight circular passes, which seemed odd. It then left the area. 5 minutes later, 3 military ‘Osprey’ aircraft came into the same airspace (heading from west to east). This may have been unrelated, as we often see military planes heading in this direction frequently going to and from Air Station Miramar.
Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars: Onboard Camera Views
Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars: Onboard Camera Views
February 22, 2021
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft's descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.
The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing.
Evidence for a Great Evolutionary Leap Finally Found?
Evidence for a Great Evolutionary Leap Finally Found?
Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas all move similarly, and they share common anatomies. However, until now, it’s remained unknown how exactly humans were related to these other primates. That mystery of the “evolutionary leap” has now been solved, and the implications are Biblical.
Professor Thomas Cody Prang is a name you might hear more about very soon. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University and he led the team of scientists who recently made the breakthrough in evolutionary sciences. The researchers analyzed a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton from an Ardi hominid ( Ardipithecus ramidus , Ardipithecus) that was discovered in Ethiopia, and their new observations were made in its “exceptionally well preserved hands.”
Ardipithecus ramidus, ‘Ardi.’ ( Fair Use ) Studying Ardi’s skeleton was key in discovering more about the evolutionary leap.
Well-Preserved Hands Holding Clues for an Evolutionary Leap
The so-called “Ardi’s” hands were compared with hundreds of others hand specimens from “recent humans, great apes, and dry-nosed primate.” The researchers looked at the types of locomotor behavior and hand restrictions experienced by the earliest hominins (fossilized human ancestors). The results of the study were published in Science Advances and show how early first humans began walking upright. Furthermore, it demonstrates how humans came to perform the range of movements we still use today.
Confirming Darwin’s Evolutionary “Theory” was a “Fact”
Study author Thomas Cody Prang says that among other things the study, as a whole, “confirms Darwin’s theory of the origin of man from apes.” This conclusion was reached after the scientists analyzed hundreds of bone samples and compare hand shapes, which reflect adaptations to primate habits and lifestyles. And with this new knowledge of how bone shape reflects behaviors, Dr. Prang says his team of researchers were able to draw inferences about the behavior of extinct species, such as the Ardipithecus.
Examination of the hand bones in this particular skeleton have given scientists deep insights into early hominin stone tool making and use. The aforementioned “large evolutionary leap,” however, was found when Dr. Prang compared Ardi’s hand with those of later hominins, including the species to which Lucy belonged ( Australopithecus).
Left: Scientific paleoartist Jay Matternes' rendition of Ardi. ( Fair Use ) Right: A reconstruction of a female Australopithecus afarensis.
Looking at the evolutionary timeline this observed genetic “leap” occurred at what the researchers calls “a critical juncture when the hominins evolved to adapt to a more human form of upright walking.” According to the new paper the fact that Ardi represents an earlier phase in human evolutionary history, “is important because it potentially sheds light on the species of ancestors from which humans and chimpanzees descended.”
The evolution of hominin hands and feet reflects an evolutionary shift toward enhanced manipulative capabilities and obligate bipedalism, respectively. Partial hands, partial feet, and stone tool exemplars are depicted here and supplemented by reference to more fragmentary specimens preserving functionally relevant anatomies. Gray bars, facultative bipedalism; black bars, obligate bipedalism; red bar, approximate timing of hypothesized hominin evolutionary shift.
What is perhaps the most impactful aspect of this new research project is that supports classic Darwinism. In 1871 Charles Darwin had little understanding of genetics, and less so about the use of hands in pre-history. He noted that upper limbs were used for manipulation and that they appeared in early human relatives in connection with upright walking in ancient humans. However, until now not everyone has been a fan of Darwin’s theory, and perhaps he has experienced no less fierce an enemy than the might of the Catholic Church.
According to a 2001 article in the Irish Times , the president of the Centre des Etudes et de Prospective sur la Science ( CEP), a 700-strong Catholic organization linked to scientists contesting evolution, said “Evidence does not support the theory of evolution.” They added that Darwin’s theory was “on the way out.”
These Catholic scientists maintained “No empirical proof exists that macro-evolution (that is, evolution from one distinct kind of organism into another) is occurring at present, or has ever happened in the past. No one, throughout recorded history, has ever seen it.” Furthermore, they argue that if evolution “had taken place” there should have been a great many transitional structures preserved in fossilized form recording the stages of development from one type of organism to another type.
Well. Guess what? That evidence has now been provided. Major changes in the anatomy of Ardi’s hands, and in the way all later hominins evolved, between approximately 4.4 and 3.3 million years ago, coincides with the earliest evidence for the loss of the grasping big toe in human evolution, according to the researchers. And if this is not the required hard evidence of evolution, then nothing will ‘work’.
Top Image: Scientists have found important evidence for an evolutionary leap between ancient hominids.
Scientists Bring Global Pole Shift Fears Into Focus
Scientists Bring Global Pole Shift Fears Into Focus
Scientists have published a paper revealing the catastrophic effects of a “Laschamps excursion” around 42,000-years-ago. A Lascah-what? A “Laschamps excursion” is better known in today’s vocabulary as a pole shift event. The “Cataclysmic Pole-Shift Hypothesis” is largely regarded as a fringe theory about a shifting of the relative positions of the Earth’s geographic poles. The results of pole shifts are often presented in popular culture as great tectonic events that spark global calamities such as floods and landslides.
However, now, a new scientific study suggests that the last time the Earth’s magnetic field “flipped around, then flopped back again,” the effects on Earth’s surface were just like how literature and the movies portray pole shifts.
An ancient kauri (Agathis australis) tree log from Ngawha, New Zealand, which was used as primary evidence in the recent scientific pole shift study.
Poles Shifts And The Earth’s Flipping Magnetic Field
The new study was published in the journal Science and reviewed in Science News . Opening with an analysis of fossilized Kauri (Agathis australis) trees from New Zealand that died over 41,000 years ago the researchers present new data about the Earth’s atmosphere at that time. The authors say our planet suffered a series of “unfortunate events” which overlapped with a “Laschamps excursion” event when the Earth's magnetic field flipped, resulting in a pole shift.
In 2006, the disaster movie Absolute Zero featured a “polar shift” that brought on an Ice Age in Florida. The 2009 Polar Storm film also explored the effects of rapid pole reversal. However, the recently published Science study is the first academic paper to consider such a wide swath of possible post-pole shift consequences.
The chemicals preserved within the fossilized Kauri tree rings served the researchers as an ancient library of atmospheric records detailing the Earth's magnetic field’s effect on the ozone layer . Furthermore, the researchers were able to derive data about solar activity and space weather in different periods of time that they say all “impacted ancient people and wildlife on Earth.”
How incredible that an ancient kauri tree log from New Zealand can tell us so much about what the Earth was like 42,000 years ago during a pole shift.
The Last Pole Shift? 800 Years Of Wonky Magnetics!
Last January, the New Zealand Herald announced the discovery of the 41,000 years old Kauri trees and the new study reveals that they had lived during the entirety of the last Laschamps excursion event. This pole shift event is thought to have lasted about 800 years after which the Earth’s magnetic field corrected itself “by flipping backwards.”
The study revealed that between 41,600 to 42,300 years ago the Earth’s magnetic field was only “six percent of its full strength.” The mean date for the pole shift event was calculated at about 42,000 years ago. This fact inspired the researchers to call the last pole shift “The Adams Event,” after author Douglas Adams who wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , which famously states “the number 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.”
Taking all this right back to Earth one wonders how did the so-called Adam’s Event affect our ancient forebears who were busy hunting, trapping, fishing and developing survival technologies ? Co-author of the new study, University of New South Wales geoscientist Chris S.M. Turney, told the New York Times that “it must have seemed like the end of days.”
Explaining this dramatic statement Turney said it would have been bad enough if just the Earth’s magnetic field was weakened, but ice core data revealed the sun was also in a period of lowered activity. With fewer solar flares, the sun’s protective shield would have been bombarded with cosmic rays meaning “the heliosphere" (the vast, bubble-like region of space that surrounds and is created by the sun,) was also weakened.”
According to the researchers comments on the Conversation, with both its magnetic field and heliosphere diminished Earth was “doubly at risk from cosmic radiation.” With a thinner ozone layer, the aurora borealis would have appeared closer to the equator.
Furthermore, the paper says the increased ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth’s surface would have translated into a human experience of “raging electrical storms, and Arctic air reaching across continents.”
Measuring Up The Prospects Of A Pole Shift Today
Environmental effects linked to the last pole shift include “the extinction of large animals in Australia, and the demise of Neanderthals, and humans using red ocher pigments in their cave arts and as sun screens.”
Scientists generally agree that any such changes in the magnetic field today, including reversals, “probably don’t pose a threat to life.” The main modern threat is our electronic infrastructure on Earth and in the sky. This is because space weather events such as geomagnetic storms, arising from the interaction between the magnetic field and incoming solar radiation, could seriously disrupt satellite communications, GPS and power grids.
And while our lives might not be washed away in floods this is a troubling prospect when we consider the economic cost of a collapse of the US power grid due to a space weather event has been estimated at “around one trillion dollars.” And the pole shift threat is deemed serious enough in the UK that it is regarded as a high priority on the national risk register.
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Top image: An abstract depiction of Earth with its magnetic rings, which are affected by pole shifts.
The comet was discovered in January and may be bright enough to see without a telescope.
The newfound comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will make its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL)
A new comet is on its way in toward the sun, with prospects that it may become bright enough to see with the unaided eye by year's end.
The object in question is Comet Leonard, catalogued C/2021 A1 and was discovered by astronomer Gregory J. Leonard on Jan. 3 at the Mount Lemmon Observatory, also known as the Mount Lemmon Infrared Observatory. The observatory is located on Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains, approximately 17 miles (28 kilometers) northeast of Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Leonard is a senior research specialist for the observatory's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory's Catalina Sky Survey.
When Mr. Leonard found the comet's image, it was an exceedingly faint object of magnitude 19. That is nearly 160,000 times dimmer than the faintest stars visible to the unaided eye. Not surprisingly, when it was first sighted the comet was some 5 astronomical units from the sun (one astronomical unit, or AU, is equal to the Earth's average distance from the sun of 92.855 million miles, or 149.565 million km). So, at a distance of 5 AU, Comet Leonard was out near the orbit of Jupiter, far from the sun, but just beginning to feel the effects of its warming rays and slowly beginning the process for it to blossom into a conspicuous celestial object.
Today we know comets to be made primarily of frozen gases that are heated as they approach the sun and made to glow by the sun's light. As the gases warm and expand, the solar wind — subatomic particles radiating out from the sun — blow the expanding material out into the comet's beautiful tail.
To observers of antiquity, the tails resembled a head of flowing hair, so they called comets "hairy stars." Professional astronomers can observe anywhere from half a dozen to a dozen comets on any given night. But comets bright enough to excite those of us without big telescopes are rather unusual, perhaps appearing on an average of one or two years to every 10-15 years.
Of course, memories are still fresh from the striking appearance last summer of Comet NEOWISE. And some are no doubt hoping that we might have a December redux with Comet Leonard.
Coming from a long way out
When Comet Leonard was first sighted, it was about at that distance from the sun that methanol (CH3OH) and water start sublimation; in other words, going directly from a frozen state into a gas. And in some images, there was even evidence of a faint tail.
The first calculations demonstrated that it is traveling in an exceedingly long, flattened elliptical orbit taking it out as far as 3,500 AU from the sun — 325 billion miles (523 billion km). "Out there," temperatures are just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero: minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius) — so cold that particles stop moving. In essence, after being in a frozen state for tens of thousands of years, Comet Leonard was beginning to awake from its long slumber.
Guarded optimism
There are a couple of reasons for being optimistic about Comet Leonard brightening up to naked-eye brightness. First is the comet's orbit itself. Its orbit demonstrates that it is not a "new" comet coming directly from the Oort cloud — an icy shell around the solar system where comets appear to originate before swoop around the sun — and experience the effects of sunlight — for the first time.
Rather, Comet Leonard is traveling in a closed orbit and probably visited the vicinity of the sun at least once before, about 70,000 years ago. That in itself is good news. A "new" comet in a parabolic orbit — that is, a comet that has never passed near the sun before — may have its surface covered with very volatile material such as frozen carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide. These ices tend to vaporize far from the sun, giving a distant comet a surge in brightness that can raise unrealistic expectations. Then as they draw closer to the sun, their rapid brightening suddenly slows and they end up falling far short of brightness expectations.
Comet Leonard does not fall into that category.
The newfound comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will reach perihelion, its closest point to the sun, on Jan. 3, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/JPL)
The other reasons for expecting a bright show from this comet are its close approaches to both the Earth and the sun. On Dec. 12, it will pass within 21.7 million miles (34.9 million km) of Earth, and on Jan. 3, 2022 — exactly one year after discovery — it will pass within 57.2 million miles (92 million km) of the sun.
When using standard power-law formulas, taking into account how bright the comet is now versus how much closer it will be by year's end (to both Earth and the sun), the current expectation is that the comet could reach as bright as fourth magnitude, making it bright enough to see without optical aid in a dark sky.
Where and when to look
During the first two weeks of December, Comet Leonard will be accessible to early risers, visible a couple of hours before sunrise, low in the east-northeast sky. It will track through the constellations Coma Berenices, Boötes and Serpens Caput.
It should be an easy object to see with a small telescope or a pair of binoculars — and with any luck, with the unaided eye. During the latter half of December, as the comet gets closer to the sun, it will gradually get absorbed into the light of dawn and finally disappear from view.
But temper your expectations ...
Will Comet Leonard evolve into another NEOWISE? Unfortunately, from my many years of observing comets, I would have to say no. Most comets are at their best after reaching their closest point to the sun (perihelion) and heading back out into deep space. This is when comets release their maximum amount of dust and gas and when they are intrinsically at their brightest and their tails at their longest.
Comet Leonard will be hidden by the brilliant solar glare during this time, rapidly receding from both the sun and Earth after Jan. 3 of next year and quickly fading away. The best, I think, we can hope for is a modestly bright naked-eye comet that will be available to anyone who cares to get up before sunrise during early and mid-December mornings.
I have seen other websites stating that Comet Leonard will be a "once in a lifetime" sight. That is true, for once it rounds the sun it will be thrown out of the solar system, never to be seen again, according to EarthSky.org. Another claim suggests that it could be "the most brilliant and dramatic" comet of this year. If you compare it to the other "faint fuzzies" due to appear this year, that also is true, although to use words like "brilliant" and "dramatic" are hyperboles.
But since all new comets are notoriously unpredictable, we can only guess just how bright Comet Leonard will get and its tail will get. We're just going to have to wait and see. Space.com will keep you posted on its development in the coming months. Stay tuned!
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmers' Almanac and other publications. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
And some pieces of the asteroid that generated the light show probably made it all the way to the ground.
A fireball blazed across the skies of southern England Sunday night (Feb. 28), and it likely dropped singed hunks of cosmic rock on the countryside below.
The brilliant yellow-green meteor, which flared up shortly before 10 p.m. local time Sunday, was seen by observers as far away as Ireland and the Netherlands, according to scientists with the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFall). It was a feast for the ears as well as the eyes, generating a sonic boom that rippled across southern England.
The fireball that streaked over southern England on Feb. 28, 2021, as seen by Ben L., who provided it to the American Meteor Society. (Image credit: Ben L. via fireball.amsmeteors.org)
"The video recordings tell us its speed was about 30,000 miles per hour [48,300 kph], which is too fast for it to be human-made space junk, so it’s not an old rocket or satellite," planetary scientist Ashley King, of UKFall and the Natural History Museum in London, said in a statement.
"The videos also allowed us to reconstruct its original orbit around the sun," King added. "In this case, the orbit was like an asteroid's. This particular piece of asteroid spent most of its orbit between Mars and Jupiter, though sometimes got closer to the sun than Earth is."
The fireball that streaked over southern England on Feb. 28, 2021, as seen by Lyndon B., who provided it to the American Meteor Society. (Image credit: lyndon b. via fireball.amsmeteors.org)
Excitingly, some pieces of the asteroid's charred corpse probably made it to the ground.
"This meteor fragmented a lot, as you can see in the videos. Most of the meteoroid vaporized during the six seconds of visible flight," meteorite scientist Luke Daly, of UKFall and the University of Glasgow in Scotland, said in the same statement.
"However, with this one, we think quite a few fragments probably reached the ground," Daly said. "If pieces landed, they are likely to have been on or just north of Cheltenham, out toward Stow-on-the-Wold. So most pieces are likely to be on farm land."
The path of the Feb. 28, 2021 English fireball and its likely meteorite fall field, as calculated by scientists with the UK Fireball Alliance and the Natural History Museum in London. (Image credit: Google Earth/Natural History Museum/UKFall)
If you find what may be a piece of this meteorite fall, "ideally photograph it in place, note the location using your phone GPS, don't touch it with a magnet, and, if you can, avoid touching it with your hands," planetary scientist Katherine Joy of the University of Manchester said in the statement. "Pick it up in a clean bag or clean aluminium foil if possible!"
UKFall operates more than 30 fireball cameras across the United Kingdom. Sunday night's event was spotted by six of them — those at Cardiff, Manchester, Honiton, Lincoln, Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City, representatives of the organization said.
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Researchers spotted a celestial object strangely outgassing far from the sun — like a comet — during a long road trip through our solar system that could conclude in interstellar space, NASA says.
The object is temporarily circling the sun in a group of ancient asteroids called Trojans, which are trapped by Jupiter's gravity and moving alongside the planet. New images from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the cosmic interloper in its temporary parking spot, merrily spewing gas into space despite its great distance from the sun.
Simulations suggest the object originated in the icy Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, and then flew closer to the sun from a "bucket brigade" of comets kicked in to a region between Jupiter and Neptune. The object, called a "Centaur", will only stay by Jupiter for a couple of years before the planet punts it out of the Trojan zone and forces the outgassing object towards the sun, for further adventures.
This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the comet P/2019 LD2 as it swoops closely to the Trojans, the ancient asteroids trapped near Jupiter by the planet's gravitational pull. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, B. Bolin (IPAC/Caltech); CC BY 4.0 )
It was new observations from Hubble that revealed the shroud of gas and dust, confirming earlier suspicions of this activity spotted with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope days before Spitzer's retirement in early 2020.
"Only Hubble could detect active comet-like features this far away at such high detail, and the images clearly show these features," lead Hubble researcher Bryce Bolin, of the California Institute of Technology, said in a NASA statement. Bolin noted that the tail of the Centaur is roughly 400,000 miles (640,000 kilometers) in length, which is a little less than twice the average distance between Earth and our moon.
The outgassing so far away from the sun puzzles researchers, since water ice only barely starts to sublimate in Jupiter's neighborhood — that's roughly 465 million miles (750 million km) away from the sun. A typical water-ice comet only outgasses in earnest at 200 million miles (320 million km) away, so the tail may not be indicative of water. Spitzer's observations instead suggested the presence of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases, which don't need as much heat as water to start sublimating.
Bolin said even though this is the first Centaur spotted in a Trojan group, this might be a normal pit stop for objects slinging from the outer solar system to the inner solar system, where Earth and the other rocky planets reside. That said, figuring out the comet's origin story and future was a complicated tale.
Computer simulations from the team suggest the object, more formally known as P/2019 LD2, flew close to Jupiter about two years ago. Jupiter then did what Jupiter often does to small objects, which was slingshot it in a new direction; in this case, the object landed in the Trojan asteroid group leading Jupiter in its orbit by about 437 million miles (703 million km).
Numerous telescopes caught P/2019 LD2 at various stages in its journey. The first to spot it in June 2019 was the University of Hawaii's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope system in Hawaii, and the comet activity was spotted by Japanese amateur astronomer Seiichi Yoshida.
The study team found archival images of the object from a wide-field survey at California's Palomar Observatory, called the Zwicky Transient Facility, dating to April 2019. They did more research using the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, and then the Spitzer Space Telescope in January 2020. Hubble, however, was the first to show the comet's tail, the structure of the coma, the size of the dust particles, and the ejection velocity of the particles.
Studying P/2019 LD2 could also give more detail as to how the so-called "bucket brigade" of comets work. Researchers believe these comets come from the Kuiper Belt and bounce between planets while moving ever-closer towards the sun, warming up along the way. Given the number of comets that pass by Earth, a short-period comet is delivered to Earth's neighborhood from the Kuiper Belt every 100 years or so, simulations suggest.
Once the object circles around the sun, simulations suggest a 90% chance that the gravity of Jupiter — the largest planet in the solar system — will scoop P/2019 LD2 back up sometime in the next 500,000 years. Then the planet may kick the object out of the solar system for good, sending P/2019 LD2 on a one-way trip into interstellar space. Of course, that scenario assumes the comet manages to avoid smacking into the sun or some other planet during its journey, or simply disintegrating from the heat of the sun.
A paper based on the research appeared Feb. 11 in The Astronomical Journal.
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Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph.
But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the same shot. The photo, released on Feb. 24, comes courtesy a "cloud cam" at the Gemini North telescope, part of the International Gemini Observatory located on Maunakea.
Sprites and jets are upper-atmospheric phenomena caused by electrical discharges. Sprites, which are typically reddish-orange and sometimes blue-green, occur in the mesosphere, between 30 and 50 miles (50 and 80 kilometers) in altitude. They're often triggered by regular, lower-altitude lightning, but are much cooler in temperature. They're also sometimes shaped like jellyfish. Blue jets also occur at high altitude, triggered by a discharge of electricity from the positively-charged upper portion of a storm cloud to the negatively-charged cloud top, according to a paper published Jan. 20 in the journal Nature. They typically appear as blue streamers shooting spaceward.
The camera that captured the red sprite and blue jet was a modified consumer-grade DSLR (digital single-lens reflex), customized to take photographs within a fraction of a second to 30 seconds after lightning strikes. The cameras are mounted on the roof of the observatory, pointed toward the most likely locations of incoming storms. The Gemini North Observatory sits at 13,800 feet (4,200 meters), affording a fabulous view of the surrounding weather.
Though sprites and jets are rarely witnessed from the ground, they're not uncommon above thunderstorms. In 2017, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station witnessed 245 blue flashes in 160 seconds over one storm. Scientists debate whether these phenomena are simply transient or whether they have any lasting effects. For example, if their passage alters the chemistry of the upper atmosphere, they might have an effect on the ozone layer, researcher Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks told Live Science in 2011.
Studying sprites and jets is difficult, physicist Ryan Haaland of Fort Lewis College in Colorado told Live Science in 2015. Scientists take measurements from ground-based observatories and sometimes fly specially-instrumented research aircraft close to storms to detect them. But as the phenomena last just tens of milliseconds, they remain mysterious.
The Crew-2 mission astronauts — from left, ESA's Thomas Pesquet, NASA's Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and JAXA's Akihiko Hoshide — train for their upcoming mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, which is scheduled to launch April 20, 2021. SpaceX's second fully-crewed astronaut flight, Crew-2, is prepared for launch, mission team members said today (March 1) during a news briefing.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX's second fully-crewed astronaut flight, Crew-2, is prepared for launch, mission team members said Monday (March 1) during a news briefing.
Crew-2, which is set to launch April 20, follows the company's Demo-2 launch in May 2020, the first crewed test flight for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, and Crew-1 launch in November 2020, which saw the company's first fully crewed mission to space. Like Crew-2, these missions took place as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
"Everybody is on track and ready," SpaceX director of crew mission management Benji Reed said during the briefing.
The mission will launch NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, who will act as spacecraft pilot and commander, respectively, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, both of whom will serve as mission specialists. The quartet will spend a little more than six months on to the International Space Station.
"This flight exemplifies the [international] partnership," Kathy Lueders, NASA's associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, said today during the briefing about the inclusion of JAXA and ESA astronauts in Crew-2. It exemplifies, she continued, "how we are continuing to advance human spaceflight with what we do every day," and how missions like this "lead us to not only doing great things on the space station, but doing even more in our space exploration programs going forward."
The Crew Dragon vehicle used for Crew-2 will deliver not just the four astronauts, but over 440 lbs. (200 kilograms) of pressurized cargo to the space station, supporting science and technology development on the orbiting lab, space station program manager Joel Montalbano said today.
"Last year, we celebrated 20 years of continuous human presence on board the International Space Station," Montalbano said, adding that including the commercial space sector has allowed them to bring more people to the International Space Station. "It's an exciting time," he said.
"It's a sacred honor to make sure that we're going to carry this crew safely to the space station," Reed said of the upcoming launch.
Passing the torch
The crew for SpaceX's Crew-2 mission. From the left it's NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. (Image credit: NASA)
To prepare for Crew-2's arrival at the space station, the four astronauts making up Crew-1, who are still living in orbit, will don their spacesuits and relocate their Crew Dragon capsule to another port attached to the station, allowing the incoming spacecraft to dock where they have been "parked." This will also give the crew an opportunity to "get into their suits and check the suits out and make sure those suits are functioning and working fine," program manager for Commercial Crew Steve Stich told Space.com.
Now, while this is all happening in space, mission teams will be prepared here on the ground as well, just in case anything were to not go as planned. For the maneuver, "SpaceX will have their recovery ship ready to go for the Atlantic sites off the coast of Florida," Stich added. "It's the first time we've done this in the U.S. I would say the SpaceX and NASA teams are taking this operation very seriously and [are] working through checking all the procedures … and just making sure we're ready to go do this. It's something that we'll do quite often, but it's the first time we'll have done it with the Dragon vehicle."
Once the capsule has been moved to another port, making room for the Crew-2 craft, and the Crew-2 mission launches and docks and the astronauts board the space station, a handover will take place between the astronaut crews that will take place over five to seven days, Montalbano told Space.com.
While the astronauts flying to the station with Crew-2 are no strangers to the station, this handover gives the crew finishing their mission the opportunity to go over emergency procedures for possible events like fire or depressurization with the new crew and help them acclimate to life on the space laboratory, walking them through everyday essential activities, odd challenges that present themselves and necessary maintenance.
Possible delays
While the teams behind Crew-2 are ready for the April 20 launch, it's possible that the launch may be delayed a few days, Stich said during the conference. SpaceX is one of two companies
The next launch for Boeing's crew capsule, OFT-2, the second uncrewed test launch with the company's crew capsule Starliner, which will test the vehicle after its first uncrewed flight failed to reach the space station due to software issues. OFT-2 is currently targeting April 2, but will likely be delayed further, due partly to unforeseen challenges that came with unusually harsh winter weather and resulting power outages across Texas.
"We had some unfortunate weather here in the Houston area, where we lost about a week of time and some critical software testing," Stich said. "The vehicle's coming together nicely .. we're about two weeks down from where we'd like to be and we're in the process of figuring out the next step on OFT-2."
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition Panoramic View of Landing Site
NASA's Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition Panoramic View of Landing Site
Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree Panorama: This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission (Feb. 21, 2021). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. Full image and caption › To interact: Use the controls in the top left (or pinch) to zoom in and out of the image. Click (or touch) and drag your cursor to move around in the image.
A 360-degree panorama taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument will be discussed during a public video chat this Thursday.
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18. It was the rover’s second panorama ever, as the rover’s Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, also located on the mast, captured a 360-degree view on Feb. 20.
Mastcam-Z is a dual-camera system equipped with a zoom function, allowing the cameras to zoom in, focus, and take high-definition video, as well as panoramic color and 3D images of the Martian surface. With this capability, the robotic astrobiologist can provide a detailed examination of both close and distant objects.
The cameras will help scientists assess the geologic history and atmospheric conditions of Jezero Crater and will assist in identifying rocks and sediment worthy of a closer look by the rover’s other instruments. The cameras also will help the mission team determine which rocks the rover should sample and collect for eventual return to Earth in the future.
Stitched together from 142 images, the newly released panorama reveals the crater rim and cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance. The camera system can reveal details as small as 0.1 to 0.2 inches (3 to 5 millimeters) across near the rover and 6.5 to 10 feet (2 to 3 meters) across in the distant slopes along the horizon.
The detailed composite image shows a Martian surface that appears similar to images captured by previous NASA rover missions.
“We’re nestled right in a sweet spot, where you can see different features similar in many ways to features found by Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity at their landing sites,” said Jim Bell of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, the instrument’s principal investigator. ASU leads operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
The camera team will discuss the new panorama during a question and answer session at 4 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 25, which will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website, and will livestream on the agency’s Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Daily Motion, and YouTube channels, as well as the NASA app. Speakers include:
Jim Bell of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, the instrument’s principal investigator
Elsa Jensen of Malin Space Science Systems, who leads the uplink operations team that sends commands to Mastcam-Z
Kjartan Kinch of the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, who led the design, construction, and testing of Mastcam-Z’s color calibration targets, which are used to tune the instrument’s settings
Mastcam-Z’s design is an evolution of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover’s Mastcam instrument, which has two cameras of fixed focal length rather than zoomable cameras. The two cameras on Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z dual cameras are mounted on the rover’s mast at eye level for a person 6 feet, 6 inches (2 meters) tall. They sit 9.5 inches (24.1 centimeters) apart to provide stereo vision and can produce color images with a quality similar to that of a consumer digital HD camera.
The Mastcam-Z team includes dozens of scientists, engineers, operations specialists, managers, and students from a variety of institutions. In addition, the team includes deputy principal investigator Justin Maki of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
More About the Mission
A key objective of Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
A Wind Carved Rock: This wind-carved rock seen in first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument shows just how much detail is captured by the camera systems.
Crater Rim: This shows the rim of Jezero Crater as seen in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
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?
Astronomers have published a map of the sky showing 25,000 black holes - the most detailed of its kind ever produced.
The map uses low radio frequencies, built from data from 52 stations across nine continents.
It covers an astounding four per cent of the northern half of the sky, but the scientists do not intend to stop until the entire sky has been mapped.
While the bright specs appear to be stars they are in fact supermassive black holes, with each one located in a distant galaxy.
“This is the result of many years of work on incredibly difficult data. We had to invent new methods to convert the radio signals into images of the sky”, research leader Francesco de Gasperin said in a statement.
(LOFAR/LOL Survey)
Making the map was not easy; the ionosphere that surrounds the Earth - a layer of free electrons that clouds telescopes - makes it difficult to track the black holes.
“It’s similar to when you try to see the world while immersed in a swimming pool”, explains co-author Reinout van Weeren.
“When you look up, the waves on the water of the pool deflect the light rays and distort the view”,
In total, it took 256 hours of observations to make the map, and advanced equipment was needed to clear up the picture.
Supercomputers used by the researchers engaged algorithms to correct the effect of the ionosphere every four seconds.
“After many years of software development, it is so wonderful to see that this has now really worked out”, Huub Röttgering said.
They say the truth is out there, but nobody ever said it would be easy to find. Now, after a search lasting decades, a giant trove of long-classified records held by the CIA in relation to reported UFO activity has finally come to light.
This huge public release of what the CIA claims is its "entire" archive of documentation on Unidentified Flying Objects – now termed "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAPs) – comprises hundreds of formerly top-secret records going back more than a half-century.
The unprecedented and fascinating data dump is thanks to a long-sustained effort by intelligence website The Black Vault, which has been sourcing and sharing declassified government documentation on UFOs (among many other things) since the mid–1990s.
According to the site's founder, John Greenewald Jr., The Black Vault has been fighting since 1996 for the release of these UFO records, which began to emerge in dribs and drabs in the 1980s after legal proceedings in relation to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
While some of the documentation has seen the light of day before, this is the first time the supposedly complete archive of the CIA's UFO records has been publicly released, and was made possible after The Black Vault acquired a CD-ROM from the CIA containing what the intelligence agency claims is its entire haul of UFO records, including much information that has never been seen before.
As Greenewald points out however, there's no easy way of factually verifying whether this is the CIA's entire archive, as the agency claims – or whether the US government is still holding onto classified records on UFOs/UAPs we don't yet know about.
In any case, the 2,780-page collection now available on The Black Vault website represents a significant victory for freedom of information on this mysterious and tantalising subject, and a personal milestone for Greenewald.
Amidst the archive, hundreds of records dating back to the mid–20th century can now be read, either via individual PDFs, or a giant ZIP file.
(The Black Vault)
It's worth pointing out that not all of the information is easily readable. Many details in documents are redacted, and the overall quality of scans and photocopies is hit and miss, with some of the records being quite difficult to read, while others are clearer.
Those hoping that the haul will finally offer proof that the US government has been concealing knowledge of alien life-forms visiting Earth will be disappointed, however.
As we've explained before, UFOs or UAPs are a real, serious topic, reflecting documented accounts of incidents involving objects or phenomena that can't be easily identified or otherwise explained, even by experts.
The terms – including related descriptors such as Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) – are not themselves synonymous with (or evidence of) extraterrestrials life forms, even though they often get bundled together, given the wilder possibilities of what these strange sightings could represent.
In other words, UFO means Unidentified Flying Object – nothing more, nothing less, as astronomer Chris Impey from the University of Arizona recently explained.
That said, these hundreds of newly revealed reports offer countless riveting reads of strange and inexplicable episodes, and make a huge contribution to historical records on UFO sightings and how they get handled by those in the intelligence community.
Whether the timing is coincidental or not is unclear, but US intelligence services were already being obliged to publicly divulge more of their knowledge about UFOs in the coming months, thanks to a buried clause in the massive COVID–19 relief bill signed into law in late 2020. Strange but true.
Which is another way of saying that it's possible we may find out even more about UFOs this year – if the CIA's complete archive doesn't turn out to be as complete as it could be.
For Greenewald, it's all part of the job – an important duty to get to the truth, no matter how weird it might be.
"Plain and simple, the public has a right to know!" Greenewald told Motherboard. "I feel I am achieving what I set out to do. Easy access, to important material, for people to make up their own minds on what is going on."
The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac, 82 Documented ET's, Craig Campobosso via Leak Project
The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac, 82 Documented ET's, Craig Campobosso via Leak Project
Discover who the aliens are – the benevolent ones and those who mean us harm – and what they want from us. Here is the ultimate field guide to the 82 extraterrestrial species that populate the universe. Fully illustrated throughout.
This is the ultimate field guide to the 82 extraterrestrial species that populate the universe. ET enthusiast Craig Campobasso explores the origins, physical characteristics, technological and consciousness abilities, dimensional capacities, belief systems, and cosmic agendas of each of the species.
The species fall into two categories: 1) benevolent races, which function as the guardians of humanity, whose goals include helping people overcome duality, healing, and protecting; and 2) malevolent races, which are responsible for abductions, cloning, and ultimately domination.
This intergalactic expose will entertain all those interested in UFOs, aliens, ETs. Sci-fi and fantasy fans of the Marvel universe; Star Trek, Star Wars, and other popular TV shows like Ancient Aliens; Roswell, and Project Blue Book are prime targets for this book that delves deep into who the real extraterrestrials are and what they want with the people of Earth.
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Agartha, the Hidden Civilization of Inner Earth | Truth or Lore via Mr. Mythos
Agartha, the Hidden Civilization of Inner Earth | Truth or Lore via Mr. Mythos
Agartha, the Hidden Civilization of Inner Earth | Truth or Lore via Mr. Mythos
There’s an ancient mystery of connected tunnels across the world… could these paths lead to the legendary Hollow Earth kingdom Agartha deep under the Himalayas? Who (or what) lives in Agartha? What kind of lost knowledge might they hide from mankind?
I was looking over an old Mars photo, when something just hit me. I just opened the photo and there in front of me was a huge white triangle in the side of hill. The triangle looked like it was not a rock. I say that because there is nothing in this entire Mars photo that resembles the white color of this triangle. I do believe it to be a fungus. There is also another possibility...that its a door blocking an entrance and it was made to seal off the heat from the outside so the inside stays cool. There was also a small square opening not far from the triangle which could be a window.
On the other side of the photo there are a few anomalies that defy any explanation but one...that there was once intelligent life on Mars. A strange sculpture of a woven birdlike head. A statue head and even a large box about 2 meters across with a stone lid! These are not made by nature, but by intelligent beings from an ancient civilization that once lived and thrived on Mars.
V-shaped UFO formation over Minnetonka, Minnesota 28-Feb-2021
V-shaped UFO formation over Minnetonka, Minnesota 28-Feb-2021
This UFO video was just submitted to me through our Facebook page. It shows unidentified flying objects in some kind of a V-formation in the sky above Minnetonka, a suburban city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. This happened on 28th Februray 2021.
Witness report:
I looked at the news nothing was mentioned about it. We asked others if they saw it and nothing
From a 360-degree panorama of the dusty landscape to a cheeky rover selfie: NASA's most stunning shots of Mars from Perseverance's first week on the Red Planet
From a 360-degree panorama of the dusty landscape to a cheeky rover selfie: NASA's most stunning shots of Mars from Perseverance's first week on the Red Planet
More than 5,000 images have been sent back to Earth by the NASA Perseverance rover from the Red Planet
The images include thousands of the entry, descent and landing stage of the mission including the parachute
There are 23 cameras on board the $2.2 billion Mars vehicle covering science, landing and engineering
As well as capturing images of the Martian sunset, the desert-like landscape and the rover itself, the cameras will be used to better understand the planet and guide the rover over difficult and rocky Martian terrain
NASA's Perseverance rover has spent the last week on the surface of Mars and in that short time has already sent back thousands of photos - including a cheeky selfie.
The latest rover from the US space agency landed on the Red Planet just before 21:00 GMT on Thursday, February 18 after a hair raising '7-minutes of terror'.
The $2.2 billion vehicle is equipped with 23 cameras including nine for engineering work, seven for science and seven to help it land on the Martian surface.
The first image sent back from Mars was a grainy, dust covered black and white picture taken by one of the Navigation Cameras and shows rocks of various sizes littering the Jezero crater.
Moments after touchdown, Perseverance beamed back its first black-and-white images from the Martian surface
Among the most iconic images sent back was the rover dangling over the Martian surface, attached to the sky crane that helped it safely land on the Red Planet.
Other images returned include a sensational high resolution 360-degree panorama of the Martian landscape and a video of Perseverance's nail biting landing.
The cameras on Perseverance all serve multiple purposes, beyond simply sending back images showing the landscape, sunrise, sunset and skyline of another world.
The space agency said the rover's cameras will help scientists assess the geologic history and atmospheric conditions of Jezero Crater and identify rocks and sediment worthy of a closer examination and collection for eventual return to Earth.
Pictured is an image snapped by the sky crane as it lowered NASA's Perseverance down to Mars' surface using long mechanical bridles
The sky crane (pictured) lowered the car-sized rover to Martian surface with long mechanical bridles and flew off to a safe distance where it crashed into the surface - and Perseverance captured its selfless act
NASA PERSEVERANCE CAMERAS
There are 23 cameras mounted to the Perseverance rover including:
Nine engineering cameras, seven science cameras and seven for entry, descent and landing.
The engineering cameras give detailed information in colour about the terrain the rover has to cross.
They measure the ground for safe driving, check out the status of hardware and support sample gathering.
There are HazCams for hazard detection and Navcams for navigation.
Science cameras record in more detail and can even capture 3D images.
The Mastcam-Z on a 2 metre arm has a zoom feature for focusing on distant objects and can film video.
The Supercam fires a laser at mineral targets beyond the reach of the rovers arm to analysed the chemical composition of the rock.
The camera system can reveal details as small as 3 to 5 millimetres across near the rover and 2 to 3 meters across in the distant slopes along the horizon.
The majority of cameras on the vehicle are designed for engineering use, and they give detailed information - in colour - about the terrain the rover has to cross.
They measure the ground for safe driving, check out the status of hardware on the vehicle for analysis and support sample gathering - a core mission objective.
There are HazCams for hazard detection and Navcams for navigation, cameras that shoot lasers and those that film video or capture 3D views.
So far the majority of images have come from the various entry, descent and landing camera - including those looking at the parachute, descent stage and rover.
There are more than 4,625 images taken by the landing and descent cameras, with about 600 coming from the left and right science 'Mastcam-Z'.
This makes sense given we are only a week into a mission that could last more than a decade, capturing hundreds of thousands of images, videos and audio files.
For comparison, NASA Curiosity, the rover that has been on Mars since 2012, has captured almost 400,000 images of the Red Planet from fewer cameras.
Mastcam-Z's design is an evolution of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover's Mastcam instrument, which has two cameras of fixed focal length rather than zoomable.
The two cameras on Perseverance's Mastcam-Z dual cameras are mounted on the rover's mast at eye level for a person 2 meters tall.
They sit 24.1 centimeters apart to provide stereo vision and can produce colour images with a quality similar to that of a consumer digital HD camera.
A number of sensational images, video and even audio clips have already been shared of the Red Planet from Perseverance's array of cameras and equipment.
At about 7,000 feet into the decent, the cameras captured the sky crane manoeuvre over the landing site. As Perseverance is lowered, it kicks up dust on the ground that may have sat in the same place for billions of years
This is the shining heat shield dropping away from Perseverance, which protected the rover as it soared through temperatures of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit
NASA used a large parachute to slow the rover and online detectives discovered the red and white were code, reading 'Dare Mighty Things' and the coordinates for NASA JPL in California
The NASA team was overjoyed after hearing the news that Perseverance had landed safely on Mars
These included a hair raising video showing the '7-minutes of terror' the rover went through as it descended through the Martian atmosphere to land in the crater.
The first image NASA shared from Mars, sent minutes after the vehicle landed on the Red Planet, was a grainy black and white picture through the fish eye lens of the Perseverance Hazard Cameras.
The dust obscured image showed the baron, rock covered landscape of the Jezero crater with shadows of the Perseverance rover in the foreground and the Martian sky in the background.
The image came in while mission control crew were still celebrating the successful landing in the 28-mile wide crater that was picked as a promising target for finding ancient life signs.
The rover's rear cameras watch the sky crane fly off into the distance where it landed far enough to not interfere with Perseverance
NASA shared an image of its 'sky crane' sacrificing itself by intentionally crashing into Mars after it safely delivered the Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. Smoke is seen the in distance where the sky crane made impact with the Martian surface
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter also captured amazing images of Perseverance, showing it attached to the sonic parachute moments after shooting through the Martian atmosphere like a comet
Perseverance will make oxygen on Mars
The primary task for Perseverance is to search for signs of microbial life and take soil samples, but it will also conduct a host of other jobs during its operational window of one Martian year one (687 Earth days).
One of these, for example, involves investigating if Mars' natural resources can be turned into oxygen to make breathable air for astronauts and also to make rocket fuel for return missions.
This task is called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE).
Future crewed missions to Mars will require oxygen for astronauts to breathe. Carrying oxygen from Earth to Mars is heavy and expensive.
MOXIE is designed to see if it is possible to extract oxygen from Mars and turn it into breathable air.
Mars atmosphere is more than 95 per cent of carbon dioxide and less than 0.15 per cent oxygen.
Moxie will take Martian air, heat it to 800°C, inject energy into a pair of electrodes and this then separates oxygen from the CO2.
Oxygen is pumped out of one line and waste gase are spewed out of another.
The first colour image from Perseverance came from the Hazard Camera photo, soon followed by a look down from the sky crane that placed the rover on the surface, showing the rocks and soil as the rover approached.
The sky crane manoeuvre is the final landing stage that was also used when Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012.
The detailed image, which could become an iconic image in spaceflight shows the long Nylon cords lowering Perseverance to the Martian surface, along with the rover's mechanics and wheels dangling in the air.
This is something we've never seen before,' said Aaron Stehura, NASA flight system engineer, describing himself and colleagues as 'awe-struck' when first viewing the image.
'You are brought to the surface of Mars. You're sitting there, seven meters off the surface of the rover looking down,' he said. 'It's absolutely exhilarating, and it is evocative of those other images from our experience as human beings moving out into our solar system.'
After the first image they came in a flurry’s , including a close up of the wheel tracks on Perseverance, taken by the colour Hazard Cameras.
It wasn't just pictures taken by Perseverance that captured the imagination. The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying above Mars. It showed the descent stage holding Perseverance.
One of the most recent images was a sensational 360-degree panorama taken by the Navcams stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
It showed the deep rust-coloured orange of the Martian surface, looking towards the horizon with a light orange/pink tinged sky and a large looking Sun in the distance.
Other panorama images show the deck of the Perseverance with the equipment used to search for signs of long gone Martian microbial life and a sweeping panoramic view taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.
After landing, two of the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) captured views from the front and rear of the rover, showing one of its wheels in the Martian dirt
Perseverance touched down on Mars Thursday and has been sending NASA videos and footage over the weekend. Pictured is one of thousands of images the rover has taken of the Red Planet
New images from Mars shot by the NASA Perseverance rover have revealed the impressive contours of the red planet's surface, pictures here are taken in false colour for calibration
The surface of Mars directly below NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is seen using the Rover Down-Look Camera in a combination of images acquired February 22, 2021 in a false colour for calibration
This was the first panorama from the science camera and shows rubble like rocks in the foreground, with sweeping hills in the background, looking towards the rim of the Jezero crater.
Within the images was one of a wind carved rock with strange angles, showing the level of detail possible in the zoomable Mastcam-Z cameras on the rover.
The stunning panorama was created with 5,000 commands parameters that shot a total of 142 images that were beamed back to Earth where NASA stitched them together.
While the image may seem like a barren landscape, taking a closer look through the area reveals a number of hidden gems waiting to be investigated by Perseverance.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover's onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam), which is located high on the rover's mast and aids in driving, shows the surrounding area on Mars in an image acquired February 22, 2021
Also released Monday was the mission's first panorama of the rover's landing location, taken by the two Navigation Cameras located on its mast
NASA shared a video of the 7-minutes of terror landing on Mars that included this shot of Perseverance's aluminum wheels making contact with the surface for the first time
Captured in stunning HD, it was taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z, a dual-camera system equipped with a zoom function to help it focus on distant objects
To the left of the rover sits an interesting rock that NASA has named ‘harbor seal’ that was formed by Martian winds eroding it for billions of years and northeast of the rover are structures littering the ground that could have came from an ancient volcano.
More images are being shared all the time, with more than 5,600 raw images already shown on the Perseverance page - including bright red shots of the surface.
To the left of the rover sits an interesting rock that NASA has named ‘harbor seal’ that stands at a point that was formed from Martian wind eroding it for billions of years
NASA gave the world a tour of Mars using the high resolution 360-degree panorama Perseverance sent back from the Red Planet. The rover captured the scene using its powerful Mast Camera, Mastcam-Z for short, as it sat about one and a half miles from the basin of the Jezero Crater with mountains in the distance surrounding the rim
Perseverance's main mission on Mars is astrobiology and the search for signs of ancient microbial life. All of its cameras can aide in this mission, including those designed to help it navigate the Martian surface
A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.
The rover will characterise the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Subsequent missions, currently under consideration by NASA in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
NASA shared this stunning 'Sun' image taken from Mars which orbits our star every 687 days and is 227.9 million km away from it
Perseverance beamed back its first image of the crater moments after NASA established radio contact with the rover (left). The rover beamed a new image back without the camera lens that shows the Martian landscape in full color
First audio recording of Mars from Perseverance rover
Mars Rover Curiosity drills first powder samples from r…
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
ROVER PERSEVERANCE MAAKT ER EEN ZOOITJE VAN OP MARS
ROVER PERSEVERANCE MAAKT ER EEN ZOOITJE VAN OP MARS
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Dat blijkt uit beelden gemaakt door de Trace Gas Orbiter.
De orbiter heeft vanuit een baan rond Mars een fraaie foto gemaakt van de landingsplek van Perseverance. En de foto onthult dat de rover er tijdens zijn landing wel een beetje een rommeltje van heeft gemaakt.
De foto Ongeveer in het midden van de foto zien we de Perseverance-rover. Helemaal links ligt de parachute en de bovenzijde van de beschermende schelp die Perseverance tijdens de reis naar Mars en afdaling omhulde. Ietsje rechts daarvan ligt de zogenoemde descent stage: een soort jetpack met acht motoren die Perseverance veilig op Mars zette. Nadat Perseverance op Mars was geland, haastte de descent stage zich weg, om iets meer dan een halve kilometer verderop – zoals gepland – te crashen.
Het hitteschild zie je helemaal rechts. Dit vormde de onderzijde van de schelp die Perseverance omringde en werd na de gang door de atmosfeer afgeworpen.
Afbeelding: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS; acknowledgement A. Valantinas.
Stoffig De verschillende attributen die gebruikt zijn om Perseverance op Mars te zetten, zijn nu nog goed zichtbaar, maar dat gaat veranderen. Mars is bijzonder stoffig en ook het hitteschild, de parachutes en wat nog over is van de gecrashte descent stage zullen na verloop van tijd bedekt worden met stof en langzaam maar zeker opgaan in de ondergrond.
Trace Gas Orbiter De foto is zoals gezegd gemaakt door de Trace Gas Orbiter. Deze orbiter – een project van de Europese en Russische ruimtevaartorganisaties – arriveerde in 2016 bij Mars. De sonde doet er onderzoek naar de Martiaanse atmosfeer, maar wordt momenteel ook ingezet om communicatie tussen Perseverance en de aarde mogelijk te maken. Zo is het mede aan de Trace Gas Orbiter te danken dat we kort na de landing al snel op spectaculaire beelden van Mars en de landing zelf getrakteerd werden.
Schiaparelli De Trace Gas Orbiter maakt deel uit van de eerste ExoMars-missie. Deze bestond uit de orbiter en een Marslander, Schiaparelli genaamd. De lander maakte zich in 2016 los van de orbiter en zette koers richting het Marsoppervlak. Het resulteerde in een nog groter zooitje dan de Perseverance-landing; Schiaparelli crashte namelijk op Mars. De crash weerhoudt ESA er niet van om nog eens naar Mars te trekken. De Europese Marsrover Rosalind Franklin moet in 2023 op de rode planeet arriveren. Daarnaast zijn er plannen voor een Sample Return Mission, waarvoor ESA nauw gaat samenwerken met NASA. Het idee is om door Perseverance verzamelde Marsmonsters op te pikken en terug te brengen naar de aarde voor analyse.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter De Trace Gas Orbiter is natuurlijk niet de enige Marsorbiter. Zo heeft NASA zelf bijvoorbeeld ook de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter nog rond Mars cirkelen. Deze orbiter heeft Perseverance ook al op het oppervlak van Mars gespot. Nog spectaculairder is echter de foto die MRO maakte tijdens de afdaling van Perseverance (zie hieronder). Op de foto zien we de rover aan de parachute bungelen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL Cal-Tech.
Perseverance landde op 18 februari in de Jezero-krater op Mars. De rover zal daar op jacht gaan naar sporen van (voormalig) leven. Dat is een primeur; eerdere rovers onderzochten de leefbaarheid van Mars, maar hebben nooit actief naar leven gezocht. Daarnaast zal Perseverance ook een instrument gaan testen waarmee mogelijk zuurstof uit de Martiaanse atmosfeer kan worden gehaald (van groot belang voor toekomstige bemande missies naar Mars). En er staat een spannende demonstratiemissie op stapel; aan boord van Perseverance bevindt zich een kleine helikopter die over een paar maanden het luchtruim moet kiezen. NASA hoopt zo te weten te komen of je op Mars kunt vliegen.
Tijd voor een spectaculaire foto van de afdaling van de rover. Deze foto is gemaakt door de descent stage – een soort jetpack met acht motoren – die ervoor zorgde dat Perseverance veilig landde op het Marsoppervlak. De rover bungelt enkele meters boven het oppervlak. Nu al de ruimtefoto van het jaar?
Veel ogen waren gisteravond gericht op Perseverance, ook die van de HiRISE-camera aan boord van de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Het ruimtevaartuig boven Mars fotografeerde Perseverance en zijn parachute. Links op de foto zie je de Jezero-krater: het doel van de missie. Onderzoekers denken dat deze krater zo’n 3,5 miljard jaar geleden gevuld was met water dat door rivieren naar de krater werd gevoerd. De ‘armen’ van deze delta zijn nog steeds op de kraterbodem te aanschouwen. De foto is op 700 kilometer afstand van Perseverance gemaakt, terwijl de Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter een snelheid had van drie kilometer per seconde. Een kwestie van zeer goede timing.
Panoramafoto van Perseverance op Mars. Afbeelding: NASA
Naast de panoramafoto, maakte Perseverance ook nog een mooie selfie:
Selfie van Perseverance.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Bekijk in deze video de beelden van Perseverance’ landing op Mars.
DOOIEND ARCTISCH PERMAFROST POMPT VEEL MEER CO2 IN DE LUCHT DAN GEDACHT
DOOIEND ARCTISCH PERMAFROST POMPT VEEL MEER CO2 IN DE LUCHT DAN GEDACHT
Vivian Lammerse
En de boosdoeners zijn hongerige, ijzer-verorberende microben…
De aarde warmt op. En dat is slecht nieuws voor permafrost; een normaliter permanent bevroren laag aarde. Stijgende mondiale temperaturen zorgen er namelijk voor dat bevroren Arctische permafrost dooit. Hierdoor komt er methaan en koolstofdioxide vrij, dat er al voor duizenden jaren in opgeslagen zat. In klimaatmodellen is hier al rekening mee gehouden. Maar mogelijk is de hoeveelheid CO2 die vrijkomt door dooiend Arctisch permafrost onderschat. Want waar onderzoekers niet aan hebben gedacht, is aan hongerige, ijzer-verorberende bodemmicroben.
CO2 Zoals gezegd zit er in Arctisch permafrost heel veel koolstof gevangen. De hoeveelheid koolstof die in het permafrost opgesloten zit, wordt geschat op vier keer zoveel als de gecombineerde hoeveelheid CO2 die moderne mensen hebben uitgestoten. Het is dan ook niet voor niets dat wetenschappers zich zorgen maken. Want wanneer alle broeikasgassen die het permafrost herbergt een weg naar onze atmosfeer weten te vinden, zou dat dus een enorme impact hebben op ons mondiale klimaat.
Studie Wetenschappers proberen dan ook al enige tijd de processen achter de dooi beter te doorgronden. En in een nieuwe studie reisden onderzoekers hiervoor af naar het Zweedse natuurreservaat Stordalen Mire. “Het dooien van het permafrost is één van de grootste verhalen van deze tijd,” zegt onderzoeker Monique Patzner in een interview met Scientias.nl. “Wat er gaande is, is geen toekomstige zorg. We ondervinden het al aan den lijve. De permafrost in ons onderzoeksgebied zal tegen 2050 naar verwachting volledig verdwenen zijn. Elk jaar, zelfs tussen de seizoenen in, zien we veranderingen en instortingen in het veld, veroorzaakt door het verlies van permafrost. Dit betekent dat de transformatie heel rap gaat.”
Ondertussen in Alaska Niet alleen in Zweden smelt permafrost weg. Ook in Alaska zien wetenschappers permafrost dooien. Dat komt omdat het in Alaska een stuk regenachtiger is geworden. Sterker nog, De Amerikaanse staat beleeft de regenachtigste vijf jaar op rij ooit. In plaats van sneeuw, komt er dus regen naar beneden zetten. En dat is behoorlijk verontrustend. Want de regen zorgt ervoor dat er steeds meer permafrost verdwijnt. Daarnaast hebben ook ijverige bevers een vinger in de pap. Hoe? Gewapend met hun scherpe tanden bouwen de bevers van struiken en bomen dammen, waardoor er kleine poeltjes ontstaan die uitgroeien tot nieuwe meren die soms wel een paar hectare omvatten. En dat gaat rap. In slechts vijf jaar tijd hebben bevers woonachtig in noordwest-Alaska 56 nieuwe meren gecreëerd. Ook al bestaande meren dijen door toedoen van de bever uit. En dat gaat ten koste van kwetsbaar permafrost. Het water is namelijk warmer dan de omringende grond. En dus kunnen deze meren en vijvers de dooi van permafrost versnellen.
Hoewel dat al verontrustend genoeg is, zijn de onderzoekers er nu achtergekomen dat we mogelijk de hoeveelheid CO2 die vrijkomt door dooiend Arctisch permafrost hebben onderschat. In feite kan er zelfs veel meer CO2 vrijkomen dan onze worstcase-modellen hebben voorspeld. En dat komt volgens de onderzoekers omdat we geen rekening hebben gehouden met hele actieve bodemmicroben. Onderzoekers zijn zich al wel langer bewust dat micro-organismen een sleutelrol spelen bij het vrijkomen van CO2 als permafrost smelt. Als reactie op de stijgende temperaturen worden microben in de grond namelijk wakker en beginnen organisch materiaal dat jarenlang in het permafrost lag opgeslagen, af te breken. Daarbij komt CO2 en methaan vrij. Maar onderzoekers hebben nu ontdekt dat bodemmicroben mogelijk een nóg grotere rol spelen dan gedacht.
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Nieuwe ontdekking Men veronderstelde dat het mineraal ijzer koolstof bindt, zelfs als permafrost dooit. Maar onderzoekers uit de nieuwe studie hebben ontdekt dat hongerige microben die zich verschuilen in de Arctische bodem, het vermogen van ijzer om koolstof vast te houden, uitschakelen. “Bevroren grond heeft een hoog zuurstofgehalte, waardoor de ijzermineralen stabiel blijven en koolstof zich aan kan binden,” legt onderzoeker Carsten Müller uit. “Maar zodra het ijs smelt en in water verandert, daalt het zuurstofgehalte en wordt het ijzer instabiel. Tegelijkertijd geeft het ijs toegang tot bacteriën. En die gebruiken vervolgens de ijzermineralen als voedselbron. Terwijl ze eten, worden de bindingen die koolstof bevatten vernietigd en komt het vrij in de atmosfeer als broeikasgas.” Het zijn verontrustende bevindingen. Want de hoeveelheid extra koolstof die kan vrijkomen – en momenteel nog gevangen en gebonden is door het ijzer – wordt geschat op circa twee tot vijf keer de hoeveelheid koolstof die jaarlijks vrijkomt door antropogene emissies van fossiele brandstoffen. “Dit betekent dat we een grote nieuwe bron van CO2-uitstoot hebben gevonden die in klimaatmodellen moet worden opgenomen en nader bestudeerd moet worden,” aldus Müller.
Vragen Hoewel de onderzoekers slechts één moerasgebied in het Noord-Zweedse Abisko hebben bestudeerd, besloten ze hun resultaten te vergelijken met gegevens uit andere delen van het noordelijk halfrond. En daaruit blijkt dat de nieuwe resultaten mogelijk ook van toepassing zijn op andere permafrost-gebieden. Het is behoorlijk zorgelijk. Al is er ook nog een hoop dat we niet weten. Hoewel koolstof opgeslagen in duizenden jaren oud permafrost een grote impact heeft op ons wereldwijde klimaat, weten onderzoekers eigenlijk nog heel weinig over de mechanismen die bepalen of koolstof in de bodem wordt omgezet in broeikasgassen. Het merendeel van het klimaatonderzoek in het noordpoolgebied richt zich op de hoeveelheid opgeslagen koolstof en hoe gevoelig deze is voor klimaatverandering. Er is veel minder aandacht voor de diepere mechanismen die koolstof in de bodem vasthouden. “De vraag blijft bijvoorbeeld of de vrijkomende koolstof door permafrost-dooi echt wordt uitgestoten als broeikasgasemissies, of opnieuw wordt opgeslagen, bijvoorbeeld in toenemende biomassa,” zegt Patzner. Ook weten we niet precies welke micro-organismen de boosdoeners zijn. “Welke microben het ijzer verorberen en zo de bijbehorende organische koolstof vrijgeven, is momenteel de focus van onze lopende onderzoeken,” gaat Patzner verder. “Ook is het heel belangrijk om de hoeveelheid ijzer in diepere lagen, de hoeveelheid koolstof gebonden aan reactieve ijzermineralen in de talrijke permafrost-gebieden en de biologische beschikbaarheid van deze koolstof na het vrijkomen ervan verder te bepalen.”
Al met al laat dit onderzoek wederom de complexe mechanismen van onze aarde zien. “Dankzij de studie krijgen we een beter begrip van de ingewikkelde processen die plaatsvinden in deze complexe permafrost-gebieden,” zegt Patzner. “Dit is van fundamenteel belang om de snelheden van broeikasgasemissies zoals kooldioxide en methaan te bepalen, wat nodig is om betere voorspellingen te doen over klimaatverandering.” Het betekent bovendien dat de kans groot is dat we onze huidige klimaatmodellen moeten herzien. En dat door hele kleine microben die ver onder onze voeten, zich hongerig te goed doen aan hun omgeving.
Asteroïdenstof gevonden in inslagkrater die einde dinosaurussen betekende
Asteroïdenstof gevonden in inslagkrater die einde dinosaurussen betekende
Nieuw onderzoek levert bewijs dat het uitsterven van de dinosauriërs linkt aan de inslag van een asteroïde 66 miljoen jaar geleden. De wetenschappers vonden voor het eerst aanwijzingen van stofresten van een asteroïde in de Chicxulub-inslagkrater in Mexico.
Zesenzestig miljoen jaar geleden vond een catastrofale massa-extinctie plaats die het leven op onze planeet volledig veranderde. De dinosauriërs verdwenen van het aardoppervlak, samen met vele andere soorten en families, waaronder de ammonieten en de mosasauriërs. De eerste aanwijzing om dit plotse en wereldwijde uitsterven van het leven beter te begrijpen werd gevonden in sedimentlagen bij Gubbio in Italië en Caravaca in Spanje, waar een zeer dunne kleilaag de grens vormt tussen de tijdperken van het Krijt en het Paleogeen.
In het begin van de jaren tachtig vonden wetenschappers in deze kleilaag opmerkelijk hoge concentraties van iridium, een zeldzaam metaal dat in hoge concentraties voorkomt in meteorieten maar in zeer lage concentraties in de aardkorst. Deze kleilaag zou gevormd zijn uit stof dat was ontstaan na de inslag en verdamping van een asteroïde met een diameter van ongeveer twaalf kilometer. Deze ontdekking werd later bevestigd door de ontdekking van de 180 tot 200 kilometer grote Chicxulub inslagkrater, die onder het oppervlak van het schiereiland Yucatán in México begraven ligt.
Nu, meer dan 40 jaar later, hebben wetenschappers het laatste stukje bewijs ontdekt dat de wereldwijde massa-extinctie met de asteroïde-inslag in verband brengt. Een internationaal team van onderzoekers onder leiding van wetenschappers van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel heeft de globale asteroïde stoflaag getraceerd tot binnen de Chicxulub inslagkrater in Mexico. 'De cirkel is nu eindelijk rond', zegt Steven Goderis, docent geochemie aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en hoofdauteur van de studie.
Lift boat L/B Myrtle die gebruikt werd om de Chicxulub krater in de Golf van Mexico aan te boren. Foto credit: UTexas
In mei 2016 werd een ring van heuvels die het centrum van de Chicxulubkrater in Mexico omringt, een zogenaamde piekring, aangeboord door een wetenschapsteam van het International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) en het International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Expeditie 364. Ongeveer 835 meter gesteente werd naar de oppervlakte gebracht, die een enorme hoeveelheid nieuwe informatie heeft opgeleverd over de processen die zich in het kratergebied hebben afgespeeld tijdens en vlak na de inslag van de asteroïde.
De boorkern heeft ook zeer gedetailleerd het tijdsinterval vastgelegd waarin de krater overging van een dynamische omgeving met terugkerend oceaanwater en tsunamigolven naar veel rustigere omstandigheden. Op basis van een uitgebreide geochemische analyse van dit deel van de boorkern werden de hoogste concentraties iridium gevonden in een kleirijk interval in sedimenten die de kraterpiekring bedekken, net onder kalksteen uit het vroegste Paleogeen.
Boorkernen van drie sectie van de inslagkrater naast elkaar geplaats. Foto credit: The University of Texas at Austin
'Iridium is een element dat in deze context vrij moeilijk te meten is vanwege de lage concentraties. Daarom hebben we de resultaten van vier onafhankelijke laboratoria over de hele wereld gecombineerd om er zeker van te zijn dat we dit juist hebben', verduidelijkt Steven Goderis. De iridiumconcentraties die in de boorkern werden gemeten, komen overeen met de concentraties die eerder werden gemeten op plaatsen rond de Golf van Mexico. 'Het is heel opmerkelijk dat we zulke hoge concentraties hebben gevonden in de inslagkrater zelf. In de eerste uren tot maanden na de inslag was de krater een zeer turbulente omgeving die werd beïnvloed door tsunami's, oscillerende golven en aardbevingen. Bovendien zijn hydrothermale vloeistoffen die van dieper in de krater naar het oppervlakte kwamen ook door de iridiumlaag heen gegaan, maar hebben deze niet wezenlijk veranderd. Gelukkig is de iridiumlaag bewaard gebleven, mede dankzij de unieke positie van de boorkern in een depressie op de verhoogde piekring. Na enkele jaren in de atmosfeer rond de aarde te hebben gecirkeld, kan de afzetting van dit iridiumrijke stof tot een paar decennia na de inslag hebben geduurd', vat Goderis samen.
Het behoud van de iridiumlaag in de krater is werkelijk fantastisch, het vormt het onweerlegbare bewijs dat de inslag en de uitsterving nauw met elkaar verbonden zijnPhilippe Claeys, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
De atmosferische neerslag van dit asteroïdestof legt dus belangrijke tijdslimieten op aan de afzetting van het kratergesteente net onder deze iridiumlaag. 'Dit deel van de krater keerde terug naar een relatief laag-energetische omgeving in een veel kortere tijd dan eerder verwacht. Samen met andere tijdsindicaties, zoals microfossielen en helium-3 concentraties, geeft de iridiumlaag de timing weer van het herstel van leven gedurende de jaren tot millennia na de inslag, wat duidt op een zeer complexe biologische reactie op de snel veranderende omgeving op ‘ground zero’', aldus Sean Gulick, onderzoeksprofessor aan de Universiteit van Texas in Austin en mede-hoofdwetenschapper van de boorexpeditie. De boorkern van IODP-ICDP Expeditie 364 bevat dus een uitzonderlijk gedetailleerd verslag van de processen die gepaard gingen met de vorming van de Chicxulub-krater en het herstel van het leven.
Snelle neerdaling inslagmateriaal
De ontdekking van zo'n goed gedefinieerde iridium anomalie in de Chicxulub krater zal ongetwijfeld ook het onderzoek naar de Krijt-Paleogeen massa-extinctie nieuw leven inblazen. 'Met deze ontdekking zijn we beter dan ooit in staat om precieze tijdslimieten te stellen aan de producten die als gevolg van de asteroïde-inslag zijn gevormd. In de krater zien we een 130 meter dikke stapel van gesmolten, gebroken en fijnkorrelig gesteente dat waarschijnlijk in minder dan twintig jaar is afgezet, waarbij het grootste deel zelfs in de eerste dag is afgezet, wat verbluffend snel is. Op veel verschillende plaatsen in de wereld wordt dit tijdsinterval van twintig jaar vertegenwoordigd door een veel dunnere gesteentelaag, die bestaat uit geschokt, gesmolten en gecondenseerd materiaal dat uit de krater werd geslingerd. Door deze verschillende locaties te vergelijken, zullen we de precieze mechanismen beter begrijpen die verband houden met de Chicxulub-inslag die leidde tot het wereldwijde massa-uitsterven', legt Pim Kaskes uit, een FWO-doctoraatsstudent aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel die werkt op de boorkern. 'Het behoud van de iridiumlaag in de krater is werkelijk fantastisch, het vormt het onweerlegbare bewijs dat de inslag en de uitsterving nauw met elkaar verbonden zijn', besluit Philippe Claeys, gewoon hoogleraar geologie aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en al 30 jaar veteraan op het gebied van Krijt-Paleogeen onderzoek.
Apophis definitely won't hit Earth this month, but scientists are pretending it might.
An animation shows Apophis' 2029 path compared to the swarm of satellites orbiting Earth.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Earth's most recent brush with asteroid danger was eight years ago, when a space rock the size of a six-story building came seemingly out of nowhere, injuring 1,200 people when it exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Now, scientists are using this month's flyby of the infamous asteroid Apophis to test their responses to potentially hazardous space rocks, honing the fine art of planetary defense. Planetary defense focuses on identifying asteroids and comets that hang out around Earth, mapping their precise paths and seeing how their orbits compare with Earth's.
If an orbital model shows that an asteroid and Earth are due to reach the same place at the same time, things get serious, particularly when the space rock is large. That's the sort of scenario that ended the dinosaurs' reign, after all. But planetary defense isn't hopeless: if humans identify a dangerous asteroid long enough before impact, we could theoretically do something to divert it.
Successfully preventing damage from an asteroid impact will depend on spotting the threat in time, which takes practice. But although scientists have identified more than 25,000 near-Earth asteroids to date, the majority are too small to cause much worry. So while there are plenty of asteroids rattling around Earth's orbit, most aren't big enough or close enough to trigger realistic existential angst.
Apophis came to its fame because it isn't like most of these near-Earth space rocks. When scientists discovered it in 2004, it stood out right away. First, it is relatively large — more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) wide, around the height of the Eiffel Tower, according to NASA. And models based on early observations suggested a nearly 3% chance Apophis would collide with Earth on April 13, 2029.
More precise observations soon put the fear of impact that year to rest, but the early concern surrounding the asteroid prompted its name, which references an Egyptian "demon serpent who personified evil and chaos," as NASA put it. Right now, scientists are confident that Apophis is no threat to Earth for at least a few decades. But the space rock will still come visiting next month, offering scientists valuable opportunities to get a close look at a relatively large asteroid.
And, with a little imagination, these flybys can also serve as planetary defense rehearsals.
"The goal is to basically wrangle all the scientists from around the world, kind of the coalition of the willing," Vishnu Reddy, a planetary defense expert at the University of Arizona who is coordinating the project, told Space.com. "Then we go on this months-long campaign, trying to observe this object."
Apophis will fly past Earth on March 5. The asteroid will remain about one-tenth the average Earth-sun distance away — a downright mundane flyby compared to the 2029 event, when Apophis will pass by at about the altitude at which particularly high satellites orbit.
To mark this year's flyby, the International Asteroid Warning Network instituted its third such campaign. Previously, scientists have practiced on an asteroid called 2012 TC4 and on 1999 KW4, which is a pair of rocks circling each other. For Apophis, about 40 scientists from 13 different countries have signed on. These observers are pretending that Apophis has never been seen before, which means they are starting from scratch in terms of evaluating how much danger the asteroid poses to Earth.
"It's not a scientific goal," Reddy said. "The goal is to get new observations as if we don't know anything about this object and try and see where in the process we need to improve efficiency and also identify the human factor. Anybody dealing with scientists knows that it's like herding cats, and when you do that on an international scale, there's part diplomacy, part science, and part planetary defense."
Reddy said that the coincidence of the Apophis flyby occurring during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic offered an opportunity to understand how resilient the asteroid detection system is. At this point, most telescopes are managing to continue operating, although he said the pandemic likely would have interfered much more had the flyby occurred a year earlier, when institutions were still scrambling to respond.
"There's a reasonable amount of redundancy in planetary defense," he said. "Even if one telescope goes down or we lose a certain thing, it's not like the whole community goes down, to some extent."
A "discovery" moment
Campaign members first definitively identified Apophis around Dec. 19, thanks to a space-based instrument called NEOWISE. After the spacecraft, originally an astrophysics mission, lost the ability to keep itself cool, scientists reinvented it to identify new asteroids.
That the first discovery credit went to NEOWISE was unusual, however. These days, most new asteroids are discovered by ground-based surveys, particularly the Pan-STARRS telescopes in Hawaii and the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.
But Apophis was tricky for Earth-based telescopes to discover this time around, Reddy said. "The challenge was that its motion and the way it was moving, it was hard to do it with short observing arcs," he said. NEOWISE is never pulled away from a target by the Earth's rotation, and since it studies infrared light, it can observe during day and night alike.
"NEOWISE got it first, and that's because of where we look in the sky and the wavelengths that we use to search for it," Amy Mainzer, an astronomer at the University of Arizona and principal investigator for NEOWISE, told Space.com. "To get to, quote-unquote, discover Apophis was really fun."
There's a perk to spotting a new asteroid with NEOWISE: The instrument can quickly determine the size of a space rock. Telescopes that identify asteroids using optical light have trouble distinguishing between larger dark rocks and smaller light rocks; NEOWISE's infrared sight eliminates that confusion.
And for this "discovery" of Apophis, the initial optical appearance turned out to be more menacing than NEOWISE's calculated diameter. "You can quickly tell if it's going to be a global catastrophe or just regional because you can get the size quickly," Mainzer said. "It makes an orders of magnitude difference in the prediction of hazard."
While a newly discovered asteroid may initially sport a slight chance of impact, additional observations typically whittle that chance to nothing. "For Apophis, if you start afresh, assuming that we don't know anything about it and we just discovered it with NEOWISE and we're following it up, there is a reasonable impact risk from Apophis," Reddy said.
It's worth emphasizing that "reasonable impact risk" appears only in the scenario they're practicing, not in the reality of scientists' full knowledge of the asteroid. "Of course, if you include the historical observations, it goes away, because we know its orbit very well, it's not going to hit us," Reddy said.
Good news for humans, but that disappearing impact risk isn't helpful to the practice session. "That's not what we're looking for, we want to see what are the effects on the ground," Reddy said. So at some point, the campaign will part with reality, and, in the safe confines of computer models, scientists will nudge Apophis toward Earth.
Altering the asteroid's trajectory lets planetary defense specialists practice each stage of the asteroid response process, the point, after all, of the campaign.
Continuing observations
Apophis has become much easier to observe since its "discovery"; by now, Reddy said, amateur astronomers can spot it with a decent backyard telescope, and he looks forward to including them in the project.
Meanwhile, for scientists, the initial hustle of "discovery" has calmed somewhat. "There's a huge flurry of activity, and then there's not a whole lot in the middle for five or six weeks," Reddy said. The team, ignoring old data about Apophis, already has much of the information a planetary defense expert would want, data that helps scientists determine an object's shape or composition.
"The key event after this point, I think, is the radar observations," he said; these observations should begin March 3. Planetary radar observations, which bounce a beam of radio waves off an object then catch the echo, are the most powerful tool scientists have to study the precise shape and location of an asteroid.
But NEOWISE isn't done with Apophis either, Mainzer said. Although the instrument moved onto other work after the "discovery," the asteroid will be back in the NEOWISE field of view after its close approach. "We're almost certain to detect it again in April," she said.
That will be another valuable science opportunity. "If we see it in December, we look at it from one direction; when we get it in April, we're probably going to see from a different direction, right?" Mainzer said. By seeing Apophis multiple times at different angles, scientists may be able to get a glimpse of the space rock's surface.
"We can combine that information to hopefully pull out some details, I'm hoping we can get some details of the surface roughness, the thickness of any rocks and dust on the surface of the object," Mainzer said. "It may help us learn quite a bit more about it, if we're very lucky."
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It was part of a space rock that created a dramatic fireball over Uppsala.
A 30-pound chunk of iron meteorite found in Uppsala, Sweden.
(Image credit: Andreas Forsberg/Anders Zetterqvist.)
A half-melted hunk of iron-rich rock found in Uppsala, Sweden, is part of a meteorite that fell there in November 2020.
The lumpy meteorite is about the size of a loaf of bread and weighs around 31 pounds (14 kilograms), according to the Swedish Museum of Natural History. It was once part of a larger space rock, probably weighing more than 9 tons (8.1 metric tons), that created a dramatic fireball over Uppsala on Nov. 7.
After that impact, scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History calculated the likely landing site and found some small fragments of iron meteorite near the village of Ådalen, according to a museum statement. The fragments were only about 0.1 inches (3 millimeters) long, but the investigation also turned up a boulder and a tree root that had clearly been hit by something heavy.
Geologists Andreas Forsberg and Anders Zetterqvist hold the meteorite they discovered, which fell over Sweden on Nov. 7, 2020. (Image credit: Andreas Forsberg/Anders Zetterqvist)
Stockholm geologists Andreas Forsberg and Anders Zetterqvist headed back to the site and found a much larger piece — likely the one that smashed the boulder. The piece was about 230 feet (70 meters) from the area where the fragments were found, partially buried in moss. One side is flattened and cracked, likely from the collision, and the meteorite is pockmarked with circular depressions. These depressions are common in iron meteorites, according to the museum, and they form when the space rock partially melts during its passage through the atmosphere.
"It is the first sure example of a newly fallen iron meteorite in our country," Swedish Museum of Natural History curator Dan Holtstam said in a statement. It's also the first time that any meteorite fragments linked to an observed fireball have been recovered in Sweden for 66 years.
"Since we now know that it is an iron meteorite, it is possible to fine-tune the simulations of the meteorite fall, University of Uppsala astronomer Eric Stempels said in the statement. "It is very likely that the meteorite that has now been found is the largest existing piece after the originally about 9-ton-heavy space rock. Some smaller pieces are probably left in the area."
Iron meteorites are the second-most common kind of meteorite that land on Earth, after stony meteorites. They originate in the cores of planets and asteroids, which means they can hold clues to the formation of the solar system.
The sky crane was the crazy idea that actually worked. (Credit: NASA/JPL)
Prior to the rover Curiosity, rovers were either reaching the surface of Mars via rocket-controlled landers or merrily bouncing their way along the surface nestled in airbags. However, the creation of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), later named Curiosity, presented a dilemma for engineers. How do you get a one-ton rover the size of a Volkswagen down safely?
While previously rovers utilized landers in which they would drive off, the new car-sized Curiosity presented a problem. Landers need ramps and larger rovers need larger ramps. Additionally, ramps can be one of an engineer’s worse nightmares. Since the first successful rover, Sojourner, landed on Mars in 1997, engineers have always been scared that a multi-billion dollar project could get to a planet some 40,000 miles away from Earth, only to have the rover snag a part on the lander ramp, essentially becoming a lander itself on top of another lander, rendering them both basically useless.
(Note: The microwave-sized Sojourner was not technically the first rover on Martian soil. That distinction belongs to the Russians’ Prop-M rover which was tethered to their Mars 2 and 3 landers. Since Mars 2 pancaked itself into the surface and Mars 3 lost communications with Earth because of a sand storm, neither rover was actually deployed).
Second problem: These larger landers and larger ramps would need more room. On a planet where the main inhabitants are rocks (and lots of them), finding clearance would be a big thorn in the side of those in charge of finding a place to land. Not only that, but the good science comes when you get near the rocky stuff, which would be hard if you had to park in lot BFE.
Third problem: Putting rockets on the bottom of a rover like it was done in earlier landers like Viking creates a stability problem. In the book “Curiosity” by Rod Pyle, he likens it to “balancing a bowling ball on a broomstick.”
This is one reason why Spirit and Opportunity utilized the airbag system. The airbag system is pretty much how it sounds. Prior to the rover landing on the ground, airbags would inflate bouncing them to land where they may. This was never a viable option for the much larger Curiosity rover. Airbags can only handle so much weight and 2,000 pounds went far beyond those limits. Also, airbags also create just another thing to get the rover caught on.
So a new landing system was needed. As Curiosity’s Chief Engineer, Rob Manning, told Pyle in his book, “We were thinking out of the box. In fact, we threw away the box. We were literally going through all possible ways to land this machine, trying to imagine every possible configuration, whether it made sense or not.”
When Manning and his team first conceived the idea, it didn’t exactly have a warm reception. After all, Curiosity would be coming on the heals of two high-profile failures by NASA with the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Climate Orbiter missions of the “better, faster, cheaper” era of the space program. (In 2004, the Harvard Review actually published a report using this NASA method as the way NOT to do business).
So the idea was tabled…but not for long.
After time devising other strategies, it always ended up coming back to the sky crane. As harrowing as it sounded, it was also one of the best options to deliver the rover to the best destination.
The Sky Crane
Think of the sky crane portion of the descent stage as a kind of jetpack with eight engines which safely lowered the rover to the ground. The sky crane slows the robot down until it hovers over the surface, then slowly winches the rover down with nylon cords.
If you’ve ever seen heavy-lift Sikorsky Skycrane helicopters with cargo dangling beneath via cables, that’s the essence of the sky crane. In fact, the engineers who first devised the idea actually met with pilots and engineers of that bird for guidance. Unfortunately, due to the gravity differences between Mars and Earth, there wasn’t a real way to test the landing system. Yes, it was a do-or-die operation where the only real test HAD to work.
“We talked about it to no end. If this didn’t go right, there would be nowhere to hide because every joe six-pack on the street would be saying that they knew it wouldn’t work,” Adam Steltzner of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, chief engineer for the Perseverance rover, told Astronomy. Stelzner’s team originally thought up the sky crane idea for Curiosity.
If all goes right, and the rover makes it safely to the ground, pyrotechnically activated blades cut the cords connecting it to the descent stage. The descent stage then flies off to make its own uncontrolled landing on the surface of the Martian surface a safe distance away from the rover.
Before it hits Martian soil, the rovers have to go through six phases of EDL (Credit: NASA/JPL)
Prior to all of that though, the machine has to make it through the atmosphere. The intense period called the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase of the mission begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere, traveling at about 13,200 miles per hour (5,900 meters per second). EDL ends about seven minutes later (known as the Seven Minutes of Terror) with the rover stationary on the surface. From just before jettison of the cruise stage 10 minutes before the craft hits the atmosphere, to the cutting of the sky crane bridle, the spacecraft goes through six different vehicle configurations and fires 76 pyrotechnic devices, such as releases for parts to be separated or deployed.
The parachute, which is 51 feet (almost 16 meters) in diameter, deploys about 254 seconds after entry, at an altitude of about 7 miles (11 kilometers) and a velocity of about 940 miles per hour (about 405 meters per second). About 24 more seconds after parachute deployment, the heat shield separates and drops away when the spacecraft is at an altitude of about 5 miles (about 8 kilometers), traveling at a velocity of about 280 miles per hour (125 meters per second).
As the heat shield separates, the Mars Descent Imager begins recording video, looking in the direction the spacecraft is flying. The imager records continuously from then through the landing. The rover, with its descent-stage “rocket backpack,” is still attached to the back shell on the parachute.
The back shell, with a parachute attached, separates from the descent stage and rover about 85 seconds after heat shield separation. At this point, the spacecraft is about 1.3 miles (2.1 kilometers) above the ground and rushing toward it at about 190 miles per hour (about 80 meters per second), 6,900 feet (2,100 meters) above the ground.
All eight throttleable liquid-fueled retrorockets on the descent stage, called Mars landing engines, would then begin firing for the powered descent phase. The rover’s wheels and suspension system, which double as the landing gear, pop into place just before touchdown. The bridle is fully spooled out as the spacecraft continues to descend, so touchdown occurs at the brisk walking speed of about 1.7 miles per hour (0.75 meters per second). When the spacecraft sensed the rover has touched down, those pyrotechnically-fired blades release the cords, and the descent stage can then fly away before impacting on the surface of Mars far away from the rover.
A notable difference between Perseverance’s EDL and Curiosity’s is the Lander Vision System (LVS). While Curiosity used radar to determine the distance to the ground, Perseverance utilized a whole new type of technology.
The LVS’s job determined the rover’s position, handling different possible terrain conditions, within an accuracy of about 130 feet (40 meters) in less than 10 seconds. It contains a downward-facing camera that took multiple images of the ground and an onboard computer – the Vision Compute Element (VCE) — which processed these images and spit out acceptable landing locations. After the camera powered on, the LVS used an initial five seconds to take three images and process them to calculate a rough position relative to the Martian surface. Then, using that initial location solution, it took additional images, processing them every second, deriving locations on a finer scale. The VCE sent a stream of these location calculations to the main rover brain, the Rover Compute Element.
Now what started as a hair-brained idea is seeming to becoming the norm for NASA.
“If you’re landing a rover on Mars, there’s no doubt this is the right way,” said Steltzner. “(For Curiosity) we certainly had questions about whether this really was a crazy thing to try to do. Had we missed a big thing? Was it totally wrong? Did all the pieces actually come together and work? We answered those questions.”
SPACEX’S HISTORIC ALL-CIVILIAN FLIGHT HAS JUST TWO SPOTS LEFT: HOW TO JOIN
SPACEX’S HISTORIC ALL-CIVILIAN FLIGHT HAS JUST TWO SPOTS LEFT: HOW TO JOIN
SpaceX wants you.
SPACEX WANTS TO PUT FOURprivate citizens into space, and two seats are up for grabs.
The "Inspiration4" mission, expected to launch no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2021, will be the world's first all-civilian spaceflight. The mission will send a Crew Dragon capsule whizzing around the Earth for three or four days.
On Monday, February 22, the group behind the mission announced that Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician assistant at St. Jude's Children Research Hospital and a bone cancer survivor, would join the mission. She will be joined by Jared Isaacman, the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments.
The final two passengers will be decided via a competition, and will be announced in March, according to reports.
The ad for "Inspiration4" played during one of the many commercial breaks during the Super Bowl LV game. In the ad, SpaceX explained how "You could be on board" (yes, you) the world's first all-civilian mission to space. All you have to do is win.
Watch the full ad below:
The ad was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard and narrated by Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer. The music is Celeste's version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
The ad for this once-in-a-lifetime competition follows hot on the heels of the mission's announcement by SpaceX on February 1. Now, Elon Musk's firm has put the word out at the annual sporting event, which last year received 99.9 million viewers. That is a lot of competition, so here's everything you need to know in case you missed the clip or just need a recap:
Inspiration4, as the video reveals, is set to take off no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2021 — so between September and December of 2021.
Inspiration4 and its civilian crew will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The capsule will spend between three and four days orbiting the Earth. The capsule will circumnavigate the globe once every 90 minutes. Then, it will return to Earth by landing in the water off the coast of Florida.
Ahead of the flight, SpaceX will train the crew on how to use the rocket, the capsule, orbital mechanics, zero gravity, emergency preparedness, and other mission simulations.
The mission has two passengers chosen already: 37-year-old Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments. Isaacman bought all four seats on the journey. One of the seats was reserved for someone with ties to St Jude's Children's Research Hospital — now confirmed as Arceneaux.
The other two are still free — and, as the ad explains, you can win one of them.
Soon you could board a SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket to space.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images
The Super Bowl clip is a sign of the emergent new era of spaceflight, when space is more accessible than ever before. SpaceX has worked to reduce the cost of spaceflight by landing its Falcon 9 boosters after missions, saving around three-quarters of the cost of the entire mission. With reusability, so the argument goes, comes greater democratization of what has been the preserve of well-funded government agencies.
The four-seater Crew Dragon is also helping to open up spaceflight to more players. The capsule was first developed to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station. The capsule completed its first crewed mission in May 2020 and its first non-test crewed mission in November 2020.
Beyond sending astronauts from NASA and other agencies into space, SpaceX also plans a series of private commercial flights:
The Inspiration4 mission, set to take place no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2020.
The Axiom Space AX-1 mission, taking place no earlier than January 2022. Last month, Axiom Spaceannounced the four passengers for the trip.
The Space Adventures mission, announced in February 2020, taking place sometime from late 2021 to mid-2022.
INSPIRATION4 MISSION: HOW TO JOIN THE PRIVATE SPACEFLIGHT
Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 payments, is the first member of this mission. He is also a jet pilot who holds world records, including two speed-around-the-world records. Isaacman has also flown in over 100 airshows.
Could you join Jared Isaacman on the historic Inspiration4 flight?PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images
The other three passengers have codenames: Hope, Generosity, and Prosperity.
"Hope" is Arceneax, who was confirmed on the flight on Monday. Arceneaux is a 29-year-old physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is located in Memphis, Tennessee. At 10-years-old, Arceneaux was diagnosed by the hospital with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. She received prosthetic leg bones during her treatment, which would have previously restricted her from becoming an astronaut.
Arceneaux's trip will make records: She will be the youngest American to orbit in space, and the first bone cancer survivor to go to space, too.
"I think this mission is going to inspire people in so many ways," Arceneaux told the BBC. "It shows them that anything is possible."
That leaves "Generosity" and "Prosperity" — and both are open to competition.
Could this be you?Inspiration4 screenshot
"Generosity" is one of the seats available to win. This seat on the spacecraft will go to a member of the public who supports St. Jude's via donation. Members of the public can enter by donating $10 or more to the research hospital, with 10 chances to win for every dollar donated.
There is a limit of 10,000 entries per person, no matter how you enter, however.
There are also a series of limitations on who can enter this competition. Entrants must be at least 18 years old and live in the United States. If you can't donate, then you can also enter without donating, as many times as they like up to 10,000, by filling in a form.
Seat number four is dubbed "Prosperity." This seat is reserved for "an inspirational entrepreneur" who has used the Shift4Shop e-commerce platform to launch an online business. You can sign up to the platform via the Inspiration4 mission website, thereby entering the raffle-style competition.
The competition for "Generosity" will end on February 28. The fourth seat will also be announced at that time.
All four passengers will be announced by March 2021, meaning the lucky winners should find out soon whether they will be going. Will it be you?
Vénus : Une photo inédite de la planète dévoilée par la Nasa
Vénus : Une photo inédite de la planète dévoilée par la Nasa
ESPACE La photo laisse apparaître un phénomène lumineux entourant Vénus ainsi qu’une de ses terres hautes
La planète Vénus (illustration). — JAXA
La Nasa a publié, ce jeudi, sur Instagram une photo de Vénus prise en juillet 2020 par lasonde spatiale solaire Parker. L’engin avait été lancé en août 2018 pour « éclaircir les mystères de l’atmosphère du Soleil », a expliqué l’agence américaine sur son site.
Pour cela, la sonde va survoler Vénus sept fois en sept ans, utilisant la gravité de la planète pour se rapprocher de notre étoile principale. L’image montre des détails inédits, indique RTL. Les astronomes de la Nasa ont annoté le cliché afin de mettre en avant les éléments notables qui y apparaissent.
Des détails inédits
Les spécialistes ont estimé que l’aura plus claire que l’espace qui entoure la planète est un phénomène lumineux causé par des atomes d’oxygène. Ces derniers se trouvent à une altitude importante et se réunissent à nouveau pour former des molécules dans l’ombre de Vénus.
L’image capturée par la Parker laisse également voir une tache foncée recouvrant une partie de la surface de la planète. Il s’agit d’Aphrodite Terra, la plus vaste haute terre de Vénus. La température qui y règne est plus basse que celle des régions qui l’entourent, causant la différence de couleur visible sur la photo.
A terme, la sonde Parker s’approchera du Soleil à un peu plus de six millions de kilomètres de distance, soit sept fois plus près que tout autre engin avant elle. A titre de comparaison, la distance moyenne séparant la Terre du Soleil est de 150 millions de kilomètres.
TOP SECRET SERIES: Plumed Serpents, Giants, and Human Sacrifice
TOP SECRET SERIES: Plumed Serpents, Giants, and Human Sacrifice
We believe some of the immortals—the created gods of Psalm 82 and their counterparts—migrated to North and South America to accept worship. Stephen Quayle wrote:
It is evident that fallen angels and giants, as well as their offspring and demons ruled over many of the Native American populations in the New World. Additionally it seems likely that the serpents that would be worshipped throughout the Americas were either fallen angels taking the form of snakes, or the offspring of fallen angels who mated with animals.[i]
In order to “connect the dots,” we begin with the Israelites’ formative period in Egypt, noting that, unlike the other Egyptian gods, “the reverence paid to the snake was not merely local or even limited to one period of history, but it prevailed alike in every district of the Pharaohian empire and has left its indelible impress upon the architecture and archeology of both Upper and Lower Egypt.”[ii] For example, consider the Egyptian four-winged, divine serpent, Chnuphis.[iii]
From there, the ancient Israelites moved to Canaan, where they encountered tales of the Leviathan, a dragon described as “the twisting serpent, the close–coiling one with seven heads,” by the Canaanites (KTU[iv] 1.5:1:1)[v] and appears six times in five verses of the Hebrew Bible (Job 3:8 and 41:1; Psalm 74:13–14 and 104:26; and Isaiah 27:1). According to Christoph Uehlinger, a religious studies professor at the University of Zurich, it’s likely that Leviathan was assimilated by the Egyptians as “Apophis, a huge serpent who during the night tries to hinder the sun-god’s travel through the netherworld.”[vi] According to 1 Enoch, Leviathan is a female dragon located at the bottom of the sea and Behemoth is a male dragon living in the desert.
And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Dûidâin, on the east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first man whom the Lord of Spirits created. (Enoch 60:7–8)
This beastly bifurcation is also mentioned in the apocryphal text 4 Ezra 6:49–52. If one accepts the ancient tradition, Leviathan still lurks in the deep, plotting to destroy the world:
And I saw there the sea and its islands, and its animals and its fishes, and Leviathan and his spouse, and his lair, and his dens, and the world which lies upon him, and his motions and the destruction of the world because of him. (Apocalypse of Abraham 21:4)[vii]
Leviathan is eschatologically connected to the “Day of the Lord,” because Isaiah prophesied:
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, Even leviathan that crooked serpent; And he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isaiah 27:1)
We suspect that Leviathan is a real reptilian entity, a highly intelligent, immortal, divine creation in chaotic rebellion. When the underworld portal is opened, this sea serpent will briefly visit untold horror on the earth, only to face judgment when facing “the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven” (Matthew 26:64).
The Behemoth depicted by Job 40:15–24 (10–19) is also best understood as a preternatural creature possessing supernatural characteristics.[viii] While connections to other ancient Near-Eastern dragons have been suggested, Behemoth seems to be a distinct entity paired with Leviathan. This dragon might very well manifest from the earth when the portal to the abyss is opened (Revelation 9:1). However, you might be surprised to learn that not all flying serpents in Scripture are fallen.
Although many Christians probably recoil at the thought that God created serpentine divine beings, as we demonstrated in chapter 1 (“What Is This All About?”), Scripture does support the notion. It is also telling how the Watchers were described in explicitly reptilian terms[ix] by the ancient Hebrews, lending support to the idea that fallen ones may have matched the depiction of human sacrifice-demanding “fiery serpents” whose characteristics are partly human in appearance. With a proper understanding of the biblical Seraphim and Watchers, the Mesoamerican connection no longer seems so fanciful. The plumed serpent gods of the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incans share the same basic description as the biblical flying serpentine humanoids.
Early Mesoamericans who worshiped the feathered serpent included the Olmec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Toltec, and Aztec. As early as Olmec times (1400 BC), the feathered or plumed serpent is depicted throughout North, Middle, and South America. For example, the late Olmec or Toltec culture known as Teotihuacan prominently displayed the serpentine god on the sides of the pyramid located at the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
The archaeological record shows that after the fall of Teotihuacan, the cult of the serpent spread to Xochicalco, Cacaxtla, and Cholula—the New World’s largest pyramid dedicated to Quetzalcoatl.[x]
The Incas of Peru, the Aztecs of Mexico, and the Mayas of Yucatan all worshipped similar winged serpent gods. The Inca referred to these rebel Seraphim as Amaru; the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl; and the Maya as Kukulkán. In Inca mythology, the amaru is a huge, double-headed, flying serpent that dwells underground.[xi] As a supernatural entity, the reptilian was believed to navigate portals between the netherworld of the dead to the natural world of the living.[xii] While many have connected descriptions of Quetzalcoatl as a bearded man with similar descriptions of Viracocha, the latter is not represented as a winged, serpentine-human hybrid. However, in remarkable accord with Quetzalcoatl, the title Amaru Tupa was an honorific title denoting royalty.[xiii] In fact, the Incan creator god Viracocha adopted “a stone image of an amaru”[xiv] as his huauque, the “man-made double”[xv] representing the living king during his lifetime.
Quetzalcoatl is the Aztec name for the feathered-serpent deity and is one of the main gods of Mexico and northern Central America. In the Aztec civilization of central Mexico, the worship of Quetzalcoatl was ubiquitous. He was the flying reptile deity who reportedly said, “If ever my subjects were to see me, they would run away!”[xvi] His winged reptilian adversary, Tezcatlipoca, was generally considered more powerful, as the god of night, sorcery, and destiny. During the twenty-day month of Toxcatl, a young man dressed up as Tezcatlipoca would be sacrificed.[xvii] Lesser known is that, like the Watcher angels in Genesis 6, Aztec tradition holds that their plumed serpent gods also created giants who were later destroyed in a worldwide flood:
According to Aztec myth, during the first age, or Sun, the gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca created a race of giants from ashes, giving them acorns for nourishment. But the giants so enraged the gods due to their wickedness that the gods decided to end the giants’ existence and sent the jaguars to destroy them. Only seven survived the onslaught of the savage beasts. Later, when the gods summoned forth the waters to flood the Earth and destroy the first race of humans, these seven giants, the Xelhua, climbed the mountains to seek refuge from the thrashing waters that were enveloping the planet. Five of the giants survived the torrent, and in the end they built the great tower of Cholula to commemorate their survival of the flood.[xviii]
The Incans similarly believed that Viracocha’s first creation was a race of wicked giants that he destroyed in a deluge.[xix] While it is usually held that all of the Nephilim were drowned in the Flood, there are similar Jewish traditions of one giant’s survival, King Og of Bashan.[xx] A tradition of his survival is preserved in the Talmud.[xxi] Whether one accepts this ancient rabbinic tradition or not, the obvious parallel to the Aztec account entailing a few surviving giants demands an explanation. We suggest both traditions reflect actual historical events. Even so, such high strangeness is not so summarily relegated to the past.
THOMAS HORN DESCRIBES A MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN WHERE A PORTAL IS SAID TO EXIST
The Maya hold that Kukulkan, represented as a feathered serpent, came from Heaven to earth. Accordingly, the quetzal bird representing Heaven was chosen as his totem, and the serpent represents earth. Winged serpent iconography features prominently at Chichén Itzá, El Tajín, and throughout the Maya region. As discussed in the chapter 3, the Mayan cosmology has led to significant theological error in the New Age movement and was the impetus for most of the failed 2012 ascension predictions. The cumulative case that these plumed serpent deities are real immortal entities, fallen “fiery flying serpents,” or former Seraphim explains all of the mythological data in terms consistent with biblical theology.
The heinous practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs,[xxii] Mayans,[xxiii] and Incans[xxiv] is well enough attested to be uncontroversial. Some indigenous scholars defend the old ways on the grounds that, according to their cosmology, the gods did the same for the people. Some stories suggest vampirism, a practice associated with the fallen ones and their Nephilim progenies.[xxv] For example, in a creation myth found in the Florentine Codex, Quetzalcoatl offers his blood to give life to humanity. There are several other myths in which Mesoamerican gods offer their blood.What distinguishes this from the blood of Jesus in Christian theology is that it was a one-time offering by a willing participant who subsequently rose from the dead. In contrast, the Mesoamericans offered even their own flesh-and-blood children in various forms of ritualistic human sacrifice—a brutal idolatry that was good news to nobody. Identifying these blood-thirsty serpents as fallen “sons of God,” who defiantly court worship from humans and encourage various forms of extravagant ethical deviance, seems morally warranted from the original source documents of Mesoamerican religions.
It is nearly self-explanatory as to how such concepts of flying serpents could have extended from Mesoamerica to Native American tribes and apocalyptic beliefs. For instance, the “Cherokee Rattlesnake Prophecies” were written down by members of the Cherokee tribe during 1811–1812. These prophecies are similar to Mesoamerican apocalyptic belief and share the idea that sometime following the year 2012, a flying plumed serpent with human-hybrid features would return during a time of when the earth and heavens are shaken.
A portion of the Rattlesnake Prophecy reads:
[Following] the year…2012 an alignment will take place both on the Cherokee calendar and in the heavens of the Rattlesnake Constellation.… It is the time of the double headed serpent stick. It is the time of the red of Orion and Jupiter against the white blue of Pleiades and Venus…the Cherokee Rattlesnake Constellation will take on a different configuration. The snake itself will remain, however; upon the Rattlesnake shall be added upon its head feathers, its eyes will open and glow, wings spring forth as a winged rattlesnake. It shall have hands and arms and in its hands shall be a bowl. The bowl will hold blood. Upon its tail of seven rattles shall be the glowing and movement of Pleiades. The Rattlesnake shall become a feathered rattlesnake or feathered serpent of Time/Untime.
While the Mayans and Cherokee await the return of their serpent deity, uninvited preternatural visitations are ongoing. According to Chulin Pop, a contemporary Mayan, preternatural giants are still visiting the Watcher’s sins on the native peoples in the jungle. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, a professor at Montana State University, recorded his testimony:
They [seven-to-eight-foot giants] come from the stars in their big silver plates and they stay here sometimes only for a night; sometimes for a week or more. They take the women and make them have their babies. They have four fingers and no thumbs. Any man who tries to defend his women is sick for days. They have great powers. They make you hear words, but they never speak. They have weapons that make rocks and things disappear.
The transparent parallels between the ancient “sons of God,” who sinned “as Sodom and Gomorrah” by “giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh” (Jude 7), worldwide reports of alien abduction, and this contemporary Mayan’s account, suggests a complex interrelated phenomenon. As with the cultural rebellion against biblical morality, modern-day testimony reminiscent of the Watchers’ lustful deviance imply the days of Noah and Lord’s return are upon us (Matthew 24:37; Luke 16:26). Stephen Quayle suggested that Americans consider this little poem, “Quetzalcotal, are evil leaders in this land waiting for you to claim America again as Amaruca, the Land of the Serpent?”
This title—Amaruca—is, according to some people, the title from which “America” is taken. It is related to Mesoamerican history, serpent-worship, and giants, and according to Freemasonry, connects the founding of the United States and its Capital designers with “wisdom” derived from the fallen flying Seraph. Tom Horn explains in Zenith 2016:
The story begins long before the Spaniards arrived on this continent and was chronicled in the hieroglyphic characters (and repeated in oral history) of the sacred, indigenous Maya narrative called the Popol Vuh. Sometime between 1701 and 1703, a Dominican priest named Father Francisco Ximénez transcribed and translated the Mayan work into Spanish. Later his text was taken from Guatemala to Europe by Abbott Brasseur de Bourbough where it was translated into French. Today the Popol Vuh rests in Chicago’s Newberry Library, but what makes the script interesting is its creation narrative, history, and cosmology, especially as it relates to the worship of the great “feathered serpent” creator deity known as Q’uq’umatz; a god considered by scholars to be roughly equivalent to the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and the Yucatec Mayan Kukulkan. According to Freemasons like Manly P. Hall, no other ancient work sets forth so completely the initiatory rituals of the great school of philosophic mystery, which was so central to America’s Baconian dream of the New Atlantis, than the Popol Vuh. What’s more, Hall says, it is in this region where we find the true origin of America’s name and destiny.
In The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Hall writes:
This volume [Popol Vuh] alone is sufficient to establish incontestably the philosophical excellence of the red race.
“The Red ‘Children of the Sun,’” writes James Morgan Pryse, “do not worship the One God. For them that One God is absolutely impersonal, and all the Forces emanated from that One God are personal. This is the exact reverse of the popular western conception of a personal God and impersonal working forces in nature. Decide for yourself which of these beliefs is the more philosophical [Hall says sarcastically]. These Children of the Sun adore the Plumèd Serpent, who is the messenger of the Sun. He was the God Quetzalcoatl in Mexico, Gucumatz in Quiché; and in Peru he was called Amaru. From the latter name comes our word America. Amaruca is, literally translated, ‘Land of the Plumèd Serpent.’ The priests of this [flying dragon], from their chief centre in the Cordilleras, once ruled both Americas. All the Red men who have remained true to the ancient religion are still under their sway. One of their strong centres was in Guatemala, and of their Order was the author of the book called Popol Vuh. In the Quiché tongue Gucumatz is the exact equivalent of Quetzalcoatl in the Nahuatl language; quetzal, the bird of Paradise; coatl, serpent—‘the Serpent veiled in plumes of the paradise-bird’!”
The Popol Vuh was discovered by Father Ximinez in the seventeenth century. It was translated into French by Brasseur de Bourbourg and published in 1861. The only complete English translation is that by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, which ran through the early files of The Word magazine and which is used as the basis of this article. A portion of the Popol Vuh was translated into English, with extremely valuable commentaries, by James Morgan Pryse, but unfortunately his translation was never completed. The second book of the Popol Vuh is largely devoted to the initiatory rituals of the Quiché nation. These ceremonials are of first importance to students of Masonic symbolism and mystical philosophy, since they establish beyond doubt the existence of ancient and divinely instituted Mystery schools on the American Continent. (emphasis added)
Thus from Hall we learn that Freemasons like him believe “ancient and divinely instituted” mystery religion important to students of Masonry came to Amaruca/America—the Land of the Plumèd Serpent—from knowledge that the Red Man received from the dragon himself. What Hall conceals is that, even to this day, in the secret societies, Lucifer is considered this benevolent serpent-god who has nothing more than the best intentions for man, while Jehovah is an evil entity who tries to keep mankind in the dark and punishes him if he seeks the truest wisdom. Since these ancient serpent legends include the Mesoamerican feathered serpent gods and can be looked upon as a historical testament of that Angel thrown down by God, “then perhaps The Land of the Plumèd Serpent may also be known as the Land of Lucifer,” concludes Ken Hudnall in The Occult Connection II: The Hidden Race.
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UFO During Flight Test At Santa Lucia Airport, Near Mexico President! Feb 11, 2021 UFO Sighting News.
UFO During Flight Test At Santa Lucia Airport, Near Mexico President! Feb 11, 2021 UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 11, 2021
Location of sighting: Santa Lucia, Mexico
The eyewitness was watching a news cast about the first plane to land at the Santa Lucia airport. He was watching because the Mexican Air Force was flying in the President of Mexico, Andres Orbrador. But later in the ceremony a non military plane (white) was seen taking off from the runway. As this plane rose higher and higher upon takeoff, a black disk could be seen hovering in place in the background beyond the unfinished control tower. The eyewitness took out his camera and recorded directly off the TV screen. Its a well known fact that UFOs are frequently seen around presidents doing outdoor events. So this video means a lot.
Now I searched the videos for this particular aircraft and I could only find the craft landing. I could not find it taking off. So...the original news video...eludes me...or was it deleted by the government before the public noticed?
Mysterious Blue Lights In Sky Over Tokyo, Japan March 1, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Blue Lights In Sky Over Tokyo, Japan March 1, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 1, 2021
Location of sighting: Tokyo, Japan
Please keep an open mind, these lights were recorded over Tokyo this week and they took the residence there by surprise. There was no visible beam, as would be the case if it were spot lights. There was also no perfect synchronization as with spot lights too. So I know this to be something different. Something rare and strange. I believe these are energy entities that came from Mount Fuji. Strange lights and have been seen around that volcano and throughout the forest around it. Because these entities are light, they will be hard to record with any camera. When it is recorded like here, the entities appear lighter, harder to see than with the naked eye. Absolute proof that there is an alien base under Mount Fuji.
NASA Movie Set Shows UFO Near Dragon Capsule On ISS livestream, Dec 18, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
NASA Movie Set Shows UFO Near Dragon Capsule On ISS livestream, Dec 18, 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 18, 2018, but redone well this week Location of sighting: International Space Station
One thing that makes a good UFO researcher into a great one is that we must keep an open mind about things. Often trolls will attack a sighting or eyewitness and cause them to feel ashamed for posting their video and they sometimes as I saw this week, delete it. Well, this time I found a person who took an old sighting and made it new with some nicely done analysis of the event. If we don't strive to understand our past UFO sighting, then how are we even going to grasp the reality of our current ones?
A young lady YouTuber going by Anne did just that. She says this live cam looks just like a movie set! And I really have to agree with her on this. Watch the video below and it will blow your mind! She broke a sighting down and slowed it so that everyone can not only see the UFO, but discuss the possibilities of why it was seen. I love this video! We as a UFO community need more of this!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness Annes states:
Mysterious object appeared in a brief flash, to never appear again. Doesn't strike me as the Canada Arm. The sequence of events puts the arm in around 47 minutes into the video when the dragon craft is about 30 meters away from the ISS. The craft needed to be 10 meters away for the arm to crab it which occurred much later on. So then, what was observed in the first second of this event?
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