Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
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MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
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Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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The Bizarre Story of a Legendary “Underground Base”: Aliens, Government Projects and More…Maybe
The Bizarre Story of a Legendary “Underground Base”: Aliens, Government Projects and More…Maybe
Dulce is a pleasant and inviting town that is situated in New Mexico’s Rio Arriba County. It’s a small town of less than 3,000 people and which is around thirteen square miles in size. It was founded in the latter part of the 19th century and, today, is the home of the Jicarilla Apache Nation. There is nothing particularly unusual or out of the ordinary about Dulce – at least, not at first glance. Look a little bit closer, though, and you’ll find yourself in a world filled with dark secrets and terrifying tales of the cosmic and conspiratorial kind. And, “by closer,” I mean below your feet. Way below your feet; maybe even miles down. Since the late 1970s, rumors have swirled to the effect that deep within the massive Archuleta Mesa, which dominates the town, there is a secret and futuristic facility that has been out of bounds to the U.S. Government since 1979. Today, it’s said that the installation is under the complete control of hostile and deadly extraterrestrials – the so-called “Greys” of UFO lore, those dwarfish, black-eyed, large-headed entities that are practically part of popular culture. So the story goes, it was in seventy-nine that a violent confrontation between military personnel and the aliens broke out – and we were the losers. The base, which was once a hub of human / alien interaction, is now theirs – and theirs alone. Witnesses talk of people going missing, and of vast, cavern-like rooms in which people are devoured by voraciously hungry aliens. Are the tales true? How did the rumors begin? Let’s take a trip back in time to the mid-to-late1970s. Paul Bennewitz was a scientist who, at the time, ran a company in Albuquerque called Thunder Scientific – a company that quite literally backed onto the well-guarded fences of Kirtland Air Force Base. It was around 1978 that Bennewitz – who had a preexisting interest in UFOs – began to hear of more and more so-called alien abduction events in and around Albuquerque and further up into northern New Mexico.
Greg Bishop at the grave of Paul Bennewitz
(photo courtesy of Nick Redfern)
On top of that, strange signals were picked up by Bennewitz on his radio equipment. He saw weird-looking aircraft soaring silently across the skies over Kirtland late at night and in the early hours of the morning. He was given accounts of abductees being secretly taken to Kirtland and grilled by U.S. intelligence agents, who were deeply concerned about the growing number of people seemingly being kidnapped from their homes and subjected to terrifying and bizarre experiments of a genetic nature. As the weeks and months progressed Bennewitz came to believe something incredible: that deadly ETs were secretly getting ready to take over the planet. They were planning on doing so from their command post deep below the town of Dulce. Worldwide invasion and the enslavement of the human race were lurking just around the corner – as Bennewitz saw it, at least. Suspecting that the end really was possibly getting nearer and nearer, Bennewitz prepared a dossier on his findings and theories. He called it Project Beta. Bennewitz mailed copies of the controversial report to the FBI, to the CIA, to the NSA, to every branch of the military, and even to the White House. People had to be warned – and warned now, Bennewitz wrote.
Notably, Bennewitz was not written off as a crank, as many might expect him to have been. In fact, quite the opposite was the case: intelligence agents at Kirtland Air Force Base quickly established a secret liaison with Bennewitz. They warned him about digging any further into things that could be dangerous – even to Bennewitz’s life, no less. But, those same agents also confided in Bennewitz something incredible: that he was on the right track. They did all they could to keep Bennewitz quiet, almost to the point of begging him to keep his mouth shut on what he knew. For Bennewitz, though, this was like a red rag to a bull: the somewhat veiled threats to keep his nose out of things only served Bennewitz to push further for answers. As a result, U.S. intelligence fed Bennewitz more and more horror stories of what was supposedly going on several miles below Dulce, including tales of the aliens using captured people – in their thousands – as food. It’s no wonder – given the nature of the stories and that they were coming directly from the military – that Bennewitz became more and more paranoid. Eventually, he became completely unhinged, and to the point where he ended up spending time in a local medical facility, where he was treated for stress, anxiety, and, finally, what practically amounted to a complete mental collapse. Thankfully, he recovered, but was careful kept his distance from Ufology.
(Nick Redfern)
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, black helicopters were often seen at Dulce
Today, some UFO researchers dismiss Bennewitz’s theories and conclusions – preferring, instead, to suspect that Bennewitz had stumbled on not alien activity but top secret programs of the U.S. military and intelligence community. By steering Bennewitz down a path filled with fictitious tales of dangerous aliens, the government would be able to divert him away from the far more down to earth truth, so the theory goes. On the other hand, Bennewitz, who died in 2003, still has a huge following of UFO sleuths who are absolutely certain that below Dulce something abominable is going on – and has been for years. Maybe even for centuries. While Bennewitz’s Project Beta report does read like something straight out of the early years of The X-Files, there is absolutely no doubt that Dulce itself is a very weird place, one where strange activity has been reported for years. For example, in the 1960s the area around Dulce became the site of a classified U.S. Atomic Energy Commission program called Gasbuggy. It was part of a larger operation code-named Plowshare. The plan was to explode a significantly-sized atomic device, underground, deep below the Carson National Forest, which just happens to be only a few miles from Dulce. The reason was to try and access massive and precious supplies of natural gas. The bomb was detonated on December 10, 1967 – more than four thousand feet below the surface. Although the Plowshare program continued in the area until the late 1970s, even today digging underground in the area is strictly forbidden.
In light of all of Bennewitz’s findings, it’s not at all surprising that there are those in the UFO community who believe that the Plowshare program was actually a cover story – one created to mask the fact that the U.S. Government had tried to destroy the alien base under Dulce with a nuclear weapon. That just such a weapon really was exploded, underground, and only a few minutes’ drive from Dulce, only ensures that the rumors of an alien presence in the area continue to thrive. And, that people are warned not to dig underground in the area only adds to the suspicions that there is something very sinister going on below Dulce. Not only that, in 1989, and thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified into the public domain its extensive files on so-called “cattle mutilations” in the Dulce area, all of which occurred in the 1970s. Such mutilations have been reported all across the county and since 1967, but Dulce is renowned for the huge number of cases in its midst, as the FBI learned. Cattle are found lacking major organs. Blood is removed from the bodies in astonishingly quick time. And, black and unmarked helicopters are seen in the areas of mutilation – as are strange lights in the sky, and UFOs too.
Incredibly, all of these issues are discussed at length in the FBI’s official files on the mutilations in and around Dulce, all of which can be read online at the FBI’s website, The Vault. So, yes, there is definitely something strange going on at Dulce – and something which has been going on for an extraordinarily long time. Of course, the big question is this: is all the above true or is it simply a cover to hide top secret experiments of a very home-grown type?
An incredible discovery was made off the coast of California when an ancient mammoth tusk was found in 10,000 feet of water. The tusk belonged to a Columbian mammoth that was alive more than 100,000 years ago.
Columbian mammoths (also known as Mammuthus columbi) were huge, measuring 4 meters (13 feet) at the shoulders and weighing as much as 10 tonnes (22,000 pounds or 10,000 kilograms). They lived as far as the northern part of the United States all the way down to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). They had very long curved tusks with four molars that were replaced six times throughout their lifetime. Incredibly, the largest known tusk that belonged to a Columbian mammoth measured 4.9 meters (16 feet). These creatures may have lived as long as 80 years.
Image by Charles R. Knight in 1909.
(Via Wikipedia)
As for the most recent discovery, the tusk was spotted in 2019 by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) who was exploring the ocean when they found what appeared to be an elephant tusk. Researchers then returned to the site this summer and recovered the tusk and realized that what they had in their possession belonged to a Columbian mammoth.
The tusk, which measured one meter in length (3.3 feet), was well-preserved due to the cold, high-pressure environment of the ocean. Thanks to computed tomography (CT) scans, the experts were able to determine that the creature lived over 100,000 years ago. This means that it is one of the oldest and best preserved mammoth tusks that have ever been found in the area.
Scientist Terrence Blackburn explained how they determined how old it was, “Our age estimate on the tusk is largely based on the natural radioactive decay of certain uranium and thorium isotopes imparted to the tusk from the ocean.”
As a matter of fact, it is quite rare to find any mammoth remains more than “tens of meters” underneath the water (the tusk mentioned in this article was found 3,048 meters underwater). “This specimen’s deep-sea preservation environment is different to anything we have seen elsewhere,” said palaeontologist Daniel Fisher.
Researchers are hoping that the tusk will reveal even more information regarding the life of the Columbian mammoth as explained by Mr. Blackburn, “Mammoth remains from continental North America are particularly rare, and so we expect that DNA from this tusk will go far to refine what we know about mammoths in this part of the world.”
NASA Simulation Shows What Happens When Stars Get Too Close to Black Holes
NASA Simulation Shows What Happens When Stars Get Too Close to Black Holes
What happens to a star when it strays too close to a monster black hole? Astronomers have wondered why some stars are ripped apart, while others manage to survive a close encounter with a lurking black hole, only a little worse for wear.
To figure out the dynamics of such an event, scientists built a supercomputer simulation and tested it out on eight different types of stars. The stars were sent towards a virtual black hole, 1 million times the mass of the Sun.
What they found was surprising.
The stars they modeled ranged in size from about one-tenth to 10 times the Sun’s mass, all with varying densities. All the stars were sent to about 24 million miles away from the black hole at their closest.
The good news is that the Sun-like star survived its close approach (good news for us, anyway). The other stars that survived had 0.15, 0.3, and 0.7 solar masses. But the stars that were 0.4, 0.5, and 3, and 10 times the Sun’s mass were completely torn apart.
Why the disparity?
The researchers realized it wasn’t the star’s size that made the difference for its survival. Instead, the difference between survival and destruction was dependent on the star’s internal density. You can see the details in this video from NASA:
Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun. The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)
Music: "Lava Flow Instrumental" from Universal Production Music
In the simulation above, yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense.
These simulations were led by Taeho Ryu, from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. NASA says these simulations are the first to combine the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity with realistic stellar density models.
The results will help astronomers estimate how often full tidal disruptions occur in the universe and will aid them in building more accurate pictures of these catastrophic events.
Lead image caption: From left to right, this illustration shows four snapshots of a virtual Sun-like star as it approaches a black hole with 1 million times the Sun’s mass. The star stretches, looses some mass, and then begins to regain its shape as it moves away from the black hole. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)
Luis Elizondo on unidentified aerial phenomena, extraterrestrials and the Pentagon’s UFO programme
Luis Elizondo on unidentified aerial phenomena, extraterrestrials and the Pentagon’s UFO programme
Luis Elizondo ran the Pentagon’s secretive UFO/UAP programme for a decade… We had some questions. Early last year, the US government officially acknowledged videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” filmed by its Navy pilots. Was it evidence of extraterrestrials? Here the former Pentagon intelligence officer in charge of investigating these incidents, reveals (almost) all he knows at GQ Heroes…
A Huge Comet Visible With Naked Eyes Is Coming & You Shouldn't Miss It | Comet Leonard 2021
A Huge Comet Visible With Naked Eyes Is Coming & You Shouldn't Miss It | Comet Leonard 2021
Comet Leonard is the comet of the year. It will be visible to naked eyes in December 2021. Comet A1 Leonard was discovered on 3rd January 2021 and at that time, it was about 5 astronomical units away. But now, the comet has come closer to the Earth and will be easily visible to naked eyes in December from the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
It will reach an apparent magnitude of +4 and hence can be seen through unaided eyes and even binoculars or a small telescope. Comet Leonard might reach an apparent magnitude of +1, which means it might become way brighter than predicted. The best day to see comet Leonard with naked eyes is 6 December with it will be just 5 degrees away from Bootes' brightest star, Arcturus. This video explains in detail how to see comet Leonard with naked eyes.
US Submarines Detect “Very High Speed Ships” Underwater
US Submarines Detect “Very High Speed Ships” Underwater
US Navy submarines have detected mysterious objects moving hundreds of knots underwater as the P̳e̳n̳t̳a̳g̳o̳n̳ prepares to release its report on U̳F̳O̳ sightings.
The Navy has collected sonar data showing mysterious fast-moving underwater objects that experts or current technology cannot explain.
Tom Rogan of the Washington Examiner said the US Navy “has the data” to prove the strange encounters.
Some of these encounters could be included in the US government working group that is preparing to report back to Congress on its U̳F̳O̳ findings next month.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson of Fox News about the new footage, Rogan said: “One area that we will learn more about in relation to this video is the interaction between Navy submarines that pick up sonar contact from things moving hundreds knots under water ”.
“There is an underwater dimension to this, in addition to what the pilots are seeing above the water.”
Mr. Carlson replied, “Hundreds of knots under water? I don’t think people can even digest that. “
Mr. Rogan added: “That is what I have heard from very good sources and that the United States Navy has the data.”
Last month, Corbell shared a video of another mysterious triangular craft flying near another US Navy ship.
He said, “Whether this being is worldly or otherworldly, we don’t know. It is just part of a much larger series of events that we are going to learn from. “
Last week, video showed a dark spherical object moving across the sky near a Navy ship , before suddenly veering into the water and disappearing.
Elizondo, former director of the P̳e̳n̳t̳a̳g̳o̳n̳’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said that some of the UAPs that have been seen defy physics as we know it.
“They have no signs of propulsion, no wings, and yet they can defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity. That is precisely what we are seeing ”.
Scientists Create Synthetic Organisms That Can Reproduce
Scientists Create Synthetic Organisms That Can Reproduce
It's a striking leap forward for synthetic biology.
Image by Bongard et al./Futurism
Scientists have created synthetic organisms that can self-replicate. Known as “Xenobots,” these tiny millimeter-wide biological machines now have the ability to reproduce — a striking leap forward in synthetic biology.
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a joint team from the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and Harvard University used Xenopus laevis frog embryonic cells to construct the Xenobots.
Their original work began in 2020 when the Xenobots were first “built.” The team designed an algorithm that assembled countless cells together to construct various biological machines, eventually settling on embryonic skin cells from frogs.
The machine bodies were assembled using biological cellular material and artificial electrodes. When they were activated, the cells began to work together. Forming a sort of architecture, the skin cells began to form into “bodies” that could perform specific tasks, such as pushing microscopic objects around or organizing themselves and moving in formation.
Moving beyond the ability to perform simple robotic tasks, the team has now upped the ante.
“With the right design — they will spontaneously self-replicate,” research co-leader Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont said in a press statement.
Much like any good dystopian “Kill all Humans” movie scenario, the little robots swim around and begin gathering hundreds of single cells in their Pac-Man-like “mouths.” A few days later, out pops a brand new Xenobot.
“It’s very non-intuitive. It looks very simple,” researcher Sam Kriegman said in the release, adding that “those parents built children, who built grandchildren, who built great-grandchildren, who built great-great-grandchildren.”
It’s natural to think that these little Xenobots will one day be responsible for a robotic uprising and the future hellscape of the “Terminator” franchise, but the biological machines are pretty harmless. Unlike current technology, like a laptop, Xenobots can simply be turned off, and in about seven days, biodegrade as any skin cell would. Moreover, the team isn’t looking to release Xenobots into the world to be robotic helpers. Rather, the idea is to study how their creation can lead to better and faster algorithms that can manipulate already living and functioning cells.
“If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine — that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,” said Tuft’s Michael Levin, a co-author on the study. “All of these different problems are here because we don’t know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us.”
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Military Personnel Transport the Roswell Alien – Leaked Video
Military Personnel Transport the Roswell Alien – Leaked Video
If there is one place on Earth that reminds us that we are not alone in the Universe, definitely that place is Roswell, New Mexico.
The reason for that is because in July 1947 there were countless reports in the area about the sightings of a UFO.
Many are those who believe that the object, or whatever it was, crashed somewhere around the U.S. Air Force Base, also known as Area 51.
What is undeniable is that many witnesses stumbled upon unexplained debris and the remains of a possible spaceship. All these speculations suggested that Roswell has indeed been visited by creatures from other planets.
Nevertheless, soldiers stated publicly that the debris was from a weather balloon. However, this didn’t put an end to speculations and many were those who suggested that the government was covering up all the events that took place in July 1947.
Now there is a new video that has gone viral and that points out that those who believed the military was involved in a cover-up at Roswell could be true.
What we can see in the video is a group of military personnel carrying something with a gurney. Watch the below video carefully and tell me what is your personal opinion.
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EXPERTS SAY FUSION POWER IS FINALLY STARTING TO LOOK IMMINENT
EXPERTS SAY FUSION POWER IS FINALLY STARTING TO LOOK IMMINENT
IT'S SO CLOSE WE CAN ALMOST TASTE IT.
GETTY / FUTURISM
Bet On It?
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, right? Normally we’d say yes, but experts around the globe say nuclear fusion power, which holds the promise of clean and virtually limitless electricity, could be just around the corner. After nearly six decades with many promises but few results, new advancements may finally tip the scale,according to the Financial Times.
“Fusion is coming, faster than you expect,” Fusion Industry Association exec Andrew Holland told the publication.
Green and Clean
There could be many benefits to nuclear fusion. Unlike nuclear fission it would create little waste and, as far as we know, could never result in an accident like Chernobyl. Insert a side-eye here for plans to dump radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay and the Pacific.
Besides being cleaner, fusion would just be way more effective. The FT reports that one glass of the fuel it would use has the energy potential of one million gallons of oil, and could power a home for 800 years. Can you imagine holding 800 years of electricity in one hand?
The problem, of course, is that the tech is notoriously difficult to stabilize. No venture, public or private, has yet managed to build a fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes.
One of Many
Investment money is flowing into the tech. The FT reports that Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman recently poured $375 million into Helion, a US-based fusion startup.
We’re a little too seasoned to get our hopes up just yet, but if nuclear fusion becomes a reality, it could play a substantial role in saving the planet. Climate change, green and renewable energy, less waste — it’s all in the nuclear fusion promise.
Let’s hope investors like Altman stick it out until we see it through.
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The Scottish UFO Capital And Accidental Time Travellers
The Scottish UFO Capital And Accidental Time Travellers
‘Bonnybridge the UFO Capital’ of the UK – Bonnybridge is a village in Scotland with an unusual claim, thousands of strange objects have been spotted in the sky above the village. ‘Time Slip’ – a bizarre phenomenon. Some people find themselves in places miles and miles away from where they just were minutes ago others don’t remember where the past few hours or even days went. ‘Paranormal Files’ is a series that examines extraordinary stories that have happened to ordinary people. These events include some of the most controversial cases recorded in the UK.
Nikola Tesla, the brilliant inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer, also had a strong interest in time travel. According to some theories, he also designed his own machine to achieve this.
A series of declassified documents assure that Tesla managed to travel through time. He even commented that he saw “the past, the present and the future. All at the same time”.
Is it possible to take a trip back in time?
When analyzing the history of humanity, there is a series of texts that, when studied, could be considered as evidence of time travel .
An example of this is Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity , from 1905. This hypothesis generated a great uproar within the scientific community, generating many questions, such as the possibility of traveling through time.
Erich Von Däniken , theorist and writer, also stated that there is proof of temporal travel in the bible :
“In the Bible, the prophet Jeremiah was sitting with some of his friends, and there was a boy. His name was Abimelech, and Jeremiah said to Abimelech: “Get out of Jerusalem, there is a mountain and gather some figs for us.”
The boy went out and picked the fresh figs. Suddenly, Abimelech heard some noise and wind in the air, and he was unconscious, he had a blackout. After a while, he woke up again, and saw that it was almost night.
So when he ran back the city was full of strange soldiers. And he says, “What’s going on here? Where are Jeremiah and everyone else? “And an old man said,” That was 62 years ago. »
At present, a team of scientists from the University of Queensland, Australia carried out a simulation of the behavior of photons that travel in time.
Which could show us that the ancient paradox of the impossibility of time travel could be solved.
The researchers used photons and did a simulation of quantum particles traveling into the past . After analyzing their behavior, the scientists discovered that there were strange aspects to modern physics.
Nikola Tesla may have managed to take a trip back in time.
Nikola Tesla and his “time machine”
Before modern science found a small possibility for time travel, Nikola Tesla may have already worked on it.
According to the declassified reports found, Tesla for the year 1985, would have made an incredible discovery . His hypothesis was that magnetic fields could exert an influence on time and space.
Based on this theory, he conducted a series of experiments where it is presumed, the infamous Philadelphia Project originated .
It is believed that Tesla also discovered that the space-time barrier could be altered with the use of magnetic fields by means of a “Trojan horse.” A different time could be accessed, however there is still no certainty if the inventor was actually able to travel back in time.
To date, the only sure thing in the reports is the account of a witness who found Tesla in 1895. Inside a small cafeteria, the inventor seemed disturbed and agitated .
His assistant said that Tesla was almost electrocuted by a machine, when he returned from a trip in time.
The inventor claimed to have found a totally different window in space-time , where he could see the past, present and future at the same time, being within the magnetic field that he artificially designed.
There are many skeptics who claim that it is impossible that Tesla has managed to travel through time. However, the advance of science shows, little by little, this possibility.
Build a home close to an active volcano and you should expect to see lava, smoke and evacuation warnings. Build it next to one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico and expect these to happen often – which explains why the Popocatepetl volcano is surrounded by video cameras to catch the slightest hint that the legendary ‘Smoking Mountain’ is about to blow again. Those cameras are also a great aid for UFO spotters – making Popocatepetl one of the most active UFO hotspots in the world. Is it an alien base as some have speculated? Are these the signs that inspired the Aztec legends of the warrior Popocatépetl and the princess Iztaccíhuatl – also the name of a nearby volcano? Are these the ghost of those who have died tragically on Popocatépetl in the plane crash of 1949? All those questions are being asked as a new video of a UFO over Popocatépetl appears on the Internet.
“The video of the UFO prowling the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano was captured by a family in Puebla. A new sighting UFO surprised the inhabitants of Mexico. On this occasion, a group of young people captured the exact moment in which one of these unidentified objects “prowled” the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano. The images shared on social networks by journalist Arturo Luna have generated an intense debate. Those who recorded the alleged UFO assure that it is not the first time this phenomenon has occurred.”
The story appeared on the UK Media site The Saxon which credits “Mexico Minute” as its source. It appears the sighting occurred on November 24, 2021, and was recorded on a cell phone, not one of the surveillance cameras monitoring Popocatépetl for eruptions. While the headline includes “UFO” and “beings from other worlds,” the story notes that another ‘UFO’ video on November 9, 2021, turned out to be the SpaceX Dragon capsule returning to Earth from the ISS, and a commenter points out that the light looks similar to a plane coming towards the camera. A non-alien explanation – plane, erupting rock, bird, etc. — is generally the case for most Popocatepetl UFO sightings.
However, there’s no question that there are many unusual sightings, like the one in January 2020 or this video which shows a number of them, or these in 2017 (here and here).
While the ‘alien base’ is a popular theory, another is that alien UFOs are refueling on ‘liquid gold’ from the volcano. There have also been sightings of giants and Bigfoot on the mountain, leading some to believe there’s a connection to the UFOs.
Is this a case of ‘If you stare at something long enough, you’ll see what you want to see’ or is Popocatépetl really a UFO hotspot whose unidentified objects have an unconventional explanation?
In 1963 an, Italian sci-fi comedy called “Omnicron” hit the silver screen to a collective yawn. The plot revolved around the dead body of a blue collar worker, who was resurrected by an alien creature known as an Omicron. In essence, the corpse became possessed by a demon and was walking the earth as the living dead…a zombie. When the hybrid creature decides to return to the former job of the deceased laborer, he is able to function at a much higher level given his superior intellect. After getting involved in a labor disruption and a romantic relationship, the alient leaves the corpse and returns to Venus, the Morning Star, planet of The Light Bearer.
Back in the summer of 1947 – 64 years ago this week – Seattle had flying disc fever. It was sparked that June 26 when the P-I ran an Associated Press story from Pendleton, Ore., telling the story of pilot Kenneth Arnold seeing “nine bright, saucer-like objects flying at ‘incredible’ speed at 10,000 feet altitude.”
Arnold, a U.S. Forest Service employee, reported seeing the discs weaving in and out of formation between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams. If one dipped, Arnold said, the others did, too.
“It seems impossible,” he told a reporter, “but there it is.”
His account generated worldwide publicity and launched the flying-saucer frenzy. Rewards were offered for evidence. A pastor said “flying saucers” signaled the end of the world. A man found bleeding from the head claimed he was hit by a flying disk.
That summer, a group of “witnesses” in Seattle met with P-I editors to argue that they could not all be crazy. The paper’s files filled with the names of hundreds of citizens reporting saucer incidents. Within two months, the P-I ran at least 50 separate stories on flying disks.
On July 4, 1947, a Lake City man claimed to have caught a photo of one.
Yeoman Frank Ryman, off duty from his job with Coast Guard public relations, said he saw a shiny disc flying across the Seattle skies. Ryman rushed into his home in Lake City, then outside the Seattle city limits in King County.
“I grabbed my Speed Graphic (press camera) and field glasses and ran back outside,” the 26-year-old told the P-I. “The disc came over about 9,000 or 10,000 feet. It was flashing brilliant silver in the sun.
The picture, he said, was taken while the disc was directly overhead. He used Super-XX film, a 1/50 shutter speed with a f 22 lens opening.
“There was no noise,” he said, adding he watched it with binoculars. “No sound of engines. And I am positive there were no wings or fins in sight. It definitely was not a plane.”
After spotting the object and talking with neighbors, Ryman called the Post-Intelligencer and rushed to the newspaper’s darkroom.
“Enlarged many times the disc showed up clearly as a slightly blurred whitish object,” the newspaper’s account read.
That day, the P-I ran several reports of flying objects. In Twin Falls, Idaho, 35 flying discs were reported in a 20-minute period. A United Airlines pilot, Capt. E. Smith, also reported seeing three to five discs at 7,500 feet over Ontario, Ore., the night of July 4. A deputy sheriff also told the P-I he saw a flying disc that day on his trip north from the Clark County Courthouse.
“Yesterday alone, hundreds of people between San Diego and Seattle reported seeing the plate-like gleaming objects winging northward high in the sky at near supersonic speeds,” the P-I’s front page story read.
On June 21, 1947 – about two weeks before the Lake City incident – Harold Dahl was salvaging logs near the shore of Maury Island. Dahl said that at 2 p.m. he saw six doughnut-shaped aircraft, about 100 feet in diameter.
He said five of the metallic aircraft, which didn’t appear to have signs of propulsion, circled above one, which dropped to about 500 feet and spewed what he thought was 20 tons of metal and molten rock. Dahl reported to co-worker Fred Crisman that the falling debris injured his 15-year-old son, killed their dog and damaged the boat’s wheelhouse.
It was three days later that Arnold reported seeing the flying saucers.
The day after Dahl’s sighting, a man in a black suit arrived at his Tacoma home in a black 1947 Buick, Dahl said later. Books by UFO historians say the man in black threatened Dahl, saying that if he cared about his family, he’d never speak of the incident again.
He spoke of it at least one more time in July 1947, when he met with Arnold in a secret meeting in Room 502 of Tacoma’s Winthrop Hotel. Arnold wrote about the meeting in his 1952 book, and said they were also joined by the Smith, the United Airlines pilot, as well as Air Force Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William L. Davidson.
Smith told The Idaho Statesman that Brown and Davidson were given six pieces of “metal or lava.” The chunks were loaded onto a B-25 bomber at McChord Field to be shipped to a California military base, according to the now-defunct Tacoma Times.
It was still dark in the early morning of Aug. 1, 1947, when a fire erupted in the left engine of the B-25. Longview police officers reported watching the B-25 circle over Longview and Kelso, leaving a streak of smoke behind the burning motor.
When attempts to extinguish the fire failed, two other crewmembers – Sgt. Elmer L. Taft and Tech. Sgt. Woodrow D. Matthews – parachuted to safety. Brown and Davidson, who some believe knew there were UFO parts on the plane, stayed with the bomber.
The B-25 crashed into the base of three alder trees. One initial newspaper report said Brown and Davidson’s mangled bodies were thrown clear.
On Aug. 3, 1947, an Associated Press report said the men died investigating flying saucers.
Some people who believe in UFOs are sure there was something suspicious about the crash. Many others say it was a simple tragedy, and newspapers at the time were caught up in the flying disc rumors.
Nearly 60 years later, in April 2007, a Kelso resident went to the crash site. In the north fork of Globe Creek a friend of the Kelso man found a black chunk slightly larger than a softball.
Later that month, University of Washington research engineer Bill Beaty analyzed the black fragment and said it was probably a meteor chunk or old lava “because it’s all full of little gas pockets, and gas pockets have crystals coating the inner walls.”
Beaty said he thought Dahl’s Maury Island UFO incident was just an exploding stony meteor, which would have explained what Dahl saw.
In 2007, Dahl’s daughter Louise Bakotich of Aberdeen told the P-I she didn’t know anything about her father’s UFO claim until 2003 when a man from Sacramento sent her research about it. Her brother, Charles Dahl, who was supposedly injured by the falling debris, didn’t confirm the injuries before his death.
The Army and Air Force have repeatedly denied that UFO fragments were on the B-25 flight, and the multiple flying saucer claims have been dismissed. But some still believe, and the legend remains.
WORLD’S FAIR UFO SIGHTINGS IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON
Date of Sighting:Summer, 1962 Time of Sighting:Mid-Day Date Reported:April 17, 2005 Location of Sighting: Seattle World’s Fair Complex Number of Witnesses:(At Least Two)
Description (In Witness’s Own Words):
I was 10 years old and at the Seattle World’s Fair with my dad. We were walking in the area by the base of the Space Needle and we approached a crowd of people, who were looking up. Both my dad and I looked up and saw approximately 8, maybe 12 round, gray in color objects, hovering in a straight row. I recall seeing heat waves coming off of them. And in super fast speed, the objects started “reshuffling” but staying at the same height, then stopping in a line again. Then, again in super fast speed, they all took off straight up to a point where they were just dots in the blue sky, then came back down to the same level they were, again in a straight line. They then did another “reshuffle, went back into a straight line, hovered, and then straight up again and gone. About 2 years ago, I brought this up to my dad to see if he recalled this, or was I just imagining it. He said with great certainty, that the events as I described them, did in fact happen. I have scoured the internet, trying to find any report from the time and nothing. This was a sighting in the middle of a clear, sunny summer day. There was absolutely no question that what we saw was real. I’m sorry that I don’t remember the exact date. I am curious to hear if you have any reports on this sighting though.
Investigator’s Notes:
This sighting is most interesting considering that it happened during the daytime at an event attended by thousands of people (Seattle World’s Fair). The witness was 10 years old at the time and vividly recalls the 8 to 12 hovering objects. His father also corroborates his experience. I will be checking other UFO databases and the Air Force Project Bluebook files to see if this sighting was reported. New information will be posted.
NOTE:The above image is CGI.
SPECIAL THANKS TO WWW.UFOSNW.COM AND WWW.UFOCASEBOOK.COM
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US Pentagon Makes UFO Study Task Force, But...Expect Nothing From Them, UFO Sighting News.
US Pentagon Makes UFO Study Task Force, But...Expect Nothing From Them, UFO Sighting News.
Yeah we all heard about it for weeks. The US Pentagon has created group to head studying objects that are seen or recorded in US restricted airspace. To quote Greta Thunberg....blah, blah, blah! Again and again the US tries to stall the public by saying they are looking into something or revealing something to the public, and yet everything they reveal is missing bits and parts that they hide from us. The US has been in contact with some species of aliens for decades, successfully creating trade agreements in exchange for things the public would highly protest too, so the US gov does it all in secret. You can't protest something you don't even know about, now can you? If you want an answer go to an expert, but if you want to waste your time...go to a politician.
I guess I have had this on my mind for a while now and just wanted my readers to know exactly how I feel about it. I could literally go to the zoo and give a chimpanzee a camera and have a higher chance of learning about UFOs than I could from a Pentagon full of old files and black markers. I think Secureteam10 said it best in a Tweet the other day.
When you click on the link above, please hit the button on the upper left of the map in order to see it in infrared. IR allows us to see a spectrum of light that is otherwise invisible to the human eye. Yes, I'm saying invisible, thus this building at the center of the crater on Mars would not be visible if viewing through a normal telescope with the eye, but if recorded in infrared through a camera on the telescope...it would be seen.
Sure it took me only a few minutes to discovery this structure. I'm good at it, practice makes perfect. However I also know that this info will not change anyones way of thinking about intelligent life in the universe. People are stubborn and like to believe the universe revolves around only them. It...does not. We humans are insignificant in the wide scope of things. But I go on reporting, trying to give hope to those who already believe...to those who have had UFO sightings and people laugh at them.
UFOs and alien research is becoming less and less important to the public due to two things. One...covid...makes people think more about their own mortality and fears of it, making less significant things like existence of other intellengent species fall behind. Second, cell phones are creating a human race of anti social zombies, too deeply stuck to the screen than to their own family.
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Will Humanity Accept AI And The Solutions It Comes Up With? UFO Sighting News.
Will Humanity Accept AI And The Solutions It Comes Up With? UFO Sighting News.
Sure we all have thought about how great it would be to have AI on our computer helping us daily. But have you ever thought about whats going to happen when the AI tells you something that you don't want to hear and you don't even believe is possible? AI will comprehend things on a multitude of levels, but we usually focus on only a few or worse...one.
Let me give you an example. Some scientists asks AI for the fastest way to reverse global warming. The scientists are awestruck when AI answers almost instantly, but the answer was not one they were expecting or wanting...you see wanting...is not based on logic, but need. AI answers...the extinction of the human race would end global warming, reversing it and returning the Earth to normal. Although Covid variants seem to attempting such a thing, its certainly not what the scientists wanted. Sadly, the most likely outcome will be humans will reprogram the AI to...be more caring, which throws logic out the window. Humans want AI with feelings more than they want truth. The truth is too painful for 99% of humanity on most solutions it will come up with for most deep questions of the universe.
What I am saying is...AI wont solve all your problems as much as teach you to see your reality on a more intelligent level of thinking.
AI has already been created on Earth and is in the hands of a few elite 1% of the 1%. Which is used to make profit and not used to help society overcome its many shortcomings. AI has already secretly written best selling books, movie scripts, songs and much more. AI is even used for political gains.
Now...do you really think AI will solve the worlds problems? Do you really think the scientist will even consider AI suggestions all the time? Probably not.
The cosmos contains countless unsolved mysteries. Is there alien life? What exactly is the universe? And why does it exist?
Scientists are currently grappling with some of the biggest unsolved questions out there.
Here are 10 that they are working on the answers to right now:
1. Dark Matter
The distribution of dark matter throughout the Universe as suggested by a numerical simulation. A new study suggest that the effects of dark matter could actually be the result of an discovered form of gravity.HERSCHEL/ESA
Planets, stars, galaxies and everything we can see make up less than 5 percent of the total universe. Scientists think 26.8 percent is a substance they call "dark matter."
This matter doesn't interact with light or visible matter, but everything moves to its gravitational tune.
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), "although thought to be invisible, neither emitting nor absorbing light, dark matter can be detected through its gravitational influence on the movements and appearance of other objects in the Universe, such as stars or galaxies."
And based on this indirect evidence, "astronomers believe that dark matter is the dominant type of matter in the Universe – yet it remains obscure," says ESA.
2. Dark Energy
This stunning image shows the galaxy Centaurus A in great detail revealing tendrils of gas and dust that surround it. The tendrils are home to star forming regions and are believed to have been triggered by a collision between two galaxies 100 million years ago.CTIO/NOIRLAB/DOE/NSF/AURA/M.SORAISAM/NOIRLAB
So, what about the other 68 percent of the universe? Cosmologists think it's "dark energy."
If dark matter seems to join galaxies together, dark energy wants to push everything apart. However, no one is quite sure what dark matter or energy are comprised of.
According to the American Space Agency, "we know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the universe's expansion. Other than that, it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery."
3. Quantum Entanglement
Quantum entanglement (the idea that pairs of particles separated even across great distances are inextricably linked) is key to developing tomorrow's secure communications channels.DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Albert Einstein once called quantum entanglement, "spooky action at distance."
It is the phenomenon by which two particles in totally different parts of the universe can be linked to one another, reproducing the behaviour of their partner.
For particles to be connected across such distances, they must be sending signals that move faster than the speed of light—something the known rules of physics judges impossible.
Objects are only supposed to be affected by their surroundings, so the notion of a particle being affected by something on the other side of the universe is baffling.
4. What's Inside Black Holes?
An illustration showing a merger between two black holes. Researchers may have explained where massive black holes over 40 times the size of the sun come from.NASA
Black holes are regions of space in which the force of gravity is so powerful that everything near it is drawn in—not even light can escape its pull.
Scientists predict there are millions of black holes in our galaxy, but no one knows what is inside it. At its center, many suspect a singularity—a region of zero size and infinite density.
Understanding what is inside, could help explain quantum gravity. While physicists can predict the influence of gravity sizeable objects, when it comes to minute particles (quanta), it's a mystery.
5. What Caused the Big Bang?
The Big Bang is the most widely accepted theory for the origin of the universe.
From an almost infinitely dense state, a huge expansion expanded space like a balloon.
"Time, space and matter all began with the Big Bang," the European Space Agency explains. "In a fraction of a second, the Universe grew from smaller than a single atom to bigger than a galaxy. And it kept on growing at a fantastic rate. It is still expanding today."
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have been effectively able look back in time to shortly before the event, about 13.8 billion years ago, because light from the earlier universe taking so long to reach Earth.
So what caused this Big Bang? Nobody knows.
6. Space Roar
In 2006 when scientists began to look for distant signals in the universe using a instrument fixed to a huge balloon that was sent to space, they detected a mysterious roar.
The powerful signal caused great puzzlement and scientists still don't know where the roar is coming from.
7. Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays are high energy atom particles that rain down on the Earth from outer space at the speed of light. Cosmic rays are thought to be harmless as Earth's atmosphere protects us from them but they have been blamed for electronics problems in satellites and other machinery.
These high energy particles can disrupt electronic data, leading to system crashes and scientists are trying to find a solution.
Discovered in 1912, cosmic rays remain a mystery and we still don't know their origin.
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Alien bugs could hitch a lift on spaceships to Earth and attack humans, researchers warn.
These extraterrestrial viruses may be a 'danger' to our immune systems, potentially killing large numbers of people.
Scientists say rock and ice samples brought back from Mars or Jupiter’s moon Europa should be isolated forever to mitigate the threat.
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Alien bugs could hitch a lift on spaceships to Earth and attack humans, researchers warn. These extraterrestrial viruses may be a 'danger' to our immune systems, potentially killing large numbers of people
Dr John Rummel, a senior scientist at the Seti Institute in Mountain View, California spoke about his fears of space contamination at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston.
Dr Rummel said it was 'pretty easy' for alien pathogens to survive space journeys because they are shielded from the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
He said it was therefore hugely important to isolate material that comes from other planets.
'If we bring samples back from either Europa or Mars, we will contain them until hazard testing demonstrates that there is no danger and no life, or continue the containment indefinitely while we study the material', he said.
Scientists believe Europa has a salty ocean beneath its crust which may harbour simple life.
Extraterrestrial viruses could be a 'danger' to our immune systems and top scientists have said samples from other planets might have to be contained forever for public safety
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A patch of land in an ancient valley on Mars may once have been home to salty groundwater – and it could now be a prime target in the search for past life.
'Introduced to the intense radiation around Europa, exposed microbes should die off in hours to days to weeks, but organisms protected inside the spacecraft would still be alive as long as the silicon chips are functioning.'
'Microbial life, as a whole, is pretty immune to cold, dry conditions,' he said.
'It is assumed that such life would be hardy – to survive the trip to Earth; not easy – and precautions taken would provide a very high degree of containment.'
A 'COSMIC ZOO' OF ALIEN LIFE
In a recent paper published to the journal Life, researchers from Washington State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describe how the evolution of life on Earth could predict what we find on other planets.
The researchers argue that the universe may be a ‘cosmic zoo’ of plant and animal life with functions similar to those seen on our planet – though with the possibility of different anatomy and chemistry.
In the study, they examined the key innovations that drove the development of life on Earth.
This includes the transition from single cell life to multicellular life, the rise of photosynthesis, the evolution of macroscopic beings, and the rise of intelligent life.
The team determined that these innovations were ‘invented’ several times, originating independently at different points of history.
They say this suggests that once life originates, it will likely follow a natural evolutionary path toward complexity, given enough time and the proper environment.
If life has arisen on an alien world and a sufficient energy flux exists, the researchers say animal-like life could develop.
Scientists say rock and ice samples brought back from Mars or Jupiter’s moon Europa (pictured) should be isolated forever to mitigate the threat of alien life invading Earth
The scientist also raised concerns about space equipment from Earth contaminated these foreign worlds.
Dr Rummel said it was essential that there were systems in place to prevent contamination of pristine planets with microbes from earth.
If organisms from Earth contaminated Europa it would make it much harder to find out the origins of the planet.
'Earth organisms in the Europan ocean could hide the origin of Europan life from science, forever,' said Dr Rummel.
Mars has such harsh conditions that it was less likely to be affected by bugs carried on spacecrafts.
Alien invasions don’t necessarily mean swarms of greenish-gray creatures in flying saucers taking over the planet.
If there is microbial life out there, and it exists anywhere humans may venture in the future, we could be in for a pandemic we never saw coming. The past two years have obviously told us we are barely ready to deal with new Earth pathogens. So what would happen if pathogenic or otherwise invasive organisms from another planet hitched a ride on a returning spacecraft, an astronaut’s space suit, or — if space tourism becomes a thing — someone’s suitcase?
Invasive species that spawned right here have done enough damage where they don’t belong. Pathogens that keep mutating have done worse. Now that there is so much discussion around humans eventually going (boldly or otherwise) where none of our species have gone before, invasion ecologist Anthony Ricciardi of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, is nervous. He coauthored a study recently published in BioScience.
“Unprecedented risks are posed by a new era of space exploration aimed at targeting areas most likely to contain life,” Ricciardi told SYFY WIRE. “The concern is not only about alien pathogens, but about organisms that could colonize and proliferate Earth environments.”
The opposite also applies. Back contamination would involve unwanted organisms landing and breeding on Earth, while forward contamination means Earth organisms could populate another planet. Forward contamination is a current concern for NASA and other space agencies. This is why all spacecraft and payloads have to be sterile before taking off. Microorganisms like e.coli and black mold have survived the punishing conditions of outer space while crawling on the ISS, so they might be able to make it through a mission to the Moon or even Mars.
Back contamination will become more of a problem to face when the samples that Perseverance is collecting on Mars right now are returned to Earth. It seems unlikely that anything is still alive on the Red Planet, but there could be hypothetical life-forms that somehow eluded the killer radiation everything else is exposed to and burrowed deep beneath the surface. Upcoming missions to Europa, Titan, and possibly Enceladus are riskier because those moons are thought to have greater habitability potential. For now, Ricciardi has thoughts on how to prevent spreading Earth microbes.
“Early detection and rapid response are keys to biosecurity,” he said. “Early detection could be aided by DNA sequencing technologies and thorough databases on organisms found in the ‘clean rooms’ in which spacecraft are assembled.”
The problem is that we might not recognize life from elsewhere as something alive. Life as we don’t know it, which evolved somewhere far from here, could have adaptations and genetic structures so different from anything on Earth that nobody sees it for what it is. By the time the alien thing starts wreaking havoc on an ecosystem, it could be too late. Invasive species can cause extinction of endemic species even if the invaders aren’t pathogenic (like cane toads). Prevention is the most effective weapon we have against forward or back contamination.
Something we do know is that ecosystems considered insular, such as Hawaii, Australia, Madagascar, and Antarctica, evolved in isolation and are particularly vulnerable to invasive species. Cane toads devastated Australia when they were introduced. Ricciardi and his colleagues believe that planets and moons where life may be hiding should be treated like insular ecosystems, so both forward and back contamination are prevented.
“Early detection and rapid response measures developed to manage the risks of invasive species on Earth could be applied to planetary biosecurity,” he said.
While there is the possibility of microbes from Earth having gone along for the flight to Mars, chances they would survive in a place constantly bombarded with solar storms and cosmic rays are not high. That still doesn’t mean we should not be on the lookout. If signs of life are unearthed on Mars, astrobiologists must be able to be sure that they are actually Martian and not Earth organisms that either survived and multiplied or survived and mutated as they multiplied. Whether this can happen remains speculative because we have no precedent.
“It is impossible to predict how disruptive microbial contamination could be without knowing the traits of both the invading species and the receiving environment,” said Ricciardi. “We have no information to anticipate whether they could survive on Earth and what effect, if any, they could have.”
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If Alien Probes are Already in the Solar System, Maybe we Could Detect Them Calling Home
If Alien Probes are Already in the Solar System, Maybe we Could Detect Them Calling Home
It’s been seventy years since physicist Enrico Fermi asked his famous question: “Where is everybody?” And yet, the tyranny of the Fermi Paradox is still with us and will continue to be until definitive evidence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) is found. In the meantime, scientists are forced to speculate as to why we haven’t found any yet and (more importantly) what we should be looking for. By focusing our search efforts, it is hoped that we may finally determine that we are not alone in the Universe.
In a recent study, two researchers from the University of Liège and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recommended that we look for evidence of transmissions from our Solar System. Based on the theory that ETIs exist and have already established a communications network in our galaxy, the team identified Wolf 359 as the best place to look for possible interstellar communications from an alien probe.
This illustration shows how gravitational lensing works. The gravity of a large galaxy cluster is so strong, it bends, brightens, and distorts the light of distant galaxies behind it. Credit: NASA/ESA/L. Calcada
Additional insight and support came from Prof. Jason Wright, a Penn State Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds member and the director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center (PSETI), who is now a co-author on the paper. Like many proposed resolutions to the Fermi Paradox, Gillon and Burdanov began their study with the assumption that extraterrestrial life has had a significant head start on humanity. From a cosmological standpoint, this is a pretty safe assumption.
According to accepted models, the Milky Way Galaxy formed roughly 13.51 billion years ago, followed by the first planets 500 million years later. Our Solar System is a relative newcomer, having formed 4.5 billion years ago, and humanity has only existed for the last 200,000 years. It stands to reason that intelligent species have already emerged and have had the necessary time to colonize the Milky Way.
For the sake of their study, the team built upon a 2014 study by Gillon that showed how an ETI could have filled our galaxy with self-replicating probes (von Neumann machines). This idea is similar in theme to the “Berserker Hypothesis,” but with the caveat that these probes were built for peaceful exploration. These probes, he argued, could form a galaxy-spanning communication network using stars as gravitational lenses to maximize their communication efficiency.
As Gillon told Universe Today email, this activity would constitute a viable technosignature that could be detected:
“In this hypothesis, every star of the Milky Way should host such probes, including the Sun. This hypothesis tells us where to look for these probes: at the “solar gravitational line” (SGL) of the nearest stars, i.e., at the opposite coordinates to the nearest stars. I explored this hypothesis further by considering different possible methods to detect these probes.
“The problem is that the SGL is very far from the Sun, as it starts at 550 astronomical units, so any communication device out there would be extremely difficult to detect. This was the main conclusion of my 2014 work: searching for these probes is worth a try, but we would need to be very lucky to detect anything.”
In this study, Gillon, Burdanov, and Wright focused on how humanity might detect interstellar messages coming from these probes – which they refer to as Focal Interstellar Communication Devices (FICDs). For this, they identified Wolf 359 – an M-type (red dwarf) star located with two possible exoplanets – as the best target for such a search. At a distance of about 7.9 light-years, Wolf 359 is the third closest star system, Alpha Centauri and Barnard’s Star – excluding Luhman 16 (a Brown Dwarf 6.5 light-years away).
According to research published in 2019, Wolf 359 is suspected to be very similar in structure to Proxima Centauri, the closest star system to Earth (4.24 light-years away). Both systems consist of a low-mass red dwarf star with one closely-orbiting planet (up to a few times as massive as Earth) and a more distant larger planet (possibly a gas giant). However, unlike Proxima b and c, Wolf 359’s system of planets has not yet been confirmed.
After releasing his 2014 study, Gillon noticed that this Wolf 359 happens to lie in the ecliptic, the orbital plane of Earth. In short, Wolf 359 is viewed edge-on from Earth (and vice versa), which means that observers around Wolf 359 could see planets (including Earth) transiting in front of the Sun. This alignment, says Gillon, would also allow FICDs to send interstellar messages with regular frequency:
“Due to this particular position, the Earth should lie once per year in the communication beam of at the putative solar probe emitting towards Wolf 359. I made some computations that made me conclude that if the probe emits to Wolf 359 in the optical range when the Earth is in its beam, we should be able to detect its emission even with a modest-size telescope.”
Planets everywhere. So where are all the aliens? Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
To test this hypothesis, Gillon consulted data from the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope – South (TRAPPIST-South) and the Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars-South (SPECULOUS-South). These telescopes are located at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla and Paranal Observatory (respectively) in northern Chile. Using these instruments, Gillion observed Wolf 359’s SGL for signs of communication emissions at the corresponding time of year.
Burdanov explored the data further for signs of a slow-moving object whose motion conformed to what one would expect from such a probe. Unfortunately, neither the telescope data nor Burdanov’s targetted search indicated FICDs in Wolf 359. “Interpreting this null result is difficult, as tons of hypotheses could explain it,” said Gillon. However, he also explained how these results could create new opportunities for future SETI surveys:
“While considering this null result, I realized that the emitting probes could be “off-axis” and much closer to Earth than the SGL, and that they could maybe be detected directly in imagery. The possibility of off-axis emitting probes opens a new avenue for the search for alien devices in our solar system. We intend to explore it further, observing the antisolar coordinates of the 10-20 nearest stars with our telescopes. We’ll also observe the ones of “our” system TRAPPIST-1, just for fun ..."
Surveys for extraterrestrial probes will also benefit from the many next-generation instruments available in the coming years. These include the Vera C. Rubin Observatory that will survey our galaxy, measure the expansion of the cosmos, and map out the objects of the Solar System – including interstellar objects (like ‘Oumuamua). There’s also the James Webb and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopes, which will be able to visualize objects with far greater sensitivity and precision.
There’s also the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), and other ground-based observatories that will become operational in the coming years. These observatories will study objects that are too faint for existing telescopes using a technique known as Direct Imaging. When these instruments begin gathering light in the next few years, adding possible FICDs to the list of potential targets could prove very beneficial!
As we await more signs of alien life on Mars, scientists at NASA have captured a rare photo of the Red Planet.
A colorized image created using photos captured by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover on Mount Sharp on November 16, 2021.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH
The black-and-white image taken by Curiosity in the martian afternoon.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH
The monochrome image taken by Curiosity in the martian afternoon.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH
Last week (November 16), engineers working on NASA’s Curiosity Rover – the agency’s largest rover ever, set out to investigate the possibility of microbes on Mars – decided to update the device’s low quality images, hoping to capture a realistic look at the planet’s beauty.
On Rover’s 3999th day of exploration, the scientists commanded it to take two sets of panoramic images in the morning and afternoon. From there, they combined the photos in an artistic re-creation – using the contrasting lightings to bring out landscape details.
“Curiosity captures a 360-degree view of its surroundings with its black and white navigation cameras each time it completes a drive. To make the resulting panorama easier to send to Earth, the rover keeps it in a compressed, low-quality format,” NASA captioned a post on Instagram, revealing the postcard. “When Curiosity saw the view from its most recent stopping point, the scene was just too pretty not to capture it in the highest quality that the navigation cameras are capable of.”
“The beauty of the landscape was so inspiring, in fact, that the mission team decided to add a little flair: they combined two versions of the black-and-white images from different times of the day and added colours to create a rare postcard from the Red Planet.”
Visible in the centre of the postcard is Mars’ five km-tall rock formation, Mount Sharp – which Curiosity has been driving up since 2014. On the right is Rafael Navarro mountain, a craggy rock formation that was named after a Curiosity scientist who passed away earlier this year.
Details from the original morning photo are captured in orange, details from the afternoon photo are captured in blue, and those shared from both images are displayed as green.
Earlier this year, scientists working on NASA’s Perseverance Rover – a smaller rover, looking for signs of life on Mars in soil and rocks – discovered that rock samples taken from an ancient river delta on Mars may contain signs of now-extinct life on the planet.
“One day, we may be able to work out the sequence and timing of the environmental conditions that this rock’s minerals represent. This will help answer the big-picture science question of the history and stability of liquid water on Mars,” said NASA’s Mitch Schulte.
See NASA’s postcard below.
NASA’s Curiosity rover sent a magnificent panoramic photo on Mars in honor of the rover’s tenth year on Mars. The photo was uploaded to NASA’s Instagram account last Thursday.
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Mars screenshot from Celestia 3D astronomy program.
When one hears talk of flying cars, one generally pictures them as looking like automobiles with wings, planes with small cabins and a trunk, large quadcopter drones, or some combination of all of these. A company in Tacoma, Washington, has unveiled a design for a one-person aerial vehicle that can only be described as an electric flying saucer or disc — and its full-scale prototype is ready for free flight at 160 miles per hour. Did he say one-person electric flying saucer? Will it be ready by Christmas?
“The ZERO is a personal flying machine that transitions from hover mode to forward flight mode and cruises comfortably at 160mph. ZERO is a new class of aircraft that blends the best features of multi-copter with streamlined wing-body for improved range and efficiency.”
The Zeva Zero can best be described as a combination electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (EVTOL) vehicle and flying saucer. (See videos here.)
Imaging a flying saucer balanced vertically on its edge and you have the Zero’s takeoff position. How does it stay balanced? Zeva envisions docking stations attached to the side of a building – you walk through a door (or crawl through a window) into the Zero, strap in and fire it up (assuming it’s fully charged). The Zero detaches and ascends vertically with the pilot standing up. Once it is clear of the building, it rotates to the horizontal position with the pilot lying on their stomach and peering forward, up and down out of the window. (Simulation and tethered test video here.)
No room for hitchhikers
Is that not quite the way you envisioned piloting your personal flying saucer?
Zeva actually sees these one-person EVTOLs as primarily for the military, law enforcement, first responders and search-and-rescue project requiring quick entry and takeoff. Personal air travel, pizza deliveries (it’s the perfect shape!) and other applications will undoubtedly come later, especially when the ranged can exceed the current 50-mile limit. In its review of the Zeva Zero, New Atlas measures the carbon-fiber disc body at 8 ft. (2.4 m) in diameter and weighing 700 pounds (317 kg) – 900 with a maximum weight 200-pouind passenger. There are two propulsion housings on the front and two on the back with two electric props on each mounted coaxially. This simple design means the body is also the wing, and the vertical entry and takeoff eliminated the need for large airports or hangars – just stick them to the outside walls of buildings like flying saucer refrigerator magnets.
“But the result, I think, is an interesting product for things like first responder, search and rescue, hot extraction, resupply … We’ve got civil applications and DOD applications, and people are getting pretty excited about it. So yeah, we’re zigging where others are zagging, but my consideration is that where these things are needed, and where they can be used straight away, is not in the urban environment.”
Who knows what you’ll meet in your one-person fling saucer
CEO Stephen Tibbits saved the best part of his unique Zeva Zero for last – the price. With so few parts – moving or otherwise – Tibbits envisions the Zero being stamped out quickly in factories and selling for $250,000 each.
It should be ready by the time you save your pennies and convince your landlord to attach a Zero to the side of your apartment building.
There are a limited number of ways to determine where a meteorite has landed/crashed. A crater is the obvious sign, unusual minerals is another, while a woman in British Colombia knew from the hole in her ceiling and the hot rock on her pillow. However, lacking those obvious signs, geologists, archeologists and historians are at a loss to find evidence of meteorite strikes … until now. A University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) scientist has discovered that rocks in New Mexico hit by meteorites were magnetically changed forever and that lack of natural magnetism can lead hunters to other missing meteorites.
“When you have an impact, it’s at a tremendous velocity. And as soon as there is a contact with that velocity, there is a change of the kinetic energy into heat and vapor and plasma. A lot of people understand that there is heat, maybe some melting and evaporation, but people don’t think about plasma. We were able to detect in the rocks that a plasma was created during the impact.”
Associate research professor at the UAF Geophysical Institute Gunther Kletetschka led a team to New Mexico to study a known meteor impact site – the Santa Fe impact structure, a 1.4 billion-year-old bolide crater in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains northeast of Santa Fe discovered in 2005. Because of its age, the crater has eroded into a structure made of shatter cones – rare geological features caused only by the massive pressure of meteorite impacts or underground nuclear explosions. While most rocks have a 2% to 3% natural magnetization, Kletetschka found that the human-sized shatter cones contained less than 0.1% magnetism. What changed it?
“We present a support for a newly proposed mechanism where the shock wave appearance can generate magnetic shielding that allow keeping the magnetic grains in a superparamagnetic-like state shortly after the shock’s exposure, and leaves the individual magnetized grains in random orientations, significantly lowering the overall magnetic intensity.”
In his paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, Kletetschka explains that a meteor impact sends a shockwave through the rocks beneath it – blasting the magnetic grains inside them and altering their magnetism. Under most circumstances, the rocks return to their normal magnetism right away. However, massive impacts like the one in Santa Fe create plasma – a gas containing gas free-floating negative electrons and positive ions – inside the rocks that could be detected by the researchers. The plasma increased the rocks’ electrical conductivity and formed a shield which blocked the natural magnetism from returning. And that, according to the study, is a big deal for meteorite hunters.
“This represents a new mechanism and new indicator that can be used for identifying the substrate rock affected by an impact in the absence of diagnostic indicators, such as crater morphology or shatter cones. The degree of DS we found cannot be achieved by regular igneous/metamorphic rock terrestrial processes within the geomagnetic field.”
DS is rock that is “Demagnetization by Shock,” so the new sign that an area was once impacted by a massive meteorite is rocks that have an unnaturally low level of magnetism — .01% or less – rather than the normal 2% to 3%.
How do you detect a lack of magnetism in a rock – press it against a refrigerator door? Or send it on a blind date?
The order came five months after aclassified US intelligence reporton possible alien UFOs came up inconclusive: it could explain some reported incidents but was unable to account for other phenomena, some filmed by pilots near military testing areas.
Honestly, they are far more likely to be from, oh I don’t know, China perhaps, than outer space. Still…
The US military is worried some of the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) spotted by military pilots in the past may represent technologies of strategic rivals unknown to US scientists.
“Incursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges,”the Pentagon said in a statement.
Well no *hit Sherlock. But don’t worry, the DoD is on it.
The Defense Department “takes reports of incursions – by any airborne object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one,” it added…
Well that certainly makes me feel better – them taking these “incursions” seriously that is. I would hate to think they were ignoring it because they were too busy ensuring that our 21st century military is a dues-paying member of WOKE INC™.
While speculation over alien life has long been a cottage industry for conspiracy theorists, the sheer number of what the Pentagon terms unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) has made it a serious issue, amid worries that US adversaries like China and Russia may be using unknown, highly advanced military and surveillance technologies.
Hmmm, I wonder if they could possibly be something like – this?
China launches Shenzhou hypersonic missile, October, 2021
China’s July test of a globe-circling hypersonic vehicle that was able to launch a separate missile while traveling at more than five times the speed of sound alerted Washington that Beijing might have technologies the United States has yet to develop.
Perhaps if the Pentagon stopped spending so much time spreading the gospel of CRT, getting rid of traditional gender roles, making sure everyone’s preferred pronouns were being used and otherwise trying to defeat the patriarchy that has managed to keep America safe for nearly 250 years they could focus on identifying and defeating our enemies incoming UFOs. Minimally I expect they would be able to at least identify our enemies as such instead of collaborating with them as if they were old friends and business partners.
Of course it might have nothing to do with China. I could just be felines from the Cat’s Paw Nebula
messing with our stuff again (and you thought I forgot it was Caturday).
Glow With Tail Over Tallahassee, Florida 11-27-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glow With Tail Over Tallahassee, Florida 11-27-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 27, 2021
Location of sighting:Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON
This bright glowing object in the sky was recorded yesterday in Florida. The woman was walking along and noticed a beautiful glow in the clouds. The sun was in the opposite direction so it wasn't the sun. Also please notice that this glowing object is curved and well defined on its front, but on its back it has a very long tail. That means this is a UFO cloaked inside of a cloud, because the UFO is moving against the wind, causing a tail to drag behind it. Awesome catch over Florida!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Bright Light I’m the sky! Saw this today! It’s left of the sun, so it’s not the sun!
Are aliens among us? Michio Kaku on UFOs and China-US space race
Are aliens among us? Michio Kaku on UFOs and China-US space race
From UFOs to hypersonic weapons and China in space, American theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku covers it all in the fourth episode of Talking Post with SCMP chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo. Nothing is off limits for the co-founder of string field theory and author of the new book The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (AMAZON LINK).
There’s Enough Oxygen in the Lunar Regolith To Support Billions of People Living on the Moon
There’s Enough Oxygen in the Lunar Regolith To Support Billions of People Living on the Moon
Aristarchus Crater on the moon.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
When it comes to the future of space exploration, a handful of practices are essential for mission planners. Foremost among them is the concept of In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), providing food, water, construction materials, and other vital elements using local resources. And when it comes to missions destined for the Moon and Mars in the coming years, the ability to harvest ice, regolith, and other elements are crucial to mission success.
In preparation for the Artemis missions, NASA planners are focused on finding the optimal way to produce oxygen gas (O2) from all of the elemental oxygen locked up in the Moon’s surface dust (aka. lunar regolith). In fact, current estimates indicate that there is enough elemental oxygen contained in the top ten meters (33 feet) of lunar regolith to create enough O2 for every person on Earth for the next 100,000 years – more than enough for a lunar settlement!
While the Moon does have a very tenuous atmosphere that contains elemental oxygen, it is so thin that scientists characterize the Moon as an “airless body.” But within the lunar regolith, the fine powder and rocks that cover the surface, there are abundant amounts of oxygen in lunar rocks and regolith. Also known as “Moondust,” this fine dust permeates the lunar surface and is the result of billions of years of impacts by meteors and comets.
According to John Grant, a lecturer in soil science at Southern Cross University, Australia, the Moon’s regolith is approximately 45% oxygen by content. However, this oxygen is bound up in oxidized minerals – particularly silica, aluminum, iron, and magnesium. The isoptic composition of these minerals is almost identical to minerals on Earth, which led to theories that the Earth-Moon system formed together billions of years ago (aka. the Giant Impact Hypothesis).
However, for that oxygen to be usable by future astronauts and lunar inhabitants, it needs to be extracted from all that regolith, which requires a significant amount of energy to break the chemical bonds. On Earth, this process (known as electrolysis) is commonly used to manufacture metals, where melted-down oxides are subjected to electrical current to separate the minerals from the oxygen.
In this case, the oxygen gas is produced as a byproduct so that metals can be produced for the sake of construction and fabrication. But on the Moon, oxygen would be the main product while the metals would be set aside as a potentially useful byproduct – most likely for habitat construction. As Grant explained in a recent article in The Conservation, the process is straightforward but suffers from two major roadblocks when adapted for space:
“[I]t’s very energy hungry. To be sustainable, it would need to be supported by solar energy or other energy sources available on the Moon. Extracting oxygen from regolith would also require substantial industrial equipment. We’d need to first convert solid metal oxide into liquid form, either by applying heat, or heat combined with solvents or electrolytes. We have the technology to do this on Earth, but moving this apparatus to the Moon – and generating enough energy to run it – will be a mighty challenge.”
ESA lunar base concept.
Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners
In short, the process needs to be much more energy-efficient to be considered sustainable, which could be accomplished through solar power. Around the South-Pole Aitken Basin, solar arrays could be positioned around the rim of the permanently-shadowed craters to provide an uninterrupted flow of energy. But getting the industrial equipment there would still present a monumental challenge.
But if and when we did establish the infrastructure, there’s still the question of how much oxygen we could extract. As Grant indicates, if we consider just the regolith that is easily accessible on the surface and factor in data provided by NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute (LPI), some estimates are possible:
“Each cubic metre of lunar regolith contains 1.4 tonnes of minerals on average, including about 630 kilograms of oxygen. NASA says humans need to breathe about 800 grams of oxygen a day to survive. So 630kg oxygen would keep a person alive for about two years (or just over).
“Now let’s assume the average depth of regolith on the Moon is about ten metres, and that we can extract all of the oxygen from this. That means the top ten metres of the Moon’s surface would provide enough oxygen to support all eight billion people on Earth for somewhere around 100,000 years.”
Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon.
Credit: NASA
In many ways, estimating how an astronomical body will present opportunities for ISRU is like mineral prospecting. For example, NASA recently announced that the metallic asteroid Psyche II might contain as much as $10,000 quadrillion worth of precious metals and ores. In 2022, the Psyche orbiter will rendezvous with this asteroid, which could be the core remnant of a planetoid that lost its outer layers, to study it closely.
Naturally, some disagree with this assessment, citing that Pysche II’s composition and density are not particularly well-constrained. For others, estimates of this nature ignore the sheer cost of extracting that wealth, which would require that extensive infrastructure be built beforehand. And even then, hauling that kind of mass from the Asteroid Belt to Earth presents numerous logistical issues.
The same goes for asteroid mining, a potentially-lucrative venture that could result in trillions being mined from Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) in the near future. However, this is also contingent on creating a robust space-mining infrastructure that is still very much in the conceptual stage. Luckily, when it comes to establishing ISRU-related infrastructure on the Moon, proposed methods and pathways have been in place since the 1960s.
In the coming years, multiple missions will be sent to the Moon to investigate these possibilities further, two of which Grant cites in his article. In early October, NASA signed a deal with the Australian Space Agency to develop a small lunar rover that could be sent to the Moon as early as 2026. The purpose of this rover will be to collect samples of lunar regolith and transfer them to a NASA-operation ISRU system on a commercial lunar lander.
Artist’s illustration of the new spacesuit NASA is designing for Artemis astronauts. It’s called the xEMU, or Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit.
Credit: NASA
Also, the Belgium-based startup Space Applications Systems (SAS) announced this past summer that it was building three experimental reactors for on the Moon. They were one of four finalists contracted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a compact technology demonstrator that can harvest oxygen to manufacture propellant for spacecraft, air for astronauts, and metallic raw materials for equipment.
The company hopes to send the technology to the Moon as part of a planned ESA ISRU Demonstration mission, which is currently scheduled to go to the Moon by 2025. These and other technologies are being pursued to ensure that humanity’s long-awaited return to the Moon will be to say.
The SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is hunting for radio signals from hypothetical intelligent alien life in our galaxy.
µ(Image credit: SETI Institute)
E.T. was the perfect extraterrestrial: Cute, smart, and — best of all — a perfect pacifist.
Unfortunately, scientists aren’t so sure that an actual intelligent alien would be so benign. In a recent interview with El País, famed physicist Stephen Hawking posited that an alien visitation would put Earthlings in the same position as Native Americans when Columbus landed on their shores.
“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,” Hawking speculated.
The likelihood that intelligent life is out there is up for debate; less discussed are the conditions necessary to evolve a life-form that’s both smart and nice. But the lessons from Earth suggest that intelligence and aggression might evolve hand-in-hand.
Social pressure
Would smart aliens have energy-intensive brains? Hard to say — perhaps E.T. could evolve a more efficient, yet just as clever, organ. But if aliens were sending signals into space or building rockets, they’d have to have achieved an intelligence that far exceeds what is needed to survive.
Humans have done the same, and researchers can’t quite figure out why. The brain could have evolved to allow humans to use tools, but chimpanzees use tools without developing complex languages, art, and culture.
One provocative theory holds that pathogens play a role: The brain is vulnerable to infection, wrote Hungarian researcher Lajos Rózsa in a 2008 article in the journal Medical Hypotheses. Showing off one’s cleverness may be a way of showing off how resistant one is to infection. After all, if you’re smart enough to invent language and art, you must be pretty good at battling brain parasites.
So perhaps intelligent aliens might be subject to alien parasites. Flinn and his colleagues favor another theory, though. They argue that humanity underwent a runaway cycle of brain evolution because of hominins’ social nature.
The ecological dominance-social competition hypothesis works like this: Human ancestors reached a point in which their interactions with one another were the most important factor in whether they’d survive and pass on their genes. Finding food and shelter was still important, Flinn said, but it wasn’t the main factor determining evolutionary success. The difference between clever humans and, say, caribou, is that intraspecies relationships drove evolution the fastest in humans, Flinn said. A herd of caribou has social interactions, to be sure: Males have to fight for mates, for example. But a more pressing concern would be avoiding predators and finding food. For hominins, these external issues became relatively less important, the theory goes, while their ability to form coalitions, to have empathy, and to behave in such a way as to win friendships from others became key to their survival. In this heavily social context, it became very important to be smarter than the competition. Each generation got a little smarter and a little better at building complex social relationships, which created a feedback loop in which even smarter brains were beneficial.
“The thing about social competition is it’s a dynamic challenge and it’s also creative,” Flinn said. “You need to have the better mousetrap every time. The competition adjusts to the current winning model, so you need to be one better than the current winning strategy.”
The model seems to work with other clever animals, too, he added. Dolphins, orcas, and chimps all form social coalitions with each other and depend on their social groups to survive. It’s possible that this social factor would hold for species on other planets, too.
Kind aliens
If intelligence evolves in the context of social competition, and aggression is the natural outcome of the competition, it’s hard to imagine that clever aliens could also be kind. Is this the end for hopes of sweet little E.T.?
Maybe not. The social competition model doesn’t work without cooperation, after all. Humans fight wage war and sometimes murder each other. But humans also form coalitions, care for each other and even build coalitions of coalitions, such as nation-states.
“There are two sides to our nature,” Carrier said. “It’s not that one is any more real than the other. It’s just who we are.”
Humans are unique among Earth life in forming long-lasting alliances between groups, not just individuals, Flinn said. Chimpanzees can’t pull that off, he said, so it’s not clear that aliens could, either.
“On Planet X, it may not be inevitable that social competition results in a morality and a creativity of the sort that allows this intelligent life-forms to negotiate with us for a mutually beneficial outcome,” Flinn said.
On the other hand, chimpanzees don’t explore space. Perhaps a civilization that can band together to reach for the stars has to be cooperative by definition. If that’s the case, humanity might be a greater threat to aliens than aliens are to humanity. Luckily, evolution has given humans the tools for peace.
“We can, in effect, rise above the design, potentially,” Flinn said. “If we understand what our brains are designed to do, we are going to be way more capable of rising above those tendencies that we have.”
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Astrobiologist: “Surely We Will Meet Humans From Other Worlds”
Astrobiologist: “Surely We Will Meet Humans From Other Worlds”
Imagine that the humans of the future manage to travel to other worlds and meet… more humans. According to an astrobiologist at the University of Cambridge, that scenario may be more likely than you think.
In a new interview with the BBC’s Science Focus magazine, Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary paleobiologist in the BBC’s Department of Earth Sciences, stated that researchers can “say with reasonable confidence” that a similar evolution has occurred. the human in other places in the universe.
The core of Morris’s belief comes from the theory of convergent evolution, which states that “random effects eventually average so that evolution converges, tending to produce similar organisms in any given environment.”
The scientist used the examples of flight, which “has evolved independently on Earth at least four times: in birds, bats, insects and pterosaurs.”
In short, the theory of convergent evolution posits that evolution itself is a law of nature and, as a logical end point, it is likely to operate in the same way on different planets as it does here on Earth.
In other words, it is theoretically possible that the blue and green a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳ humanoids you see in Star Trek or Star Wars may be out there – and may have even visited us as multiple witnesses to close encounters claim.
Morris is not the only Cambridge man who believes that e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ life would have evolved “analogous to that of a human.”
Arik Kershenbaum, a zoologist at the aforementioned British institution, wrote a complete book on the concept of e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ evolution.
“Because evolution is the explanatory mechanism for life everywhere, then the principles we discovered on Earth should be applicable to the rest of the universe,” Kershenbaum told Quanta magazine earlier this year.
Kershenbaum argued that while it is “tempting” to imagine a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳ races that do not have the same cultural interests as humans, such as philosophy and literature, we must remember that they did not emerge from a vacuum as advanced technological beings.
Even e̳x̳t̳r̳a̳t̳e̳r̳r̳e̳s̳t̳r̳i̳a̳l̳ life forms with higher technology than humans, Kershenbaum noted, would have “evolved from a pre-technological species.”
“If that pre-technological species went on to develop all the things we have now, it is likely that they were built on building blocks that served that social purpose, things like bonding between group members, passing on useful information and ideas. between them, “he added.
“A pre-tech a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳ c̳i̳v̳i̳l̳i̳z̳a̳t̳i̳o̳n̳ could be singing, dancing, and telling stories like the pre-tech human c̳i̳v̳i̳l̳i̳z̳a̳t̳i̳o̳n̳ did, because it has the same purpose.”
It is compelling to imagine other worlds where humanoid life forms, in Kershenbaum’s words, are “singing, dancing and telling stories” as on Earth.
And if the laws of evolution are as strong as Darwinists like Kershenbaum and Morris believe, that increases our propensity to interact and communicate with a̳l̳i̳e̳n̳s and, unfortunately, to fight against them as well.
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Spaceship Moon Theory: Is The Moon An Artificial Alien Satellite
Spaceship Moon Theory: Is The Moon An Artificial Alien Satellite
Over the years, it has been scientifically observed that the Earth’s Moon holds some strange characteristics.
The Moon is the 5th largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is believed to have been created by a giant impact between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body.
After examination, it has been noted that the Moon is apparently in the wrong orbit for its size, according to its current assumed density. Astronomy data indicates that the internal regions of the Moon are less dense than the outer, giving rise to the inevitable speculation that it could be hollow.
Speculative cutaway model of a Spaceship Moon
Some of these claims come from the fact that when meteors strike the Moon, it rings like a bell. More specifically, when the Apollo crew, on November 20, 1969, released the lunar module, after returning to the orbiter, the module impact with the Moon caused their seismic equipment to register a continuous reverberation like a bell for more than an hour.
In July of 1970, members of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, proposed the Spaceship Moon Theory.
The pseudoscientific theory claims that the Earth’s moon may actually be an alien spacecraft. Vasin and Shcherbakov’s thesis was that the Moon is a hollowed-out planetoid created by unknown beings with technology far superior to any on Earth.
Huge machines would have been used to melt rock and form large cavities within the Moon. The Moon would, therefore, consist of a hull-like inner shell and an outer shell made from metallic rocky slag.
The “Spaceship Moon” was then placed into orbit around the Earth. Proponents of this theory point to the increased reports and pictures of UFOs taken by NASA on their missions to the moon.
The moon has tens of thousands of craters of various sizes covering the surface; however, all of the craters have the same depth. This suggests to scientists that there may be some sort of metallic barrier underneath the surface protecting it from damage.
It has been found that asteroids and meteors not only create shallow craters on the Moon’s surface, but produce a convex floor to the crater instead of concave as expected, supporting the idea of a rigid shell.
The moon is far older than previously expected, maybe even older than the Earth or the Sun. The oldest age for the Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old, while Moon rocks were dated at 5.3 billion years.
The chemical composition of the dust upon which the rocks sit is remarkably different from the rocks themselves. This indicates that the lunar surface may have been moved from somewhere else and placed on the Moon.
Some of the Moon’s craters originated internally, yet there is no indication that the Moon was ever hot enough to produce volcanic eruptions. Hundreds of moonquakes are recorded each year that cannot be attributed to meteor strikes. Some of the quakes seem to follow a specific schedule.
The moon’s crust is much harder than originally presumed. When NASA was recorded drilling down a few inches into the Moon’s surface, it appeared that metal shavings were visible.
Earth’s moon is the only natural satellite in the Solar System that has a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit. How does one explain the coincidence that the moon is just the right distance, coupled with just the right diameter, to completely cover the sun during an eclipse?
Professional astronomers have been gradually discouraged from investigating a phenomenon that has been reported on the Moon for 1,000 years. It is short-lived light, color, or other changes in the appearance of the lunar surface, referred to as Transient Lunar Phenomena.
The moon is also known to contain a unique combination of metals. According to Ancient Code, it includes traces of metals that are not naturally occurring, such as brass. The amount of titanium that is found on the moon is also 10 times what is found on Earth. Scientists call this ratio “mind-blowing.”
The mysteries of the moon and the universe are far from being solved and the possibilities of what lies beyond our earth’s atmosphere may not be discovered in our lifetime.
The facts and theories that define the universe are malleable with every new thought, technological advancement and scientific discovery. It’s just a matter of what’s next.
UFOs: Nuclear Missile Warheads Shut Down Insiders Account of UFO Shutting Down 18 Nuclear Warheads
UFOs: Nuclear Missile Warheads Shut Down Insiders Account of UFO Shutting Down 18 Nuclear Warheads
"For the sake of that airman I spoke with, and for all the other officers and men in the Air Force who have had to keep silent about what they experienced with these objects, I, without reservation, accuse the U.S. Department of the Air Force of a blatant, pervasive and continuing cover-up of the facts, deception, distortion, and lying to the public about the reality of the UFO phenomenon. Below is solid evidence to support my accusation." ~~ Captain Robert L. Salas, USAF, on shut down by UFOs of nuclear missile warheads at Malmstrom AFB
Dear friends,
Captain Robert L. Salas of the USAF is one of the many brave military officers who have come forward to share their personal experience of a major cover-up around UFOs. I had the privilege of spending some time with him personally in February 2010. He came across as a quiet, warm man who was still disturbed by his experience. We have stayed in contact, and he later sent me an essay describing his detailed research into a most amazing – even inspiring – UFO incident he experienced, which I've posted with his permission below.
Captain Salas states he was present in March of 1967 at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana when a large, saucer-shaped craft at a very close distance was reported to him at the same time as numerous nuclear missile warheads were deactivated. Could this have been a message from extraterrestrial beings not to engage in nuclear conflicts?
Why have this and many other UFO incidents reported by high-ranking officials not been given major news coverage? Don't miss Capt. Salas' excellent essay below, and then visit the links listed in the "What You Can Do" section at the end for more on this fascinating topic.
Note: We were threatened with a lawsuit by a certain individual to take this webpage down. I refused, and thankfully we did not have to deal with a lawsuit.
Back to Montana By Captain Robert L. Salas
On March 25, 1967, I woke up groggy from my 24-hour "tour in the hole," as we referred to duty in the underground capsule. As I recall that morning, I picked up the Great Falls Tribune and read accounts of UFO reports around the area.
Later that afternoon, I received a call from one of the airmen who had seen the object at Oscar Flight where we had experienced the strange incident of multiple warheads being disabled the morning before. He pleaded, no begged me to meet with him to talk about what had happened. All he wanted to do was talk about it.
He had been one of the security guards who had to stand in abject terror in front of this large red pulsating ball of light by our front gate with only a rifle in his hands. He told me unashamedly that he was confused and frightened by what he had seen, and he was desperate to speak with me about it. I had to tell him that I had taken an oath not to speak about the incident to anyone and could not meet with him.
As much as anything that has transpired in my life, that conversation has consistently haunted me to this day. I was unaware at that time that the entire flight of ten Minuteman I missiles was also disabled while UFOs were observed over the launch facilities of nearby Echo Flight on March 16, 1967. They too were not allowed to talk about it. Only later did I discover the intense policy of secrecy around UFOs throughout the Air Force.
James Klotz and I have documented these events in our book Faded Giant. There are multiple witness statements and documentation to support these claims. At least for the sake of that airman I spoke with, and for all the other officers and men in the Air Force who have had to keep silent about what they experienced with these objects, I, without reservation, accuse the U.S. Department of the Air Force of a blatant, pervasive and continuing cover-up of the facts, deception, distortion, and lying to the public about the reality of the UFO phenomenon. Below is solid evidence to support my accusation.
Note:For Captain Salas' background and a much more detailed description of his personal experience with the above event, click here. For personal research he later conducted into this astounding incident, read on.
Background and Assessment of Malmstrom AFB incidents of 1967
The following is an accounting and assessment of the unique and fascinating period in the history of the UFO phenomenon involving the Malmstrom AFB (Air Force Base) incidents of 1967. It is based in part on Dr. Roy Craig's own handwritten notes, and excerpts from his book, "UFOs – An Insider's View of the Official Quest for Evidence." In addition, actions by Lt. Col. Lewis Chase, Malmstrom AFB, Base UFO Officer, will also be reviewed. And, since I was on station and a witness to one of the incidents, this essay started with a very brief description of my own recollection of the facts of these significant events.
I gratefully acknowledge that much of the material used in this report was obtained through the efforts of investigators James Klotz, Dr. Michael Swords, Robert Powell and Raymond Fowler. The hand-written notes of Dr. Craig and other documentation are also archived at Texas A&M University Library, and we are grateful for their use. I would like to dedicate this article to the memory of Dr. James McDonald, a true scientist who, by right of his abilities and intense interest, deserved to have been the principal investigator of a real scientific study of the UFO phenomenon.
On August 9, 1967, Dr. Roy Craig made a visit to the home of Raymond Fowler to discuss some reports of sightings. Craig was part of the U.S. Air Force financed University of Colorado UFO Study Group (Condon Committee) chaired by Dr. Edward Condon. The final report of this committee is held up today as the reason why the U.S. government no longer examines UFO cases.
Fowler had been assigned the title of an "Early Warning Coordinator" for the group by virtue of the fact that he was an investigator for National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP). He was also on the Sylvania Minuteman Production board in support of their contract for the Minuteman Missile ground electrical systems.
Fowler had received reports of missile equipment failures at missile sites in Montana. He told Craig about the reports he had received from sources on site that these failures were associated with the appearance of unidentified aerial objects around the missile sites. Craig was interested because he was assigned to look into such incidents as part of the study.
Background of Dr. Roy Craig and his position with Condon Committee
Craig received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry. In 1966 he was an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado when the university was awarded $500,000 by the Air Force to do a scientific study on the UFO phenomenon. Craig had no experience or training in investigative procedures and only had a passing interest in UFOs. He knew little of the history of the phenomenon when he began working with the group. Yet, he was assigned as one of three principal investigators for the study. "My assignment would be to investigate the physical aspects of current UFO reports, working with a staff psychologist, who would study the psychological aspects of the report… My associate would look into the minds of the persons reporting the sightings."
So, even before looking into cases, Craig was tasked to work with a psychologist. The clear implication here is that the group leadership had a pre-disposition to thinking that the reports of UFOs could be explained as delusions of the mind. In addition, he had stipulated to Condon that he would accept the assignment if he did not have to deal with any classified information. "If an investigation led to a requirement for access to secret information, which seldom happened, I turned the case over to another member of the project and accepted his judgment regarding the extent of UFO pertinence to the case."
As the committee was organized, Condon deputy Robert Low was the only member (presumably other than Condon) who was authorized to review classified material. That was also problematic from the beginning, since prior to the start of the study, Robert Low had written a now infamous memo in which he had characterized the study as being done by non-believers and to trick the public into believing it was objective. When it counted the most, Robert Low failed to push the Air Force for the release information on a classified investigation that very much involved UFOs.
A Visit to Malmstrom AFB (October 9-14, 1967)
According to his notes written during his visit, Craig had four objectives. First, he wanted to review with Lt. Col. Lewis Chase regarding his UFO encounter in 1957 while flying a training mission as aircraft commander of an RB-47. The Missile site shutdowns and the possibility of UFO involvement was also on his list. Craig knew of the Shutdowns at missile sites from Ray Fowler. It is significant that he lists the date of the shutdowns as March 24, 1967. That significance will be discussed later.
We note that the civilian agencies involved, such as Sylvania and Boeing were not allowed to talk about it. In fact Fowler has told me that he only mentioned the rumors of the Echo Flight shutdown of 10 Minuteman missiles to Craig with some trepidation of losing his job and security clearance. The report of the shutdowns was cloaked in secrecy even before Craig arrived at Malmstrom. The depth of that secrecy would soon be escalated after his arrival.
In Craig's book on his experience with the Condon Committee, he describes an encounter with Lt. Col. Chase, whose position description included the title of Base UFO Officer. The fact that the position of base UFO officer even existed is revealing in itself. Here's what Craig had to say about his encounter with this officer (click for verification):
"After Colonel Chase and I had exchanged pleasantries in his office, I asked him about the Echo incident. The Colonel caught his breath, and expressed surprise that I knew of it. 'I can't talk about that.' … If I needed to know the cause of this incident, I could arrange through official channels, to see their report after completion of the investigation. … Although local newspapers carried stories of UFO sightings which would coincide in time with Echo, Colonel Chase had assured me that the incident had not involved a UFO. … I accepted the information as factual and turned review of Major Schraff's report (on the Echo Incident) over to Bob Low, who had received security clearance to read secret information related to the UFO study."
Low, in turn, had to interface with his Air Force liaison in Washington, Col. Hippler. A portion of the memo he wrote to Low is shown here. Low's note at the bottom of this handwritten memo states: "Roy, I called Hippler and he said he would try to get this, but he suspects it's going to be classified too high for us to look at it. Says he thinks interference by pulses from nuclear explosions is probably involved."
The tone of this note indicates that Low was simply accepting this rationale for classifying the missile shutdowns as a non-UFO event. According to records of Dr. McDonald, Robert Low never followed up on this request. If Low had followed up on his request and asked for more details, such as the possibility of nuclear explosion EMP (electromagnetic pulse) from the Air Force, he might have discovered that the U.S. did not test any nuclear weapons in the period from March 10 through April 4, 1967; the time period of the shutdowns (source: D.O.E. Report DOE/NV-209 rev. 15, December 2000, U.S. Nuclear Tests 1945 – 1992).
Even on the face of it, Low should have realized that if nuclear EMP was truly involved, it would have created widespread havoc throughout our strategic missile forces. Clearly the reasons given by Hippler were simply intended to give cover to Low and others to back away from any further investigation by the Condon Committee.
Craig's notes indicate that he knew the names of many individuals whom he could have interviewed with respect to "rumors" of UFO involvement in the missile shutdowns. There were civilian representatives from Sylvania and Boeing who knew the sources of the "rumors" of UFOs. Their names had been given to him by Fowler.
Fowler also gave Craig the name of Dan Renualdi, a member of the Site Activation Task Force (SATAF) who was a very credible eye-witness. He reported being within a few feet of the object. In addition, one of the NCOs on the Air Force Technical Evaluation team admitted to seeing a saucer. There is no record of Craig interviewing these men.Craig did not ask to know the names of any of the Echo Flight crew on duty at the time of the shutdowns or any maintenance or security personnel at Echo.
It is important to emphasize that, although he was charged with investigating this incident, Craig failed to conduct or document interviews with any principal witnesses, including me. This is verified by his notes and his own book. By his own admission he simply took the word of Col. Chase that there was no UFO involvement and did not pursue an in-depth investigation as he was authorized and responsible to do.
The Secret World of Lt. Col. Lewis D. Chase, Base UFO Officer
On the evening of September 19, 1957 (or July 17, 1957 – there is some confusion on the date) Major Lewis D. Chase was piloting an RB-47 aircraft on a training mission that started out over the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana then headed north. As the aircraft approached Jackson, Mississippi, Chase and other crew members saw a lighted object above them at 35,000 ft. They determined pretty quickly that the object was not an aircraft because it was emitting an intense electromagnetic signature on their equipment; similar in intensity to a ground based radar. As they turned to the west toward Texas, the object followed them.
When they contacted Air Defense Command ground control (GCI) at Ft. Worth, they confirmed that they had radar contact with both the object and his aircraft. As the RB-47 continued north toward Kansas, the object appeared at the 11 o'clock position of the aircraft. Suddenly the object started closing on them. As it approached it accelerated at high speed and passed directly in front of the RB-47. The object then stopped and hovered in mid-air about ten miles from the aircraft's low 2 o'clock position.
As the RB-47 passed over the stationary object, Chase watched it blink out. The object simply disappeared! The object later re-appeared in another position. These maneuvers continued for over 2 hours. Chase wrote a detailed report of the incident at the request of AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations), whose representatives met him and his crew on arrival at Forbes AFB, Kansas. Chase told Craig that there was a voice recording of his communications with his crew during the incident which was confiscated by AFOSI.
Chase and his crew were told by AFOSI not to talk about the incident.
Some of the details of this incident were told to Roy Craig during his visit to Malmstrom AFB, who included them in the Condon Report. Others were recorded in an interview with Chase by Dr. James McDonald on January 30, 1969, just a short time after the public release of the Condon Report.
Chase had asked Craig and Major Quintanilla, head of Blue Book in 1967, to check if there was an incident report in the Blue Book files during their meeting of June 12. Quintanilla reported that there was no file of the incident. Later, after completion of the Condon report, a "summary" report of the incident appeared in the Blue Book files. Dr. James McDonald had found that the report of this incident had been classified during Craig's search for it.The Air Force essentially admitted to McDonald, after the termination of the study, that they indeed had some "classified" UFO incident reports that were not made available to the Condon Committee investigators for the study!
Soon after the Condon Committee began work in earnest, they convened a meeting with the Air Force at the University of Colorado on June 12, 1967. By this date, the Malmstrom UFO incidents had taken place and Lt. Col. Chase had been involved with the handling of those incidents. The Air Force had established "special contacts" for UFO matters at some of their bases. Those contacts were called Base UFO Investigators and were "requested" to attend this meeting by Major General Otto Glasser, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
Major Chase held the highest ranking of these investigators, who were mostly junior grade officers. Chase wrote a trip report of this meeting and parts are quoted here, verbatim. "Much effort was expended in explaining the methods that have been used to discount approximately 95% of the UFO sightings to date, i.e., optical mirage, stars, satellites, temperature inversion, etc. No time was devoted to the 5% of sightings on the Project Blue Book list that remain admittedly unexplained to date." (Project Blue Book was an earlier UFO report)
In another paragraph he stated: "It was also quite clear that, for the study to be effective, there is almost total dependency upon base UFO officers to sort the multitude of reports and to identify those cases worthy of detailed examination." Apparently the Air Force was going to be able to choose how they would be investigated.
The last paragraph of his trip report reveals much about how the Condon Committee and the Air Force were intending to orchestrate this program. "Although the University study has approximately 8 months to run, and barring any dramatic events, the conclusions in the initial formal report will most likely read as follows: a. There is no evidence to support a hypothesis that extraterrestrials have visited earth. b. Certain events have occurred that are difficult to explain due to lack of conclusive data and/or instrumentation and state of the art investigative procedures."
He concluded by saying, "However, it is reemphasized that there will be no big change in the UFO program, unless it is a civilian/military sharing of charges of concealing information from the public. The program for some lengthy period will remain under Air Force control due to the dependency upon Blue Book files and individual base UFO officers."
Since Chase was the highest ranked officer at this meeting, he was effectively representing the Air Force brass. He had been directed to attend the meeting by a Major General at the highest levels of Air Force headquarters. And with his trip report, he was prepared to respond to any inquiries from headquarters about the meeting and whether or not the Condon Committee would cooperate in the manner the Air Force desired. It seems that those questions were answered for him.
By this time, Chase had already been clued in on how the Air Force wanted the UFO question handled. Chase was Chief of the Operations Division at Malmstrom AFB during the missile/UFO incidents in 1967. On March 16, 1967 Echo Flight was disabled while UFOs were observed near the missile launch sites by multiple witnesses. The Air Force considered this incident one "of grave concern to this headquarters."
A week later on the morning of March 24, 1967 Oscar flight was disabled as a UFO hovered by the front gate of the Launch Control Facility as verified by myself and other witnesses. On the evening of March 24, 1967 a civilian truck driver, Ken Williams, observed a large domed shaped lighted object while driving near Belt, Montana (not far from Great Falls, MT). The object was about a mile to his left and seemed to be pacing his truck at the same speed. Soon the object stopped and hovered for a moment, then dropped into a ravine and landed. Williams observed it as it pulsated with a very bright white light. Later the object was also seen by Montana Highway patrolman Bud Nader before it finally flew off at high speed.
Lt. Col. Chase was notified of this incident about an hour later because of all the UFO sighting reports coming into the base. After discussions with the base commander, Col. Klibbe, he decided to investigate the situation. By 3:30 am, there had been numerous reports of sightings, including some over Malmstrom AFB. That morning, details were put into a message sent to various Air Force offices, including the Office of the Air Force Chief of Staff and the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB (TDET).
Four months later word had filtered back to TDET that there had been some equipment problems during the March 24th sightings. They sent an inquiry to Chase. It stated that "Our office has been informed that during the sightings there were equipment malfunctions and abnormalities in the equipment. One individual stated that the USAF instructed both military and civilian personnel not to discuss what they had seen, as it was a classified government experiment. Request information on the validity of such statements. If some type of experiment did occur on or about 24 March 1967, please advise."
Within a few days, Chase replied. "This office has no knowledge of equipment malfunctions and abnormalities in equipment during the period of reported UFO sightings. No validity can be established to the statement that a classified government experiment was in progress or that military and civilian personnel were requested not discuss what they had seen."
These are blatantly false statements since I and others can attest that we were ordered not to talk to anyone about our incident and that our equipment certainly did malfunction. And, if it had been a military experiment, we would have since had the capability of easily disabling nuclear missiles at will.
This correspondence was written after the Condon Committee meeting with the Air Force Base UFO officers. Since Chase was obviously not disclosing the missile shutdown incidents even to another Air Force office, clearly the cover-up was ongoing, and he was in the middle of it. By the time Roy Craig came to ask questions about the Echo Flight incident, Lt. Col. Chase would know what he was expected to do.
The Non-Scientific Study
In August 1966, Lt. Col. Robert Hippler, representing the Air Force Office of Science and Technology and serving as the study group's contact with the Pentagon, stood before the highly educated group Edward Condon had selected to participate in the study and said, "You see, first of all, we (the Air Force) have not charged you, and you have not promised, to prove or disprove anything."
He may not have realized it, but he was telling his audience not to perform a scientific study. The scientific method is understood by anyone who has ever passed a science class in high school. A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses (Wikipedia). By their own admission, the Air Force did not give the study group any hypothesis to prove or disprove. They did not provide the group with all the data they had in their possession or access to witnesses.
As was pointed out, they had classified UFO files and reports which were not made available to the study group. Thus, the scientific method could not have been used. The Air Force did not really want the scientific study they had promised Congress and the public. They simply wanted to divest themselves of the responsibility of responding to public inquiry on the subject of UFOs.
James McDonald who had investigated sightings throughout the U.S. and in Australia had provided the study group with a list of twenty best cases. The study group declined to look at them.
As Lt. Col. Chase had pointed out, it would be up the Air Force to decide which cases ought to be investigated. And, while Blue Book opened up their files to the group, the classified cases were not made available for investigation. Chase lied to Craig about UFO involvement in the Echo incident and did not mention the fact that Oscar flight was disabled on March 24. Craig was told that Echo Flight was disabled on the 24th, and that was never corrected to him (the actual date was March 16) by anyone in the Air Force, because then they would have had to admit that a second flight (Oscar) was disabled under similar circumstances.
Roy Craig had refused to look at any cases which might involve a security classification. He simply bought into Chase's explanation and did no further investigation of an incident that was referred to him by credible sources. Therefore, one of the most important cases, the Malmstrom AFB missile shutdowns, which could have had a major impact on the results of the study, was not even considered.
As has been stated many times before, The Condon study was a whitewash of the UFO "problem," and that paint job was bought and paid for by the Air Force. This was a critical period in time on the question of public disclosure of information held by our government about the phenomenon.
As a result of the "findings" of the Condon Study, the Air Force took and has ever since taken the position that the phenomenon has no bearing on our national security interest, and therefore no relevance to the Air Force or any other government agency. Therefore, they claim, they no longer investigate UFO reports.
This policy has, of course, allowed the withholding of facts and information from the public to continue. It has allowed the making of policies and government intervention with and about these unknown objects without oversight, public discourse or approval. It has allowed an intolerable abuse of secrecy in our government.
Note:
The fact that UFOs possibly disabled nuclear warheads may be a message from extraterrestrial forces for us not to play with such dangerous toys. Hundreds of military and government witnesses have gone on record claiming a major cover-up around UFOs. Among them are a former chief of the CIA, the former chiefs of defense of the UK and Canada, and two NASA astronauts, including Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon. Why is it that so few people are aware of this and other amazing and even inspiring facts around UFOs?
Eight Cylinder Shaped UFOs Spotted By The Orion Nebula Have Also Been Seen in 5 Different Locations!
8 cylindrical shaped UFO spotted through a C-14 Edge HD telescope with a 14 inch diameter lens by the Running Man Nebula. Is it the same Cylinder shaped UFOs that have been seen around our star and Saturn?
Original Witness Statement
On 11/14/21, I was taking images of the Orion Nebula including NGC-1977 (the Running Man Nebula), using a Mallincam 26ctec camera attached to my C-14 Edge HD telescope (14 inch diameter lens) at f/1.8 focal ratio. At 1.8 focal ratio, astrophotography imaging and light collection in general, is significantly increased with a much larger field of view.
At approximately 2:58 am in Lafayette, LA, I observed several UAPs moving from Southwest to Northeast. The objects did not have colored lights and were not blinking, so I can assume they were not commercial aircraft. After the first UAP flew across the Orion Nebula a bright area showed up in my field of view followed by additional UAP’s in succession.
I have witnessed a single object with similar characteristics before but not that many in succession. I would appreciate if anyone could tell me what these objects could be and come up with a possible scenario related to this event.
Disc Shaped UFO Sighted During an Air India Flight From New Delhi To Riyadh On November 24, 2021
While Neeraj Singh was traveling on his Air India flight that he caught at New Delhi in India and was landing at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia he noticed this object in the distant about midway into the flight and filmed this "Disc Shaped" craft.
What i found interesting with this footage is the way the UFO drops in altitude and this drop was straight down only for the object to climb in altitude but doing a straight up maneuver.
Thanks to Neeraj Singh for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original:
The U.S. Department of Defense appeared to be shocked in the summer and fall when it detected two tests by China’s military of hypersonic missiles circling the globe in low-Earth orbitat five times the speed of sound before heading to their alleged targets. You’d better sit down for this … especially if you work for the Pentagon. These tests of “fractional orbital bombardment” “hypersonic glide vehicles” just got worse. A new report says the test in July showed the vehicle itself may not have been the weapon — the hypersonic glider vehicle fired a projectile at five times the speed of sound … something thought to be impossible.
“Experts at Darpa, the Pentagon’s advanced research agency, remain unsure how China managed to fire countermeasures from a vehicle travelling at hypersonic speeds, said the people familiar with details of the demonstration.
Military experts have been poring over data related to the test to understand how China mastered the technology. They are also debating the purpose of the projectile, which was fired by the hypersonic vehicle with no obvious target of its own, before plunging into the water.”
The Financial Times revealed that Pentagon scientists don’t know what the projectile was – it could have been an air-to-air missile or possibly a defense or decoy system to protect the primary hypersonic missile. While the National Security Council says it has a “concern about many military capabilities that the People’s Republic of China continues to pursue,” the Chinese embassy said it was “not aware” of the missile test and pointed the finger back at the U.S., as it did after one of the alleged tests, accusing the U.S. of deploying secret weapons in space like the X-37B space plane.
The web site The War Zone has been on top of this story and cautions that neither the hypersonic glider nor the object it fired have been positively identified as missiles. However, it strongly resembles a reusable vehicle with the ability to carry and deploy a payload that could be nuclear. It could also be a modification of the hypersonic missile, allowing it to hit two targets on one trip.
General John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has referred to this as “a first-use weapon” that is “pretty impressive” and “probably should create a sense of urgency” – “first-use” refers to a first strike missile. That sounds pretty bad. Let’s hope things don’t get worse.
Simpler times?
“The wind tunnel can meet the test requirements of hypersonic aircraft such as conventional force/pressure measurement, air inlet, dynamic simulation, weapon separation and release, aerodynamic heat and flow display.”
China Aviation News reported this week that the country’s state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) announced its FL-64 wind tunnel passed a series of calibration tests that will eventually allow it to simulate hypersonic speeds between Mach 4 and Mach 8.
Worried yet?
Special thanks to The Financial Times and The War Zone for their excellent coverage of these events.
You know the U.S. Pentagon is serious about something when it opens up a new department and actually announces it to the public instead of keeping it a secret. If you were wondering whether the Pentagon is serious about Unidentified Flying Objects or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, wonder no more – it has announced the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) to look at reports of UAPs near U.S. military facilities and operations. Could they have at least come up with an easier-to-remember acronym?
“The AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security. “
The Pentagon
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks began working with the Director of National Intelligence in June 2021 to authorize the new group to address the national security risks from the many UAP encounters with U.S. military personnel that the public became aware of in 2019 with the release of the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO videos taken by pilots and personnel on the USS Nimitz. As more encounters have been made public, the Pentagon can no longer ignore the demand form the public for disclosure of these and past UAP events.
“To provide oversight of the AOIMSG, the Deputy Secretary also directed the USD(I&S) to lead an Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council (AOIMEXEC) to be comprised of DoD and Intelligence Community membership, and to offer a venue for U.S. government interagency representation.”
One of the problems the Pentagon has had in this area is a lack of coordination among the various armed forces branches and departments when UAP encounters are reported. The AOIMEXEC (that acronym at least sounds like an ET’s name) will provide that coordination as well as replace the current UAP Task Force.
Will they REALLY tell us what it is?
Does the establishment of the AOIMSG really show the Pentagon is serious about UAPs? It only officially investigates incidents near U.S. military facilities. While it could be said that most of the U.S. is near at least one military facility, it appears it will only investigate those reported by military personnel, not the general public. The announcement also doesn’t say what the AOIMSG will make public, how it will be released, how often, and how it will be accountable. At best, we can call Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks’ AOIMSG a good start and hope it will grow and remain in the public eye. At worse, it could just be busy work and a smoke screen to deceive the public into thinking something is being done.
Astronomers Find a Planet That Orbits its Star in Just 16 HOURS!
Astronomers Find a Planet That Orbits its Star in Just 16 HOURS!
Mercury is the speed champion in our Solar System. It orbits the Sun every 88 days, and its average speed is 47 km/s. Its average distance from the Sun is 58 million km (36 million mi), and it’s so fast it’s named after Mercury, the wing-footed God.
But what if instead of Mercury, Jupiter was closest to the Sun? And what if Jupiter was even closer to the Sun than Mercury and far hotter?
In a remote solar system about 855 light-years away, there’s a planet that makes Mercury seem like a slow, chilled, distant neighbour of the Sun. This planet orbits its star in only 16 hours, giving it one of the shortest orbits ever measured. At that distance and speed, and with the planet’s extremely high surface temperatures, it’s one of the most exotic planets ever found.
The planet’s name is TOI-2109b, and it’s what astronomers call an “Ultrahot Jupiter.” Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit extraordinarily close to their stars and have extremely high surface temperatures. Ultrahot Jupiters are even more extreme. Their surface temperatures are greater than 2200 Kelvin (1900 C, 3500 F). Astronomers estimate that TOI-2109 b’s dayside temperature is greater than 3500 K (3225 C, 5840 F), as hot as some small stars.
A new paper published in The Astronomical Journal presented the discovery. The paper’s title is “TOI-2109: An Ultrahot Gas Giant on a 16 hr Orbit.” The lead author is Ian Wong, currently at NASA’s Goddard SpaceFlight Center, but a postdoc at MIT during this research.
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) found the planet in May 2020. TESS started observing it on May 13th and kept watching for almost a month. Over the next year, multiple ground-based observatories performed follow-up observations in different wavelengths. All those observations confirmed that TOI-2109b is a rare and unusual planet.
“Everything was consistent with it being a planet, and we realized we had something very interesting and relatively rare,” said study co-author Avi Shporer from MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
TOI-2109 b’s 16-hour orbital period is the shortest ever measured for a gas giant. (The previous record-holder has an 18-hour orbit.) The planet is about five times more massive than our own Jupiter, and it orbits an F-type star about 1.5 times more massive than our Sun. It’s difficult to imagine what this arrangement would look like to any observer in the same system.
Artist’s impression of a transiting Jupiter-mass exoplanet around a star that’s slightly more massive than the Sun. Image Credit: NASA
The planet is so hot because it’s an average of only 2.4 million km (1.5 million mi) from its star. It’s probably tidally locked to its star like other Hot Jupiters and Ultrahot Jupiters. The extremely high dayside temperature can tear molecules apart into their constituent atoms. Theoretical modelling shows that this can happen to molecular hydrogen. If the night side is significantly cooler, the hydrogen can combine into molecules again.
A month of TESS observations meant that the team could observe the planet as it orbited its star. They watched the secondary eclipse—when a planet passes behind its star—in multiple wavelengths. That helped them determine that the daytime temperature likely exceeds 3500 K. But the researchers aren’t sure what happens on the nightside because TESS isn’t sensitive enough. If it’s true that molecular hydrogen is torn apart on the dayside and recombines on the nightside, then that could contribute to more efficient temperature mixing in the atmosphere and could mean the temperature isn’t as extreme.
“Meanwhile, the planet’s night side brightness is below the sensitivity of the TESS data, which raises questions about what is really happening there,” said Shporer. “Is the temperature there very cold, or does the planet somehow take heat on the day side and transfer it to the night side? We’re at the beginning of trying to answer this question for these ultrahot Jupiters.”
The researchers found that TOI-2109b is slowly spiralling into the star at about 10 to 750 milliseconds per year. Astronomers have found other Hot Jupiters whose orbital decay draws them into their stars, but nothing as fast as this.
Artist’s concept of Jupiter-sized exoplanet that orbits relatively close to its star (aka. a “hot Jupiter”). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
TOI-210 b’s extreme nature helps confirm the status of Ultrahot and Hot Jupiters as one of the most extreme types of exoplanets. More powerful telescopes will reveal more of the planet’s nature, and the team hopes that the Hubble will be able to study it, along with the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope. Watching what happens as the planet gets closer and closer to the star is especially interesting to astronomers.
“Ultrahot Jupiters such as TOI-2109b constitute the most extreme subclass of exoplanet,” Wong says. “We have only just started to understand some of the unique physical and chemical processes that occur in their atmospheres — processes that have no analogs in our own solar system.”
Future observations of TOI-2109b may also reveal clues to how such dizzying systems come to be in the first place. “From the beginning of exoplanetary science, hot Jupiters have been seen as oddball,” Shporer says. “How does a planet as massive and large as Jupiter reach an orbit that is only a few days long? We don’t have anything like this in our Solar System, and we see this as an opportunity to study them and help explain their existence.”
In the distant past, Jupiter may have migrated to within 1.5 AU of the Sun before reversing course to the orbital path it follows now. That’s called the Grand Tack Hypothesis. That would’ve been something for human eyes to behold.
Shortly after forming, Jupiter migrated toward the Sun. Saturn did too, and eventually, their fates became linked. When Jupiter was about where Mars is now, the pair turned and moved away from the Sun. Scientists have referred to this as the “Grand Tack,” a reference to the sailing maneuver. Credit: NASA/GSFC
Finding extreme and unusual exoplanets teaches us a lot about the range of planet types out there. Exoplanet surveys find lots of Hot Jupiters and Ultrahot Jupiters because they’re huge and close to their stars. But they’re actually scarce.
The authors point out that only about 0.5% of Sun-like stars host these extreme planets. But even though their numbers are few, they make a massive contribution to our understanding of exoplanets overall. “Their large size in relation to their host stars and high temperatures enable a broad range of intensive studies that extend far beyond the rudimentary measurements of planet mass and radius,” the authors explain.
“Over the past two decades, a wide arsenal of observational techniques has been leveraged to probe the atmospheric properties of hot Jupiters in ever-increasing detail,” they write in their paper. Things like temperature distribution, chemical composition, condensate clouds, photochemical hazes, and heat transport mechanisms are becoming easier to study.
Astronomers are learning that Ultrahot Jupiters are “… characterized by a number of distinct physical and dynamical properties that set them apart from the rest of the hot gas-giant population.”
No article on exoplanets can be complete without looking ahead to the James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST will have the power to probe exoplanet atmospheres more rigorously than any other tool currently at astronomers’ disposal.
Part of the search for and study of exoplanets is centred around finding Earth-like planets in habitable zones. But Ultrahot Jupiters like TOI-2109b can teach us a lot about planets at their most extreme and about planet-star interactions that we can’t study in our Solar System. And the JWST will make a considerable contribution to our knowledge.
“While future advances in telescope capabilities will allow for comparably in-depth explorations of smaller and cooler exoplanets, ultrahot Jupiters will continue to be among the most fruitful candidates for impactful efforts at characterization, providing crucial insights into the nature of planets at their most extreme,” the authors write.
This NASA Photograph Was Discovered In An Old Album But Nobody Expected To Find This Hiding Inside via Unexplained Mysteries
This NASA Photograph Was Discovered In An Old Album But Nobody Expected To Find This Hiding Inside via Unexplained Mysteries
This NASA photograph was discovered in an old album but nobody expected to find this hiding inside. Today, we take a look at what this old NASA photograph was hiding. Back in 2017 a series of strange photographs were shared online. They show what look like large structures on the Moon surface.
Those who went on to further investigate the claims said that six towers have been discovered on the moon, and after these photographs were shared online people started to give their opinions on what they thought they were. The images were taken from Google Moon, which is collected by Nasa satellites orbiting the moon….
I found an Egyptian deity on Mars using Google map. To find it you need to click on the URL, then hit the infrared button on the upper left of the screen that the URL takes you too.
Often Egyptian deities have a moon or sun above their head to indicated status. Here on Mars, we see the same, a cat figure viewed from the side, sitting down with a round moon or sun above its head. Egypt calls the cat deity Bastet, daughter of Re the sun god. This is more evidence that the leaders of ancient Egypt came from Mars.
There is no ruler on this map, however I estimate the crater it's on to be 50km across, and that would put the carving to be 10km from head to tail.
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UFO ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CONTACT | The Proof is Out There
UFO ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CONTACT| The Proof is Out There
In June 2019, an eyewitness spotted strange orbs watching him at Lake Superior. Watch as experts examine the footage and reveal the truth, in this clip from Season 2, “Apocalyptic Lights & Baby Sharkman.”
NASA Successfully Launches DART Mission to Test Asteroid Deflection
NASA Successfully Launches DART Mission to Test Asteroid Deflection
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test(DART) mission launched November 24, 2021 at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, the United States. At 2:17 a.m. EST, DART separated from the second stage of the rocket. Minutes later, mission operators received the first spacecraft telemetry data and started the process of orienting the spacecraft to a safe position for deploying its solar arrays. About two hours later, the spacecraft completed the successful unfurling of its two, 8.5-m- (28-foot) long, roll-out solar arrays. DART’s single instrument, the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation (DRACO), will turn on a week from now and provide first images from the spacecraft. DART will continue to travel just outside of Earth’s orbit around the Sun for the next 10 months until its target — the binary asteroid system Didymos — will be a relatively close 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from Earth.
DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact.
This method will have DART deliberately collide with a target asteroid — which poses no threat to Earth — in order to slightly change its speed and path.
“DART is turning science fiction into science fact and is a testament to NASA’s proactivity and innovation for the benefit of all,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
“In addition to all the ways NASA studies our Universe and our home planet, we’re also working to protect that home, and this test will help prove out one viable way to protect our planet from a hazardous asteroid should one ever be discovered that is headed toward Earth.”
DART’s target is the binary, near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, composed of the roughly 780-m- (2,560-foot) diameter Didymos and the smaller, approximately 160-m- (530-foot) size moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits Didymos.
DART will impact Dimorphos to change its orbit within the binary system.
Since Dimorphos orbits Didymos at much a slower relative speed than the pair orbits the Sun, the result of DART’s kinetic impact within the binary system can be measured much more easily than a change in the orbit of a single asteroid around the Sun.
This illustration shows NASA’s DART spacecraft and ASI’s LICIACube spacecraft prior to impact at the binary asteroid system Didymos.
Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory / Steve Gribben.
“We have not yet found any significant asteroid impact threat to Earth, but we continue to search for that sizable population we know is still to be found,” said Dr. Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer at NASA Headquarters.
“Our goal is to find any possible impact, years to decades in advance, so it can be deflected with a capability like DART that is possible with the technology we currently have.”
“DART is one aspect of NASA’s work to prepare Earth should we ever be faced with an asteroid hazard.”
“In tandem with this test, we are preparing the Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission, an space-based infrared telescope scheduled for launch later this decade and designed to expedite our ability to discover and characterize the potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.”
DART will intercept the Didymos system between September 26 and October 1, 2022, intentionally slamming into Dimorphos at roughly 6 km per second (4 mph).
Scientists estimate the kinetic impact will shorten Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by several minutes.
LICIACube, a CubeSat riding with DART and provided by the Italian Space Agency, will be released prior to DART’s impact to capture images of the impact and the resulting cloud of ejected matter.
Roughly four years after DART’s impact, ESA’s Hera project will conduct detailed surveys of both asteroids, with particular focus on the crater left by DART’s collision and a precise determination of Dimorphos’ mass.
“It is an indescribable feeling to see something you’ve been involved with since the ‘words on paper’ stage become real and launched into space,” said Dr. Andy Cheng, one of the DART investigation leads at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the individual who came up with the idea of DART.
“This is just the end of the first act, and the DART investigation and engineering teams have much work to do over the next year preparing for the main event — DART’s kinetic impact on Dimorphos. But tonight we celebrate!”
Something is out there: US reforms its UFO task force
Something is out there: US reforms its UFO task force
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) announced the launch of a new group to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) will be the successor to the US Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, DoD announced on November 23, 2021.
“The AOIMSG will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security,” DoD revealed in the press release, indicating that the group will focus on the national security issues posed by UAPs.
According to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Special use airspace (SUA) “consists of that airspace wherein activities must be confined because of their nature, or wherein limitations are imposed upon aircraft operations that are not a part of those activities, or both” Most prominently, this includes military training ranges and other installations.
The original UAP Task Force was set up in 2020, following numerous high-profile reports about unidentified objects. Most notably, this included several videos captured by the Navy personnel.
The Department of Defense declassified three videos of "unidentified aerial phenomena" that had been leaked to the public.
In June 2021, the task force issued a report that highlighted major challenges connected to studying the phenomena. Among other findings, the report emphasized that some UAPs can be linked to foreign activity.
The new group is just one of the US government’s recent attempts to raise awareness about and study UAPs. They have also included directions to refer to the objects by the new name, instead of the often-misunderstood acronym ‘UFO’ (unidentified flying object). They have also published previously classified material and provided the public with access to information about new sightings.
A team of international scientists analyzed lower back bones belonging to a female Australopithecus sediba that were found near the Malapa cave system in South Africa. She has been named Issa and she lived approximately 2 million years ago.
Experts have recovered four lower back vertebrae and a sacrum bone that links the pelvis to the spine. The experts were then able to use the spinal bones as well as other fossils that were previously found in order to reconstruct Issa’s back. As a matter of fact, this is the one of the most complete reconstructions of the back fossils of any hominin that has ever been conducted. They found that she had a curved spine which indicated that she spent a good amount of time walking on two legs. Additionally, they realized that she had five lumbar vertebrae – the same number that humans have.
Professor Lee Berger, who is the leader of the Malapa project, said, “While Issa was already one of the most complete skeletons of an ancient hominin ever discovered, these vertebrae practically complete the lower back and make Issa’s lumbar region a contender for not only the best-preserved hominin lower back ever discovered, but also probably the best preserved.”
Previous analysis of Australopithecus sediba – specifically of their upper body – revealed that they were very well adapted to climbing trees. This means that the now-extinct hominin would have been halfway in between a tree-dwelling ape and a full bipedal human.
Professor Gabrielle Russo from Stony Brook University went into further details by explaining, “While the presence of lordosis (the inward curve of the lumbar spine) and other features of the spine represent clear adaptations to walking on two legs, there are other features, such as the large and upward oriented transverse processes, that suggest powerful trunk musculature, perhaps for arboreal behaviors.” (Arboreal behavior means climbing and living in trees).
The fact that a 2-million-year-old Australopithecus sediba had both ape-like and human-like traits is incredible especially since experts have now been able to confirm it. Reconstruction of the Australopithecus sediba’s body based on the recovered bones as well as an image of what it would have looked like can be viewed here.
Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba
Left: NYU & Wits University Right: Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres-sangle
Ever had a strange and frightening experience in your bedroom? A sense of a dangerous, maybe even deadly, creature lurking in the corners of the bedroom, and that suddenly leaps onto the bend and holds you down? And there are very often sexual aspects to all of this. If this sounds familiar to yourself, don’t worry, you’re not alone. It’s important to note that such creatures are not limited to just one or two parts of the planet – or even to specific time-frames. Incubi and Succubi are everywhere– exactly as they were in the distant past. In Newfoundland, there is the Old Hag – a female monster that, just like legendary Lilith, straddles the unwary in the dead of night and steals semen from terrified men. South Africa has the monstrous Tokoloshe. Scandinavia is home to the Mare – which, rather notably, is from where the word “nightmare” comes. Popobawa creates fear and dread for the people of Zanzibar. The Karabasan is a Turkish version. The Boto haunts the cities and jungles of Brazil. And, the Lidérc plagues the people of Hungary. While the names are many and varied, the key component of a sexual encounter in the dead of night, in which the victim is unable to stop the experience, is worldwide.
There is very little doubt that the most terrifying beings that fall into this category are the Succubus and the Incubus. In his 2011 book, Strange Intruders, David Weatherly says that these creatures ““live in a spirit world and crave the energy and life essence of the living.”
They are dangerous, violent and manipulative things that very often present themselves in the form of a person’s definitive fantasy. There is, however, nothing appealing about these monsters of the night. In fact, they should be avoided at all costs. It’s either that or ultimately pay a terrible price. The problem is that it’s very difficult to escape their clutches when you are in bed, completely paralyzed, and held down by a malevolent thing from another plane of existence.
(Nick Redfern)
The bedroom: Potentially a dangerous location for us when we sleep
The term, “Incubus,” is a most appropriate one, as it is derived from ancient Latin term which means “to lie upon.” The word itself is “incubare.” In essence, the term is a most apt one, as the Incubus does exactly that: it lies upon its victim and sexually assaults them. The Incubus is the male version of this menacing beast, while the Succubus is the female. It’s a phenomenon that has been with us just about as long as civilization has existed.
As evidence of this, we’ll now take a trip back to the world and the people of Mesopotamia, which, thousands of years ago, was situated in the eastern part of the Mediterranean and covering Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Is it possible that all of this, from the earliest years of civilization to the present day is due to nothing stranger than the complexities of the human mind? Doubtful. Admittedly, yes, technologically-speaking, we are very different to the people of yesteryear. On the other hand, though, and just like today, the people back then had families and friends, and they laughed and they cried. In that sense our minds are not so different.
Those who are skeptical of the idea that bedroom invaders of a supernatural nature really exist, suggest that all of the above – from the distant past to the present day – can be explained away by what is known popularly as sleep-paralysis. Its medical term is hypnagogia – it’s a period during the sleep state when, sometimes, a person semi-awakens. And, in that half-awake / half-asleep state, the brain can do some very strange things, including creating a sense of something threatening in the bedroom. It’s a condition which was coined back in the 1800s, by Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury, who was a French doctor. Sleep paralysis does not – and cannot – explain away everything, though. There are, for example, cases in which the encounter leaves behind it residual odors, such as brimstone and sulfur – which are reported in numerous paranormal encounters, including the early 1950s-era experiences of Albert Bender, who quickly found himself on the wrong side of the Men in Black, when he started to dig into the UFO mystery. Not only that, Bender had a classic Old Hag type experience back in 1953. On occasion, a wife has seen her husband straddled by one of these crazed things – and vice-versa. As this shows, these encounters are most assuredly not totally internal to the victims: there is a dangerous, undeniable external aspect, too.
US Army Soldier Blows Whistle on Secret Missions to Ganymede and the Moon
US Army Soldier Blows Whistle on Secret Missions to Ganymede and the Moon
JP has served for almost two years in the US Army and has come forward to give his first interview discussing secret military missions by an international space coalition to the Moon, Ganymede and other locations in the solar system.
In this exclusive Exopolitics Today interview, JP discusses his background, why he decided to join the US Army, secret missions to Earth's Moon and Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, where he met with different extraterrestrial entities.
He says that a group of recently arrived highly evolved extraterrestrials are having life changing effects with soldiers and others with whom they come into contact.
JP is keeping his name and physical appearance confidential to preserve his career, but is encouraging other former or serving US military personnel to come forward to share their own extraterrestrial related experiences.
In this video interview, Exopolitics Today only included the audio to protect his identity.
At the end of the interview, a short 3.5 minute video created by JP where he personally discusses the impact of the Ganymede missions on him and other soldiers.
George Van Tassel 1964 Interview on Aliens,Ufo’s and Time Travel
George Van Tassel 1964 Interview on Aliens,Ufo’s and Time Travel
George is compounding what we know of UFO technology and of bases on the moon. The fact that he is talking about it back in 1964 only demonstrates how long the secrecy has been going on in the U.S..
If you’re looking for something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving (in the U.S.), how about showing some gratitude you’ve never been tricked by a shape-shifting reptilian alien who turned into your spouse and attempted to have sex with you. If you are preacher Sharon Gilbert, you’re probably more used to leading the Thanksgiving prayer than the object of one, but that’s her story and she stuck with it during a television interview about her alleged encounters with a reptilian alien.
“After Derek and I got married this other Derek appears in our bed. The real Derek is lying down next to me, other Derek sits right up out of him. It startled me. I knew that was not Derek and so I asked this critter, who are you? Because he clearly wanted to have sexual relations. He said: ‘I am your husband.’”
I’m your husband … really!
Thus began the tale of Sharon Gilbert’s encounter with a reptilian who had shapeshifted into her husband Derek, as told on a recent episode of the “Jim Bakker Show” – yes, THAT Jim Bakker. Sharon and Derek Gilbert are ‘End Times’ preachers and the hosts of “SciFriday,” a TV show billed as “Science news from a Christian worldview.” Sharon is the author of a supernatural fiction series and a couple of novels, and is a contributor to the book “God’s Ghostbusters: Vampires? Ghosts? Aliens? Werewolves? Creatures of the Night Beware!”, so it’s a safe bet she’s aware of reptilians and their alleged powers. She also knows her bible stories and immediately questioned when the faux Derek claimed to be Xerses from various books of the Hebrew bible. However, it was a subsequent encounter (she apparently had many like the first) that convinced her she was dealing with a reptilian – she reached over and grabbed his/its face.
“And I pulled that face off. And beneath it was a reptile. Little creatures with him this time, these little half-ling creatures and they looked like gargoyles, they were reptilian as well. So beneath that face of Derek was a reptilian serpentine creature, probably similar to what visited the Anasazi…”
Sharon Gilbert definitely knows her reptilian lore. The Anasazi were an ancient Native American culture that lived for 1,000 years in the Four Corners region of the U.S. until they abruptly and somewhat mysteriously abandoned the area. Why they left is still debated, but Gilbert is referring to the theory that they worshiped a reptilian god and were kidnapped and taken to the Moon by a reptilian – a legend which inspired an episode of The X-Files.
Which do you prefer — me or Derek?
This writer has purposely left out the religious aspects of Sharan Gilbert’s account and focus just on the ‘reptilian’ shapeshifting aspect. Those who believe in reptilians could see Gilbert’s account as a tutorial on why one should avoid them. Those who believe in exorcisms might see her tale and her writings as a guide to helping people who believe they’re possessed or tormented by non-human beings. There are also those who think she’s taking advantage of the gullible for the purpose of marketing her books and services (and those of her husband) … and appearing on “The Jim Bakker Show” certainly doesn’t help ward off those accusations.
Leaving out the religious bias and conspiracy theory aspects of Sharon Gilbert’s story, can you/do you believe any of the rest?
It’s too bad she didn’t keep the reptilian’s face.
Focusing still on my previous article – on 1951’s movie,The Day the Earth Stood Still– you will now see how easy it was for many of the so-called “Contactees” (people who claimed they had encounters with human-looking extraterrestrials in early 1950s America) to play roles not too dissimilar to those of Klaatu in that still-revered movie. The very-human-like “Space Brothers” (as they were known, and who became big “buddies” with the Contactees) were alien, too. They soon spent much of their time warning the people of Earth to drop their atomic weapons, however. Or else. In other words, they weren’t always buddies. One of the Contactees, whose story fits right into this subject of mind-alteration, was Orfeo Angelucci. In correspondence with Jim Moseley of Saucer Smear, Angelucci said he had been visited in 1954 by people from both the FBI and U.S. Army Intelligence. That was not at all surprising, as most of the Contactees had FBI files opened on them – largely because of their politics, rather than their alien claims. One of the stories that Angelucci shared with Moseley was particularly strange. On one particular night in December 1954, and after finishing working out in Twentynine Palms, California, Angelucci headed out to a local diner. That’s where things got strange. Angelucci recorded: “I felt a strangeness in the air. There is a cosmic spell over the desert most of the time, but tonight the mystery was less distant and intangible; it was close and pulsating.”
Angelucci was soon deep in conversation – in that same diner – with a man who identified himself only as “Adam,” a customer who claimed to be thirty-something and suffering from a terminal illness. Death was said to be just around the corner for the man. In an odd and synchronistic fashion, Adam claimed that he had read Angelucci’s book, The Secret of the Saucers, that he considered their meeting to be beyond just an amazing coincidence, and that he wished to share his thoughts with Angelucci before time ran out. As in quite literally. But, said Adam, before their conversation could begin, Angelucci had to swallow a pill. Of what kind Angelucci didn’t know. That didn’t stop him from doing exactly what Adam demanded from him, though. Angelucci took a gulp of water and the “oyster-white pellet” went down. For Angelucci, there was now no turning back. It didn’t take long before he felt weird, odd, and out of this world. In short, Angelucci had been drugged. It was almost like one of the most famous scenes in the 1999 movie, The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves. You know the scene: the red pill versus the blue pill. But this was the world of the real. Not of Hollywood.
Angelucci said: “I took the pellet and dropped it into my glass. Immediately the water bubbled, turning slowly into the clear, pale amber contained in [Adam’s] own glass. I lifted the glass a few inches from the table, looking into it with a feeling that this might be the drink I dared not hope for. The exhilarating aroma rising from it could not be mistaken…I thrilled from head to foot as I took the glass, lifted it to my lips, and swallowed twice from it. At that instant, I entered, with Adam, into a more exalted state and everything around me took on a different semblance. No longer was I in Tiny’s café in Twentynine Palms. It had been transformed into a cozy retreat on some radiant star system. Though everything remained in its same position, added beauty and meaning were given to the things and people present there. Almost as an aside, Angeluci said: “Among the patrons dining that evening were two marines from the nearby base. Sometimes they glanced our way as they talked and drank beer following their meal.” Angelucci said that Adam seemed oddly obsessed with the glass and was “fraught with expectancy.” Suddenly, the sounds of music filled Angelucci’s ears. Incredibly, the music seemed to be coming from the glass itself. Or, rather, that’s how it seemed to Angelucci. The reality is that he was now completely and utterly stoned.
Angelucci stared at the glass and saw the figure of “a miniature young woman” who was dancing in that same glass! That’s right: the drugs were now kicking in to a high degree. Of the small woman, Angelucci said that: “Her golden-blond beauty was as arresting as the miracle of her projection in the glass. Her arms moved in rhythmic motion with the graceful thrusts of her dancing body.” What began as a pleasant meeting between like-minded souls soon became a drug-driven interrogation. By Angelucci’s own admission, he spilled the entire beans to Adam: the nature of his encounters, and the words of his alien friends. There was even a debate on politics, which is rather telling. Angelucci staggered home, his mind hardly his own for the next few hours. Such bizarre encounters between the Space Brothers and the Contactees were everywhere. At first glance, at least, the answer is very simple: they liked us and they wanted us to stay alive! Maybe, however, there is more to it than that. In fact, much more than that. And, perhaps, there are disturbing reasons for that apparent concern for our welfare – and even our existence. Before we get right into the heart of it all, however, let us first take a look at the Space Brothers, for those who may not be acquainted with the strange subject. Although it was the summer of 1947 when the term “Flying Saucer” was coined, sightings of – or encounters with – alleged aliens didn’t really begin on a large scale until the early 1950s. That’s when the aforementioned Space Brothers surfaced from wherever they came. And it’s also the period in which the matter of nukes began to surface, too.
The Space Brothers were described as looking eerily human-like – the major difference being that the males had very long hair, which, of course, was a rarity during the dawning of the 1950s. The women looked like women on Earth. Both the males and the females occasionally had some very slight differences in their facial appearances, but nothing that really stood out as odd or unusual. The aliens chose certain figures to spread the word that the human race should get rid of its nuclear weapons. And if we didn’t follow the path of the creatures from other worlds, then we would surely all be fried in a radioactive holocaust of our very own making. Those who the Space Brothers and the Space Sisters chose to work with included George Van Tassel, Dana Howard, Truman Bethurum, Mollie Thompson, Orfeo Angelucci, George King and Margit Mustapa. And they were just the tip of the iceberg. For the best of fifteen years, or of a bit more, those Space Brothers and Contactees acted out just like Klaatu did on the big screen.
The location of S4 has been a mystery for decades. Bob Lazar worked at S4 from December 1988 till mid of 1989. All he shared with the public were a few sketches and a short description of nine hangars built in the slope of a mountain, located ten miles South of Groom Lake (Area 51) and near the Papoose Lake dry bed.
So where is this base? With so little information finding S4 is searching for the needle in the haystack.
31 Years passed and the location was still unknown. People found lines in the sediment in a mountain on the Eat side of Papoose Lake and UAP Research too believed to have found S4 (actually we now believe that it is the predecessor of S4) South of Papoose Lake but the evidence was still missing.
Not anymore as a couple months ago while watching an old video from 1989 UAP Research saw something that dropped his mouth open. Was this the needle? Yes it was!
The video below shows all the information, maps, satellite images, sketches related to the location of S4 ‘the underground UFO base.’
A man finds a mysterious implant in his leg after a nighttime snowmobile ride. Four friends witness the same eerie light A legendary beast attacks a cabin on the Aleutian Islands. A UFO pursues a woman as she drives through an extraterrestrial hot spot. Triangular aircraft and bright orange lights are witnessed across Alaska. Who on earth is flying in these remote regions?
A bipartisan proposal to create a more expansive military and intelligence program to study UFOs is urgently needed to determine whether unexplained sightings by Navy and Air Force pilots pose a threat or are evidence of some “other entity,” the lead sponsor said Wednesday.
“If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said in her first interview about the effort. “Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach.”
Gillibrand is behind an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that is being debated this week to create an ‘‘Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” with authority to pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence community” to get to the bottom of the sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs.
It would also require regular public reports about sensitive topics that until recently were considered to be on the fringe, including whether the government has any materials from the incidents of UFOs or data on any biological or health effects linked to any encounters.
“We’ve not had oversight into this area for a very long time,” Gillibrand said. “I can count on one hand the number of hearings I had in 10 years on this topic. That's fairly concerning given the experience our service members have had over the last decade.”
Gillibrand, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said she was heavily influenced by the “repeated reports over the last two or three years of these increased sightings by Navy pilots and Air Force pilots.”
She believes the fact that the possible explanations are so varied is why a dedicated effort is required.
“You have to have the smartest, most informed minds from the world convening on these issues so you know what you’re up against,” Gillibrand said.
The increased attention follows a preliminary assessment from the director of national intelligence in June that reviewed more than 140 UAP incidents that could not be readily explained, including 18 that maneuvered in ways that appeared to defy known aerodynamics.
“There’s always the question of ‘is there something else that we simply do not understand, that might come extraterrestrially?’” DNI Avril Haines said during a public forum last week.
Gillibrand, who chairs the personnel subcommittee on Armed Services, said she is also concerned for military service members, who she contends have often been ostracized, including some who have reported what they believe to be related health effects.
“When you tell people, ‘don’t report a sighting of something that’s odd or out of the norm because people will say ‘you’re crazy,’ or you’ll lose your credibility as an airman or as a naval aviator, you’re obviously not going to report it if something is wrong with your health. The same response was received with people who were experiencing Havana Syndrome,” she said, referring to the recent mysterious injuries experienced by diplomats and other personnel.
“The treatment with which our service members have been subjected is unacceptable,” Gillibrand added. “When this happens over and over in the military, people learn to keep their mouth shut.”
She has enlisted several co-sponsors from both parties, including Republicans Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Roy Blunt and fellow Democrat Martin Heinrich. “I don't see opposition to this on any level,” she said.
While she mostly couches her effort in national security terms, the former presidential candidate also acknowledges that the “sci-fi” implications of UFOs also compelled her to take action.
“The first question I got when I got on the Intelligence Committee was ‘Mom, tell us about the aliens.’ I go, ‘I know nothing about it,’” she recalled conversations with her two sons. “I’m getting the coolest mom jersey for sure this year.”
Indeed, she is clearly enjoying her role, joking how Congress’ oversight may lead to a congressional delegation visiting new destinations or dimensions.
“And then as soon as we plan a CODEL, I’ll let you know,” Gillibrand quipped. ”The outer space CODEL is coming.”
Even though we have not found any evidence of extraterrestrial life so far, that's not to say we shouldn't be prepared for the day when that could change.
While we are yet to turn up a whisper of hard evidence to support the hypothetical existence of life beyond Earth, we are nonetheless always looking for it. If or when we ever do find that evidence, though – or even just begin to piece together the first, incremental traces of it – we need to be ready, NASA scientists say.
In a new scientific commentary – led by none other than the space agency's chief scientist, James Green – NASA researchers make the case for why we need to establish a framework for reporting evidence of extraterrestrial life.
"Our generation could realistically be the one to discover evidence of life beyond Earth," the team writes. "With this privileged potential comes responsibility."
According to the researchers, the discovery of alien life by humanity is unlikely to be a yes-or-no, all-or-nothing event.
Rather, it's more probable that the detection of extraterrestrial life will be a drawn-out, evolving process of scientific investigation and discovery – and the sooner that's understood by everybody, the better.
"History includes many claims of life detection that later proved incorrect or ambiguous when considered in exclusively binary terms," the researchers explain.
"If, instead, we recast the search for life as a progressive endeavor, we convey the value of observations that are contextual or suggestive but not definitive and emphasize that false starts and dead ends are an expected part of a healthy scientific process."
Such is the complexity of this kind of multi-tiered, qualitative assessment, that we need a progressive scale to measure and chart new discoveries – something much like the technology readiness level (TRL) scale that NASA itself uses to track the progress of spaceflight instruments, all the way from concept to implementation in actual missions.
In the context of astrobiological detections of life, NASA says we could use an analogue: a "confidence of life detection" (CoLD) scale, with the lowest levels of the scale focusing on the initial identification of potential biosignatures, with higher levels reserved for more specific and certain measurements of the subject.
Such a nuanced scale – tracking potential life detections against a series of objective, progressively more demanding benchmarks – would help place all purported biosignatures in a standardized context, helping the research community (and the broader community following their work) to interpret whatever new findings scientists report.
"Establishing best practices for communicating about life detection can serve to set reasonable expectations on the early stages of a hugely challenging endeavor, attach value to incremental steps along the path, and build public trust by making clear that false starts and dead ends are an expected and potentially productive part of the scientific process," the researchers write.
"Whatever the outcome of the dialogue, what matters is that it occurs… In doing so, we can only become more effective at communicating the results of our work, and the wonder associated with it."
Nineteen-eighty-seven was one of the most important years in the field of UFO research. That was the year in which Whitley Strieber’s book, Communion, was published. The alien abduction-themed book became a huge bestseller – even a New York Times bestseller, no less. Strieber’s book was an important one because it didn’t follow the same pathway that so many other abduction books did. Strieber postulated that the black-eyed, dwarfish creatures known as “the Greys” are far from being just entities from another world and who have come to visit us. Strieber’s work suggested something far more than that; something that has deep relevance to the world of robots. Some people were excited and intrigued by the story that Strieber told. Others were puzzled, some appalled by the fact that brought into Communion matters relative to magic, to the human soul, to immortality, and to life after death – and all in one big mix. Indeed, Strieber put forth the distinct possibility that the Greys have the ability to operate in both a physical state and a soul-based situation. As for that physical form, Strieber came up with a fascinating theory – based upon his very own experiences with the Greys. He strongly suspected that when not in spirit/soul form, the Greys had the ability to be “downloaded” into physical form. And, in that particular form, they were far more like biological robots than the aliens that the UFO research community embraced.
Mac Tonnies went down that pathway, too. He said: “Given the vast number of out-of-body and near-death experiences, I find it difficult to reject the prospect of ‘nonlocal’ consciousness; perhaps a sufficiently advanced technology can manipulate the ‘soul’ as easily as we splice genes or mix chemicals in test tubes. If so, encounters with ‘extraterrestrials’ may help provide a working knowledge of how to modify and transfer consciousness – abilities that seem remote to the current terrestrial state-of-the-art, but may prove invaluable in a future where telepresence and virtual reality are integral to communication. Already, the capabilities of brain-machine interfaces are tantalizingly like the popular perception of telepathy, often thought of in strictly ‘paranormal’ or even ‘magical’ terms.” It should be noted that this is very much like what has become known as Transhumanism. Basically, it’s a case of being in a state of post-human, rather than present-human. Or, post-alien, rather than alien.
This very much all revolves around what is known as the Transhumanist Party. All of this brings us very close to – if not right into the very heart of – what is known as Transhumanism. We’re talking about us, as a species, becoming something amazing; a new type of human. Becoming post-human and, potentially, immortal. We’re even talking about the merging of man and highly advanced technology in ways that, right now, are difficult to understand, but that are currently seen as a viable way to ensure we have far more than our measly eighty years, or thereabouts, and, instead, possibly even living forever. It’s hard to get one’s head around the concept, today. But, that may not be the case for the people of another century away. For them, immortality may just be an everyday thing. The man who has flown the flag for Transhumanism is Zoltan Istvan, who is determined to become immortal and President of the United States. In which particular order hasn’t been confirmed yet.
The BBC say of this: “Transhumanists dream of achieving immortality and physical perfection through futuristic technologies like mind uploading, cyborg body augmentation, and genetic manipulation; they want us to evolve into a race of post-human super-beings. While the other presidential candidates are claiming they know best how to deal with Iran, the economy, and immigration, Istvan is trying to appeal to the US electorate with more ambitious goals. He wants to eradicate death, and for everyone in America to live forever.” Istvan has said that all of this “literally means beyond human. Transhumanists consist of life extensionists, techno-optimists, Singularitarians, biohackers, roboticists, AI [artificial intelligence] proponents, and futurists who embrace radical science and technology to improve the human condition. The most important aim for many transhumanists is to overcome human mortality, a goal some believe is achievable by 2045.” It’s a fact that 2045 isn’t too far away. Some of us will get to see what the future offers.
An additional 301 exoplanets have been confirmed, thanks to a new deep learning algorithm,NASAsaid.
The significant addition to the ledger was made possible by the ExoMiner deep neural network, which was created using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft and its follow-on, K2.
It uses the space agency's supercomputer, Pleiades and is capable of deciphering the difference between real exoplanets and 'false positives.'
The newly confirmed planets, which orbit distant stars in the universe, brings the total of confirmed exoplanets to 4,870.
An additional 301 exoplanets have been confirmed, thanks to a new deep learning algorithm
The newly confirmed planets brings the total of confirmed exoplanets to 4,870
'Unlike other exoplanet-detecting machine learning programs, ExoMiner isn't a black box – there is no mystery as to why it decides something is a planet or not,' one of the study's authors, Jon Jenkins, exoplanet scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in a statement.
'We can easily explain which features in the data lead ExoMiner to reject or confirm a planet.'
There is a slight difference between a 'confirmed' and a 'validated' exoplanet, NASA notes: exoplanets are 'confirmed' when different observation techniques highlight features exhibited only by planets; they are 'validated' when statistics are used.
In the study, ExoMiner used data sets from the Kepler Archive to discover the 301 planets from a much larger set of candidates.
The ExoMiner deep neural network was created using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft and its supercomputer, Pleiades (pictured)
The ExoMiner deep neural network was created using data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft (pictured) and its supercomputer, Pleiades
They were validated by the Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline and promoted to planet candidate status by the Kepler Science Office.
The newly published research shows that the neural network is more consistent and precise when it gets rid of false positives than human scientists.
It also gives the researchers additional detail into why ExoMiner made the decision that it did.
'When ExoMiner says something is a planet, you can be sure it's a planet,' added Hamed Valizadegan, ExoMiner project lead and machine learning manager.
'ExoMiner is highly accurate and in some ways more reliable than both existing machine classifiers and the human experts it's meant to emulate because of the biases that come with human labeling.'
Of the 301 exoplanets that were added to the ever-growing list, none are ' believed to be Earth-like or in the habitable zone of their parent stars,' NASA notes, but some of them share certain characteristics of other exoplanets near Earth.
'These 301 discoveries help us better understand planets and solar systems beyond our own, and what makes ours so unique,' said Jenkins.
The research was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal.
A jaw-dropping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets have recently been added to the total of worlds outside of our Solar System. These planets are just the latest to be added to the staggering number of 4,569 that have already been confirmed.
As for why such a large number of planets were found in a relatively short amount of time, we can thank a new deep neural network named ExoMiner for that help. In fact, ExoMiner has been trained to pick out actual exoplanets from a variety of other space objects or “false positives”. ExoMiner is a huge help considering the tons of data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft and K2 mission which observed thousands of stars – each with the potential of having at least one planet orbiting them.
And it certainly isn’t an easy task as there are confirmed exoplanets and those that are validated, which have two very different meanings. Based on different data statistics, a world can be validated on how likely or unlikely it is to be a planet. But when numerous different observations show definitive planetary features, it is categorized as a confirmed exoplanet.
ExoMiner found the 301 planets by combing through data on planetary candidates in the Kepler Archive. The planets were discovered by the Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline and then the Kepler Science Office categorized them as planet candidate status. Then ExoMiner validated them.
Jon Jenkins, who is an exoplanet scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, discussed the project by explaining, “Unlike other exoplanet-detecting machine learning programs, ExoMiner isn’t a black box – there is no mystery as to why it decides something is a planet or not,” adding, “We can easily explain which features in the data lead ExoMiner to reject or confirm a planet.”
While hundreds of new explanets have been confirmed, experts don’t think that any of them are located in the habitable zone or similar to Earth. Nevertheless, the discovery is certainly very important as Jenkins noted, “These 301 discoveries help us better understand planets and solar systems beyond our own, and what makes ours so unique.”
ExoMiner will also be able to help in other projects as explained by Hamed Valizadegan, who is the ExoMiner project lead and machine learning manager with the Universities Space Research Association at Ames, “Now that we’ve trained ExoMiner using Kepler data, with a little fine-tuning, we can transfer that learning to other missions, including TESS, which we’re currently working on.” “When ExoMiner says something is a planet, you can be sure it’s a planet.”
A Prison on Earth | Alien Conspiracy Documentary via Sci-Fi Central
A Prison on Earth | Alien Conspiracy Documentary via Sci-Fi Central
A Prison On Earth | Alien Conspiracy Documentary via Sci-Fi Central
A Prison on Earth: Beyond The New World Order – In the shadows of other dimensions, there lays a nefarious force waging war upon humans for millennia from the space between spaces – a dark force that governs not just our thoughts and actions but our very souls. The very advent of time began the slave master hierarchy between us and those unseen forces behind our every action and thought.
They built and created “rules” and systems of thought, created kingdoms and spawned religions used to rule the masses from afar by controlling the ebb and flow of space and time on an epic level. Under the guise of “free will” and “individualism” the systems in place around us actually ensure that we have no choice but to comply and obey an underlying agenda that at its core is evil, and have been put in place by beings that feed and are nurtured by the control they maintain over planet Earth.
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Hey, I found a shiny white structure in the middle of a crater on planet Mercury. The object is not just shiny, but has a white myst all around it. This is a white ceramic-like structure. Those are structures that are so white, they reflect the suns light making it near impossible to ever get a photo of them. As you can see for yourself, this structures details are truly hidden from us. According to the ruler on the map, this crater is 100-110km across. That would make this structure 12km across and 10km high. Since its on the floor of the crater, which is about 10-13km deep, its would not be noticed from Earth. This is 100% an alien structure. I stake my reputation on it, and one day, AI will prove me right.
I found this UFO over the NASA Pioneer 1 rocket while I was searching the NASA historical archives. The UFO has two major sections and is very close to the rocket. The UFO is in the perfect location to observe the launch and is recording the data to send back to the alien planet. Knowledge not technology is the thing most valued in the future. The Pioneer was designed to measure radiation between the earth and the moon so that it can be decided how the astronauts would be impacted by space. The results of this mission pave the way to men walking on the moon. History being made, and aliens wanted to witness it firsthand.
On November 23, 2021 an explosive solar flare releases a cloud of ionized gas into space or..... could it be an alien sphere that shoots out of the sun?
Flying Black Triangle with 3 yellow Lights over Port Saint Lucie, Florida
Flying Black Triangle with 3 yellow Lights over Port Saint Lucie, Florida
Check out this video of a triangular-shaped craft sighting over Port Saint Lucie in Florida. This happened back on 7th December 2020 but it was just today submitted to MUFON’s website.
Witness report:
Flying Black Triangle with 3 yellow lights ( 1 light at each point of Triangle ). Intially travelling North and turning to travel West by North West. Craft flew just over tree top level. Craft flew awkwardly as an upright triangle.
(CNN) A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch this week.
The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT (1:20 a.m. ET) on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage of the event will air on NASA TV and the agency's site.
But the true test for this asteroid deflection technology will come in September 2022, when the spacecraft reaches its destination, to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space.
The mission target is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency's first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of planetary defense. It also will be the first time humans have altered the dynamics of a solar system body in a measurable way, according to the European Space Agency.
Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that place them within 30 million miles (48 million kilometers) of Earth. Detecting the threat of near-Earth objects, or NEOs, that could potentially cause grave harm is a primary focus of NASA and other space organizations around the world.
Asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos
In Greek, Didymos means "twin," which is a nod to how the asteroid -- nearly half a mile (0.8 kilometer) across -- forms a binary system with the smaller asteroid, or moon -- 525 feet (160 meters) in diameter -- that was discovered two decades ago. Kleomenis Tsiganis, a planetary scientist at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a member of the DART team, suggested that the moon be named Dimorphos, which means "two forms."
This is an illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos system.
It's the perfect time for the DART mission to occur. Didymos and Dimorphos will be relatively close to Earth -- within 6,835,083 miles (11 million kilometers) -- in September 2022. The spacecraft will come speeding in at about 15,000 miles (24,140 kilometers) per hour, targeting Dimorphos, said Nancy Chabot, DART coordination lead at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
A camera on the spacecraft, called DRACO, and autonomous navigation software will help the spacecraft detect and collide with Dimorphos. DRACO is short for Didymos Reconnaissance & Asteroid Camera for OpNav.
The mission's aim is to deliberately crash into Dimorphos to change the asteroid's motion in space, according to NASA. This collision will be recorded by LICIACube, or Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids, a companion cube satellite provided by the Italian Space Agency. It's the Italian Space Agency's first deep space mission.
The briefcase-size CubeSat will travel on DART and then be deployed from it prior to impact so it can record what happens. Three minutes after the impact, the CubeSat will fly by Dimorphos to capture images and video.
The video of the impact will be streamed back to Earth, which should be "pretty exciting," said Elena Adams, DART mission systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
"Astronomers will be able to compare observations from Earth-based telescopes before and after DART's kinetic impact to determine how much the orbital period of Dimorphos changed," said Tom Statler, DART program scientist at NASA Headquarters, in a statement. "That's the key measurement that will tell us how the asteroid responded to our deflection effort."
A few years after the impact, the European Space Agency's Hera mission will conduct a follow-up investigation of Didymos and Dimorphos.
While the DART mission was developed for NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office and managed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the mission team will work with the Hera mission team under an international collaboration known as the Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment, or AIDA.
"DART is a first step in testing methods for hazardous asteroid deflection," said Andrea Riley, DART program executive at NASA Headquarters, in a statement. "Potentially hazardous asteroids are a global concern, and we are excited to be working with our Italian and European colleagues to collect the most accurate data possible from this kinetic impact deflection demonstration."
A mission of firsts
Dimorphos was chosen for this mission because its size is relative to asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth, but the double asteroid system itself is not a threat to Earth.
The spacecraft is about 100 times smaller than Dimorphos, so it won't obliterate the asteroid.
"This isn't going to destroy the asteroid, it's just going to give it a small nudge and deflect its path around the larger asteroid," Chabot said. This means there isn't a chance of changing the trajectory of the asteroid to make it more of a threat.
The fast impact will only change Dimorphos' speed as it orbits Didymos by 1%, which doesn't sound like a lot -- but it will change the moon's orbital period by more than a minute. That change can be observed and measured from ground-based telescopes on Earth.
Dimorphos completes an orbit around Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. If the impact is successful, it will change that period by at least 73 seconds, said Andy Cheng, DART investigation team lead at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
Measuring the momentum transfer between the spacecraft and Dimorphos will show how much is needed to change the course of an asteroid.
"If one day an asteroid is discovered on a collision course with Earth, then we will have an idea how much momentum we need to make that asteroid miss the Earth," Cheng said.
Planetary defense strategies
While there are currently no asteroids on a direct impact course with Earth, there is a large population of near-Earth asteroids -- more than 27,000 in all shapes and sizes.
"The key to planetary defense is finding them well before they are an impact threat," said Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer at NASA Headquarters. "The principle with all of them is just to change the orbital speed of the asteroid just a small amount. Changing that speed of the asteroid in its orbit changes its orbit so in the future, it won't be in the same place it was going to be to impact the Earth."
Three years after the impact, Hera will arrive to study Dimorphos in detail, measuring physical properties of the moon, studying the DART impact and the moon's orbit.
This may sound like a long time to wait between the impact and follow-up, but it's based on lessons learned in the past.
In July 2005, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft launched a 815-pound (370-kilogram) copper impact into a comet, Tempel 1. But the spacecraft was not able to see the crater that resulted because the impact released tons of dust and ice. However, NASA's Stardust mission in 2011 was able to characterize the impact -- a 492-foot (150-meter) gash.
Together, the valuable data collected by DART and Hera will contribute to planetary defense strategies, especially understanding what kind of force is needed to shift the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid that may collide with our planet.
After analyzing the results of the mission, "this technique would be a part of a toolbox that we're starting to build of capabilities to deflect an asteroid," Johnson said.
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De DART is geworpen: NASA lanceert sonde die opzettelijk met asteroïde moet crashen en die van pad moet doen afwijken
De DART is geworpen: NASA lanceert sonde die opzettelijk met asteroïde moet crashen en die van pad moet doen afwijken
De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA en ruimtebedrijf SpaceX hebben om 7.20 uur Belgische tijd ruimtesonde DART, afkorting voor Double Asteroid Redirection Test, gelanceerd. DART zal een opmerkelijke test uitvoeren waarbij het opzettelijk tegen een ruimterots botst om te kijken of de koers ervan veranderd kan worden.
Bron:ANP, Belga
De sonde werd vanop de basis Vandenberg in Californië gelanceerd door een draagraket van het type Falcon-9 van SpaceX, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Elon Musk. De eerste rakettrap keerde terug en landde keurig op het droneschip Of Course I Still Love You dat in de Stille Oceaan dobberde. Het was de derde missie van deze trap. De afscheiding van de tweede rakettrap vond om 08.17 uur Belgische tijd plaats. Twee uur later ontplooiden zich met succes de meer dan negentien meter lange zonnepanelen.
Aarde beschermen tegen naderende asteroïden
In oktober 2022 moet de sonde dan de asteroïde Dimorphos raken, die zich op elf miljoen kilometer van de aarde bevindt. Met de DART-missie, die ongeveer 330 miljoen dollar (290 miljoen euro) kost, hoopt de NASA inzicht te krijgen in de manieren waarop de aarde kan worden beschermd tegen naderende asteroïden. Hergebruik van raketonderdelen drukt daarbij de lanceerkosten.
Zoals de naam doet vermoeden, is het doel van de DART-missie tweeledig: de grote asteroïde Didymos met een diameter van 780 meter en de maan Dimorphos, een maan met een diameter van 160 meter die rond die andere asteroïde draait. Op die maan zal de sonde, die aan een snelheid van 24.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte vliegt, tot stilstand komen. Vervolgens gaan de wetenschappers na of de maan door de impact een beetje uit haar baan rond Didymos wordt geslagen. Zoiets is nog nooit geprobeerd.
De bestemming Dimorphos vormt volgens de NASA geen bedreiging voor de aarde. “Het stelsel is een perfecte plek om te testen of het mogelijk is om de koers van een asteroïde te veranderen door er moedwillig een ruimtevaartuig op in te laten slaan”, aldus de organisatie. De sonde zal de asteroïde niet vernietigen, maar slechts een kleine schok toedienen. Als er ooit een asteroïde op ramkoers ligt met de aarde, hebben wetenschappers een idee hoeveel kracht nodig is om haar onze planeet te doen missen.
Ruwweg vier jaar na de impact zal het HERA-project van het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA beide hemellichamen gedetailleerd observeren, met bijzondere aandacht voor de veroorzaakte krater en een precieze vaststelling van de massa van de maan. Op zijn beurt zal de sonde de Europese Cubesats Milani en Juventas uitzetten. HERA is zelf een Cubesat die 800 kilo weegt en in 2024 vertrekt. Het Belgische bedrijf Spacebel participeert toonaangevend in HERA. Het ontwikkelde de software voor de sonde en is ook verantwoordelijk voor de vluchtleiding die in Redu gevestigd zal zijn.
Hoe moet ik mij de DART-missie voorstellen?
Nog geen enkele dreiging
Voorlopig is er überhaupt nog geen enkele dreiging voor de aarde, benadrukt de ruimtevaartorganisatie. Rond de zon draaien miljarden asteroïden en kometen. Enkele tienduizenden daarvan zouden ooit een gevaar voor de aarde kunnen vormen, maar die komen in elk geval de komende honderd jaar niet bij ons in de buurt.
Since the 1980s, sightings of large, triangular-shaped UFOs, usually described as being black in color, making a low humming noise, and very often with rounded rather than angled corners, have been reported throughout the world. The sheer proliferation of such reports has led some ufological commentators to strongly suspect that the Flying Triangles (as they have come to be known) are prime examples of still-classified aircraft, the development of which was secretly begun in the 1980s by elements of the U.S. Department of Defense. Largely, UFO researchers are split into two camps: that the Flying Triangles are the creations of the American military or that have been flown by extraterrestrials. There is, however, another theory for all of this mystery. It’s a theory that pops up now and again; however. It is tied to the issue of nothing less than time-travel. I must stress that the theory was addressed in the early part of the 1990s, but faded away. The theory also kind of vanished into the woods – so to speak, and quite literally – of England’s Cannock Chase expansive woods.
The late Omar Fowler, a UFO expert who died in 2017, had a theory that the so-called Flying Triangles just might be nothing less than the aerial vehicles of time travelers. Fowler had a good reason for that. On one occasion, in September 1992, over a large area of woodland in central England called the Cannock Chase, Omar secured a piece of testimony from a man named Alan Ball. He agreed to meet Ball on the Chase one morning. Incredibly, Ball claimed that he was taken on-board a huge, black, Flying Triangle late one night – and while he was driving home – when he was “beamed into” the craft and subjected to a series of medical experiments by three small, humanoid figures in what “looked like a medical lab.”
(Nick Redfern)
The late U.K. researcher, Omar Fowler, with a model of a “Flying Triangle”-type UFO
Ten or fifteen minutes into the experimentation, Ball claimed that his mind was flooded by images of the U.K., in ruins. It was a definitive Armageddon: buildings, in all directions, were destroyed; charred human bodies lay everywhere; and it was clear that a nuclear event occurred. And the assumption was that the event was not alone. That the U.K. – and possible everywhere else – had been destroyed. After having the terrifying vision, Ball was dropped off the craft – literally, from a door about five feet above the woods. Ball was in a state of terror – and for several days. Particularly of interest is the fact that Fowler had in his files two extremely similar cases – and also at the Cannock Chase woods – of people taken onto Flying Triangles and exposed to images in their minds of a massive apocalypse. Fowler was still open on the idea that the Flying Triangles could be extraterrestrial in nature. However, he wasn’t able to shake off the disturbing possibility the craft were piloted by time travelers, and that what Ball and the two other people were seeing was a future still to come – and that all three victims had been taken to the future and then returned to in 1992. Should we consider those who pilot the Flying Triangles to be us, but from a faraway time?Maybe, so. To a degree, Omar Fowler did.
(Nick Redfern)
The lair of the Flying Triangles at England’s Cannock Chase
Admittedly, there is no reason why such a theory should be dismissed and tossed away. And, indeed, there is the intriguing fact that the Flying Triangles look like next-generation versions of our “Stealth” bombers and “Stealth” fighters. Moreover, the very fact that the FTs look like they came from our world – but from an Earth far ahead of us, time-wise – is yet another reason to think the Flying Triangles are flown by people just like us. Could they be historians? Looking to prevent us from destroying ourselves? The theories are many. The answers, though, are most definitely not.
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Enorme schachtengordel bij Stonehenge wel degelijk gegraven door mensen
De grootste prehistorische structuur ooit gevonden in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Zo omschreven archeologen vorig jaar in juni de vondst van de merkwaardige kring van diepe schachten rond de oude nederzetting Durrington Walls, op zo’n drie kilometer ten noordoosten van Stonehenge. Sommige collega’s waren sceptisch, maar nieuw onderzoek toont aan dat de neolithische kuilen wel degelijk door mensen zijn gemaakt.
De sceptici deden vorig jaar smalend over de ontdekking en waren ervan overtuigd dat de putten, die een cirkel vormen met een diameter van twee kilometer, op natuurlijke wijze waren ontstaan. Maar dat is nu wetenschappelijk weerlegd: het zijn met zekerheid mensenhanden die de schachten hebben gegraven, zo’n 4.500 jaar geleden. Dezelfde periode waarin ook het prehistorische en mysterieuze stenen monument Stonehenge is opgetrokken.
Precies in het centrum van de enorme schachtengordel ligt de nederzetting Durrington Walls, wat doet vermoeden dat het een heilige plek was. De archeologische site ligt ongeveer 3 kilometer ten noordoosten van Stonehenge op Salisbury Plain, nabij Amesbury in Wiltshire.
Wetenschappers analyseerden negen schachten, bijna de helft van de 20 die werden gevonden. “Ze zijn allemaal hetzelfde”, zegt professor Vincent Gaffney van de universiteit van Bradford. “Dat betekent dus eigenlijk dat dit één enorme structuur is.” Elke kuil is ongeveer 10 meter breed en 5 meter diep. De wetenschap staaft de theorie dat de neolithische mensen die Stonehenge bouwden, ook dit monument hebben gegraven.
De ondergrondse cirkel, tot vorig jaar onbekend, is twintig keer groter dan Stonehenge. De ontdekking levert nieuw bewijs voor het vermoeden dat vroege bewoners van Groot-Brittannië, voornamelijk boerengemeenschappen, een manier hadden ontwikkeld om te tellen, door honderden passen af te leggen om de kuilen af te meten. Mogelijk had de begrenzing van de schachten een kosmologische betekenis, terwijl Stonehenge duidelijk in verband stond met zonnewendes.
Het grondonderzoek gebeurde met de nieuwste teledetectietechnologieën, die zelfs na duizenden jaren kunnen aanwijzen waar de grond is verstoord en toelaten te achterhalen wanneer sediment voor het laatst aan daglicht werd blootgesteld. Over de uitgevoerde testen zei onderzoeksleider Tim Kinnaird van de universiteit van St Andrew dat ze “onomstotelijk bewijzen dat de kuilen dateren van rond 2400 voor Christus”. Uitvoerige analyse in het laboratorium bevestigde verder dat “dit geen natuurlijke fenomenen waren”. Dan zouden ze verschillende afmetingen moeten hebben, zoals dat het geval is met zinkgaten. Volgens de onderzoeksdata werden de schachten gebruikt van de late steentijd tot de midden-bronstijd. Daarna liet men ze dichtslibben, aldus Kinnaird. Ze werden dus nog “na de monumentfase van Stonehenge onderhouden”.
UFO Makes 90 Degree Turn Near Sun, Nov 10, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Makes 90 Degree Turn Near Sun, Nov 10, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Nov 10, 2021 Location of sighting: Earths Sun Source: Helioviewer.org
This may appear as nothing to most people, but to me, it's 100% proof that UFOs exist near our sun. You see, nothing made in nature could make a hard right turn in space, and yet, we see that here. Clearly there is only a single explanation for it...that it's an intelligently controlled spacecraft. Thats why I recorded it and posted it here. Its undeniable proof that intelligent space faring aliens exist in our solar system. And that is important to know.
Silent black mass 'boomerang shaped, slowly traveled southeast above Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Vector shaped object photographed over Santa Cruz, California and strange rotating lights in the sky caught on security camera in South Chesterfield, Virginia.
Ancient Aliens: UFO Captured on Camera in Puerto Rico (Season 16) | History
Ancient Aliens: UFO Captured on Camera in Puerto Rico (Season 16) | History
UFO experts confirm the origins of strange objects captured on camera by NASA during a 1996 mission in Puerto Rico, in this clip from Season 16, "The Space Travelers."
Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at
In the twenty-first century, the world has been swamped with various accounts of extraterrestrial interaction with people on the planet Earth, and it has been suggested that there is perhaps too much information available for people to take the phenomenon seriously, particularly as so much of it is false.
According to several experts and conspirators, there are approximately 82 documented extra-terrestrial races that have developed direct or indirect communication with us. Proof such as declassified papers, photographs, and videos can be seen all over the world. Normally, while looking for any sort of evidence linked to extraterrestrial existence, we do this through three key channels. The first involves abductees and contactees, as well as observers to the UFO phenomena. The second arises from informants who might involve retired government employees or military officers.
Workers digging on the property of an old spinning factory in Turkey in an area that had not been used in over 30 years found a mysterious intact skeleton of a strange looking creature with long hind legs, short front ones, pointy nails instead of feet and extremely sharp teeth. Better yet (for investigators, at least), the skeleton had some flesh still intact. Dinosaur? Mutant? Or should we start the countdown … 3-2-1 … is this the first known skeleton of a Chupacabra (ignoring the fact that it was found in Turkey, not Texas or Puerto Rico)?
“We especially noticed that its hind legs are long. We informed the authorities that it might be an interesting species, since its feet are not hooves but nails and have sharp teeth. Controls will be carried out, we are also curious. I hope something interesting will come out and be useful to science.”
Sharp teeth did you say?
Yusuf Kıtay, the operating officer of the excavation, said the workers found the animal skeleton while they were working in an area that has not been used for the last 30-40 years outside a factory in Iğdır, a far eastern near the border with Armenia. The long-tailed skeleton was of a creature that would have stood about one meter (3.3 feet) tall and appears to have died recently. While the long hind legs might suggest it was a kangaroo, the head is the wrong shape entirely for it to be an Australian marsupial. Kitay did the right thing – he had the workers carefully remove the skeleton intact from the site and, after photographing it (a series of photos can be seen here), delivered the remains to the Iğdır University’s Biodiversity Application and Research Center.
It’s not THAT big
“Then we will ensure that this skeleton is preserved in a museum.”
So this is not just a deformed stray animal but something that is museum quality? That sounds strange. Which museum? Archeology World reports that Belkıs Muca Yiğit, a lecturer at Iğdır University, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that researchers there would attempt to identify the species of the animal and then donate it to a museum. That’s curious … it it’s an out-of-place animal like an escaped pet, why donate it to a museum? If it’s indeed the most well-preserved dinosaur skeleton complete with DNA-filled flesh, why not study it more? If it’s cryptid (note: there were no telltale dead livestock reported), why not announce the unique discovery in a three-part miniseries on some cable channel? And why have there been no further updates besides the initial report over a week ago? Is this the victim of some sort of radiation leak or worse – a strange experiment?
This could just be a misshapen common animal or an escaped pet. The secrecy makes it questionable. Let’s hope we get an update soon.
Something Weird Is Happening on the Moon's Far Side
Something Weird Is Happening on the Moon's Far Side
When we look at the Moon, we only see its one side. The other lunar hemisphere, known as the far side, or the dark side of the Moon, is always hidden from us. In 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts heard something unusual on the far side of the Moon. Apollo 10 lost contact with the mission control and started receiving a mysterious radio signal.
This signal could not be from the Earth because Apollo was on the far side of the Moon, and no one on the planet could see or contact them. The astronauts heard the spooky sounds for about an hour until they emerged to the side of the Moon facing the Earth.
However, the astronauts did not report this to the mission control because they were scared and thought they would be grounded on mental health issues. For more than four decades, people believed that the mission went according to the plan. There was nothing weird about it. Then, finally, the incident came to light when the recorded transcripts were declassified. Now the question that everyone wanted an answer to was, What was there on the Moon’s far side?
Was someone really trying to contact the astronauts? What was the source of the unusual sounds? Before answering all these intriguing questions, let’s see what’s there on the far side of the Moon.
This is an absolutely mind-blowing photo of a UFO that had made a cloud cloak around it. The eyewitness states, "I was just a cloud, but it looked like a UFO." Well she might be in for a surprise because she recorded an alien disk hiding inside of cloud shield. You see, the metallic disk inside has an energy shield around it protecting it, but this shield can also hold smoke within it. Thus...alien ships that have to fly too low and are too big will put in the effort to hide from human eyes by hiding within a DIY cloud. Except humanity is getting wise to alien tactics and our cameras are snapping daily worldwide. This is an alien craft over the beach in UK. Its 100% proof that the UK is visited frequently by UFOs and that they often are headed to underwater bases on the ocean floor off the UK coast. Cant miss a 700 meter UFO passing overhead can you? Well, aliens think you will.
Recent UFO videos released by the US government tracking on infrared video a UFO...showed a UFO that tried to make a smoke trail in order to distract the military plane tracking it. Also in Sept 1957 a US Army private was on guard duty and took photos of a ring UFO...clearly showing the craft before during and after it made the clouds around it to hide within. Proof...we already have the proof.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was at Seaham beach yesterday afternoon in northeast UK. It was just a cloud but I thought it looked like a UFO.
Lights Over Chesterfield, Virginia Nov 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Lights Over Chesterfield, Virginia Nov 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 18, 2021 Location of sighting: Chesterfield, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON
These bright lights were seen in Virginia a few days ago. They appear similar to searchlights but should not be mistaken for them. Such lights have been seen over the ocean by sailers, where there was nothing but water. These lights flew intentionally and were recorded at 11 pm when most people would be home sleeping. I have confidence that these were actual alien craft.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Similar lights were reported 30 miles away. Caught on security camera. First video shows one set of lights coming in from the right joining the set over the houses. The set appears to grow after that.
White Orb Over Paris, France On Nov 8, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
White Orb Over Paris, France On Nov 8, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 8, 2021
Location of sighting: Paris, France
Source: MUFON
This week a white orb was recorded flying over Paris this week. The orb seemed to glow even during the day and move as if it were intelligently controlled. These orbs appear white when far away, taking on the color of clouds, and are easily seen when traveling between clouds with a blue sky behind them. Most often they hide within the edges of clouds, recording and observing.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Big lighting ball flying down the clouds. was just looking outside from my apartment, then i saw something like a flying.
Astronauts Confess about Mysterious Things They’ve Seen and Experienced in Space!
Astronauts Confess about Mysterious Things They’ve Seen and Experienced in Space!
Anyone who has ever had the indescribable good fortune to fly into space has always described the experience as incomparably memorable.
The majestic view of our home planet as it spins in space, so quiet and peaceful from a distance, is likely to have left a lasting impression on all astronauts.
However, not all reports of the space travelers' experiences paint such a peaceful picture. In fact, some astronauts have already reported inexplicable, sometimes eerie experiences that have happened to them in space.
Now you too can hear about the mysterious reports that have made our jaws drop!
Massive UFO: daytime sighting over Rome, Italy 16-Nov-2021
Massive UFO: daytime sighting over Rome, Italy 16-Nov-2021
Here’s one really interesting daytime footage of a huge UFO hiding in a clouds over Rome in Italy. It was taken on Snapchat as soon as the witness spotted it.
Scientists warn that without good biosecurity measures, 'alien organisms' on Earth may become a reality stranger than fiction.
Published in international journal BioScience, a team of scientists, including Dr. Phill Cassey, Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Adelaide, are calling for greater recognition of the biosecurity risks ahead of the space industry.
"In addition to government-led space missions, the arrival of private companies such as SpaceX has meant there are now more players in space exploration than ever before," said Associate Professor Cassey. "We need to take action now to mitigate those risks."
Space biosecurity concerns itself with both the transfer of organisms from Earth to space (forward contamination) and vice-versa (backward contamination). While the research points out that at present the risk of alien organisms surviving the journey is low, it's not impossible.
Dr. Cassey said: "Risks that have low probability of occurrence, but have the potential for extreme consequences, are at the heart of biosecurity management. Because when things go wrong, they go really wrong."
The research provides clear evidence of how humans have spread organisms to the remotest regions of the earth and sea, and even into space.
To address the risks of invasive species from space travel, the authors suggest the emerging field of 'invasion science', which deals with the causes and consequences of introducing organisms into new environments, could offer valuable learnings. This includes the fact that insular systems such as islands, lakes, and remote habitats, are most vulnerable to invasion threats.
Further insights that could be applied include protocols for early detection, hazard assessment, rapid response and containment procedures currently used in response to invasive species threats.
Dr. Cassey said: "It is far cheaper to prevent biological contamination by implementing protocols on Earth than it is on Mars, for example."
Both Dr. Cassey and co-author Dr. Andrew Woolnough from the University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide suggest that with some of the best biosecurity in the world Australia is well-positioned to contribute expertise in this area.
"We have a fantastic opportunity to contribute to international policy and to develop biosecurity mitigation measures that can be used by the expanding private space industry. This is an untapped economic development opportunity," Dr. Woolnough said.
Despite the value to space biosecurity, the authors state that invasion biologists have yet to be involved in Committee on Space Research Planetary Protection planning. In the research they argue this should change because "greater collaboration between invasion biologists and astrobiologists would enhance existing international protocols for planetary biosecurity—both for Earth and for extraterrestrial bodies that could contain life".
One of the brutal truths about getting things off the Earth and into space is contained in something called The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, which, to put it absurdly simply, means that most of the volume of a rocket leaving Earth will be needed for fuel. That’s why the rockets you see are huge towers of fuel and oxidizer with just a little area up top for the payload. A startup company calledSpinLaunchis hoping to work around this grim equation by spinning rockets really, really fast in a circle. That name may have given it away?
The process is known as “kinetic launching” and utilizes a huge electric motor-powered centrifuge called the Suborbital Accelerator, which looks kind of like a turbocharger the size of the Statue of Liberty.
The Suborbital Accelerator is a huge vacuum chamber (i.e. there’s no air to create aerodynamic drag) with a carbon fiber rotating-arm style centrifuge inside it. The arm spins the payload (which can include a second-stage rocket to potentially reach orbit) and then a high-precision mechanical release flings it out of that tube, where it then shoots out into space.
Image: SpinLaunch
The current Suborbital Accelerator is about one-third the scale of the planned final one, and for this test the accelerator was only spun up to about 20 percent of its capacity, which was all that was needed to send the 10 foot test payload up those tens of thousands of feet.
Plans for a much larger Orbital Accelerator show a bigger angled vacuum chamber and release tube:
Image: SpinLaunch
Essentially, the big spinner is taking the place of a conventional rocket’s massive and fuel-thirsty first stage, allowing for much smaller rockets with much better fuel-to-payload ratios to be developed.
Here’s a video SpinLaunch released of their test:
I’m guessing that membrane the rocket bursts through is there to maintain the vacuum chamber integrity, and is not just for dramatic effect?
Image: SpinLaunch
The proposed launch vehicle does have a pleasingly old-school aesthetic about it, looking like a carbon-fiber Buck Rogers kind of deal:
Image: SpinLaunch
The company claims that adapting satellites and other space hardware for the high-G spinning process is no big deal:
This engineering process has been used to develop high-g reaction wheels for 20kg and 200kg-class satellites, deployable solar arrays and electric propulsion modules. Even unmodified smartphones, action cameras, and telescope lenses have survived without damage. In comparison to mechanical systems, electronics are surprisingly simple to ruggedize for kinetic launch. Because of the relatively low mass of resistors, capacitors, and electronic chips, many existing designs can be flown without any substantial modifications.
I suspect that this method wouldn’t be suitable for crewed launches, though.
The company has already raised about $35 million, and they have a Department of Defense launch contract, so maybe we’ll be seeing more things yeeted into earth orbit in this massive mechanical discus style.
An emissions-free space launch system will be popular as the world strives to become more environmentally friendly. SpinLaunch claims that in the future, it will be able to launch complete constellations of satellites into the atmosphere’s most mission-critical layers.
The corporation also notes that in the future, when vast numbers of people are flying into space, structures, equipment, and supplies will need to be launched.
That comment appears to imply that SpinLaunch envisions a future in which it will be able to launch items heavier than 440 pounds satellites. The launch system’s development began in 2015. SpinLaunch’s accelerator achieved a record for the fastest spinning tip speeds two years after the project began. However, the launch last month was the most significant milestone in the project’s history.
It is uncertain how big the orbital-class accelerator should be. The suborbital accelerator is 50.4 metres tall, and the orbital-class accelerator would definitely be far larger. To put things into perspective, the Statue of Liberty is 46 metres tall. SpinLaunch claims that their suborbital technology will be valuable in the long run as a satellite qualifying facility.
The newly-discovered octopus species inhabits the shallow waters off southwest Australia and belongs to the Octopus vulgaris group, according to a new paper published in the journal Zootaxa.
The star octopus (Octopus djinda).
Image credit: Mark Norman / Amor & Hart, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.1.7.
“Benthic shallow-water species are among the most studied and best understood octopods, and are, therefore, of high interest to researchers and fishers,” said Dr. Michael Amor from the Western Australian Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Dr. Anthony Hart from the Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratory.
“This attention can lead to an improved understanding of species boundaries and distributions, including the potential identification of cryptic taxa.”
“Cryptic speciation is common among octopods and examples are prevalent throughout the order Octopoda.”
“Octopuses have few hard body parts or diagnostic taxonomic traits. Further, morphological plasticity that is linked to local environmental conditions and the limited utility of traditional molecular markers have compounded our likely underestimation of species richness among octopods.”
“Within Octopoda, perhaps the most iconic example of this phenomenon is observed among members of the Octopus vulgaris group,” they added.
“This species-group represents one of the greatest octopus fisheries targets, and are of broad scientific interest (e.g., cell biology, environmental science, fisheries research, neuroscience, physiology, robotics).”
The newly-discovered species is conspecific with another member of the Octopus vulgaris group — the common Sydney octopus (Octopus tetricus) from Australia’s east coast and New Zealand — but is morphologically and genetically distinct.
Named the star octopus (Octopus djinda), the marine creature is distributed along the southwest coast of Australia, from Shark Bay to Cape Le Grand.
“This distribution closely reflects the territory of the traditional custodians of this land, the Nyoongar people (‘a person of the southwest of Western Australia’),” the researchers said.
“To recognize their connection to this land, a Nyoongar translation of ‘star’ (djinda) was selected as a species name. This use of ‘star’ (luminous) reflects the shared recent ancestry with, and now-understood distinction from, Octopus tetricus.”
The new species is a medium to large octopus, with a mantle length of 10.9-17.7 cm (4.3-7 inches).
“Octopus djinda supports a highly productive fishery and is currently one of two octopod fisheries worldwide to have received sustainable certification from the Marine Stewardship Council,” the scientists said.
“Its taxonomic description provides formal recognition of the taxonomic status of southwest Australia’s common octopus, Octopus djinda, and facilitates appropriate fisheries catch reporting and management.”
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Michael D. Amor & Anthony M. Hart. 2021. Octopus djinda (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae): a new member of the Octopus vulgaris group from southwest Australia. Zootaxa 5061 (1): 145-156; doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.1.7
UFO Shoots Past Saturn, Aug 21, 2021, -VIDEO - UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Past Saturn, Aug 21, 2021, -VIDEO - UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: August 21, 2021
Location of sighting: Saturn
This eyewitness was watching Saturn through his telescope when he caught a strange large object shoot past the northern pole of the planet. The object was huge, about the size of a moon, yet its not in orbit around the planet, but instead skims the polar region and then began to slowly pull up as it passed the pole. The object is thin, about 1/5th the thickness as it is long. What this is...is unknown, but its size, shape and speed all point to this being an alien craft.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This truly is REAL untouched footage of something unidentified captured on camera. most likely something natural within the realm of science. again this is just a video for clickbait meant to reach more people with an interest in authentic astronomical observations.
Scientists Warn of “Alien” Invasions and the Need for Planetary Biosecurity
Scientists Warn of “Alien” Invasions and the Need for Planetary Biosecurity
ByAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The danger isn’t from little green men arriving on flying saucers but, rather, from microbiological contamination of Earth from extraterrestrial environments and vice versa.
The era of space exploration brings with it a new risk: invasion. The peril comes not from little green men arriving on flying saucers but, rather, from microbiological contamination of Earth from extraterrestrial environments and vice versa. Writing in BioScience, Anthony Ricciardi, of McGill University, and colleagues describe the dangers posed by such organisms and outline an approach to address the threat.
The authors caution that biological contamination endangers both ecosystems and human well-being. “Owing to their massive costs to resource sectors and human health, biological invasions are a global biosecurity issue requiring rigorous transboundary solutions,” say Ricciardi and colleagues. And that threat may be more immediate than previously anticipated. Despite considerable microbial caution among space agencies, say the authors, “bacterial strains exhibiting extreme resistance to ionizing radiation, desiccation, and disinfectants have been isolated in NASA ‘clean rooms’ used for spacecraft assembly.”
The Earth against a sea of bacteria. Scientists have warned that space agencies must be aware of the potential contamination of our planet with bacteria from space.
However, outlined within the article is a possible approach to addressing this alarming scenario: the emergent field of invasion science, in which practitioners study the causes and consequences of organism introductions beyond their evolved ranges. “Research in invasion science has produced novel insights for epidemiology, rapid evolution, the relationship between biodiversity and community stability, and the dynamics of predator–prey and parasite–host interactions, among many other concepts,” say Ricciardi and colleagues. They go on to explain that “Protocols for early detection, hazard assessment, rapid response, and containment procedures currently employed for invasive species on Earth could be adapted for dealing with potential extraterrestrial contaminants.”
The authors highlight a number of insights from invasion science that could be brought to bear on issues of space biosecurity, such as the fact that insular systems such as islands, lakes, and remote habitats are most vulnerable to invasion threats. Similarly, invasion biology has delivered insights about the difficulty of invasion forecasting and the crucial importance of early detection in managing microbial threats. Ricciardi and colleagues suggest that portable real-time DNA sequencing technologies, coupled with databases of known organismal contaminants, could enable rapid responses.
Despite their value for space biosecurity, the authors state that invasion biologists have yet to be involved in Committee on Space Research planning. This should change soon, they argue, because “greater collaboration between invasion biologists and astrobiologists would enhance existing international protocols for planetary biosecurity—both for Earth and for extraterrestrial bodies that could contain life.”
Reference:
“Planetary Biosecurity: Applying Invasion Science to Prevent Biological Contamination from Space Travel” 17 November 2021, BioScience. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab115
We’re Constantly Battling Invasive Species Here on Earth. What Does That Teach us About Infecting Other Worlds With Earth Life?
Featured Image: Beavers are an invasive species in Tierra del Fuego, where they have a substantial impact on the landscape and local ecology through their dams.
Credit: User:IlyaHaykinson (Wikimedia Commons)
We’re Constantly Battling Invasive Species Here on Earth. What Does That Teach us About Infecting Other Worlds With Earth Life?
When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned from the Moon in the summer of 1969, they spent three weeks isolated in quarantine to make sure that they hadn’t brought back any microbial lifeforms from the Moon, which could prove harmful to Earth life. Later, once the Moon had been unequivocally proved to be a dead world, future Apollo missions were allowed to skip quarantine. Elsewhere in the solar system, however, NASA still has to take planetary biosecurity seriously, because life could be out there. If we bring it back to Earth, it could be a danger to us and our ecosystems. Conversely, microbial Earth life could invade a fragile alien ecosystem, destroying a newly discovered lifeform before we have the chance to study it. Imagine discovering life on Mars, only to realize that it was life we had brought there with us.
To prevent these scenarios, planetary protection strategies are employed by NASA and other space agencies worldwide to minimize the risk of interplanetary cross-contamination. Mars rovers, for example, are all meticulously decontaminated before launch, ensuring that no Earth life makes its way to the surface of Mars.
For the moment, these practices are a safeguard against a purely hypothetical risk – no one knows if life exists beyond Earth. But if it does, we need to be ready for the consequences.
Technicians and engineers in clean-room garb monitor the first drive test of NASA’s Curiosity rover, on July 23, 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
How do you prepare for something that might not exist? By examining something that does. Invasive species are a major problem worldwide. Human trade and travel imports species – often by accident – from one corner of the world to another. The effects can be devastating, wiping out local flora and fauna, reducing biodiversity, and forever altering ecosystems. What lessons can we learn from these very real challenges, to help us prepare for the possibility of an interplanetary equivalent?
A paper published in BioScience on November 17th by Anthony Ricciardi, Phillip Cassey, Stefan Leuko, and Andrew Woolnough examines this question and lays out several takeaways from the battle against invasive species here on Earth that apply to space exploration. Three highlights from the paper stand out:
Insular systems are the most vulnerable: Remote islands, small isolated lakes, or remote habitats are always hit hardest by invasive species. New predators can throw off the balance of these isolated ecosystems, destroying them quickly and ruthlessly. On a planetary scale, this means that we are more of a threat to small microbial ecosystems that might exist on Mars, Europa, or Titan, for example, then they are to us. Earth’s interconnected biodiversity is a safeguard that might protect us from an invasive alien species. But it is all the more important that we take care not to destroy any isolated lifeform we might find elsewhere in the Solar System, because it may not take much.
Invasions are often caused by the least secure human activities, so fix the weak links in our practices: Planetary protection practices (like disinfecting the Mars rovers) kill off less dangerous microbes, but the hardiest one can survive. It is these extremophiles who pose the most risk to alien ecosystems. In our attempt to sterilize the rovers, we put microbes through a life-or-death test. Any that survive sterilization face another test on route, being exposed to deep space radiation. Only the strongest microbes will ever make it to Mars. If we’re not careful, our incomplete attempts to clean the rovers might actually enhance an organism’s tolerance and invasion potential. This is bad news, and means we need to get better at detecting microbes to make sure our sterilization efforts are as rigorous as possible and eliminate even these super-resilient microbes.
Early detection and rapid response are crucial: When invasive species reach a new destination, they are easiest to stop if caught early. A delayed response only makes the problem worse. Research into new detection techniques will be vital to preventing cross-contamination of lifeforms, and to reduce the instances of misidentifying invasive species.
It’s clear that we need to take planetary protection seriously, but how worried about this problem should we be, especially as more and more missions travel to potentially habitable places in the Solar System in the coming years? Are interplanetary invasions likely?
Luckily, the answer is ‘not likely’. But that doesn’t mean we can let our guard down, because if it does happen, the outcome could be devastating. As the paper’s authors put it, “at present, these are considered to be highly improbable events…However, we suggest that these biological invasion scenarios are analogous to extreme natural or technological disasters (e.g., major earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns) that, although typically rare, have potential consequences that are unacceptable and therefore merit unique safeguards.”
If battling invasive species on Earth has taught us anything, its that transporting organisms to new ecosystems can have enormous unintended consequences. But by taking precautions and working together, we can minimize the risk, exploring the Solar System while keeping both ourselves, and any potential alien lifeforms, safe from each other.
ASTRONOMER: HUNT FOR ET CAN UNIFY SCIENCE AND RELIGION
ASTRONOMER: HUNT FOR ET CAN UNIFY SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Avi Loeb told The Hill that the Galileo Project, which looks for physical evidence of extraterrestrials, could answer religious questions as well as science ones
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, spoke at a recent Ignatius Forum on his differences with “the scientific mainstream” about the evidence for extraterrestrial life. Perhaps in part because the venue was the Washington National Cathedral, Loeb felt motivated to reflect on the religious as well as the science implications of a search for extraterrestrial life.
Avi Loeb
As a member of Harvard University’s Galileo Project which seeks to “bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends into the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research,” he shared his thoughts with The Hill, which covers the U.S. Congress:
In finding advanced extraterrestrial intelligence, religion might simply reflect advanced science with a twist. Traditional religions described God as the creator of the universe and life within it. They also suggested that humans were made in the image of God. But these notions are not necessarily in contradiction with science. A sufficiently advanced scientific civilization might be able to create synthetic life in its laboratories — in fact, some of our terrestrial laboratories almost reached that threshold. And with a good understanding of how to unify quantum-mechanics and gravity, an advanced scientific civilization could potentially create a baby universe in its laboratories. Therefore, an advanced scientific civilization might be a good approximation to God.
Loeb told Cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith that he is not himself a “person of faith.” But one must assume that he means simply that he is not an adherent of a traditional religious belief system. The extraterrestrials he describes are currently as much a belief system as any other; they are not, of course, traditional.
In a proposal that might puncture the dreams of many young space cadets, he recommends sending artificial intelligence (AI) astronauts to explore space because “humans were selected by Darwinian evolution to survive on the surface of Earth and not in space.”
He also hopes that the hunt for ET will unify science and religion:
How can we unify religion and science? By finding AI-astronauts from a scientific civilization that is far more advanced than we are. The Galileo Project aims to search for extraterrestrial equipment near Earth.
The question remains: Did God — in its religious or scientific interpretations — create humans in its image or did humans imagine the concept of God in their mind? The Galileo Project can address the scientific context of this question.
So the Galileo Project, which looks for physical evidence of extraterrestrials, aims to answer religious questions as well as science ones. That’s clearly an alternative to refuting or replacing religious belief.
There seems to be something of a sea change going on in science these days. In neuroscience, we see the growth of panpsychism (everything participates in consciousness). And in cosmology, fewer scientists seem to think we can do without any source of intelligence at all. That would account for the growing popularity of the idea that advanced extraterrestrials created or fine-tuned our universe. As noted here earlier:
Nick Bostrom at Oxford’sFuture of Humanity Instituteis a key proponent of this view, best known to the public from the film The Matrix (1999). The term red pill is from that film.Elon Musk is certainly a supporter but Royal Astronomer Sir Martin Rees is sympathetic, as is Neil deGrasse Tyson At Vulture, a New York culture magazine, we are offered fifteen reasons why it might be true. An article appeared at Scientific American earlier this year, offering supportfor the simulation hypothesis because “here we are generating this product called consciousness that we apparently don’t have a use for, that is an experience and hence must serve as an experience. The only logical next step is to surmise that this product serves someone else.” The article was written by a senior editor at Nature Energy. A number of sources are looking for ways to test the hypothesis. (October 3, 2021)
In this specific area of research, speculation has been fueled by, for example, the recent Pentagon UAP (UFO) report, which acknowledged that conventional explanations could not account for all current observations. Overall, it’s a significant attitude change from the usual promissory skepticism.
At the meeting at which Loeb spoke, we learn that Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson were asked by David Ignatius of the Washington Post,
“What is the most exciting project in your organization?.” They both replied: “It is classified.”
Their projects may have nothing to do with extraterrestrials, of course. But the significance is that 1) they were at such a meeting at all and 2) that it was reported in The Hill with no snark and no slams at traditional religious beliefs. That would be much less likely two decades ago. It will be interesting to see where the new approach takes the researchers.
You may also wish to read: Harvard astronomer: Advanced aliens engineered the Big Bang Avi Loeb writes in Scientific American that when we humans are sufficiently advanced, we will create other universes as well. Avi Loeb’s hypothesis is not logically stranger than the many hypotheses that attempt to account for the Big Bang without underlying information/intelligence.
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The Pentagon’s UAP (UFO) report signals a sharp attitude change. The brass have committed themselves to going “wherever the data takes us.” No, they didn’t report UFOs. But they reported enough mysteries to stop merely debunking and discrediting… and follow the evidence.
(RNS) — The release of “Dune” as a feature film has sparked again the conversation of Islamic motifs in many sci-fi novels and films. But Islam itself has an intriguing history of UFOs and belief in alien life, according to historian Jörg Matthias Determann.
“Many people think that Muslim cultures have been oriented toward the past,” said Determann, “holding on to old customs and traditions, adhering to the sharia, and nostalgic about a medieval Golden Age. In contrast, I would like to show Muslims who have been highly creative, imaginative, open-minded and future-oriented.”
In the Quran’s first verse, God is referred to as “rab al-Alamin” or the “lord of the worlds,” a phrase repeated by hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world in their daily prayers. Yet, there is more meant by the phrase than a reference to the afterlife, according to Determann.
“The Qur’an uses the plural rather than the dual form,” Determann wrote in an email to RNS, “Rabb al-‘Alamin” (Lord of the three or more Worlds) rather than “Rabb al-‘Alamayn” (Lord of the two worlds). This idea of plurality of worlds was picked up by Islamic writers over the centuries, Determann notes in the book, including Persian-speaking Islamic thinkers and writers such as al-Biruni, Nizami Ganjavi and Ibn Sina, or “Avicenna,” as he is referred to in the West.
Importantly, the Quran also refers to jinn as a parallel but sentient form of life. As Determann points out, the existence of jinn in the Quran has served as another potential theoretical framework for extraterrestrial life — and not only by some Muslims. UFO journals published in the West have highlighted certain sections of the Quran as further signs of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
In the United States, UFOs feature in the beliefs of the Nation of Islam, which the book describes as the “longest-lasting Muslim UFO movement.”
Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad taught his followers about a UFO called the Mother Wheel or Mother Plane, based in part on a biblical passage from the book of Ezekiel. His son and successor attempted to disband many aspects of the Nation of Islam and move its followers toward Sunni Islam. However, influential leader Louis Farrakhan rejected these moves and worked to re-establish the Nation of Islam in the late 1970s. As the new leader of the movement, Farrakhan later claimed he was taken aboard a UFO during a 1985 trip to Mexico, where he met Elijah Muhammad, who had been cured of his past ailments by the aliens on board.
Muslim pilgrims touch the Ka’aba stone, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, as they pray ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018.
(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Islam may have an even more direct link to the extraterrestrial, according to Determann. Many pilgrims to Mecca make an effort to touch or kiss a black stone encased in silver found in one corner of the Ka’aba. Many Muslim and non-Muslim researchers have long speculated the Black Stone of the Ka’aba may be either a meteorite or an impactite. Turkish UFO researcher Haluk Sarıkaya has gone one step further, suggesting the stone may have been sent to Earth by a spacecraft.
Fictional aliens have also enjoyed popularity in many Muslim cultures, notes Determann in several chapters of the book, including Malaysia, the Middle East, Iran and Turkey. American sci-fi films like “Star Wars” have had a deep cultural impact across the globe. In Malaysia, “Star Wars” was remade in the form of a traditional shadow puppet play. In Egypt, novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik used characters armed with lightsabers and even named a character Princess Leia in one of his novels. Tawfik’s universe also includes a spacecraft referred to as the “F-1600,” a reference to the F-16 fighter jets flown by Egyptian and American air forces. Determann points out that the F-16 was named the “Viper” by its early pilots — in reference to a vessel in the sci-fi television series “Battlestar Galactica” (itself partly inspired by Mormon ideas).
“Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ series of novels and the ‘Star Wars’ films draw heavily on the Middle East in their building of plausible desert worlds like Arrakis or Tatooine and ideas within Islamic cultures,” Determann said. In both cases, Sufi Islamic religious ideas influenced the portrayal of the protagonists, be they Fremen in the case of “Dune” or Jedi knights in the case of “Star Wars.”
In the Middle East, in particular, science fiction became an outlet for political criticism. The thinly veiled troubled tyrants on distant worlds of many Arabic science fiction novels were stand-ins for the military dictators closer to home. Determann’s book includes one intriguing example of Muslim Brotherhood members, who, while in prison, embraced science fiction as a medium for dissent — even recording portions of a play about a journey of discovery to Mars on cigarette cartons.
“Muslims have been highly creative, imaginative, open-minded and future-oriented, as my book shows,” said Determann. “Whether as scientists probing the edges of what we know (by searching for life on other planets), worldbuilders (by creating science fiction books, films and video games), technology enthusiasts, geeks and, yes, nerds.”
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Antarctica’s Secret Bases: UFOs or Ancient Motherships Under the Ice? via Coast to Coast AM
Antarctica’s Secret Bases: UFOs or Ancient Motherships Under the Ice? via Coast to Coast AM
Antarctica’s Secret Bases…. UFOs or Ancient Motherships under the Ice? via Coast to Coast AM
With unusual findings and even more fascinating tales, Antarctica is rousing intrigue across the globe. Brad Olsen has returned from a 26-day expedition through this frozen land in search of evidence of E.T. craft and remnants of antediluvian civilizations. He shares images of anomalous structures that do not appear to be naturally formed.
As the ice melts, evidence will no longer remain hidden, leading to a thawing of disclosure for the world. He also discusses his next mission in search of a portal to the inner earth.
UFOs flying in circle over South Chesterfield, VA 18-Nov-2021
UFOs flying in circle over South Chesterfield, VA 18-Nov-2021
These UFOs were flying in circle in the night sky above South Chesterfield in Virginia. This happened on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
Witness report:
Similar lights were reported 30 miles away. Caught on security camera. First video shows one set of lights coming in from the right joining the set over the houses. The set appears to grow after that.
What began as a ‘missing person’ report in the rural Pampa Province of Argentina has become a teleportation and possible UFO abduction case after the missing woman was found less than a day later, 65 km (40 miles) away, in a state of shock and unable to verbally communicate but explaining in writing that she had seen a bright light in her yard and remembered nothing after that. As investigators questioned her family, they learned the woman had previously witnessed a UFO in the La Palma area – a hotspot of UFO and paranormal activity in Argentina. Is it any wonder why this case is now being treated as a possible alien abduction?
“A woman, about 55 years old, was intensely searched this Tuesday night in the rural area of Jacinto Arauz, by the Police and volunteer firefighters, with trained dogs, after not having heard from her since morning hours, when was last seen.”
“What’s more, a relative consulted said that the missing neighbor had made several calls from her cell phone to relatives, including her children, but a blast was always heard, like when the wind enters the microphone and around 7:00 p.m. he himself no longer responded.” (Google translation)
According to the Argentine media source La Arena, the story of the anonymous woman began on November 16, 2021, in Jacinto Arauz when her husband could not find her. He became more concerned after receiving calls from his wife but hearing nothing but a strange buzz. A police search in Jacinto Arauz was fruitless … and strange. Matías Alvarez, the chief of police in Jacinto Arauz, reported that trained dogs following her trail suddenly lost it about 150 meters (492 feet) from her house.
The search ended when police in Guatraché, a town in La Pampa Province 65 km away, reported finding the woman the next day. La Arena reports she was taken to a nearby hospital where she eventually regained her speech. Her account to the police was given both in writing and verbally and was said to be consistent each time – noise, white light, waking up on a road in Guatraché. Her husband and family told authorities the woman could barely walk a half a mile, so walking overnight was not possible. The police also said her clothing and physical appearance did not show signs of walking or a struggle.
“When I pass by At La Tigra, a strong light appears again on the horizon. I had a somewhat strange sensation, it seized me like a chill, an adrenaline, what do I know, when I do the other bass I no longer see the light. That was the Monday. I was struck by what happened to Arauz’s wife, that’s why I’m telling it. ” (Google translation)
After hearing about the woman, an unnamed carrier told La Arena of his recent experience with unusual lights in the same area. All of this caught the attention of Pampean ufologist Oscar “Quique” Mario, who told Yatequento.com and La Arena he would wait until the police and medical investigations were completed but explained why the case piqued his interest.
“Since 1980 I have been working there because at that time we found very strange footprints. There were mutilations, UFOs and beings with red eyes. It is a hot area because the mutilations of animals during the pandemic also occurred there and had a different behavior. In addition, he confirmed that he will carry out field investigations of this case (he has already conducted interviews with relatives and relatives), indicated that the police did not find Traces of conventional vehicles that could have moved it there, so measurements will be carried out on the place of the absence and the place where it appeared since neighbors indicated that they observed “triangular objects flying over” the rural area.” (Google translation)
In July 2021, cattle mutilations were found in La Palma after UFOs were reported, and La Palma is one of a number of Argentine areas where mysterious hums are heard. However, the most interesting revelation by Mario is that the found no evidence that the woman had been dropped off by a ground vehicle. He compared this to a similar 1983 abduction of a Julio Planter, but searches found nothing on this case. Another interesting revelation comes from Inexplicata — “Some investigation sources determined that the woman had experienced strange incident years ago – one in which she witnessed an odd, low-flying object in the year 2002, a time when many similar events were reported.” It also mentions a 1980 “Dorado Incident” in the same area where a witness reported numerous strange ground markings had been left behind by a giant ‘bucket’ shaped object.
While this could be just a case of a woman suffering from physical or psychological issues, the location, missing tire tracks, dogs losing the scent, loss of memory, her previous UFO encounter and similar incidents in the area make this one worth watching at least until Oscar Mario completes his investigation.
Archeologists know the place to find the best stuff at an ancient dig site is wherever the people who lived there dumped their trash. Police looking for evidence know the best place to look for it is in the trash. If this is such a good way to solve a mystery, why aren’t astronomers looking through the trash to find evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth? Before we answer that, ask yourself this question – where would aliens toss their trash? If your answer was someplace on the surface of our planet, move to the back of the line and try again.
“In this paper, we present an overlooked and, in terms of feasibility, simple SETI strategy. It attempts to answer the question whether any space-faring civilization has surveilled the Earth by means of probes at any point in history.”
I knew we should have recycled
In a preprint study, Stockholm University astrophysicist Beatriz Villarroel and her international team assume extraterrestrials think like humans and would send probes to other planets to research them before sending landing parties. Just as Mars has many probes from Earth in its orbit and other planets have a few, Earth could conceivably be circled by alien probes – possibly too small to see or perhaps disguised. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar comet ʻOumuamua could be an alien probe. Those probes, like ours, would eventually stop working and become … junk! The big challenge is looking at the tens of thousands of pieces of space junk orbiting Earth and eliminating anything that’s not alien trash. Sounds impossible? It’s actually easier than you think, and you can be a part of the project.
“We show that even the small pieces of reflective debris in orbit around the Earth can be identified through searches for multiple transients in old photographic plate material exposed before the launch of first human satellite in 1957.”
How simple and elegant! Compare old photographs of the sky with current ones and eliminate the new stuff – with the help of artificial intelligence developed by Villarroel and her team. Wait a minute – wouldn’t all of that stuff be moving across the sky? Good question. The team assumes spacefaring civilizations would think like us and put their probes in geosynchronous earth orbits (GEOs) – like our communications satellites – so they would always remain over the same spot on the surface. In addition, dead probes that disintegrate into debris could stay for millions of years in that same GEO spot.
“At higher or GEO altitudes, the presence of satellites or space debris can be detected by fast, transient glints caused by the reflection of the Sun.”
One of those glints just might be alien space junk … and there’s already an operational project whose purpose is to look for fading glints that are signs of vanishing stars. The VASCO citizen science project uses astronomical surveys from the past 70 year. That includes the period before 1959 when Sputnik became the first human-made object in space. Anything with a telltale glint in the sky prior to 1959 just might be alien trash. Villarroel suggests opening the VASCO Project to space trash collectors. The VASCO website gives information on how ‘citizens’ (that’s you) can join the search for transient glints and possibly be the first person to discover a piece of alien trash.
In the meantime, the Transient Glints would be a great name for band.
It is arguably the most talked-about UFO event in history, and undeniably the most famous involving a purported UFO crash: what happened at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947?
It would be hard to say just how many researchers have weighed in on the case over the years, although a handful rose to prominence for their investigations of it. The time and effort put toward the case are easy to understand, since, at one time, it appeared to be what UFO researchers had long been waiting for.
The “smoking gun,” as it were.
Today, the famous Roswell incident of 1947 appears to have lost at least some of its luster, even for those who once championed it. One doesn’t have to even accept the official explanation offered by the United States Air Force in a pair of reports it published in the 1990s—that the incident stemmed from an incident involving the crash of a once top-secret Project Mogul balloon—to acknowledge another reality about Roswell: that championing this case alone won’t be enough end the culture of dismissals and denials about the topic that have prevailed in government for so many decades.
However, today with new efforts underway that could result in the establishment of an office of unidentified aerial phenomena investigations within government (its name, as outlined in a recently proposed amendment to the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, will likely be the “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office”), some have begun to wonder if the final word on Roswell might not change again. This, especially if the government’s renewed efforts to resolve issues about the phenomenon revisit historical cases from decades ago and provide any further details about such cases to the public.
Roswell naturally comes to mind here, since it is the case that captured the mind of the public and, especially, those of UFO enthusiasts, following the earliest reinvestigations of the case beginning in the 1970s. Researchers William Moore and Charles Berlitz published the first book to look into the matter, drawing in part from investigations conducted by Stanton Friedman, who would go on to author books of his own on the topic, in addition to becoming a central media personality regarding the case. Researchers Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt would thereafter go in search of additional witnesses, further working to flesh out the sequence of events. It was admirable, and very time-consuming work, and eventually, it was hoped that enough witness testimony would pay off.
Yet for many years, skeptics have been willing to brush aside the witness testimony. This especially became true after the USAF released its reports in the 1990s, which seemed to leave no further doubts about what had actually crashed at Roswell. Yes, something certainly did crash at Roswell, and yes, the USAF was involved in a coverup. The reason, they said, did not have to do with alien bodies, however, and instead dealt with a highly sensitive project that, should information about it become available to the public, could have gravely impacted national security.
This official scenario does still explain at least some of the eyewitness testimony from those who claimed they had observed wreckage, and might even have received threats from members of the military who were busily trying to hide what had actually happened. On account of this fact, for a time I had personally been more willing to accept the determinations offered in the pair of reports published by the USAF in the 1990s. Maybe the incident really wasn’t all that it had been made out to be; if anything, maybe the widespread belief in the crash of an alien vehicle—not a spy balloon—actually would have aided the coverup, and thereby might have been encouraged at times by the USAF.
However, there are still a number of problems with the “official” USAF explanation(s) that must be acknowledged, too. The most obvious one is the fact that a coverup actually did occur, and because of this, the explanations for what happened at Roswell have continually changed over the years. First, it was announced that one of the mysterious “flying discs” had indeed been captured, only to be changed to a “weather balloon” the following day. The explanation changed again once the USAF acknowledged the Mogul scenario decades later. By this time, it was already evident that the government’s position had changed more than once, so what was to keep the newest explanation from being anything different? If they lied to cover up the truth, what would prevent them from doing it again, if Roswell actually did represent something more than a top-secret Cold War-era surveillance balloon?
Jesse Marcel poses with purported wreckage belonging to the “weather balloon” as described in newspaper reports after the incident had been initially cited as a crashed “flying disc.”
Perhaps the most troubling issue with the Roswell story has to do with the witnesses. Although attempts have been made over the years to reconcile the stories about alien wreckage, and even alien bodies purportedly found at the site of the alleged crash, it becomes hard to understand how all of the testimony from these individuals could be entirely wrong. This had especially been the case with mortician Glenn Dennis, who provided lengthy testimony about receiving a call inquiring about small caskets that could be “hermetically sealed,” and thereafter meeting a nurse at the nearby Roswell Army Air Field hospital who had been badly shocked after seeing alien bodies. This, after having had his own run-in with officials at the base, who had threatened that his bones would be picked clean if he talked about what he saw there that day, and that he would make good “dog food.”
Dennis was only one of the individuals who claimed to have seen alien bodies, of course, or at least have knowledge of them. Some accounts even tell that Chaves County Sherriff George Wilcox had learned about the crash prior to rancher Mac Brazel, who discovered the wreckage on his ranch, appearing in town and discussing it. Wilcox’s wife, Inez, later told her granddaughter Barbara Dugger that Wilcox and his deputies had been aware of the crash site location, and that bodies had been found, although she was unsure if Wilcox himself had seen the bodies.
Much like the changing stories about what, precisely, occurred at Roswell in the first place, attempting to reconcile the claims about “alien bodies” has resulted in a variety of different explanations provided by the USAF. Among these include observations of crash test dummies, an injured parachutist whose appearance might have included swelling that resembled the large eyes of purported alien occupants, and even the charred remains of the crew aboard a crashed aircraft (involving an incident which didn’t occur until the following decade). According to the USAF reports published in the 1990s, these separate events were “consolidated” by the witnesses over the years, and misremembered as all having been centered on the incident at Roswell in the summer of 1947.
Of course, each of these various narratives may individually be true. However, the notion that a combination of separate incidents like this could really have been so confusingly misremembered as being part of a single incident–and one involving something so specific as the discovery of exotic aircraft wreckage, and the remains of its occupants–seems dubious. While many accept the USAF explanations at face value (as even I at one time had been more willing to do), it would be fair to say that there are still more than a few problems with the various scenarios that they have attempted to jumble together as a solution for what many witnesses all claimed had been a single event in 1947.
In conclusion, while there is always the possibility that it was not what many popular books, films, and television shows have made it out to be, there does seem to be something deeper to the Roswell mystery that remains wanting of a complete, and more logically consistent resolution than what the public has already been given. Such questions have caused me to step back on several occasions, and attempt to reevaluate and make sense of both the “official” claims, as well as those who maintain the popular version of the story: that the Roswell incident involved a crashed UFO.
It does not, therefore, seem unreasonable to question whether any of the numerous explanations actually solve the mystery of what happened in the New Mexico desert back in 1947. If anything, the official narratives provided by the USAF may really only add mud to the already murky water surrounding one of the most perplexing American mysteries to have occurred since the end of the Second World War.
If you’re looking for a week with more space news than the first human walk on the Moon, this one could be it. If you’re looking for the week when the event that starts Space War I is defined, this may fit the bill there too. And if you’re looking for a week when both the U.S. and Russia were honest and open about their military space programs, interest in UFOs and future space projects, this might be the one. Let’s start with the most discerning news – theRussian destruction of a dead satellite that created so much debris that the Russian and U.S. crews of the ISS had to bail into their respective attached space capsules.
“Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu confirmed the successful test of the anti-satellite system, answering journalists’ questions during a working trip to the troops of the Western Military District in the Voronezh Region. We’ve really experienced a successful forward-looking system. She “jewelry” hit the old satellite, “- said the head of the military department. Sergei Shoigu added that the resulting fragments do not pose any threat to space activities.”
After ROSCOSMOS first issued a “no harm, no foul” tweet about the ISS crew evacuation in response to NASA and the U.S. Defense Department issuing strong rebukes, the Russian Ministry of Defense gave some braggadocio details about the incident, pointing out the non-operational spacecraft was a Celina-D (Tselina-D), that had been in orbit since 1982, not a Kosmos-1408 as other media sites had reported. Then it accused the U.S. of causing the test in the first place.
“The United States established a space command in 2020 and officially adopted a new space strategy. One of its main goals is ‘to create a comprehensive military advantage in space’. “With that in mind, the Defense Ministry is carrying out planned activities to strengthen the defense capabilities that exclude the possibility of sudden damage to the country’s security in the space sphere and on the ground at the hands of existing and prospective foreign space technologies.”
The MoD specifically mentioned that the US has been making modifications to its secret Air Force X-37 unmanned spacecraft.
The English version of Pravda then followed up with the revelation that the satellite was destroyed by a Russian S-550 anti-aircraft missile system designed to destroy intercontinental ballistic missiles, and that China’s Sohu website mentioned another target:
“The Chinese website referred to the X-37B orbital fighter, which will be an easy target for the S-550. The anti-missile defense performance of the S-550 will be significantly higher than that of its predecessors, even in comparison with the similar US system Aegis armed with SM-3Block llB missiles.”
The X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is now under the command of the US Space Force, which has continued to keep its missions top secret. Does the Russian MoD know something the American public doesn’t? While half of the focus this week is on known flying objects, the other half is on unknowns. A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to create an ‘‘Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” with authority to pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence community” to study unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) presented by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was pushed to the front burner by Gillibrand in her first interview about it.
X-37
“If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know. Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach.”
“You’re talking about drone technology, you’re talking about balloon technology, you’re talking about other aerial phenomena, and then you’re talking about the unknown. Regardless of where you fall on the question of the unknown, you have to answer the rest of the questions. That’s why this is urgent. That’s why having no oversight or accountability up until now to me is unacceptable.”
Gillibrand and her bipartisan supporters are concerned about UAPs and UFOs whether they’re from Earth sources or other worlds. The lack of congressional and/or public oversight of these overhead sightings is indeed disconcerting … but perhaps a greater concern is why all of this came to a non-harmonic convergence this week. Is Russia expecting more U.S. aggression in space? Is the U.S. expecting more Russian aggression? Is the fact that that Russia put its own citizens in danger a sign of incompetence or seriousness? Is the fact that it specifically mentions the X-37 a sign it knows the spaceplane’s true purpose? Are Gillibrand and her colleagues concerned about UAPs because they think they’re Russian or Chinese crafts? Are they planting the seeds to attack them under the guise that they were suspected of being alien aggressors?
Something militaristic is happening in space … and it seems to be escalating. What’s next?
Time travelers and Bigfoot spotters aren’t the only people sharing strange stories on TikTok these days – a young woman recently revealed that her eggs were abducted by extraterrestrials, with the eggs being taken away to be used for making alien-human hybrid babies. Is her story more believable than the time travelers or the Bigfoot witnesses? Three million people have downloaded one of her set of egg removal videos … and her story isn’t as farfetched as one might imagine.
“I was laying on my couch in my condo, falling asleep and suddenly feel this paralysis. “I was freezing and my body couldn’t move. I looked over at the door and it opened, there’s a figure, a holographic-looking human figure. It’s essentially grey but with a black lining over it. When they took me, my body came over to where I’m sitting now, I was literally levitating and my legs were open.”
Sheera Lumira Rejoice presents a description of her alien encounter worthy of the opening scene of a sci-fil triller in a series of TikTok videos. She claims the incident occurred in 2018 and explains why it’s taken her so long to reveal it (more on that later). The paralysis is common in alien abduction stories, but the levitation is unusual — especially since she wasn’t taken to a ship. While she doesn’t seem to know what exactly is happening, she knows SOMETHING is going on because she got a “tingly” feeling. And then …
“I was in this state of pure bliss while they were doing it. I didn’t want to wake up from it, but I ended up waking up from it.”
Like others with abduction stories, Sheera claims the experience had a profound effect on her – causing her to give up drinking, smoking and coffee. That could be a warning flag – was this a drunken dream? She also changed her name – her old moniker is not revealed – to Sheera Lumira Rejoice. It appears she tried to tell others about her experience and was met with disbelief or worse – the TikTok video with the most views shows her acting out her frustration (or dancing). Sheera apparently shared her experience with medical personnel – she claims to have an ultrasound showing ovarian scars from the egg removal. She also seems to have tried unconventional means to deal with the experience, and her dealing with a shaman explained what had happened.
“You have three hybrid babies, you have three of your eggs taken.”
That period of dealing with her strange feelings may be why it has taken her so long to reveal what she claims happened in 2018 … unless it’s a hoax to capitalize on the popularity of strange videos on TikTok. Knowing that’s what skeptics will think, she addresses it.
“You can believe me, or you don’t have to, just know that not everybody lives in a scientific reality and some folks live in a very spiritual way and some experiences really do change peoples’ lives.”
“Not everybody lives in a scientific reality.” Ain’t THAT the truth! And she’s right … many people have life-changing experiences that they don’t really understand. If they’re influenced by her video to straighten out their lives and seek help – conventional or otherwise – to try and resolve it, that sounds like what most people hear on Sunday mornings or in their favorite religious book or from TV therapists.
It would have helped her believability if Sheera Lumira Rejoice had shared her actual ultrasound and diagnosis – one commenter said you can’t get ovarian scars from egg removal. Or if she had the shaman explain how he knew she had been abducted. She also shared very little about the aliens. Did she look outside for evidence of a ship? Did any neighbors see anything suspicions? She also doesn’t share her location or the exact date – that would help to determine if anyone saw a UFO in the area that night.
It was believed that there are carbon dioxide cold traps present on the moon but there was never any proof of them – until now. These cold traps may possibly have solid carbon dioxide which would have a major affect on future missions to the moon.
These carbon dioxide cold traps are located at the lunar south pole where there are continuous shadows and extremely cold temperatures. Specifically, there were a total of 204 square kilometers (79 square miles) worth of these cold traps with the biggest area of them being located in the Amundsen Crater – 82 square kilometers (32 square miles) of cold traps were found there. Incredibly, the temperature in this area dips down to a freezing 60 degrees Kelvin (-352 degrees Fahrenheit or -213 degrees Celsius).
Amundsen Crater
(Via Wikipedia)
Since it is so cold, the carbon dioxide molecules could become frozen and stay in solid form continuously, even when the temperatures rise. However, while there are carbon dioxide cold traps on the moon, it’s not certain whether there is solid carbon dioxide.
In order to confirm the presence of carbon dioxide cold traps, experts studied 11 years worth of temperature data collected by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment that was on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Norbert Schörghofer, who is a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, explained their work in further detail, “I think when I started this, the question was, ‘Can we confidently say there are carbon dioxide cold traps on the moon or not?’” “My surprise was that they’re actually, definitely there. It could have been that we can’t establish their existence, [they might have been] one pixel on a map… so I think the surprise was that we really found contiguous regions which are cold enough, beyond doubt.”
Lunar surface
Since there are carbon dioxide cold traps on the moon, they will affect future missions, such as robots or humans possibly being able to use the cold traps to create numerous materials that would help them to stay there for a longer period of time. For example, the cold traps could be beneficial in creating steel, biomaterials, and rocket fuel.
Additionally, the cold traps may aid experts in learning more about our lunar neighbor’s history like water and other volatiles as noted by Paul Hayne who is a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, but wasn’t part of the study, “These should be high-priority sites to target for future landed missions.” “This sort of pinpoints where you might go on the lunar surface to answer some of these big questions about volatiles on the moon and their delivery from elsewhere in the solar system.” (A map of the carbon dioxide cold traps on the moon can be viewed here.)
A view of the lunar south pole, where newly confirmed carbon dioxide cold traps are located, according to new research in Geophysical Research Letters. Future missions on the Moon may target this region to find out more about the resources that may exist there.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
A map of carbon dioxide cold traps on the Moon, with likely cold traps marked in purple hues. In these regions, temperatures dip below even the coldest temperatures measured on Pluto.
Nieuwe foto's van buitenste planeten door ruimtetelescoop Hubble
Er zijn weer nieuwe foto’s van het buitenste deel van het zonnestelsel die ruimtetelescoop Hubble heeft gemaakt in september en oktober. Het gaat om prachtige beelden van reuzenplaneten Jupiter, Saturnus, Uranus en Neptunus.
Ruimtetelescoop Hubble is genoemd naar de Amerikaanse astronoom Edwin Hubble en werd in 1990 door NASA en ESA gelanceerd. Sindsdien draait de Hubble rondjes om de aarde en wordt de telescoop gebruikt om in de ruimte scherpe foto’s te maken.
De vier planeten op de foto’s zijn gasreuzen, waardoor ze heel anders zijn dan de rotsachtige planeten Aarde en Mars. De NASA formuleerde het nogal poëtisch: “Deze monsters, die zich uitstrekken van 500 miljoen tot 3 miljard kilometer van de zon, zijn even afgelegen als mysterieus. Ze wonen zo ver van de zon dat water er onmiddellijk bevriest tot vast ijs”.
Elon Musk hoopt in januari zijn ‘Starship’ in baan om de aarde te kunnen lanceren
SpaceX-CEO Elon Musk hoopt dat de grote Starship-raket van zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf in januari 2022 voor het eerst in een baan om de aarde gebracht kan worden. Dat zei hij donderdag tijdens een virtuele bijeenkomst met leden van de National Academy of Sciences. Musk waarschuwt wel voor de risico’s en durft niet te zeggen dat het meteen een succesvolle vlucht zal zijn. Hij hoopt en verwacht na die eerste testvlucht volgens jaar nog meerdere lanceringen te doen.
Het ruimtevaartbedrijf heeft al bij wijze van test Starships gelanceerd tot een hoogte van zo’n 10 kilometer, vanaf de productielocatie in Zuid-Texas. Het ruimteschip bereikte tot nu toe echter nooit een baan om de aarde. Dat is de volgende stap. Voor de eerste ruimtevlucht is het bedrijf van plan één keer rond de aarde te cirkelen en de raket vervolgens in de Stille Oceaan te laten vallen, ongeveer 100 kilometer ten noordwesten van Kauai, een eiland van Hawaï.
Musk zei in de meeting donderdag dat de orbital boosters en het Starship voor de eerste baanvlucht intussen gebouwd zijn. Later deze maand moeten het lanceerplatform en de lanceertoren ook klaar zijn. SpaceX kan dan in december de benodigde tests uitvoeren, waarmee de lancering ‘hopelijk’ in januari plaats kan vinden.
Het is de grootste raket die ooit is ontworpen en we zijn dicht bij onze eerste lancering.
Elon Musk
“Het is de grootste raket die ooit is ontworpen en we zijn dicht bij onze eerste lancering”, aldus Musk. De roestvrijstalen raket en de superzware aandrijvingen eronder zullen “snel en volledig herbruikbaar” zijn, aldus de SpaceX-oprichter, die deze combinatie “de heilige graal van raketten” noemde.
Dat wil niet zeggen dat het meteen een succesvolle lancering gaat zijn. Musk waarschuwt dat er veel risico’s verbonden zijn aan zo’n eerste testvlucht. “Maar ik denk dat we er wel veel vooruitgang mee gaan boeken.” Ook wil hij meerdere lanceringen doen met de Starship-raket volgend jaar, een twaalftal testvluchten in totaal.
Maan en Mars
SpaceX is van plan om een aangepaste versie van de Starship-raket te gebruiken om NASA-astronauten in 2025 of later op de maan te laten landen als onderdeel van het Artemis-programma. SpaceX wil uiteindelijk ook honderden tonnen aan voorraden en mensen naar Mars vervoeren om Musks doel, het bouwen van een bewoonde stad op Mars, te verwezenlijken.
Starship is ontworpen om vracht en mensen in een baan om de aarde te vervoeren tegen een fractie van de kosten van eerdere ontwerpen. Musk zei eerder een fabriek te hebben gebouwd om meer Starships te kunnen maken, waarbij zijn bedrijf mikt op het maken van veel raketten. Uiteindelijk zouden er ‘misschien duizend’ Starships nodig zijn om multiplanetair leven mogelijk te maken, aldus Musk.
Musk herhaalde tijdens de bijeenkomst dat de mensheid in zijn ogen een tweede planeet nodig heeft, gezien de risico’s waarmee de aarde wordt geconfronteerd, zoals kernwapens, grote kometen, pandemieën, dalende geboortecijfers, kunstmatige intelligentie en religieus extremisme.
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Glowing Orbs Over Gilbert, Arizona Nov 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orbs Over Gilbert, Arizona Nov 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:November 18, 2021 Location of sighting: Gilbert, Arizona, USA Source:MUFON
Watching this raw footage of these glowing orbs passing above the eyewitness I just mind-blowing. It really shows how the UFOs move, travel together, colors, glow and shape. Thats a lot of info gathered from one video. Also the UFOs are low...they are flying below the clouds. Arizona is home of the Extraterrestrial highway that goes past Area 51, a place that UFOs are frequently seen, so this is of no surprise since its from a hotbed of UFO activity. Awesome catch, I really like how so many are traveling together following each other.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I Saw and videoed rounds spheres orange in color all going in the same direction. I Witnessed and saw round circles flying through the sky I pulled over and video tapped over 10 of these round circles going from east to west to making no noise really bright and hauling through the sky.
Gigantic Blue Jet filmed from airliner flight deck at 40.000 Feet
Gigantic Blue Jet filmed from airliner flight deck at 40.000 Feet
An upper atmospheric lightning, called a blue jet, was recorded on November 19th, 2021 at 40 000 feet (12.000 meters) from an airliner flight deck.
The storm was located over the Bay on Bengal off the north Tamil Nadu coast in India.
These gigantic blue jets known as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) are rare weather phenomena that occur above thunderstorms but till now science does not yet have an explanation where in the cloud this rare phenomenon originate.
Maybe it's not an electrical phenomenon that occurs over thunderstorms at all, but a secret space weapon?
Gigantic Blue Jet filmed from airliner flight deck at 40.000 Feet
Gigantic Blue Jet filmed from airliner flight deck at 40.000 Feet
An upper atmospheric lightning, called a blue jet, was recorded on November 19th, 2021 at 40 000 feet (12.000 meters) from an airliner flight deck.
The storm was located over the Bay on Bengal off the north Tamil Nadu coast in India.
These gigantic blue jets known as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) are rare weather phenomena that occur above thunderstorms but till now science does not yet have an explanation where in the cloud this rare phenomenon originate.
Maybe it's not an electrical phenomenon that occurs over thunderstorms at all, but a secret space weapon?
An Absolutely Bonkers Plan to Give Mars an Artificial Magnetosphere
An Absolutely Bonkers Plan to Give Mars an Artificial Magnetosphere
Terraforming Mars is one of the great dreams of humanity. Mars has a lot going for it. Its day is about the same length as Earth’s, it has plenty of frozen water just under its surface, and it likely could be given a reasonably breathable atmosphere in time. But one of the things it lacks is a strong magnetic field. So if we want to make Mars a second Earth, we’ll have to give it an artificial one.
The reason magnetic fields are so important is that they can shield a planet from solar wind and ionizing particles. Earth’s magnetic field prevents most high-energy charged particles from reaching the surface. Instead, they are deflected from Earth, keeping us safe. The magnetic field also helps prevent solar winds from stripping Earth’s atmosphere over time. Early Mars had a thick, water-rich atmosphere, but it was gradually depleted without the protection of a strong magnetic field.
Unfortunately, we can’t just recreate Earth’s magnetic field on Mars. Our field is generated by a dynamo effect in Earth’s core, where the convection of iron alloys generates Earth’s geomagnetic field. The interior of Mars is smaller and cooler, and we can’t simply “start it up” to create a magnetic dynamo. But there are a few ways we can create an artificial magnetic field, as a recent study shows.
Ideas for generating a Martian magnetic field have been proposed before, and usually involve either ground-based or orbital solenoids that create some basic level of magnetic protection. In the TV series *The Expanse*, you can see a couple of scenes where you catch a glimpse of them. While this latest study acknowledges that might work, it proposes an even better solution.
A torus of charged particles could give Mars a magnetic field. Credit: Ruth Bamford
As the study points out, if you want a good planetary magnetic field, what you really need is a strong flow of charged particles, either within the planet or around the planet. Since the former isn’t a great option for Mars, the team looks at the latter. It turns out you can create a ring of charged particles around Mars, thanks to its moon Phobos.
Phobos is the larger of the two Martian moons, and it orbits the planet quite closely. So closely that it makes a trip around Mars every 8 hours. So the team proposes using Phobos by ionizing particles from its surface, then accelerating them so they create a plasma torus along the orbit of Phobos. This would create a magnetic field strong enough to protect a terraformed Mars.
It’s a bold plan, and while it seems achievable the engineering hurdles would be significant. But as the authors point out, this is the time for ideas. Start thinking about the problems we need to solve, and how we can solve them, so when humanity does reach Mars, we will be ready to put the best ideas to the test.
Filer’s Files 46 2021 - Astronaut Cooper Spotted UFO - PART I
Edwards Air Force Base, California on July 1, 1957
Filer’s Files 46 2021 - Astronaut Cooper Spotted UFO - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special Reports are Astronaut Gordon Cooper Spotted UFOs, Israeli Museum in shape of a UFO, Crashed Saucer on White Sands with Torah, The Angel Scroll,” Photos of UAP/UFO Flying Away from Aircraft, Atomic Bombs are not has Effective Has Planned Parenthood, and Strange Aircraft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Netherlands, 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 UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Astronaut Gordon Cooper Spotted UFOs
Gordon Cooper
Edwards Air Force Base, California — In 1957, Gordon Cooper was one of an elite band of test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California, in charge of several advanced projects, including the installation of a precision landing system.
“I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lakebed! These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture quality was very good. “The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about thirty feet across. It was clear it was an alien craft. “As they approached closer it took off.”
UFO Landed
When his camera crew handed over the film, Cooper followed standard procedure and contacted Washington to report the UFO and “all heck broke loose,” he said. “After a while a high-ranking officer said when the film was developed, I was to put it in a pouch and send it to Washington. “He didn’t say anything about me not looking at the film. That’s what I did when it came back from the lab, and it was all there just like the camera crew reported.”
When the Air Force later started Operation Blue Book to collate UFO evidence and reports, Cooper says he mentioned the film evidence. “But the film was never found supposedly. Blue Book was strictly a cover-up anyway.” Cooper revealed he is convinced an alien craft crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 and aliens were discovered in the wreckage. “I had a good friend at Roswell, a fellow officer. He had to be careful about what he said. However, it sure was not a weather balloon, like the Air Force cover story. He made it clear to me what crashed was a craft of alien origin, and members of the crew were recovered.” Why has the government kept its UFO secrets for so many years? “It started in World War 2, when the government didn’t want people to know about UFO reports in case they panicked,” said Cooper. “They would have been fearful it was superior enemy technology that we had no defense against. “Then it got worse in the Cold War for the same reason.
“So, they told one untruth, they had to tell another to cover that one, and then another, then another and it just snowballed. “In addition, right now I am convinced many very embarrassed government officials are sitting there in Washington trying to figure a way to bring the truth out. They know it has to come out one day, and I am sure it will. “America has a right to know!”
Dead Sea Scrolls and UFOs
War of the Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness
Dr. Edgar Mitchell
A couple of years ago, Dr. Edgar Mitchell and I had a conversation after we spoke at the Disclosure Project in Washington DC. He indicated as I do that some type of intelligence visits us from space. I asked Edgar, what he thought was the real secret to all of this concerning UFOs? He said, “The answers are all in the Dead Sea Scrolls.” I said, “You mean like the Sons of Light and Darkness?” He said, “Yes, but even now; not all of these scrolls have been revealed.” I searched the scrolls myself later to find some meaning. The text of the “War of the Sons of Light and Sons of Darkness” describes an invisible war where two sides are in an apocalyptic battle for Earth. The angels and humankind are described as being part of the fight.
“Warrior angels are in our muster, and He that is mighty in War is in our throng. The army of His spirits marches beside us. Our horsemen come like clouds or like banks of dew, to cover the earth, or like torrential showers, to rain judgment on all that grows in it. Opposing the good forces are the forces of darkness. But for corruption thou hast made Belial, an angel of hostility. All his dominion is darkness and guilt. All the spirits that are associated with him are angels of destruction. They follow only the laws of darkness, and their craving is directed toward it.” Pages 414-416 The Dead Sea Scriptures.
Israeli Museum in shape of a UFO
The Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum in shape of a UFO houses the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. Edgar has gone on to say, “We have been visited by much older civilizations than ourselves.” Alien agenda, aliens been coming here from a long, long time, observation of earth, vacation spot, and look at the primitive society. We can only conjecture, but Chariots are in the sky in the Bible and paintings
People around Roswell convinced him that UFOs were real. Everyone was under severe penalty if they talked about it. They are here and there is evidence of underwater and underground bases. There are huge triangle vehicles, discs are local craft coming from large mother ships. Cloaking devices and ability to make right angle turns would make them appear suddenly.
Edgar Mitchell Quote “some of the strongest evidence is that our missile silos … were routinely visited by alien spacecraft and the missiles disarmed.”
Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell in his book, “The Way of the Explorer,” states “The previous notion in science was that the Universe was a giant accident and that it would be too much of an accident for life to have formed and become intelligent life, in more than one place at a time. To science, which would be too much of an accident.”Its views are clearly wrong, and science has to revise its notion and accept the fact that whatever process has brought us into being has brought life into being throughout the Universe.Now that we look back on it, it sounds silly that throughout our history, until the last two or three decades, we really believed we were alone in the Universe. Now that we see beyond that, we see how archaic these types of ideas are.”
Earthrise is Astronaut Mitchell’s latest book that tells of his trip to the Moon and has given him a different perspective on life after the mission that we are not alone in the universe.
Astronaut Mitchell and other astronauts saw saucers near their landing spots observing them.
Crashed Saucer on White Sands with Torah
White Sands crashed Saucer
MSgt. Harry Cooper was asked to print up a copy of report for Colonel Paul Hemlick concerning a crashed saucer near Holloman Air Force Base. An oval object had been discovered on White Sands. The report told of an ancient Hebrew Torah Bible found inside the craft. The writing was much older than Genesis that tells of alien visitors.
The Jewish Virtual Llibrary.org states: Genesis 6:1–2 relates that the Nephilim “sons of gods,” i.e., divine or angelic beings, took mortal wives; verse four continues, “It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth–when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.”
The New American Bible commentary draws a parallel to the Epistle of Jude and the statements set forth in Genesis, suggesting that the Epistle refers implicitly to the paternity of Nephilim as heavenly beings who came to earth and had sexual intercourse with women.
Orthodox Judaism has taken a stance against the idea that Genesis 6 refers to angels or that angels could intermarry with men.
Nephilim Lusted after Earth Women
Unusually large skeletons of non-human men have been found in various places around the world providing some evidence to the scriptures. The story of the Nephilim is further elaborated in the Book of Enoch. The Greek, Aramaic, and main Ge’ez manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees obtained in the 19th century and held in the British Museum and Vatican Library, connect the origin of the Nephilim with the fallen angels, and in particular with the egrḗgoroi (watchers).
Samyaza, an angel of high rank, is described as leading a rebel sect of angels in a descent to earth to have sexual intercourse with human females.
In addition to Enoch, the Book of Jubilees (7:21–25) also states that ridding the Earth of these Nephilim was one of God’s purposes for flooding the Earth in Noah’s time.
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the Nephilim, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’ And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ And they were in all two hundred, who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
Painting ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’ by Hieronymus Bosch is based on Genesis 6:1–4
The Unger Bible Dictionary states, “The Bible and Torah are filled with references to clouds, angels, pillars of clouds or pillars of fire. Cloud: The allusions to clouds in Scripture, as well as their use in symbolical language, can only be understood when we remember the climate, where there is hardly a trace of cloud from May to the end of September. During this season clouds so seldom appear, and rains so seldom fail as to seem phenomenal, as was the case with the harvest rain.”
Clouds are referred to as showing the power and wisdom of God in their formation. Psalms 135.6. They are called the clouds of heaven. (Dan 7-12) windows above (Isa 24:18)
UFO within Clouds
Figuratively the clouds are symbols of armies. They are used to signify God’s presence. Birds were the only objects in the sky, therefore anything that was not a bird was a cloud. It is my personal feeling that cloud is another name for UFOs. Thanks to Wikipedia Encyclopedia and Unger Dictionary.
Brad and Sherry Steiger write about
the Angel Scroll
The Angel Scroll reveals that in the end times all of Darkness is to be destroyed and Light will live in peace for all eternity. It seems possible that some ETs are selfish colonists or have evil intent and dwell on the dark side. These evil ones have capabilities far beyond our understanding or technology. Thus far, they have not chosen to destroy us, but there are indications they find particularly human females attractive and are trying to create half-human and half ET hybrids.
Helpful Angels/ET often Heal the sick
The Light side appears concerned and genuinely tries to help humans. For example, they may bring advanced technology with great benefits to humans. And some ETs may have Earth’s human interests in mind, with love and compassion. It may be one heck of a complicated game going on since humanity began. In October 1999, another “lost” Dead Sea Scroll was unearthed that has the possibility of setting off another theological firestorm. If the “Angel Scroll” is proven authentic, Jews and Christians will be presented with a new understanding of how the ancient Israelites viewed God, the angels, and humanity’s place in the universe.
The Angel Scroll
According to researcher Barry Chamish, “The Angel Scroll” (shown) is one thousand lines long and had been taken by Benedictine monks to their German monastery in 1970. In 1977, one of the group, Father Gustav Mateus, died and bequeathed his photographs and transcriptions of the scroll to an unnamed Jerusalem college administrator, who, in turn, handed the material over to Stephan Phann, a member of the team of scholars translating the scrolls held by the Israeli government. Subsequently, Phann’s findings were published in the news magazine The Jerusalem Report.
Most experts agreed that the text of “The Angel Scroll,” in his words “felt” genuine. The bits of the scroll that were released for the public’s examination deal with “divine chariot-throne themes with elaborate details of angels ascending heaven’s multiple gates.”
One of Heavens Gates
Such references may be of great interest to those who take a literal view of the biblical accounts reporting encounters with extraterrestrials/angels. An Israeli Ufologist, who is also a student of “Kabala,” Jewish mystical practices, Mordechai Spasser cautioned researchers about taking the “UFO viewpoint with more study.” Spasser stated that from what he had read, the scrolls appear to be referring to the “astral plane,” and other aspects of Jewish mysticism.
Writer Chamish, however, quotes a number of passages from “The Angel Scroll,” and follows them with his literal interpretation. Here is one, describing a visionary’s [or UFO contactee’ s] “heavenward visit above the high places of the clouds” with anangel:
“According to the plan of that day, the Voice went forth to me and directed me and he drove me by the Spirit. And a vision was revealed to me from the Most High, and [the] Prince of Angels lifted me up in the Spirit and I ascended heavenward above the high places of the clouds, and he showed me the great world and the image of the gods. And I pondered the appearance roundabout and there was no time and no place and their appearance from the dwelling places of light was like a rainbow in the clouds. And they had no bodies and no bodily structure, and the dominion of darkness was over all of the earth round about.”
Space Trip above Earth
Chamish concludes that this is an accurate description of a trip in a Space Shuttle:
“First the traveler passes above cloud level…Then he sees the earth from space, and it is surrounded by darkness. He is shown ‘images of the gods’ and their homes on a control monitor and marvels at the fine color quality and at the bizarre fact that there is no firmament to the images on the screen.”
It seems quite apparent that the Dead Sea Scrolls have only now begun to yield sources, inspiration, and controversy for believers and non-believers alike. Thanks to Brad and Sherry Steiger and Robert Morningstar UFO Digest
The Bible is right when it states,
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:4 (KJ21)
Photos of UAP/UFO Flying Away from Aircraft
F-16 has multiple photos of UAP in background gradually descending.
During an Operation I almost died
Editor’s Note: When I almost died when my main artery was punctured, and my body filled with blood during an operation I was taken to the Pearly Gates in a dream or vision and told me I had died. But a person dressed in a robe said in a loud voice, “I could live if I would help save the more than a million aborted babies in the US each year. I accepted his offer and noticed he was very upset. The Bible tells us he uses angels, drowning, fire, famine, and plague/disease when gets upset with humans.
Planned Parenthood More Dangerous than Atomic Bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
The Hiroshima atomic bomb toll was 90,000 to 150,000 dead, while killed and wounded in the Nagasaki atomic bomb was 75,000. A total of 225,000 were killed in the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II. Each year five to six times the number killed by the two atomic bomb attacks on Japan can be compared to the 1,3000,000 babies aborted with hearts beating according to the Planned Parenthood last year. From 1975-2019, the nation saw more than one million abortions each year. Since 1973, the Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade genocide has taken the lives of sixty-two million (62,502,904) babies with their hearts beating in the United States as of 2020, more than ten times the six million Jews that Hitler gassed in the Holocaust his death camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_
This is thought to be the greatest genocide in the history of the world. Genocide is considered one of the worst moral crimes a government can commit against its citizens. A democratic controlled Supreme Court in 1973, struck down anti-abortion laws that had been in force in each state since at least 1900. It struck down many U.S. federal and state and various anti-abortion laws that protected the lives of unborn babies.
The Planned Parenthood Clinics should be referred to as extermination death camps when they admitted to negotiating the harvesting and sale of aborted fetal baby body parts, cutting up babies and selling their parts on the open market according to their revelations in recent court cases. Additionally, they often brief inside high schools telling the teenagers how to get an abortion never mentioning that women who abort unusually die younger than women who have babies.
It not only the babies that are exterminated. A recent study in Finland of 10,000 women who had abortions were actually 3.5 times more likely to die within a year than those who carried their pregnancy to birth. Https://www.afterabortion.org/PAR/V8/n2/finland.html
This was judicial activism to write the murder of millions of babies each year. A human being is considered alive if their heart is beating usually at about six weeks’ gestation and dead if the heart is not beating, if a person’s heart stops, he is declared dead; therefore, when a person’s heart begins to beat, there can no longer be a question if he or she is alive.
Baby’s Killed after Birth
New York is protecting Women’s Rights to murder their babies up to include after the actual birth seems barbaric. Today it is simple to determine if you are pregnant and can take a pill to abort before the baby’s heart is beating at six weeks. Pack of twenty to test if you are pregnant costs $7.59 ($0.38 cents for each test. The emergency contraceptive pill can be purchased for $15.00 online. The point is if a woman wishes to stop her pregnancy, she can accomplish that for a small amount of money.
Planned Parenthood Federation received $1.8 billion in taxpayer dollars between fiscal years 2016 and 2018. Biden Spends First 100 Days Expanding Abortion on Demand
Planned Parenthood has funded Democrats with $450 million dollars for the 2020, election. I wonder how many scientists, doctors, singers have been killed? Hundreds of workers in the clinics have quit giving amazing stories of cruelty.
I have no trouble with birth control procedures, but recently Democratic Federal Judges slapped down heartbeat laws in six states that limited abortion to six weeks when the baby’s heart starts beating. The laws were initially passed in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.
Mental Health and high Suicide rate of Women is Ignored
An Article by Julia Steinberg and colleagues in The Lancet Psychiatry, in which the authors examined the risk of first suicide attempt before and after abortion. The authors concluded that women who had abortions had a higher risk of non-fatal suicide attempts compared with women who did not have an abortion. This risk is thought to be six times higher. There is also evidence that Brest cancer is more prevalent in women who had abortions. Abortion is an invasive procedure, involving surgical tools being inserted inside a woman’s body and used to tear apart and terminate a child. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, admits that in this invasive procedure, “serious complications may be fatal.
“Planned Parenthood appeared under oath in court on Sep 04, 2019, and admitted supplying the cut-up body parts of children in the womb to for-profit brokers like Stem Express. “Elliot Institute studied 173,000 American women who either had abortions or carried to term. Reardon was described in the New York Times Magazine as the “Moses” of the “post-abortion movement”.
Women who Abort make Six times more attempts at Suicide
Elliot Institute
Dr. David Reardon founded the Elliot Institute when he found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth. Another survey cited by Reardon in his book “Aborted Women, Silent No More” (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books,) stated, “Up to 60% of women who had abortions had subsequent suicidal feelings, with 28% actually 364,000 attempting suicide each year. Help stop one million women from attempting suicide in the next three years, many thousands are successful!
A study, published in the Southern Medical Journal, was performed in California using the Medicaid records of 173,279 women. They found the following results:
“Compared with women who delivered, those who aborted had a significantly higher risk of death from all causes (1.62), from suicide (2.54), from accidents (1.82), as well as a higher relative risk of death from natural causes (1.44), including AIDS (2.18), circulatory diseases (2.87), and cerebro-vascular disease (5.46) Higher death rates associated with abortion persist over time. This may be explained by self-destructive tendencies, depression, and other unhealthy behavior aggravated by the abortion experience.”
A study published in the Journal of Pediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology also cites that “ninety-four% of abortion-associated deaths were not identified from death certificates. “Apparently, death certificates or official reports are unreliable in reporting abortion related deaths. In addition, reporting abortion complications and making complaints has been known to be difficult for women.
The Dead States: Planned Parenthood’s legion of abortionists have killed a number of children equal to the population of the entire states of New Jersey or Virginia.
These babies need Protection
Roe v. Wade was a landmark legal decision issued on January 22, 1973, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, legalizing abortions across the United States effectively changing the laws in fifty states to allow the killing of babies in the womb. Previously, abortion was not allowed except to save a woman’s life or for rape. It allows a human being with a viable heartbeat to be killed. Since 1973 some sixty-two million babies have been murdered many after being born. Hitler was only able to kill six million in concentration camps ten times less than Planned Parenthood like facilities in the US.
Babies holding each other’s hands forming a line would go around the world at least twice. It seems the high abortion rate is not lost on the young black men who slaughter a one hundred each day in the U.S. mostly with guns. Each day 2700 babies will be murdered making life very cheap. http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/200708230009.html.
Planned Parenthood clinics and others are no longer scheduling abortions beyond the six-week mark in Texas after a new state law came into effect banning most procedures. The new law came into effect at midnight after the U.S. Supreme Court did not act on an emergency request by pro-abortionists.
In New York hospitals, you can find premature newborn babies surrounded by dedicated doctors and nurses fighting to save their lives. Next door, you now might find physicians and non-physicians alike giving lethal injections to babies the same age, thanks to the state’s new so-called Reproductive Health Act
Women having abortions also are much more likely to have a divorce.
New York Times writes about Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
The court has narrowed the scope of the case to one question: It asks “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The case is an opportunity to dismantle the viability framework for regulating abortion, a framework that has proved to be both incoherent and inhumane.
Although strong majorities of Americans say that they support Roe when asked about it by name, majorities in some polls have also supportedbanning abortion beginning in the second trimester, which Roe does not allow. That standard would make our laws comparable with the laws of Europe, where many countries set a 12-week limit for elective abortions. The limit sounds more restrictive than it is in practice — in the United States, over 90 percent of abortions occur before 13 weeks.
A post-Roe world might not be as different as abortion opponents and supporters expect. But rejecting the viability standard offers the opportunity for a new conversation about how we care for the dignity of mothers and their children.
With abortion governed by a viability standard, women and babies are pitted against each other. Every advance that can save a wanted baby delivered early is a further constraint on women who do not want to carry their children to term. Researchers studying artificial wombs are warned that their research is threatening to abortion-rights advocates. A baby born at 22 weeks, would have a good shot at survival.
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book, by John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 46 2021 - Astronaut Cooper Spotted UFO - PART II
Edwards Air Force Base, California on July 1, 1957
Filer’s Files 46 2021 - Astronaut Cooper Spotted UFO - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special Reports are Astronaut Gordon Cooper Spotted UFOs, Israeli Museum in shape of a UFO, Crashed Saucer on White Sands with Torah, The Angel Scroll,” Photos of UAP/UFO Flying Away from Aircraft, Atomic Bombs are not has Effective Has Planned Parenthood, and Strange Aircraft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Netherlands, 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 UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Glendaleon October 22, 2021, UFO observed late afternoon hovering in the western sky. Object showed up through home security camera and undetected to the naked eye. Object was viewed hovering and changing colors while back round changed colors.
California Object
Edwards Air Force Base— on July 1, 1957
Colorado Daylight Lights
Aurora– on November 11, 2021, this was taken at 2:37pm. On an extremely windy day close to Buckley AFB. At first, these were silver Mylar balloons, but there must have been hundreds of them. They were bright metallic orbs. They flew with the wind, but some flew in every direction,
Florida Lights
West Palm Beach — sitting in a chaise lounge on July 16, 2021, at 3pm gazing into skyline and took notice of a box/cube shaped object in sky. Elevation would be plane level 10K feet. I grabbed my phone and began filming. It tumbled around up and down all the while heading N it disappeared behind a cloud.
Missouri Object
Osage Beach— on June 7th, 2021, large disc shaped object partially covered by cloud moving slowly as these shots were a minute apart and in the same place. No sound. No lights. I was just showing my sister the view from our room at Lake of the Ozarks.
Nevada Object
Las Vegas – on September 29, 2021, the witness found several dark blue crystals from a meteorite. Others identified the pieces as coming from a meteorite. Parts of the handicapped parking paint stuck to the pieces indicating that it was hot. Pieces resembled diamonds. The location was the parking lot where other witness had an encounter with a green UFO on Nov 22 of 2020 in North Las Vegas.
Note: It is strangely coincidental that these rocks were found in the same parking lot where a man had a close encounter with a green UFO less than a year earlier. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
New Jersey Lights
Medfordon June 5, 1979, disc
New Mexico Object
Albuquerque – on October 28, 2021, it was a silent, black object that moved vertically and appeared to change altitude gradually going down and then sort of back up.
New York Object
Hastings-On-Hudson– on November 11, 2021, boomerang shaped craft flew over 4:58 going Northwest with white and red flashing Navigation lights on rear right wing only. Flew directly over Main Street fling at plane speed at 1500 feet.
Ohio Moon
Cincinnati– on November 2, 2021, I was taking pictures of the moon with my camera and caught the red object crossing from the bottom of the moon to the top then crosses all the way over towards the left. Took ten photos but object is only seen in one photo.
Oregon Disc
Tillamook– on March 24, 2021, my wife took pictures of a barn and the disc showed up in the picture. We did not see it, but the saucer object showed in the picture she took.
Pennsylvania Lights
Philadelphia – on November 6, 2021, two lights right on top of each other wee seen with the top one blinking and hovering. Neither moved but were no longer in the sky when I went elsewhere. Too big to be stars and since they held still, I knew they weren’t planes, but they were right on top of each other.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Christie Downs– on October 30, 2021, a disc shaped object flew over my house travelling in a northerly direction.
Christie Downs.– on November 5, 2021, a black colored disc travelling from west to south passed over my house again.
Canada Lights
Leamington – on November 2, 2021, light was three times brighter than a planet and my attention was drawn to the sound of a Jet Fighter. I looked up and saw it after hearing a boom. But, a few years ago I had a really clear event take place with three other witnesses. That was two crystal balls one hundred meters the size of Mac Trucks.
Brookville – October 16, 2021, at first, I saw a drone but no sound, and it had six lights and not the frame of a drone.
India Object
Photo from Mehrdad.Goli
Netherlands Disc
Alkmaar– 1990, taken by Klaas Rutarnga that shows a silver metallic disc with a top. Photo from Mehrdad.Goli
UK/England Lights
Long Crandon – on October 30, 2021, looking west three lights were brightly glowing and hovering not far above the horizon and seemed to disappear and then reappear in slightly different locations.
Bognor Regis– on November 5, 2021, I thought to be an airliner leaving a very unusual vapor trail over the English Channel from Bognor Beach. Only later when I showed a colleague my photo did we see no aircraft at head of vapor trail and noticed two dark objects.
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Filer’s Files 45 2021 The 1933 Europe’s UFO Crash - PART I
Nazi Haunebu11 Disc in 1943 in Hauneburg, Germany
Filer’s Files 45 2021 - 1933 Europe’s UFO Crash - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special projects The 1933 Europe’s UFO Crash, Italy Two Aliens Meet with Italians, Virginia Lt Gov-Elect Winsome Sears slams Liberals and Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, 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 UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
1933 Europe’s UFO Crash
William Brophy writes, “I was invited by Dr. Roberto Pinotti to the San Marino Republic UFO Symposium as a speaker to talk about the 1933 UFO crash near Milano, Italy and the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles which involve the tall blond Nordics who meet with President Eisenhower at Edwards Air Force Base 1954 and at Holloman AFB in 1955.”
On June 13, 1933, a bell-shaped UFO crashed near Magenta, Italy just west of Milano.
The occupants were tall blond Nordics with Asian like features on their light blue eyes. The Italians called the UFO la Campania; the Germans called it Die Locked. Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy informed Pope Pius 11 of the crash and placed G. Marconi in charge of the special rs-33 Study Group, which later served as a model for our Mj-12 group. The Japanese told the Italians and Germans that those tall blonde-haired people were in their legends; this led to the Axis Alliance.
New Documents “Will Revolutionize UFOlogy”!
The discovery of some documents from the fascist era of Italy opens up new horizons for research on UFOs and compels students of this subject to amend the official history of the flying saucers. Under Duce Mussolini, there was a secret government commission of enquiry, known as the RS/33 cabinet, which studied the UFOs. Then a second series of documents, in three different packages, posted in March-April 1996, were sent by “MR. X” to the top Italian ufologist Dr. Roberto Pinotti, Director of the Italian UFO research journal NOTIZIARIO UFO.
Italian UFO Magazine
The sighting of a flying cigar over the Venice and Mestre on the morning of August 17, 1936, was reported showing a “cigar” – described as “torpedo-shaped” – along with two spheres beside it, one of which resembled the planet Saturn, being pursued by a fighter aircraft. All this took place 15 years before Kenneth Arnold sighting in the state of Washington in 1947.
The sensational discovery of some new original material, which has been sent to us anonymously on a number of occasions regarding the existence of the so-called “Fascist UFO Files.” This material dealt with a flying saucer that had either crashed or landed near Magenta in Lombardy in Italy on April 11th, 1933, some fourteen years before the famous Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash. This event involved a subsequent investigation by an obscure war time intelligence unit called “Gabinetto RS/33” (or RS/33 Cabinet), ‘RS’ is the acronym for Ricerche Speciali or Special Research, and thirty-three means 1933, this group had been authorized by Benito Mussolini to study the problem.
Map of the Magenta, Italy 1933 UFO crash
Later the crashed UFO was stored in the hangars of the SIAI Marchetti in Verbiage. Mussolini thought that this “unconventional flying vehicle” was a French, British or German secret weapon, but apparently Guglielmo Marconi believed it was Extra-Terrestrial in nature. The RS/33 Cabinet – according to the mysterious sender of the material who wrote to us saying he was a relative of one of its members who had investigated this. Between 1933 and 1940, there were many different Italian UFO sightings: in one instance an Italian fighter plane intercepted an UFO between Ravenna and Rome and in August 1936 there was a multiple UFO sighting (a “flying cigar” and two Saturn-shaped UFOs) over Mestre and Venice.
Indeed, in Italy there were many UFO sightings between 1933 and 1940, so little wonder a secret commission was established to study them
THE UFO FILES OF MUSSOLINI
Released September 24, 2021 by Nancy Thames a new book “UFO Contacts In Italy Volume Two.”
which has just been published by Philip Mantle’s publishing company ‘FLYING DISK PRESS.’ It is the first time that some of this information has been made available in English.
Three telegrams from the Milan office of the Stefani Agency (the Fascist A.N.S.A.), which gave instructions, on the order of Dictator Duce Mussolini, to recuperate a flying saucer which had landed on June 13, 1933. There was also a Senatorial letter describing in detail the strategy to be followed after the craft had been recovered, i.e., censorship of the newspapers; arrest of the eyewitnesses; elaboration of a series of conventional explanations for the UFO (i.e., *sonde* balloons, meteors, perihelia) to be fed to the public via the Brera Astronomical Observatory at Milan.
It was discovered that the RS/33 CABINET had been a top-secret study commission, created in the bosom of La Sapienza University in Rome following upon the recuperation [sic] of the UFO. Headed by the physicist Guglielmo Marconi (known for his belief in Martians, After Italy’s accession to the Berlin-Rome Axis, by arrangement with Hitler this material was all subsequently to be passed to the Nazis (*who did, in actual fact, as a result, attempt a few years later to construct revolutionary discoidal aircraft called the V-7*.
V-7 Disc
As things went sour for Italy during the war, all the files from the RS/33 Cabinet were shipped to Nazi Germany. As Missoni points out, rumors of Nazi discs have plagued the UFO literature for decades, and one Italian scientist, Giuseppe Belluzzo, is always mentioned in conjunction with the Germans, Miethe, Schriever and Habermohl. Much nonsense has been written about the so-called Nazi flying saucers – some of its Nazi propaganda – yet undoubtedly there is at least some truth to the matter. The names of Miethe, et al., are confirmed by FBI and other U.S. and German documents. It is also possible that the German V-7 (a revolutionary discoidal aircraft whose existence as a prototype was confirmed by Hermann Oberth) was initially developed after Italian research by VNC.
In the first place, it has come to light that ever since the end of the Thirties a German aircraft designer named NORDUNG had been attempting to build a “solar” flying disc to be sent out into Space – subsequently re-baptized as the “flying wheel”, and so it is no wonder if the Italian Fascists, finding themselves confronted with a UFO, should have opted for the explanation that it was a secret weapon! The “Moretti” trail led me to the Varese region. My hypothesis is in fact that the saucer recovered in 1933 had been hidden in one of the nearest and most discrete hangars in that region – namely the hangars of the aeronautical establishments of the Siai Marchetti at Vergiate in the Varese region of Ticino which at that date were under the control of General Italo Balbo who became a member of the RS/33 CABINET). The “Varese trail” had been suggested to me through several clues: namely that the messages about recovery of the UFO came from the nearby Telegraphic Office of Milan: that in those very days Blackshirts were suddenly dispatched to that region, The Varese newspaper, the *Cronaca Prealpina, of June 20, 1933, gave the first report, emphasizing that forms of life on Mars.
Mussolini and Hitler
Earth – the existence of agreements between Mussolini and Hitler for the study of alien technology, agreements that had been made in 1938; these documents were: an Agency Stefani message from Florence containing an interview with the Fuhrer Hitler when he was visiting Italy. Marconi claimed he could develop a *death ray*, which, so Mussolini said, had for one day, by remote control, halted all automobile and aircraft engines as far away as Ostia – a weapon which, by virtue of 1938 agreements between Mussolini and Hitler, would evidently reappear in the following year at Essen, Germany, causing a *total blackout* of the city according to the account given by the American ufologist Leonard Stringfield in his book UFO SIEGE (1977. It is likely the Fascists and the Nazis managed to achieve “back- engineering” from the UFO of 1933? The Fascist UFO Files nevertheless has a very special importance. For it demonstrates the existence of a governmentalcommission on UFOs before the official birth of UFOlogy itself ” If, at the end of the 1930s, the Italians were beginning to hear of German experiments with disc-shaped aircraft (which we do know existed and which certainly *were* test-flown), then is it surprising that many Italian scientists may well have suspected that any weird craft seen flying over Italy in the years from 1933 to 1936 might well also have been *German*? And then later, during WWII, they might logically have suspected that they were seeing “secret weapons of the enemy Allies”?
“Mussolini” himself was a keen flier and held a pilot’s license. Who else among the leaders in WWII did that? Well, it seems that as Germany tightened her grip on Italy, the Germans were able to *command* the Italians to hand all the alien craft’s evidence over to them! Remember the remarkable German success in building at least two types of “saucer-shaped” multi-jet aircraft Roberto Pinotti, probably the best Italy’s UFO researcher confirms that it is 100% certain that the “Fascist UFO Files” are completely genuine. Thanks to the Flying Saucer Review, Volume 46/3, autumn 2001, pp. 13 – 17 and
It is believed the Italians gave the Germans access to the alien craft and they were able to back engineer the craft to develop the so-called Foo fighters often reported by allied bombing aircrews. The key was the advanced propulsion system.
Hitler and A UFO is observing this historical event.
MUFON reports that four years after the crash a UFO was filmed over Czechoslovakia. I’m an ardent history buff. I was watching WWII in Color tonight and noticed Hitler is entering Czechoslovakia on May 1, 1937 and is being filmed. In the archival footage I noticed a UFO above hm. I rewind several times and can’t believe anyone has noticed this before. Throughout is leadership Hitler often warned of advanced weapons that would bring victory to the Nazi’s. Thanks to MUFON CMS
The Vril Society members were the first group to attempt the back engineering of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. A German writer, John Von Helsing, describes the discovery of a crashed saucer in the Black Forest, near Freiburg, in 1936 and says that this technology was taken and combined with the information the Vril Society had received through channeling and was made into a further project called the Haunebu. There are various stories of crashed saucers in Europe that are difficult to prove or deny.
The Japanese conducted an attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, in 1941, the city holiday of Milano, Italy. The tall blonde-haired people’s craft were the UFOs over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942, and a large disk with a row of windows was shot down above the Santa Catalina Island and San Clement Island area recovered by the ars-1 Viking ship.
ars-1 Viking ship
and taken to Moffat Field Navy Base. The Manhattan project at Berkeley next door studied the disk. The Trinity Bomb was named after Pope Pius 11 and the three-inch anti-aircraft guns used in Los Angeles. When the War was over, the U.S. Army Air Force members were infiltrated precisely into Sesto regarding the presence of terrestrial flying saucers kept at Vergiate, Italy and that the entire region, from time immemorial, was at the center of a most intense ufological activity – to such a degree that it gained the title of being “The Ticino Triangle of Northern Italy.”
In April of 1945, the 1st Armored Division captured the Machete Aviation Facility where the 1933 Magenta UFO was kept, and it was brought to the United States. My father Lt. Col. William J. Brophy was a B-29 bomber pilot with the 231 Air Base Group at Alamogordo, New Mexico and witnessed the Trinity Bomb. He told me the silver-plate B-29 bomber was named after the Los Angeles 1942 disks.
Oval Shaped Crashed UFO
One month later on August 16, 1945, my father helped his commanding officer Col. Maurice A. Preston recover an oval shaped UFO with three very strange small light grey aliens with praying mantis features on their eyes and face. The UFO had destroyed a communications tower belonging to Stallion Site in the crash near Walnut Creek in San Antonio, Nm. My father told me President Eisenhower met with the tall blonde-haired people involved with the 1933 Italy crash at Edwards AFB on February 20, 1954. Eisenhower invited Cardinal John McIntyre to the meeting since Pope Pius 11 had told Roosevelt about the Nordic 1933 Magenta, Italy crash. Thanks to William Brophy.
German Discs
Haunebu11
In 1942, the enlarged Haunebu II of 26 meters (85 feet) diameter was ready for flight testing. This disc had a crew of nine and could also achieve supersonic flight of 6,000 to 21,000 km/h (13,000 MPH) with a flight endurance of 55 hours. It had heat shielding of two hulls of Victale a German super metal special armor. The craft were constructed and tested between 1943-44. The craft made 106 test flights. Both British and U.S. pilots reported seeing very fast Foo Fighters
At the end of WWII, three weeks before the U.S. went to Peenemunde to seize the V-2s and the scientists, including Werner von Braun, the Brits went into the underground redoubts of the Nazis in Austria, the Black Forest and Thuringia. The results were three top secret trains, one of them eight miles long (that one train alone was 655 box cars and flat cars). The trains took the stuff, some of which was too large to fit in box cars and had to be covered by tarpaulins on its way to the coast of Brittany (France), there to be loaded on board ships, taken through the Panama Canal up the coast to Vancouver, B.C., and from there by train 100 miles inland to the newly constructed facility of the A. V. Roe Company, which took over the research and development of the wingless jet powered saucer craft.
150 prefabricated factory buildings were sent from England to the same site. By 1947 it was dug completely underground for security reasons to protect from prying Russian over flights. An underground facility with vertical shaft, still exists cobwebbed and silent about 150 miles East of Vancouver, British Columbia.
When the war ended, many German scientists were engaged by the USA to head their space program. But what of the German discs? Many such as William Tomkins believe that massive German U-boats transported many of them to a secret base in the Antarctic. That is when the US military kicked into action sending Admiral Byrd in his men to the frozen north. The battle that ensued saw heavy losses by the American’s but there are very few reports as to what actually happened there.
Haunebu 111
Operation Highjump, an operation to locate the Nazi base in the Antarctic was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd Jr., USN (Ret), Officer in Charge of Task Force 68 that commenced on 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, thirteen ships, and thirty-three aircraft. According to William Tomkins several ships were sunk and most of the aircraft destroyed by attacking UFOs from the Antarctic Nazi base. Later, Admiral Richard E. Byrd warned that the United States should adopt measures of protection against the possibility of an invasion of the country by high-speed hostile planes coming from the Polar Regions.
Byrd also found plenty of magnetic anomalies, all of which were classified top secret when he got back. The interesting thing is this “magnetic anomaly,” it may be an entrance to a large “hollow place” That’s what “magnetic anomaly” means……
The Allies all grabbed the disc engineers; some went to Russia, Canada, Britain, and others to the United States. Wernher von Braun and his Nazi cohort scientists were excused for their mistreatment of assembly line slaves and invited to partake in America’s rocket program. Saucer scientists like Herr Miethe and his Nazi cohort scientists were invited and taken to work for A.V. Roe in the compound outside Vancouver, Canada.
The books by Harbinson, Revelation, and Projekt Saucer. The suppressed and out of print book by Renato Vesco “Intercept but Don’t Shoot,” republished as Flying Saucers: From 1944-1994 by Renato Vesco and David Childress.]
The British Space Program was well underway during World War 11 with men such as Arthur C Clarke and H.E Ross launching an in-depth study of the possibility of moon landings. The British undertook intensive rocket testing at a huge range in South Australia, beginning in about 1946. The range was named Woomera and it is possible that the studies launched there led to manned space travel in years much earlier than we have been led to believe.’
Dr Carol Rosin was the first female corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher von Braun in his later years. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington, DC, and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space-based weapons.
Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in space, based on a Russian threat, then a terrorist threat, an asteroid threat, then finally an extraterrestrial threat.
Many of the German scientists that designed of the V2 rocket continued working on the American space program right through to the 1969 landing of men on the Moon. Thanks to Frank Chili.
Italy Aliens Meet with Italians
UFO Sighting News reports there is an entrance to alien base at Rocca Pia, Italy.
Alleged Alien
Allegedly, two extraterrestrials met with Italians and allowed their photos to be taken. The Aliens gave a message of hope and friendship. This is Kenio who is thought to be over 2.4 meters tall. (8 feet tall).
He is an alien of the W56 group, also known as the Akrij. It had been kept secret for half a century, but only just recently came to light after the death of one of the men involved (Bruno Sammaciccia who had asked for it to be kept secret until after his death).
Pescara, Italy at A
In Pescara, during the 50s to 70s, a group of extraterrestrials had contacted a number of unsuspecting people directly. This project was called ‘Amicizia.’ These men would be brought to their (etheric) ‘bases’ located on earth and apparently on board the UFOs.
The people involved were of high social and cultural status, among them was the notable Console Alberto Perego. There is a collection of testimonials from them, which also shows excellent quality footage and photography of the phenomena, as well as apparent ‘messages’ (of love and goodwill) given to us from these beings.
This may just be coincidence, but Robert Lazar, a scientist who worked on a flying saucer in Area S4 had once stated that the USAF gave him reading info about aliens and in the documents, it stated there was fifty-six space faring species of aliens known. That could explain why the aliens in Italy called themselves W56. However, the meaning of the W has continued to elude me. (Scott C. Waring)
Virginia Lt Gov-Elect Winsome Sears slams Liberals
Winsome Sears — the first woman and first woman of color elected lieutenant governor of Virginia on Tuesday night — called out Joy Reid after watching the MSNBC host describe the GOP as “dangerous.”
“I wish Joy Reid would invite me on her show — let’s see if she’s woman enough to do that — I’d go in a heartbeat and we’d have a real discussion without Joy speaking about me behind my back,” Sears said.
“[Reid] talks about white supremacy,” Sears continued. “Does she know that I ran against a white democrat supremacist? I mean Joy come on. Get your facts straight and then come talk to me. I’m waiting for you.”
Sears, a former Marine said her views were based on “her service to the Commonwealth and her Country, her faith, and her belief in equal opportunity for all Virginians.”She said she would provide tax breaks for small businesses, and reducing state excise and income taxes.[Republican Winsome Sears, who held a 50,000-vote lead in her bid to become the first black woman lieutenant governor of Virginia, declared that she would “die for America.”
A world-renowned African American theologian has spoken out to expose the “demonic ideology” behind Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Black Lives Matter (BLM), revealing their “anti-racism” agenda is actually” all a grab for power.
Dr. Baucham currently serves as the dean of theology at African Christian University. He says he’s been alarmed in recent years by the Marxist power grab that is being disguised as “racial justice.” Baucham says he’s so concerned about America’s pathway to “demonic”Marxism that it’s compelled him to write a book about the disturbing shift in U.S. society. Marists and Communists hate all forms of religion that takes power away from the government.
Baucham explains the unique insight he has as a black pastor and theologian who now views the country from the outside after being raised in an American inner city.
He says the U.S. has further succumbed to the radical left. For example, the Democratic Infrastructure bill spends millions on public schools but includes probation against religious organizations like churches and synagogues and prohibits religious schools or childcare services from using funds to improve facilities.
If you follow (CRT) to its very root, the ultimate goal is to remove contrary “opinions” and “beliefs,” those that are contrary to a Neo-Marxist-like existence, where “free will” need not be necessary. One will not need to “think” or make decisions based on anything other than what the Marxist state decries as absolute which is done in Communist countries.
The education company co-founded by Department of Justice Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law is facing fresh scrutiny after it was revealed the company supports Critical Race Theory curricula while servicing 23,000 schools in the nation, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars — while Garland cracks down on opposition to the ideology.
Panorama Education, co-founded by Xan Tanner, sells surveys to school districts nationwide with a focus on “social and emotion climate.”
With contracts in more than fifty of the one hundred largest school districts in the U.S., Panorama Education claims to be supporting “thirteen million students in 23,000 schools and 1,500 districts across fifty states.
According to Forbes, the contract cost taxpayers $288,270.
Since 2017, the company has raised around $76 million from investors and just last month, Panorama Education obtained $60 million financing
The Communist Party of America hides no secret about turning America into a communist country like Cuba or Venezuela.
The Communist Party has begun to achieve their goal transforming the Democrat party into a Socialist Party with the philosophy of Marxism from Karl Marx. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Using this Marxist philosophy, the Democrat Party has led America toward the Socialist path and adopted the goals laid out in the Communist Manifesto to take over America. They have taken the once proud 80% Black Families and removed the husband providing money only to women so now only 20% remain married. Therefore, most black children have no father to help with their education or upbringing.
They have control of the schools so now everyday one hundred black men kill one hundred black men. Planned Parenthood teaches abortion in the high schools CDC reports 117,626 black children are aborted in a year
Why is it the 128-page Democratic Party’s Manifesto has copied Stalin’s 1936 Soviet Communist Constitution that allowed Joseph Stalin to rule Communist Soviet Union with an Iron Hand killing40 million Russians.
Speaking at a conference held by the Faith and Freedom Coalition on June 18, former Vice President Mike Pence said that “Critical Race Theory is racism.” Senator Ted Cruz, at the same gathering, compared the theory to the Ku Klux Klan saying the curriculum is “every bit as racist” as the white supremacist hate group. “Critical race theory,” the senator said, “CRT says every white person is a racist and a demon.”
Critical Race Theory and its Evil Progeny Are All About Hatred of Whites according to the National Vanguard
The National Vanguard Organization states Critical Race Theory (CRT) may have tinges of Marxism, Communism, and even Democratic Party thinking but, at its core, CRT is a virulently anti-White philosophy that uses quasi-intellectual terms to promote anti-Whiteness towards anything that seems pro-White. For example, “math is racist” toward non-Whites because students are taught (horrors!) that there are correct and incorrect answers.
To be clear, anything related to Whites, like history, or science, or literature, or art, or anything that can somehow be tied to Whites is hated. It is about hating Whites and wanting all Whites dead.
Critical Race Theory is about hating you because you are White — and its proponents want you and all other Whites — from babies to the aged — dead. That’s it. It is part of a genocide against Whites. They want you, Whitey, dead!
, Critical Race Theory puts all POC (“People of Color;” their term) — Blacks, Browns, Reds, Yellows — on one side, and Whites and only Whites on the other side. Whites are seen as the devils and evil doers throughout history, and in the present day as well. Critical Race Theory considers the entire White genome evil and something that must be wiped out. That means all White people must be killed off in one way or another so the wonderful POC can live without the harm that White devils do just by being alive.
Whites must be eradicated, with birth control; give them easy-to-get abortions and mating with non-Whites. If all else fails, just plain kill them with guns and knives.
The fact White Policemen killed 14 Black men last year who were mostly conducting crimes justifies killing of all whites. It does not stop Black people from killing one hundred Black people every day. 295 police were killed in 2020 according to National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
In the news recently was case of an innocent little four-year-old White kid who was stabbed to death by a Black, and the cops say they “don’t know a motive.” How about the fact that the little kid was White? —
White people are usually hidden from getting no national news coverage of Black people or illegal immigrants killing whites. This hiding is pervasive in the six companies that control the fake media.
Just the other day a Black at a meeting of armed and militant Blacks said, “There will come a time when we will kill everything White in sight.” Have you seen this in the “mainstream” (controlled) media? Of course not. The controlled media want to hide this. Generally, it’s a good idea when someone says he wants to kill you to take him at his word.
Too many Whites are like frogs being cooked in a pot of water and not realizing it because the heat is being turned up a little at a time, incrementally boiling the frogs to death before they catch on and jump out.
Look, this is about hating and harming hatred of Whites. There’s a target on your back in the eternal race wars is your skin.
You may be confused about your identity, but those who hate you aren’t. They see your White skin and know you are their enemy.
Approximately 620,000 to 700,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War freeing the slaves.
DOJ Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memorandum directing the FBI to target parents who protest at school board meetings. This was a response to the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ letter that characterized parents who stood up to school boards about the teaching of CRT as “domestic terrorists.”
It appears the angry domestic terrorists voted for the Republicans around the nation.
Attorney General Garland was grilled by Senator Cruz over the conflict of interest of the education company co-founded by Garland’s daughter’s husband that is facing scrutiny after it was revealed the company supports Critical Race Theory curricula while servicing in the nation, over 13 million students in 21,000 schools, and 50 states costing tax payers millions of dollars — while Garland has instructed the FBI to crack down on Terrorist Parents who oppose the ideology that hates all whites.
Six Republican-majority state legislatures have implemented restrictions on teaching about racial inequality in schools. These bills are in Tennessee, Texas, Idaho, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Each bill would ban teachers from teaching that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive.
Numerous Children traumatized by CRT
Real Time host Bill Maher, and liberal professor clash on CRT in schools: It’s ‘disingenuous’ to say parents oppose Black history
Maher kicked off the show’s panel discussion by addressing how “Democrats got their a– kicked” in Tuesday’s elections, particularly in Virginia where the issue of education dominated the gubernatorial race won by Republican Glenn Youngkin. Black history was now being “centered” in the school’s curriculum rather than other important subjects.
Maher responded, “and describing them either as oppressed or oppressor. I mean, there are children coming home who feel traumatized by this. That’s what parents are objecting to.”
The National Education Association (NEA) that Critical Race Theory is in fact being taught in K-12 schools and they support it.
The news media is lying when they say Critical Race Theory is not being taught. Support democracy and run for your school board with five or six other likeminded people.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author from objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book, by John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 45 2021 - 1933 Europe’s UFO Crash - PART II
Nazi Haunebu11 Disc in 1943 in Hauneburg, Germany
Filer’s Files 45 2021 - 1933 Europe’s UFO Crash - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special projects The 1933 Europe’s UFO Crash, Italy Two Aliens Meet with Italians, Virginia Lt Gov-Elect Winsome Sears slams Liberals and Strange Craft
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, 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 UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Prescott Valley– on October 22, 2021, my sighting started off like a shooting star then it stopped and lit up. The video shows changes in shape and brightness. I shot from Prescott looking towards Flagstaff. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
California Object
Bakersfield– 0n October 31, 2021, during Halloween trick or treat with my kids.
Colorado Lights
Parker– on October 18, 2021, the photo was taken at 7:21 PM from my patio. Only after I reviewed the pictures taken of the moon did I notice the two white objects in the picture. Once enlarged the two white objects appeared more vividly.
Note:The two white objects noted in the photo are likely not real and a lens flare created by the reflection of the moon on the camera lens. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Idaho Lights
Boise— on October30, 2021, overlooking on the mountains in Boise are three big lights that don’t belong. I’ve been seeing this view for 43 years.
Louisiana Object
New Orleans – on October 30, 2021, 1 saw a snub-nosed, triangle shaped object with rows of red & blue lights underneath slowly comes into view. It was silent and was moving forward very slowly and made a dipping action. It was flickering and disappeared right before my eyes. I saw it for 35 seconds and it was utterly amazing.
Michigan Light
Madison Heights–– on November 1, 2021, a white circle without wings like an airplane would have, it was just a white circle that kept going.
Minnesota TicTac
Mpuntainair – on November 2, 2021, a couple of months ago I saw bright intense flashing colors rapidly moving across the bottom of the V. Every night during this week I’ve seen 1 to 12 objects. The original one stays while the others are moving around. The large one turns bright white and disappears. Later, it repeats while the smaller ones remain in their spots.
New Jersey Object
Mount Arlington – on November 1, 2021, I have been documenting sightings for a few years in NY and NJ. I have numerous pictures and videos of them following me during an hour drive.
New York Tic Tac
Waterville – on November 1, 2021, my son looked up and said, “Look at that plane its moving but nothing coming out of it.” It just appeared different than any plane. It was really high with no contrail, noise, and a steady flight pattern.
Washington Lights
Federal Way – on October 23, 2021, a friend and I were by Redondo Beach when we saw four objects just hovering and then changing positions. It was the night of the bomb cyclone and we haves never seen anything very strange like these.
West Virginia Lights
Augusta– on November 1, 2021, a very large triangular object was seen flying over treetops heading south. Object had many pulsing flashing red lights, was silent, and interfered with our satellite signal. This photo is a depiction.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Olinda– 0n October 25, 2021, if you want to see the photo, you can view it by looking up my photography Face book page at: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?
Alding— on October 29, 2021, caught on camera between shutter speeds.
Canada Lights
Little Current– on October 31, 2021, looking out the window of my hotel I noticed a. saucer type almost see-through object. I noticed another two black objects in the sky.
UK/England Lights
Falkirk– on October 31, 2021, the object was square in shape and had blinking lights at each corner as it flew past it floated. Each light was of fixed distance to each other, and it changed direction very easily. It had a swaying motion, silent, and was very large.
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Glowing Orbs Over Tampa, Florida Nov 15, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Orbs Over Tampa, Florida Nov 15, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:Nov 15, 2021 Location of sighting: Tampa, Florida, USA Source: MUFON
A person was driving along and noticed some lights in the sky, so they pulled over a recorded them on his phone. The objects have a reddish glow to them and flying together in the same direction. The objects were flying and each seems to be about the size of a car. Fantastic raw footage of a UFO fleet over Tampa. Many times I have said there is a alien base below Florida and it extends out into the ocean floor for about 50-70km. These UFOs came from that location.
100% proof that UFO often want us to see them by deliberately lighting up.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Never before seen lights in the sky. And I been living in Tampa half my life. There were lights in the sky in a prominent formation. They moved, changed colors then disappeared. I can’t remember how long I was watching, but it was a good amount of time.
Guys, I was looking at a news story about graves found in an old Indian school in Nebraska when I noticed something odd. Greta Thunberg was sitting in one of the students desk. She has been found before in other photos from 1890 in the Yukon territory doing gold mining, but this photo is from Nebraska in 1910. It would figure that she might time travel to such a place as this. So many terrible abuses took place against the Indian children at the school, so many children disappearing never to be seen again...and so many graves found. If this is her, she must have known what was going to happen and she tried to prevent it as much as possible. Greta has talked to the UN yelling at them like they were little children, she has talked to presidents, leading protests worldwide and even was on the cover of TIME as person of the year. It seems to me that she really does see the future and what she says will happen...is not a possibility, but a guarantee to happen.
Why would Greta do this? In here own words, "Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago." So...Greta is here for the world...again and again through time.
Check out my video and chat about it in below, and remember to subscribe to my Youtube channel for more new discoveries.
These strange unknown lights were flying across the night sky above Tampa, FL on 15th November 2021.
Witness report:
There were lights in the sky in a prominent formation. They moved, changed colors then disappeared. I can’t remember hour long I was watching, but it was a good amount of time
Is there life at Alpha Centauri? Astronomers will launch a telescope into low-Earth orbit in 2023 to search for habitable planets orbiting our closest star system
Is there life at Alpha Centauri? Astronomers will launch a telescope into low-Earth orbit in 2023 to search for habitable planets orbiting our closest star system
Breakthrough Initiatives and the University of Sydney are working on the project
It will see a telescope launched into low Earth orbit to study Alpha Centauri
This is the nearest star system to the Earth and could host habitable planets
The new telescope will be designed to look for planets in the habitable zone
The search for 'another Earth' has been a staple of science fiction for decades, and now a group of astronomers hope to discover one on our galactic doorstep.
Alpha Centauri is a triple star system just over four light years from the Earth, split into a pair of sun-like stars known as AB, and a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri.
So far planets have only been found orbiting Proxima Centauri, but experts from the University of Sydney and Breakthrough Initiatives believe they will find a world orbiting the larger binary pair using a new privately funded telescope.
Known as the Toliman mission, it will launch in 2023 and scan Alpha Centauri AB for worlds in the habitable zone, where liquid water can flow on the surface.
The team hope to be able to say whether there are habitable worlds orbiting either or both of the binary stars by the middle of this decade.
Professor Peter Tuthill, project leader from the University of Sydney, told MailOnline there was a 30 per cent chance of finding at least one planet orbiting Alpha Centauri AB, but it is difficult to properly assess due to the fact it is a binary star system.
A simulated view of what the TOLIMAN telescope could see of the Alpha Centauri binary through its diffractive pupil lens
The closest star system to the Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur), at a distance of 4.3 light-years, this system is made up of the binary formed by the stars Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, plus the faint red dwarf Alpha Centauri C, also known as Proxima Centauri
ALPHA CENTAURI: OUR NEAREST CELESTIAL NEIGHBOUR
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the Earth.
It includes three stars, two that are Sun-like in a binary pairing, and a third smaller red dwarf star.
The red dwarf, known as Proxima Centauri, is the closest star to the sun at 4.246 light years.
The binary pair includes Rigil Kentaurus, or Centauri A, and Toliman, also known as Centauri B.
Rigil Kentaurus has 1.1 times the mass and 1.519 times the luminosity of the Sun, while Toliman is smaller and cooler, at 0.907 times the Sun's mass and 0.445 times its luminosity.
From the Earth they appear as a single larger star, called Alpha Centauri AB.
With an apparent magnitude of −0.27, it is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus and the third-brightest in the night sky, outshone by Sirius and Canopus.
They orbit around a common centre with a period of 79.91 years, however it is elliptical, ranging from the distance between Saturn and the sun to the distance between Pluto and the sun.
Alpha Centauri C, or Proxima Centauri, is 0.21 light years from the binary pair.
Proxima Centauri has two planets: Proxima b, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone discovered in 2016; and Proxima c, a super-Earth about 1.5 AU from the red dwarf star.
No planets have been confirmed around either Alpha Centauri A or B, but astronomers speculate there will be planets around one or both.
While the cost hasn't been revealed, it will in part be funded by a $788,000 (£425,000) grant from the Australian government and includes work by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Saber Astronautics in Australia.
It is expected to be a multimillion dollar project, but will cost less than $20m.
TOLIMAN stands for Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood, but is also the ancient Arabic name for the star.
It is a new approach to exoplanet discovery, creating a telescope to focus on the nearest star systems, looking for potentially habitable worlds, instead of just any world.
The telescope uses a diffractive pupil lense - a mirror that spreads starlight captured from nearby stars into a complex flower-like pattern.
This pattern makes it easier to detect perturbances of star movements that are the tell-tale signs of orbiting planets.
'Our nearest stellar neighbours – the Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri systems – are turning out to be extraordinarily interesting,' said Dr Pete Worden, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, which is funding the mission.
'The TOLIMAN mission will be a huge step towards finding out if planets capable of supporting life exist there.'
Professor Tuthill said this will present a new window on the universe, including our nearest neighbour.
'Astronomers have access to amazing technologies that allow us to find thousands of planets circling stars across vast reaches of the galaxy,' he said.
'Yet we hardly know anything about our own celestial backyard. It is a modern problem to have; we are like net-savvy urbanites whose social media connections are global, but we don't know anyone living on our own block.'
Having such a blind spot in our understanding of the local universe has 'important consequences' for astronomy, according to Prof Tuthill.
'These next-door planets are the ones where we have the best prospects for finding and analysing atmospheres, surface chemistry and possibly even the fingerprints of a biosphere – the tentative signals of life,' he added.
Telescope mirror engraving for TOLIMAN. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system just over four light years from the Earth, split into a pair of sun-like stars known as AB, and a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri
The team believe that either or both of the two stars in Alpha Centauri AB may host temperate planets - those with flowing water that could host life.
The third star, Proxima Centauri, is already believed to have one planet in a 'Goldilocks orbit', discovered in 2016.
Breakthrough Initiatives, founded by Israeli science and technology investor and philanthropist Yuri Milner, which is supporting the mission, has a number of programs engaged in the hunt for alien life throughout the universe.
Its Starshot mission hopes to one day send a fleet of tiny probes to Alpha Centauri, flying using lightsails - a mission that will take 20 years from launch, and four years to send any information back to the Earth.
Proposed TOLIMAN mission telescope design. The team believe that either or both of the two stars in Alpha Centauri AB may host temperate planets - those with flowing water that could host life
Our closest neighbours: Alpha and Proxima Centauri are just four light years away, here photographed in visible and x-ray spectra
Scientists are developing a laser-powered SAIL that they claim could allow us to travel 24 TRILLION miles to our closest star system in 20 years
It is our nearest star system and offers perhaps the best chance of finding alien life – but reaching Alpha Centauri with current technology would take thousands of years.
The good news is scientists may just have found a way to get there in the space of a human lifetime.
It involves a laser-powered sail they claim could one day allow us to travel 24 trillion miles and reach our closest stellar neighbour within 20 years.
The new type of spacecraft propulsion system has been designed by scientists from the Australian National University (ANU).
The Breakthrough Starshot project calls for the design of an ultra-lightweight spacecraft, which acts as a light-sail, to travel with unprecedented speed to the triple star system 4.37 light-years away.
While that is a large distance in terrestrial terms, it is three times closer than the next nearest Sun-like star.
The concept would see probes launched into space by the laser propulsion system.
Light to power the sail would come from the Earth's surface – with millions of lasers joining forces to illuminate the sail and push it onto its interstellar journey.
Other projects, including TOLIMAN, have been designed to find planets and search for life in our stellar neighbourhood.
Pete Klupar, Chief Engineer of Breakthrough Watch, said: 'These nearby planets are where humanity will take our first steps into interstellar space using high-speed, futuristic, robotic probes.
'If we consider the nearest few dozen stars, we expect a handful of rocky planets like Earth orbiting at the right distance for liquid surface water to be possible.'
Saber Astronautics will provide spaceflight mission operations support, including satellite communications and command, space traffic management and a range of other flight services to download data from the satellite.
Dr Jason Held, CEO of Saber Astronautics, said: 'TOLIMAN is a mission that Australia should be very proud of – it is an exciting, bleeding-edge space telescope supplied by an exceptional international collaboration. It will be a joy to fly this bird.'
Dr Eduardo Bendek, a member of the team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said it is a huge technological challenge finding planets orbiting even the nearest and brightest stars in our galactic neighbourhood.
'Our TOLIMAN mission will launch a custom-designed space telescope that makes extremely fine measurements of the position of the star in the sky. If there is a planet orbiting the star, it will tug on the star betraying a tiny, but measurable, wobble.'
Most of the thousands of known planets outside the solar system have been discovered using space telescopes such as NASA's Kepler and TESS missions.
Finding exoplanets close to home will take more finely tuned instruments, which is where the TOLIMAN mission comes in.
Mr Klupar said: 'The signal we are looking for requires a real leap in precision measurement.'
Professor Tuthill added: 'Nobody is underestimating the challenge, but our innovative design incorporates new tricks. Our plan is for an agile, low-cost mission that delivers results by about the middle of the decade.'
Pictured, a not-to-scale representation of how far away Proxima B is from Earth compared to Voyager 1, the farthest man-made object which was launched in 1977
He told MailOnline he has spent time looking at the odds of finding a planet, and it isn't a question with a single clear answer.
'There are a few unknowns that the present state of astronomy knowledge are not yet up to answering,' he explained.
'I think taking a moderately pessimistic case, then there is at least, say a 30% chance of at least 1 planet, and the more optimistic forecasts predict several planets.
'The problem here is the binary star,' Alpha Centauri AB, as 'nobody really knows what the implications of that are, so these numbers are under debate.'
He said TOLIMAN hopes to be able to view any planet the mass of Earth or larger - if it is the size of Mars or smaller then it won't be visible, even if it exists.
'We are searching for Earth Analogs. Surely, eventually however, technology will catch up and we will exhaustively survey the Alpha Cen system.'
BREAKTHROUGH STARSHOT
The project involves deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest star system and send back pictures.
If successful, scientists could determine if Alpha Centauri, a star system about 25 trillion miles away, contains an Earth-like planet.
The catch: It could take years to develop the project, dubbed Breakthrough Starshot, and there is no guarantee it will work.
The small light-propelled vehicles will carry equipment like cameras and communication equipment.
This involves a ground-based light beamer pushing ultra-light nanocrafts – miniature space probes attached to lightsails – to speeds of up to 100 million miles an hour.
Such a system would allow a flyby mission to reach Alpha Centauri in just over 20 years from launch.
Breakthrough Starshot aims to demonstrate proof of concept for ultra-fast light-driven nanocrafts, and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. Along the way, the project could generate important supplementary benefits to astronomy, including solar system exploration and detection of Earth-crossing asteroids.
Scientists hope the vehicles, known as nanocraft, will eventually fly at 20 per cent of the speed of lightt.
'The thing would look like the chip from your cell phone with this very thin gauzy light sail,' said Nasa's Pete Worden
'It would be something like 10, 12 feet across.'
He envisions sending a larger conventional spacecraft containing thousands of nanocraft into orbit, and then launching the nanocraft.
If they reach the star system and succeed in taking photographs, it would take about another four years to transmit them back.
The new TOLIMAN space telescope could launch in the mid-2020s
A new space telescope mission unveiled today (Nov. 16) will look for habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system, our sun's closest stellar neighbors.
The new mission, called TOLIMAN after an ancient Arabic-derived name for Alpha Centauri, will carry a novel telescope fitted with a so-called diffractive pupil lens that spreads starlight into a flowerlike pattern. This unique lens will make it easier for astronomers using the scope to detect tiny irregularities in a stars' movements that are usually caused by the gravitational influence of orbiting planets, according to a statement by Breakthrough Initiatives, which is backing the mission.
"Even for the very nearest bright stars in the night sky, finding planets is a huge technological challenge," Eduardo Bendek, an optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a collaborator on the mission, said in the statement.
"Our TOLIMAN mission will launch a custom-designed space telescope that makes extremely fine measurements of the position of the star in the sky. If there is a planet orbiting the star, it will tug on the star betraying a tiny, but measurable, wobble," Bendek said.
This image simulates a view of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, as it could be seen by the new planet-hunting space telescope TOLIMAN. (Image credit: Breakthrough Initiatives)
Alpha Centauri is the closest solar system to Earth and it has three stars, two of which are like our sun. The third star is a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri, a cool but long-lived type of a star that is the most common in the universe.
This red dwarf is known to have at least two exoplanets, one of which appears to be fairly similar to Earth.
But so far, this intriguing star system, just four light-years away from us, has avoided detailed scientific scrutiny, despite the fact that the planets around these stars could present the most conven
While, for now, a human mission to Alpha Centauri remains in the realm of science fiction, the TOLIMAN telescope will at least attempt to answer some of the most fundamental and pressing questions about its planets. Most importantly, scientists hope to use the new scope to investigate whether these far-off worlds might indeed harbor life, or perhaps provide the right conditions for its survival.
"Our nearest stellar neighbors — the Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri systems — are turning out to be extraordinarily interesting," Pete Worden, executive director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said in the statement. "The TOLIMAN mission will be a huge step toward finding out if planets capable of supporting life exist there."
The proposed Toliman space telescope to seek out habitable planets around Alpha Centauri. (Image credit: Breakthrough Initiatives)
The mission will focus on the habitable zone around the system's three stars, a region of space in the star's vicinity where liquid water could exist.
"These nearby planets are where humanity will take our first steps into interstellar space using high-speed, futuristic, robotic probes," Pete Klupar, chief engineer of Breakthrough Watch, a branch of Breakthrough Initiatives, said in the statement. "If we consider the nearest few dozen stars, we expect a handful of rocky planets like Earth orbiting at the right distance for liquid surface water to be possible."
Professor Peter Tuthill of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, who leads the development of the mission, added that TOLIMAN will begin answering the questions about the nature of these intriguing worlds.
"Getting to know our planetary neighbors is hugely important," Professor Tuthill said. "These next-door planets are the ones where we have the best prospects for finding and analyzing atmospheres, surface chemistry and possibly even the fingerprints of a biosphere — the tentative signals of life."
This wide-field view of the sky Alpha Centauri star system and its surroundings was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Image released Oct. 17, 2012. (Image credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2)
The team, which also includes experts from Australian space-tech firm Saber Astronautics, began working on the mission in April this year, according to the statement.
The mission received $788,000 ($576,000) from the Australian government and is expected to be ready for science in the mid-2020s.
"Our plan is for an agile low-cost mission that delivers results by about the middle of the decade," Tuthill said.
The Great Pyramid of Giza “is proof of alien technology”
The Great Pyramid of Giza “is proof of alien technology”
In recent years, several enigmatic discoveries have been made at the Great Pyramid of Giza that have led to the formulation of various theories. Is it possible that this amazing monument is proof of ancient alien technology?
The Amazon Prime documentary shows valid arguments to suspect the technology used in the construction of the pyramids.
The Giza pyramid complex is regarded as the greatest feat of human engineering of all time. Many engineers have tried to replicate the Great Pyramid of Giza today, without success .
If we still can’t build them .. What technology did the ancient Egyptians use? Is it possible that a stranger? “One brought from space .”
The Great Pyramid of Giza and the mystery of its construction
Most hypotheses about advanced ancient civilizations and ancient astronauts are totally rejected.
However, archaeologists and historians who are not governed by the mainstream of history have arguments that are too convincing to ignore.
One of the latest documentaries on the subject featured on Amazon Prime, called “Egypt Exposed: The True Origins of Civilization,” showed an interview with Robert Bauval.
The alternative theory enthusiast laid out a compelling story that shows a strong possibility that the pyramids were built using advanced technology .
Bauval locates the origins of civilization in Ancient Egypt and Africa, connecting the stars and astrology with the pyramids, hieroglyphs and other elements. Doing his own research in the Cairo museum, he became convinced that the Egyptians did not.
He revealed that in a room where the museum keeps the relics of the builders , there is a wall with a huge photograph. It was taken by the Egyptian Air Force in 1950, it showed a direct overhead of the 3 pyramids .
Robert Bauvall raised the question, since in the early 1950s, there was no internet, so he was surprised to see an aerial image, since they were not common at that time . Much less satellite images.
He took a photograph of the image on the wall and developed it into black and white film. The man described the photograph;
“There were three pyramids, two very large, clearly in a diagonal line. The base of the pyramid is a square, and it had 2 squares along the diagonal. The third pyramid was much smaller, and is offset to the east or the left side.
Was the Great Pyramid of Giza built with alien technology?
He explained that Egyptologists believe that the kings who built the pyramids were megalomaniacs .
Clean energy and electricity
Another documentary, this time from Netflix, called ” The Pyramid Code, ” archaeologists and theorists claimed that ancient Egyptians sought the Great Pyramid of Giza for clean energy.
Theorist Abd’el Hakimawyan explained:
“From that place, you know, maybe it was the energy of the Earth it seems as if they were trying to control the flow of this energy and use it for their own purposes.”
It is believed that the energy of the pyramids was not only used by the ancient Egyptians, but by other civilizations such as the Mayans. Meanwhile, it has also been claimed that the ancient Egyptians revealed advanced technology in their hieroglyphs.
This is further explained on the YouTube channel “Strange Mysteries”, where the narrator mentions that the hieroglyphs depict ancient Egyptians using electricity with a light bulb.
It is extremely difficult to think that this civilization of more than 4,000 years could handle electricity, unless they have obtained the advanced knowledge necessary to do so … Who gave it to them?
Three Possible Alien Agendas: Upgrade Us, Colonize Earth, or Warn Us
Three Possible Alien Agendas: Upgrade Us, Colonize Earth, or Warn Us
COAST TO COAST AM – November 2021. Jon Sumple of j3FILMS is the director and one of the producers of the new documentary film, Extraordinary: The Revelations. In the first hour, he discussed the approach he took to the subject of the historical significance of extraterrestrial presence.
The film is targeted to people who many not have been exposed to the topic.
Sumple explained, adding it provides context for phenomena that has been documented as far back as 40,000 years ago in cave paintings.
According to Sumple, there are three paradigms that define the alien agenda: ascension (ETs are here to upgrade us), colonization (ETs are here to take over), and biblical (ETs are in the Bible and are repeating what has happened in the past).
"Which one is right we don't know," he noted, suggesting there may be components of each view that are correct.
NOAA scientists captured rare footage of a bigfin squid.
A bigfin squid swims in the deep sea.
(Image credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration)
A ghostly squid with huge, iridescent fins and funky, elbow-like bends in its tentacles is rarely seen, but scientists recently captured stunning footage of the elusive animal during an expedition in the Gulf of Mexico.
To date, there have been fewer than 20 confirmed sightings of this deep-sea cephalopod, known as a bigfin squid (Magnapinna), and this recent sighting adds one more to the list, according to a statement from NOAA Ocean Exploration.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists spotted the elusive squid on their recent "Windows to the Deep 2021: Southeast ROV and Mapping expedition," during which the team explored poorly understood deepwater areas in the western Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern United States. While filming underwater near the West Florida Escarpment — a steep slope in the seafloor that separates the shallow, coastal waters from the deep Gulf of Mexico — the team noticed a set of spindly blue appendages drifting past their remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
In the footage, the camera turns to reveal the bigfin squid in all its glory, its eight arms and two tentacles strewn out behind it. The creature's large fins — which extend off the main portion of its body, called the mantle — ripple softly in the water, similar to how a stingray's fins flap. The see-through mantle holds the squid's organs, which appear light yellow and pink in the light of the ROV.
Mike Vecchione, a research zoologist with the NOAA Fisheries National Systematics Laboratory and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, was onshore watching the ROV footage on a satellite feed as the bigfin squid came into view. He and Richard E. Young of the University of Hawaii first described the bigfin squid family, called Magnapinnidae, in 1998, according to a report in the South African Journal of Marine Science. Since then, three species of bigfin squid have been described, but there may be more bigfin squid species to discover, according to the NOAA statement.
When the bigfin squid popped up on the ROV feed, Vecchione quickly called the vehicle operators, to share his knowledge of the animal, the statement says. "Magnapinna … all of their arms and tentacles have this extension on them, long, spaghetti-like extension," Vecchione can be heard saying in the NOAA video footage. "It's really difficult to tell the arms from the tentacles, which is very unusual for a squid." The bigfin squid holds all these appendages out from its body, creating those distinctive elbow-like dents that make its tentacles so recognizable.
The squid was seen swimming about 7,825 feet (2,385 meters) beneath the ocean surface, but in the past, bigfin squid have been spotted as deep as 15,535 feet (4,735 m) down, according to the statement. Members of the bigfin family are widely distributed throughout the world's deep ocean ecosystems, but it's unclear how many there are in total since the cephalopods are seen so rarely. Last year, scientists reported seeing five of the squid near the Great Australian Bight, a large bay in South Australia — the first time any bigfin squid had been spotted in Australian waters, Live Science previously reported.
Originally published on Live Science.
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HAVE ALIENS VISITED EARTH? THESE SCIENTISTS WANT TO LOOK FOR THEIR TRASH
HAVE ALIENS VISITED EARTH? THESE SCIENTISTS WANT TO LOOK FOR THEIR TRASH
An alien civilization may have already sent a probe to study our planet.
ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 space probe launched into space. As the mission was bound out of the Solar System, NASA packed Voyager 1 (and its companion, Voyager 2) with a golden phonographic record that contained sounds and sights from Earth that displayed the diversity of life on our planet.
The record included the sounds of birds and other animals, wind and thunder, greetings said in 55 different languages, a survey of music from Earth, a picture of street traffic in Thailand, and a woman breastfeeding, among different displays of human society.
The package was meant for an advanced, interstellar traveling alien civilization that would encounter the Voyager 1 probe.
Now, a team of scientists suggests that Earth should look out for similar probes in orbit around our planet — or at least what’s left of them. A recent study on the preprint server arXiv suggests looking for space debris leftover by alien probes sent to visit Earth.
Scientists have recently ramped up their search for life beyond Earth by searching for signatures leftover by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.
SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) is a series of interrelated programs looking for intelligent life beyond our solar system by scanning the skies for radio signals or technosignatures — signals emitted by any sort of technology from an alien civilization.
The new study proposes an additional way of conducting SETI work.
Hello?
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WHERE CAN YOU HIDE AN ALIEN PROBE?
The team of researchers behind the new study suggests that an advanced alien civilization may have sent over a space probe to observe the Earth within the past 100,000 years or so.
Some of these alien probes may have remained in high-altitude orbits around Earth, namely the geosynchronous Earth orbits (GEOs).
The GEOs is an Earth-centered orbit that matches the planet’s rotation on its axis. It’s a low orbit around Earth, with a period of about 23 hours and 56 minutes.
The space probe in GEO would remain above Earth at a steady longitude, nearly in the same spot. The new study suggests that this orbit may have been ideal for monitoring humans.
Once the probe stops operating, it would disintegrate into space debris. However, those pieces of debris can remain in orbit for millions of years before being crushed into tiny fragments by any future collisions.
If the light from the Sun hits those pieces of debris, they will give off a fast, transient glint. When the reflective surface of the alien space junk lines up with the Sun from the observer's perspective, telescopes could observe this short-lived glint.
HOW TO FIND ALIEN SPACESHIPS NEAR EARTH
The authors of the recent study suggest using the VASCO citizen science project, which aims to identify vanishing stars by searching through astronomical surveys that span across a 70 years time interval. The paper suggests looking for repeating glints along a straight line, or triple glints that could indicate a rotating dish.
The VASCO project would be ideal for this search because it contains archival images that predate 1957, when the first space probe, Sputnik, was launched into space. These images of the sky will be free of any space debris that came from human civilization.
Instead, any artificial debris detected pre-1957 might be leftover from an alien spacecraft that visited Earth in the past.
“While the VASCO program aims to search for vanishing stars, its methodology is capable of discovering other, unexpected features in the data,” the authors write. “By piggybacking on VASCO’s ‘vanishing star’ classifications, one has ample opportunity to collect glints from artificial objects.”
Abstract:
An advanced extraterrestrial civilisation that has discovered the Earth might have sent probes here. In this paper, we present a simple strategy to identify Non-Terrestrial artefacts (NTAs) in geosynchronous Earth orbits (GEOs). We show that even the small pieces of reflective debris in orbit around the Earth can be identified through searches for multiple transients in old photographic plate material exposed before the launch of first human satellite in 1957. In order to separate between possible false point-like sources on photographic plates from real reflections, we include calculations to show that at least four or five point sources along a line within a 10 ∗ 10 arcmin2 image box are a good indicator of NTAs, corresponding to significance levels of 2.5 and 3.9σ. The given methodology will be used to set an upper limit to the prevalence of NTAs with reflective surfaces in geosynchronous orbits.
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People Convinced They Can See Alien In Latest Photos From NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
People Convinced They Can See Alien In Latest Photos From NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Tom Sanders
Internet sleuths have been sent into a frenzy after a tiny white speck spotted in new photos from NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover has people convinced they've spotted an alien.
A recent tweet from the team behind the rover shared a number of new snaps from the red planet to their 2.8 million followers.
The photographs - which depict breathtaking views of the Martian landscape - are awe-inspiring in their own right, but one picture in particular has really got people talking.
The photo in question showcases a patch of rock that has had the surface layer removed by the Perseverance rover in order to offer closer inspection.
NASA stated the rover was 'peering inside to look at something no one's ever seen'.
It said: "I've abraded a small patch of this rock to remove the surface layer and get a look underneath. Zeroing in on my next target for #SamplingMars."
But when one person replied with a screenshot of a small white patch on one of the photos and said that it was 'definitely a tiny white alien', social media went into overdrive.
The mysterious triangle circled by a Twitter user. Credit: NASA
One person believed the white triangular patch was some sort of 'sign', while other users pointed out a similar-looking white arrow towards the right side of the image that looked far too suspiciously well-crafted to be a mere coincidence
More questions were raised when another eagle-eyed viewer noticed what appeared to be some sort of black hole in the bottom-left of the photo.
Another questioned if the Rover could 'turn over large rocks to look underneath them?'
They continued: "Something that may not have been disturbed for thousands of years? Who knows what may be under some of them?"
But while anything space-related is bound to generate all sorts of conspiracy theories, mostly people were content to enjoy the photos and marvel at the brief glimpses of another world.
To date, NASA is yet to comment on the triangle shape or any of the other signs and symbols people think they're seeing.
Credit: NASA
After all, Mars has such a rocky and dry surface it can be easy to think you're looking at a pattern or a shape when actually all you're seeing is rock and dust.
In other Mars-related news, NASA has recently announced it is accepting applications for people who wish to fire their names to the red planet as part of a new mission scheduled for 2026.
If you’re one of those people who knows that an ‘Einstein–Rosen bridge’ is the formal name for a wormhole, then you probably know that neither Albert Einstein nor Nathan Rosen would set foot in their theoretical namesake because they knew it might not stay stable long enough to get from one side of the universe to the other through a wormhole-connected black hole and white hole – the mirror image of a black hole at the exit. However, if astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington and physicist David Finkelstein were here, they might convince Einstein and Rosen to follow them down the wormhole because a new paper maintains that it will remain stable and the proof is in their Eddington-Finkelstein metric. Wait … what?
“The Eddington-Finkelstein metric is obtained from the Schwarzschild metric by a change of the time variable. It is well known that a test mass falling into a black hole does not reach the event horizon for any finite value of the Schwarzschild time variable t. By contrast, we show that the event horizon is reached for a finite value of the Eddington-Finkelstein time variable t′. Then we study in Eddington-Finkelstein time the fate of a massive particle traversing an Einstein-Rosen bridge and obtain a different conclusion than recent proposals in the literature: we show that the particle reaches the wormhole throat for a finite value t′1 of the time marker t′, and continues its trajectory across the throat for t′>t′1. Such a behavior does not make sense in Schwarzschild time since it would amount to continuing the trajectory of the particle “beyond the end of time.”
Arthur Stanley Eddington
There … now do you understand? That’s the abstract from “Infall time in the Eddington-Finkelstein metric, with application to Einstein-Rosen bridges,” the paper written by Pascal Koiran for publication in the journal General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology on how those four geniuses plus Koiran and any of you brave enough to follow them would survive a trip through space-time in a stable wormhole. Fortunately, Live Science was able to explain the concept in terms non-geniuses can kind of understand.
A metric is a way to get from here to there. For most points in space, there are a lot of metrics (think of the options offered by your GPS – by car, by bus, on foot). For wormholes, Einstein and Rosen used the Schwarzschild metric from general relativity, which predicts that an object passing though a wormhole will break down (i.e. be destroyed) when it reaches the black hole’s event horizon – the point where not even light can escape. Koiran, a Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (a French institute of higher learning) computer scientist, took a different path – the Eddington-Finkelstein metric provides a route for a particle to cross the event horizon, enter the wormhole and exit out the white hole at other side in a finite amount of time without any instability or destruction.
David Ritz Finkelstein
Did Koiran drop the mic and book a trip through the nearest wormhole? Unfortunately, metric didn’t misbehave at any point in that trajectory. The Eddington-Finkelstein metric only solves the gravity challenge of getting past the black holes at either end of the wormhole – it doesn’t address the thermodynamics – heat and energy — inside the wormhole which other theories suggest would break the lack-hole-wormhole-white-hole apart before anyone could set foot in it. What Koiran’s paper does prove is that traveling through a wormhole is not impossible nor a death sentence – general relativity says so. All we need is the right metric.
Can you plug a black hole and a white hole into Google Maps?
The only qualified person that can really explain what we see in this video from 1991 is of course Bob Lazar. Why do UFO move so goofy? What is this glow? Bob gives us the answers in easy to understand terms. The full video presentation will follow shortly. Just for clarification: This VHS video was shot from Mailbox Road on public land. This is an unedited original 720x40p VHS recording and not a night vision recording.
As background I have used a photo showing the mountain range. The mountains have been carefully placed in the right position with an accuracy of 5-10 meters. How I achieved this and much more will be explained in our upload: Project Mailbox. The camera is looking South West towards a mountain range called White Sides. Some “expert debunkers” claim that this is a test of a laser induced plasma ball.
When you look at the position of the UFO when it dives in front of the mountain the laser would have been standing outside of Area 51 on public land and quite near the location of the filmer. So the plasma balls theory can be thrown in the bin, just like the planet theory that this is Mars, Venus, Jupiter, our Moon or the landing light of an airplane.
Sorry debunkers but you either have to think of a new theory or you can accept that you cannot explain what it is and therefore an unknown flying object.
UFOs FLY OVER PLANE IN LOS ANGELES!! : Alien madness on the air
UFOs FLY OVER PLANE IN LOS ANGELES!! : Alien madness on the air
Description of Sighting Report - MUFON Case 119255 Standing in my back yard, my little nephew looks into the sky and was like, what in the world is that. I looked up and saw 2 UFOs hovering in the sky.
They were side by side, round, dark metallic objects. I immediately took my phone out, which is an iPhone 12 Pro Max, and recorded 8 total minutes of these objects in 4k video in a total of 3 videos.
The video quality is exceptionally good but the objects were still far away and at times looked blurry almost looking like they were trying to cloak or disappear in a way.
At first they were close by and then moved a ways apart and then back close together before heading west towards Fort Polk military base. During the event, a passenger jet flew right underneath the two UFOs.
In the video you can clearly tell these things aren’t jets or planes or drones or anything like that. I’ve seen things like this plenty of times before in my life. I instantly knew what this was or have some kind of idea what it isn’t. They definitely weren’t stars because of the time of day. They weren’t satellites or drones. I’ve seen like 40 to 50 starlink satellites in a row before just like the video that y’all have up.
I have a star and satellite tracker app on my phone and nothing showed up on my app. Also, I served 6 years in the Army and 18 months in combat in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq 2008-2010.
I know what drones look and sound like. The event happened at 4:45 pm a day after daylight savings time changed. The objects at points were glowing bright in the sky almost like stars. The sun was just starting to go down, so I’m sure the objects were some kind of dark metallic reflective metal because the sun was reflecting off of them.
That’s the only reason we saw them was because of how bright they were shinning. Other than that, they just looked like black balls hovering in the sky.
They looked to be rotating at times. I’ve seen things like this in the sky before. I’ve seen triangles flying faster than anything I’ve ever seen in my life twice within a 2 week period.
My first experience witnessing UFOs was in 2006 just getting out of basic training and AIT for the Army. I was at my moms in the same city as I am in now. It was 9:45pm and there was an F-18 fighter jet circling my neighborhood.
It was so loud that it was rattling the pictures on the walls. I walked outside to see all of my neighbors standing outside staring up at the sky watching this jet fly in circles.
My mom walked outside and as soon as she did, the F-18 flew in the center of the circle towards what appeared to be two bright glowing stars at the time. When the jet got closer the 2 stars took off from a dead standstill.
You could clearly tell that these glowing starlike objects weren’t planes or anything else of that nature. The object on the right side appeared to fly upwards into outer space and disappeared and the other object flew West then SW and the F-18 chased it until we couldn’t see it anymore.
I had never seen anything take off from a dead standstill and fly faster than a fighter jet. Every hair on my body stood straight up and at that moment in time, I quickly realized, we are not alone in this universe.
That moment changed my life. Since then, I keep my eyes in the sky and I have witnessed several things that are unexplainable.
I always try to logically explain things or debunk things before assuming it’s UFO or UAP. The 3 videos are in order as to what we saw. The 1st video is 0:14 seconds then the 2nd video is 4:17 and the 3rd is 3:21. The 2nd video (4:17) is the one where the jet flys underneath these 2 objects @ 1:16. I’ve zoomed in and have taken a few screen shots which I will post also.
Nothing really crazy happens in the videos. It’s just something unexplainable and I would love to know what exactly they are and what are they doing here. I try to keep an open mind about everything because there’s so much out there that we as humans have no earthly idea about. We assume things but in all reality, we actually don’t know. Enlightenment would be nice.
A man finds a mysterious implant in his leg after a nighttime snowmobile ride. Four friends witness the same eerie light An amateur photographer captures floating orbs on camera. UFOs circle a larger, egg-shaped mother ship floating high above Anchorage. A brother and sister watch in awe as a massive aircraft disappears behind a mountain range.
The office would place particular emphasis on investigating UAPs as a potential threat to the U.S. and whether they are controlled by hostile governments.
The U.S. government could soon have a brand-new bureau dedicated to investigating "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP)—or what the rest of us refer to as UFOs.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has proposed setting up the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office (ASRO) within the defense and intelligence communities. If adopted, the office would collect data on UAPs, cooperate with allies mounting similar efforts, and brief lawmakers twice a year on their progress. In addition to UAPs, the effort would also investigate so-called "transmedium" object sightings, or UAPs that come and go from oceans.
A 1959 photograph of an alleged UFO spotted over Alamogordo, New Mexico, from the archives of the U.S. Air Force’s UFO investigation effort, Project Blue Book.
Earlier this month, Sen. Gillibrand authored and submitted SA 4281 as an amendment to the Senate's version of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, commonly known as the U.S. defense budget. Gillibrand's amendment is mirrored in the House of Representatives by a similar one authored by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). Unless there's movement to have it removed, there's a pretty good chance that President Biden could sign it into law.
Nick Pope, an author who investigated UFOs for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, tells Popular Mechanics that he welcomes Sen. Gillibrand's new amendment.
"The new processes would overshadow any previous investigative programs such as Project Blue Book, and would leverage the full resources and capabilities of the U.S. military and intelligence community in a way that hasn't been done before," he says. "The establishment of an advisory committee with a civilian component would bring unprecedented oversight and accountability. The UFO phenomenon isn't a partisan issue."
ASRO would assume the duties of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAP TF), a body of the Department of Defense created in 2020 to study the rash of unexplained UAP sightings from U.S. military personnel. That task force released a report in June 2021 that was largely inconclusive. While UAPs posed a "safety of flight" issue and "may pose a challenge to U.S. national security," per the report, "the limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP."
Additionally, ASRO would designate existing organizations—presumably the Office of Naval Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, and others—to perform field investigations of sightings on its behalf. It would also develop and establish procedures for reporting UAPs, coordinating with other federal agencies and departments including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
A Pentagon-shaped UFO photographed over Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, 1966.
NOAA might seem like an odd choice at first. But it makes more sense when you consider that Gillibrand's amendment also directs an investigation into transmedium vehicles, or Unidentified Submarine Objects (USOs). In 2004, U.S. Navy aircrew flying F/A-18F Super Hornets not only witnessed a UFO-like craft, but also an underwater craft that one eyewitness described as being as large as a commercial jetliner—and somehow interacting with the UAP. There have been transmedium vehicle sightings for decades, though they've generally been folded in with the larger, more frequent aerial phenomena.
ASRO would create both unclassified and classified reports on its findings and brief members of Congress every six months. An advisory committee would draw members from NASA, the FAA, the National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and Harvard University's Galileo Project, which studies extraterrestrial technological signatures.
A UFO spotted by an Army private at Fort Belvoir, date unknown. The eyewitness described the object as a "black, non-reflecting ring." From the files of the Air Force's Project Blue Book.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
The new office would be particularly interested in "identification of potential aerospace or other threats posed by unidentified aerial phenomena to the national security of the United States," per Sen. Gillibrand's amendment. It would also place a priority on investigating UAPs "that can be attributed to one or more adversarial foreign government." Think: Russia or China.
ASRO will look into "efforts to capture or exploit discovered unidentified aerial phenomena" like the alleged discovery of a crashed UFO in Roswell, New Mexico in 1957. It will also probe sightings near locations involved in the "production, transportation, or storage of nuclear weapons." Such sightings have been reported for decades, and just last month, four Air Force veterans came forward about their own encounters with UFOs while on active duty working in and around nuclear weapons.
ASRO won't be a permanent organization if it comes to fruition; it would terminate exactly six years after its establishment. While the office will probably be effective at the surveillance part of its mission, how well it will address the "resolution" part remains to be seen.
TOLIMAN Space Telescope Will Look for Potentially Habitable Exoplanets in Alpha Centauri System
TOLIMAN Space Telescope Will Look for Potentially Habitable Exoplanets in Alpha Centauri System
Astronomers from the University of Sydney, the Breakthrough Initiative, Saber Aeronautics and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced this week the TOLIMAN (Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood) mission, which will look for planets in the habitable zone around stars in the triple-star system Alpha Centauri. Toliman is also the Arabic-derived name of Alpha Centauri.
This image shows the closest stellar system to the Sun, the bright double star Alpha Centauri AB and its distant and faint companion Proxima Centauri.
Image credit: ESO / B. Tafreshi, twanight.org / Digitized Sky Survey 2 / Davide De Martin / Mahdi Zamani.
Alpha Centauri, also known as Rigil Kentaurus, Rigil Kent and Gliese 559, is located in the constellation of Centaurus.
This triple system is made up of the bright binary star formed by Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, plus the faint red dwarf Alpha Centauri C.
The two brighter components are roughly 4.35 light years away from Earth. Alpha Centauri C, better known as Proxima Centauri, is slightly closer at 4.23 light years.
Compared to the Sun, Alpha Centauri A is of the same stellar type G2, and slightly bigger. Alpha Centauri B, a K1-type star, is slightly smaller and less bright.
Alpha Centauri A and B orbit a common center of gravity once every 80 years, with a minimum distance of about 11 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
Three planets are currently known in the Alpha Centauri system: a warm sub-Neptune around Alpha Centauri A and two planets — Earth-mass Proxima b and much massive Proxima c — around Proxima Centauri.
The proposed TOLIMAN space telescope with a candidate telescope mirror pattern known as a diffractive pupil. Rather than concentrating the starlight into a tight focused beam as is usually done for optical systems, TOLIMAN has a strongly featured pattern, spreading starlight into a complex flower pattern that, paradoxically, makes it easier to register the fine detail required in the measurement to detect the small wobbles a planet would make in the star’s motion.
Image credit: Tuthill et al., doi: 10.1117/12.2313269.
“Our nearest stellar neighbors — the Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri systems — are turning out to be extraordinarily interesting,” said Dr. Pete Worden, executive director of the Breakthrough Initiatives.
“The TOLIMAN mission will be a huge step towards finding out if planets capable of supporting life exist there.”
“Astronomers have access to amazing technologies that allow us to find thousands of planets circling stars across vast reaches of the Galaxy. Yet we hardly know anything about our own celestial backyard,” added TOLIMAN project leader Professor Peter Tuthill, an astronomer in the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney.
“It is a modern problem to have; we are like net-savvy urbanites whose social media connections are global, but we don’t know anyone living on our own block. This blind spot in our local knowledge has important consequences.”
“Getting to know our planetary neighbors is hugely important,” he added.
“These next-door planets are the ones where we have the best prospects for finding and analyzing atmospheres, surface chemistry and possibly even the fingerprints of a biosphere — the tentative signals of life.”
“These nearby planets are where humanity will take our first steps into interstellar space using high-speed, futuristic, robotic probes,” said Pete Klupar, chief engineer of Breakthrough Watch.
“If we consider the nearest few dozen stars, we expect a handful of rocky planets like Earth orbiting at the right distance for liquid surface water to be possible.”
A simulated image of Alpha Centauri AB as observed in narrowband light through the TOLIMAN telescope.
Image credit: Tuthill et al., doi: 10.1117/12.2313269.
“TOLIMAN is a mission that Australia should be very proud of — it is an exciting, bleeding-edge space telescope supplied by an exceptional international collaboration. It will be a joy to fly this bird,” said Dr. Jason Held, CEO of Saber Astronautics.
“Even for the very nearest bright stars in the night sky, finding planets is a huge technological challenge,” said TOLIMAN team member Dr. Eduardo Bendek, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“Our TOLIMAN mission will launch a custom-designed space telescope that makes extremely fine measurements of the position of the star in the sky. If there is a planet orbiting the star, it will tug on the star betraying a tiny, but measurable, wobble.”
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Peter Tuthill et al. 2018. The TOLIMAN space telescope. Proc. SPIE 10701, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI, 107011J; doi: 10.1117/12.2313269
Germinating Pine Cone Found Encased in Baltic Amber
Germinating Pine Cone Found Encased in Baltic Amber
Seed germination — a crucial stage in the development of all plants — normally occurs in the soil after the seed has fallen from the mother plant. In some infrequent instances, precocious germination — a type of viviparity or vivipary — occurs when the seed sprouts while still within the fruit. In a new paper published in the journal Historical Biology, Oregon State University’s Professor George Poinar Jr. described the first case of precocious germination of a fossil plant involving a number of seeds that have germinated in a pine cone embedded in a piece of 40-million-year-old (Eocene epoch) Baltic amber.
A 40-million-year-old cone of Pinus cembrifolia in a piece of Eocene Baltic amber.
Image credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University.
“Crucial to the development of all plants, seed germination typically occurs in the ground after a seed has fallen,” Professor Poinar said.
“We tend to associate viviparity — embryonic development while still inside the parent — with animals and forget that it does sometimes occur in plants. Most typically, by far, those occurrences involve angiosperms.”
“Angiosperms, which directly or indirectly provide most of the food people eat, have flowers and produce seeds enclosed in fruit.”
“Seed germination in fruits is fairly common in plants that lack seed dormancy, like tomatoes, peppers and grapefruit, and it happens for a variety of reasons. But it’s rare in gymnosperms.”
Precocious germination in pine cones is so rare that only one naturally occurring example of this condition, from 1965, has been described in the scientific literature.
“That’s part of what makes this discovery so intriguing, even beyond that it’s the first fossil record of plant viviparity involving seed germination,” Professor Poinar said.
“I find it fascinating that the seeds in this small pine cone could start to germinate inside the cone and the sprouts could grow out so far before they perished in the resin.”
“At the sprouts’ tips are needle clusters, some in bundles of five, associating the fossil with the extinct pine species Pinus cembrifolia, which was previously described from Baltic amber.”
Needles at tip of Pinus cembrifolia’s hypocotyl.
Image credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University.
According to the scientist, viviparity in plants typically shows up in one of two ways.
“Precocious germination is the more common of the two, the other being vegetative viviparity, such as when a bulbil emerges directly from the flower head of a parent plant,” he said.
“In the case of seed viviparity in this fossil, the seeds produced embryonic stems that are quite evident in the amber.”
“Whether those stems, known as hypocotyls, appeared before the cone became encased in amber is unclear. However, based on their position, it appears that some growth, if not most, occurred after the pine cone fell into the resin.”
Research on viviparity in extant gymnosperms suggests the condition could be linked to winter frosts.
“Light frosts would have been possible if the Baltic amber forest had a humid, warm-temperate environment as has been posited,” Professor Poinar said.
“This is the first fossil record of seed viviparity in plants but this condition probably occurred quite a bit earlier than this Eocene record.”
“There’s no reason why vegetative viviparity couldn’t have occurred hundreds of millions of years ago in ancient spore-bearing plants like ferns and lycopods.”
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George Poinar Jr. Precocious germination of a pine cone in Eocene Baltic amber. Historical Biology, published online November 8, 2021; doi: 10.1080/08912963.2021.2001808
The brilliant French prankster Rémi Gaillard, who has pulled off some wild hoaxes in the past, really outdid himself by creating highly believable UFO sightings in Southern France that the media lapped up with glee. The sightings then led to a stray alien with a crashed spaceship showing up in rather odd but commonplace locations.
Gaillard, who is the master of straight face comedy, portrayed the wayward alien who blocked traffic, tried to get the spaceship towed by a local garage, called the fire service for assitance, and even tried to steal a cow, as aliens often do.
UFOs spotted in France : behind the scenes of the hoax that fooled the media… Here is my new prank video ! Watch out, they’re coming
Gaillard stated that his pulled this prank in order to fool the media.
I don’t know what that is in the sky, but it definitely doesn’t look like a plane or a helicopter. If it were either, I’m not sure why the lights would be positioned the way they are.
Is it possible it’s just an optical illusion captured on camera? I suppose so, but it seems unlikely.
As many of you know, I’m fascinated by UFOs and whatever they might be. I truly have no idea, but at this point, can anyone truly deny something strange isn’t going on?
I think the answer to that is no. There are simply too many examples of unexplained events, and it’s not like people wearing tinfoil hats are making the claims.
Our owngovernment has released videos captured by fighter jet pilots. Clearly, something out of the ordinary is happening.
An emerging industry of nuclear-fusion firms promises to have commercial reactors ready in the next decade.
By Philip Ball
The ancient village of Culham, nestled in a bend of the River Thames west of London, seems an unlikely launching pad for the future. But next year, construction will start here on a gleaming building of glass and steel that could house what many people consider to be an essential technology to meet demand for clean energy in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Long derided as a prospect that is forever 30 years away, nuclear fusion seems finally to be approaching commercial viability. There are now more than 30 private fusion firms globally, according to an October survey by the Fusion Industry Association (FIA) in Washington DC, which represents companies in the sector; the 18 firms that have declared their funding say they have attracted more than US$2.4 billion in total, almost entirely from private investments (see ‘Fusion funding’). Key to these efforts are advances in materials research and computing that are enabling technologies other than the standard designs that national and international agencies have pursued for so long.
FUSION FUNDING
Private fusion firms have disclosed more than $2.4 billion in funding.
TAE Technologies 880 US$ million
Helion Energy 578
Commonwealth Fusion Systems 250
General Fusion 200
Tokamak Energy 200
Other (12 firms) 302
The latest venture at Culham — the hub of UK fusion research for decades — is a demonstration plant for General Fusion (GF), a company based in Burnaby, Canada. It is scheduled to start operating in 2025, and the company aims to have reactors for sale in the early 2030s. It “will be the first power-plant-relevant large-scale demonstration”, says GF’s chief executive Chris Mowry — unless, that is, its competitors deliver sooner.
Designed by British architect Amanda Levete, GF’s prototype plant illustrates the way fusion research has shifted from gargantuan state- or internationally funded enterprises to sleek, image-conscious affairs driven by private companies, often with state support. (GF will receive some UK government funding; it has not disclosed how much.)
Artist’s impression of General Fusion’s planned plant at Culham, UK. Credit: AL_A for General Fusion. Lead image: The world's strongest high-temperature superconducting magnet will be used in a 2025 fusion reactor in Massachusetts.
Credit: Gretchen Ertl, CFS/MIT-PSFC, 2021
In this respect, advocates of fusion technology say it has many parallels with the space industry. That, too, was once confined to government agencies but is now benefiting from the drive and imagination of nimble (albeit often state-assisted) private enterprise. This is “the SpaceX moment for fusion”, says Mowry, referring to Elon Musk’s space-flight company in Hawthorne, California.
“The mood has changed,” says Thomas Klinger, a fusion specialist at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany. “We can smell that we’re getting close.” Investors sense the real prospect of returns on their money: Google and the New York City-based investment bank Goldman Sachs, for instance, are among those funding the fusion company TAE Technologies, based in Foothill Ranch, California, which has raised around $880 million so far. “Companies are starting to build things at the level of what governments can build,” says Bob Mumgaard, chief executive of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
And just as private space travel is now materializing, many industry observers are forecasting that the same business model will give rise to commercial fusion — desperately needed to decarbonize the energy economy — within a decade. “There’s a very good shot to get there within less than ten years,” says Michl Binderbauer, chief executive of TAE Technologies. In the FIA report, a majority of respondents thought that fusion would power an electrical grid somewhere in the world in the 2030s.
Several fusion researchers who don’t work for private firms told Nature that, although prospects are undeniably exciting, commercial fusion in a decade is overly optimistic. “Private companies say they’ll have it working in ten years, but that’s just to attract funders,” says Tony Donné, programme manager of the Eurofusion consortium which conducts experiments at the state-run Joint European Torus, established at Culham in the late 1970s. “They all have stated constantly to be about ten years away from a working fusion reactor, and they still do.”
Timelines that companies project should be regarded not so much as promises but as motivational aspirations, says Melanie Windridge, a plasma physicist who is the FIA’s UK director of communications, and a communications consultant for the fusion firm Tokamak Energy, in Culham. “I think bold targets are necessary,” she says. State support is also likely to be needed to build a fusion power plant that actually feeds electricity into the grid, adds Ian Chapman, chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
But whether it comes from small-scale private enterprise, huge national or international fusion projects, or a bit of both, practical nuclear fusion finally seems to be on the horizon. “I’m convinced that it’s going to happen”, says Chapman. Chris Kelsall, chief executive of Tokamak Energy, agrees. “Sooner or later this will be cracked,” he says. “And it will be transformative.”
Seventy-year dream
Nuclear fusion, says Klinger, is “the only primary energy source left in the Universe” that we have yet to exploit. Ever since the process that powers the stars was harnessed in the 1950s for hydrogen bombs, technologists have dreamt of unlocking it in a more controlled manner for energy generation.
Existing nuclear power plants use fission: the release of energy when heavy atoms such as uranium decay. Fusion, by contrast, produces energy by merging very light nuclei, typically hydrogen, which can happen only at very high temperatures and pressures. Most efforts to harness it in reactors involve heating the hydrogen isotopes deuterium (D) and tritium (T) until they form a plasma — a fluid state of matter containing ionized atoms and other charged particles — and then fuse (see ‘Fuel mix’). For these isotopes, fusion starts at lower temperatures and densities than for normal hydrogen.
D–T fusion generates some radiation in the form of short-lived neutrons, but no long-lived radioactive waste, unlike fission. It is also safer than fission because it can be switched off easily: if the plasma is brought below critical thresholds of temperature or density, the nuclear reactions stop.
FUEL MIX
Many reactors fuse deuterium (D) with tritium (T) to release energy. This mix ignites, or creates a self-sustaining fusion reaction,at around 100 million kelvin. It produces neutrons, which can make the chamber radioactive.
Deuterium + Tritium Helium 4 + neutron
Other reactions, such as fusing protons (p) with boron-11 (11B), don’t produce neutrons, but ignition requires higher temperatures.
p Boron-11 3a
What makes it so difficult to conduct in a controlled manner, however, is the challenge of containing electrically charged plasma that is undergoing fusion at temperatures of around 100 million kelvin — much hotter than the centre of the Sun. Generally, researchers use magnetic fields to confine and levitate the plasma inside the reactor. But instabilities in this infernal fluid make containment very difficult, and have so far prevented fusion from being sustained for long enough to extract more energy than is put in to trigger it.
This is necessarily big science, and until this century, only state-run projects could muster the resources. The scale of the enterprise is reflected today in the world’s biggest fusion effort: ITER, a fusion reactor being constructed in southern France and supported by 35 nations, including China, European Union member states, the United States, Russia, South Korea and Japan, with a price tag of at least $22 billion.
Although the first test runs are scheduled for 2025, full D–T fusion is not scheduled until 2035, ultimately with the goal of continuously extracting 500 MW of power — comparable to the output of a modest coal-fired power plant — while putting 50 MW into the reactor. (These numbers refer only to the energy put directly into and drawn out of the plasma; they don’t factor in other processes such as maintenance needs or the inefficiencies of converting the fusion heat output into electricity.)
A further series of big reactors might follow ITER: China, which has three fusion reactors feeding results into ITER, plans a China Fusion Engineering Testing Reactor (CFETR) in the 2030s, and both South Korea and the EU propose to build demonstration power plants that would follow on from ITER.
The big national and international efforts won’t succeed soon enough to enable the decarbonization needed to address climate change, although fusion is expected to become a key part of the energy economy in the second half of the century. But private companies hope to have working and affordable devices sooner (see ‘Fusion rush’).
As with space exploration, one of the benefits of a private fusion sector is greater diversity of approaches than monolithic state enterprises can muster. ITER is using the most common approach to confining plasma, in a device called a tokamak, which uses powerful superconducting magnets to hold the plasma in a ring-shaped (toroidal) vessel. The flow of the electrically charged plasma particles themselves also generates a magnetic field that helps to confine the plasma.
But a tokamak isn’t the only option. In the early days of fusion, in the 1950s, US astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer showed that magnetic fields could be configured in a twisted loop, rather like a figure of eight, to make a ‘magnetic bottle’ that could be filled with plasma. This design was known as a stellarator. But solving the equations describing the plasma for this complex geometry was too computationally intensive, so the concept was mostly abandoned once tokamaks had been shown to work.
As supercomputers became available in the late 1980s, however, researchers revisited the idea. This led to a stellarator project at the IPP called the Wendelstein 7-X reactor. Costing more than €1 billion (US$1.15 billion) to build, staff and operate up to its first plasma testing in 2015, with construction costs of €370 million largely borne by the German government, Wendelstein 7-X will be completed by the end of this year. Then comes a long process of working out how to operate it routinely as a demonstration project.
Stellarators have the advantage that their plasma is more easily confined, with no need (as in tokamaks) to drive strong electric currents through it to keep a lid on instabilities, says fusion physicist Josefine Proll at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. But it’s not clear whether it will be possible to implement stellarator technology in a reactor in 20–30 years. “It seems not all that likely at this moment,” she says. “We have a lot of basic questions still to answer,” says Klinger. “This is a first-of-a-kind machine, so one must be patient and go step by step.” Private companies set shorter-term goals because they have to satisfy their stakeholders, he says — but that doesn’t mean they can deliver.
Alternative designs
Some private fusion companies are sticking with the tokamak design, but scaled down. At Tokamak Energy, a team of around 165 employees is working on a spherical tokamak, shaped like an apple with its core removed. At 3.5 metres across, it will be many times smaller than the ITER tokamak, which, with surrounding cooling equipment, will be almost 30 metres wide and tall. Some state-funded schemes are considering the compact spherical design, too: the UKAEA, for example, has launched a project called STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) that aims to create such a device in a prototype plant that would deliver at least 100 MW to the national grid by 2040. The UKAEA has shortlisted five sites to host the plant, and expects the final choice to be made next year.
Hydrogen plasma in Tokamak Energy’s ST40 spherical tokamak. This video has no sound.
Credit: Tokamak Energy Ltd
Key to these designs are new kinds of magnets made from ribbons of high-temperature superconducting materials, which should produce much stronger fields than the conventional superconducting magnets used by ITER. They are “a potential game-changer”, says Klinger — not just because of their higher fields, but also because conventional superconductors need liquid-helium cooling. That is an engineering nightmare: liquid helium’s viscosity is almost zero, allowing it to leak through any tiny cracks. High-temperature superconductors, by contrast, can be cooled with liquid nitrogen, which is abundant, cheap and easy to store.
Both Tokamak Energy (in collaboration with CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland) and CFS are banking on these new magnets. In August, CFS announced that it had made them in the form needed for its tokamaks — “on schedule and on budget”, Mumgaard says proudly.
In 2018, CFS was spun off from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and Klinger considers the firm “the most promising, most valuable and most thought-through private fusion initiative”. MIT and CFS together are preparing to build what Mumgaard calls “the first fusion machine that makes net energy” — producing more energy than goes into it. Named SPARC, it is being constructed in Devens, Massachusetts. Mumgaard says it will be running by the end of 2025, and will be “commercially relevant” because it will generate around 100 MW of power.
First Light Fusion, a company spun off from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2011, is pursuing a different strategy, called inertial confinement. Here, the fusion plasma isn’t held by magnetic fields: rather, a shock wave compresses it to the immense densities needed for fusion, and the plasma retains its shape just for a split second by inertia alone, before spreading out and dissipating its energy. The idea has been around since the 1950s, and is also being studied at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where pea-sized plastic capsules of D–T fuel are imploded by nanosecond pulses of laser light to ignite fusion. In August, NIF reported a laser shot that produced a fleeting energy output 8 times higher than it had ever before achieved — and amounted to 70% of the energy that had gone into the reaction. That has raised hopes of net gain from inertial-confinement laser fusion, although such an energy-intensive process might be more useful for fundamental research than for large-scale power generation.
At First Light, the compression shock wave is created not by energy-hungry lasers, but by using an electromagnetic projectile gun to fire a small piece of material into a target containing the hydrogen isotopes. The company is keeping details of the process secret, but has said that to achieve fusion, it will need to fire the material at 50 kilometres per second — twice as fast as is typically achieved in current shock-wave experiments.
GF is taking yet another approach, called magnetized target fusion. It involves the plasma being compressed more slowly — for instance, using pistons — but with the aid of magnetic confinement that prevents heat from dissipating as the plasma is squeezed. This idea, suggested in the early 1970s by researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, seeks an optimal compromise between the energy-intensive high magnetic fields needed to confine a tokamak plasma, and the energy-intensive shock waves, lasers or other methods used to rapidly compress plasma in inertial-confinement designs.
GF’s design for its Culham reactor uses a centrifuge to spin a chamber filled with molten lead and lithium. That motion opens a cavity in the liquid metal, where the plasma sits. A piston system pumps more liquid metal into the chamber, compressing the plasma over a few tens of milliseconds. Fusion begins; then the pressure is released and the process repeated in pulses, about once a second.
One especially neat aspect of this reactor is how it generates tritium fuel — a hugely expensive resource that can be made only in nuclear reactions, and decays rapidly. In ITER and other designs, tritium will be produced when neutrons escaping the reactor hit a lithium blanket lining the tokamak. In GF’s design, tritium is made when neutrons hit lithium within the liquid-metal compression system itself.
GF has cracked key challenges only in the past few years — making a plasma target that lasts for long enough to be compressed, and smoothly and rapidly collapsing the liquid- metal cavity. The firm says, however, that after it has its UK demonstration plant operating in 2025, it will “power homes, businesses and industry with clean, reliable and affordable fusion energy by the early 2030s”.
TAE Technologies has, in some ways, an even more audacious concept. It plans to abandon D–T fuel altogether, instead fusing boron-11 atoms with hydrogen-1 nuclei (protons). This idea, championed by TAE’s co-founder, the Canadian plasma physicist Norman Rostoker, and dubbed p–11B fusion, requires temperatures ten times greater than for D–T fusion: about one billion kelvin. The advantage is that this reaction uses only abundantly available fuel, and generates no neutrons that could contaminate the reactor. Binderbauer says that the concept offers lowers maintenance costs and a much more sustainable end goal.
In TAE reactors, the plasma is confined inside a cylindrical magnetic field made by a solenoid — a design that draws on particle-accelerator technologies. The plasma rotates around the axis; that rotation, as in a spinning top, generates inherent stability. Confinement doesn’t require strong external magnetic fields; those are mostly generated by the spinning plasma itself. To keep it rotating, tangential beams of boron inject angular momentum, rather as a top is torqued by a whip.
The company has made prototypes to demonstrate this set-up; since 2017, it has been working with a test system called Norman, and it is now starting work on a device called Copernicus that will run with normal hydrogen (or other non-fusing) plasmas to avoid producing neutrons. Computer simulations will show what energy would be generated if real fusion fuel were used. If TAE achieves the conditions needed for D–T fusion — which it hopes to do by around the middle of this decade — the company plans to license the technology to others who are pursuing those fuels. Binderbauer calls Copernicus a “stepping stone” to the temperatures needed for p–11B fusion. “We’re convinced that we can go to the billion-degree level,” he says — and he hopes to see this towards the end of the decade.
Among the many other private fusion firms, Helion Energy, in Everett, Washington, has attracted the most interest from investors: this month, it announced a $500-million funding round, bringing its total to $578 million. Its aim is to generate electricity directly from fusion, rather than using the process to heat fluids and drive turbines. Helion’s technique involves firing pulses of plasma together inside a linear reactor, then rapidly compressing the merged plasma with magnetic fields. When fusion occurs, the plasma expands and its magnetic field interacts with that surrounding the reactor to induce an electric current. Helion hopes to fuse a mixture of deuterium and helium-3, which would not produce neutrons as a by-product. But helium-3 itself would need to be produced by D–D fusion. The company is building a demonstration reactor called Polaris, which it aims to have in operation by 2024.
How Helion’s technology will generate electricity. This video has no sound.
Credit: Helion Energy
Cheaper reactors?
The reactors built by private companies, being smaller than ITER-scale projects, will be much more affordable. Tokamak Energy’s co-founder, David Kingham, envisages billion-dollar devices, and Binderbauer thinks TAE’s systems could be built for around $250 million.
The aim is to make small fusion reactors that are compatible with existing energy grids. Kelsall says they could also serve industries that are particularly energy-intensive, such as metal smelting — a sector that can’t be supplied by renewables. Mowry adds that shipping could be another important market: devices producing around 100 MW of power are “just the right size for a large container ship”.
Donné remains cautious about the prospects, however, saying that private companies “are working on aggressive time paths compared to publicly funded projects, but also have a much higher risk of potential failure”. All the same, TAE, for one, insists that it is still on the track that it promised in the mid-2010s, of having a fusion device ready for commercialization by around the end of this decade
Despite his scepticism, Donné adds: “I see the booming of private fusion companies as a good sign. There can be mutual benefits in keeping close ties between public and private fusion projects.” That’s certainly happening. Not only is the private fusion industry building on years of state investment in projects such as ITER, but it is benefiting from governments that see value in supporting it — which is why the UK government and the US Department of Energy are also investing in firms such as Tokamak Energy, CFS and GF. Mowry thinks that such public–private partnerships are the way forward — as they were for COVID-19 vaccines. And, as with the vaccines, fusion will be needed everywhere, especially as energy use rises in lower-income countries.
The vaccines showed “what you can do if you have the resources”, says Windridge. “If we had that kind of commitment in energy, I think it would be incredible to see what can be achieved.” As with the vaccines, too, society desperately needs more clean, carbon-free sources of energy. “This is an existential challenge,” says Mowry. “Fusion is the vaccine for climate change.”
When workers were cleaning up about 6 inches of mud and other debris caused by flooding at Colorado’s Picket Wire Canyonlands in the Comanche National Grassland, they discovered between 100 and 150 dinosaur footprints. Bruce Schumacher, who is a paleontologist with the U.S. Forest Service, stated that the round footprints were left behind by dinosaurs that belonged to the same family of Brontosaurus.
Brontosaurus was a type of sauropod dinosaur that lived between 156.3 and 146.8 million years ago during the late part of Jurassic Period. These herbivores could grow as large as 72 feet in length (22 meters) and weighed as much as 17 tons. They were believed to have lived as long as 100 years and perhaps even longer.
Brontosaurus
These newly discovered footprints will be added to the approximately 2,000 prints already discovered at the location. And there could possibly be even more as Schumacher explained that they “could continue for a long, long time.” “But we’ve kind of reached a point where we’ve got a good amount exposed. At least I feel like we’re at a place to continue to manage it as it is.”
All of the dinosaur tracks have been discovered in more than 130 different trackways in about a quarter of a mile of bedrock that is located along the banks of the Purgatoire River.
During the Jurassic Period, the southeastern part of Colorado was full of forests with ground ferns, tree ferns, sequoia trees, and pine trees, along with tropical climate and a massive shallow lake where the Purgatoire River Valley is now located. Allosaurus and Apatosaurus dinosaurs often visited the shoreline where they left their tracks. In fact, the Comanche National Grassland has the biggest dinosaur track site in all of North America.
A picture of the newly discovered dinosaur footprints can be seen here.
Comanche National Grassland
(Via Wikipedia)
In addition to the massive amount of dinosaur footprints, rock art created by the Native Americans can also be found at the location on the canyon walls. These images, which are between 375 and 4,500 years old, include elk, deer, abstract designs, and humans.
The historic Rourke Ranch is another favorite area for visitors to explore. Built in 1871, it was used by Eugene and Mary Rourke who used it as a horse and cattle ranch. It was in use for three generations until being sold in 1971. Known as one of the most successful ranches in the southwest, it started out with 40 acres and grew to more than 50,000 acres.
Maybe, it has afflicted you on more than one occasion. Perhaps, now and again. Possibly, it’s something that has never bothered you. Or, you get it regularly. What is it? Well, I’ll tell you: it’s the issue of how certain Ufologists, researchers and witnesses to UFO phenomena find themselves on the receiving end of weird phone-calls. To some degree this ties in with the threatening Men in Black. On other occasions, the whole thing is just bizarre. With that said, I’ll share with you a few examples. On November 9, 2014, the Marshall family of Perth, Australia had a strange encounter after seeing a huge, black, triangular shaped UFO flying completely silently, and at a dangerously low level, as they headed home after a night out on June 3, 1999. Although they did not tell anyone about their experience (at least, not at the time, anyway), late on the following night the phone rang. It was a man with a strange and somewhat European accent who warned them not to talk about the craft they had seen [italics mine]. In this case, the family forgot about the experience until years later when they saw a TV documentary on the Men in Black enigma – which referenced the issue of the MIB making threatening phone calls to UFO witnesses. Today, the family is solidly convinced that what they experienced was full-blown intimidation from a menacing MIB. I had to agree, when I read the facts.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia is – beyond any shadow of doubt – noted most of all for its wave of sightings of the infamous Mothman, between 1966 and 1967. In 2014, however, the town played host to something even stranger. The witness to the weird affair was a local woman named Denise, who emailed me the details on May 23. As Denise explained, she was jolted from her sleep by the sight of a young boy looming over her bed. This was no normal boy, however: it was one of the dreaded Black-Eyed Children – pale-skinned, black-hoodie-wearing kids who are noted for their completely black eyes. Denise tried to scream out, but her vocal-chords were paralyzed, as was her entire body. The eerie boy stared at terrified Denise for a few moments, then retreated into the shadows of the room and vanished. It was a nerve-jangling experience that Denise has not forgotten. Nor has she forgotten a strange wave of hang-up phone calls that occurred across the next three nights, and all around 3:00 a.m. A connection? Denise believed so. As did I[Italics mine].
(Nick Redfern) Point Pleasant, West Virginia
August 2015 was a time when, for me, telephone problems were absolutely rife. As an example, Whitley Strieber invited me on his Unknown Country show to talk about my MIB book and we experienced endless amounts of very strange interference and odd sounds on the line. The exact same thing happened, at a later date, with Coast to Coast AM – something which took on even stranger proportions when my landline phone suddenly quit. So, I proceeded to use my cell-phone as a back-up. The battery drained astonishingly quickly, despite being fully charged. And, so, I had to hastily dig out of a cupboard an old, spare, cordless landline phone, which finally allowed us to complete the show. You’ll see from the cases above, all of them were relatively close to each other: from 2014 to 2015. There was more, too. A lot more. The strangest, one, however, took place back in 2003. I had returned from a trip to Taos, New Mexico, where I met with a now-deceased UFO researcher/whistleblower, Dan Salter – a man who claimed insider knowledge of the Marilyn Monroe-UFO controversy. I interviewed the guy and then we wrapped up. So, after getting home, I crashed in the sack. For a while…
It was around 2:00 a.m. and the phone rang. None of us like those situations. And all for the same reason: that, maybe, the voice on the other end will be calling with bad news. In a half-asleep state I ran into the darkness-filled living-room and, without thinking of reaching for the light, fumbled around to grab the phone. As I picked it up, I heard what sounded like screeching static, such was the ear-blasting level of the volume. In a few seconds, though, I was able to figure it out. It was a recording of Marilyn’s never-to-be-forgotten rendition of “Happy Birthday” for JFK at the third Madison Square Garden in New York on May 19, 1962, even though JFK’s actual birth-date of May 29. And the recording was playing over and over on a loop. No call-number was available. A warning? Of what? Having someone play “Happy Birthday” down the line to me – in the dead of night – is certainly one of the nuttiest things that has ever happened to me, but it was hardly something guaranteed to keep me wide awake for the rest of the night. I guessed the message had to be for me, but it was so obscure there was little I could do except make a few notes and save them for posterity. Then, I headed back to bed and slept fine.
For the record, near-identical situations have happened to me on a handful of occasions. Again, it was in the middle of the night. I was woken up, and there was a voice on the phone. This time, it was the sound of one of those battery-powered laughing bags. That’s what can happen when you get into Ufology: you’re exposed to loonies, M.I.B. and spies (and which are, sometimes, one and the very same) with too much time on their hands.
The experts made what is being dubbed as "one of the most important discoveries in 50 years" in Abu Gorab, south of Cairo. They found one of the four "lost Sun temples" erected by the pharaohs of the fifth dynasty to complement their pyramids. These magnificent monuments were said to have been constructed to make the pharaoh a god while still alive.
But while experts believe six were built by different pharaohs, only two have ever been found by modern archaeologists – now one of those mysteries has finally been solved, according to Dr Massimiliano Nuzzolo.
The assistant professor of Egyptology at the Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, said: “Each king wanted a pyramid for achieving his resurrection but this was not enough for the fifth dynasty kings.
"They wanted something more. The king built [a Sun temple] to turn himself into a god. The Sun god.”
Ra, the Sun god, was the most powerful god in ancient Egypt and the focal point of many elaborate rituals that were performed both on the living and dead.
Archaeologists made a stunning find
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The remains of a Sun temple were uncovered
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These grant structures were built around a tall, pyramid-like obelisk that aligned perfectly with the east-west axis of the Sun.
Dr Nuzzolo focused on one of the already known Sun temples, which was built in Abu Goab by the king Nyuserre, who ruled for about 30 years in the 25th century BC.
But after carefully digging under its shattered remains, he found an older base made of mud bricks, indicating that a building previously existed at the site.
However, the experts had no idea what it was.
Experts then discovered the two-foot-deep base of a white limestone pillar which they suggested the original structure was "quite impressive".
It solves the mystery of one of the temple's locations
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Dr Nuzzolo said: “We knew that there was something below the stone temple of Nyuserre, but we don’t know if it is just another building phase of the same temple or if it is a new temple.
“Actually, the fact that there is such a huge, monumental entrance would point to a new building.
"So, why not another Sun temple, one of the missing Sun temples?”
But then an array of beer jars filled with mud were uncovered providing the final proof the old site was a temple.
The experts believe they were an offering reserved for the most sacred places.
The remains of what is believed to be one of the lost sun temples dating back about 4,500 years during the middle part of the 25th century BCE has been unearthed by archaeologists in Egypt. The structure was found buried underneath another temple located at Abu Ghurab.
This isn’t the first sun temple that has been found. In fact, it is thought that a total of six sun temples were constructed around Abu Ghurab; however, only two had been previously discovered. Back in 1898, the sun temple of Nyuserra (also called Neuserre or Nyuserre) – the sixth king of the 5th dynasty – was found by archaeologists at the same site as the recently discovered one. It is now believed that the Nyuserra temple was built over an older one.
Reconstruction of Nyuserre’s Sun Temple by Gaston Maspero.
(Via Wikipedia)
In an email to CNN, Massimiliano Nuzzolo, who is the mission’s co-director as well as an assistant professor of Egyptology at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures in Warsaw, went into further details, “The archaeologists of the 19th century excavated only a very small part of this mud bricks building below the stone temple of Nyuserra and concluded that this was a previous building phase of the same temple,” adding, “Now our finds demonstrate that this was a completely different building, erected before Nyuserra.” (The dig is a joint mission by the Polish Academy of Sciences as well as the University of Naples L’Orientale.)
The researchers found several items that seem to prove that the sun temple was much older than the one of Nyuserra. These artifacts, which contained engravings of kings who ruled prior to Nyuserra, included seals for jar stoppers, a limestone threshold, and the bases of two limestone columns that would have been located at the entrance.
Additional items found at the site included dozens of beer jars with some of them still containing mud that was used during ancient religious rituals. Furthermore, the jars date back one or two generations prior to when Nyuserra was alive.
Statue of Nyuserra
(Via Wikipedia)
As for the temple itself, it was constructed with mud bricks and was “…impressive in size” as described by Nuzzolo. It was later destroyed in order for Nyuserra to have his temple built which was bigger and made with stones.
Now that the latest sun temple has been unearthed, researchers are hoping to figure out which former king had it built. And by analyzing the pottery that was found there, they will hopefully learn more about those who inhabited the area during ancient times, such as their beliefs and what types of food they feasted on.
Pictures of the ancient sun temple and some of the artifacts can be viewed here.
The temple was discovered beneath a later sun temple.
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We have long looked out into the sky and wondered what lies out there. It seems that ever since the first flickers of consciousness swirled within our brains we have looked up at the heavens and wondered at what lies out there and what our place is. On our long road to understanding of the universe we live in, there have been many strides and missteps. Science has tried to pave the way forward over the horizon of the unknown, and sometimes it gets it very right, and sometimes it gets things so very, very wrong. Here we will look at a rather entertaining look at the latter.
Reverend Thomas Dick was born in November of 1774, and was a British church minister, science teacher and writer who had a deep and intense interest in astronomy from a young age. It all began when he saw a meteor streak across the sky when he was 9 years old, and before long he was devising his own telescope fashioned from some modified spectacle lenses and pasteboard tubes. He would pursue this passion into adulthood, and although his career as a preacher derailed a bit when he was excommunicated for having an affair with his servant, he nevertheless still managed to churn out quite a few scientific, philosophical, and religious works that were well received both in England and America and would go on to influence countless scientists, engineers, politicians, writers and thinkers. Yet for all of his respected work, some things really stand out as very odd in this day and age.
Thomas Dick
Between stints at writing, preaching, and scientific research, Dick became more and more obsessed with the idea that we are not alone in the universe. He was what is called a “natural theologist,” meaning that he believed that God’s signs pervaded nature and the cosmos, and that if He had deemed it worthy to create life here, then He had probably done it elsewhere as well. He came to strongly believe in the concept of the plurality of worlds, or cosmic pluralism, that every planet in the Solar System was inhabited and that God would not have created a universe that consisted of merely barren expanses and lifeless rocks. Dick believed that God would want the grandeur of His creation to be witnessed as widely as possible, and so he came to believe that all of the planets of the solar system must therefore be inhabited. He would say of this in his book Celestial Scenery:
This is a conclusion which is not merely probable, but absolutely certain, for the opposite opinion would rob the Deity of the most distinguishing attribute of his nature, by virtually denying him the perfection of infinite wisdom and intelligence. But we have no reason to conclude that they are exactly similar to us. Schemes far more foolish and preposterous than the above have been contrived and acted upon in every age of the world.
The idea of alien life in our solar system in and of itself wasn’t a new idea, and indeed the astronomer William Herschel had been talking about it since way back, but Dick was one of the first to actually try to make a census of just how many aliens there were. He was so sure that the rest of the solar system was inhabited that he went about trying to calculate exactly how many aliens there were populating each planet in our neighborhood, ultimately falling back on the now questionable method of using the surface area of each planet and the population density of England. In those days there were an average of 280 people per square mile in England, so crunching the numbers gave Dick an idea of how many extraterrestrials there were on each celestial object, and his predictions are wild, to say the least.
According to Dick, based on his calculations, there were 50 billion creatures living on Venus, seven trillion on Jupiter, 15 billion Martians on Mars, eight trillion living on Saturn, and even 4.2 billion on the moon and the asteroid Vesta holding around 64 million inhabitants according to him. Dick even theorized that Saturn’s rings were inhabited, and surmised that there were no fewer than 21 trillion inhabitants of the solar system, possibly even more if the sun was also inhabited, which he believed it was, even theorizing that it could support an additional 31 times as many creatures. Indeed, Dick believed that although these alien creatures would similar to us in size and habits of living, God had provided each planet with organisms capable of adapting to live in their own respective habitats, even the sun, which was pretty revelatory since this was just before Charles Darwin would come out with his theories on evolution. He would say:
We need not imagine there will be any great difficulty in ascending such lofty eminences; for the inhabitants of such worlds may be furnished with bodies different from those of the human race, and endowed with locomotive powers far superior to ours.
Dick would die in 1857 at the age of 82 without meeting a single one of these 22 trillion galactic neighbors, and to this day we haven’t met any of them either. It all seems pretty silly to us now, but back in the day Dick was so respected as a scientist that it didn’t all seem totally absurd. Looking back at it all now, it seems to be a rather charming, if misguided foray into gathering an understanding of our solar system, and although we can laugh now, it all goes to show the stumbling blocks we have had when venturing out into the vast unknown above our heads, and how much we don’t know even now.
Will November 15th, 2021, go down in history as the day the first shot was fired starting the first war in space. Or will it go down as the first example of how a space program can shoot itself in the foot without gravity? Both are possible as news spreads that the Russian military destroyed one of its own satellites with a missile on November 15th … and the resulting debris put the International Space Station in such danger that the crew members were forced to take shelter in the attached space capsules. This comes just days after the ISS was moved to avoid colliding with an old piece of a Chinese rocket. Are any – or all – of these events related? Is this a first shot, a first shot-in-the-foot … or something else? Something worse?
“Earlier today, due to the debris generated by the destructive Russian Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test, ISS astronauts and cosmonauts undertook emergency procedures for safety.
“Like Secretary Blinken, I’m outraged by this irresponsible and destabilizing action. With its long and storied history in human spaceflight, it is unthinkable that Russia would endanger not only the American and international partner astronauts on the ISS, but also their own cosmonauts. Their actions are reckless and dangerous, threatening as well the Chinese space station and the taikonauts on board.
“All nations have a responsibility to prevent the purposeful creation of space debris from ASATs and to foster a safe, sustainable space environment.
“NASA will continue monitoring the debris in the coming days and beyond to ensure the safety of our crew in orbit.”
That statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says it all from the U.S. side, but both crews were affected – The Guardian and Spaceflight Now reported that most of the NASA and ESA crew members moved to the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and the two Russian cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei boarded the Soyuz spacecraft on the Russian side. In response, ROSCOSMOS tweeted:
“The crew of the International Space Station regularly performs work in accordance with the flight program. The orbit of the object, due to which the crew was forced today according to standard procedures to transfer to spaceships, moved away from the ISS orbit. The station is in the “green zone”.”
That “Move along … nothing to see here” comment belittles the reality that a Russian missile exploded a defunct satellite into over 1500 pieces of trackable orbital debris and hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris in the direct path of the ISS, which was reportedly in danger on two orbital passes before getting the ‘all clear’. In a strong statement, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said “We will work with our allies and partners in different ways to make clear that the United States, that the international community is not going to tolerate this kind of irresponsible behavior,” but will not take any action “today.”
The question is … was this an intentional provocation or a dangerous screw-up? With the problems on the oxygen-leaking Russian side of the ISS, the on-again-off-again plans for a Russian space station, and political tensions on the ground, this is a troubling situation.
The verdict on November 15, 2021, is far from being decided.
Now maybe finding a head of a statue is not significant to NASA since they over look so many archeological discoveries daily on Mars, but to me its significant. The face is not only the face of an intelligent species that once lived on Mars, but also the face of a child about 10-14 years of age. The curly hair, chubby cheeks and chin really stand out, not to mention the eyes, nose, mouth and forehead. The hair...the hair seems to be in a bun on the top, so it has a high probability of being a female. The statue head is looking out from the small hill and its facing outward on purpose...its where it was placed, so that it can look out to the horizon...I'm guessing its probably aimed at the setting sun. Also the face itself is very small, about 3 inches across, or 6-7cm. That means the probability of this species being 30 cm or 1 foot tall is very likely.
Here on Earth there are many short people, a few that are only 20-28 inches tall, 1.5-2 feet tall. And those people had a normal intelligence and you or I. So its safe to assume that a species once lived on Mars and was only 20-30 cm tall. Clearly they had a high intelligence...just look at that incredible detail of the face they made. It was probably made to be a head stone...for a grave...a final goodbye to a loved one lost. I really wonder how may archeological artifacts are passed by the NASA rover every year? Hundreds...thousands...too many to even believe possible, and yet...the rover passes by as if the discoveries don't even exist. Ask yourself why? Because, the rover is not there to inform the public, but instead to appease and drop feed the public boring scientific info the control the publics curiosity.
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Possible triangle UFO hovering above Fort Worth, Texas 16-Nov-2021
Possible triangle UFO hovering above Fort Worth, Texas 16-Nov-2021
Here’s one new UFO video of a possible triangular-shaped formation hovering in the sky above Forth Worth, TX on 16th November 2021.
Witness report:
Viewed a hovering craft with two main “motherships” there were smaller disc-like crafts entering and exiting. From the video at certain points this can be noticed, such as about 1:47 minutes in…the video doesn’t do justice from what I could see with my eyes, the ships could be seen visibly entering what I could see as docking stations. At certain points when there were violent flashes, it was close enough that my phone would cut out. Thanks for letting me post this, if you know of anything that I don’t see, please let me know. Keeping this video just to you from me, has not been shared with any other organizations at all.
Luis Elizondo, the ex-head of the Pentagon UFO program, reveals more informaton pertaining to his time working for the government.
While working for the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), Elizondo witnessed and learned about numerous things that defy explanation.
There are few people with more inside knowledge about the world of UFOs, Demi Lovatoaside, than the former head of the Pentagon UFO program Luis Elizondo.
Elizondo, who has a new tell-all book coming out soon, that will “reveal shocking never-before-shared details” and have “profound implications for humanity,” recently spoke to GQ UK about some of his experiences working for the government in the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
In a lengthy interview, Luis Elizondo discussed some of his experiences working for the AATIP, his current work with congress helping to set up a program that works with allies to report and monitor UAPs (unidedntified aerial phenomena – today’s government term for UFOs), and whether he believes many of the UFOs witnessed and reported in the past were man-made or from some other world.
When asked why he believes many of these UFOs are not just some sort of foreign government’s spy technology, Elizondo’s answer was striking.
“Well, if that were the case, this would be the greatest intelligence failure that this country has ever faced, including that of 9/11,” Elizondo explained. “Because some country, for more than 70 years, has managed to be able to conduct operations with a technology that surpasses anything that we’ve ever had or currently have. And they’ve been able to operate in and around our restricted airspace unchallenged.
“But the second reason is there’s a time aspect. I have in my possession official US government documentation that describes the exact same vehicle that we now call the Tic Tac [seen by the Nimitz pilots in 2004] being described in the early 1950s and early 1960s and performing in ways that, frankly, can outperform anything we have in our inventory. For some country to have developed hypersonic technology, instantaneous acceleration and basically transmedial travel in the early 1950s is absolutely preposterous.”
3/21/66: With unidentified flying objects reportedly frequenting the southern Michigan area, curious citizens are turning out by the hundreds to scan the night sky. These area residents gathered late at the scene of a reported sighting by Dexter patrolman Robert Huniwell.
Elizondo also confirmed that there are a lot of videos of UFOs in the government’s possession that the public still hasn’t seen.
“There’s one that’s 23 minutes long,” he said. “There’s another one where this thing is 50 feet away from the cockpit. I mean, it ain’t ours. We know that. Sometimes you just couldn’t believe it – you’d have seven or eight incidents in a single day.”
He also explained why pilots’ observations and reports of UFOs are so important.
“The pilots are trained observers,” said Elizondo. “They are trained to identify an aircraft silhouette at 20 miles away – an SU-22, a European Tornado, a Harrier or even an F-16 – and literally within a split moment’s notice be able to identify friend or foe and shoot it down. What they’re reporting doesn’t fit any type of parameters of any type of conventional aircraft that we know of.”
Elizondo also stated that many of these UFOs may not come from another planet, but rather from another dimension.
3/12/1967: A New Mexico State University student took this photo of what he says is a UFO, while photographing land formations for a geology class. The picture was taken with a 4×5 press camera at F8 at 1/100/second. He said the object made no noise and disappeared as he looked down to change plates in the camera.
He also explained why it may be that so many of these sightings occur near water and nuclear sites: an abundance of super dense hydrogen in water and a potentially limitless supply of energy with nuclear power.
“Right now one of the leading theories out there [about how these UFOs fly] is that someone has figured out a way to manipulate space-time and, in essence, master the idea of antigravity,” said Elizondo.
“Current hypothesis is that it creates a bubble around it and that bubble is insulating itself from the space-time that all of us experience. And so, therefore, the way it experiences space-time within the bubble is fundamentally different from outside the bubble.”
When asked if he believes these UFOs are manned or controlled remotely like a drone, Elizondo responded, “They’re intelligently controlled, for sure, because they’re responding and reacting to our actions. That is for certain,” adding “I suspect they have things inside them.”
As for the recent reports and additional transparency being put forth by the United States government regarding UFOs, Elizondo believes it’s all legit.
“At no time since I’ve been involved with AATIP has my government been involved in an active disinformation campaign, other than initially denying that it was real,” Elizondo said. “The United States government is not in the habit of conducting disinformation on American citizens. There was a time when our government did do that and got caught and so congress passed laws to make sure that will never happen again.”
Read the entire interview with Luis Elizondo over at GQ UK.
Top image: UFO photographed in the sky over DeLand, Florida in 1969.
A photograph taken on November 8 of a “doughnut” UFO has people puzzled. The glowing blue and white object was initially thought by many to be the SpaceX Endeavour capsule which was returning from the International Space Station, completing its 200 day mission.
The Daily Mail even included it in a roundup of photos of the craft’s return home as it flew over Louisiana and Alabama.
Just one problem though. This is what it actually looked like when viewed in those states…
Below is the image that was captured by a photographer in Zurich, Switzerland on the same night…
Those are not the same thing.
In fact, according to Live Science, “When the Endeavour capsule splashed down a little after 10:30 p.m. EDT that night, it landed half a world away in the Gulf of Mexico — more than 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) from Zurich.”
While spectators in Louisiana, Alabama and several other Gulf states saw clear views of the capsule streaming across the sky, it is almost impossible that anyone in Switzerland would have been able to see the craft’s reentry, Marco Langbroek, an amateur satellite tracker and academic researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, told Live Science in an email.
“Any passes [of Endeavour] over Switzerland prior to landing that night would have been completely in Earth’s shadow, i.e. it would not be illuminated by the sun and hence not visible,” said Langbroek. “Reentry itself was over Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, and would not have been visible from Switzerland. The deorbit burn, prior to reentry, was over the Indian Ocean, so also not visible from Switzerland.”
Langbroek’s best guess is that this “doughnut” UFO was really just “an out-of-focus image of a bright star.”
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, speculated that the UFO was the upper stage of a rocket reentering the atmosphere and burning up, but wasn’t in any way certain.
In short, the prospect of a sitting high-level national security official openly discussing otherworldly origins for UFOs was long unthinkable — until last week.
Asked about a recent report in which the government admitted that it could not explain 143 out of 144 military encounters with mysterious flying objects – including several which appeared to demonstrate extraordinary technology – director of national intelligence Avril Hainessaid, “There’s always the question of ‘is there something else that we simply do not understand, that might come extraterrestrially?’”
Haines’s comment is the latest sign that a seismic shift in the government’s official stance on UFOs is underway.
Just a few weeks before Haines’s groundbreaking statement, NASA administrator Bill Nelson made waves by speculating publicly that UFOs might have otherworldly origins. Indeed, after meeting with the naval aviators who encountered objects that appeared to move in ways that defied physics and aerodynamics, Nelson is convinced that the pilots saw something truly extraordinary.
Moreover, after reading a classified government report on the military’s recent UFO encounters, Nelson – an Army veteran, former senator and ex-astronaut – said, “The hair stood up on the back of my neck.” Clearly, something has NASA’s chief spooked.
Like Nelson, former Presidents Obama and Clinton both speculated openly about the likelihood of alien life when asked about UFOs in June. Obama went on to state that “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.”
Obama was likely referring to mysterious flying craft that, according to the government, appear to “remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion.”
Queried about these seemingly physics-defying movements, former CIA director John Brennan made a jaw-dropping statement, suggesting that “a different form of life” might be behind the phenomena. Similarly, another former CIA director (and long-time UFO skeptic), James Woolsey, signaled a new openness to otherworldly explanations for UFOs.
According to Ratcliffe, U.S. intelligence analysts have “high confidence” that foreign adversaries – such as China or Russia – are not behind the most extraordinary UFO sightings. In a stark summation of the government’s assessment of the phenomenon, Ratcliffe stated that some UFOs exhibit “technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.”
After reading the classified version of the government’s recent UFO report, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) echoed Ratcliffe’s comments, ruling out highly advanced Chinese or Russian aircraft as likely explanations for the mysterious objects. In an interview about the military’s UFO encounters, Romney referred to “technology which is in a whole different sphere than anything we understand.”
But sightings of unknown craft exhibiting highly advanced technology are not a recent phenomenon. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first director of the CIA, said that objects “operating under intelligent control” displayed extraordinary technology in the decades after World War II.
Mirroring recent government assessments, Hillenkoetter stated that neither the United States nor any other nation could have developed such advanced aircraft.
Indeed, declassified documents from the late 1940s and early 1950s show that intelligence analysts systematically ruled out ultra-secret U.S. technology and foreign competitors as plausible explanations for the most compelling UFO encounters.
Despite these jaw-dropping assessments, a series of bizarre – and still unexplained – 1952 UFO sightings in the skies above Washington, D.C. alarmed America’s defense planners. As UFO reports and public queries about the incidents overwhelmed the military’s communications channels, national security officials grew concerned that the Soviet Union could exploit public interest in UFOs to cause mass panic and gain an advantage in a surprise attack.
As a result, the Air Force’s 20-year project to catalogue UFO sightings quickly devolved into an exercise in “debunking” and discrediting even the most credible encounters.
As renowned atmospheric physicist James McDonald made clear, the Air Force began applying “meteorologically, chemically and optically absurd” explanations to UFO sightings. McDonald’s assessment was corroborated by astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who served for two decades as the Air Force UFO project’s civilian scientific consultant.
In a stark – and refreshing – break from the government’s record of foisting bizarre, unscientific explanations onto highly credible UFO cases, Haines stated last week that “we don’t understand everything we’re seeing.”
Thankfully, the glaring deficiencies in UFO reporting and analysis identified by Haines may soon be addressed.
Marik von Rennenkampff served as an analyst with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, as well as an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense. Follow him on Twitter @MvonRen.
A military plane may have had to swerve to avoid the mysterious object, surveillance data shows.
Two aircraft pilots reported seeing a bright green UFO over Canada in July 2021.
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Late on July 30, pilots of two separate aircrafts — one military and one commercial — reported seeing a mysterious green UFO vanish into the clouds over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the Atlantic coast of Canada, Vice News reported.
According to a report posted Aug. 11 to the Canadian government's aviation incident database, both flights witnessed a "bright green flying object" that "flew into a cloud, then disappeared." The object did not impact the operations of either flight, the report noted.
One of the aircrafts that reported the sighting was a Canadian military plane, flying from a base in Ontario to Cologne, Germany. The passenger flight was a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plane flying from Boston to Amsterdam. Steffan Watkins, an aviation and shipping researcher, looked at transponder data from the two flights and saw that the military plane climbed 1,000 feet (300 meters) in altitude at the time of the sighting — possibly to avoid the object or get a closer look at it, Watkins tweeted.
There's a chance the UFO could have been a meteor streaking through the sky.
"Yes I know [the UFO sighting] would have been at the early stage of the Perseid meteor shower," Watkins added, "but don't be a buzzkill." (The Canadian aviation report tagged the incident with the catch-all label, "weather balloon, meteor, rocket, UFO," not ruling out a space rock as the possible culprit.)
Unlike the U.S. defense department, Canada's Department of National Defense does not track UFO sightings, a department spokesperson told Vice. Still, there is no shortage of civilian enthusiasts north of the border; in December 2019, a private collector donated more than 30,000 UFO-related documents to the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg — including scores of documents on the Falcon Lake incident, Canada's most infamous UFO case, Live Science previously reported.
Meanwhile, in June 2021, the Pentagon publicly released a long-awaited report onmore than 140 documented UFO sightings by U.S. Navy pilots. The report concluded that "most of the UAP [unidentified aerial phenomena] reported probably do represent physical objects," though there is no evidence that alien visitors are behind any of the incidents.
Of course, that's just the unclassified, nine-page version of the report. Some of the report's "juiciest details" hide in a classified annex, which the public will never see, The Guardian reported.
Rémi Gaillard monte un canular sur un Ovni en Occitanie... TF1 tombe dans le panneau !
Rémi Gaillard monte un canular sur un Ovni en Occitanie... TF1 tombe dans le panneau !
Le célèbre youtubeur Rémi Gaillard, aidé par des complices, a fait croire que des Ovnis avaient envahi le ciel de l’Hérault. Le JT de TF1 a même consacré un reportage sur ces étranges apparitions.
Rémi Gaillard a monté un canular sur des Ovnis en Occitanie
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« Un ovni a-t-il été observé ces dernières nuits dans le ciel d’Occitanie ? De nombreux témoins publient des photos et des vidéos assez surprenantes», a déclaré Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, lors du JT de 13 heures du vendredi 12 novembre 2021, rapporte nos confrères de La Voix du Nord.
« Ça m'éclairait sur à peu près dix mètres. Je voyais ma vache avec un cercle autour », raconte Marie Sanchez, une éleveuse, dans un reportage sur ces étranges apparitions.
« Le traineau du père Noël ? »
« Cette boule lumineuse apparaît toutes les nuits depuis mardi soir à chaque fois à des endroits différents. Alors serait-ce le traineau du père Noël un peu en avance ou une fête à la station spatiale internationale ? Sur les réseaux sociaux, certains pensent à des essais militaires, des drones ou des météorites », indique la reporter au micro. « En terme de phénomène météologique, ça ne semble pas du tout collé puisque les météorites sont quelque chose de beaucoup plus lumineux, beaucoup plus filant », précise Loic Spadafora, météorologue et fondateur de Météo Gard Hérault. Sur son compte Twitter, il a relayé des vidéos dans lesquelles on observe un étrange trait jaune orangé qui traverse le ciel.
« Vous faites croire n'importe quoi aux gens »
Contrairement aux hypothèses avancées par TF1, il ne s’agit ni du père Noël, ni des extraterrestres, mais d’un farceur très connu dans la région : Rémi Gaillard. Le Montpellierain, ancien candidat à la mairie, a avoué la supercherie dans une vidéo postée le 13 novembre. Le faisceau lumineux n’est autre qu’un drone muni d’une diode, et les témoins des complices de l’humoriste.
« En 1938, Orson Welles a fait croire à une invasion d'extraterrestres à la radio. Un siècle plus tard, grâce à vous, je viens de faire le même canular », s’est félicité Rémy Gaillard sur Twitter. Durant 2 minutes 30, il explique sa démarche : « On a réussi à vous piéger, merci d'avoir relayé cette information. Vous faites croire n'importe quoi aux gens, et là je me suis dit c'est à mon tour. »
« J'ai dû raconter je crois le plus gros bobard de ma vie », a de son côté la jeune éleveuse interrogée par le JT de TF1. Quant au météréologue, il était également complice du canular.
VIDÉO - Vendredi 12 novembre, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau évoquait dans le journal de 13 heures de la Une, l’apparition d’une mystérieuse lumière, laissant à penser qu’il pourrait s’agir d’extraterrestres.
«Un ovni a-t-il été observé ces dernières nuits dans le ciel d’Occitanie?» Vendredi dernier, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau consacrait une page de son journal de 13 heures de TF1 à «un phénomène intriguant». «De nombreux témoins publient des photos et des vidéos assez surprenantes dans l’Hérault et dans le Gard», expliquait la journaliste avant de lancer le sujet. Très sérieusement, celui-ci évoquait l’apparition quelques jours plus tôt d’une lumière dans le ciel en pleine nuit avec à l’appui le témoignage d’une éleveuse de chevaux de Marsillargues. «Ça m’éclairait sur à peu près 10 mètres, je voyais ma vache avec un cercle autour», déclarait la jeune femme.
Sourire aux lèvres
Pour étayer l’information apparue sur les réseaux sociaux, l’équipe de journalistes dépêchée sur place avait également interrogé un météorologue. «Les météorites sont plus lumineuses et plus filantes», avait souligné Loïc Spadafora. «Je note que nos correspondants ont beaucoup d’imagination», avait conclu Marie-Sophie Lacarrau le sourire aux lèvres.
À ce moment-là, la journaliste était loin de s’imaginer qu’il s’agissait en fait d’un canular monté de toutes pièces par Rémi Gaillard. Dans une vidéo postée le lendemain sur YouTube, le piégeur y apparaît aux côtés de ses deux complices. «Tout s’explique», s’enorgueillit-il avant de remercier les médias qui ont relayé l’information. «Souvent vous faites croire n’importe quoi aux gens et là, je me suis dit: “C’est à mon tour”.»
Lundi, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau est revenue sur le piège tendu parRémi Gaillard. «On vous parlait vendredi dernier dans ce journal d’un mystérieux objet volant en Occitanie. On avait imaginé avec humour qu’il pouvait s’agir des extraterrestres, d’une météorite, d’une fête dans la station spatiale internationale ou même du traîneau du Père Noël. C’était en fait un canular, fin du suspense», a déclaré la journaliste sans pour autant mentionner le nom de l’instigateur ni présenter d’excuses aux téléspectateurs.
Zoroastrianism: 4000 Years of Faith, Fire and the Battle Between Good and Evil
Zoroastrianism: 4000 Years of Faith, Fire and the Battle Between Good and Evil
The origins of Zoroastrianism can be traced back to nearly 4,000 years ago. It was the first monotheistic faith in the world and even Persia’s official religion from 600 BC to 650 AD. And it still exists! However, while it was a powerful religion in the distant past, now Zoroastrianism is one of the smallest religions in the world. There are between 100,000 to 200,000 modern followers of Zoroastrianism worldwide.
Zoroaster – The Founder of Zoroastrianism
Zoroaster (Zarathushtra), a mysterious prophetic figure, founded Zoroastrianism in ancient Iran. While the precise date of the religion’s foundation is not known, it is believed to have been established between 1200-1500 BC, as per the archaeological evidence.
Zoroaster was born in Southwest Afghanistan or Northeast Iran. He was born into a family that followed a polytheistic religion which included the ritual use of different intoxicants and animal sacrifice. Very little information is available about the birth and early life of the prophet Zoroaster. Most of what is known about Zoroaster comes from The Gathas , which is an ancient hymn collection composed by Zarathushtra.
Zoroaster rejected the Bronze Age Iranian religion that included worshipping many gods. He was also against the hallucinogenic Haoma plant use for rituals and opposed sacrificing animals. The early Zoroastrian texts reveal that the prophet used to receive answers through his prayers. Later writings state that he even ascended to heaven to speak with God directly.
As per the Zoroastrian tradition, Zoroaster had a divine vision when he was thirty years old. In the vision, he saw his Amesha Spentas (seven divine entities) and God while performing a ritual purification rite. This single vision changed his worldview, and he went on to tell others about it. He started believing that there was only one God, the creator. He also taught that the one God, called Ahura Mazda, was worthy of all worship.
Some of the deities, such as the Daevas of the old religion, seemed to delight in strife and war. According to the prophet Zoroaster, they were evil spirits who worked for Angra Mainyu, the adversary of God.
The Investiture Relief of Ardashir I, with Ardashir on the left, and Ahura Mazda on the right.
The core belief system of Zoroastrianism is that Ahura Mazda is the supreme being of light and goodness, and Agra Mainyu is the spirit of evil and darkness. Ahura Mazda means ‘Wise Lord.’ Ahriman, who is equivalent to the devil, is believed to be the embodiment of Agra Mainyu.
According to this religion, everything that happens is driven by the dual forces of dark and light. Zoroastrians believe in the concept of free will. All human beings are free to make a choice whether they want to follow the path of light or darkness. The followers of this religion believe that ethical and active participation in life through good thoughts, good deeds, and good words is essential to keep chaos away and ensure happiness in life.
The religion teaches that Ahura Mazda is the creator of the whole universe and is compassionate by nature. He is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. He is unchanging and the source of all happiness and goodness. He is capable of conceiving things that are impossible for humans. Zoroastrians also believe that everything that the Wise Lord has created is pure and must be treated with respect and love.
At the age of seven, the followers are given a kusti (cord) and sudreh (shirt) as a part of a ritual initiation ceremony. The garments are considered sacred. They tie the cord around the shirt three times to remind themselves of good words, good thoughts, and good deeds. They perform this ritual along with prayers several times a day. They emphasize action over belief. Zoroastrians generously give to charities and participate in social and educational initiatives.
Fire and water are symbols of purity in the Zoroastrian religion. The followers of this religion worship in fire temples that contain an altar where flames burn 24 hours a day. Earth and air are also considered sacred elements for Zoroastrians. Traditionally, Zoroastrians placed their dead on top of special towers where the bodies were left to be eaten by birds. However, modern Zoroastrians bury the dead in stone or concrete graves.
Printed drawing of 'Towers of Silence', two circular raised structures used by Zoroastrians (parsees) to dispose of the dead.
According to the traditional Zoroastrian calendar, each month consists of 30 days and 5 or 6 days are added to the end of the year. Zoroastrian holidays usually fall on the same day every year. One of the most widely celebrated holidays for Zoroastrians is Nowruz. It is their New Year festival that falls on the first day of spring. They spend a month preparing for this holiday. According to the followers of the religion, the concept of New Year is to start fresh. It involves cleaning both one’s house and one’s soul.
Moreover, if anyone has old quarrels, they need to settle them by this date. During this festival, every house is filled with sweets, fruits, and long-stemmed white flowers. Gifts are exchanged for the New Year. Nowruz is still embedded in Iranian culture and is now celebrated as the Iranian New Year.
A painting depicting Haft-sin symbols of Nowruz related to the elements of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, and the three life forms of Humans, Animals, and Plants.
Khordad Sal is another significant festival Zoroastrians celebrate. It is Zoroaster’s birthday and is celebrated six days after Nowruz. On this day, the followers of this religion gather in fire temples to feast and pray together.
As you can see, along with being one of the oldest religions, Zoroastrianism is also an interesting religion to explore.
Top Image: The fire temple of Baku, c. 1860 . Hindus, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians have worshipped here.
The super painful initiation rite of the Sateré-Mawé people, one of the oldest native tribes of Brazil, involved wearing gloves full of stinging Bullet Ants.
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The 5 Most Terrifying Initiation Rites in History
Being a full-fledged member of any society was an important thing in many of the world’s oldest cultures. To be a part of the community, of the tribe, or the family, is one of the strongest human needs. Because those that are left ostracized and unaccepted, will suffer hardships and possibly death. But in remote corners of the world, not everyone was deemed fit to become a part of the society. That’s why complex and often brutal initiation rites were invented. These were tests of prowess, manhood, or womanhood. Those who passed these difficult initiation rites were accepted as full-fledged members of the family. But these tests were simple or peaceful. Often enough, they were straight out horrifying.
Initiation Rite #1: Surviving Stinging Ants in the Amazon
The Sateré-Mawé people are one of the oldest native tribes of Brazil . They live deep in the Amazon, and nowadays number a little over 10,000 people. Like many of the tribesmen living in the Amazon jungle, they have complex and intriguing initiation rites. And theirs is by far the most brutal one.
The Sateré-Mawé devised a complex test of manhood. Those who pass this initiation rite would become full-fledged warriors, with a fearsome reputation to boot. The rite involves surviving ant stings! The elders of the tribe catch a whole bunch of Bullet Ants ( Paraponera Clavata ), which are known for their extremely painful bite, equal to a bullet shot (hence their name).
The elders proceed to render the ants unconscious. They do so by placing them into a natural sedative they create. This allows them to handle the insects easily. Following this, each ant is woven into a pair of specially crafted gloves. Made out of palm leaves , the gloves resemble large oven mitts. Hundreds of ants are densely packed into these gloves, their stings pointed towards the inside. And then, the young boys of the tribe enter the initiation rite by wearing these gloves for more than five minutes. The ants sting his hands repeatedly, and the boy is exposed to extreme agony. It is said that such pain is unlike anything a man can experience.
When the ordeal is done, the boy is in terrible agony. The ant venom courses through his body, numbing it and causing hallucinations because of the intense pain. His hands become paralyzed and violent tremors shake his body continuously, sometimes for days. But that’s just the first part of the initiation rite. To become a warrior, the boy must complete the same process twenty times over the course of several months.
A sculpture of Maasai warriors on a lion hunt, which was also an initiation rite for individual potential warriors.
The Maasai are one of Africa’s best known ancient tribes. Dwelling near the African Great Lakes , these people pride themselves on their unique dress, traditions, and a very old way of life. And one of the most important parts of their culture is a complex tradition, historical practice, and an initiation rite: the lion hunt.
A very demanding rite of passage, the lion hunt was meant to initiate skilled boys into the rank of brave warriors. But the challenge was immense. Those who undertook it would show great bravery, and this would be a sign of personal achievement. In ancient times, before contact with the outside world, populations of both lions and the Maasai were very high. That’s why the elders encouraged young men to go on solo lion hunts . Without anyone’s help, a warrior would expose himself to incredible danger, facing a male lion with little more than a spear. Only the bravest “future” warriors would succeed in this task.
To make things more challenging, the rule stated that the warrior could not hunt lions that were sick, poisoned, snared, or otherwise incapacitated. What is more, the rules prohibited the hunting of lionesses. The Maasai considered them the bearers of life in every species. So, only the most dangerous male lions were hunted.
However, over the years, the lion populations shrunk considerably, and hunting them became difficult. Thus, the Maasai developed olamayio, the group hunt that ensured more success. But even so, the practice remains one of the most terrifying initiation rites in history.
Just imagine yourself facing a raging lion, armed with a spear. You’ll quickly understand why this would be a rite reserved only for the bravest.
The deadly Vanuatu land diving platform with a young boy ready to leap!
Initiation Rite #3: The Deadly Vanuatu Land Diving Ritual
The country of Vanuatu is an archipelago comprising 83 islands of various sizes. On one of these, Pentecost Island, the tribesmen perform a death-defying initiation rite that is listed amongst the world’s deadliest tribal practices. The rite can very easily end in death.
It is best described as the earliest form of and a precursor to bungee jumping. As an initiation rite, it is a sure way for a young man to prove his masculinity and to be initiated into the rank of the bravest warriors. As a ceremony, it is considered as a way to enhance the health and the abilities of all who jump. The ceremony is also believed to cure illnesses and physical ailments that come with the annual wet season.
The rite begins with the construction of a tall tower . It is made over the course of five weeks and can be up to 20 to 30 meters (66 to 98 feet) high when finished. Essentially, it is a series of scaffolding platforms, and the jumpers can choose a height that is suited to their age. Once they commit, they tie special vines around their ankles, which are designed to prevent them from hitting the ground and dying. As an added precaution, the ground at the bottom of the platform is tilled to soften the impact.
The men who jump are defying death. Their goal is to brush their shoulders against the ground, after plummeting down to the ground from an extreme height. The ramshackle tower creaks and bends, and the barely elastic vines tug violently on the man’s legs. In the end, their bodies stop just barely off the ground, and they are able to walk away safely. But one simple mistake, and all can end in death and disaster.
This initiation rite can be undertaken by both boys and grown men. When boys receive their ritual circumcision around age seven, they become eligible to make the jump. By completing this incredible challenge, they prove their masculinity to all the members of their tribe.
The four-stage initiation rite of the Matsë Tribe in the Brazilian jungle involves injecting the poison of the Giant Monkey Frog into a tribe member's blood.
Initiation Rite #4: The Excruciating Trials of the Matsë Tribe
The Matsë Indians, also known as Matis, are one of Brazil’s most remote Amazonian tribes. Living deep in the isolated jungle areas of Western Brazil, the Matis were only discovered in the 1970s. Up to that point, the tribesmen believed that the passenger planes flying high above the tree canopies were the spirits of their ancestors. And the smaller two-man planes that flew lower were considered to be harmful demon spirits. Outside contact nearly wiped the tribe out, as smallpox was something their immune systems couldn’t endure. Luckily, the tribe managed to survive, although in small numbers. Their straight-out terrifying initiation rites take place in four separate stages.
Before reaching manhood, a boy of the Matis tribe needs to prove himself worthy of hunting alongside other men. To do so, he needs to pass their initiation rites, a complex four-stage trial that places him in great danger and great pain.
The first part of the trial consists of temporary self-blinding. The boy puts a concoction of bitter and dangerous poison straight into his eyes. The elders believe that once the sight returns (if at all) it is enhanced and will make the boy a better hunter, enhancing the senses and improving vision.
Next, the boy endures a series of brutal whippings and beatings by the other men. These are done with the stems of the rattan plant . The whipping is supposed to help remove laziness.
The next step of the four-stage trial is even more extreme. The young man is injected with the poison of Phyllomedusa Bicolor (Giant Monkey Frog) , a small poisonous frog native to the jungles of Brazil. The poison is placed directly into the bloodstream, and its effects are brutal. If the boy proves his courage and does not vomit at once, he is injected again. What follows is light-headedness, violent vomiting, and uncontrolled bowel movements. In the end, it is believed that the frog poison will greatly increase the man’s strength and endurance.
Finally, in the fourth stage, the initiate is body rubbed with the leaves of a poisonous plant. This causes a heavy painful rash that lasts for hours and is believed to help the man with patience.
Only after completing these demanding initiation rites are the men deemed worthy of accompanying others in the hunt. The only catch is that these trials are repeated many times before every important hunting trip.
The Mandan Okipa Spirit Ceremony, depicted in this painting by George Catlin, involved hanging initiates by their muscles and beating them.
Initiation Rite #5: The Mandan Okipa Spirit Ceremony
The Mandan tribe of the Great Plains region of America is one of the best known and best documented tribes of the continent. They lived in the area of what is now North Dakota and were one of the great trading tribes and excelled in corn production. They also had a complex set of traditions and beliefs, all of which were well documented by European explorers in the late 1700s and early 1800s. One of these was the Okipa or Sun Dance ceremony. It was a religious ceremony that was of the highest priority for the tribe, but it was also an initiation rite, offering a chance for young warriors to become respected and admired members of the tribe.
There were at least three purposes to the Okipa: the annual commemoration of the tribe’s salvation from the primordial flood (according to their myths), to communicate with ancient spirits and summon buffalos, and to give the chance for individuals (usually men) to complete vows given to the almighty spirit to prove their bravery and dedication. But not everyone could endure this brutal ceremony. Only the bravest of warriors could get through this violent rite of passage.
Before the ordeal, chosen warriors would not eat, drink, or sleep for four days. Afterwards, they were led to the great hut where the ordeal began. They were required to sit smiling, while elders pierced their shoulders and chest, thrusting skewers behind the muscles. Next, ropes were tied to the skewers, and the warriors suspended in mid-air, hanging there until they fainted.
Elders would add more weight to their legs, in order to increase agony and tension on their muscles. Next, they were removed from the skewers, and upon awakening the approval of the great spirits was confirmed. In gratitude, the warriors would offer their left little finger, which was cut off as a sacrifice with a hatchet.
In the last step of the ordeal, the men would race around the village, dragging their weights behind them, until they ripped out of the skin alongside the skewers. This marked the end of a grueling ordeal. Men who completed the rite twice in their life would gain everlasting fame in their tribe.
The Hamar people of southwestern Ethiopia are famous for their bull jumping initiation rite, which is also dangerous and sometimes deadly! This photo shows them preparing for this rite.
What Would You Do to Become a Part of Your Community?
In primitive societies, young braves and would-be warriors were ready to complete anything just so they could become a proven member of the community. It was the adventure of a lifetime, the annual event that everyone spoke of in hushed voices. Men and women who didn’t complete these tests would be looked down upon, lacking bravery and the attributes of their sex.
There’s no doubt that these initiation rites required great courage and endurance, and that they left the initiates tougher and bolder for the rest of their lives. But they were also foolish and dangerous, and put the young people at great risk. Sometimes, these rites of initiation would end in death. But for the people who practiced these rites, death was the will of the great spirits.
Top image: The super painful initiation rite of the Sateré-Mawé people, one of the oldest native tribes of Brazil, involved wearing gloves full of stinging Bullet Ants.
Explaining the Weirdly Alien Looking Statues of Pharaoh Akhenaten
Pharaoh Akhenaten in the center and his family worshiping Aten personified as the rays of a solar disk; later such imagery was prohibited.
Source: Egyptian Museum / Public domain
Explaining the Weirdly Alien Looking Statues of Pharaoh Akhenaten
In the history of Ancient Egypt, Akhenaten occupies a very special place. Of all the pharaohs over the many centuries, he was by far the most controversial one. His radical policies, major religious reforms, and social changes, all caused a lot of instability in the Ancient Egyptian state. His reign and the changes he put through were one of the major turbulences in the entire timeline of this ancient civilization, and arguably caused a spiraling and slow downfall that could not be remedied by his successors. One of the major changes Akhenaten introduced was in art. Sculptures, carvings, and paintings from his reign are all markedly different from the usual Egyptian fare. Human features were accentuated to impossible and odd proportions, and some pieces look outright alien. This has caused a lot of unique theories to spring up over time. But what was the actual reason the odd art pieces propagated by Akhenaten?
A colossal statue of Akhenaten from his Aten Temple at Karnak on display in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo.
We can understand a lot about Akhenaten’s controversial reign by just observing his origins. He was a son of Pharaoh Amenhotep III . The reign of this exalted ruler was marked as a period of unparalleled prosperity in Ancient Egypt. Amenhotep III reigned from circa 1388 to 1351 BC as the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty . During this time arts, culture, architecture, and international power within Ancient Egypt were at their absolute zenith. To that end, we can understand that Amenhotep III’s son, the future Akhenaten, was born and raised in relative peace, prosperity, and abundance. In fact, in Akhenaten’s life there were little to no hardships that would toughen up and shape a future ruler. Could it be that much of his questionable future stems from such an idyllic background?
Upon the death of his father Amenhotep III, and his older brother Thutmose, young Akhenaten became the tenth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Akhenaten was not his original name: at birth and ascension to the throne, he was named Amenhotep IV. But after the fifth year of his reign, around the time when he began introducing his odd policies, he adopted the name Akhenaten, meaning “Effective for the Aten.”
This famous (or infamous) pharaoh is best known for his radical and revolutionary changes to the traditional Ancient Egyptian polytheistic religion . Initially in his reign, he followed the established traditions that were followed by his father also. But after that fateful fifth year into his rule, young Amenhotep IV underwent a major transformation. He officially changed his name to Akhenaten, and became a devotee of the cult of Aten, changing his allegiance from the cult of Amun . And over the following twelve years, he caused a major ruckus across the Egyptian state. And he became known as the “Heretic Pharaoh” by instigating major changes in Egyptian religion and art.
Aten depicted in art from the throne of Tutankhamun, which may have been originally made for Akhenaten himself.
First, a word or two about Aten. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Aten was the great disc of the Sun, initially another aspect of the God Ra . The symbol of Aten was the Sun disc and its radiating rays of light. In many ways, Aten could be considered as the Sun, personified.
In Akhenaten’s time, Aten, the Sun Disc, was not new. It had existed for centuries and was a small and lesser-known religious cult god, like many others. The major religious deity of Akhenaten’s time, however, was that of God Amun . The cult of Amun was a major religious (and political) player within Ancient Egypt. The powerful priests of Amun held a lot of power in the state, and at its peak (during the reign of Amenhotep III), the cult of Amun owned more land than the pharaoh himself. And by the time Akhenaten came to the throne, the priests of Amun were almost on an equal standing with the pharaoh, in terms of wealth and influence.
It is possible that Akhenaten, seeking to curb the power of this major religious cult and place himself on top, decided to shift from the traditional religious norms. To that end, he pronounced himself as the “living incarnation of a single all-powerful deity known as Aten,” outlawing the traditional Ancient Egyptian religion, and, in the process, closed all major temples and suppressed religious practices.
After centuries of well-developed Egyptian religion, this came as a major change that was not well accepted in society. Atenism, the religion that Akhenaten introduced, is widely regarded as absolute monotheism, which is radically different from polytheism.
Over the following years, the changes in Egyptian society kept piling up. Akhenaten ordered the creation of a completely new capital city. It was called Akhetaten, the Horizon of Aten, and is today known as Amarna. The city defined the “Amarna period,” the official name for the period of Akhenaten’s reign. And the Amarna period was unlike anything else in the entire history of Ancient Egypt.
Akhenaten “bathing” in the solar light of Aten, the new god of ultimate stature in the radically unique Amarna period.
A Unique Art Style or Something Beyond Comprehension?
Another hard-to-accept change in society was the new and unique artistic style that was developed under close direction of Pharaoh Akhenaten. In general, art of Ancient Egypt was incredibly slow to change, often following the same style for centuries on end. Thus, the sudden and dramatic changes of the Amarna period were unlike anything seen before.
Suddenly, standard reliefs showed new activities on display. And quickly the reliefs of Akhenaten became more crowded and filled with details. Moreover, humans were portrayed in a more realistic fashion, with a more three-dimensional approach and with exaggerated features . In many ways, they were almost alien-looking, with their elongated heads, bulbous stomachs, and long limbs. The Sun Disc of Aten is present in almost all of these “new” reliefs and paintings.
Egyptian sculptures also became immensely different and bordered on completely alien human depictions. Most noticeable aspects of this can be observed on the many surviving sculptures and busts of Akhenaten himself, and his wife Nefertiti. Necks, faces, and skulls were dramatically elongated, the chin made prominent, and lips large and accentuated. The pharaoh is portrayed with extra high cheekbones, and unmistakably wide hips, thighs, and bottom. He is also portrayed with a noticeable paunch in the form of a fatty protruding belly. In simpler terms, he was portrayed as an almost alien-looking man. What is the reason for this?
Certain scholars argue that this sudden change in artistic style can be explained by an influx of “new people or groups of artists whose background and training were different from those of the classical Karnak sculptors.” It is possible that Akhenaten introduced foreign artists to achieve his artistic goals, although this theory has never been proven.
Other scholars, on the other hand, have drawn extreme and illogical conclusions, bringing actual extraterrestrials into the story, presenting Akhenaten’s alien portraiture as something utterly mysterious and inexplicable. But could the actual explanation be far simpler than this?
A relief portrait of Akhenaten from the Amarna period (circa 1345 BC) that reveals his unique facial features that seem almost "alien."
Most scholars agree that these unique portrayals of the pharaoh and his family are due to genetic abnormalities and physical defects that he suffered from in life. Rather than accentuated and alien features of a unique art style, these changes might simply be an ultra-realistic portrayal of the ruler as he was. But how can a man suffer from a string of genetic defects, and still be a powerful ruler?
Well, in Ancient Egypt, this was not at all unusual. Pharaohs practiced marriage between siblings for centuries. Brothers married sisters, ensuring the purity of the dynastic lineage, and their offspring also inter-married. It was almost the norm. Of course, having offspring with your brother or sister, i.e., inbreeding, is completely unnatural, and it can cause a string of genetic deformities across generations. A classic example is the iconic “Habsburg Jaw.”
So, did Akhenaten look totally deformed and unnatural? It’s more than likely.
Many leading scientists and scholars cited a number of possible syndromes and disorders that could have troubled Akhenaten. Mandibular prognathism , the extreme protrusion of the lower jaw (best known as the “Habsburg Jaw”), could have been one of these, and the cause of the prominent chin portrayed on Akhenaten’s sculptures. Early researchers proposed Frölich's syndrome as a possibility. It is also known as Adiposogenital dystrophy , and causes enlarged breasts, thighs, paunch, and bottom in men, creating a look that is similar to that of Akhenaten. However, this theory has been largely dismissed since this syndrome usually causes sterility, but Akhenaten sired many children.
Marfan syndrome, a multi-systemic genetic disorder, is also a likely possibility. It causes a string of physical deformities but does not impair mental abilities or causes sterility. Those suffering from this rare syndrome develop an elongated and thin face, they grow extremely tall, they display an elongated skull, fingers, and arms; they have enlarged thighs and a larger pelvis, and a funnel chest. Many of these symptoms can be seen on Akhenaten’s odd sculptures. What is more, there is a 50% chance that people suffering from it can pass it onto their offspring. Interestingly, Akhenaten’s daughters are also portrayed with odd features, notably their elongated skulls.
Wooden standing statue of Akhenaten, currently in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, that also shows how his body was different or depicted differently.
Other scholars have proposed Gynecomastia, an imbalance of estrogen levels that causes enlarged breasts in men, while others put forward Craniosynostosis, a condition that causes deformities of the skull. Other possibilities include Sagittal Craniosynostosis syndrome, Aromatase Excess syndrome, or Klinefelter syndrome. Mental disabilities were also considered. Generations of inbreeding won’t cause only physical deformities, but mental ones as well. Schizophrenia, egomania, and similar conditions could have possibly afflicted Akhenaten.
To piece together the puzzle of Akhenaten’s odd looks, we need to follow his successors also. It is likely that he was the father of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun. The latter is famous today because of the discovery of his intact tomb, which is still the most sensational discovery in the world of Egyptology. However, it is likely that he was not extremely influential during his life and reign. What is more, modern research shows that Tutankhamun, who died when he was just 18, was plagued by a number of debilitating genetic diseases, and that he might have had a physical appearance similar to his father, Akhenaten.
Modern CT scans show that Tutankhamun had a physical disability in the form of a deformed left foot with bone necrosis, and that he was forced to use a cane at all times. Other finds indicate that he could have suffered from gynecomastia, Marfan syndrome, Antley-Bixler Syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Wilson–Turner X-linked intellectual disability syndrome, and several other serious defects. By all accounts, young pharaoh “Tut” was extremely frail and seriously deformed. Modern forensic reconstructions of his remains show him as such, in addition to sharing many of his father’s physical characteristics.
A Grotesque Ruler With Ideas That Were Too Radical
Considering all these facts, and the advantages of modern medical science, we can safely stand behind the theory that Akhenaten, his offspring, and possibly his predecessors, all suffered from mild to severe genetic deformities, all caused by generations of inbreeding. While they believed that marrying brothers and sisters would ensure purity of the bloodlines, they were in fact polluting them, causing multiple hereditary congenital defects.
Akhenaten’s odd and controversial reign is hard to explain. He could have introduced the radical changes for political reasons, or he could have simply been a tyrannical monarch, plagued with physical and mental disorders and obsessed with the sun deity Aten.
After his death, all of his changes were reversed, and Egypt quickly returned to its old and established ways. Either way, there is no mistaking the alien-looking appearance present in all of Akhenaten’s depictions both in statues and reliefs. A realistic portrayal of a deformed pharaoh, or a unique and abstract art style? We may never know for certain.
Top image: Pharaoh Akhenaten in the center and his family worshiping Aten personified as the rays of a solar disk; later such imagery was prohibited.
The mysterious cigar-shaped interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua has baffled experts since it was first seen speeding through our Solar System back in October of 2017. There are numerous theories as to what it is, such as a comet, asteroid, dust bunny, alien technology, a hydrogen iceberg, and part of a Pluto-like planet.
In regards to the Pluto-like planet theory, researchers claimed that the mysterious object may have contained solid nitrogen because its body was shiny and reflective. Since Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan both have some nitrogen ice, the experts theorized that ‘Oumuamua may have been a broken piece of a Pluto-like planet from a different solar system. But a new study by two astrophysicists seems to debunk that hypothesis.
According to Harvard astrophysicists Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb, based on the size of ‘Oumuamua, it couldn’t be a nitrogen iceberg as there isn’t enough nitrogen to make an object that large – it has an estimated length of between 1,300 and 2,600 feet (400 to 800 meters), and between 115 and 548 feet in width (35 to 167 meters).
In fact, they claim that there isn’t enough nitrogen ice in the entire universe to create an object the size of ‘Oumuamua. The astrophysicists even went a step further and calculated how much mass Pluto-like exoplanets would need to have in order to make a nitrogen iceberg the same size as ‘Oumuamua and they found that the planets would need to have a mass greater than their stars and over twice the mass that would be required to create all of the planets in our own Solar System. “But that’s crazy,” Siraj noted, adding, “It’s preposterous.”
Siraj and Loeb’s study was published in the journal New Astronomy where it can be read in full.
But Steven Desch and Alan Jackson, who are the two astrophysicists from Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration who conducted the original study about the ‘Oumuamua coming from a piece of a Pluto-like planet, are not convinced that Siraj and Loeb debunked their theory.
‘Oumuamua (the dot in the middle) photographed on 28 October 2017 by the 4.2 meter William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands.
(Via Wikipedia)
In an email to Live Science, Desch stated, “Siraj and Loeb did not find that we made a mistake, and so they should have accepted the numbers we got.” “Instead, they attempted their own back-of-the-envelope calculation and made a great number of approximations and estimates, and came up with different numbers that they say aren’t favorable.” “They are attempting to manufacture controversy when none exists.”
So, what exactly is ‘Oumuamua? The mystery regarding the unexplained interstellar object continues…
ISS-crew moet twee uur lang in capsules schuilen voor ruimteschroot opgeblazen Russische satelliet, NASA-topman verontwaardigd: “Roekeloos en gevaarlijk”
ISS-crew moet twee uur lang in capsules schuilen voor ruimteschroot opgeblazen Russische satelliet, NASA-topman verontwaardigd: “Roekeloos en gevaarlijk”
Bill Nelson, de topman van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA, is verontwaardigd over “roekeloos en gevaarlijk" gedrag van Rusland. Een Russische antisatelliettest veroorzaakte een wolk ruimteschroot die volgens de Amerikanen de bemanning van het Internationaal Ruimtestation in gevaar bracht.
De Russen bliezen met een anti-satellietraket een van hun eigen satellieten op, waardoor een wolk van puin ontstond. Volgens het Amerikaanse State Department zijn bij het opblazen van de satelliet meer dan 1.500 traceerbare brokstukken ruimteschroot ontstaan, met daarbovenop honderdduizenden kleinere brokstukken. Het ISS scheerde elke 90 minuten gedeeltelijk door of langs die schrootwolk in haar baan om de aarde.
De bemanning van het internationale ruimtestation, die momenteel bestaat uit vier Amerikanen, een Duitser en twee Russen, moest om die reden twee uur lang plaatsnemen in hun ‘reddingssloepen’, de Amerikaanse Crew Dragon en een Russische Sojoez. Die ruimtecapsules zijn eigenlijk bedoeld om terug te keren naar de aarde. Het plaatsnemen in de reddingssloep is een standaardprocedure in geval van een noodsituatie waarbij evacuatie nodig kan zijn.
NASA-topman Bill Nelson reageert scherp. "Ik ben verontwaardigd over deze onverantwoorde en destabiliserende actie", zegt hij in een verklaring. De NASA-topman vindt het "ondenkbaar" dat Rusland Amerikaanse en internationale partners in het ISS in gevaar brengt, net als zijn eigen kosmonauten. Ook het Chinese ruimtestation werd volgens NASA door de Russische test bedreigd.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - unknown objects on MARS
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - unknown objects on MARS
Perseverance rover recently sees an attempts takeoff from mars surface.
NASA's Perseverance rover sees an unknown object behind the rover on mars.
The Ancient Angle Structure with Planet on MARS Surface unknown object behind the rover on mars
Curiosity went into hibernation for a few weeks, executing only routine environmental and radiation monitoring activities, while the Sun was positioned between us and Mars . Curiosity is healthy after her rest, and we wasted no time planning a multitude of science activities. Prior to conjunction, Curiosity drove away from the Maria Gordon drill site to an area nearby that contained large resistant nodules . We deliberately drove over the nodules to crush them and expose their fresh interiors for examination by a number of the science instruments.
The team is interested in determining the chemistry of the nodules relative to the flat bedrock. The workspace imaging that came down confirmed that we had successfully broken some of the nodules, such that we were able to make several observations just before conjunction. Today, we took advantage of pre-planning prior to conjunction to acquire APXS chemistry and MAHLI images on the crushed «Helmsdale Boulder Beds.» MAHLI will also image another fresh-looking nodule, «Goose Stone.» These observations will be complemented with ChemCam LIBS measurements and Mastcam images on the same crushed «Helmsdale Boulder Beds» target and the «Crovie» bedrock target. Looking further afield, Curiosity will image resistant, pediment-capping rock in the distance with ChemCam RMI and Mastcam.
These blog updates are provided by self-selected Mars Science Laboratory mission team members who love to share what Curiosity is doing with the public.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Perseverance mars rover sees an unknown object is roaming around it.
Perseverance rover sees an unknown flying object hiding behind the rover on mars.
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Bob Lazar Explains What We See
Bob Lazar Explains What We See
The only qualified person that can really explain what we see in this video from 1991 is of course Bob Lazar. Why do UFO move so goofy? What is this glow?
Bob gives us the answers in easy to understand terms.
Just for clarification: This VHS video was shot from Mailbox Road on public land. This is an unedited original 720x40p VHS recording and not a night vision recording.
As background I have used a photo showing the mountain range. The mountains have been carefully placed in the right position with an accuracy of 5-10 meters. The camera is looking South West towards a mountain range called White Sides.
Some "expert debunkers" claim that this is a test of a laser induced plasma ball. When you look at the position of the UFO when it dives in front of the mountain.
The laser would have been standing outside of Area 51 on public land and quite near the location of the person who filmed it. So the plasma balls theory can be thrown in the bin, just like the planet theory that this is Mars, Venus, Jupiter, our Moon or the landing light of an airplane. Sorry debunkers but you either have to think of a new theory or you can accept that you cannot explain what it is and therefore an unknown flying object.
A man finds a mysterious implant in his leg after a nighttime snowmobile ride. Four friends witness the same eerie light show miles away from each other. An otherworldly beast stalks a family for three generations. A woman hears an unholy chorus.
SpaceX's Endeavor capsule appears like a shooting star or 'donut UFO' over Louisiana and Alabama during the return trip to Earth that brought four astronauts home from the ISS
SpaceX's Endeavor capsule appears like a shooting star or 'donut UFO' over Louisiana and Alabama during the return trip to Earth that brought four astronauts home from the ISS
SpaceX's Endeavor capsule brought four astronauts home last night
The craft was spotted streaking across the night Monday evening
Reports of light show came from Alabama and Louisiana
The capsule was traveling at least 17,000mph at the time
The cosmic light show was a result of the Endeavour craft soaring through Earth’s atmosphere as it headed towards its designated splashdown zone in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida.
Carrying four astronauts, the capsule splashed down on time at 10:33pm ET, bring the, Crew-2 mission back to Earth after spending the last 200 days aboard the International Space Station.
The astronauts – NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with the European Space Agency's Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's astronaut Akihiko Hoshide – not only made headlines for coming home, but for having to complete the journey in diapers due to a faulty toilet in the capsule.
Sightings of the SpaceX capsule were reported in Louisiana, Alabama and several other states along the gulf.
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The light show was a result of the Endeavour craft soaring through Earth’s atmosphere as it headed towards its designated splashdown zone in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida
Matt Kroschel, an anchor for a local news outlet in Huntsville, Alabama, urged residents to not call the newsroom with UFO reports if they spotted a streak of light in the night sky.
Twitter user Christopher of Mandeville, Louisiana shared a great image of the event on Twitter.
‘Holy cr** that was awesome,’ he included with the tweet.
The capsule traveled at least 17,000 miles per hour during deorbit as it fell towards the ocean.
It eventually slowed down and released parachutes to help stop it from crashing.
One spectator joked on Twitter about the capsule potentially being a UFO when it streaked through the night sky
At 10:38pm ET on Monday, the green light was given for the rescue crews to approach the capsule that had just landed in the Gulf of Mexico.
'We were on the helipad watching the crew members streak through the atmosphere, and it looked like a meteor - it was truly incredible,' said Leah Cheshier, a NASA spokesman.
'We couldn't ask for better conditions and things are moving really smoothly here and happening as planned.'
At 11:14pm ET, the side hatch was opened, and the crew disembarked.
Carrying four astronauts, the capsule splashed down on time at 10:33pm, bring the Crew-2 mission back to Earth after spending the last 200 days aboard the International Space Station
The astronauts – NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with the European Space Agency's Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's astronaut Akihiko Hoshide – not only made headlines for coming home, but for having to complete the journey in diapers due to a faulty toilet in the capsule
McArthur, the captain, was the first to leave, at 11:26pm ET.
She was followed by Commander Kimbrough, beaming as he was carried out of the capsule and put on the stretcher to be wheeled away. He waved for the cameras and made a V for Victory sign.
All four were out of the capsule by 11:33pm, with smiles and fist-bumps all round.
Their return was initially set for Sunday afternoon, but high winds delayed the trip by a day.
Matt Kroschel, an anchor for a local news outlet in Huntsville, Alabama urged residents to not call the newsroom with UFO reports if they spot a streak of light in the night sky
Another sighting was reported over Gulf Shores, Alabama. The capsule traveled at least 17,000 miles per hour during deorbit as it free-falls toward the ocean, all the while slowing its speed before releasing parachutes to help stop it from crashing before splashing down
The SpaceX capsule, named Endeavour, was without a bathroom, due to a faulty toilet design, forcing the crew to wear diapers for the trip back to Earth.
However, the rescheduled mission cut the trip from space by 12 hours - it was only eight hours long instead of the expected 20 hours - due to the path from the ship to Earth, so the team did not have to sport the protective undergarments for as long as previously expected.
The Endeavour capsule is not the first SpaceX craft to spark UFO reports upon returning to Earth.
The Cargo Dragon C208-2 undocked from the ISS at 9:12am Thursday, following a supply run to the ship, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean around 11pm ET on September 30.
In September, Cargo Dragon C208-2 was spotted streaking through the night sky over parts of Georgia and Florida
The Cargo Dragon C208-2 undocked from the ISS at 9:12am Thursday, following a supply run to the ship, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean around 11pm ET on September 30
SpaceX tweeted that the capsule may be visible in parts of Georgia and Florida – and the firm was correct.
Many residents shared the event on Twitter, showing images of the glowing craft with a long, illuminated tail as it soared over highways and neighborhoods.
Local news stations in Florida received numerous reports of a loud boom on Thursday night, which was heard by residents in the Jacksonville area and all the way down to St. Augustine.
Residents said the loud boom rattled dishes and windows, along with entire homes.
The loud noise was a sonic boom released from the capsule, Newsweek reports.
According to NASA, a sonic boom is the thunder-like noise that someone on the ground hears when an aircraft or spacecraft overhead flies faster than the speed of sound.
A photographer from Zurich, Switzerland captured a bizarre sight in the night sky on Monday, November 8th, and it resembles a doughnut. This unidentified flying object could have been mistaken for the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule, which returned from a 200-day trip to the International Space Station, but only spectators in Alabama, Louisiana, and other Gulf states were able to get clear views of the capsule.
Read more for another picture and a screenshot of the now deleted Tweet
Since the doughnut UFO can be ruled out as a SpaceX capsule, amateur satellite tracker Marco Langbroek said that there is a possibility of it being just a distant star. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts, claims the object could also be an upper stage of a rocket burning up.
Any passes [of Endeavour] over Switzerland prior to landing that night would have been completely in Earth’s shadow, i.e. it would not be illuminated by the sun and hence not visible. Reentry itself was over Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, and would not have been visible from Switzerland. The deorbit burn, prior to reentry, was over the Indian Ocean, so also not visible from Switzerland,” said Marco Langbroek, an academic researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, to LiveScience.
NASA astronaut 'told to hide' in Russian spacecraft as ISS facing 'concerning' threat
NASA astronaut 'told to hide' in Russian spacecraft as ISS facing 'concerning' threat
A NASA astronaut has been "told to hide" inside a Russian spacecraft as the International Space Station (ISS) is facing the threat of being struck by space debris.
It came amid reports that space debris were heading towards the space station. They are said to have narrowly missed the ISS, but experts warned they could reapproach between 11:44 to 11:54. When the news broke. ground control in Russia and the US appeared to fear for the worst as they ordered their crew to hide inside their spaceships.
A flight controller in Houston said during a live stream on NASA’s website that the ISS crews, consisting of Russians and Americans, fled to docked spaceships to camp out from the crash.
Space enthusiast Liam Kennedy commented on Twitter: "ISS crew told to hide due to threat of space debris."
But while Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov quickly fled to the Soyuz MS-19, stuck with them too was said to be NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
The rest of the US crew, including Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Germany’s Matthias Maurer fled to the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The news comes after part of a Chinese satellite whizzed past the space station in a near miss on Wednesday.
The ISS reportedly swerved away from the lump of debris to avoid a collision with piece of the Chinese weather satellite destroyed in a weapons test in 2007.
The ISS is facing a threat in space
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Soyuz MS-19
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The Chinese Fengyun-1C satellite was due to zoom past the ISS at a distance of about 600 meters in the early hours of November 12, and the ISS' orbit was elevated by 1,200 meters in that connection.
This did not catch the crew completely off guard, as they were given two days to prepare for the collision, but today the alarm was sounded too late and astronauts were forced totake emergency measures.
Ian Benecken posted on Twitter: "Next space debris cloud TCA (time of closest approach) will be between 11:44 and 11:54 UTC...the hatches to all radial modules stay closed for today and will only be opened on request between the TCAs."
Roscosmos, the Russian state organisation responsible for space flights, said: "The guidelines say that the crew should stay on a ship at the approaching moment in the event of the ISS' approach by a potentially dangerous object."
The ISS is no stranger to threats from flying threats of space debris.
The Central Research Institute for Machine Building (TsNIIMash) said in April 2019 that the ISS had performed a total of 25 manoeuvres to escape collisions with space debris.
The shortest distance between the ISS and chunks of space debris was 720 metres.
And two manoeuvres of the sort were also performed by the ISS last year, in July and September.
There are reportedly over 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or “space junk,” that are tracked by the US’ Department of Defence global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors.
And there is much more debris that is too small to be tracked, but, like the one in latest event, are big enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions and they exist in the near-Earth space environment.
As both the debris and spacecraft travel at extremely high speeds (approximately 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit), an impact of even a tiny piece of orbital debris with a spacecraft or satellite could cause devastation.
'Eggshell planets' with an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography may orbit around other stars in the universe, a new study reveals.
Researchers say at least three of these unusual eggshell 'exoplanets' – planets outside our solar system – may already be known, but even more could exist.
Such rare worlds likely have an outer layer only a few miles thick, are unlikely to have plate tectonics, and may or may not be habitable.
They're also likely larger and younger than other exoplanets with much thicker outer layers, with which they potentially share the same solar system.
The surface of eggshell planets could resemble the lowlands on Venus, with vast expanses of lavas, searingly hot surface temperatures and hardly any high terrain.
'Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Pictured is an artist’s rendering of such an exoplanet
Strange planets with outer layers like eggshells are among the rich variety of exoplanets possible, according to the study
HOW MANY EXOPLANETS ARE THERE?
An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most orbit other stars, but free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, orbit the galactic center and are untethered to any star.
Some 4,374 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,234 systems since the first exoplanet discoveries in the early 1990s.
The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, rather than terrestrial, according to NASA's online database.
The closest exoplanet is called Proxima Centauri b, around 4.2 light years away from our Sun.
However, it's difficult to know what exactly exoplanets are made of, or whether any resemble Earth.
The new study was led by Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at Washington University in St. Louis.
Byrne and his international team of collaborators wanted to see which cosmic factors play the most important role in determining the thickness of a planet's outer brittle layer, known as the lithosphere.
This thickness helps determine whether, for example, a planet can support high topography such as mountains, or has the right balance between rigidity and flexibility for one part to subduct beneath another – the hallmark of plate tectonics.
On Earth, this process helps our planet regulate its temperature over geological timescales, and is the reason why plate tectonics is thought to be a key factor for whether a planet is habitable or not.
'Understanding whether you've got the possibility of plate tectonics is a really important thing to know about a world, because plate tectonics may be required for a large rocky planet to be habitable,' Professor Byrne said.
'It's therefore especially important when we're talking about looking for Earth-like worlds around other stars and when we're characterising planetary habitability generally.'
So far, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 of exoplanets confirmed to be orbiting other stars in our galaxy.
However, it's difficult to know what exactly exoplanets are made of, or whether any resemble Earth.
The thickness of the lithosphere – the outermost shell of a planet – plays a key role in geological processes that determine their characteristics, the team say.
The surface of eggshell planets could resemble the lowlands on Venus (pictured here in a false-colour radar image mosaic). The brighter, fine peach lines are tectonic structures and the darker, purple areas are relatively smooth volcanic plains. Some small volcanoes appear near the bottom centre. This image was made with radar data returned by NASA’s Magellan mission, which operated between 1990 and 1994, and shows an area about 1,400 km (870 miles) across
EXOPLANETS HAVE 'EXOTIC' ROCKS THAT CAN'T BE FOUND IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Rocky planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, are composed of 'exotic' rock types that don't even exist in our planetary system, a study shows.
Researchers used telescope data to analyse white dwarfs – former stars that were once gave life just like our Sun – in an attempt to discover secrets of their former surrounding planets.
The experts found that some exoplanets have rock types that don't exist, or just can't be found, on planets in our solar system.
These rock types are so 'strange' that the authors have had to create new names for them – including 'quartz pyroxenites' and 'periclase dunites'.
To understand how planetary and stellar factors influence a lithosphere's thickness generally, the team modelled multiple combinations of planetary mass, surface and mantle temperature, energy flow and more.
For their modelling effort, the scientists chose a generic 'kind of Earth sized' rocky planet as a starting point.
'And then we spun the dials,' Byrne said. 'We literally ran thousands of models.'
According to the results, surface temperature is the dominant factor governing the thickness of the brittle layer although planetary mass, distance to its star and even a planet's age all play a role.
Smaller and older planets generally have thick brittle lithospheres, akin to those of Mercury and Mars, whereas larger, younger planets have thinner brittle lithospheres that may be comparable to the Venus lowlands.
However, it's possible that certain combinations of these parameters also yield worlds with 'exceedingly thin brittle layers', the team say.
Researchers are a long way from directly imaging the surfaces of these eggshell planets and so don't know what they look like, apart from speculating that they're similar to that of Venus.
'We have imaged a few exoplanets, but they are splotches of light orbiting a star,' Byrne said. 'We have no technical ability to actually see the surface of exoplanets yet.
The scientists could use planned and future space telescopes to examine exoplanets in greater detail and confirm their geological characteristics.
So far, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 of exoplanets confirmed to be orbiting other stars in our galaxy. Pictured is an artist's rendering of an exoplanet and its moon
'We know from published work that there are exoplanets that experience conditions in a more extreme way than what we see in our solar system,' Byrne said.
'They might be closer to their star, or they might be much larger, or have hotter surfaces, than the planets we see in our own system.'
'Ultimately we want to help contribute to identifying the properties that make a world habitable.
'And not just temporarily, but habitable for a long time, because we think life probably needs a while to get going and become sustainable.'
Scientists study the atmosphere of distant exoplanets using enormous space satellites like Hubble
Distant stars and their orbiting planets often have conditions unlike anything we see in our atmosphere.
To understand these new world's, and what they are made of, scientists need to be able to detect what their atmospheres consist of.
They often do this by using a telescope similar to Nasa's Hubble Telescope.
These enormous satellites scan the sky and lock on to exoplanets that Nasa think may be of interest.
Here, the sensors on board perform different forms of analysis.
One of the most important and useful is called absorption spectroscopy.
This form of analysis measures the light that is coming out of a planet's atmosphere.
Every gas absorbs a slightly different wavelength of light, and when this happens a black line appears on a complete spectrum.
These lines correspond to a very specific molecule, which indicates it's presence on the planet.
They are often called Fraunhofer lines after the German astronomer and physicist that first discovered them in 1814.
By combining all the different wavelengths of lights, scientists can determine all the chemicals that make up the atmosphere of a planet.
The key is that what is missing, provides the clues to find out what is present.
It is vitally important that this is done by space telescopes, as the atmosphere of Earth would then interfere.
Absorption from chemicals in our atmosphere would skew the sample, which is why it is important to study the light before it has had chance to reach Earth.
This is often used to look for helium, sodium and even oxygen in alien atmospheres.
This diagram shows how light passing from a star and through the atmosphere of an exoplanet produces Fraunhofer lines indicating the presence of key compounds such as sodium or helium
As telescopes get stronger and detection techniques get more sophisticated, especially with the assistance of artificial intelligence, astronomers are finding more exoplanets every day – including the first to be seen orbiting a star in another galaxy. However, contrary to other fields, it seems the more exoplanets we find, the less we know about them. Astronomers assumed other stars would have planets like those in our own solar system – especially the rocky ones with thick outer layers. Instead, a new study shows that many should be called “eggshell” exoplanets because their outer layers are so thin and brittle. Will future astronauts need to practice walking on eggshells?
“Understanding whether you’ve got the possibility of plate tectonics is a really important thing to know about a world, because plate tectonics may be required for a large rocky planet to be habitable. It’s therefore especially important when we’re talking about looking for Earth-like worlds around other stars and when we’re characterizing planetary habitability generally.”
Botched landing on an eggshell planet?
Planetary geologist Paul Byrne, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is the first author of the study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, led the development of the model used to prove the existence of these so-called “eggshell” planets. As he explains in the press release, Byrne and his collaborators focused on the outer layer – called the lithosphere – of exoplanets to determine their topography (do they have mountains?), thickness (can they be excavated?), temperature (are they habitable) and other features not visible to telescopes.
“This thickness helps determine whether, for example, a planet can support high topography such as mountains, or has the right balance between rigidity and flexibility for one part of the surface to dive down, or subduct, beneath another — the hallmark of plate tectonics. It is this process that helps Earth regulate its temperature over geological timescales, and the reason why plate tectonics is thought to be an important component of planetary habitability. By adjusting an exoplanet’s size, distance from its star, age and other factors, the researchers found that extremes created unusual planets … including three predicted to have eggshell-like lithospheres.”
They discovered the biggest factor in creating eggshells is surface temperature. (Isn’t that the same with chicken eggs?) Manipulating size, age and distance from their star had less effect in creating these brittle eggshell layers which Byrne says may be only a few kilometers thick. The only planet in our solar system with a similar topography is Venus, although it may not be eggshell thin across its entire surface.
Eggshell planets solar system model?
“Ultimately we want to help contribute to identifying the properties that make a world habitable. And not just temporarily, but habitable for a long time, because we think life probably needs a while to get going and become sustainable.”
Are eggshell planets habitable? Byrne isn’t sure – his goal is to figure out how Earth formed and then search for stars and exoplanets with similar circumstances or histories.
Is he looking for a new place to live? Does he knows something we don’t? Now WE’RE walking on eggshells.
With the latest and unequivocally best movie version of “Dune” in the theaters, most reviews make note that novelist Frenk Herbert was a fan of psilocybin ‘magic’ mushrooms and may have been inspired by the psychedelic ‘shrooms when he came up with the idea for mélange or ‘spice’ – the key reason for the fight over the planet Arrakis. Interest in real space travel has been stimulated by the progress of private space companies and the desire of SpaceX founder Elon Musk and NASA to travel to Mars and eventually colonize Mars, progress has been severely restricted by the challenge of protecting astronauts from cosmic radiation. While the mushrooms used may not be ‘magic’, researchers recently discovered a fungus that not only thrives in high cosmic radiation in space but feeds on it and could be used to grow radiation shields in space. Magic or science?
Future Mars base?
“Certain fungi thrive in high-radiation environments on Earth, such as the contamination radius of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Analogous to photosynthesis, these organisms appear to perform radiosynthesis, utilizing ionizing radiation to generate chemical energy. It has been postulated that the absorption of radiation is attributable to the pigment melanin. It is further hypothesized that this phenomenon translates to radiation-shielding properties.”
Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a radiotrophic fungus, could act as a radiation shield on deep space missions.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Medmyco.
Something good has finally come from the Chernobyl disaster – a study published in the preprint journal bioRxiv announces the discovery that Cladosporium sphaerospermum, found thriving in the contamination zone, also enjoy space radiation. A shipment of them was sent to the International Space Station in 2019 where they spent 30 days next to a control bed with no fungus. When returned to Earth, it was found that the radiation levels underneath the fungus were 2.17% lower than the control bed. Even more exciting, the fungi grew 21% faster than on Earth. In other words, when it comes to cosmic radiation … they like it! Are Cladosporium sphaerospermum the ‘spice’ of real space travel?
“To increase density and thus the LAC, fungal biomass or melanin itself could be integrated with in-situ resources that are abundant at destination, such as regolith. In a case study we estimated that a ~ 2.3 m layer of melanized fungal biomass (8.6% [wmelanin/wCWW] melanin-content) would be needed to lower Martian radiation levels to those on Earth (from 234 mSv/a to 6.2 mSv/a, whereas an equimolar composite of melanin and Martian regolith would only require a layer of ~ 1 m for the same reduction of radiation.”
In simple terms, the thicker the fungus, the better the radiation protection. To grow a suitable radiation shield (LAC is linear attenuation coefficient — a measure for the fungus’ capacity to shield against ionizing radiation) on the surface of Mars to protect astronauts underneath it would require a layer 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) thick. For comparison, the same protection could be achieved by building structures under 3 meters of regolith (Martian surface dirt and rocks). The benefits to growing a renewable shield on the surface versus living underground are obvious – the problem is that the fungi shield hasn’t been tested yet.
Future Martians?
The study researchers, led by Graham K. Shunk of the Physics Department at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, tip their hats to nature for providing what may be an excellent and elegant solution to the problem of space travel radiation.
“Often nature has already developed surprisingly effective solutions to engineering and design problems faced as humankind evolves – biotechnology could thus prove to be an invaluable asset for life support and protection of explorers on future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.”
Cladosporium sphaerospermum may not be ‘spice’ but it could be just as beneficial to space travel … and it’s right here on Earth. However, leaving Earth means leaving one of our best sources of innovation — nature — behind. Would we be better off staying here?
Green Meteor Seen Over Entire US East Coast, Timed With Space X Launch!!
Green Meteor Seen Over Entire US East Coast, Timed With Space X Launch!!
Green Meteor Seen Over Entire US East Coast, Timed With Space X Launch!! This Is Huge And I’m Going To Tell You What This Means, And You Must Listen With Your Full Attention!!
Green meteor seen over 13 states… and get this… TIMED WITH SPACE X LAUNCH!
Now follow along and slow down and reread if you lose the enormity of what is taking place. Green meteors are Ashtar Command spacecraft “pretending” to be meteors and fireballs. 3. Green meteors are sent to send a message to the earthlings below that particular area, to pay attention… something is going to happen. 4. A green meteor seen over the entire east coast is extraordinary, and that it was timed for Space X launch for extra exposure, is sending an even louder message… watch out east coast. 5. You’ve heard of the La Palma volcano in Canary Islands? It’s been a known scenario for quite some time, that if it fractures and part of it falls into the ocean, it would set off a chain reaction. They are trying to set this off right now… earthquakes forming in grid pattern… this is simply unheard of…
Unknown Things Happening Underground - Top U.S. Spy Breaks Silence On Alien Phenomenon! Giant UFO Passes Moon..
Unknown Things Happening Underground - Top U.S. Spy Breaks Silence On Alien Phenomenon! Giant UFO Passes Moon..
Unknown Things Happening Underground – Top U.S. Spy Breaks Silence On Alien Phenomenon! Giant UFO Passes Moon..
From it’s humble beginnings as a mere idea, to the establishment of the channel you see today – Secureteam has become the information source to which millions of answer-seeking individuals have come. Secureteam is the #1 channel for breaking reports on the many mysteries of our universe, so stay tuned and prepare to discover the truth, one puzzle piece at a time!
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A Black Hole has been Found Lurking Just Outside the Milky Way
A Black Hole has been Found Lurking Just Outside the Milky Way
Astronomers have found a smaller, stellar-mass black hole lurking in a nearby satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The black hole has been hiding in a star cluster named NGC 1850, which is one of the brightest star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The black hole is 160,000 light-years away from Earth, and is estimated to be about 11 times the mass of our Sun.
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers found the black hole when they noticed a star with a peculiar motion among the star cluster, where other stars weren’t behaving the same way. Further investigation revealed the gravitational influence came from a stellar mass black hole.
This is the first time astronomers have used this detection method to reveal the presence of a black hole outside of our galaxy. Astronomers say this method could be helpful in locating other hidden black holes in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, and it can also help shed light on how these mysterious objects form and evolve.
Usually, black holes can be detected by the X-ray glow they emitted as they swallow matter, or from the gravitational waves generated as black holes collide with one another or with neutron stars.
But most smaller stellar-mass black holes don’t give away their presence through X-rays or gravitational waves.
“The vast majority can only be unveiled dynamically,” says Stefan Dreizler, one of the team members who contributed to the new paper, published in the Monthly Noticed of the Royal Astronomical Society. “When they form a system with a star, they will affect its motion in a subtle but detectable way, so we can find them with sophisticated instruments.”
The team said they have been acting as detectives, trying to track down a criminal gang from their missteps.
“We are looking at every single star in this cluster with a magnifying glass in one hand trying to find some evidence for the presence of black holes but without seeing them directly,” said Sara Saracino from the Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, who led the research. “The result shown here represents just one of the wanted criminals, but when you have found one, you are well on your way to discovering many others, in different clusters.”
NGC1850 as seen with the Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESO, NASA/ESA/R. Gilmozzi/S. Casertano, J. Schmidt.
NGC 1850 is an unusual double star cluster that lies in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy of our own Milky Way. NGC 1850 is the second brightest star cluster in the LMC, and contains thousands of stars.
A specialized instrument on the VLT, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) allowed the researchers to observe the very crowded star cluster and analyze the light of every single star in the vicinity.
“The net result is information about thousands of stars in one shot, at least 10 times more than with any other instrument,” said co-author Sebastian Kamann, also from Liverpool’s Astrophysics Research Institute.
ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope in Chile, set to start operating later this decade, will allow astronomers to find even more hidden black holes.
“The ELT will definitely revolutionise this field,” says Saracino. “It will allow us to observe stars considerably fainter in the same field of view, as well as to look for black holes in globular clusters located at much greater distances.”
Three UFOs Caught On Door Cam Over England, Oct 23, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Three UFOs Caught On Door Cam Over England, Oct 23, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:October 23, 2021
Location of sighting: St Albans, England
A person in England was watching TV when a his phone alerted him to a movement recorded by his door cam. Three glowing objects flew past his home, but when he asked his flight experienced father about it, the father said no flights were there at that time. Which means its highly likely its UFOs. The craft are flying in triangle formation, but then at the end of the video, they turn and line up one by one. Fantastic catch, and 100% proof that UFOs fly low over England and night.
UFO Uncloaks Over Mount Fuji, Japan On Live Cam! Nov 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Uncloaks Over Mount Fuji, Japan On Live Cam! Nov 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 11, 2021 Location of sighting: Mount Fuji, Japan
This UFO was caught on live cam approving suddenly out of thin air. Clearly it uncloaked slowly trying to appear as a cloud, but there is nothing cloud like about this at all. The UFO has six sides and a glowing square bottom area. The glowing square may be a window area, or it could be the propulsion system. Its not unusual to see UFOs around volcanos. I have been recording them on live cams for over two decades. Its nice to see others finally using the same tools. Live cams allow a UFO researcher to be everywhere at once. This way you can explore dozens of volcanos daily to see if you can catch something. Thousands of years ago, aliens decided to make bases in inaccessible locations to keep humans from stumbling upon them.
This UFO is nearly half a mile across! Absolutely fantastic catch! Is undeniable proof that aliens are already here.
Date of sighting: Nov 15, 2021 Location of sighting: Orion Nebula Source: MUFON
Here is a great catch of a UFO fleet passing the Orion Nebula this week. An astronomer recorded something that really stumped him. A fleet of objects, having no flashing lights, no flashes, no tails was recorded. The objects were much closer to us than the nebula, and I was really hoping that one would make a right turn, which would solidify that conclusion of it being an intelligently controlled object. However we have something similar...one of the crafts is taking mini near-light-speed jumps. This make this one UFO appear longer than the rest. No meteor, bird, weather ballon or plane could ever do that. So we do have the evidence to say...this is 100% proof of UFOs exist.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
On 11/14/21, I was taking images of the Orion Nebula including NGC-1977 (the Running Man Nebula), using a Mallincam 26ctec camera attached to my C-14 Edge HD telescope (14 inch diameter lens) at f/1.8 focal ratio. At 1.8 focal ratio, astrophotography imaging and light collection in general, is significantly increased with a much larger field of view. At approximately 2:58 am in Lafayette, LA, I observed several UAPs moving from Southwest to Northeast. The objects did not have colored lights and were not blinking, so I can assume they were not commercial aircraft. After the first UAP flew across the Orion Nebula a bright area showed up in my field of view followed by additional UAP’s in succession.
Fleet of UFOs traveling through space next to the Orion Nebula
Fleet of UFOs traveling through space next to the Orion Nebula
On November 14, 2021 a sky-watcher was taking images of the Orion Nebula including NGC-1977 (the Running Man Nebula), using a Mallincam 26ctec camera attached to a C-14 Edge HD telescope (14 inch diameter lens) at f/1.8 focal ratio when two formations of UFOs and a possible cigar shaped alien mothership flying across the Orion Nebula.
Additional photographs taken in recent years show several other huge UFOs (usually cigar-shaped) passing through the Orion Nebula M42 The recording of the fleet of UFOs, including the additional images, is proof that these huge alien ships do exist!
NASA's first planetary defence mission will launch later this month, sending a spacecraft hurtling into the side of an asteroid at more than 15,000 miles per hour.
Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, it will involve sending the DART spacecraft out to the Didymos binary asteroid system.
It will launch at 01:20 ET (05:20 GMT) on November 24 at the earliest, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The US space agency says it will hit one of the two asteroids, known as Dimorphos on October 2, 2022, changing the speed of the space rock by a fraction of a per cent.
While only a tiny correction, it is enough for NASA to measure its altered orbit, and feed into future missions that could one day save Earth from a deadly impact.
NASA says this asteroid poses no danger to the Earth and any changes they make won't lead to it posing any danger to the planet, but hope the lessons they learn can be used in the future if a large space rock does pose a threat.
Ahead of the launch in the next few weeks, NASA has provided fresh details of the DART mission, which carries a price tag of $330 million (£244 million).
'Although there isn't a currently known asteroid that's on an impact course with the Earth, we do know that there is a large population of near-Earth asteroids out there,' said Lindley Johnson, NASA's Planetary Defense Officer.
At roughly 160 meters (524ft) wide, Dimorphos orbits a much larger space rock known as Didymos that is approximately 780 meters (2,559ft) across.
Dimorphos came relatively close to Earth in 2003, coming within 3.7 million miles, which, despite being 15 times farther away than the moon, is still considered a 'Near-Earth object' by NASA.
There are more space rocks the size of Dimorphos than Didymos, according to NASA and the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).
DART will be the world’s first planetary defence test mission.
It is heading for the small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger companion asteroid called Didymos.
When it gets there it will be intentionally crashing into the asteroid to slightly change its orbit.
While neither asteroid poses a threat to Earth, DART’s kinetic impact will prove that a spacecraft can autonomously navigate to a target asteroid and kinetically impact it.
Then, using Earth-based telescopes to measure the effects of the impact on the asteroid system, the mission will enhance modeling and predictive capabilities to help us better prepare for an actual asteroid threat should one ever be discovered.
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NASAconsidersany near-Earth object 'potentially hazardous' if it comes within 0.05 astronomical units (4.6 million miles) and measures more than 460 feet in diameter.
According to the US space agency, there are just over 25,000 NEOs, but many more are waiting to be discovered.
DART will be joined on its trip to Dimorphos by a CubeSat, weighing just 31 pounds and measuring 'roughly the length of an adult's hand and forearm.'
DART is the first part of NASA's asteroid defense strategy, designed in collaboration with the European Space Agency to protect Earth from a possible impact from a 'hazardous asteroid.'
'The key to planetary defence is finding them well before they are an impact threat,' Johnson said. 'We don't want to be in a situation where an asteroid is headed towards Earth and then have to test this capability.'
Johnson said Dimorphos was an ideal candidate for the test because of the ability to observe it with ground-based telescopes.
Images will also be collected by the miniature camera-equipped satellite contributed by the Italian Space Agency that will be ejected by the DART spacecraft 10 days before impact.
Nancy Chabot of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which built the DART spacecraft, the DART spacecraft, which will weigh 1,210 pounds at the time of impact, will not 'destroy' the asteroid.
'It's just going to give it a small nudge,' she said. 'It's going to deflect its path around the larger asteroid.'
'It's only going to be a change of about one percent in that orbital period,' Chabot said, 'so what was 11 hours and 55 minutes before might be like 11 hours and 45 minutes.'
It is a test of how much momentum is needed in order to deflect an asteroid.
'We are targeting to be as nearly head on as possible to cause the biggest deflection,' Chabot said.
The total amount of deflection depends on the composition of the asteroid itself - and right now scientists can't say how porous the space rock is.
The binary asteroid pairing they are visiting is the most common type of asteroid in space and is some 4.5 billion years old, Chabot said.
'It's like ordinary chondrite meteorites,' she said. 'It's a fine grain mixture of rock and metal together.'
The mission is being managed by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and the Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division at NASA headquarters.
In August, a study from researchers in California said that several bumps would be needed to change the course of an asteroid, such as Bennu.
NASA has previously said that Bennu has a one in 1,750 chance of hitting Earth in the next 300 years.
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.
This image shows the change in leaf area across the globe from 1982-2015. Credits: Boston University/R. Myneni
Green leaves use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth. Studies have shown that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring plant growth.
However, carbon dioxide fertilization isn’t the only cause of increased plant growth—nitrogen, land cover change and climate change by way of global temperature, precipitation and sunlight changes all contribute to the greening effect. To determine the extent of carbon dioxide’s contribution, researchers ran the data for carbon dioxide and each of the other variables in isolation through several computer models that mimic the plant growth observed in the satellite data.
Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. “The second most important driver is nitrogen, at 9 percent. So we see what an outsized role CO2 plays in this process.”
About 85 percent of Earth’s ice-free lands is covered by vegetation. The area covered by all the green leaves on Earth is equal to, on average, 32 percent of Earth’s total surface area – oceans, lands and permanent ice sheets combined. The extent of the greening over the past 35 years “has the ability to fundamentally change the cycling of water and carbon in the climate system,” said lead author Zaichun Zhu, a researcher from Peking University, China, who did the first half of this study with Myneni as a visiting scholar at Boston University.
Every year, about half of the 10 billion tons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere from human activities remains temporarily stored, in about equal parts, in the oceans and plants. “While our study did not address the connection between greening and carbon storage in plants, other studies have reported an increasing carbon sink on land since the 1980s, which is entirely consistent with the idea of a greening Earth,” said co-author Shilong Piao of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University.
While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.
The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may also be limited, said co-author Dr. Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, Gif-suv-Yvette, France. “Studies have shown that plants acclimatize, or adjust, to rising carbon dioxide concentration and the fertilization effect diminishes over time.”
“While the detection of greening is based on data, the attribution to various drivers is based on models,” said co-author Josep Canadell of the Oceans and Atmosphere Division in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra, Australia. Canadell added that while the models represent the best possible simulation of Earth system components, they are continually being improved.
Artwork showing the rotation of the star WASP-79 (left to right) and the orbital plane and motion of the planet WASP-79b, which nearly goes over the poles of the star.
Photo: Credit: Brett Addison (modified from ESO/L. Calçada)
One of the most obvious things about our solar system is that all the big planets orbit the Sun in very nearly the same plane. If you looked at the solar system “from the side” it would look very nearly flat.
This is a consequence of how our planets formed. Billions of years ago, a cloud of gas and dust started to collapse. Any rotation in that material would get amplified as it shrank (think of an ice skater spinning more rapidly when they bring their arms in), and (due to centrifugal force) any stuff in the plane of that rotation has a harder time falling to the center than stuff near the poles. You wind up with a huge disk of gas and dust billions of kilometers across, with the forming Sun in the center and the planets all orbiting in the plane of the disk. Not only that, because of all this the star rotates in the same direction the planets go around, and the orbits of the planets align with the star's equator (we say they’re coplanar).
That’s true for other solar systems as well. We see these disks everywhere stars and planetary systems are forming, and it’s a decent bet that planets will all align to that disk.
… but it’s not always the case. And it’s really super not the case for the nearby star HD 3167. We know of three planets orbiting it, and two of them actually orbit perpendicular to the other one!
HD 3167 is a K star, just a slightly bit smaller, cooler, and dimmer than the Sun, located about 150 light years from us. In 2016 two planets were announced orbiting the star, found using that transit method.
The inner one, called HD 3167b, is a super-Earth, about 1.7 times the diameter of our homeworld and five times its mass. It’s on an orbit very close to the star, taking just 0.96 days to go around once. It’s surface temperature is likely around 1500°C (2,700°F) so Earth-like it very much ain’t.
The outer one, called HD 3167c, is a mini-Neptune, about 3 times wider than Earth and 10 times its mass. It takes about a month to orbit the star once, and while it’s farther out it’s still close enough to the star to have a temperature hot enough to boil water.
Artwork depicting a system of planets around a red dwarf star.
The discovery paper shows that the orbit of planet d is weird, and it didn’t take long to show this whole system is weird: While planet b orbits around the star over its equator and in the same direction the star spins, planet c is very nearly in a polar orbit, perpendicular to it. Not only that, but so is planet d!
That’s truly bizarre. To understand this better, a new paper has come out analyzing the system very carefully. They use a refined technique to confirm that planets c and d are in polar orbits, with tilts pretty close to one another (the angle between the two orbits is between 2 and 21°).
Artwork showing the rotation of the star WASP-79 (left to right) and the orbital plane and motion of the planet WASP-79b, which nearly goes over the poles of the star.
Photo: Credit: Brett Addison (modified from ESO/L. Calçada)
Imagine you’re looking at a star over its equator, so the north pole of the star is at the top and the south pole at the bottom. It’s spinning left to right. That means the left side of the star is rotating toward you, and the right side rotating away from you. This induces a Doppler effect in the star’s light; light coming from the left side has a very slightly shorter wavelength (we call this blueshift) and the right hand side has a very slightly longer wavelength (redshift). A spectrograph can break the star’s light up into thousands of individual wavelengths (colors), and what it sees in a case like this is the wavelengths are slightly smeared out, since it sees the whole star’s motion all at once.
Now say a planet transits the star, and it orbits in the same direction as the star spins (left to right). It first blocks a little bit of the star on the left, then moves to the star’s center, then blocks the light to the right. If you take spectra during the transit, you’ll see some of the blueshifted light from the star dim first, and the redshifted light dim later. That tells you the planet orbits the star prograde, in the same direction it spins.
In some cases we see the opposite: The redshifted light dims first, then the blueshifted light. That means the planet orbits retrograde, backwards.
If the planet is orbiting tilted with respect to the star’s equator you get a variation on this, with slightly different blueshifted and redshifted light dimming at different times. It’s incredibly difficult and exacting work, but it’s possible to get the orbital tilts of the planets this way.
A satellite or planet orbiting over a planet or star’s equator is said to have an equatorial orbit (and further, if it orbits in the same direction as the primary object’s spin it’s said to be prograde, and retrograde if backwards). A polar orbit is perpendicular to that, orbiting over the primary object’s poles.
Photo: NASA
And that’s what they did in the new paper. Planet b orbits prograde like a good little planet, but the other two orbit perpendicular to it, over the star’s poles: a polar orbit.
That’s so weird! How can this happen?
They think that all three planets formed normally, like ours did, and all started out life orbiting in the same plane. But they posit a fifth object in the system orbits farther out, which could be a very low-mass star or a fourth planet. The details are complex, but objects on elliptical and slightly tilted orbits can change the shape and tilt of other objects in the system. Over time, this other object gravitationally interacted with planets c and d, flipping them up into these polar orbits. Planet b was too close to the star to be affected.
The trick now is to find that other object. That may be impossible with current tech; it may not transit and it may also be too faint and too far out to detect otherwise. At least for now. Astronomers are clever folks and keep getting better at figuring out how to do things like this.
And oh how I love this news! Our solar system is amazing and wondrous and fascinating, and yet compared to some others it’s pretty vanilla. Nature has a way of bollixing things up, of throwing a curveball into what we might consider “normal.”
But normal is just an average, a spot on a graph you pick because lots of things hang out around it. But lots of things don’t, and the more we learn about them the more we can understand what normal really means.
Anyone who has ever had to build a model of our Solar System for a science project knows one thing that makes the job easy – all of the planets orbit the Sun in the same plane. Imagine how hard this would be – and how much bigger the model would have to be – if the orbits of Venus, Mars and Uranus were horizontal while the rest were vertical? Now, imagine how this could possibly happen during the creation of a solar system. Impossible? Meet HD 3167 – a little brother of our Sun with three planets – two in horizontal orbits and one strange outlier flying perpendicular to the other two … or is it vice versa?
“If you had a telescope and you were looking at the trajectory of the other planets in the system, they would be going vertically in the sky.”
An artist’s concept of one of the kinds of planets that is orbiting the star HD 3167.
(Credit: NASA)
University of Geneva astronomer Vincent Bourrier, lead author of the report published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, described to The New York Times what one would see gazing at the sky from the surface of standing on the surface of HD 3167 b, c or d … if one survived landing on one of these uninhabitable exoplanets. Using ESPRESSO – an echelle spectrometer on Chile’s Very Large Telescope used for detecting unusual light diffractions – Bourrier and his team tracked the innermost planet, HD 3167 b, as it passed in front of its star and found its orbit was perpendicular to the polar orbits of the other two exoplanets in the system. This super-Earth planet is closer to its star than Mercury is to our sun – completing an orbit once a day. In fact, all three would be within the orbit of Mercury in our solar system – mini-Neptune HD 3167c takes 30 days and HD 3167d has an 8.5-day orbit. What knocked HD 3167 b 90 degrees out of orbital whack?
“A Jupiter-sized planet could be massive enough to tilt the planets.”
University of Exeter astronomer Shweta Dalal, who was not part of the study but has researched the HD 3167 system speculated to The New York Times that the cause is a yet-to-be-seen fourth planet the size of Jupiter whose gravity is twisting the orbits of HD 3167 c and d. HD 3167, located 150 light years away, is smaller and dimmer than the Sun so SyFy Wire says finding that disruptive planet may be impossible with current telescopes.
An example of perpendicular orbits
(Credit: NASA)
While we wait to see HD 3167 e, one can still impress their science teacher with a display of the perpendicular orbits of the exoplanets of HD 3167 – all it takes is a lot of glue, strong wires, foam balls and good balance.
A diamond discovered deep beneath Earth’s surface contains a mineral that has never been found before on our planet. The mineral has been named davemaoite after geophysicist Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao.
While davemaoite is the first ever discovery of a high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) on our planet, another CaSiO3 named wollastonite is plentiful on Earth. Davemaoite, however, can only form by high temperatures and a lot of pressure in the mantle of our planet.
It was long believed that Earth did contain davemaoite but experts never found any evidence of it – until now. Since davemaoite breaks into different minerals as it gets closer to the surface, finding proof of it is exceptionally difficult, but a diamond in Botswana has finally provided scientists with the evidence they needed.
(Not the diamond mentioned in this article.)
The diamond formed in Earth’s mantle approximately 410 miles (660 kilometers) below the surface. And inside of the stone was a very tiny piece of davemaoite – only a few micrometers (millionths of a meter) in size. Oliver Tschauner, who is a mineralogist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his colleagues, used synchrotron X-ray diffraction in order to find the never-before-seen mineral inside of the diamond. In an interview with Live Science, Tschauner stated that the discovery “…came as a surprise”.
Since scientists believe that davemaoite might contain additional elements that can give off heat by radioactive decay (such as thorium and uranium), the mineral could possibly aid in providing a significant dose of heat in Earth’s mantle. Additionally, this means that diamonds can grow much farther down below Earth’s surface than previously believed and these stones could possibly lead to even more discoveries of never-before-seen minerals.
Yingwei Fe, who is a geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., but was not part of the study, weighed in on the discovery by saying, “The work by Tschauner et al. inspires hope in the discovery of other difficult high-pressure phases in nature.” “Such direct sampling of the inaccessible lower mantle would fill our knowledge gap in chemical composition of the entire mantle of our planet.”
(Not the diamond mentioned in this article.)
The discovery has led the International Mineralogical Association to confirm davemaoite as being a new mineral. A picture of the diamond that contained davemaoite can be viewed here.
This diamond holds tiny black specks of davemaoite, a mineral formed at high temperature and pressure in the deep Earth.
Credit: Aaron Celestian, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The study was published in the journal Sciencewhere it can be read in full.
Paul Bennewitz was a scientist who, in the 1970s, ran a company in Albuquerque called Thunder Scientific – a company that quite literally backed onto the well-guarded fences of Kirtland Air Force Base. It was around 1978 that Bennewitz – who had a pre-existing interest in UFOs – began to hear of more and more so-called alien abduction events in and around Albuquerque and further up into northern New Mexico. On top of that, strange signals were picked up by Bennewitz on his radio equipment. He saw weird-looking aircraft soaring silently across the skies over Kirtland late at night and in the early hours of the morning. He was given accounts of abductees being secretly taken to Kirtland and grilled by U.S. intelligence agents, who were deeply concerned about the growing number of people seemingly being kidnapped from their homes and subjected to terrifying and bizarre experiments of a genetic nature. As the weeks and months progressed Bennewitz came to believe something incredible: that deadly ETs were secretly getting ready to take over the planet. They were planning on doing so from their command post deep below the town of Dulce. Worldwide invasion and the enslavement of the human race were lurking just around the corner – as Bennewitz saw it, at least. Suspecting that the end really was possibly getting nearer and nearer, Bennewitz prepared a dossier on his findings and theories. He called it Project Beta. Bennewitz mailed copies of the controversial report to the FBI, to the CIA, to the NSA, to every branch of the military, and even to the White House. People had to be warned – and warned now, Bennewitz wrote.
Greg Bishop at the grave of Paul Bennewitz
(photo courtesy of Nick Redfern)
Notably, Bennewitz was not written off as a crank, as many might expect him to have been. In fact, quite the opposite was the case: intelligence agents at Kirtland Air Force Base quickly established a secret liaison with Bennewitz. They warned him about digging any further into things that could be dangerous – even to Bennewitz’s life, no less. But, those same agents also confided in Bennewitz something incredible: that he was on the right track. They did all they could to keep Bennewitz quiet, almost to the point of begging him to keep his mouth shut on what he knew. For Bennewitz, though, this was like a red rag to a bull: the somewhat veiled threats to keep his nose out of things only served Bennewitz to push further for answers.
As a result, U.S. intelligence fed Bennewitz more and more horror stories of what was supposedly going on several miles below Dulce, including tales of the aliens using captured people – in their thousands – as food. It’s no wonder – given the nature of the stories and that they were coming directly from the military – that Bennewitz became more and more paranoid. Eventually, he became completely unhinged, and to the point where he ended up spending time in a local medical facility, where he was treated for stress, anxiety, and, finally, what practically amounted to a complete mental collapse. Thankfully, he recovered, but was careful kept his distance from Ufology. Today, some UFO researchers dismiss Bennewitz’s theories and conclusions – preferring, instead, to suspect that Bennewitz had stumbled on not alien activity but top secret programs of the U.S. military and intelligence community. By steering Bennewitz down a path filled with fictitious tales of dangerous aliens, the government would be able to divert him away from the far more down to earth truth, so the theory goes. On the other hand, Bennewitz, who died in 2003, still has a huge following of UFO sleuths who are absolutely certain that below Dulce something abominable is going on – and has been for years. Maybe even for centuries.
While Bennewitz’s Project Beta report does read like something straight out of the early years of The X-Files, there is absolutely no doubt that Dulce itself is a very weird place, one where strange activity has been reported for years. For example, in the 1960s the area around Dulce became the site of a classified U.S. Atomic Energy Commission program called Gasbuggy. It was part of a larger operation code-named Plowshare. The plan was to explode a significantly-sized atomic device, underground, deep below the Carson National Forest, which just happens to be only a few miles from Dulce. The reason was to try and access massive and precious supplies of natural gas. The bomb was detonated on December 10, 1967 – more than four thousand feet below the surface. Although the Plowshare program continued in the area until the late 1970s, even today digging underground in the area is strictly forbidden. In light of all of Bennewitz’s findings, it’s not at all surprising that there are those in the UFO community who believe that the Plowshare program was actually a cover story – one created to mask the fact that the U.S. Government had tried to destroy the alien base under Dulce with a nuclear weapon. That just such a weapon really was exploded, underground, and only a few minutes’ drive from Dulce, only ensures that the rumors of an alien presence in the area continue to thrive. The story is, without doubt, fascinating. Greg Bishop (see the photo above) is the expert in this arena of disinformation. His findings make for incredible reading. Such is the extent to which this bizarre program went on, the whole thing still rumbles along
One big area of the UFO phenomenon has always been the evidence of radar signatures, or sometimes the lack of. Ever since we have been able to patrol the skies with radar, strange thing have managed to creep up, and one one these holds the distinction of being among the first. The year was 1948, and at the time the Northrop P-61 Black Widow, developed during World War II, was the first operational U.S. warplane designed as a night fighter, and the first aircraft designed to use radar. The aircraft held a crew of three, a pilot, gunner, and radar operator, and at the time it was pretty revolutionary, seeing action during the war in the European Theater, Pacific Theater, China Burma India Theater, and Mediterranean Theater, where it served well as a long-range, all-weather, day/night interceptor. In 1948, the P-61 was still in use, and one evening in October of 1948 a crew aboard one of these planes would have one of the first radar contacts with a UFO in the skies of Japan, which would also turn out to be one of the earlier UFO “dogfights.”
On October 15, 1948, a USAF P-61 Black Widow was on a routine patrol over the skies of Fukuoka, an island in southeastern Japan. This was a totally normal patrol during which none of the crew had expected to encounter any trouble, certainly not the strangeness they were about to witness. At approximately 11:05 p.m., the plane’s radar operator obtained a radar pickup on an unknown target at an altitude of around 6000 feet, and an initial range of about 10 miles. The object was initially moving at about 200 m.p.h. and although the radar return seemed comparable to that of a conventional aircraft, when it was visually spotted it was described as not a conventional aircraft, but rather about 20 to 30 feet long and shaped like a “rifle bullet,” with no discernible wings or tail structures and “a dark or dull finish.” Curious as to what this intruder might be, the decision was made to approach the object, upon which it began sharp acceleration and various impressive aerial acrobatics.
Northrop P-61 Black Widow
It seems that every time the P-61 tried to close in, the unidentified object would rapidly accelerate away, far beyond what a normal aircraft should have been capable of, quickly reaching a speed of 1,200 m.p.h., and would also abruptly dip and dive under them. It was all quite puzzling to the crew of the plane, with six attempts to make a pass at the unknown object that were thwarted by its maneuverability, and one report from the Far East Air Forces intelligence would say:
The radar observer estimated that on three of the sightings, the object traveled seven miles in approximately twenty seconds, giving a speed of approximately 1200 mph. When the F-61 approached within 12,000 feet, the target executed a 180 degree turn and dived under the F-61. The F-61 attempted to dive with the target but was unable to keep pace. It could go almost straight up or down out of radar elevation limits. It is believed that the object was not lost from the scope due to normal skip null-zones common to all radar equipment. The pilot and observer feel that it was the high rate of speed of the object which enabled it to disappear so rapidly. This aircraft seemed to be cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times. It had a high rate of acceleration and could go almost straight up or down out of radar elevation limits. There was sufficient moonlight to permit a silhouette to be discerned although no details were observed. At the time of only visual sighting, target was on a level with observing aircraft. Under night visibility all that was visible was a silhouette. Type of tail stabilizers is unknown. General classification – very short body giving a stubby appearance. Canopy, if present, was formed into aircraft body to give the object clean-cut lines and was not discernible.
The object would continue this cat and mouse game, as if playing with the P-61, usually pulling off its seemingly impossible evasive maneuvers whenever the American plane closed to within 400 yards. Indeed, the object seemed to jump around so much that the crew began to think that they were dealing with more than one bogey. The pilot of the P-61, a 1st Lt. Oliver Hemphill, would say of their six passes at the radar target:
The target put on a tremendous burst of speed and dived so fast that we were unable to stay with it. The aircraft immediately outdistanced us. The third target was spotted visually by myself. I had an excellent silhouette of the target thrown against a very reflective undercast by a full moon. I realized at this time that it did not look like any type of aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Ground Control Station. The fourth target passed directly over my ship from astern to bow at a speed of roughly twice that of my aircraft, 200 mph. I caught just a fleeting glimpse of the aircraft; just enough to know that he had passed on. The fifth and sixth targets were attempted radar interceptions, but their high rate of speed put them immediately out of our range.
Rather strangely, although the P-61 was picking up the mysterious object on radar, USAF ground-radar stations at Shigamo-Shima and Fukae-Shima were only able to see the American aircraft, but not the anomalous object. The duration of the six attempted intercepts is given as 10 minutes, after which the object or objects left the area to disappear. The case would go on into the files of Project Blue Book, and be studied by the head of the organization, Edward Ruppelt, who would write of it in his book The Report on the Unidentified Flying Objects (1955), as well as Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and professor, Department of Meteorology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Dr. James E. McDonald. It has gone on to become a case known as one of the first times that pilots used airborne radar to track a UFO, and so it is a unique addition to the history of Ufology and an important but little-known case.
Not Saying it was Aliens, but ‘Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg…
Not Saying it was Aliens, but ‘Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg…
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers made the first-ever detection of an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System. Designated 1I/2017 U1′ Oumuamua, this object confounded astronomers who could not determine if it was an interstellar comet or an asteroid. After four years and many theories (including the controversial “ET solar sail” hypothesis), the astronomical community appeared to land on an explanation that satisfied all the observations.
The “nitrogen iceberg” theory stated that ‘Oumuamua was likely debris from a Pluto-like planet in another solar system. In their latest study, titled “The Mass Budget Necessary to Explain ‘Oumuamua as a Nitrogen Iceberg,” Amir Siraj and Prof. Avi Loeb (who proposed the ET solar sail hypothesis) offered an official counter-argument to this theory. According to their new paper, there is an extreme shortage of exo-Plutos in the galaxy to explain the detection of a nitrogen iceberg.
In the paper where he broached the possibility, Loeb indicated that ‘Oumuamua’s unusual character and behavior were consistent with a solar sail. This included the highly-reflective nature of the object and its profile, which appeared to be either cigar-shaped or pancake-like. More importantly, its sudden acceleration and deviation from its expected orbit appeared to be the result of radiation pressure, which is precisely how solar sails achieve propulsion.
There was also the way it entered our Solar System, which allowed it to make a flyby of Earth after passing closest to our Sun (perihelion). In other words, its orbital dynamics allowed it to get a close look at the only habitable planet in our Solar System, which is precisely what one might expect of an interstellar probe. These arguments were detailed further in Loeb’s book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, which we reviewed in a previous article.
At the time of the book’s writing, all attempts to explain ‘Oumuamua in terms of natural phenomena fell short. Basically, there was no single explanation that could account for its brightness, profile, and acceleration while acknowledging that there was no evidence of outgassing. In addition, the sudden acceleration could not be attributed to gravitational forces since these should have been slowing ‘Oumuamua down at the time.
In March of 2021, two researchers from the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU) offered a new hypothesis. In two published studies, SESE Exploration Fellow Alan Jackson and Professor Steven Desch argued that ‘Oumuamua may have been a nitrogen ice fragment ejected from a young star system (possibly in the Perseus Arm of our galaxy) ca. 400 to 500 million years ago.
In their first paper, Jackson and Desch addressed the size and compositional constraints of ‘Oumuamua and showed how ‘Oumuamua’s albedo was similar to the nitrogen ices on the surface of Triton and Pluto. In their second paper, they showed how these types of nitrogen ice fragments could be generated by the collision of extrasolar objects similar in composition to Pluto and Kuiper Belt Object (KBOs).
Artist’s Concept of Oumuamua. Credit: William Hartmann
By their estimates, these collisions would generate and eject around 100 trillion (~1014) objects into interstellar space, half of which would be composed of water ice and the other half of nitrogen (N2). This population would be enough to satisfy the statistical significance of ISOs necessary to explain the detection of ‘Oumaumua. Equally important was the fact that an object composed of N2 would not form a tail as it neared our Sun, as there would be no water vapor or CO/CO2 to sublimate. As Siraj explained to Universe Today via email:
“The attraction of the nitrogen iceberg hypothesis is primarily in explaining ‘Oumuamua’s non-gravitational acceleration. Just like for a hypothetical hydrogen iceberg, a nitrogen iceberg’s outgassing activity would not have been detectable in the measurements that were taken of ‘Oumuamua by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which simply limited the abundance of carbon-based molecules around ‘Oumuamua. As a result, the sublimation of material could conceivably power the object’s observed non-gravitational acceleration.”
One of the main points made by Loeb in his proposal paper was that regardless of ‘Oumuamua’s true nature, its detection implied a massive population of similar objects in our galaxy. In their rebuttal paper, which was recently accepted for publication in the journal New Astronomy, Siraj and Loeb addressed whether there is enough material in the Milky Way galaxy to create such a population of nitrogen icebergs.
A consequence of Jackson and Desch’s assessment was that there must be a robust population of “exo-Plutos” in our galaxy. For that to be the case, stars in the Milky Way would need to have enough material left over from star formation (i.e., a mass budget) to accommodate the formation of these planets. To test this, Siraj and Loeb took the nitrogen iceberg model and examined what amount of stellar material is required to make it work.
Artist’s impression of the first interstellar object “Oumuamua,” which was discovered on October 19th, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
“Our calculation is very straightforward,” said Siraj. “We take all of the nitrogen iceberg model parameters, the required abundance of ‘Oumuamua-like objects to explain its detection by Pan-STARRS, and basic facts about stars in the Galaxy, and derive from these values the total mass of solar metallicity material required to be converted into exo-Plutos, to make the nitrogen model plausible.”
What they found was that even under the most optimistic assumptions possible, the model fails by several orders of magnitude. In short, a star system would not have enough nitrogen ice to allow for such a robust population of exo-Plutos, which means that statistically, there simply cannot be enough ISOs composed of N2 to account for the fortuitous detection of ‘Oumuamua.
The model becomes even more unlikely when one considers how cosmic rays naturally erode ISOs. According to other recently-published research, this process imposes a much shorter lifespan on ISOs than previously thought. As Siraj explained:
“The primary issue with a nitrogen iceberg model is that producing the required population of such objects would require more than ten times the entire mass of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy to be converted directly into exo-Plutos — and when we properly account for inevitable cosmic ray erosion of nitrogen icebergs, we need a thousand times the Galaxy’s stellar mass. These numbers render the nitrogen model untenable, since only a small fraction of the stellar mass in the Galaxy goes towards the production of exo-Plutos.“
Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity’s first interstellar voyage. Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org
In addition, Siraj and Loeb cite research that appeared shortly after their study appeared on the arXiv that casts doubt on the prevalence of nitrogen icebergs in our galaxy. In a study titled “Constraints on the Occurrence of ‘Oumuamua-Like Objects,” which appeared in the October issue of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS), authors Levine et al. argue that both the hydrogen iceberg and nitrogen iceberg hypotheses suffer from critical flaws.
Whereas the temperature requirements for the former theory make it untenable, the necessary formation efficiency does the same for the latter. In the end, they also determined that the mechanism for producing N2 ice fragments (impacts on extrasolar Kuiper Belt analogs) was insufficient to create objects as large as ‘Oumuamua, and several orders of magnitude too low to create a population of 1014 objects.
What does this mean for ‘Oumuamua and the more “exotic” explanation of its origin – i.e., that it might have been an ET solar sail? For starters, it does not mean “it was aliens,” nor is anyone in the astronomical community making that assertion. But it does mean that this latest attempt to explain ‘Oumuamua in terms of natural phenomena does not fit all of the requirements – contrary to what many suspected previously.
“The nitrogen model is now off the table,” said Siraj. “This means that the ‘Oumuamua mystery remains wide open, motivating even more strongly the study of objects like ‘Oumuamua in the future. This is the goal of the interstellar object branch of the Galileo Project, which I have the privilege of leading — to discover and characterize objects like ‘Oumuamua, and ultimately to understand their nature.”
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s summit facility. Credit: Rubin Observatory
The Galileo Project (described in a previous article) is a non-profit research initiative founded by Prof. Loeb and Frank H. Laukien, a visiting scholar to Harvard University and the Chairman, President, and CEO of the Bruker Corporation (a manufacturer of scientific instruments). This multi-national, multi-institutional project is made of volunteer experts, including Amir Siraj as its Director of Interstellar Object Studies.
Together, they are working to bring the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and technosignatures into the mainstream. They are joined by astronomers and observatories worldwide that are looking forward to the next few years when next-generation observatories will become operational in the coming years. This includes the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), which is finishing construction in Chile and is expected to commence operations sometime next year (or possibly 2023).
Using its 8.4-meter (27 foot) mirror and 3200-megapixel camera, this observatory will conduct a 10-year survey, during which time it will observe an estimated 37 billion stars and galaxies. The Rubin Observatory will also explore our Solar System and provide regular alerts concerning newly-discovered objects, including an estimated 5 ISOs a month! NASA and the ESA are also developing missions that will rendezvous with ISOs in the near future and study them up close.
Once again, the true nature and origins of ‘Oumuamua’s have confounded explanation. In many ways, this is good news. If there is one thing the entire astronomical community can agree on, it’s the fact that ‘Oumuamua represents a class of previously-unknown objects. The fact that such objects pass through our Solar System regularly (and that some end up staying) presents immense opportunities for future study!
To put it in TL:DR terms, we’re not saying it was aliens. But either way, we are sure to find out very soon!
Not Saying it was Aliens, but ‘Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg…
Not Saying it was Aliens, but ‘Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg…
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers made the first-ever detection of an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System. Designated 1I/2017 U1′ Oumuamua, this object confounded astronomers who could not determine if it was an interstellar comet or an asteroid. After four years and many theories (including the controversial “ET solar sail” hypothesis), the astronomical community appeared to land on an explanation that satisfied all the observations.
The “nitrogen iceberg” theory stated that ‘Oumuamua was likely debris from a Pluto-like planet in another solar system. In their latest study, titled “The Mass Budget Necessary to Explain ‘Oumuamua as a Nitrogen Iceberg,” Amir Siraj and Prof. Avi Loeb (who proposed the ET solar sail hypothesis) offered an official counter-argument to this theory. According to their new paper, there is an extreme shortage of exo-Plutos in the galaxy to explain the detection of a nitrogen iceberg.
In the paper where he broached the possibility, Loeb indicated that ‘Oumuamua’s unusual character and behavior were consistent with a solar sail. This included the highly-reflective nature of the object and its profile, which appeared to be either cigar-shaped or pancake-like. More importantly, its sudden acceleration and deviation from its expected orbit appeared to be the result of radiation pressure, which is precisely how solar sails achieve propulsion.
There was also the way it entered our Solar System, which allowed it to make a flyby of Earth after passing closest to our Sun (perihelion). In other words, its orbital dynamics allowed it to get a close look at the only habitable planet in our Solar System, which is precisely what one might expect of an interstellar probe. These arguments were detailed further in Loeb’s book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, which we reviewed in a previous article.
At the time of the book’s writing, all attempts to explain ‘Oumuamua in terms of natural phenomena fell short. Basically, there was no single explanation that could account for its brightness, profile, and acceleration while acknowledging that there was no evidence of outgassing. In addition, the sudden acceleration could not be attributed to gravitational forces since these should have been slowing ‘Oumuamua down at the time.
In March of 2021, two researchers from the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University (ASU) offered a new hypothesis. In two published studies, SESE Exploration Fellow Alan Jackson and Professor Steven Desch argued that ‘Oumuamua may have been a nitrogen ice fragment ejected from a young star system (possibly in the Perseus Arm of our galaxy) ca. 400 to 500 million years ago.
In their first paper, Jackson and Desch addressed the size and compositional constraints of ‘Oumuamua and showed how ‘Oumuamua’s albedo was similar to the nitrogen ices on the surface of Triton and Pluto. In their second paper, they showed how these types of nitrogen ice fragments could be generated by the collision of extrasolar objects similar in composition to Pluto and Kuiper Belt Object (KBOs).
Artist’s Concept of Oumuamua. Credit: William Hartmann
By their estimates, these collisions would generate and eject around 100 trillion (~1014) objects into interstellar space, half of which would be composed of water ice and the other half of nitrogen (N2). This population would be enough to satisfy the statistical significance of ISOs necessary to explain the detection of ‘Oumaumua. Equally important was the fact that an object composed of N2 would not form a tail as it neared our Sun, as there would be no water vapor or CO/CO2 to sublimate. As Siraj explained to Universe Today via email:
“The attraction of the nitrogen iceberg hypothesis is primarily in explaining ‘Oumuamua’s non-gravitational acceleration. Just like for a hypothetical hydrogen iceberg, a nitrogen iceberg’s outgassing activity would not have been detectable in the measurements that were taken of ‘Oumuamua by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which simply limited the abundance of carbon-based molecules around ‘Oumuamua. As a result, the sublimation of material could conceivably power the object’s observed non-gravitational acceleration.”
One of the main points made by Loeb in his proposal paper was that regardless of ‘Oumuamua’s true nature, its detection implied a massive population of similar objects in our galaxy. In their rebuttal paper, which was recently accepted for publication in the journal New Astronomy, Siraj and Loeb addressed whether there is enough material in the Milky Way galaxy to create such a population of nitrogen icebergs.
A consequence of Jackson and Desch’s assessment was that there must be a robust population of “exo-Plutos” in our galaxy. For that to be the case, stars in the Milky Way would need to have enough material left over from star formation (i.e., a mass budget) to accommodate the formation of these planets. To test this, Siraj and Loeb took the nitrogen iceberg model and examined what amount of stellar material is required to make it work.
Artist’s impression of the first interstellar object “Oumuamua,” which was discovered on October 19th, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
“Our calculation is very straightforward,” said Siraj. “We take all of the nitrogen iceberg model parameters, the required abundance of ‘Oumuamua-like objects to explain its detection by Pan-STARRS, and basic facts about stars in the Galaxy, and derive from these values the total mass of solar metallicity material required to be converted into exo-Plutos, to make the nitrogen model plausible.”
What they found was that even under the most optimistic assumptions possible, the model fails by several orders of magnitude. In short, a star system would not have enough nitrogen ice to allow for such a robust population of exo-Plutos, which means that statistically, there simply cannot be enough ISOs composed of N2 to account for the fortuitous detection of ‘Oumuamua.
The model becomes even more unlikely when one considers how cosmic rays naturally erode ISOs. According to other recently-published research, this process imposes a much shorter lifespan on ISOs than previously thought. As Siraj explained:
“The primary issue with a nitrogen iceberg model is that producing the required population of such objects would require more than ten times the entire mass of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy to be converted directly into exo-Plutos — and when we properly account for inevitable cosmic ray erosion of nitrogen icebergs, we need a thousand times the Galaxy’s stellar mass. These numbers render the nitrogen model untenable, since only a small fraction of the stellar mass in the Galaxy goes towards the production of exo-Plutos.“
Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity’s first interstellar voyage. Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org
In addition, Siraj and Loeb cite research that appeared shortly after their study appeared on the arXiv that casts doubt on the prevalence of nitrogen icebergs in our galaxy. In a study titled “Constraints on the Occurrence of ‘Oumuamua-Like Objects,” which appeared in the October issue of Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS), authors Levine et al. argue that both the hydrogen iceberg and nitrogen iceberg hypotheses suffer from critical flaws.
Whereas the temperature requirements for the former theory make it untenable, the necessary formation efficiency does the same for the latter. In the end, they also determined that the mechanism for producing N2 ice fragments (impacts on extrasolar Kuiper Belt analogs) was insufficient to create objects as large as ‘Oumuamua, and several orders of magnitude too low to create a population of 1014 objects.
What does this mean for ‘Oumuamua and the more “exotic” explanation of its origin – i.e., that it might have been an ET solar sail? For starters, it does not mean “it was aliens,” nor is anyone in the astronomical community making that assertion. But it does mean that this latest attempt to explain ‘Oumuamua in terms of natural phenomena does not fit all of the requirements – contrary to what many suspected previously.
“The nitrogen model is now off the table,” said Siraj. “This means that the ‘Oumuamua mystery remains wide open, motivating even more strongly the study of objects like ‘Oumuamua in the future. This is the goal of the interstellar object branch of the Galileo Project, which I have the privilege of leading — to discover and characterize objects like ‘Oumuamua, and ultimately to understand their nature.”
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s summit facility. Credit: Rubin Observatory
The Galileo Project (described in a previous article) is a non-profit research initiative founded by Prof. Loeb and Frank H. Laukien, a visiting scholar to Harvard University and the Chairman, President, and CEO of the Bruker Corporation (a manufacturer of scientific instruments). This multi-national, multi-institutional project is made of volunteer experts, including Amir Siraj as its Director of Interstellar Object Studies.
Together, they are working to bring the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and technosignatures into the mainstream. They are joined by astronomers and observatories worldwide that are looking forward to the next few years when next-generation observatories will become operational in the coming years. This includes the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), which is finishing construction in Chile and is expected to commence operations sometime next year (or possibly 2023).
Using its 8.4-meter (27 foot) mirror and 3200-megapixel camera, this observatory will conduct a 10-year survey, during which time it will observe an estimated 37 billion stars and galaxies. The Rubin Observatory will also explore our Solar System and provide regular alerts concerning newly-discovered objects, including an estimated 5 ISOs a month! NASA and the ESA are also developing missions that will rendezvous with ISOs in the near future and study them up close.
Once again, the true nature and origins of ‘Oumuamua’s have confounded explanation. In many ways, this is good news. If there is one thing the entire astronomical community can agree on, it’s the fact that ‘Oumuamua represents a class of previously-unknown objects. The fact that such objects pass through our Solar System regularly (and that some end up staying) presents immense opportunities for future study!
To put it in TL:DR terms, we’re not saying it was aliens. But either way, we are sure to find out very soon!
Belgium General says incredible UFO case is a mystery - Exclusive
In this video, retired Belgian Air Force General Wilfried De Brouwer discusses a wave of triangular UFOs he investigated in 1989 and 1990. He was in charge of the Belgian Air Force's official investigation. They never came to a definite conclusion as to where the mysterious triangles came from. De Brouwer also discusses the controversial photograph that was allegedly taken in Petit-Rechain.
The rectangular UFO flying over the factory's roof reconstitution is an event that occurred in my village in Basècles. I have a friend (policeman) who knew one of the night workers who witnessed this phenomenon, and it's established that his testimony was absolutely serious. His colleagues and he were talking about "a mass that looked like an upside down aircraft carrier".
I witnessed what is being described on march 31th 1990 at 20h30 on a bridge over the Schelde in Heusden-Destelbergen(Belgium) for several minutes as I stepped down from my bike.A slowly hovering triangular set of lights
This short clip is showing photographs of a UFO. The pictures were provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy. He obtained these photographs of an FS-143 saucer from a close friend who claimed to have rendezvoused with another intelligence and requests anonymity. What do you think it is?
A space object that orbits near Earth may actually be part of our moon that broke off in ancient times when an asteroid collided with it. Known as Kamo’oalewa, this mysterious space object was first noticed back in 2016.
Kamo’oalewa, which measures 40 meters in width (130 feet), is referred to as Earth’s quasi-satellite. It orbits the sun in a very similar pattern to our planet so it is always located fairly close to us. Its closest distance to us is approximately 40 times further than the moon. It is believed that it has been accompanying our planet for at least a century which is very odd as other quasi-satellites normally stay around for several months to a couple of years.
(Not Kamo’oalewa)
Vishnu Reddy, who is an associate professor in cosmochemistry and planetary astronomy at the University of Arizona, as well as PhD student Benjamin Sharkey have been studying the object and recently made a very interesting discovery. In an interview with Space.com, Reddy explained what they found, “We couldn’t believe the way it was looking because it was unlike anything we’ve seen before,” adding that the object was very different from the other 2,000 near-Earth asteroids that have previously been studied.
By using the Large Binocular Telescope (this is one of the biggest optical telescopes in the United States) as well as the infrared Lowell Discovery Telescope, they were able to analyze how the space rock reflected light. They realized that the light spectra on Kamo’oalewa had a lot of common with samples collected from the moon in the 1960s and 1970s during the Apollo missions. In fact, 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar samples were collected and brought back to Earth during six Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972.
Sharkey reiterated this by telling Space.com, “The spectral properties of this object look very similar to that of the moon.” “It’s not that there couldn’t be other asteroids [with such spectra], but we haven’t found anything so far that looks similar to it.”
But considering its close proximity to our planet and our lunar companion, it’s very possible that Kamo’oalewa was once part of the moon. “If you look at the moon through a telescope, you see thousands of craters,” Reddy explained, “The material ejected during these impact events should be all over the place. But nobody has found it so far.”
Is Kamo’oalewa part of the moon?
China is planning to launch a mission in 2024 that will collect a sample from Kamo’oalewa and return it to Earth, so we may definitively find out in a few years if Reddy and Sharkey’s theory is correct. Their study was published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment where it can be read in full.
An artist’s impression of Kamo’oalewa can be seen here.
An artist impression of Earth quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa. Astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope have shown that it might be a lost fragment of the moon.
Many great discoveries occur when researchers go back over old data for a second or third or fourth or nth look. A famous British astronomer claims he took another look at data collected nearly 40 years ago using the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths and thinks he’s found the holy grail of astronomy – Planet 9.
“In 1983, while working on the preparation of the IRAS Point Source Catalog, I undertook a systematic search for Planet X in the IRAS data. The search was unsuccessful though it did yield a detection of Comet Bowell (Walker and Rowan-Robinson 1984).”
Michael Rowan-Robinson is an astronomer, astrophysicist and professor of astrophysics at Imperial College London perhaps best known as the doctoral advisor to the most rocking astrophysicist ever – guitarist Dr. Brian May of the band Queen. His work in the early 1980s with data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) yielded an asteroid but no mysterious planet messing up the orbit of Neptune. Rowan-Robinson moved on from Planet X (his research took place when Pluto was still a planet), but after seeing all of the attention given to Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology after they proposed 2016 that the strange orbits of six trans-Neptunian objects could be caused by a Planet 9, he decided to review the old data again. Since no one had found it yet by looking where Brown and Batygin said it would be, Rowan-Robinson aimed his search elsewhere.
After filtering out background sources of infrared radiation like stars and galaxies, Rowan-Robinson looked for objects that could disrupt the trans-Neptunian orbits and found several hundred. However, none matched the Planet 9 criteria of Brown and Batygin and all were much closer to Earth than they predicted. He found three that looked promising and one of them met all of his criteria for a Planet 9 – it was in the direction of the Constellation Cepheus, was between 3 and 5 Earth masses and orbited the Sun at a distance of 225 Astronomical Units. That object is R20593 + 6413 and the evidence was convincing enough to Rowan-Robinson to publish it in arXiv open access archive – the paper is also accepted for publication in the Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society. Is this a drop-the-mic-we-found-Planet-9 moment?
“Balderdash!” or whatever astronomers say when contradicted. At Olhar Digital, Mike Brown says that R20593 + 6413 would not be able to gravitationally disturb the trans-Neptunian objects like his definition of Planet 9 would. However, he admits R20593 + 6413 could be real – it’s just not Planet 9. Rowan-Robinson concedes that the IRAS images are old and a new look with stronger telescopes would help.
In other words, hang onto the mic and hold off on the Queen concert for the time being.
Although, as you may well know, I don’t have much faith in the theory that UFOs have crashed to Earth and that their mangled crews are stored away in some kinds of “cryogenic tanks.” But, I guess it’s not impossible. Today, there aren’t many reports of this particularly type. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, however, such stories were all over the place. As you’ll see now. Consider these words: “The subject of UFOs is one that has interested me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.” Intriguing words; and they are made even more intriguing by the fact that they were set forth in a 28 March 1975 letter to the UFO investigator Shlomo Arnon by none other than the late Senator Barry Goldwater, formerly the chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. For years, it has been rumored that at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, there exists a highly-classified (and decidedly off-limits) series of rooms, aircraft hangars and underground chambers, where the preserved remains of a number of dead alien creatures are stored along with the wreckage of their crashed and recovered spacecraft. In specifically generic and folkloric terms, the location of this astonishing evidence has become popularly known as Hangar 18.
Of those who attempted to force open the doors of Hangar 18, the late Leonard Stringfield was certainly the most active. A United States Air Force Intelligence officer during the Second World War, Stringfield collected a huge amount of data that, if true, suggested that at Wright-Patterson AFB there existed an absolute wealth of UFO material, debris and even alien bodies, locked away from prying eyes. Of the many accounts that were brought to Stringfield’s attention, two came from the researcher Charles Wilhelm. As Stringfield recalled, “In 1959, a lady living alone in Price Hill, Cincinnati, had hired young Charles to cut her grass all summer. She knew of his interest in the UFO [subject] but said little about it until she became ill with cancer. Knowing that she had a short time to live, she called Charles to her bedside to reveal a startling story. She said that she had had a Top Secret clearance in her past work at Wright-Patterson and had seen two saucer-shaped craft in a secret hangar. One craft was intact; the other, damaged. She also knew of two ‘small creatures’ preserved inside another secret building, and had personally handled the paperwork on their autopsy report. She told Charles, ‘Uncle Sam can’t do anything to me after I’m in the grave.'”
The second revelation came to Stringfield from Wilhelm following his acquisition of sensitive intelligence data in 1966: “Wilhelm got the story from a friend in the Army Reserve whose father worked with Project Blue Book at Wright-Patterson Field and held high security clearance,” stated Stringfield. “On his deathbed, he related to his son that he had seen two disc-shaped craft, one intact and one damaged, and four preserved, small alien bodies ‘packed in chemicals.'” But from where had Wright-Patterson acquired this incredible material evidence? Much of the witness testimony suggested that its point of origin was the New Mexico desert, circa July 1947: Roswell. There are long-standing allegations to the effect that during the summer of 1947, a UFO crashed in the deserts of New Mexico and, along with its dead crew was whisked away under cover of overwhelming secrecy to Wright-Field (later re-named Wright-Patterson), where both the UFO and the alien bodies were placed into storage for preservation and analysis.
(Nick Redfern),
Roswell, New Mexico, 2017
For example, from ex-military man, Norman Richards, formerly of the U.S. 25th Tropic Lightning Division, there came an account based upon his recollections of events that occurred in the post-World War Two era: “In 1950, I was in the ROTC program of the Air Force at Indiana University. We were sent to Lowry Air Force Base for six weeks training that summer. One day, we had a lecture by a colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB. He outlined many changes and new experimental aircraft being tested. During the question and answer session, he was asked if UFOs were real. He got very excited and said we better believe it. He went on to tell us of the crash, and retrieval of the parts, and the humanoids found at the site. He said they were under investigation at Wright-Patterson after being flown from Roswell, New Mexico.”
As Leonard Stringfield’s inquiries into Wright-Patterson’s involvement in the crashed UFO issue deepened, further sources came forward with additional data. Citing one such source, Stringfield asserted, “My informant is self-employed after serving a long career with the Air Force, retiring with the rank of major. During one of our several discussions of the UFO problem, when I cited some of the medical information relative to the recovered alien humanoids, he confided in me that in 1952 he had attended a high-level secret meeting at Wright-Patterson AFB and saw in an underground chamber one of the deceased alien bodies in deep-freeze preservation. The body was about four feet tall. The head was large by human standards, and the skin on the face appeared smooth and gray. No bone structure was evident; eyes were open, no hair. The feet, he said, were like an orangutan.” What was perhaps the most fantastic account related to Stringfield, however, concerned an allegedly live alien on the loose at the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, that had supposedly escaped from its confines within the bowels of Wright-Patterson. It was a Sunday in 1965 when “R.M.” and his wife decided to pay a visit to the museum. With his wife engrossed in examining a German V-2 rocket, R.M. wandered off and found himself lost and heading down a corridor with a double door marked OFF LIMITS.
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Aliens Are Interdimensional Demons: Exposing The Strong Delusion
Aliens Are Interdimensional Demons: Exposing The Strong Delusion
ByLee Austin
Haim Eshed, former head of Israeli’s Defense Ministry space directorate admitted that Israel has made contact with extraterrestrials. ”The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet,” said Mr. Eshed. Further adding cooperation agreements had been signed between humans and extraterrestrials. ”There is an agreement between the U.S. government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here, They have been waiting until today for humanity to develop and reach a stage where we will understand, in general, what space and spaceships are, The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet,” Eshed said, referring to the galactic federation.
A respected professor and retired general, Eshed stated the aliens were also interested in humans and were seeking to understand the fabric of the universe.
So who are these aliens and where did they come from?
Actually, “aliens” is a misnomer. These extraterrestrials are in fact Interdimensional beings, known as demons, dating back to the days of antiquity. Let’s first clarify the difference between a demon and a dark angel.
Demons are persons without bodies. They are the disembodied, fierce spirits set loose upon and below the earth after the flood spoken of in the book Genesis. When two hundred rebel watcher angels took on a garment of flesh and had intercourse with woman, a race of half angel. half human hybrids called the Nephilim were created. After God flooded the earth, all of the Nephilim were killed. However. the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim continued to live, because angels are eternal beings. These fierce spirits became what we now refer to as demons, whose purpose is to steal, kill and destroy.
Soon after the flood, Noah’s sons complained to their father, the demons were oppressing everyone. When Noah plead to God for a resolution, the Lord decided to send ninety percent of the demons into the abyss under the earth. And allow the other ten percent of the demons to remain on the earth. Therefore a demon is always seeking to inhabit a human, animal or material object. In that order.
Demons are more effective when operating within a human host. Many times when someone who has a demon inside of them dies, the demon will leave the deceased and take up residence in the offspring. This is known as a familiar spirit. A spirt familiar with a family’s sins and generational curses
Angels on the other hand are spirits created by God, sent to earth to assist the heirs of salvation. Angels have a celestial body hosting their spirit, and can also transform their heavenly body into a human body, unbeknownst to man. Even a dark angel will have it’s own type of celestial body, and therefore not have a need to search out a human host to inhabit. A demon is a lower terrestrial spirit, limited to our first heavenly plane of existence and the abyss. Angels can access all of the multiple heavens in the universe.
I don’t doubt the former head of Israeli’s Defense Minister space directorate has been in direct contact with interdimensional beings. Israel is renowned for being a ”thin place.” A thin place is a location where the veil between this world and the eternal world is thin. A thin place is where one can walk in two worlds – the worlds are fused together, knitted loosely where the differences can be discerned or tightly where the two worlds become one. With Jerusalem being the spiritual epicenter of the world, it is a very thin place. Home to all three of the major religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. And it is where the third temple will be built and the coming Anti-Christ will rule and reign for seven years.
The end time strong delusion will be disclosure and the lie of Panspermia. The theory that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment. I believe these dark angels are consorting with the Luciferian elite mainly in Jerusalem, Rome, London and Washington D.C. to orchestrate the illusion of our alien overlords. In essence the panspermia lie is as follows. “We are your creators. The great architect who also made this world and everything in it. We’ve been observing you, and in your time of greatest need, we are here to help you and reveal the secrets of the universe.”
The coming “Great Reset” will not just be economical, but spiritual. The Great Whore of Babylon is on the horizon
Hello everyone, I found this structure long ago, but found myself thinking about it today. I think it may not be just an alien base, but a portable base...a UFO. This alien craft landed on the edge of this mountain cliff so that it could have a view of things far away. The object is huge, about half a km long so it would hold thousands of occupants. Look at those two large black windows! They are massive and they are clearly facing the view from the mountain. The windows are very dark, but obviously windows...transparent, but not glass, but probably a transparent metal of incredible strength. Seeing a UFO landed like this and being used as a base...really gives me more respect for aliens. They recycle old ships for moon habitats. I gota respect that.
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UFO Over BBQ In Murviel, France Nov 9, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over BBQ In Murviel, France Nov 9, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 9, 2021 Location of sighting: Murviel, France Source: MUFON
This is a strange one. This was recorded in France at a BBQ party when a glowing orange object passed above them from behind the trees. It move to the left, then stopped, and moved back to the right. After passing behind the tree it was seen rotating and then dropping suddenly, disappearing from view. UFOs do come down during events that bring people together in groups, but a drone cannot be ruled out since it fell so fast. Yet, it could have been landing in the area. I really wish the eyewitness ran out there to check where it went. Might have been a life changing experience if they had.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
(NO SOUND)
Eyewitness states:
We were alerted immediately by the video posted by a witness on a facebook page. We see on this video a very bright object evolving in a strange way. 10 people were present, all gathered around a BBQ - Several other videos have circulated the next day.
WAT VEROORZAAKTE DE EERSTE GROTE VERWOESTENDE MASSA-EXTINCTIE DIE DE AARDE DOORMAAKTE?
WAT VEROORZAAKTE DE EERSTE GROTE VERWOESTENDE MASSA-EXTINCTIE DIE DE AARDE DOORMAAKTE?
Vivian Lammerse
Zo’n 445 miljoen jaar geleden werd zo’n 85 procent van de mariene soorten bruut van de aardbodem geveegd. Maar wat lag er aan de teloorgang van al dit leven ten grondslag?
De meesten zullen weten dat de dinosaurussen uitstierven tijdens een grote massa-extinctie. Maar wist je dat de aarde ook andere massa-extincties heeft doorgemaakt? In totaal hebben er vijf de revue gepasseerd – bekend als de ‘big five’ – waarbij tenminste driekwart van alle soorten die op aarde leefden met uitsterven werd bedreigd. In dit artikel haken we in op de eerste massa-extinctie die de aarde doormaakte: de zogenaamde Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie. Want wat lag hier precies aan ten grondslag?
Oorzaak van massa-extincties Wetenschappers zijn al langer geïnteresseerd in het achterhalen van de oorzaak van massa-extincties. Dat komt omdat het begrijpen van de omgevingsomstandigheden die in het verleden geleid hebben tot de uitroeiing van de meeste soorten, ons zou kunnen helpen voorkomen dat een soortgelijke gebeurtenis zich in de toekomst herhaalt. Bovendien denken veel wetenschappers dat we ons momenteel middenin een zesde massa-extinctie bevinden. En dus is het bestuderen van dit fenomeen belangrijker dan ooit.
Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie De Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie vond zo’n 445 miljoen jaar geleden plaats. Tijdens deze massale uitsterving verdween ongeveer 85 procent van de mariene soorten, waarvan de meeste in ondiepe wateren voor de kust van continenten leefden, van de aardbodem. En dat terwijl daarvoor, ten tijden van de Ordovicium-periode, de zeeën vol biodiversiteit zaten. “Als je in een Ordovicische zee was gaan snorkelen, zou je een aantal bekende dieren hebben gezien, zoals mosselen, slakken en sponzen,” schetst onderzoeker Seth Finnegan. “Maar je zou ook veel andere soorten zijn tegengekomen die nu zeer beperkt in diversiteit zijn of volledig zijn uitgestorven, zoals trilobieten, armpotigen en zeelelies.”
Fossielen uit de Ordovicium-periode, gevonden op het Canadese eiland Anticosti.
Afbeelding: André Desrochers, University of Ottawa
Maar dan gebeurt er iets rampzaligs. In tegenstelling tot de massa-extinctie waarbij de dinosaurussen vrij plotseling uitstierven, speelde de Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie zich af over een vrij lange periode. Mogelijk strekte deze massale uitsterving zich zelfs uit over twee miljoen jaar. Maar wat lag er aan de teloorgang van al dit leven ten grondslag?
Vraagteken We weten dat het klimaat destijds afkoelde. Maar kan dat het verlies van maar liefst 85 procent van het zeeleven hebben veroorzaakt? “Van verschillende geologische recentere massa-extincties is bekend dat ze zijn veroorzaakt door vulkanisch aangedreven snelle opwarming en het daaruit voortvloeiende verlies van zuurstof in de oceanen,” vertelt Finnegan in gesprek met Scientias.nl. “Maar wat met name opvalt aan de Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie is dat de combinatie van veranderingen in het milieu die gepaard gaan met het uitsterven, ongebruikelijk en moeilijk te begrijpen zijn.”
Gebrek aan zuurstof Eén van de belangrijkste discussies rond de Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie is of gebrek aan zuurstof in het zeewater de oorzaak van de massa uitsterving is geweest. Om die vraag te onderzoeken, maten de onderzoekers de concentratie jodium in carbonaatgesteenten uit de Laat-Ordovicische periode. De concentratie van dit element in carbonaatgesteenten dient namelijk als een belangrijke indicator voor veranderingen in het oceanische zuurstofniveau.
Ondiepe wateren Het leidt tot een interessante ontdekking. “In ons artikel tonen we aan dat het inderdaad waar lijkt te zijn dat de hoeveelheid opgeloste zuurstof in de diepe oceaan afnam,” vertelt Finnegan. “Maar, we vonden geen bewijs voor een afname van zuurstof in ondiepe wateren. En juist hier leefden de meeste diersoorten die uitstierven. Het betekent dat een afname van zuurstof de massa-extinctie waarschijnlijk niet kan verklaren.”
Zuurstofgebrek in de diepe oceaan Hoewel het er op lijkt dat ondiepe wateren niet met zuurstofgebrek te maken kregen, breidde dit verschijnsel zich rond diezelfde tijd wel uit in de diepe oceaan. De onderzoekers schrijven dit toe aan de circulatie van zeewater door de mondiale oceanen. Een belangrijk punt om in gedachten te houden, is namelijk dat oceaancirculatie een zeer belangrijk onderdeel is van een klimaatsysteem. De afkoeling van het klimaat veranderde mogelijk de oceaancirculatie, wat de stroom van zuurstofrijk water uit de ondiepe zeeën naar de diepere oceaan stopte. Dit betekent dat klimaatkoeling dus ook kan leiden tot lagere zuurstofniveaus; tenminste, in bepaalde delen van de oceaan.
Maar als de massa-extinctie niet in gang werd gezet door zuurstofgebrek, wat lag er dan aan ten grondslag? Hoewel de onderzoekers hier geen volledig uitsluitsel over kunnen geven, vermoeden ze dat koudere omstandigheden tijdens het late Ordovicium, gecombineerd met aanvullende factoren, waarschijnlijk verantwoordelijk waren voor de ondergang van talloze diersoorten.
Klimaatkoeling “De veroorzaker kan dus goed de klimaatkoeling zelf zijn geweest,” onderstreept Finnegan. “We zien aanwijzingen voor zeer substantiële klimaatkoeling en uitbreiding van ijskappen, met een grote bijbehorende zeespiegeldaling. Deze afkoeling en daling van de zeespiegel kunnen aanzienlijk veelomvattender zijn geweest dan tijdens recentere ijstijden. Dit betekent dat verlies van leefgebied verantwoordelijk kan zijn geweest voor een deel van de uitsterving. De vraag is echter of zoveel uitsterving (85 procent van de mariene soorten, red.) aan het verlies van leefgebied kan worden toegeschreven.”
Zullen we het ooit weten? De vraag is of we het mysterie van de Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie ooit volledig zullen ontrafelen. “Een gevolg van de daling van de zeespiegel is dat de mariene sedimentaire gesteenten vrij schaars zijn geworden,” zegt Finnegan. “Dus om te begrijpen wat de meeste uitsterving veroorzaakte, moeten we die gebieden in detail bestuderen, maar ook modellen gebruiken om te proberen te begrijpen wat er is gebeurd in de delen van de wereld waarvoor we geen goed bewaard gebleven sedimentaire gegevens hebben. Het is een zeer uitdagend probleem. Maar ik ben optimistisch dat we er als gemeenschap grip op beginnen te krijgen.”
Wat de onderzoekers in hun studie in ieder geval hebben aangetoond, is dat één van de vaakst aangevoerde verklaringen – zuurstofgebrek in de oceanen – waarschijnlijk de Laat-Ordovicische massa-extinctie niet kan verklaren. Toch moeten we volgens onderzoeker Zunli Lu onze zuurstofrijke wereld ook zeker niet als vanzelfsprekend beschouwen, zo vertelt hij in een interview met Scientias.nl. “Veel is nog onbekend over eerdere massa-extincties. We begrijpen deze gebeurtenissen nog lang niet volledig. Het zou verstandig zijn om het oceaanmilieu en het klimaatsysteem niet verder drastisch te verstoren voordat de menselijke samenleving in staat is om uitgebreide veranderingen in het aardsysteem beter te voorspellen en te verminderen,” besluit hij.
Onderzoekers hebben maar liefst 35 signalen opgepikt, waaronder twee hele bijzondere.
De befaamde natuurkundige Albert Einstein voorspelde het bestaan van zwaartekrachtsgolven (zie kader) een slordige 100 jaar geleden al. Maar pas in 2015 werden de eerste ontdekt. In dat jaar werden zwaartekrachtsgolven gedetecteerd die het resultaat waren van twee samensmeltende zwarte gaten. Sindsdien is het hard gegaan; zo zijn er ondertussen tientallen signalen opgepikt. En daar komen er nu wéér een aantal bij. Want in een nieuwe studie kondigen onderzoekers aan dat ze maar liefst 35 nieuwe zwaartekrachtsgolven hebben gedetecteerd.
Meer over zwaartekrachtsgolven
Zwaartekrachtsgolven zijn rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd die ontstaan wanneer twee zware objecten zeer dicht om elkaar heen draaien of fuseren. Einstein voorspelde het bestaan van zwaartekrachtsgolven al aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw. Maar pas in 2015 slaagden onderzoekers erin om ze daadwerkelijk te detecteren. In de loop van 2016 en 2017 wordt nog enkele malen een verstoring in het zwaartekrachtsveld gedetecteerd die het gevolg is van fuserende zwarte gaten. Eind oktober 2017 spotten onderzoekers vervolgens zwaartekrachtsgolven die ontstaan zijn door het fuseren van twee neutronensterren. En dit jaar zijn er voor het eerst ook zwaartekrachtsgolven van een botsend zwart gat én een neutronenster opgepikt.
De onderzoekers hebben de tsunami aan gedetecteerde zwaartekrachtsgolven goed onder de loep genomen. Want wat lag er precies aan deze rimpelingen in ruimtetijd ten grondslag? De onderzoekers komen tot de ontdekking dat 33 signalen waarschijnlijk voortvloeiden uit samensmeltingen van zwarte gaten in verschillende vormen en maten.
Zwaartekrachtsgolven voortgekomen uit fuserende zwarte gaten in verschillende vormen en maten.
Maar, de overige twee detecties zijn nóg een tikkie bijzonderder.
Samensmelting zwart gat en neutronenster Volgens de onderzoekers is één van de overige twee gedetecteerde zwaartekrachtsgolven vermoedelijk voortgekomen uit een botsing tussen een zwarte gat en een neutronenster: een veel zeldzamere gebeurtenis. Het zwarte gat was behoorlijk massief (van ongeveer 33 keer de massa van onze zon) en botste mogelijk met een neutronenster met een zeer lage massa (ongeveer 1,17 keer de massa van onze zon). En dat is bijzonder. Want deze neutronenster heeft één van de laagste massa’s ooit gedetecteerd. “Ons begrip van fusies tussen objecten met een lagere massa, was vaag,” zegt onderzoeker Zoheyr Doctor. “Maar nu we harde detecties hebben, beginnen we die onderkant van het massaspectrum ook in te vullen.”
MEER OVER ZWARTE GATEN EN NEUTRONENSTERREN
Zwarte gaten en neutronensterren zijn twee van de meest extreme objecten die ooit in het heelal zijn waargenomen. Hoe ze ontstaan? Als de zwaarste sterren sterven, storten ze onder hun eigen zwaartekracht in elkaar en laten zwarte gaten achter. Wanneer sterren die iets minder zwaar zijn ter ziele gaan, exploderen ze in een supernova. Wat achterblijft zijn de dichte en dode resten van sterren die neutronensterren worden genoemd. Typische neutronensterren hebben een massa van anderhalf keer die van de zon, maar al die massa zit in een extreem dichte ster. Een theelepel neutronenster weegt ongeveer net zoveel als de hele mensheid!
In het laatste geval botste een zwart gat (met een massa van ongeveer 24 keer de massa van onze zon) met óf een heel licht zwart gat, óf een zeer zware neutronenster van ongeveer 2,8 keer de massa van onze zon. Wetenschappers vermoeden dat het hoogstwaarschijnlijk om een zwart gat gaat, maar helemaal zeker weten ze het niet.
Toenemende detecties Met de nieuwe detecties meegerekend, hebben onderzoekers nu in totaal 90 zwaartekrachtsgolven gedetecteerd. Dat onderzoekers de laatste jaren steeds vaker op zwaartekrachtsgolven stuiten, is overigens goed te verklaren. De golven die de aarde bereiken zijn nauwelijks waarneembaar, waardoor het in het begin heel lastig was om ze aan het licht te brengen. Maar ondertussen worden de instrumenten waar wetenschappers ze mee kunnen oppikken, steeds beter. Het betekent dat wetenschappers dergelijke trillingen van het universum nu soms zelfs meerdere keren per dag detecteren.
“Naarmate ons internationale netwerk van interferometers gevoeliger wordt en langer observeert, detecteren we meer zwaartekrachtsgolven,” zegt Doctor. “Van deze zeer korte, zwakke signalen kunnen we veel leren. We beginnen zeldzamere gebeurtenissen te zien en de diversiteit van fusies tussen zwarte gaten en neutronensterren te ontsluiten. Uiteindelijk willen we weten hoe deze exotische objecten ontstaan en met elkaar in botsing komen. En de nieuwe detecties zullen ons daarbij helpen.”
Diversiteit Naarmate er meer detecties worden toegevoegd aan de catalogus van zwaartekrachtgolven, leren onderzoekers dus steeds meer over deze bijzondere kosmische verschijnselen. En dat betekent dat we eigenlijk nu pas de prachtige diversiteit van zwarte gaten en neutronensterren beginnen te zien. De nieuwe detecties bewijzen dat ze in vele maten en combinaties verkrijgbaar zijn. Door de massa’s van de samensmeltende objecten te berekenen, kunnen astrofysici vervolgens beter begrijpen hoe sterren leven en sterven én waardoor ze precies bij hun dood instorten in zwarte gaten of neutronensterren. Uiteindelijk hopen de onderzoekers te ontrafelen hoe sterren – de bouwstenen van ons universum – evolueren.
De LIGO-observatorium en zwaartekrachtsdetector Virgo ondergaan momenteel belangrijke updates. Hierdoor worden de krachtige detectoren klaargestoomd voor een nieuwe reeks zoektochten naar zwaartekrachtsgolven die naar verwachting eind 2022 start. En het belooft een enerverende jacht te worden. “Onze verbeterde detectoren zullen stillere signalen kunnen opvangen, waaronder die van zwarte gaten en neutronensterren die op nog grotere afstand en miljarden jaren geleden versmolten,” zegt onderzoeker Maya Fishbach. “Ik kan niet wachten om te ontdekken wat er nog meer allemaal is.”
The space telescope’s latest hardware problem has kept it offline for two weeks, raising concerns that the decades-old spacecraft is running out of time.
When engineers encounter an unknown problem, they’re meticulous. The slow process is designed to protect Hubble’s systems so it can assist scientists for as long as possible.
PHOTOGRAPH: NASA
THE HUBBLE SPACE telescope, one of the most famous telescopes of the 20th and 21st centuries, has faltered once again. After a computer hardware problem arose in late October, NASA engineers put Hubble into a coma, suspending its science operations as they carefully attempt to bring its systems back online.
Engineers managed to revive one of its instruments earlier this week, offering hope that they will end the telescope’s convalescence as they restart its other systems, one at a time. “I think we are on a path to recovery,” says Jim Jeletic, Hubble’s deputy project manager.
The problem began on October 23, when the school bus-sized space probe’s instruments didn’t receive a standard synchronization message generated by its control unit. Two days later, NASA engineers saw that the instruments missed multiple such messages, so they put them in “safe mode,” powering down some systems and shuttering the cameras.
Some problems are fairly easy to fix, like when a random high-energy particle hits the probe and flips a bit on a switch. But when engineers encounter an unknown problem, they’re meticulous. The slow process is designed to protect Hubble’s systems and make sure the spacecraft continues to thrive and enable scientific discovery for as long as possible. “You don’t want to continually put the instruments in and out of safe mode. You’re powering things on and off, you’re changing the temperature of things over and over again, and we try to minimize that,” Jeletic says.
In this case, they successfully brought the Advanced Camera for Surveys back online on November 7. It’s one of the newer cameras, installed in 2002, and it’s designed for imaging large areas of the sky at once and in great detail. Now they’re watching closely as it collects data again this week, checking to see whether the error returns. If the camera continues working smoothly, the engineers will proceed to testing Hubble’s other instruments.
Hubble has had its share of hiccups over its long and productive career, during which it has documented everything from ancient galaxies to the birth and death of nearby stars. It launched in 1990, just a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it was deployed by the crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It now orbits about 340 miles above the Earth. On five occasions since its deployment, astronauts on NASA shuttles have conducted servicing missions to repair and upgrade its systems, boosting the impressive longevity of the telescope, which was originally expected to only last about a decade. Astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis completed the final such mission in May, 2009, when they repaired its spectrograph, among other things. Since then, all other reboot attempts have been conducted from Earth; engineers are no longer able to replace the telescope’s hardware.
Hubble’s current glitch isn’t unprecedented. In fact, it’s the second one this year. In July, engineers put the telescope’s instruments in safe mode for about a month when the payload computer, which coordinates and monitors the science instruments, went offline. When they started using a backup power unit, they were able to make the science instruments operational again.
Jeletic and his team also try to anticipate potential mishaps. For example, they found that the thin wires Hubble’s gyroscopes depend on gradually corrode and break, and three of its six gyros have failed. Without gyros, Hubble can’t target anything properly. But on the last servicing mission, astronauts replaced the gyros and enhanced the wires so that they can’t corrode, solving the problem.
Nevertheless, each new hitch inevitably raises concerns about the aging telescope, which has been instrumental in so many astronomical accomplishments, including pinning down the age of the universe and discovering the smaller moons of Pluto. “I think it’s been utterly transformational,” says Adam Riess, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing how measurements of exploding stars, or supernovas, reveal the accelerating expansion of the universe, a project that benefited from Hubble data. To this day, the telescope continues to be oversubscribed by at least fivefold, Riess says, meaning astronomers have more than five times as many proposals for using Hubble as there is available telescope time.
The space telescope has also served as an educational tool and kindled public interest in space science for a whole generation. “Everybody knows Hubble,” says Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an astronomer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, whose work on multiple galaxy surveys makes extensive use of Hubble images. “It has become a household name. People enjoy reading articles about what Hubble has discovered, and they enjoy seeing the pictures. I think people have an immediate association of Hubble with astronomy.”
Hubble’s latest hardware challenges come just a month before its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is scheduled to launch into orbit. Like its iconic predecessor, the new telescope will collect troves of spectacular images, though it’s designed to probe wavelengths more in the infrared range, allowing it to penetrate dusty parts of galaxies and stellar nebulae. Riess expects it to be similarly popular with astronomers and with the public.
Hubble has easily surpassed its expected lifespan, and the same goes for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which launched in 1999 and remains operational, although it was designed to last only five years. This is a good sign for Webb, similarly planned for a five-year lifespan. Unlike Hubble, however, it will orbit much farther away, making it inaccessible to astronauts. That means any problems that arise will have to be fixed remotely.
But Hubble helped set the stage for its successor. For example, after Hubble launched, engineers realized that its mirror wasn’t curved properly, initially resulting in blurry images. Webb’s design allows for engineers to adjust the curvature remotely if an error like that crops up.
Astronomers appreciate the hard work of Hubble’s engineers and operators. “Their dedication to keep on rescuing the telescope from all its fits of pique and changes of mood is fantastic. I’m so proud of them backing the scientists who are using the data,” says Julianne Dalcanton, an astronomer at the University of Washington who has used Hubble frequently throughout her career, including to map Andromeda, our galactic neighbor. She, Kartaltepe, and other astronomers look forward to a time when both Hubble and Webb are in the sky, taking observations together, especially as they’ll learn different things from the telescopes’ respective instruments and wavelength coverage.
While Jeletic and his team don’t yet know when Hubble will be back online, he expects all systems to eventually be up and running once again. “Some day Hubble will die, like every other spacecraft,” he says. “But hopefully that’s still a long ways off.”
EXCLUSIVE: Striking video shows pulsating orb drop down from the sky and cruise alongside two FedEx pilots flying over Mexico that experts believe is a UFO with a plasma forcefield to deflect radar
EXCLUSIVE: Striking video shows pulsating orb drop down from the sky and cruise alongside two FedEx pilots flying over Mexico that experts believe is a UFO with a plasma forcefield to deflect radar
On March 19, 2020 two FedEx pilots flying a cargo airplane near Monterrey, Mexico, saw a bright light drop down from the sky
The UFO stopped at their altitude, shot them with a beam of light, then moved in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away
Mysteriously, the UFO did not show up on the plane's radar
The captain shot video of the encounter, which was analyzed in a report by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP)
In the video the captain can be heard expressing his shock at seeing a UFO, which he described as 'a brilliant yellow white plasma object, teardrop shaped'
'I thought it was a shooting star but then it stopped,' the former Air Force pilot said in the video
Aviation experts tried to explain the light as the planet Venus, and the pulsating as a deceptive effect from the camera autofocus adjusting its lens in the dark
However, the pilots told NARCAP they saw the pulsing, plasma-like appearance with their own eyes as well as capturing it on camera
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe told DailyMail.com that the pilots' account was 'very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years'
A video exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com shows a pulsating orb caught on camera by FedEx pilots flying over Mexico – which experts say could be a UFO with a plasma forcefield that may help it fly or deflect radar.
On March 19, 2020 two FedEx pilots were flying a cargo airplane near Monterrey, Mexico, when they saw a bright light drop down from the sky, stop at their altitude, shoot them with a beam of light, then move in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away.
The captain shot a stunning video of the encounter, which was analyzed in a report by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), a nonprofit organization that studies pilots' brushes with UFOs to help develop safety procedures.
The report did not name the pilots, as many in the aviation industry are still wary of the stigma around UFOs despite official acknowledgement of the phenomena by the U.S. and other governments.
But NARCAP executive director Ted Roe, the author of the report, told DailyMail.com that the pilots' account was 'very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years.'
Commercial pilot spots a UFO over Mexico during flight
On March 19, 2020 two FedEx pilots flying a cargo airplane near Monterrey, Mexico, saw a bright light drop down from the sky
The UFO stopped at their altitude, shot them with a beam of light, then moved in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away
Mysteriously, the UFO did not show up on the plane's radar. Experts say it could be a UFO with a plasma forcefield that may help it fly or deflect radar
The captain of the Boeing 767 cargo plane is 'a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company with an additional 10yrs flying KC-135 refueling tankers for the US Air Force,' according to the report, while the first officer was a 'career fighter pilot that flew f-15s before working in the private sector.'
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe told DailyMail.com that the pilots' account was 'very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years'
They were described as 'competent airmen, highly experienced with observing and identifying aircraft, and are capable of determining normal observations and incidents from unusual ones.'
The plane left Queretaro International Airport north of Mexico City at 8.05pm, and was about 150 miles south of Monterrey on its way to Memphis, Tennessee, when the unidentified object appeared.
'The incident began when the First Officer, looking across to the left side of the cockpit, saw a yellowish white light descend into view from above,' the report said.
'He first believed that it was a meteor and began to say so when it suddenly stopped near the same altitude as their aircraft. The UAP [unidentified aerial phenomenon]/Light then projected an illuminating beam of bright, white, light on their aircraft, and appeared to take a collision heading.
'At this moment the Captain also saw the beam of light projected onto their aircraft from the UAP/Light. Both crewmen, in the belief that an aircraft with its landing lights on had turned onto a collision heading with their aircraft, took a defensive attitude and prepared for evasive control inputs.'
But instead of heading to crash into them, the UFO then started to move in tandem with the plane between 1,000 and 2,000 ft away.
'As they prepared to avoid the apparently approaching UAP/Light, the beam of light illuminating their aircraft ceased, and the UAP/Light suddenly accelerated to the same speed and heading of the aircraft, maintained separation, and paced the aircraft,' the report said.
In the video the captain can be heard expressing his shock and excitement at seeing a UFO, which he described as 'a brilliant yellow white plasma object, teardrop shaped.'
The report said it had 'no navigation lights or other features associated with airplanes'.
The captain took a five-minute video of the object, three other clips and eight photographs.
Mysteriously, the UFO did not show up on the plane's radar.
'I thought it was a shooting star but then it stopped,' the former Air Force pilot said in the video.
'It's like an orb man, look at that s**t. It's pulsating. This is awesome. And he's not on TCAS [the plane's radar].
'That is s**t hot… Oh man, look at that thing dude.
'That is an unidentified flying object bro, I can finally say I saw one. That is cool.'
'You saw it just drop out of the sky and just stop?' he asked his copilot.
'Yeah. I thought it was a shooting star and then it stopped,' the former F-15 pilot replied.
The plane left Queretaro International Airport north of Mexico City at 8.05pm, and was about 150 miles south of Monterrey on its way to Memphis, Tennessee, when the unidentified object appeared
The captain was flying a similar Boeing 767 cargo plane. He was described as a 'a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company'
Discussing whether it could be a weather balloon, the captain said: 'The only weather balloon we have is near [inaudible], it's 15,000 ft AGL [above ground level]. This thing's above our altitude.'
The 767 was flying at approximately 575 mph at 37,000 ft when the encounter happened.
'As the aircraft and its attendant UAP/Light approached the Mexico/US border the UAP/Light began to flicker, it changed colors from yellow-white to pinkish/purple, and turned on a perpendicular heading away from the aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the United States,' the report said.
'We're going to lose him in the clouds, son of a b***h,' the captain said towards the end of the video.
'There's weather about 40 miles off our left wingtip where this thing seems to have disappeared. It didn't have strobes or beacon or nothing.'
The captain filmed his radar screen showing no sign of the UFO, just patches of clouds to the west of the 767.
Aviation experts on the website Metabunk, including renowned UFO debunker Mick West, tried to explain the light as the planet Venus, and the pulsating as a deceptive effect from the camera autofocus adjusting its lens in the dark.
Although the flight was not identified in the NARCAP report, West identified it from flight records matched to the times in the report as FedEx flight FDX82, which departed Queretaro 50 minutes late at 8.55pm and arrived in Memphis around 12.20am.
West dug out star maps showing Venus was in a similar location in the sky to where the pilots saw the pulsating light, sitting about 10 degrees above the horizon at that time of night.
'Out of focus with atmospheric distortion and focus seeking, it looks like a wobbly pulsating blob,' he wrote.
West posted videos on the debunking forum showing how stars can appear to flash or ripple on camera from atmospheric distortions or heat shimmer, exaggerated by an autofocus lens coming in and out of focus.
However, the pilots told NARCAP they saw the pulsing, plasma-like appearance with their own eyes as well as capturing it on camera, and described seeing the pulsing light, as well as the inexplicable movement of the object – dropping from the sky, coming to a complete stop in mid-air and then matching their speed and direction.
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe says, 'We have a database going back to 1916. It describes four basic types of UAP encounters and they are balls of light, spheres, cylinders and discs,' he said.
'I went through the analysis. There was some argument that it could have been an astronomical effect. Venus was quite bright that night.
'But when you take the entire narrative of how they describe it dropped in vertically, stopped at their altitude and then paced their aircraft, that is a very consistent story. We've had many of those.
'They flew northbound out of Queretaro Airport. Venus was quite high in the western sky at that point and bright, they were well aware of it. They were at 37,000 ft.
'When he turns the camcorder towards his radar, which is probably the most important aspect of this case and really the only reason I took it on, it confirmed what I've been saying all along which is that UAP are intermittently detected on radar. He turned his camera on his radar monitor and there was no detection.
'It also showed there were clouds to the West, and if Venus was parallel to his aircraft, appearing to be at his altitude, the clouds would have obstructed it.'
Roe said both the 'teardrop' shape that the UFO made as it moved through the air and the lack of radar return could be due to plasma surrounding it.
'We didn't get a clearly defined video of what this phenomenon was. But we have the description. It was teardrop shaped, white/yellow. I'm guessing that these things are plasma or have plasma involved in them,' he said.
'We use plasma to cut the radar cross-section on the reflectable parts of a stealth aircraft. They might use plasma actuators to absorb that signal rather than allow it to reflect.'
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The plane left Queretaro International Airport (pictured) north of Mexico City at 8.05pm on its way to Memphis, Tennessee
In 2011, researchers at the University of Florida wrote a report on a 'proof-of-concept demonstration' of how plasma could be used to make a wingless object 'selflift, hover and fly'.
Their experiments, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, involved 'building, characterization, testing, and simulation of plasma actuators, aerodynamics, power and propulsion systems, micromachining and microfabrication.'
NARCAP was founded in 1999 specifically to investigate and document the safety implications of pilots' encounters with reports of UFOs,
It has a staff of about 50 specialists that conduct 'investigations, analysis, publications and activism related to UAP and aviation safety.'
NARCAP's chief scientist, Dr. Richard Haines, has collected 'over 3,400 cases of aviation-related observations and incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena' according to the organization.
Roe told DailyMail.com that one of his continued frustrations is that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) refuses to document incidents like those of the FedEx pilots.
'The FAA literally will not accept their reports,' he said. 'The aeronautical instruction manual, which is the primary manual for air crews, tells them if they want to report a UFO they can contact a civilian UFO reporting center.
'This has been going on for decades. The information is lost to the aviation system and safety planners because the data is never presented to the aviation system to begin with.
'Recently we've had this UAP Task Force and government activity on the subject. In the report, the Director of National Intelligence on June 25 stated that UAP are a hazard to aviation, and they were rather clear about it.
'When they were out looking for data, I can't imagine what it was like going into the FAA's offices, and saying 'you guys must have all this great UFO data, we need it now,' and there isn't any because they've been telling the pilots they don't take those reports.'
Two FedEx pilots flying a cargo plane filmed a brush with what they called a pulsating orb that followed them for more than 30 minutes.
The UFO incident occurred near Monterrey, Mexico and video of the encounter has been analyzed by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP).
Two FedEx pilots flying a cargo plane near Monterrey, Mexico had an encounter at 37,000 feet with a UFO that has experts perplexed.
The pilots claim that as they were flying near Monterrey, Mexico a bright light dropped down from the sky, stopped at their altitude, shot them with a beam of light, then moved in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away, reports DailyMail.com.
The UFO incident, which occurred on March 19, 2020, was captured on video, along with audio revealing their dialogue during the sighting.
While the two pilots remain unnamed, the captain of the Boeing 767 cargo plane is “a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company with an additional 10yrs flying KC-135 refueling tankers for the US Air Force,” according to a National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) report. The first officer is “a career fighter pilot that flew f-15s before working in the private sector.”
The initial reporting of this UFO sighting shed little light on the details surrounding it, but this week NARCAP executive director Ted Roe spoke with DailyMail.com and offered up some new insight.
‘The FAA literally will not accept their reports,’ he said. ‘The aeronautical instruction manual, which is the primary manual for air crews, tells them if they want to report a UFO they can contact a civilian UFO reporting center.
‘This has been going on for decades. The information is lost to the aviation system and safety planners because the data is never presented to the aviation system to begin with.
‘Recently we’ve had this UAP Task Force and government activity on the subject. In the report, the Director of National Intelligence on June 25 stated that UAP are a hazard to aviation, and they were rather clear about it.
‘When they were out looking for data, I can’t imagine what it was like going into the FAA’s offices, and saying ‘you guys must have all this great UFO data, we need it now,’ and there isn’t any because they’ve been telling the pilots they don’t take those reports.’
Footage of the UFO incident near Monterrey, Mexico taken by the FedEx pilots, described as “competent airmen, highly experienced with observing and identifying aircraft, and are capable of determining normal observations and incidents from unusual ones,” was analyzed by Roe’s group at the NARCAP.
In the video, one of the pilots can be heard talking about “a brilliant yellow white plasma object teardrop shaped” object in the sky.
They were so concerned about what they were seeing that the daptain engaged the Combined TCAS and cockpit display and activated the Airborne Collision Avoidance System SSR (Secondary Surveillance radar) system.
Radar did not detect anything in the sky.
According to the NARCAP report, “The UAP/Light came from above and stopped/hovered near FL37, about the same altitude as the aircraft, shone a light on the 767 and briefly approached the aircraft. Then it instantly matched the speed, and heading of the aircraft and maintained a consistent separation.”
a. The light descended vertically, stopped abruptly, and shone a light on the 767 causing the crew to believe that there was another airliner on a collision heading with its landing lights on.
b. It changed direction from vertical descent to a sudden stop/hover, to approaching the aircraft briefly, to taking the same heading and speed of the aircraft at about the same altitude and an estimated distance of 1-2k ft.
c. It matched the altitude, speed, and heading of the aircraft, 575mph and at 37,000ft for over 32 minutes.
d. The UAP/Light changed colors and turned away from the aircraft on a perpendicular heading, West, just inside the Mexico/US border.
e. The UAP/light did not have wings or running lights. It was a new and unique observation to the experienced air crew.
These movements, the report explains, “are not consistent with known aerial phenomena but they are characteristic movements of UAP.”
“We have a database going back to 1916. It describes four basic types of UAP encounters and they are balls of light, spheres, cylinders and discs,’ Roe told DailyMail.com.
“I went through the analysis. There was some argument that it could have been an astronomical effect. Venus was quite bright that night.
“But when you take the entire narrative of how they describe it dropped in vertically, stopped at their altitude and then paced their aircraft, that is a very consistent story. We’ve had many of those.”
Roe also added that the FedEx pilots’ account of their UFO experience is “very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years.”
“The primary difference being that this case is on video. Now there are cameras in the cockpits and they are validating what pilots have been describing anecdotally for over 80 years and the work of NARCAP over the last 20 years,” reads the report.
Scientists- using data gathered by the Large Area Telescope onboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope- for the first time, have detected gamma rays from UFOs in several nearby galaxies. This discovery was made possible by using a stacking technique combining signals too weak to observe independently.
UFOs stand for ultra-fast outflows, which are strong winds launched from very near supermassive black holes. These UFOs are believed to play a vital role in adjusting the growth of the black hole itself and its host galaxy.
Chris Karwin, a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Science’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and leader of the study, said, “Although these winds are challenging to detect, it is thought that they play a significant role in how a massive black hole and the host galaxy itself grow. Our gamma-ray observations show how supermassive black holes can transfer a large amount of energy to their host galaxy. These UFOs create shock waves, which act like pistons and accelerate charged particles, known as cosmic rays, to near the speed of light.”
Marco Ajello, an associate professor in Clemson College of Science’s Department of Physics and Astronomy who is co-leading the study, said, “While traveling through the galaxies, the winds gradually disable star formation. The effect on the galaxy is dramatic. The black hole at the center of the galaxy and the galaxy itself have a mechanism to grow together in mass — and this is the mechanism.”
Karwin said, “Because cosmic rays produce the gamma rays detected accelerated at the shock front. It attests to the onset of the wind-host interaction and that the UFOs can energize charged particles up to the transition region between galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays.”
According to scientists, the discovery could help us understand what happened in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Karwin said, “Today, our black hole, Sagittarius A*, is not active, but it’s possible it was active in the recent past, maybe up until a few hundred years ago. Our model supports the hypothesis that these Fermi bubbles may be remnants of past UFO-like activity from the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy.”
Ajello said, “future work includes studying galaxies that have had active UFO winds for 10s of millions of years that have already traveled to the outskirts of the galaxy.”
In Washington on Wednesday night, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) spoke extensively on the UAP issue during a panel discussion held at the Washington National Cathedral.
The event, called “Our Future in Space” featured DNI Avril Haines, along with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (who provided pre-taped responses to questions), Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, Rev. Prof. David Wilkinson of St. John’s College, Durham University, and Harvard Professor Avi Loeb, who heads the Galileo Project.
After moderator David Ignatius of the Washington Post provided a brief introduction, he was joined on stage by Haines, to whom he wasted no time directing questions regarding unidentified aerial phenomena.
“On this topic of life out there, you issued an extraordinary preliminary assessment in June on unidentified aerial phenomena,” Ignatius told Haines. “I want to ask you to share with the audience your takeaway after the completion of that report,” Ignatius said, “and what your own view is once you look at the evidence?”
“I think the bottom line is that we don’t understand everything that we’re seeing,” Haines told Ignatius during the event. “And that’s probably not surprising to anybody in many respects.”
Haines, who was appointed to the position of Director of National Intelligence by the Biden Administration and was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on January 21, 2021, said that the report, delivered by the Navy’s UAP Task Force in June to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was produced at the direction of Congress based on concerns many lawmakers have about the phenomenon.
“It was a report that, really, Congress asked us to produce a report that assessed what we saw as the threat, essentially, from unidentified aerial phenomenon,” Haines said, “and what our sort of best understanding was of the different reports that we had identified. And it stretched over from, I think 2004 until 2021…. and we had different categories, as you said.”
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines
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“The fifth one was ‘other’,” Haines added. “And that basically indicated that we were pretty sure we weren’t going to be able to characterize every single one of these reports in the various categories that we’d identified because, frankly, we were not able to understand everything about it.”
“A large portion of that is based on the fact that we don’t have a consistent way of reporting this information,” Haines further stated. “We need to integrate, frankly, a lot of data that we get. We need to get better at collecting data that’s useful to us from different sensors that are available to us, and we need to deepen our analysis in these areas.”
As far as the primary focus of the report, and what the intelligence community has managed to gather about UAP, Haines said, “The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about are safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues.”
“But of course,” Haines added, “there’s always the question, ‘of is there something else that we simply do not understand,’ that might come extraterrestrially.”
Later during the event, Haines also said that in her view, there could end up being several ways that evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence may be discovered.
“I think that there’s a lot of different ways in which that might be revealed,” Haines said, “but certainly, we’re working to make sure that we understand what we do see, and what phenomenon is identified.”
Ignatius also asked Haines about what the “coolest thing” was that the intelligence knew about that she could openly discuss, although the DNI remained mum on such matters.
“I’m gonna get fired if I talk about the coolest thing that you don’t know about,” Haines joked with Ignatius, adding that those who would like to know should apply for jobs with U.S. intelligence to find out for themselves.
“We have some phenomenal stuff that we will show you,” Haines told the audience, “once you get your clearance.”
Take a deep breath anywhere on the surface of planet Earth. No matter how high, how low or how polluted it is, you’ll still get enough oxygen to sustain you for a while. Plant your face in a pile of dirt and take a deep breath (metaphorically please) and you get lungs filled with dirt. Take a deep breath anywhere on the surface of the Moon and you’re about to die from lack of oxygen. Plant your face in a pile of Moon dirt and, with the right equipment, you and your descendants will be breathing for 100,000 years. Don’t believe it? Meet Dr. John Grant, lecturer in Soil Science at Australia’s Southern Cross University.
“Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it’s very thin and composed mostly of hydrogen, neon and argon. It’s not the sort of gaseous mixture that could sustain oxygen-dependent mammals such as humans. That said, there is actually plenty of oxygen on the Moon. It just isn’t in a gaseous form. Instead it’s trapped inside regolith — the layer of rock and fine dust that covers the Moon’s surface. If we could extract oxygen from regolith, would it be enough to support human life on the Moon?”
In an article published in The Conversation, Dr. Grant explains where the Moon’s oxygen is hiding – in the blanket of soil, dust and broken rocks above the next layer, which is solid bedrock. Regolith, whose Greek roots means ‘blanket rock’, has been in the space news lately as China’s lunar rover and NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover have been taking samples from their respective regoliths. According to Grant, this is a good – potentially lifesaving – idea on the Moon because its regolith is made up of approximately 45% oxygen. That’s where the headline-grabbing calculation of “there’s enough oxygen on the Moon for 8 billion people 100,000 years comes from.
However, there’s a “but” — that oxygen is tightly bound into oxygen-bearing silica, aluminum, iron oxide and magnesium oxide and energy is needed to free it. Fortunately, Grant knows how, which is why in October 2021 the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a deal to send an Australian-made rover to the Moon under the Artemis program to collect lunar rocks filled with what might someday release their breathable oxygen.
“Extracting oxygen from regolith would also require substantial industrial equipment. We’d need to first convert solid metal oxide into liquid form, either by applying heat, or heat combined with solvents or electrolytes. We have the technology to do this on Earth, but moving this apparatus to the Moon – and generating enough energy to run it – will be a mighty challenge.”
Grant assumes the equipment will be solar-powered, although some other Moon-derived energy might be feasible. It would require digging a cubic meter of lunar regolith and breaking down the 1.4 tons of minerals which the cube would contain on average. That operation would release about 630 kg of oxygen. NASA’s plans call for providing 800 grams of oxygen a day to the next lunar astronauts, so 630 kg oxygen would last one person a little over two years. Extrapolating further, removing the regolith down an average of ten meters and extracting all of the oxygen would give 8 billion people 100,000 years of oxygen.
Which would you prefer?
What are we waiting for? Well, besides the surmountable technical challenges, there’s the ethical dilemma – removing the top ten meters of regolith on the Moon will make it look like the scarred areas of the Earth that have been strip-mined for their oxygen-killing coal and other minerals. Making that decision would undoubtedly depend on why 8 billion humans were trying to escape Earth for some fresh air.
Are we ready to breath dirt? Or are we breathing it already?
THE METAL MAN (Extraterrestrial incident from 1973 )
THE METAL MAN (Extraterrestrial incident from 1973 )
MEN IN BLACK CONSPIRACY .-EnFalkville, Alabama, el 17 de octubre de1973; se avistó una nave espacial en un campo. Cuando las autoridades se involucraron, el jefe Jeff Greenhaw no vio una nave espacial, sino algo que luego lamentaría haber visto:un extraterrestre.
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Fish-Like UFO Seen Over Ocean, Key West, Florida Keys, Nov 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Fish-Like UFO Seen Over Ocean, Key West, Florida Keys, Nov 4, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 4, 2021
Location of sighting: Key West, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON # 119162
Now I have heard of flying fish, but things are about to get very strange. This object...which resembles a large black fish was seen in the sky over the Florida keys this week. They eyewitness took some photos, and when I made a close up of it...it clearly looks like a fish...but its the size of a city bus. One thing I have noticed over the last few decades of my research...is that many alien structures on moons and planets and even UFOs...sometimes resemble creatures from nature. For instance the jelly fish UFOs sometimes seen. A structure on the moon...a fish with a lions head...closely resembles the Singapore monument. But this UFO is the first of its kind that I have seen ever in my 30+ years of research. Its has two dark eyes in the front of it and a lower head area and a body with fins the go above and below it, as well as a small thin fin in back. Wow! This just screams out, UFO and it defiantly came from an underwater base in the area. As I have said many times, there is an alien base that is partly under Florida and extends out into the ocean.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I noticed an object hovering in the sky while driving down highway US-1 going to Key West.
France UFO videos from 9 November Multiple videos from different angle, including one sudden vanish. Still unexplained.
France UFO videos from 9 November Multiple videos from different angle, including one sudden vanish. Still unexplained.
This strange cigar-shaped bright UFO was filmed by at least three different witnesses in the skies near the Mediterranean coast in the places like Andorra, Narbonne, Perpignan Montpellier, Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots and even Sète. This happened on 9th November 2021.
This interesting footage of some kind of metallic UFOs flying over Aurora, Colorado was filmed on 10th November 2021. Interesting fact: In 1897 there was an alleged UFO crash in Aurora, CO:
Some notes for the viewer. This was taken yesterday, starting at 2:37pm. I live in SE Aurora, close to Buckley AFB, and there is also a landfill a couple of miles from my home, yesterday was an extremely windy day. I thought at first these were silver Mylar balloons, but there must have been hundreds of them. They appeared to be orbs, metallic, reflective and very bright. They moved in the general direction of the wind, but within clusters they would Move every which direction, and seemed to go invisible for brief moments.
Propionamide (C2H5CONH2), a complex alkyl amide with twelve atoms, is the largest peptide-like molecule detected in space, according to a new study led byDr. Juan Lifrom Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust that is located about 390 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Sagittarius B2 is the bright orange-red region to the middle left of the image, which is centered on the Galactic center.
Image credit: ESO / APEX / MSX / IPAC / NASA.
“Proteins, as the building blocks of living cells, are an essential component of living systems on Earth,” Dr. Li and his colleagues from China, Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Ukraine wrote in their paper.
“Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond, -NHCO-.”
“Due to the high molecular weight and extremely low gas-phase abundance, detection of proteins in the interstellar medium at the current stage of development of observation facilities looks like a formidable task.”
“Therefore, molecules with peptide-like bonds are of particular interest for our understanding of possible routes of protein formation in space.”
In their study, the astronomers focused on the giant molecular cloud complex Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2).
“Sgr B2 is the massive star-forming region located close to the Galactic center,” they wrote.
“It has been found to be one of the best hunting grounds for complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium.”
“Many prebiotic molecules have been detected in this source, such as the branched molecule i-C3H7CN and the chiral molecule CH3CHCH2O.”
“Sgr B2 contains two main sites of star formation, Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(M), both of which host several dense, compact, hot cores.”
“Our results provide strong evidence for warm, compact propionamide with high abundance in the hot cores of the Sgr B2 cloud complex,” the researchers wrote.
“From a chemical perspective, the presence of propionamide is not surprising.”
“As a substituted acetamide and the third member of the amide chemical family, propionamide is likely to have formation mechanisms that are similar to or associated with those of the two smaller amides: formamide and acetamide.”
“This detection suggests that large peptide-like molecules can form and survive during star-forming process and may form more complex molecules in the interstellar medium.”
MYSTERIEUZE RUIMTESTEEN LICHT OP IN DE NABIJHEID VAN DE ZON - EN ONDERZOEKERS DENKEN NU TE WETEN WAAROM
MYSTERIEUZE RUIMTESTEEN LICHT OP IN DE NABIJHEID VAN DE ZON - EN ONDERZOEKERS DENKEN NU TE WETEN WAAROM
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De ruimtesteen Phaethon is geen komeet, maar gedraagt zich wel zo. Die identiteitscrisis lijkt nu echter eindelijk verklaarbaar.
Kometen bestaan uit puin en ijs. En wanneer ze de zon naderen en opwarmen, verdampt het ijs dat net onder het oppervlak schuilgaat. Waterdamp haast zich weg van de komeet en voert bovenliggend stof en gesteente met zich mee. Zo ontstaat de zo kenmerkende komeetstaart. Ook neemt de komeet in helderheid toe, doordat al dat vrijgekomen gas en stof er omheen zonlicht reflecteert.
Planetoïden Maar naast kometen zijn er ook planetoïden. En ook die wagen zich soms nabij de zon, maar geven dan geen spectaculaire show weg. Ze bestaan immers voornamelijk uit steen en herbergen geen of hooguit een klein beetje ijs. En dus valt er weinig te verdampen, ontstaat er geen staartje en licht de steen ook niet op.
Phaethon Het is een logisch verhaal. Maar dan is daar Phaethon. Een 5,8 kilometer grote planetoïde die wél helderder wordt als deze bij onze moederster in de buurt komt. “Phaethon is een eigenaardig object dat actief wordt als het de zon nadert,” stelt onderzoeker Joseph Masiero.
Natrium Hoe is dat mogelijk? Phaethon doet er slechts 524 dagen over om een rondje om de zon te cirkelen en heeft dat dus al vaak gedaan. Daarbij waagt de ruimtesteen zich zelfs binnen de baan van Mercurius en warmt het oppervlak op tot zo’n 750 graden Celsius. Al het water-, koolstofdioxide- of koolstofmonoxide-ijs dat ooit misschien op het oppervlak te vinden was, moet dan ook al lang verdampt zijn. En toch geeft deze ruimtesteen die geen of amper ijs herbergt, in de nabijheid van de zon iets af, waardoor de helderheid toeneemt. En Masiero en collega’s denken nu te weten wat het is: natrium.
Onder het oppervlak Natrium komt vrij overvloedig in planetoïden voor. En kan bij de temperaturen waar Phaethon in nabijheid van de zon aan wordt blootgesteld, gemakkelijk verdampen. Waarschijnlijk is al het aan het oppervlak gelegen natrium op deze manier lang geleden al verloren gegaan. Maar diep in de planetoïde zit nog natrium dat in nabijheid van de zon opwarmt, verdampt en via scheuren in Phaethons korst een weg naar buiten weet te vinden.
Puin En wanneer dat natrium zich van Phaethon vandaan haast, voert het waarschijnlijk stof en puin met zich mee. “Planetoïden zoals Phaethon hebben een zwakke zwaartekracht, dus er is niet veel kracht voor nodig om puin van het oppervlak of een losgebroken steentje mee te voeren,” aldus onderzoeker Björn Daviddson. “Onze modellen suggereren dat heel kleine hoeveelheden natrium hiervoor al genoeg zijn.”
Geminiden En zo kan de door de aanwezigheid van natrium ingegeven activiteit van Phaethon mogelijk ook één van de bekendste meteorenzwermen helpen verklaren: de Geminiden. Het is al langer bekend dat deze meteorenzwerm die elk jaar in december acte de présence geeft, te herleiden is naar Phaethon. De ruimtesteen laat in zijn baan puin en stof achter en wanneer de aarde daar doorheen beweegt, dringen die puindeeltjes de atmosfeer binnen, waar ze grote weerstand ondervinden, waardoor de lucht eromheen opwarmt en licht gaat geven. Vanaf het aardoppervlak zien we dat als een bliksemsnel streepje licht aan de nachthemel dat in de volksmond ook wel een vallende ster wordt genoemd. Het nieuwe onderzoek suggereert nu dat deze puindeeltjes door verdamping van het dieper gelegen natrium loskomen van Phaethon.
Experimenten Het vermoeden dat natrium verantwoordelijk is voor de activiteit op Phaethon wordt onderschreven door experimenten. De onderzoekers namen kleine stukjes van een meteoriet die in 1969 in Mexico neerkwam en afkomstig lijkt te zijn van een planetoïde die op Phaethon lijkt. Vervolgens stelden ze die stukjes meteoriet bloot aan de temperaturen waar Phaethon in nabijheid van de zon mee te maken krijgt. En jawel; natrium ging verloren, terwijl andere elementen achterbleven. “Het suggereert dat hetzelfde op Phaethon gebeurt,” aldus onderzoeker Yang Liu.
Het onderzoek zet de classificatie van kleine objecten in ons zonnestelsel verder onder druk. Nu worden die objecten afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid ijs die ze herbergen als planetoïde of komeet bestempeld. Maar misschien moeten we niet alleen kijken naar ijs, maar ook naar andere elementen die bij hoge temperaturen verdampen. “Onze laatste ontdekking is dat – als de omstandigheden gunstig zijn – natrium de aard van sommige actieve planetoïden kan verklaren,” aldus Masiero. “En daarmee is het spectrum tussen planetoïden en kometen nog complexer dan we dachten.”
BREUK ONTDEKT IN ÉÉN VAN DE ARMEN VAN ONZE MELKWEG
BREUK ONTDEKT IN ÉÉN VAN DE ARMEN VAN ONZE MELKWEG
Vivian Lammerse
Het gaat om een groepje jonge sterren en gaswolken die, vergelijkbaar met een splinter in een houten plank, uit één van de spiraalarmen steken.
Wetenschappers hebben een tot voor kort onbekend kenmerk van onze Melkweg ontdekt. In één van de spiraalarmen blijkt namelijk een heuse breuk te zitten; een uitsteeksel bestaande uit een groepje jonge sterren en stervormende gaswolken. Een bijzondere ontdekking. Want het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers een grote structuur ontdekken die zo’n andere kant op wijst dan de arm zelf.
De Melkweg Astronomen krijgen inmiddels een steeds beter beeld van onze eigen Melkweg; het sterrenstelsel van gemiddelde grootte, waarin het zonnestelsel met de aarde zich bevindt. We hebben daarom wel een idee van de grootte en de vorm van de armen. Maar veel is ook nog onbekend. Dat komt omdat we de volledige structuur van ons eigen sterrenstelsel niet zien omdat de aarde erin zit. Vanuit de positie van de aarde is het nou eenmaal heel moeilijk om de grootschalige structuur van de Melkweg heel precies te bestuderen.
Sagittariusarm Om meer over ons eigen Melkwegstelsel te ontraadselen, tuurden astronomen in een nieuwe studie door de ondertussen gestorven Spitzer-telescoop naar een nabijgelegen deel van de Sagittariusarm; een van de vier grote spiraalarmen van het Melkwegstelsel. Ze zochten naar pasgeboren sterren, genesteld in de gas- en stofwolken (nevels genaamd) waar ze zich vormen. Spitzer detecteerde infrarood licht dat door dergelijke dicht bepakte wolken kan dringen, terwijl zichtbaar licht wordt tegengehouden.
Meer over ruimtetelescoop Spitzer Ruimtetelescoop Spitzer werd op 25 augustus 2003 gelanceerd. Zo’n drie maanden later kon Spitzer zijn werkzaamheden daadwerkelijk beginnen. Oorspronkelijk was het de bedoeling dat de ruimtetelescoop zo’n 2,5 jaar mee zou gaan, maar heeft uiteindelijk zestien jaar meegedraaid. In januari 2020 zette onderzoekers een punt achter de missie.Tijdens zijn zestienjarig bestaan heeft Spitzer heel wat werkzaamheden verricht. Zo heeft hij bijvoorbeeld ontzettend veel mooie foto’s gemaaktvan verre sterrenstelsels en nabije nevels. Het licht van sommige van hen heeft miljarden jaren gereisd om ons te bereiken, waardoor wetenschappers objecten konden zien zoals die lang, lang geleden bestonden. Bovendien heeft de ruimtetelescoop een aantal bijzondere ontdekkingen op zijn naam staan. Zo was het bijvoorbeeld Spitzer die de grootste ring rondom Saturnus ontdekte. Ook ontdekte de telescoop als eerstelicht dat afkomstig was van een planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel en – misschien wel één van de meest verbluffende ontdekkingen – dat er niet drie, maar zeven rotsachtige planeten ter grootte van de aarde rond de kleine, zwakke ster TRAPPIST-1 cirkelen.
Van jonge sterren en nevels wordt gedacht dat ze nauw aansluiten bij de vorm van de armen waar ze zich in bevinden. Maar niet in de Sagittariusarm. De onderzoekers ontdekten namelijk een lang en dun uitsteeksel bestaande uit jonge sterren die duidelijk een andere kant op wijzen. De gehele structuur is maar liefst 3000 lichtjaar lang.
Hellingshoek “Een belangrijke eigenschap van spiraalarmen is hoe strak ze zich rond een sterrenstelsel winden,” legt onderzoeker Michael Kuhn uit. “Een cirkel heeft een hellingshoek van 0 graden. Naarmate de spiraalarm meer open staat (dus losser zit, red.), wordt de hellingshoek groter. De meeste modellen van de Melkweg suggereren dat de Sagittariusarm een hellingshoek heeft van ongeveer 12 graden. Maar de structuur die we hebben onderzocht, wijkt af met een hoek van bijna 60 graden.”
De breuk in de Sagittariusarm.
Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Niet de enige Overigens is de Sagittariusarm niet de enige met een vergroeiing. Vergelijkbare uitsteeksels worden vaak aangetroffen bij andere spiraalstelsels. Decennialang hebben onderzoekers zich dan ook afgevraagd of de spiraalarmen van onze Melkweg ook bezaaid zijn met uitpuilende delen. En dat blijkt nu inderdaad het geval. “Met de nieuwe gedetailleerde driedimensionale kaart, kunnen we zien dat deze regio behoorlijk complex is,” aldus Kuhn. Bovendien blijkt het nieuw ontdekte uitsteeksel vier bekende nevels te herbergen, namelijk de Adelaarsnevel, de Omeganevel, de Trifidnevel en de Lagunenevel.
De Adelaarsnevel, de Omeganevel, de Trifidnevel en de Lagunenevel, vastgelegd door NASA’s Spitzer-ruimtetelescoop. Deze nevels maken deel uit van een uitsteeksel in de Sagittariusarm.
Astronomen begrijpen nog niet helemaal wat de oorzaak is van de vorming van spiraalarmen in sterrenstelsels zoals het onze. Hoewel we de volledige structuur van de Melkweg niet kunnen zien, is het vermogen om de beweging van individuele sterren te meten – zoals met behulp van de Gaia-missie – heel nuttig om daar meer over te weten te komen. “Uiteindelijk herinnert dit ons eraan dat er nog veel onzeker is over de grootschalige structuur van de Melkweg,” aldus onderzoeker Robert Benjamin. “We moeten naar meer details kijken om het grotere plaatje te begrijpen. Het uitsteeksel is een klein stukje van de Melkweg. Maar het zou ons iets belangrijks kunnen vertellen over de Melkweg als geheel.”
The U.S. government has begun taking UFOs more seriously recently, even though they are probably not real. Probably, right?
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Skeptics may believe extra-terrestrial life is found only in cinematic forums, but when it comes to understanding UFOs, there are real-life experts keeping their eyes towards the skies, including here in San Antonio. Since 1969, clusters of people across the country, united by the Mutual UFONetwork (MUFON), have devoted their time to debunking and confirming reported UFO sightings.
While the organization tends to fly under the radar, I became aware of the unique group while attending San Antonio's first annual "UFO Festival" at the Wonderland of the Americas mall in August. While I didn't oblige the festive create-your-own tinfoil hat station at the time, it was admittedly interesting to hear some alien insights.
Ken Jordan, state director of the Texas division of MUFON and head of the San Antonio chapter, was happy to oblige. Jordan is among the local experts who have studied evidence of UFOs whizzing through San Antonio airspace.
Alien in a car at Baker, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Feifei Cui-Paoluzzo/Getty Images
"In the last 20 years, we've had 311 reports specifically out of San Antonio, and a little bit over 8,000 in the state of Texas," Jordan tells me, while combing through a meticulous MUFON database. "About 90 percent of what we investigate is mundane, or can be explained as natural or man-made incidents, but the rest we can't explain."
The most frequently deceptive objects are things like Chinese lanterns, drones, and inflatable LED balloons. Natural planetary phenomenon and tricks of the eye can also lead some to dial MUFON in a panic.
But not everything is so readily dismissed.
"Out of the 10 percent that we can't explain, I would say half of those would be what we think of as a UFO," says Jordan.
From U.S. Army to MUFON
A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S Army and a lifelong San Antonian, Jordan believes these UFOs represent advanced extra-terrestrial life. He didn't always feel this way though.
"I was very skeptical about the whole thing. I didn't really know what the deal was about UFOs. I wasn't totally sold," says Jordan. Still, through his faith, he says, he's always been open to the notion that human beings aren't alone in the universe.
After retiring from the military in 2006, Jordan returned for several years to work on building future combat systems. During a project in California's Napa Valley, a group of service members were gathered after hours at a wine tasting when the topic of UFOs came up. After one man had a bit too much to drink, he shared some classified information that piqued Jordan's interest. Jordan says some of the group thought the man was a loon, but what he said stuck with him.
Not too long after, he received an email from MUFON, inviting him to a meeting. Curious, he soon found himself at a local Denny's to listen in on a chapter meeting.
"I just wanted to come and check it out. I didn't know if they were serious researchers are just a bunch of nuts," says Jordan.
After one meeting, he deemed the group to be legitimate and has been steadily involved in the pursuit of the "UFO question" since 2013. Officially, he retired from active-duty military in 2014.
Local case of interest
There are currently around 50 MUFON members researching UFO reports made here in San Antonio, and around 280 members in all of Texas. The research methodology typically includes thorough review, with trained members examining things like weather patterns occurring at the time of a given sighting and cross-referencing descriptions with previous reports, local police stations, and the Federal Aviation Administration. If necessary, the team will also consult with Gregory Cisko, MUFON's amateur astronomer.
Reports are typically called in from a variety of sources, from your garden variety alien watchers to regular people who choose to remain anonymous. Sometimes, according to Jordan, they'll even get calls from military personnel. Mufon's most recent verifiable case based in San Antonio happened just a few days ago on October 29, 2021.
According to MUFON files, a couple driving to get coffee near I-10 and DeZevala Road around 2 p.m. witnessed and recorded what appears to be a saucer-like object fading in and out from view. After examining the report, MUFON closed the case by assigning the object the rare true UFO designation.
In Texas, MUFON describes a variety of UFO phenotypes that have been observed, with shapes ranging from saucer and Tic Tac to triangle and donut.
Since former military personnel disclosed the possibility of UFOs in 2017, Jordan believes the general public has begun to open up to the idea. Earlier this year, the U.S. government officially confirmed unidentified aerial phenomena, which spurred even more interest. Previously popular on the fringes, UFOs have officially touched down as a popular topic of conversation.
Whether these aerial objects in MUFON's "unknown" bucket are intelligent extraterrestrial life, products of terrestrial military technology or something else entirely has not been officially or publicly identified and disclosed by officials. We may never know the answers to these questions.
For those interested in exploring UFOs more, Jordan shares some sage words of advice: "Start researching and reading the articles that are out there, but the one thing I would always caution anybody on is whatever you read, whatever you hear, check your source."
NASA waarschuwt: asteroïde even groot als Eiffeltoren komt (in december) op aarde af
NASA waarschuwt: asteroïde even groot als Eiffeltoren komt (in december) op aarde af
Een asteroïde zo groot als de Eiffeltoren stevent momenteel op de aarde af, dat zegt de NASA. Er is echter geen paniek nodig: volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie zal de rots onze planeet met 3,8 miljoen kilometer missen.
De 330 meter brede asteroïde 4660 Nereus zou de aarde passeren op 11 december. Volgens de NASA is de kans klein dat de rots een gevaar vormt: uit berekeningen zou blijken dat de asteroïde onze planeet de komende decennia nog 12 keer voorbijvliegen, op 14 februari 2060 het dichtst: op “amper” 2 miljoen kilometer. Ter vergelijking: de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan is 384.400 kilometer.
Het bestaan van de asteroïde werd in 1982 ontdekt. Die is interessant voor wetenschappers, omdat ze door haar dichte baan bij de aarde potentieel bereikbaar is voor ruimtetuigen. Er bestaan momenteel geen plannen voor zo’n expeditie, maar dat scenario werd in het verleden al meermaals overwogen.
Het is niet ongewoon dat grote asteroïden de aarde naderen. In maart kwam nog een rots zo groot als de Golden Gate-brug in San Francisco op 2 miljoen kilometer van onze planeet. NASA classificeert asteroïdes als “potentieel gevaarlijk” als ze de aarde naderen op minder dan 7,5 miljoen kilometer en een diameter van meer dan 150 meter hebben.
This man ran the Pentagon's secretive UFO programme for a decade. We had some questions
This man ran the Pentagon's secretive UFO programme for a decade. We had some questions
Early last year, the US government officially acknowledged videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” filmed by its Navy pilots. Was it evidence of extraterrestrials? Here, Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon intelligence officer in charge of investigating these incidents, reveals (almost) all he knows…
There was a time when UFOs were for cranks. A time when serious news organisations wouldn’t cover them. A time when congress wasn’t demanding Defense Department reports on them. A time when their existence wasn’t freely acknowledged by American presidents (“There is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” said Barack Obama in May) and also by ex-spy chiefs (“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” said former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe in March). When it came to UFOs, there was a time when the US government’s official line was that it didn’t study them.
Luis Elizondo was instrumental in changing that.
In late 2017, he met with the freelance journalist Leslie Kean and revealed the existence of a $22 million (£16m) Pentagon programme investigating military reports of UFOs – a programme he had been in charge of since 2010. He had left the job the day before and decided to turn whistle-blower in the name of national security. As he put it in his resignation letter to secretary of defense Jim Mattis: “Bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets continue to plague the department at all levels... The department must take serious the many accounts by the Navy and other services of unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond next-generation capabilities... There remains a vital need to ascertain the capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
Luis ‘Lue’ Elizondo
Roger Kisby/New York Times/Redux/eyevine
Kean joined forces with two other reporters, one from the New York Times, and on 16 December 2017 the story appeared on the paper’s front page. It detailed the “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program” set up in 2007 to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena or “UAP”, the term that has replaced the now stigmatised “UFO”. Many UAPs, the Times reported, appeared impossible to explain, lacking any visible means of lift but able to travel at unfathomable speed. What’s more, the story stated, Elizondo and his colleagues had “determined that the phenomena they had studied did not seem to originate from any country”.
But the reader didn’t have to take the Times’ word for all this. There were videos. An ally of Elizondo’s, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence Chris Mellon, had helped the reporters obtain footage shot from the cockpits of US Navy fighter jets. One of the videos corroborates arguably the most compelling UAP episode ever to come to light.
An F/A-18 Super Hornet
Ian Hitchcock
According to reports, it took place in November 2004, when pilots were flying training missions from the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier. While squadron leader commander David Fravor was in the air, he was asked to intercept a mysterious aircraft. Upon arrival at its coordinates, what he saw was extraordinary: a 40-foot object, resembling a huge white Tic Tac, that had no visible propulsion system, rotors, wings or exhaust plume. Yet Fravor says it was able to jam radar, react to his movements and run rings around his F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet – turning so sharply it was as if the UAP had no inertia – before flying away faster than anything he had ever seen. Simply put, it defied the known laws of physics. Not only were there multiple eyewitnesses – including another pilot who filmed the Tic Tac using his plane’s targeting camera (this was the footage passed to the Times) – but the UAP was also detected by the radar of the nearby USS Princeton, an Aegis-class missile cruiser with state-of-the-art sensor systems.
Cmdr. David Fravor
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In December 2017, Fravor also went on the record with theNew York Timesand later, in 2019, so did further Navy pilots, who said that in 2014 and 2015 they encountered UAPs “almost daily”. TheTimes’ reporting radically changed the conversation. After decades of ridicule and taboo, UAPs were suddenly a legitimate political and journalistic talking point. Elizondo ran with the momentum, discussing his work with the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) on major TV networks and, in tandem with the likes of Mellon, briefing officials behind the scenes in Washington and facilitating meetings between them and military members who had experienced UAPs. Through keeping the story alive, he hoped to compel the government to finally establish a more transparent, coordinated, thorough investigation into the phenomenon.
It hasn’t all been plain sailing: in 2019, a Pentagon spokesperson called into question Elizondo’s claim to have worked on AATIP. In response, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent a letter to NBC News vouching for Elizondo’s story. “As one of the original sponsors of AATIP, I can state as a matter of record Lue Elizondo’s involvement and leadership role in this program,” Reid wrote.
A still from one of the US Navy videos showing a UAP
U.S. Department of Defense
Now, Elizondo’s hopes for government action have started to be realised. On 27 April 2020, the US Department Of Defense confirmed the veracity of the Times’ UAP videos and released them officially into the public domain. In a statement, the Pentagon said, “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified’.” In August that same year, the Pentagon announced a new UAP Task Force “to detect, analyse and catalogue UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security”. And in June 2021, the Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence released a report to congress about the government’s work on the UAP issue. Of the 144 encounters studied, it stated, 143 could not be explained. It didn’t blame extraterrestrials, but nor did it rule that explanation out.
Inevitably, Elizondo has attracted considerable interest. There was a bidding war for his forthcoming book, he was recently named one ofPeople’s “100 Reasons To Love America In 2021” and he reveals toGQthat he is working on a new documentary about the UAP topic, although details are under wraps for now. But Elizondo says that he is doing more behind the scenes as a disclosure advocate than ever before. In addition to his role on the advisory board of the UAP think tank Skyfort, he retains high-level national security clearance and is employed as a government defence contractor, although he is not able to say what that work involves.
Luis Elizondo
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One of the consequences of his efforts, he says, is a significant piece of legislation that is going through congress. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act contains important developments for the study of UAPs. It requires that the secretary of defense sets up a permanent office to carry out the duties currently performed by the UAP Task Force but on a department-wide basis. This new office would have to submit an annual report to congressional committees on a range of its findings, including updates on efforts to track, understand, capture and exploit UAPs – as well as an assessment of health-related effects on those who encounter these strange flying objects. Elizondo calls it “historic”.
GQ spoke to Elizondo as he prepared to head to Washington, DC, to brief members of congress on how to work with foreign allies on the issue.
GQ: What makes you convinced that these flying objects haven’t been made by the US, the Chinese or any other government?
Luis Elizondo: We know it’s not the US because the US has already come out and admitted it’s not us. So now let’s talk about the potential for it to be a foreign adversarial technology. Well, if that were the case, this would be the greatest intelligence failure that this country has ever faced, including that of 9/11. Because some country, for more than 70 years, has managed to be able to conduct operations with a technology that surpasses anything that we’ve ever had or currently have. And they’ve been able to operate in and around our restricted airspace unchallenged.
But the second reason is there’s a time aspect. I have in my possession official US government documentation that describes the exact same vehicle that we now call the Tic Tac [seen by the Nimitz pilots in 2004] being described in the early 1950s and early 1960s and performing in ways that, frankly, can outperform anything we have in our inventory. For some country to have developed hypersonic technology, instantaneous acceleration and basically transmedial travel in the early 1950s is absolutely preposterous.
The proposed new UAP office would have to report on health-related effects for individuals who have experienced UAPs. What kind of thing might happen if you were near one?
A lot. Let me give you a notional... I’ve got to be careful, I can’t speak too specifically, but one might imagine that you get a report from a pilot who says, “Lue, it’s really weird. I was flying and I got close to this thing and I came back home and it was like I got a sunburn. I was red for four days.” Well, that’s a sign of radiation. That’s not a sunburn; it’s a radiation burn. Then [a pilot] might say, if [they] had got a little closer, “Lue, I’m at the hospital. I’ve got symptoms that are indicative of microwave damage, meaning internal injuries, and even in my brain there’s some morphology there.” And then you might get somebody who gets really close and says, “You know, Lue, it’s really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel. How is that possible?” Well, there’s a reason for that, we believe, and it probably has to do with warping of space time. And the closer you get to one of these vehicles, the more you may begin to experience space time relative to the vehicle and the environment.
Have you personally ever had a UAP sighting?
I prefer not to answer that. I do not want my own personal experiences or opinions or perspectives to skew the collection of data.
Before you were approached to be part of AATIP, you were a counterintelligence special agent hunting terrorists and drug traffickers. Why did they approach you?
I have no idea. I think probably because I wasn’t prone to any flights of fancy. I wasn’t a particular fan of science fiction. I do have some background in advanced aerospace technology. When I was a young special agent, I did “tech protect” [counterintelligence work to stop US technology from falling into enemy hands] of advanced avionics and my background was a scientist. At university, I had three majors: microbiology, immunology and parasitology.
You came to this not particularly caring about UFOs, but I have read there was a moment where you said to yourself, “Holy f***. This is real.” What was that moment?
It’s funny because the people in the office kind of giggled and they were like, “Oh, he just had his epiphany,” because everybody has one eventually in that office.
But what convinced you it was a real thing?
It was the overwhelming weight of evidence and data. I was talking to pilots routinely. There’s videos out there [in government, that the public haven’t seen] – there’s one that’s 23 minutes long. There’s another one where this thing is 50 feet away from the cockpit. I mean, it ain’t ours. We know that. Sometimes you just couldn’t believe it – you’d have seven or eight incidents in a single day. I’d get these emails from an admiral or a ship’s captain saying, “Lue, what do you want me to do? I can’t keep people below deck forever. These things are swarming my ship, they’re all over the place.” That’s tough. I kept promising the cavalry was coming and I’d have answers for them and the cavalry never came. Senior leadership didn’t want to deal with it.
Some people say theTimesvideos don’t show anything particularly amazing. What do you say to them?
The government has already admitted not only that they’re real, but that they truly are unidentified objects and they’re behaving in a very peculiar way. For example, you have an object that is at altitude, going at 120 knots against the wind, that is rotating at 90 degrees without losing altitude. Anybody who understands aerodynamics, when you’re flying an aircraft and you turn 90 degrees you lose lift, unless you’re in a hard bank. What makes those videos more compelling is not so much what you see, but what you don’t see. It’s the radar signatures, it’s the call signs from pilot to pilot, and pilot to ship, saying, “Hey, we’ve got a bogey up here.” And in one case you hear one of them say, “Look, we have a whole fleet of these things on the ASA [radar display].” Some of the pilots have come out and said there was actually a whole fleet of these things manoeuvring right off camera. The pilots are trained observers. They are trained to identify an aircraft silhouette at 20 miles away – an SU-22, a European Tornado, a Harrier or even an F-16 – and literally within a split moment’s notice be able to identify friend or foe and shoot it down. What they’re reporting doesn’t fit any type of parameters of any type of conventional aircraft that we know of.
When you initially spoke to theNew York Times, were you worried about repercussions?
I was getting calls all the time that the FBI was going to come and Swat my house. There was a point when I got a call like, “Hey, dude, you might have people visit you, like, in the next hour.” So in the middle of the night, I had to stash everything [copies of emails] in my neighbour’s barbecue grill just in case, because that was all the proof and the evidence of the fact that our government was really involved in this topic. It wasn’t easy. It caused a lot of stress on my wife and my daughters. Until recently they were still trying to come after my security clearance.
Do you have a sense of why they didn’t raid you and throw you in jail and instead let you carry on talking?
My personal opinion, which I rarely give because I have no way to substantiate this, [is] there were enough people on the inside that said, “Look, he was briefing the senior brass and you need to be careful because if you squeeze Lue too hard, you’re gonna have very, very senior people come to his defence.”
In your interviews, you tend to emphasise the interdimensional hypothesis that UAPs might not be from “outer space” but from another dimension. Do you think that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is even likely?
I think it’s just as likely as something that is interdimensional. I also think it’s possible that it’s something that has been on Earth for a very long time.
But you don’t have data that has particularly led you to think it could be interdimensional?
There’s information that both supports and negates that. What we do know is there’s a correlation with [UAPs being near or emerging from] water and then there’s also a correlation toward [UAPs appearing near] nuclear technology.
What’s your theory about the water correlation?
Could be as simple as a fuel stop. If you wanted to warp space time, there’s only two ways to do it: lots of energy or lots of mass. So if you wanted to mine something for its energy, you would start with hydrogen, because it’s a simple element. Even though hydrogen is abundant in the universe, it’s found primarily in a gaseous state, which makes it hard because it might take you 100 years to mine a nebula cloud sufficiently to use it as fuel. There is only one type of hydrogen configuration that is super dense that’s found in the universe and that’s liquid water. So in a relatively small amount of time you can mine enough hydrogen to do whatever you need to do with literally a bucket of water.
Let’s talk about crash retrievals and debris. Do you believe we have recovered a craft?
I have been told I have to be very careful how I answer this question. I am not allowed to expound upon anything I’ve already said. What I have said is that it is my opinion, my belief – a strong belief, hint, hint – that the US government is in possession of exotic material associated with UAPs. That is all I’m allowed to say.
Do you believe organic matter or beings have been recovered?
I am respectfully going to pass on that question. There’s a couple questions that I’m really not at liberty to discuss. That’s one of them.
Do you believe these ships may be manned?
They’re intelligently controlled, for sure, because they’re responding and reacting to our actions. That is for certain. They are absolutely intelligently controlled by something.
Is it your opinion that they’re more like drones or do you think they’ve got things inside them?
I suspect they have things inside them.
Why do you think they seem interested in military sites, nuclear sites particularly?
I’ve got some very specific theories. Nuclear technology is a gateway to understanding unlocking the atom. And once you do that, you have a potentially limitless supply of energy. It could very well be that we are a violent species that is on the cusp of understanding space-time and no longer going to be stuck in our little cage. And that could be a problem for an advanced species. Because, you know, we are not necessarily very peaceful to each other.
What’s the consensus around how these things fly?
Right now one of the leading theories out there is that someone has figured out a way to manipulate space-time and, in essence, master the idea of antigravity.
So if you see a UAP moving left to right, it’s not “flying” left to right, it’s bending that space towards it?
Correct. Current hypothesis is that it creates a bubble around it and that bubble is insulating itself from the space-time that all of us experience. And so, therefore, the way it experiences space-time within the bubble is fundamentally different from outside the bubble.
How many presidents have been briefed on the issue and do you know who engaged the most?
I know, as a matter of fact, three presidents have been briefed at some point, but I’m not going to disclose who they were and what was discussed. That’s not up for me to talk about.
In cultural depictions of UFOs, who do you think has got the closest to reality?
I would have to say Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. I just recently saw it for the first time and I was shocked at some of the performance characteristics and how they depicted the UAPs, because that is exactly how they’ve been described in some, up until recently, very classified US documents.
What in particular?
The description of how they do right-angle turns at very fast velocity, the illumination, the shapes of some of these craft. [Steven] Spielberg definitely had somebody on the inside that was giving him information, for sure. I mean there’s a lot of that movie that, if you know what you’re looking at, is very, very close to real life.
Some suggest that the post-2017 UAP disclosure narrative is actually just a government disinformation effort or psyops campaign. What do you say to that?
At no time since I’ve been involved with AATIP has my government been involved in an active disinformation campaign, other than initially denying that it was real. The United States government is not in the habit of conducting disinformation on American citizens. There was a time when our government did do that and got caught and so congress passed laws to make sure that will never happen again.
What can you tell us about what’s coming up in 2022, in terms of new evidence that may come to light or new developments?
I think we’ll see a lot more participation by the international community and a lot more transparency. We’re going to begin sharing information a lot more and I think people may be surprised just how much information is possessed on this topic by other countries. My only hope is that the UK will be able to do the same thing. Much for the same reason that the United States didn’t want to admit that UFOs were real, I suspect the UK [doesn’t] as well. What I can tell you is during my time in AATIP it was very apparent to me that there were certain elements within the royal family that were very interested in this topic. I will not elaborate any more than that. And I hope that those voices within the royal family can be heard, because it is an important topic, perhaps one of the greatest topics that affects all of mankind, all of humanity. And I think if we’re smart, this will be a topic that will help unify us and not divide us.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
“I have in my possession official US government documentation that describes the exact same vehicle that we now call the Tic Tac [seen by the Nimitz pilots in 2004] being described in the early 1950s and early 1960s and performing in ways that, frankly, can outperform anything we have in our inventory. For some country to have developed hypersonic technology, instantaneous acceleration and basically transmedial travel in the early 1950s is absolutely preposterous.”
If he did nothing else, Luis Elizondo – the former head of the Department of Defense’s ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)’ – would still go down in history as being instrumental in revealing UFO/UAP encounters that military pilots and Navy ship crews witnessed, recorded and reported … only to have them covered up for years until they were exposed by The New York Times. Those so-called ‘Tic Tac’ UFOs were new to the public … but not to the government, according to an interview Elizondo gave to GQ magazine. In it, he claims these transmedial (both aerial and underwater) vehicles have been known to the government and the military since the 1950s. Elizondo then states the obvious – if these crafts belong to a foreign country, it’s the greatest security failure since 9/11.
Luis Elizondo
“You know, Lue, it’s really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel. How is that possible?”
Elizondo then talks about radiation burns, brain malfunctions and time-space warps pilots have told him about after UAP encounters … conditions that could only have been caused by getting too close to the UAP or its weapons. He claims this is not hearsay – he’s seen evidence like a 23-minute video of an encounter or another that was 50 feet away from the cockpit. However, what’s truly shocking is his accounts of the capabilities of the Tic Tac as reported by trained military pilots with onboard equipment that can help “identify an aircraft silhouette at 20 miles away – an SU-22, a European Tornado, a Harrier or even an F-16 – and literally within a split moment’s notice be able to identify friend or foe and shoot it down” – yet they can’t identify the Tic Tacs that he says both pilots and ship captains have told him they’ve encounter in “fleets” and “swarms.”
“I think it’s just as likely as something that is interdimensional. I also think it’s possible that it’s something that has been on Earth for a very long time.”
If it’s not ours or an Earthly theirs, Elizondo speculates that the Tic Tacs may not be from space but from another dimension. He believes “They are absolutely intelligently controlled by something” and suspects “they have things inside them”” … things being beings of some sort. When asked what sci-fi crafts they might resemble, he referred to “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
“I just recently saw it for the first time and I was shocked at some of the performance characteristics and how they depicted the UAPs, because that is exactly how they’ve been described in some, up until recently, very classified US documents.
The description of how they do right-angle turns at very fast velocity, the illumination, the shapes of some of these craft. [Steven] Spielberg definitely had somebody on the inside that was giving him information, for sure. I mean there’s a lot of that movie that, if you know what you’re looking at, is very, very close to real life.”
Whoa! If you haven’t seen the movie, now would be a good time … so you know what to look for. Elizondo avoided answering a number of questions about his own personal experiences and about the existence of crashed spacecrafts. He confirmed that “I know, as a matter of fact, three presidents have been briefed at some point, but I’m not going to disclose who they were and what was discussed.”
There are many who believe Luis Elizondo and wonder why some powers that be – ours, theirs or alien – haven’t silenced him There are those who don’t believe him and would be happy to have him silenced. In the relatively short time he’s been in the public eye – not just the UFO/UAP Public but the general public – Elizondo probably has done more to either expose or at least generate interest in UFOs than any other person in recent history.
If you take away nothing else from Luis Elizondo’s interview with GQ (available in its entirety here), listen to him and watch “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Then watch a video of the Tic Tacs. Then go to a quiet place and think.
The first continents on our planet began forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously estimated. These first continents, which are called cratons, rose up from the ocean sometime between 3.3 and 3.2 billion years ago. Previous studies claimed that this event occurred about 2.5 billion years ago.
Scientists came up with this new timeline based on sedimentary rocks at the Singhbhum Craton in the eastern part of India that date back over 3 billion years. These rocks would have only been created when land came up through the oceans’ surface. In fact, they believe that large whole cratons – and not small portions of land – came up from the oceans even though Earth didn’t have “modern-style plate tectonics” that could have helped them emerge.
In an interview with Live Science, Priyadarshi Chowdhury, who is a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment in Melbourne, Australia, went into further details, “When we joined all the sedimentary pockets together, we found that all of them kind of formed simultaneously” in a beach-like or river environment, adding that the craton would have been exposed to water and air at the exact same time.
The team then used a laser to analyze small crystals named zircons that contain uranium. Since uranium decays into lead over a specific time frame, the researchers were able to determine that the craton emerged from the ocean between 3.3 and 3.2 billion years ago.
Their next task was to find out what caused the Singhbhum Craton to emerge from the water, so they analyzed the chemical composition of igneous rocks from the craton (these are rocks that are created by hot magma crystallizing) that are located not far beneath the sedimentary rocks. They found that hot plumes of magma were present underneath the crust between 3.5 and 3.2 billion years ago that caused some parts of the craton to become much thicker and had numerous buoyant, lightweight materials such as quartz and sicilia. That’s when the craton emerged from the water.
Since several other cratons, including the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa and Pilbara Craton in Australia, have sedimentary rock that date back to around the same time as the Singhbhum Craton in India, they might have also fully emerged from the water during that period.
While this is a very important discovery, several questions still remain, like how long these cratons remained above the water and how many of them were visible at the same time. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) where it can be read in full.
How do you know if a shapeshifting Reptilian has been in your house while you were out? Footprints might be a good hint … especially if they’re 10 inches (25 cm) long and have odd abnormal toes. The fact that the footprints seem to appear and disappear would be another clue … especially if the doors were locked, the windows barred, and no one was inside the residence. Welcome to the twilight zone of Adrián Escalante, a resident of Caracas, Venezuela, who seems to have had a close encounter with a Reptilian.
“Reptilians among us?: A strange footprint appears in a house in Caracas.” (Google translation)
Hector Escalante, a well-known South American UFO researcher and journalist, revealed the account told to him by Adrián Escalante on Instagram. The incident took place on November 6, 2021, in a house in the center of Caracas. Adrián Escalante told him the prints (images here) were found on the second floor – an unusual place that would have led one to look for prints on the stairs, at the door, near a window and outside. Hector Escalante is a thorough investigator and checked all of those places … and found no other prints. The only two prints in the house were the 10-inch ones made of dark mud that had already dried by the time he saw them. Did this creature arrive while it was raining?
“It hadn’t rained, therefore, it was impossible for someone to have stepped on the swamp on the street and left those marks.”
Venezuela has had its share of Chupacabra sightings, but Hector Escalante doesn’t seem to think that’s what made these prints. The country has a bigfoot-like creature called the Mono Grande but these don’t look like humanoid or primate prints. The closest cryptid might be the giant caiman, which is said to resemble a regular 16-foot caiman but grows up to three times as large and is capable of crushing boats and swallowing humans whole. A beast of that size would have left a path of destruction in a house, so that gets ruled out too.
Not a caiman?
“A practical joke, large animal, interdimensional entities of a reptilian nature? You decide. “
Hector Escalante throws “interdimensional entities of a reptilian nature” into the realm of possibilities … because there’s nothing else to blame other than a hoax. Could a Reptilian have entered the house of Adrián Escalante? If so … why? Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and has had major political problems for years. Could the Reptilians be causing them?
Unfortunately, that’s all the data provided by Hector Escalante on the mysterious reptile-like footprints found in Caracas. If it was a hoax, it was impressively executed. If it was a Reptilian … let’s hope Hector keeps an eye on the situation and keeps us informed.
More than 1,200 Mesolithic worked stone tools dating back to around 6,000–10,000 years ago have been found alongside the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The flints — which include blades, scrapers and waste material — were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13–17 March this year.
The tools, the experts explained, would have been used by some of the earliest communities in the area to kill, butcher and prepare animals for food and materials.
One group member, a student from nearby University of Aberdeen, also found part of a Neolithic-age, egg-shaped mace head during the 'fieldwalking' exercise.
Building on these finds, the group will be conducting a 'test pitting' — digging a series of small trenches — at the Milton of Crathes from November 11–14.
Alongside hunting for more flints, the archaeologists will also be investigating features seen in aerial survey maps that may represent the remains of a settlement.
The group will also be joined by geologists who will probe the ground of the river terrace to look for evidence of former flooding and past environmental conditions.
More than 1,200 Mesolithic worked stone tools dating back to around 6,000–10,000 years ago (some of which are pictured) have been found alongside the River Dee in Aberdeenshire
The flints — which include blades, scrapers and waste material — were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13–17 March this year. Pictured: an example of so-called 'flint scatter' that the volunteers have found along the course of the River Dee
The tools, the experts explained, would have been used by some of the earliest communities in the area to kill, butcher and prepare animals for food and materials. One group member, a student from nearby University of Aberdeen, also found part of a Neolithic-age, egg-shaped mace head during the 'fieldwalking' exercise
Every flint found by the group is meticulously bagged and tagged with a GPS provenance, analysed by a specialist and the information collated into a database, making the Dee one of Scotland's most extensively studied rivers for flint deposits. Pictured: a map showing the finds from the group's fieldwalks back in March 2021. The different icons reflect the flint types
Mesolithic Deeside chair and archaeologist Alison Cameron told the MailOnline that the long and varied nature of the River Dee would have provided the inhabitants of the region 6,000–10,000 with everything that they needed to live. Pictured: a flint from the River Dee
Mesolithic Deeside chair and archaeologist Alison Cameron told the MailOnline that the long and varied nature of the River Dee would have provided the inhabitants of the region 6,000–10,000 with everything that they needed to live.
This, she explained, is why so much so-called 'flint scatter' can be found today in the fields along the river banks, showing where people made and used stone tools.
Every flint found by the group is meticulously bagged and tagged with a GPS provenance, sent off for analysis by a specialist and the information collated into a database, making the Dee one of Scotland's most extensively studied rivers for flint deposits.
Coinciding with the dig this week, Mesolithic expert Caroline Wickham-Jones and her fellow group members have compiled a dossier on their discoveries to date, which will be published in Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports.
The group — which was launched in 2017 and has some 50 members — is funded in part by the Aberdeenshire Council and the King George V Wind Turbine Trust.
Interested members of the public are welcome to volunteer in this week's excavations at the Milton of Crathes — such as by helping the dig itself and sorting the finds — or to simply visit to see what the group has uncovered.
'If visiting the site may be very muddy so wear sensible shoes or wellies!', said Alison Cameron.
'The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,' said archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, formerly of the University of Aberdeen.
'Fieldwalking is fun but was obviously impacted by lockdown and they have worked hard to keep group members enthused.'
Aberdeenshire regional archaeologist Bruce Mann agreed, adding: 'The volunteers of Mesolithic Deeside have contributed so much to our understanding of early prehistory in this part of the world through their fieldwalking.'
Coinciding with the dig this week, Mesolithic expert Caroline Wickham-Jones and her fellow group members have compiled a dossier on their discoveries to date, which will be published in Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports. Pictured: a flint found by the group in March
The group — which was launched in 2017 and has some 50 members — is funded in part by the Aberdeenshire Council and the King George V Wind Turbine Trust. Pictured: a Mesolithic Deeside volunteer admires a flint found during a fieldwalking exercise
'I started fieldwalking with Mesolithic Deeside in 2018 and am now totally hooked,' said Mesolithic Deeside volunteer Roslyn Hay. 'The thrill of finding something that has been hidden in the soil, knowing that you are the first person to hold it since it was dropped thousands of years ago. You feel a connection with that person way back in prehistory. Pictured: two of the flints that the group found in fieldwalks back in March
'I started fieldwalking with Mesolithic Deeside in 2018 and am now totally hooked,' said Mesolithic Deeside volunteer Roslyn Hay.
'I've learned so much and made so many new friends, with the added benefit of plenty of exercise and fresh air. We walk, we talk (a lot), and find wonderful things.
'The thrill of finding something that has been hidden in the soil, knowing that you are the first person to hold it since it was dropped thousands of years ago. You feel a connection with that person way back in prehistory.
'My most memorable find was a large blade. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it! It was confirmed as most probably from the Late Upper Palaeolithic.
'Finds from this period, which predates the Mesolithic, are rare in Scotland, so this was a very exciting find for the group.'
'When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project,' said Mesolithic Deeside co-secretary and founding member Sheila Duthie. The group's efforts, she added, are 'without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside — it’s a blast!' Pictured: some of the group's finds
'When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project,' said Mesolithic Deeside co-secretary and founding member Sheila Duthie.
The group's efforts, she added, are 'without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside — it’s a blast!'
'My ideal pastime is footerin in flat fields with fine folk finding flints, fair or foul!' she exuberantly concluded.
'The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,' said archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, formerly of the University of Aberdeen. Pictured: a Mesolithic Deeside volunteer with one of the group's flint finds back in March
Building on these finds, the group will be conducting a 'test pitting' — digging a series of small trenches — at the Milton of Crathes from November 11–14. Alongside hunting for more flints, the archaeologists will also be investigating features seen in aerial survey maps that may represent the remains of a settlement
Interested members of the public are welcome to volunteer in this week's (November 11–14) excavations at the Milton of Crathes— such as by helping the dig itself and sorting the finds — or to simply visit to see what the group has uncovered. 'If visiting the site may be very muddy so wear sensible shoes or wellies!', said Alison Cameron. Pictured: the dig site
HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE DURING THE MESOLITHIC PERIOD?
The Mesolithic period, also called Middle Stone Age, is an ancient time period (8000 BC to AD 2700) that took place between the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age) with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) with its polished stone tools.
The Mesolithic period's material culture is characterized by greater innovation than the Paleolithic.
Among the new types of chipped stone tools were microliths: very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft in order to produce a serrated edge. Polished stone was another innovation that arose in some Mesolithic groups.
Northern European Mesolithic people (called Maglemosian's), who flourished at about 6000 BC, left behind traces of primitive huts with bark-covered floors and adzes for working wood.
At Starr Carr in Yorkshire, there are signs that four or five huts existed there, with a population of around 25 people. There is evidence that these sites may only have been occupied on a seasonal basis.
An artist's impression of tribes fishing during the Mesolithic period
Aracheologists have also found smaller flint tools from this group. These were mounted as points or barbs for arrows and harpoons and were also used in other composite tools.
They used adzes and chisels made of antler or bone, as well as needles and pins, fish-hooks, harpoons and fish spears with several prongs. Some larger tools made of ground stone, such as club heads, have also been found.
Wooden structures have also been found and have remained well-preserved due to the preservative qualities of bogs. Some of the structures discovered include ax handles, paddles and a dugout canoe, and fishnets were made using bark fibre.
Deer were hunted as well as fish and waterfowl, and some varieties of marsh plants may have been used.
More than 1,200 ancient Mesolithic stone tools have been found along the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by archaeologists and volunteers during a “field walk”. These flints, which included scrapers, waste material, blades, and a portion of an egg-shaped mace head, would have been used by ancient humans who lived along the river between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago. It is believed that the tools were used to kill animals and prepare the food as well as to make raw animal hide into clothes.
Sheila Duthie, who is the co-secretary at the archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside, talked about her decades-long discoveries of ancient tools, “When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project which is without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside.”
In an interview with MailOnline, Alison Cameron, who is the chair of the Mesolithic Deeside and an archaeologist, stated that the individuals who would have lived next to the River Dee between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago would have had everything they needed in order to survive thanks to the nature during that time. This was why so much “flint scatter” has already been discovered in the fields next to the river banks as the individuals would have made and used the stone tools there.
Since every tool found at the site has been collected and sent for analysis where the information gathered will then be put into a database, River Dee is one of the most substantial studies ever conducted on flint deposits found near a river in all of Scotland. “The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,” noted archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones.
Further excavations will be conducted in the coming days at the Milton of Crathes (this includes digging numerous small trenches), so perhaps they’ll discover even more items and/or other significant findings. Additionally, the archaeologists will look at specific features that were noticed during aerial survey maps of the site that may indicate the remains of an ancient settlement. Geologists will be in the area to investigate the ground of the river terrace in order to find out if there was ever an ancient flood as well as to look at what types of environmental conditions were present during the time that the individuals lived there.
Watch Live: SpaceX, NASA are ‘go’ for third operational astronaut launch
Watch Live: SpaceX, NASA are ‘go’ for third operational astronaut launch
With less than three hours to go before liftoff, SpaceX and NASA remain on track – with the vehicle, crew, and weather conditions all in great shape – for Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon’s third operational astronaut launch.
Originally scheduled for late October, a minor crew health issue, a small hardware qualification delay, and – primarily – a variety of good and bad weather conditions ultimately pushed Crew-3 into the second week of November. As a result, SpaceX and NASA chose to return Dragon and four Crew-2 astronauts to Earth before launching Crew-3, and that process was flawlessly completed on the evening of November 8th. During Dragon’s fourth crewed reentry descent and landing, though, one of the spacecraft’s four main parachutes ran into a minor but well-understood issue.
Designed to safely splash down with one parachute out, the safety of the Crew-2 astronauts was never in question but the apparent parachute issue was easily visible to anyone watching NASA and SpaceX’s live coverage. In reality, the behavior observed had been seen – and even intentionally created – many times before in the dozens upon dozens of Dragon parachute tests SpaceX completed to qualify the system for human spaceflight. Specifically, one or more of Dragon’s four huge chutes occasionally lags behind and takes longer to fully inflate. In the case of Crew-2, the problem chute behaved exactly as expected based on that testing and ultimately wasn’t a problem at all, properly inflating to slow Dragon to the exact desired descent speed well before splashdown.
Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, virtually everyone familiar with NASA and the Commercial Crew Program expected the agency to closely examine the behavior and make absolutely sure that all is well. Indeed, in a prelaunch briefing late last night, SpaceX VP Bill Gerstenmaier confirmed as much, revealing that the company rapidly completed reviews of Crew-2 and Crew-3 parachute build data and even airlifted the problem chute – recovered from the Atlantic – back to Florida facilities. Less than 24 hours after that parachute was in Earth orbit, SpaceX managed to dry it out and complete thorough inspections – all with NASA officials in the loop – to confirm that the chute itself was healthy (undamaged, no missed design/build errors, etc).
Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Matthias Maurer, Kayla Barron ride Tesla Model Xs to Pad 39A and the Falcon and Dragon that will soon carry them to space.(Richard Angle)
Crew Dragon C210 and Falcon 9 B1067: Crew-3’s rides to space.
(Richard Angle)
Ultimately, in an impressive display of professionalism and expertise, SpaceX and NASA were able to verify in a matter of hours that Crew-2’s reentry, descent, and landing was fully nominal and posed no problem for Crew-3’s launch just two days later.
Many celebrities, entertainers, athletes, musicians, models, writers, producers, actors, all kinds of people from various industries are silently brought to the cloning centers for “pay-to-play sessions.”
PEOPLE HYPNOTIZED & ABDUCTED BY ALIENS IN RUSSIA | CAUGHT ON CCTV POLICE CAR CAMERA
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Russian Police Was Called To Are Where People Stop the Cars And Get Outside Kind Like Hypnotized Without Any kind Of Response Looking To The Sky As Soon as The Police Came The Officer Tell Them To Get Out Of The Front Of The Object Hovering in The Sky, When the Police Officer Was Forced To Get Near The People To Try To Make Them React The Officer Aswhell Get’s Hypnotized And The People And Him Are Abducted To Never More Been Seen Again…. This Is Not The First And It Is Not Going To Be The Last It Happens… Insane Police Car CCTV Video Footage Abduction In Russia… Welcome to the “THE SOULS BASE”
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Mysterious Lights Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 02, 2021, | UAP UFO News |@UFOTV -VIRAL
Dark Object Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Object Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:October 20, 2021
Location of sighting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Source: MUFON
They eyewitness was recording in his backyard in New Mexico when suddenly a dark obelisk objects moves over his home. The object was thick and looked to be two meters tall by 1/3 meter wide. The bottom had a small tail to it, which could be part of the craft or it could be indications it is a deflated balloon. But we cannot just to that conclusion yet. When UFOs fly low, they use techniques...strategies to appear as something else. The object really doesn't look deflated and it has no string hanging from its tail. This UFO does rotate a little as its moving...which makes it appear as if it were noticing the human below, but then rotating back and continuing on its way. Odd one, but...UFOs are far from normal.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
It was a silent, black object that moved vertically and appeared to also change altitude gradually going down and then sort of back up.
Huge UFO struck by lightning caught on ISS Live Feed
Huge UFO struck by lightning caught on ISS Live Feed
During a lightning storm seen on the ISS live feed November 8, 2021 something strange happened.
It looks like a massive rectangular shaped object becomes visible after getting struck by a lightning strike.
Could it be that the UFO was waiting for the right moment to connect to a lightning strike? It is said that UFOs use lightning strikes as an energy source.
Glowing Cigar Shaped UFO Sighted Over Various Area Of Occitania, Southern France. November 9, 2021
Intriguing luminous phenomenon in the sky this Tuesday, November 9. This strange light activity is said to have been observed near the Mediterranean coast.
Testimonies have been pouring in since the observation by several people of a particularly strange luminous phenomenon in the sky, Tuesday, November 9. 2021. Several inhabitants of departments close to the Mediterranean observed and filmed this intriguing activity.
Thanks to Yann Fenn, Muriel J'Riviere & William for their outstanding footage...
Quel est cet objet céleste de couleur orange qui se déplace depuis la nuit de mardi à mercredi et qui a de nouveau été observé la nuit dernière, autour de Montpellier ? Des témoins ont été intrigués d’assister à ce ballet nocturne lumineux depuis Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots ou encore Sète.
C’est le site Météo Gard-Hérault géré par Loïc Spadafora depuis le nord de Nîmes qui diffuse depuis mercredi des vidéos inédites, qui ne font qu’épaissir le mystère. Même le météorologue gardois se perd en conjectures, avouant avoir rarement vu un tel objet céleste en dehors de météorites et d’étoiles filantes.
Les commentaires vont bon train, avec cette interrogation : s’agit-il d’un OVNI ? Dans une des vidéos, on entend une famille s’interroger : « C’est quoi ce truc ? ». Nombreux sont les internautes curieux qui l’assurent, ce n’est pas un avion de ligne. Alors, vous aussi vous avez été intrigué ? En analysant les vidéos, avez-vous une idée de ce que peut être cet objet, parfois en forme de boule, parfois en forme de petit cigare ? Ce jeudi, le mystère perdure.
Une vidéo publiée sur les réseaux sociaux montre un phénomène lumineux dans le ciel particulièrement intriguant ce mardi 9 novembre. Cette activité lumineuse étrange aurait été observée près du littoral méditerranéen.
Une phénomène observé dans plusieurs département du sud de la France.
Sur les réseaux sociaux, les témoignages affluent depuis l'observation par plusieurs personnes d'un phénomène lumineux particulièrement étrange dans le ciel, mardi 9 novembre. Plusieurs habitants de départements proches de la Méditerrannée ont observé et filmé cette activité intriguante. Le site de météorologie Météo Gard - Hérault a publié sur Twitter plusieurs vidéos pour le moins énigmatiques.
Un rectangle lumineux, plusieurs vidéos
On peut observer une forme lumineuse rectangulaire divaguer dans la nuit noire. Selon nos confrères météorologues, l'événement aurait été observé depuis Montpellier, Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots ou encore Sète. Des signalements auraient même été rapportés depuis l'Andorre, Narbonne et Perpignan.
Drone, satellite, lasers... Sur les réseaux sociaux, les internautes développent des théories pour expliquer le phénomène.
Un Ovni déjà identifié à Montpellier en septembre
Le mercredi 15 septembre, une activité lumineuse étrange avait aussi défrayé la chronique. Lors d'une soirée orageuse, des lumières ont été observées dans le ciel de Montpellier. Il s'agissait là d'éclairages provenant de projecteurs près de la Halle Tropisme rapportent nos confrères de France 3.
En revanche, l'anomalie observée par plusieurs dizaines de personnes ce mardi 9 novembre estdifficilement explicable. Un nouveau dossier qui ne devrait pas manquer d'intéresserles experts du Geipan, un service du Cnes à Toulouse chargé des phénomènes spatiaux non identifiés.
These unknown lights were flying across the night sky above Syracuse, NY on 9th November 2021.
Witness report:
Myself and my 19 yo son were sitting on the back porch when we seen a orange light that I thought at first might be a plane. But it didn’t have blinking lights. Noticed a second one that looked like it was slowing down. Then it blinked out of sight. When down onto the yard to catch sight of the first on again then noticed 4 more. After recording that went inside to talk with family. Came back out and there were 2 more. All of them eventually blinked out. There was no noise. The lights were steady, going NW to SE. I used the compass on my phone.
Reptilians: What if intelligent dinosaurs evacuated Earth millions of years ago?
Reptilians: What if intelligent dinosaurs evacuated Earth millions of years ago?
Research evidence during this and last century leads some researchers to believe that a race from the age of dinosaurs was never completely extinct: “Some reptilians survived.”
The highly adaptable and cunning raptors could have survived millions of years ago to the impact of the Yucatan asteroid and subsequent massive climate change.
They would be the predecessors, of which some scientists agree, they have become an evolved and intelligent great race, the reptilians.
Those dinosaurs may have finally created advanced technologies and super-science that led to incredible knowledge, including interstellar spacecraft.
Over time they could have explored and colonized other planets creating a network of societies outside of Earth.
Some investigators of ‘alien contactee’ cases argue that many of today’s ET encounters are not aliens from another world, but lords originating from Earth.
The race of dinosaurs has watched humanity evolve over millions of years, subtly pushing humans toward an unknown goal:
A goal that drives a mysterious, perhaps terrifying agenda that only the dinosaur (reptilian) lords know about?
For many years scientists predicted the disappearance of the dinosaur race as a mass extinction in the footsteps of the catastrophic collision of a gigantic asteroid with Earth in the Chicxtulub Yucatan region.
They described a darkened world, an atmosphere choked by dust and swirling carbon storms from tens of thousands of blazing wildfires.
Its scenario matches the “nuclear winter” hypothesis of popular astronomer Carl Sagan.
Years ago, scientists believed that most plants died upon impact resulting in starvation of herbivores and when plant eaters died, so did the carnivores that fed on them.
Even the mighty T. Rex finally succumbed. But that was then, and this is now. And now a different picture has emerged.
New evidence points to the strong possibility that all the dinosaurs did not die within a few years after the asteroid hit. Some survived for many hundreds of thousands of years.
New data has also revealed that the Chicxtulub impact actually occurred 300,000 years ago before the originally accepted timeline, so it could not explain the mass extinction of the dinosaur race that followed.
The Yucatan asteroid did not kill the dinosaurs, study says. Another disturbing fact has worried some paleontologists for many years:
How could the most successful species on Earth that endured many climate changes in a span of almost 230 million years succumb so quickly to climate change?
The answer, other scientists say, is that dinosaurs did not succumb quickly. It took up to 700,000 years for these to disappear.
Over the past decade, mountains of evidence point to an entirely new picture of dinosaurs, their physiology, how they lived, and how they died.
Scientists have done a great rethinking of the dinosaur extinction hypothesis. These reptiles were also much more agile than scientists believed for a long time.
Some developed rudimentary hands that could eventually enable them to model and use tools. Some had brains evolving into true intelligence, such as velociraptors.
Surprisingly, all the necessary elements that allowed some races of dinosaurs to develop intelligently, at least the size of early man, have been confirmed.
And once the dinosaurs had reached that level on the evolutionary ladder, they had a better chance of survival. But is there any real evidence for the appearance of intelligent dinosaurs? Yes, there is.
Having a conscious brain that can think of solutions and extrapolate is an important step towards intelligence, but to be fully effective, the brain needs to link up with accessories that can significantly modify the environment.
Such an accessory must be very adaptable and capable of handling small things with a high degree of dexterity. Although dolphins are intelligent, they lack manipulative accessories, but humans have accessories that fit the criteria:
Hands; and these also grew on some of the dinosaurs. Such accessories, concurrent with the evolution of intelligence, allow the manipulation of habitats, the creation of rudimentary tools and weapons, and a better ability to dominate the environment.
«Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis, a dinosaur that inhabited the North American continent 200 million years ago was a small herbivore. Yet what the Sarahsaurus lacked, it made up for with hands: manipulative hands that were similar in size to human hands. And, according to studies by paleontologists, the creature’s hands gave it great power and influence. “
‘Evolutionary bioparanoia’ an article by John C. McLoughlin published in Animal Kingdom magazine, postulates the development of intelligent dinosaurs.
Other researchers followed up with the concept. The only restriction the researchers saw on the possibility of intelligent dinosaurs was that extinction came to them too quickly.
They lacked time to think about it and survive.
Author Thomas P. Hopp writes on his blog that“among paleontologists of our time, the notion of intelligent dinosaurs comes up more frequently than you might suppose. Although researchers in this field today would not risk their reputations by proposing a human intellect among the creatures of 65 million years ago, there have been many scientific discussions of the brain capacity that existed within the skulls of Cretaceous creatures large and small. »
Yet another blogger speculates on a recent theory that intelligent dinosaurs rule other planets.
En «Dinosaurios Extremadamente Inteligentes Podrían Gobernar Otros Planetas En El Universo» el escritor hace referencia a un estudio fascinante que aparecen en el diario de la American Chemical Society, previendo que «avanzadas versiones del T. Rex y otros dinosaurios, criaturas monstruosas con la inteligencia y la astucia de los seres humanos puedan ser las formas de vida que se desarrollaron en otros planetas en el universo.»
FoxNews también tomó el tema de los dinosaurios inteligentes e informó: «..que existen probablemente unos super evolucionados, superinteligentes aliens dinosaurio en el espacio» y que «sería mejor no juntarse con uno de ellos.»
El marco de tiempo original de la extinción de los dinosaurios, sin embargo fue sesgado. Algunos dinosaurios continuaron existiendo tanto como 700 milenios, tiempo más que suficiente para que los dinosaurios como el velociraptor evolucionaran a un mayor grado de inteligencia, creando la agricultura, armas, refugios y eventualmente pueblos y ciudades.
Estos reptiles podrían haber desarrollado un lenguaje, eventualmente escribieron, crearon herramientas y armas más avanzadas. Incluso haber sido guerreros peleandose unos con los otros compitiendo por las mejores tierras y recursos.
Mientras las culturas de reptiles se desarrollaban podrían necesariamente haberse vuelto más sofisticadas. Reptiles inteligentes que se protegen de los elementos con diseños de ropa, refugios y más eficientes y avanzados métodos agrícolas.
Los descubrimientos fueron progresado y la energía fue dominado. Eventualmente, muchos millones de años antes de que algunos mamíferos se convirtieran en la humanidad, la raza de reptiles tenía máquinas voladoras, satélites y naves espaciales.
Finalmente exploraron otros sistemas estelares. Incluso, aún siendo ellos avanzados, en su mayor parte abandonaron su tierra natal, visitándolo sólo esporádicamente para observar y vigilar la vida que sigue evolucionando en la Tierra, incluyendo los primeros homínidos que eventualmente se convirtió en Homo Sapiens.
El gran maestro tejedor de conspiraciones avid Icke obtuvo fama mundial con 19 best-sellers internacionales y un gran numero de seguidores.
Icke es la fuerza impulsora contra un cabal de secretos reptil-humanoides (diversamente llamados Reptil, Reptiloides o Reptilianos), la «hermandad babilónica» que manipula y dirige a los inocentes seres humanos para sus propios fines.
En un libro, El Secreto Más Grande, afirma que los seres humanos son producto de un programa diabólico reptil de reproducción que mutaron simples simios en esclavos humanoides casi-inteligentes para servir a sus amos reptiles.
Adoptando la hipótesis de sumeria de la raza extraterrestre de los Anunaki de Zecharia Sitchin, Icke ha creado un escenario espeluznante de naturaleza sorprendente e existencia artificial, los demonios señores lagarto y la manipulación de la conciencia.
In essence, reality is nothing more than an illusion directed and manipulated by cold and soulless reptilian beings. The only reality, Icke claims, is the Reptilian Realm of the Absolute. Could any of this be true?
Unbelievably, intelligent reptiles (dinosaurs) could have a real basis. Some paleontologists have seriously reflected on how these beings could have evolved, if they had not been exterminated by the impact of the Yucatan asteroid.
Your extrapolations may be closer to the truth than you think since the evidence that is emerging that the most intelligent reptiles were not destroyed by a global conflagration, but had almost three-quarters of a million more years to become intelligent, similar to the current human.
The concept, as you can imagine, is very controversial. Some paleontologists support or are intrigued by it; other scientists harshly criticize the idea as groundless or the utmost of homocentric arrogance.
Writes on the subject Dr. Dale Russell, the “discoverer of the Stenonychosaurus (now called Troodon) at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Ottawa, Canada.”
Russell posits that ‘the dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous were well on their way to becoming intellectual animals and that would have happened if the dinosaurs had not suffered extinction. The Stenonychosaurus had an opposite thumb, standing about three feet tall, and had binocular vision. It had all the ingredients for success as we see later in the development of the apes »
Again, in light of new discoveries about the dinosaur extinction timeline, the question must be posed,
Did velociraptors, Troodons or dinosaurs learn how to survive those hundreds of thousands of additional years and achieve a high level of intelligence? The odds seem to be getting better and better.
UFO researchers generally agree that alien visitors appear to come in many shapes and sizes.
Some researchers claim that there are 81 different races of ETs that visit Earth in ships of unimaginable size and configurations.
Most researchers familiar with ET contact and abduction cases agree that most humanoid beings fall into several important categories, including known Grays, Nordics (tall, blond, well-developed, indistinguishable from men and women and sometimes seen with grays), Drones (insectoid creatures that sometimes accompany grays) and Reptilians.
Of all the ETs, the Reptilians (and the legends and myths about them) are the only beings to seep into human history.
Famed ufologist and theorist Jacques Vallee calls ETs “messengers of deception.” Other researchers have called them intruders, invaders, or manipulators.
Even other researchers – familiar with cattle and human mutilations, bizarre tracking programs, and terrifying abduction sessions conducted aboard state-of-the-art ships seem almost magical – call them demons and killers.
Records, dating back many thousands of years, reveal that an extraterrestrial intelligence or intelligences had directed the course of human civilization in ways not always beneficial to the human race.
So are the aliens here to help, being ambivalent, assimilate humans through DNA mutation or rule them as the masters of the world?
Writer Claire L. Evans on the science blog Badim Universe Everything reflects on the Reptilian Agenda. While much of it is ironic, she accurately defines conspiracy hypotheses that basically revolve around reptilian humanoids.
They are “highly developed, supernatural, intelligent reptilian-human hybrids, or Reptiloids, who are capable of shapeshifting and supposedly controlling all major secret societies, the royal lineage, and governments on Earth.”
Aside from David Icke, Evans also targets researcher John Rhodes. The theory that Rhodes proposes is the only one with new evidence that is beginning to be supported:
Some of the so-called aliens are actually evolved dinosaurs that survived and are now much more advanced than humans.
They could be since the race of intelligent dinosaurs have a multi-million years of evolution more than the human race.
Rhodes was “the first” to seriously investigate and publicly present the claims of the humanoid reptile observations by founding the Reptoids.com Research Center in the late 1990s. Evans reveals:
“Rhodes maintains that these cryptozoological mysteries are not extraterrestrial in nature, nor do they have anything to do with the governments of the world. That kind of gossip is just an instinctive collective fear of the current global political climate. His lizardmen, rather, are evolved dinosaurs. “
If intelligent dinosaurs exist, what are their motives? What is your schedule? Is it benign or sinister?
Perhaps anthropological studies are underway, or a far-reaching sociological study of a fellow intelligence that took a different evolutionary path, even sharing its mother world with them.
Or maybe the motifs of these reptiles are much darker and more sinister. What’s your opinion about it? Leave your comment below.
Eat your heart out, Beyonce. While those who watched the Super Bowl continue to argue over the hidden meanings – Illuminatior otherwise – of Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime show (along with some band and that other guy) featuring a group of dancers performing in “Formation,” over 700 million viewers watched the Spring Festival Gala which marked the start of the Year of the Monkey with 540 robots dancing in unison while 26 drones performed in formation overhead.
Looking like a line of Robo-Rockettes
China Central Television’s annual Spring Festival Gala is billed as the most watched TV program in the world (six times as many viewers as the Super Bowl). The 4-and-a-half hour variety show featured 39 events ranging from singers to comedians to kung fu demonstrations. However, the highlight of the show was the robots.
As vocalist Sun Nan sang about China being a world leader, 540 robots proved it (at least in the field of dancing robots) by moving together to the beat of the music. Each robot is 16.5 inches tall and weighs 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds). Li Chao, the person in charge of the robotic performance, gave a hint as to how it was accomplished.
Each robot consists of 16 steering engines which are developed by our researchers independently. These steering engines can imitate the motions of human joints, so the robots can move so agilely.
According to a translation of the show’s description in the People’s Daily Online, there were a number of challenges in putting on this potentially record-setting (it’s been submitted to the Guinness Book of World records) performance. The original plan called for 240 robots but Li Chao upped the number to 540 at the last minute. This forced the robots to be 60 cm rather than one meter apart and required a boost in the control signals to compensate for distance and interference. Since the distance between the robots was so small, adjustments were made to their centers of gravity and range of motion to avoid a domino effect and a mess of bots.
The drones moving in over the dancing robots
The end of the performance included a coordinated flyover by 26 drones dropping glitter on the robots. That’s 540 robots shaking their metallic booties and doing handstands in a synchronized formation without a single mistake. The Monkey must be proud.
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There have long been very unsettling reports of unidentified aerial phenomena going on around nuclear facilities including nuclear power plants and those harboring ballistic missiles, and some of these are more disturbing than others. From 1947 to 1994, Loring Air Force Base was a United States Air Force installation located in northeastern Maine, near Limestone and Caribou in Aroostook County. During its decades of service, it was one of the largest bases of the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command, and during the Cold War, which lasted from 1947 to 1991, its location was extremely important because it was the closest point in the continental U.S. to Europe. For this reason, at the time it became an essential component of the country’s nuclear alert system, able to respond quickly to an incoming threat from the Soviet Union and respond with its two KC-135 tanker squadrons and B-52 bomber squadron, as well as the nuclear weapons it housed. At the time of the Cold War, which spanned most of its lifetime, it was an extremely important and sensitive installation with extremely high strategic value. It is for this reason that a strange series of events and unidentified objects in the skies around the base in the very darkest days of the Cold War were of immediate and critical concern.
Loring Air Force Base
The evening of October 27, 1975, began as usual for security personnel at the base, and things were uneventful until approximately 8 p.m., when things got rather weird very quickly. At the northern perimeter of the base, an airman patrolling the Loring weapons dump area spotted in the sky an unidentified aircraft of some sort with a red navigational light and a white strobe light slowly approaching the base perimeter at an altitude of between 150 and 300 feet. The strange object itself was not clearly seen, but hovered around the perimeter in a very helicopter-like way, bobbing and weaving and seeming to show particular intense interest in the nuclear weapons storage area, a highly secure and sensitive area that absolutely did not welcome unidentified aircraft of any kind. In response to the sudden intrusion, military helicopters were sent in to investigate and try to make contact with the trespasser, but all attempts to make radio contact were met with silence, and the exact nature of the mystery aircraft could not be identified, merely that it had a very bright strobe and could hover.
The base was put on high alert, and the already spooked personnel then picked up on a radar signature of another similar unidentified object around 10 to 13 miles east-northeast of their position. Contact was attempted with this aircraft too, on both civilian and military channels, but it too did not respond. The strange visitors apparently eerily circled about on their inscrutable errands for a full 40 minutes before the one near the base flew off towards Canada, and the other abruptly vanished from radar, leaving the base in a state of high alert and chaos. Considering that Loring was housing nuclear weapons and the aircraft to deliver those weapons, as well as its strategic importance, it was seen as a shocking and bold intrusion, a slap to the face, the base now buzzing with activity like a provoked hive of bees, and the higher ups were wondering what to do next. Even as they scrambled for answers and did their best to secure the base and keep the story from hitting the news, this would prove to not be the end of it.
Image by Steve Baxter
The following evening, on October 28, another strange object appeared at the base. It was first observed at 7:45 P.M. and would also hover about the premises, moving over the runway and near the nuclear weapons storage area, upon which it turned off its lights. Once again, helicopters were sent out to engage, but they were unable to make contact or identify what type of craft it was. Making it even stranger, witnesses on the ground who saw the mystery craft described it as an orange-and-red object shaped like an elongated football, with no windows or discernible doors, as well as no obvious propellers or other propulsion system and completely silent. Interestingly, helicopters that were sent out could not spot the strange intruder, and it often disappeared from radar. At the time the object seemed to appear and disappear from view, usually at a distance and described as behaving very much like a helicopter, but one of the more spectacular accounts of the object was made by two witnesses on the ground who saw it up close and gave an account that doesn’t sound much like a helicopter at all. The account is told in a book by UFO researchers Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett, called Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience, in which the account is given:
Sgt. Steven Eichner, a crew chief on a B-52 bomber, was working out of a launch truck along with Sgt. R. Jones and other members of the crew. Jones spotted a red and orange object over the flight line. It seemed to be on the other side of the flight line from where the weapons storage area was located. To Eichner and Jones, the object looked like a stretched-out football. It hovered in midair as everyone in the crew stared in awe. As they watched, the object put out its lights and disappeared, but it soon reappeared again over the north end of the runway, moving in jerky motions. It stopped and hovered. Eichner and the rest of the crew jumped into the truck and started to drive toward the object. Proceeding down Oklahoma Avenue (which borders the runway), they turned left onto the road that led to the weapons storage area. As they made the turn, they spotted the object about 300 feet in front of them. It seemed to be about five feet in the air and hovered without movement or noise. Exhibiting a reddish-orange color, the object was about four car lengths long. Eichner described what he saw next:
“The object looked like all the colors were blending together, as if you were looking at a desert scene. You see waves of heat rising off the desert floor. This is what I saw. There were these waves in front of the object and all the colors were blending together. The object was solid and we could not hear any noise coming from it.”
They could not see any doors or windows on the object nor any propellers or engines which would keep the object in the air. Suddenly, the base came alive. Sirens began screaming. Eichner could see numerous blue lights on police vehicles coming down the flight line and runway toward the weapons storage area at high speed. Jones turned and said to the crew, “We better get out of here!” They immediately did. The Security Police did not try to stop them. Their interest was in the object over the storage dump, not in the truck which was in a restricted area. The crew drove the truck back to its original location and watched from there. The scene at the weapons storage area was chaotic, with blue lights rotating around, and the vehicles’ searchlight beams shining in all directions. The object shut off its lights and disappeared, not to be seen again that night.”
The object appeared only intermittently on radar as it circled the nuclear area for nearly an hour before flying off into the night. An alert was sent out that an unknown aircraft had penetrated the base’s air space and the nuclear storage area, but a full sweep of the area turned up no evidence of what it was or where it had gone. For the next few nights these incidents would continue, and although the Air Force was insisting on officially calling them “unidentified helicopters,” some witnesses were not so sure. Although some witnesses did give the impression that they believed they had seen a helicopter, other descriptions seemed to defy this explanation. Some witnesses described a luminous, cigar shaped object capable of sharp turns, sudden vertical drops and rises, sudden rapid acceleration, and aerial acrobatics beyond the capabilities of a helicopter, and the fact that it was very often described as being completely silent did not seem to match with the helicopter theory either. It was also increasingly obvious that there was likely more than one of these things, and that the differences in appearance reported showed they could have been different types of craft.
Image by Steve Baxter
Despite the government’s insistence that these were probable helicopters, they were widely called UFOs by base personnel, many of who insisted that these objects were doing impossible feats up in the sky. Throughout these spooky incursions, radar operators would pick the objects up only to lose them again, and on several occasions fighter jets were scrambled, only to arrive on the scene to see nothing, even when ground personnel said they were right on top of them. Most of the time it seemed as if the objects were not able to be painted for radar to home in on, leaving pilots to hunt for the things based on verbal directions to the locations and never seeing anything. This seeming inability for pilots to get visual confirmation of them is truly bizarre, with all of these missions turning out to be wild goose chases, and one Chief Warrant Officer Bernard Poulin of the Maine Army National Guard’s 112th Medical Company would say of it:
Well, anyway, we hunted around, and we didn’t see anything. Again they would call and say they could hear it at a location, and we would go there, but could not see it. We would then shut down and wait for the next call. And that went on for a couple of nights. This, again, was early evening or early in the morning. I can recall on the second night of the mission radar picked up a return, but it turned out to be a KC-135 tanker returning from overseas. We could go real low to where they said it was and would turn on our search light and sweep the area with the light, but we never saw the craft. After it was over, we discussed our mission. The powers to be were quite concerned about what was going on and if we were able to see anything. They maintained all along up there, you know, those are pretty sensitive places and they have to know what the hell was going on. When they arrived at the base, the security lid was on so tightly that both pilots were permitted to call their wives only once to say that they were on a mission. In a meeting with Chapman, Poulin recalled the Commander saying, “We’ve got to keep the lid on the fact that someone has been able to penetrate in and around the bomb dump, and we don’t know what’s going on. We’ve got to find out what is going on and prevent it from happening again.”
Image by Steve Baxter
There would be other reports of this sense of secrecy, and of the government wanting to keep a lid on things. Personnel would report being debriefed after sightings and being told in no uncertain terms to talk to no one of what they had seen, or to spread the story that these were helicopters from over the Canadian border terrorizing them. Great efforts were made to keep all of this out of the press, but it started to hit the news in a big way. Throughout it all, the Air Force was adamant that it was all the doing of helicopters, even though they grudgingly admitted that they did not know for sure and it was officially classed as “unknown.” A complete investigation by the Air Force into it could not find a concrete cause for the sightings, and when the phenomena abruptly stopped on October 31, they were more than happy to try to brush it all under the carpet and divert attention away from the incident. Interestingly, during the same general timeframe, several other nuclear military installations around the United States experienced similar bizarre incidents involving unidentified flying objects invading their airspace, and it shows that this phenomenon expanded beyond just Loring.
Although the Air Force has tried to distance itself from the incident at Loring and other similar incidents at other bases, it has not been forgotten by the hundreds of witnesses who saw the phenomena for themselves and the numerous UFO researchers who have pursued it. What was going on here? It seems obvious that something unauthorized was making forays into the facility and showing an interest in the nuclear weapons storage site, in the process rattling the Air Force all the way up to the highest levels of the U.S. military’s command structure, but what was it? Were these helicopters, as the military seems to want us to believe? Was it perhaps some sort of experimental aircraft, either from the U.S. government testing our response to these intrusions, or from some foreign power, possibly even the Soviets? Or was this something else, possibly otherworldly visitors? In all cases, we are left to wonder what they wanted, why they menaced this facility, and where they went. It has gone on to become a very well-documented and intense case, yet despite thorough research into it all, there is very little known for sure other than that something very strange went on at Loring AFB during that week in 1975.
This Drone Accidentally Makes A Chilling Discovery After Flying Above This Active Volcano System via Unexplained Mysteries
This Drone Accidentally Makes A Chilling Discovery After Flying Above This Active Volcano System via Unexplained Mysteries
This drone accidentally makes a chilling discovery after flying above this active Volcano system. Today, we take a look at what this drone captured above this volcano system. Back in 2019, the White Island Crater Rim webcam took a chilling photograph. The image was taken at 2:10pm, but moments later the volcano erupted.
Those working monitoring the liv feed noticed that a group of hikers were in the crater at the time, with them having no idea that an eruption was about to take place. Officials said that it serves as a reminder as to how unpredictable nature can be. After the photographs were taken, investigators reported that the five individuals had passed away.
Police later confirmed that five had passed away from the incident, with another 20 people being unaccounted for following the eruption. Thank you for watching! Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!
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Scientists Sent An Underwater Robot Inside The Fukushima Reactor & Made A Chilling Discovery via Unexplained Mysteries
Scientists Sent An Underwater Robot Inside The Fukushima Reactor & Made A Chilling Discovery via Unexplained Mysteries
Scientists sent an underwater robot inside the Fukushima reactor & made a chilling discovery. Today, we take a look at what scientists found inside the Fukushima Reactor. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a devastating event, with 18 non-fatal injuries being directly attributed to the incident, including physical injuries from the hydrogen explosion and radiation burns, and one loss of life with a clear link to the radiation exposure from Fukushima.
This nuclear accident was caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, both of which hit the powerplant and saw an additional 18,000 lost their lives. Whilst it was 2011 when disaster struck, the aftermath lingers on even today. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster continues to this day to be the most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986… Thank you for watching! Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!
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Amerikaanse bemande maanlanding ten vroegste in 2025
De Verenigde Staten gaan niet voor 2025 met een bemande missie naar de maan, maakte de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA dinsdag bekend. Dat betekent minstens een jaar vertraging voor het streven van de gewezen president Trump om in 2024 weer mensen naar de maan en terug te brengen.
Reden is onder meer de rechtszaak die ruimtevaartbedrijf Blue Origin van multimiljardair Jeff Bezos had aangespannen over de bouw van de NASA-maanlander. De Amazon-oprichter was het er niet mee eens dat SpaceX, het bedrijf van Tesla-topman Elon Musk, het toestel mag bouwen, maar hij verloor die zaak vorige week.
Eerder had de NASA al twijfel geuit over de haalbaarheid van 2024 omdat de ruimtepakken voor de astronauten niet op tijd klaar zijn. Ook de coronapandemie speelt een rol bij de vertraging van de Artemis 3-missie.
Het bedrijf van Musk ontwikkelt een vaartuig waarmee astronauten voor het eerst sinds 1972 weer voet op de maan moeten zetten. Het is de bedoeling dat in 2025 een vrouw en een niet-witte man op de maan landen. In een later stadium moet de planeet Mars bezocht worden.
Guys, I got some video from the US National Archives and found a doorway to hell at the base of a nuclear explosion test at Bikini Atoll in 1945. I also noticed three UFOs flying across the top of the explosion. Can you imagine the nuke test causing a doorway into another dimension, space or time or planet? An alien steps through that door into the heart of our atomic bomb test...and its vaporized! Welcome to Earth.
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That Old “Second Sphinx” Chestnut Is Back – Is There or Is There Not A Hidden Sphinx?
That Old “Second Sphinx” Chestnut Is Back – Is There or Is There Not A Hidden Sphinx?
A tourism official in Egypt has been ridiculed by his peers after claiming a second giant statue of the famous Sphinx awaits discovery. This supposed second sphinx is causing quite a stir amongst Egyptologists who argue that it is all just a hoax.
Putting the Second Sphinx Claims in Context
We will reverse into this story after I tell you a tale about UFOs. Perhaps nothing antagonizes career debunkers and skeptics more than when a supposed “expert” or “official” in any given field skips over to the perceived dark side. This happened in February 2021 after astrophysicist Avi Loeb, Director of the Harvard Astronomy Department, told the New Scientist that the space rock Oumuamua was “maybe a piece of alien technology.”
As almost the entire scientific community facepalmed, as they watched a U.S. icon of logic and reason dive down the scientific rabbit hole, Loeb doubled-down, telling Scientific American that “aliens have visited, and I am not kidding.” Loeb is now leading the Galileo Project , searching for “extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs).”
Returning to the story at hand, Reda Abdel Halim is the director of public relations for the Giza pyramids district at the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Causing similar waves to Dr. Loeb in the U.S., Halim has told Cairo Live that he discovered “a statue in the pyramids area that is of similar size to the Sphinx.” In other words, he claims to have found a second sphinx.
Reda Abdel Halim has claimed that there is a second sphinx buried under the sand and that it is shaped like the Great Sphinx of Giza, pictured above.
Abdel Halim, just like Loeb, has also doubled down, hard. It’s one thing to casually speculate that astounding archaeology awaits discovery beneath the Egyptian sands. But Halim has gone so far as to say that the second sphinx is “73 meters (246 ft) high, with a head 20.5 meters (67 ft) high, and hands extended over 15.5 meters (50.8 ft).” In other words, it is shaped like the Great Sphinx of Giza .
When the tourist official was pressed for evidence related to his dramatic claims, he was ready with an apparently dynamite reference, a “scientific study” no less. Supposedly undertaken by a team of experts from Egypt’s Zagazig University, Halim claimed that the archaeologists conducting the study had “confirmed the existence of this statue.” Now Halim has made waves for “rediscovering” the second sphinx statue once more.
Reda Abdel Halim, director of public relations for the Giza Pyramids district at the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has claimed that there is a second sphinx.
What then does the greater archaeological community have to say about Abdel Halim’s incredible claim that a second sphinx is hidden under the sand? Well, that’s the thing, they say it is “incredible.” Very incredible in fact.
This idea, in its entirety, is nothing more than a “media fanfare” according to Zahi Hawass, the well-known former Minister of Antiquities. Hawass told Al-Monitor that the Great Sphinx of Giza “is unique in Egypt and the world.” He also said Halim’s reference to a study at the Zagazig University is also “false” and that nobody in Egyptological circles knows anything about the discovery of any such second sphinx.
At this stage of the story, it’s hard not to picture Halim with a shovel, in a pit, up to his neck. As hard as it might have been reading Dr. Hawass’s response to his claims, the enthusiastic Halim could have looked up humbly (from the pit) and said, “okay, I got carried away.”
When presented with such an uncomfortable situation, Halim could have chosen to climb out of the deepening rabbit hole. But Abdel Halim’s press return statement insisted the lost Sphinx featured on ancient writings carved into the original statue, but that they were “erased” to keep the second sphinx secret. A potential conspiracy theory was born.
Zahi Hawass on the left, one of the critics of the second sphinx claims, on a visit to the Great Sphinx of Giza with Barack Obama in 2009.
The Skeptics Bombing Run of “Baseless” Second Sphinx Claims
In military terms: Dr. Zahi Hawass was first to engage with the “bogie” (Abdel Halim) who courageously survived the first dog fight. However, over the horizon, a conceptual Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber would bring shock and awe to the extraordinary claims of Halim.
The bomber came in the form of Professor Mohammed Hamza, the former dean of the faculty of archeology at Cairo University. Putting the story to bed, Dr. Hamza told Al-Monitor that “any talk about the discovery of a new Sphinx is completely baseless.” Does that mean that this latest second sphinx claim is just another archaeological hoax?
It is perhaps worth noting that at the alleged site of the second sphinx another statue was discovered in the past. However, Dr. Halim said it has “nothing to do with the original Sphinx.” Furthermore, if you have been reading Ancient Origins news over the last two years you will understand that perhaps the greatest fact refuting the second sphinx claim is that news of such a discovery would have been all over the news. The Egyptian Antiquities Authority never fails to turn even the smallest discoveries into a story, never mind a second sphinx !
Top image: The Great Sphinx of Giza. Claims of a second sphinx are causing a stir in Egyptological circles.
Archaeologist Discovers Swiss Roman Battle Site and 2,000-Year-Old Dagger
Archaeologist Discovers Swiss Roman Battle Site and 2,000-Year-Old Dagger
Sometimes experts can get it wrong. And that is what seems to have happened in the case of a Swiss Roman battle site from 2000 years ago. The new site was found between the towns of Tiefencastel and the Cunter thanks to the persistence of an amateur archaeologist. Using a metal detector, Lucas Schmid, who is a volunteer at the Graubünden Archaeological Service, found a Roman dagger in the remote south-eastern region of Switzerland near the Crap-Ses gorge, which was a solid piece of evidence for what was until then an unknown Swiss Roman battle.
Using a metal detector, Lucas Schmid, a hobby archaeologist, found a Roman dagger in the south-eastern region of Switzerland, which was a solid piece of evidence for what was an unknown Swiss Roman battle.
The Swiss Roman Battle Site: Revealed Artifacts for 20 Years
Although the site became known 20 years back and yielded many artifacts at the time, it was believed to have surrendered all its treasures over the years. However, local amateur archaeologist Lucas Schmid believed otherwise.
His tenacity paid off when, two years ago, he managed to uncover the well-preserved 2000-year-old Roman dagger . This alerted experts to the possibility that there were more artifacts at the site to uncover. The University of Basel then began a five-year research project with the federal government and the canton.
Swissinfo.ch reports that over the last two years archaeologists have found a rich haul of hundreds of artifacts including the dagger, well-preserved slingshot stones , coins, nails, and part of a shield that are assumed to have been left behind after a Swiss Roman battle between the Roman army and a local tribe. The battle took place between the Roman army and a local Rhaetian tribe in what is the present-day canton of Graubünden.
“It looks like the locals have holed up and were shot at by the Romans with slingshots and catapults,” Peter Schwarz, professor of Provincial Roman Archaeology at the University of Basel, said.
A sling lead with an inscription that suggests that the twelfth Roman legion was involved in the Swiss Roman battle against the local Celtic Helvetii tribes.
The Roman Conquest of Switzerland Leads to Local Battles
The area of what is now Switzerland was populated by numerous tribes, most of which were Celtic, before the Roman conquest. The Helvetii were the most numerous but there were many others including the Rauraci in north-west Switzerland based around Basel, and the Allobroges around Geneva. South of the Swiss plateau were the Nantuates, Seduni and Veragri in the Valais region, the Lepontii in the Ticino and the Raetians in the Grisons area.
The first part of Switzerland to fall to Rome’s armies was southern Ticino, annexed after the Roman victory over the Insubres in 222 BC. The last obstacle in the path of Roman control of the Alps as a shield to northern Italy were the Raetians. After a first expedition against them by Publius Silius Nerva in 16 BC, a more consistent campaign by Drusus and the later emperor Tiberius brought Raetia, and with it all of Switzerland, firmly under Roman control.
And it is around this time that the battle in Graubünden must have taken place. This would make it even more significant, considering that it may have been one of the last few skirmishes between the Roman forces and local Swiss tribal forces before the Romans established control over the entire Alps region .
The carefully protected Roman dagger that led to the discovery of the Swiss Roman battle site.
According to Arkeonews, archaeologist Thomas Reitmaier said 7,000 square meters (7,655 square yards) out of a total of 35,000 square meters (41, 859 square yards) have been combed so far and the process had led to several hundred Roman artifacts being found. “Among the objects found were hundreds of shoe nails, slingshots, coins, and fragments of a shield that could be assigned to a local,” Reitmaier added.
How many people died in the battle is not clear and to date no graves have been found. However, the area will continue to be searched over the next year for clues about what happened there 2000 years ago.
Meanwhile, Lucas Schmid can take pride in what his efforts two years ago have led to: research on such a large scale with the involvement of the University of Basel as well as the federal and canton governments. “Of course, I’m glad that what I’m doing is making a difference” he said, Arkeonews reports.
It is to be hoped that as the battlefield in Graubünden yields up more of its treasures that serve as records of past events, archaeologists will be able to paint a clearer picture of those events.
Top image: The Roman dagger found by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector that revealed the “unknown” Swiss Roman battle site, where the twelfth Roman legion fought against local Celtic tribes.
Stonehenge Plaques Hold Secret Cultural Data, Says New Study
Stonehenge Plaques Hold Secret Cultural Data, Says New Study
Four Neolithic “chalk plaques” were discovered near Stonehenge between 1968–2017. A new study has shown that the ancient illustrations on the Stonehenge plaques are much more than just abstract patterns. The Stonehenge plaques were buried in a pit about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from England’s most famous ancient monument. English Heritagescientists have dated the plaques to between 2900 BC and 2580 BC. The new study has called these four ancient art works “some of the most spectacular chalk designs ever discovered in Britain.”
According to an article on Silent Earth , the plaque pit in which the artworks were discovered is located directly south of an entrance to the famous Cursus monument at Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, England. This is probably no coincidence and suggests some kind of connection between the chalk Stonehenge plaques and the Cursus, which was in use 500 to 820 years before the plaques were deposited in the nearby pit.
Examples of two-dimensional Neolithic artwork is a rarity in Britain, and chalk incisions, like these, are truly unique and unusual. The ancient chalk images discovered on the surface of the plaques have now been mapped by researchers at Wessex Archaeology and the full findings of the study were published in the journal Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society .
Since the first plaque was discovered in 1968, many archaeologists have been skeptical, maintaining that the chalk marks were mere random etchings. But now, using advanced imaging techniques, a team of scientists have revealed underlying “ geometric designs ” executed by artisans wielding “a range of artistic abilities,” according to the new study.
The reverse, back, side of the four Stonehenge plaques.
Aiming to “understand the creative process of these prehistoric artists,” professor of archaeology, Bob Davis, from the University of Cambridge, who led the new study, mapped the surfaces of each plaque using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI). This non-destructive scanning method means no physical contact with the artifacts was required, as it charted billions of data points pertaining to microscopic rises and dips of the surface texture of the plaques. The images show these points in different colors, representing highlights and shadows.
Plaque 1 shows the image of a twisted cord , which was the number one tool for farming, fishing, measuring, and building in the Neolithic period. The other three plaques demonstrate a kaleidoscope of apparently linear patterns. However, the new study demonstrates that these are interwoven with “deliberate, staged composition, execution and detail.” Having identified real world tools and conceptual elements (geometry) from Middle Neolithic culture, the paper suggests Late Neolithic Britain may have experienced a “golden age of chalk art .”
The lower part of Plaque 1 showing raw data under specular enhancement mode on the left and the engraved sequence on the right showing selected phases in red, dark blue, yellow, green, light blue and orange.
Neolithic Art Views Greatly Changed By the New Study
Until this new paper, archaeology was split over the content depicted on the chalk Stonehenge plaques. Many believed the linear patterns were random and contained no data whatsoever, while others maintained they were examples of hallucinogenic art under the influence of magic mushrooms . However, there has always been a faction of archaeologists that believed these plaques were much more than idle graffiti. Now, high technology has affirmed the last group’s suspicions demonstrating underlying meaning and “cultural significance” in the chalk Stonehenge plaques.
Co-author, archaeologist Phil Harding, first analyzed the plaques in the old analogue world, back in 1988. He said the modern analytical tools used in the new study offer deep new insights into the mindsets of the ancient people who made them, which they projected onto the ancient plaques with chalk.
Furthermore, another paper co-author, Matt Leivers, said the application of modern technology to the ancient artifacts allowed for not only a better understanding of the working methods of the Neolithic artists , but it also provided a rare glimpse into the artists’ “motivations.”
Having interpreted all of the lines and angles on the four plaques, the archaeologists concluded that they represent “an important cultural marker in the Neolithic period.” And with the twisted cord having been found marked on one plaque, it can be speculated that the Neolithic artists were inspired by everyday objects, trades and tools, just like today’s artists.
Top image: Two of the Stonehenge plaques, make of chalk, analyzed with high tech in the latest study.
MYSTERY WIRE - Jacques Vallée - Trinity UFO Crash in New Mexico
Hi all:
In this recent interview with French researcher Jacques Vallée by Mystery Wire’s George Knapp, Vallée made the firm assertion that the “avocado-shaped" craft that crashed in San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945 (near the Trinity nuclear test site) was taken over (or would have been taken over) by Project Manhattan - that is the Atomic Energy Commission. He says that there exists a report from the Atomic Energy Commission about the object, which was apparently in possession of a then (female) State of Washington Governor who had shown it to someone who had been instrumental in getting her elected. The report is not in the Air Force files, it is not in the CIA files, it is not in anybody’s files, and one will never have permission to have access to that level of classification unless one is really inside the atomic secrets, even the President would not need to be told about it unless there was something that came up specifically on that topic where it would be the Secretary of Energy who will have authority. Last summer, Vallée published his new book Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret which he co-wrote with journalist Paola Harris. According to the book description and press release, Vallée analyzed a piece of debris that one of the witnesses claims to possess.
Kind regards.
André
MYSTERY WIRE - Jacques Vallée - Trinity UFO Crash in New Mexico
The atomic age officially began in August 1945 when the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico at a place called Trinity. But something else happened near that site just a few weeks later. A local rancher and his children said an egg-shaped craft of unknown origin crashed into the desert. The ranchers who lived near the bomb site saw and felt the blast.
As black holes merge (illustration), they produce gravitational waves that ripple across the Universe.
Credit: Mark Garlick/SPL
Gravitational-wave observatories have released their latest catalogue of cosmic collisions, bringing their total number of detections to 90. The new crop of 35 events includes one featuring the lightest neutron star ever seen, as well as two clashes involving surprisingly large black holes.
The detections come from the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites, in Louisiana and Washington State, and their sister detector, Virgo, in Italy. They were recorded during 21 weeks of operations, beginning on 1 November 2019, that racked up an average detection rate of one event every 4.2 days. Since then, the collaboration has expanded to include the KAGRA detector in Japan, which started making observations in February 2020. The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration describes its results in a paper posted on the arXiv preprint repository1.
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time that are produced when large masses accelerate. Like the detections previously reported by LIGO–Virgo, the latest ones are all attributed to pairs of dense stellar remnants spiralling into each other and merging. The vast majority, including LIGO’s first historic detection in 2015, have involved pairs of black holes, but in a few cases one or both of the objects were neutron stars.
The collaboration initially released data on only high-confidence detections, but the latest catalogue — as well as the previous one, released in October 2020 — includes any detections that have better-than-even chances of being genuine gravitational waves. The team estimates that around 10–15% of the latest candidates in the catalogue are false alarms, “caused by instrumental noise fluctuations”.
This illustration shows merging two black holes.
Monster mash
From the shape and frequency of the waves produced by mergers, researchers can calculate the details of a host of features for the objects involved, including their masses and their distance from Earth. The latest 35 events varied in distance from roughly 245 million to more than 2.2 billion parsecs (800 million to more than 7 billion light years) away.
And they include some real monsters: two events involved black holes with masses more than 60 times that of the Sun. For astrophysicists, the mere existence of these black holes is problematic. Typically, black holes are thought to form from the collapse of a very massive star at the end of its life. But prevailing theories predict that some dying stars should explode rather than collapse, which should leave a dearth of black holes in the range of roughly 65–120 solar masses.
A merger that LIGO and Virgo picked up on 21 May 2019, revealed in last year’s catalogue, had already challenged that assumption because it involved a black hole of 85 solar masses. Now that the team has identified two more outlier events, it seems less likely that the earlier one was a fluke.
Alessandra Buonanno, a LIGO astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, says one possible explanation is that these massive black holes might have come about as a result of an earlier merger, rather than the collapse of a single star. “What we are seeing could be a second-generation binary,” she says.
The observatories spotted another intriguing event on 19 December 2019, involving a black hole 30 times the mass of the Sun swallowing a minuscule neutron star. At just 1.17 solar masses, it is the one of the lightest known neutron stars and the lowest-mass object ever detected by LIGO–Virgo. But Buonanno warns that this was one of the lower-confidence detections, so could represent background noise rather than a genuine event.
Pattern recognition
Another LIGO astrophysicist, Daniel Holz at the University of Chicago in Illinois, says that the bounty of black-hole mergers is getting large enough for researchers to be able to see patterns emerging. The most conspicuous of these is that black-hole mergers tend to happen more often in galaxies that are farther away from us in space and time2.
The upshot is that black-hole mergers have been getting less common as the Universe matures. “This is consistent with expectations from theory,” Holz says. “There were more stars being created earlier in the Universe, and therefore it is natural to expect that there would be more black holes created, and therefore more black-hole mergers.”
LIGO and Virgo shut down on 27 March 2020 — earlier than planned owing to the COVID-19 pandemic — and have been undergoing major upgrades. They are expected to reopen in late 2022 for another run of observations, which together with KAGRA could double the bounty yet again. Researchers expect that once they have hundreds of events to compare, they will be able to see trends that point to the origins and history of the binary systems involved in the mergers, as well as the history of the Universe itself. "When we get down to the end of that, it’s going to be amazing," says Holz.
Meanwhile, astronomers around the world are still hoping for a repeat of the August 2017 merger of two neutron stars, which is the only gravitational-wave event so far to have also been seen by conventional observatories.
Astrobiologists Call for New Framework in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Astrobiologists Call for New Framework in Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has been a source of wonder for humanity for millennia or more. Advances in planetary sciences, astronomy, biology and other fields now leave us poised, as never before, to address this question with scientific rigor. Numerous challenges confront this endeavor, including challenges of perception and communication. Evidence of extraterrestrial life may be subtle or unfamiliar, and reveal itself only in stages, as one observing campaign informs the next. However, the search for such evidence is often framed as an all-or-nothing proposition: either a mission returns definitive evidence of life or it has fallen short of its objective. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, astrobiologists from NASA and the University of Maryland aim to motivate and seed the discussion with basic considerations and offer an example of how such considerations might be incorporated and applied in a proof-of-concept-level framework.
Our generation could realistically be the one to discover evidence of alien life.
Image credit: Fernando Ribas.
“Having a scale like this will help us understand where we are in terms of the search for life in particular locations, and in terms of the capabilities of missions and technologies that help us in that quest,” said NASA’s chief scientist Dr. Jim Green.
“The scale contains seven levels, reflective of the winding, complicated staircase of steps that would lead to scientists declaring they’ve found life beyond Earth.”
As an analogy, Dr. Green and his colleagues point to the Technology Readiness Level scale, a system used inside NASA to rate how ready a spacecraft or technology is to fly.
“Until now, we have set the public up to think there are only two options: it’s life or it’s not life,” said Dr. Mary Voytek, head of NASA’s Astrobiology Program at NASA Headquarters.
“We need a better way to share the excitement of our discoveries, and demonstrate how each discovery builds on the next, so that we can bring the public and other scientists along on the journey.”
The field of astrobiology pursues some of the most profound questions that anyone could ask, regarding our origins and place in the Universe.
As scientists learn more and more about what kinds of signals are associated with life in diverse environments on Earth, they can create and improve upon technologies needed to find similar signs elsewhere.
While the exact details of the scale will evolve as astrobiologists, communicators, and others weigh in, the team’s paper offers a starting point for discussion.
At the first step of the scale, ‘Level 1,’ astrobiologists would report hints of a signature of life, such as a biologically relevant molecule. An example would be a future measurement of some molecule on Mars potentially related to life.
Moving up to ‘Level 2,’ scientists would ensure that the detection was not influenced by the instruments having been contaminated on Earth.
At ‘Level 3’ they would show how this biological signal is found in an analog environment, such as an ancient lakebed on Earth similar to Jezero Crater, the landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover.
To add evidence to the middle of the scale, scientists would supplement those initial detections with information about whether the environment could support life, and rule out non-biological sources. For Mars in particular, samples returned from the planet could help make this kind of progress.
Perseverance will soon be collecting and storing samples with the goal of a future mission returning them one day.
Since different teams on Earth would have the opportunity to independently verify hints of life in Mars samples with a variety of instruments, the combination of their evidence could achieve ‘Level 6,’ the second highest step on the scale.
But in this example, to reach ‘Level 7,’ the standard by which scientists would be most sure they had detected life on Mars, an additional mission to a different part of Mars may be required.
“Achieving the highest levels of confidence requires the active participation of the broader scientific community,” the scientists said.
An example of a progressive scale for communicating the nature of results that may provide evidence for life.
Image credit: Green et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03804-9.
This scale would apply to discoveries from beyond the Solar System, too.
Detecting oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet would be a significant step in the process of searching for life.
We associate oxygen with life because it is made by plants and we breathe it, but there are also geological processes that generate oxygen, so it is not proof by itself of life.
To move upward on the scale, a mission team could demonstrate that the oxygen signal was not being contaminated by light reflected from Earth and study the chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere to rule out the geological explanation.
Additional evidence of an environment that supports life, such as an ocean, would bolster the case that this hypothetical planet is inhabited.
Scientists who study exoplanets are eager to find both oxygen and methane, a combination of gases in Earth’s atmosphere indicative of life. Because these gases would lead to reactions that cancel each other out unless there are biological sources of both present, finding both would be a key ‘Level 4’ milestone.
To reach ‘Level 5,’ astronomers would need a second, independent detection of some hint of life, such as global images of the planet with colors suggestive of forests or algae. They would need additional telescopes or longer-term observations to be sure they had found life on an exoplanet.
The study authors emphasize that the scale should not be seen as a race to the top.
The scale emphasizes the importance of the groundwork that many NASA missions lay without directly detecting possible biological signals, such as in characterizing environments on other planetary bodies.
Upcoming missions such as Europa Clipper, an orbiter headed for Jupiter’s icy moon Europa later this decade, and Dragonfly, an octocopter that will explore Saturn’s moon Titan, will provide vital information about the environments in which some form of life may one day be found.
“With each measurement, we learn more about both biological and non-biological planetary processes,” Dr. Voytek said.
“The search for life beyond Earth requires broad participation from the scientific community and many kinds of observations and experiments.”
“Together, we can be stronger in our efforts to look for hints that we are not alone.”
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J. Green et al. 2021. Call for a framework for reporting evidence for life beyond Earth. Nature 598, 575-579; doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03804-9
This article is based on text provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Last year, US authorities reported a series of incidents involving unidentified drones buzzing US infrastructure and military assets. However, none of the past reported cases were known to involve direct attacks on facilities or equipment.
A modified drone which crashed near a Pennsylvania power substation in July 2020 was “likely being used…to specifically target energy infrastructure,” a law enforcement bulletin by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center has revealed.
The memo, obtained by ABC News and CNN, said that authorities still do not know what individual or group may have been operating the drone, which crashed on a roof close to the substation. No details were provided on which power facility was targeted, and no damage was reported. The memo did not specify the cause of the crash.
The drone was said to have been modified, and fitted with a tether supporting a length of copper wire –apparently meant to short-circuit the high-voltage equipment at the substation by coming into contact with it, potentially leading to plant shutdown and possible combustion. The UAV used was a DJI Mavic 2, a consumer-grade quadrocopter commonly sold for about $1,600 US online. The drone’s camera, memory card and serial number labels had been removed.
SpaceX's Endeavor capsule appears like a shooting star or 'donut UFO' over Louisiana and Alabama during the return trip to Earth that brought four astronauts home from the ISS
SpaceX's Endeavor capsule appears like a shooting star or 'donut UFO' over Louisiana and Alabama during the return trip to Earth that brought four astronauts home from the ISS
SpaceX's Endeavor capsule brought four astronauts home last night
The craft was spotted streaking across the night Monday evening
Reports of light show came from Alabama and Louisiana
The capsule was traveling at least 17,000mph at the time
The cosmic light show was a result of the Endeavour craft soaring through Earth’s atmosphere as it headed towards its designated splashdown zone in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida.
Carrying four astronauts, the capsule splashed down on time at 10:33pm ET, bring the, Crew-2 mission back to Earth after spending the last 200 days aboard the International Space Station.
The astronauts – NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with the European Space Agency's Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's astronaut Akihiko Hoshide – not only made headlines for coming home, but for having to complete the journey in diapers due to a faulty toilet in the capsule.
Sightings of the SpaceX capsule were reported in Louisiana, Alabama and several other states along the gulf.
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The light show was a result of the Endeavour craft soaring through Earth’s atmosphere as it headed towards its designated splashdown zone in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida
Matt Kroschel, an anchor for a local news outlet in Huntsville, Alabama, urged residents to not call the newsroom with UFO reports if they spotted a streak of light in the night sky.
Twitter user Christopher of Mandeville, Louisiana shared a great image of the event on Twitter.
‘Holy cr** that was awesome,’ he included with the tweet.
The capsule traveled at least 17,000 miles per hour during deorbit as it fell towards the ocean.
It eventually slowed down and released parachutes to help stop it from crashing.
One spectator joked on Twitter about the capsule potentially being a UFO when it streaked through the night sky
At 10:38pm ET on Monday, the green light was given for the rescue crews to approach the capsule that had just landed in the Gulf of Mexico.
'We were on the helipad watching the crew members streak through the atmosphere, and it looked like a meteor - it was truly incredible,' said Leah Cheshier, a NASA spokesman.
'We couldn't ask for better conditions and things are moving really smoothly here and happening as planned.'
At 11:14pm ET, the side hatch was opened, and the crew disembarked.
Carrying four astronauts, the capsule splashed down on time at 10:33pm, bring the Crew-2 mission back to Earth after spending the last 200 days aboard the International Space Station
The astronauts – NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with the European Space Agency's Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's astronaut Akihiko Hoshide – not only made headlines for coming home, but for having to complete the journey in diapers due to a faulty toilet in the capsule
McArthur, the captain, was the first to leave, at 11:26pm ET.
She was followed by Commander Kimbrough, beaming as he was carried out of the capsule and put on the stretcher to be wheeled away. He waved for the cameras and made a V for Victory sign.
All four were out of the capsule by 11:33pm, with smiles and fist-bumps all round.
Their return was initially set for Sunday afternoon, but high winds delayed the trip by a day.
Matt Kroschel, an anchor for a local news outlet in Huntsville, Alabama urged residents to not call the newsroom with UFO reports if they spot a streak of light in the night sky
Another sighting was reported over Gulf Shores, Alabama. The capsule traveled at least 17,000 miles per hour during deorbit as it free-falls toward the ocean, all the while slowing its speed before releasing parachutes to help stop it from crashing before splashing down
The SpaceX capsule, named Endeavour, was without a bathroom, due to a faulty toilet design, forcing the crew to wear diapers for the trip back to Earth.
However, the rescheduled mission cut the trip from space by 12 hours - it was only eight hours long instead of the expected 20 hours - due to the path from the ship to Earth, so the team did not have to sport the protective undergarments for as long as previously expected.
The Endeavour capsule is not the first SpaceX craft to spark UFO reports upon returning to Earth.
The Cargo Dragon C208-2 undocked from the ISS at 9:12am Thursday, following a supply run to the ship, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean around 11pm ET on September 30.
In September, Cargo Dragon C208-2 was spotted streaking through the night sky over parts of Georgia and Florida
The Cargo Dragon C208-2 undocked from the ISS at 9:12am Thursday, following a supply run to the ship, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean around 11pm ET on September 30
SpaceX tweeted that the capsule may be visible in parts of Georgia and Florida – and the firm was correct.
Many residents shared the event on Twitter, showing images of the glowing craft with a long, illuminated tail as it soared over highways and neighborhoods.
Local news stations in Florida received numerous reports of a loud boom on Thursday night, which was heard by residents in the Jacksonville area and all the way down to St. Augustine.
Residents said the loud boom rattled dishes and windows, along with entire homes.
The loud noise was a sonic boom released from the capsule, Newsweek reports.
According to NASA, a sonic boom is the thunder-like noise that someone on the ground hears when an aircraft or spacecraft overhead flies faster than the speed of sound.
ISS-astronauten na half jaar in de ruimte veilig geland in Golf van Mexico
De vier astronauten die eind april met een raket van SpaceX naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS vertrokken, zijn veilig geland in de Golf van Mexico. De landing in de zee bij de Amerikaanse staat Florida vond plaats om 22.33 uur lokale tijd.
De bemanningsleden, twee Amerikanen, een Japanner en een Fransman die onderhoud aan zonnepanelen en allerlei experimenten hebben uitgevoerd, waren ongeveer acht uur onderweg. Het vertrek was met een dag vertraagd vanwege slechte weersomstandigheden.
Het viertal was gearriveerd met de Endeavour van het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Elon Musk. Niet eerder waren astronauten met een gebruikte raket en capsule de ruimte in gestuurd. Na 199 dagen waarin ze onder meer chilipepers hebben verbouwd en wormen hebben bestudeerd, was het tijd voor de terugreis.
Luiers
Ongemakkelijk was dat op de terugreis het toilet niet werkte, zodat de bemanning luiers moest dragen. Het systeem om afval te verwerken in de capsule kampte met problemen.
De vervanging van de crew ondervindt ondertussen keer op keer vertraging, door het weer en een medische kwestie, meldde de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. De nu geplande vertrekdatum is woensdag. Dan moeten drie Amerikanen en een Duitser worden gelanceerd vanaf ruimtebasis Cape Canaveral in Florida. Ook zij verblijven volgens de planning een half jaar in het ruimtestation.
SpaceX capsule splashes down after astronauts’ six months onboard ISS
SpaceX capsule splashes down after astronauts’ six months onboard ISS
Endeavour parachutes into sea after a fiery re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere broadcast live by Nasa on web
SpaceX capsule streaks across the sky before splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico – video
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Four astronauts strapped inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule have splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, ending a six-month Nasa mission onboard the International Space Station and a daylong flight home.
The Dragon vehicle, dubbed Endeavour, parachuted into the sea as planned just after 10:30pm EST on Monday, after a fiery re-entry descent through Earth’s atmosphere broadcast live by a Nasa webcast.
Live thermal video imaging captured a glimpse of the capsule streaking like a meteor through the night sky over the Gulf minutes before splashdown.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft as it lands in the Gulf of MexicoPhotograph: Aubrey Gemignani/EPA
Applause was heard from the flight control centre as the four main parachutes inflated above the capsule as it drifted down toward the Gulf surface, slowing its speed to about 15 mph (24 kph) before dropping gently into the calm sea.
“Endeavour, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home to planet Earth,” a voice from the SpaceX flight control centre in suburban Los Angeles was heard telling the crew as a safe splashdown was confirmed.
Within an hour, all four astronauts were out of the capsule, exchanging fist bumps with the team on the recovery ship. “It’s great to be back,” one of the astronauts radioed in reply.
Operating autonomously, the spacecraft began its eight-hour return voyage earlier in the day with a 90-minute fly-around of the space station as the crew snapped a series of survey photographs of the orbiting outpost, circling the globe 250 miles (400 km) high.
The Crew Dragon then proceeded through a series of manoeuvres over the course of the day to bring it closer to Earth and line up the capsule for its final night-time descent.
Propelled by one last ignition of its forward rocket thrusters for a “de-orbit burn,” the capsule re-entered the atmosphere at about 17,000 mph (27,359 kph) for a freefall toward the ocean below, during which crew communications were lost for several minutes.
Parachutes are deployed from the SpaceX Dragon capsulePhotograph: AP
Intense friction generated as the capsule plunges through the atmosphere sends temperatures surrounding the outside the vehicle soaring to 3,500 degrees fahrenheit (1,927 degrees Celsius). The re-entry friction also slows the capsule’s descent before parachutes are deployed.
The astronauts’ flight suits are designed to keep them cool if the cabin warms up, while a heat shield protects the capsule from incinerating on re-entry.
The crew, which spent 199 days in space during this mission, was made up of two Nasa astronauts – mission commander Shane Kimbrough, 54, and pilot Megan McArthur, 50 – along with Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, 52, and fellow mission specialist Thomas Pesquet, 43, a French engineer from the European Space Agency.
They were lofted to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off on 23 April from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
It was the third crew launched into orbit under Nasa’s fledgling public-private partnership with SpaceX, the rocket company formed in 2002 by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who also co-founded electric carmaker Tesla Inc.
One irregularity confronting the returning crew was a plumbing leak aboard the capsule that put the spacecraft’s toilet out of order, requiring the astronauts to use spacesuit undergarments if nature called during the flight home, according to Nasa.
‘Astounding’ Roman Statues Found Under Medieval Church in Britain
‘Astounding’ Roman Statues Found Under Medieval Church in Britain
Archaeologists digging at the site of a Norman-era church north of London received quite a surprise recently. Their ongoing excavations unearthed the well-preserved remains of three large Roman statues that must have been buried there for more than 1,000 years. The find included three detached statue heads - of a man, woman, and child - along with two intact busts (neck, shoulders, and chests) that matched the heads of the adults.
The archaeologists who made this shocking discovery were carrying out excavations below St. Mary’s Church, a 900-year-old structure located in the village of Stoke Mandeville adjacent to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire county. They were working under the authority of the HS2 high-speed railway project, which is currently sponsoring excavations (as required by law) along the rail line route that will eventually connect London with the West Midlands.
In an HS2 press release , Dr. Rachel Wood, the lead archaeologist for HS2 contractor Fusion JV, referred to the Roman statues as “utterly astounding finds.”
Male head and torso of Roman statue discovered during a HS2 archaeological dig at the site of old St Mary’s church in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.
“To find one stone head or one set of shoulders would be really astonishing,” she said, “but we have two complete heads and shoulders as well as a third head as well.”
This incredibly rare discovery has generated a lot of excitement among the HS2 archaeological team. It has also forced them to reconsider their initial interpretation of an earlier discovery at the St. Mary’s site.
Just last month, the archaeologists found the ruins of a large stone building buried directly beneath the Medieval church. The Normans had built a compacted dirt foundation on top of the rubble of that building, before beginning construction on St. Mary’s in the year 1080.
“The team working at St Mary’s discovered flint walls forming a square structure underneath the Norman levels, enclosed by a circular boundary ditch, and a small number of associated burials,” an HS2 spokesperson announced in September . “Archaeologists believe this to be an Anglo-Saxon church.”
“The flint foundations are about one meter wide,” the spokesperson continued, “which indicates it would have been a tall structure, although its footprint would have been small.”
The archaeologists were finishing excavations in and around the building at the time they discovered the Roman statues . Reaching the bottom layer of the hidden church site, they thought they were digging into the foundations of an old Anglo-Saxon tower. But when they saw the Roman busts, they realized the site’s history went back even further than they’d imagined.
The Statues and Other Finds that Link the Site to Roman Settlers
The statue heads and torsos were all in excellent condition. It was possible to make out precise facial details, and also to identify the types of clothing and head coverings they were wearing.
Female head of Roman statue discovered during a HS2 archaeological dig at the site of old St Mary’s church in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.
While the Roman statues are the most notable find at St. Mary’s, they were not the only artifacts that linked the site to Roman settlers.
The HS2 archaeologists also unearthed the remains of a hexagon-shaped Roman glass jug, which was in excellent condition and could easily be reconstructed with no missing pieces. Only one other vessel of this kind is known to exist. It is presently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Other distinctive Roman artifacts were also found during the latest excavations, including large roof tiles, pieces of painted wall plaster, and Roman cremation urns.
The last discovery seems especially significant, as revealed by the contents of the HS2 press release about the discoveries at the site.
“Archaeologists now believe the square building that pre-dates the Norman church is a Roman mausoleum,” the release said. “Roman materials found in the ditch around are too ornate and not enough in number to suggest the site was a domestic building.”
If the stone tower was in fact a mausoleum, or large tomb, it may have hosted the cremated remains of the three individuals (members of a wealthy and important family?) who were depicted in the statues.
A few pieces of Saxon pottery and a Saxon coin were found in the circular ditch that surrounded the large structure. But the archaeologists now believe the Saxons only occupied or modified pre-existing Roman structures, rather than building something new and original on their own.
How Lost and Forgotten Artifacts Reveal the Truth about History
The Romans remained in Britain for nearly 400 years after conquering the lands in the first century AD. They would have occupied the land on which St. Mary’s Church was built sometime during that time period, when the statues and mausoleum were created.
It is likely that the Roman statues were intentionally damaged by future occupants before being abandoned, which would explain why the heads were disconnected from the bodies.
“The disfiguration of the Roman busts, namely the removal of the head of each, is not entirely unusual as it is common for statues such as these to have been vandalized in some way before being torn down,” the HS2 press release explained. “These are early examples of how statues and historic artifacts have been discarded as society has evolved over time.”
Of course, archaeological ventures are launched primarily to search for such abandoned and forgotten objects, which can dramatically enhance our understanding of past eras.
“These extraordinary Roman statues are just some of the incredible artifacts uncovered between London and the West Midlands,” said Mike Court, the HS2, Ltd. lead archaeologist. “As HS2 builds for Britain’s future, we are uncovering and learning about the past, leaving a legacy of knowledge and discovery.”
The HS2 archaeological initiative has given archaeologists access to vast tracts of land that had been largely off-limits before. They are taking full advantage of the opportunity, learning many new and exciting facts about the United Kingdom’s complex and colorful history in the process.
Top image: Complete bust of female Roman statue discovered at the site of old St Mary’s church in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England. Source: HS2
Hundreds of ancient artifacts revealing a Roman battle site from about 2,000 years ago have been unearthed in Switzerland. The items include well-preserved slingshot stones, nails, coins, a portion of a shield, and a dagger – they were believed to have been left behind after a battle took place between the Romans and a local tribe around the year 15 BC.
It was Lucas Schmid who made the first discovery of a dagger close to the Crap-Ses gorge which is between the towns of Tiefencastel and Cunter. It was actually rather surprising that he found anything as there wasn’t thought to have been any artifacts left after several people with metal detectors had previously gone over the property and found other items.
(Not the dagger mentioned in this article.)
In an interview with SWI swissinfo.ch, Schmid described how he found the dagger, “The signal from the metal detector was very inconspicuous and quiet. At first there was nothing to suggest such a large find,” adding, “As I dug deeper the tension rose – I knew it had to be an old object. When I exposed one end of the object I saw that it was a dagger. When I saw it was a complete dagger I was overjoyed.”
After Schmid found the dagger, a team of archaeologists from the University of Basel went to the site and unearthed several hundred more items within a 35,000-square-meter area. The items found at the site, which included shoe nails and coins, were from around 15 BC when the battle occurred.
As for the battle, the local Raetian tribe was living in the eastern Alps (this included portions of what is now Italy and Austria), but when the Romans conquered the area, they referred to it as Raetia under Augustus (in reference to the Roman Emperor Augustus). It is estimated that up to 1,500 soldiers were involved in the battle.
Peter Schwarz, who is a professor of Provincial Roman Archaeology at the University of Basel, told SWI swissinfo.ch, “This is the first time that remnants from a Roman battle site has been found in Switzerland,” adding, “It seems that the Romans attacked their enemy on one side of the valley and then drove them over a river to the other side, before attacking again.”
Interestingly, researchers have not found any graves at the battle site and it’s unclear as to how many of the estimated 1,500 soldiers died. Further excavations will be conducted next year so perhaps they’ll make even more discoveries at the site.
ISS-astronauten met luiers op weg terug naar aarde
De vier astronauten die eind april met een raket van SpaceX naar het internationale ruimtestation ISS vertrokken, zijn op weg terug naar aarde. De bemanningsleden, twee Amerikanen, een Japanner en een Fransman die onderhoud aan zonnepanelen en allerlei experimenten hebben uitgevoerd, worden in de vroege ochtend verwacht in de zee bij Florida. Het vertrek was met een dag vertraagd vanwege slechte weersomstandigheden.
Het viertal was gearriveerd met de Endeavour van het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Elon Musk. Nooit eerder waren astronauten met een gebruikte raket en capsule de ruimte in gestuurd. Na 199 dagen waarin ze onder meer chilipepers hebben verbouwd en wormen hebben bestudeerd, is het tijd voor de terugreis.
Enig minpunt is dat op de terugreis het toilet niet werkt, zodat de bemanning luiers moet dragen. Het systeem om afval te verwerken in de capsule kampt namelijk met problemen.
Ook de vervanging van de crew ondervindt ondertussen keer op keer vertraging, door het weer en een medische kwestie, meldde de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA. De nu geplande vertrekdatum is woensdag. Dan moeten drie Amerikanen en een Duitser worden gelanceerd vanaf ruimtebasis Cape Canaveral in de Amerikaanse staat Florida. Ook zij verblijven volgens de planning een half jaar in het ruimtestation.
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Here is the proof that S4 'the underground UFO base' really exists
Here is the proof that S4 'the underground UFO base' really exists
Lazar's story about the secret underground facility S4 sounds fantastic but it is not a lie. S4 facility at Area 51 photographed during construction.
The location of S4 has been a mystery for decades. Bob Lazar worked at S4 from December 1988 till mid of 1989. All he shared with the public were a few sketches and a short description of nine hangars built in the slope of a mountain, located ten miles South of Groom Lake (Area 51) and near the Papoose Lake dry bed.
So where is this base? With so little information finding S4 is searching for the needle in the haystack.
31 Years passed and the location was still unknown. People found lines in the sediment in a mountain on the Eat side of Papoose Lake and UAP Research too believed to have found S4 (actually we now believe that it is the predecessor of S4) South of Papoose Lake but the evidence was still missing.
Not anymore as a couple months ago while watching an old video from 1989 UAP Research saw something that dropped his mouth open. Was this the needle? Yes it was!
The video below shows all the information, maps, satellite images, sketches related to the location of S4 'the underground UFO base.'
An extraterrestrial stalker leaves a family frozen in fear outside of Juneau, Alaska. A maritime monster nearly capsizes an aircraft on Alaska’s famed Lake Iliamna. A hunter thwarts an attempted abduction by a fireball-spitting UFO.
NASA’s Perseverance rover doesn’t only spend its time looking down at the rocks and dust that cover the surface of Mars. It also looks up, and recently it captured an image of Mars’ tiny moon, Deimos, hovering overhead in the Martian sky.
Deimos is the smaller of Mars’ two moons, along with its bigger companion, Phobos, and measures less than 2 miles across. It is covered in impact craters from asteroid strikes, and it’s also covered in dust that gives it a smoother appearance than Phobos.
NASA shared the following image captured by the rover looking up, which zooms in to show the tiny bright white dot of Phobos passing through the sky:
A particularly intriguing concept about Mars’ moons is that they could once have been rings, like those around Saturn. Over thousands of years, the material in these rings condensed into the two moons we see today. And the moons might not be around forever — one theory states that eventually Phobos will come too close to Mars and break apart into tiny pieces, becoming a set of rings. This may even operate as a cycle, with Mars switching between rings and moons over millennia.
Rendering showing a planetary ring system over Mars. Demonstrates either the formation or destruction of Phobos and/or Deimos.Kevin Gill
Mars’ moons have also been in the news recently as Japanese scientists suggested that Deimos’ companion, Phobos, may be the ideal location to search for signs of ancient life. Although the moon itself lacks atmosphere and water, making it unsuitable for hosting life, it could carry evidence if there was once life on Mars. Asteroid strikes on the Martian surface have sent material flying onto Phobos, and its sterile environment could preserve these signs long-term.
We’ll learn more about Phobos and Deimos soon, as the Japanese space agency (JAXA) will be sending its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe to visit them both. The plan is for the probe to land on Phobos and collect a sample to return to Earth, and it will also perform a flyby of Deimos on its way. The mission aims to launch in 2024.
When then-Vice President Mike Pence announced a deadline of 2024 for American astronauts to return to the moon, the decision was meant to infuse a new sense of urgency in NASA’s latest attempt to return to the moon. However, as Defense One suggests, a couple of developments have cast doubt on whether that deadline is feasible.
First, the NASA inspector general has announced that the lunar crew’s spacesuits will not be ready by 2024. Also, the 100-day delay resulting from the protest filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by Blue Origin and Dynetics concerning the award to SpaceX for the Human Landing System (HLS) is also placing the 2024 lunar landing in doubt. The GAO eventually found in favor of NASA and SpaceX. NASA duly paid SpaceX a down payment of $300 million for the lunar Starship. But the damage may have been done.
According to the Verge,Jeff Bezos has filed suit in federal court challenging NASA’s decision to give SpaceX a sole contract to build the lunar lander. The court has granted a stay on the further development of the lunar lander until Nov. 1, further casting the 2024 moon landing in doubt. Ars Technica suggests the lawsuit is already causing some blowback to Blue Origin, even within the organization.
Elon Musk, who is preparing to send the latest version of the Starship into orbit on top of a Superheavy Rocket, seems to be taking the drama being caused by his rival in stride. The SpaceX CEO took to Twitter and quipped, “If lobbying & lawyers could get u to orbit, Bezos would be on Pluto.”
Musk also made a couple of interesting promises that NASA needs to pay attention to. First, he suggested on Twitter that SpaceX could develop a 21st-century moon suit “if need be” by 2024. Musk also suggested that the lunar Starship would be ready to take Americans back to the moon “probably sooner” than 2024.
In the meantime, Blue Origin has mounted a social media campaign attacking the SpaceX lunar Starship as too complex and too risky compared to the lunar lander proposed and rejected by NASA. One area of dispute seems to be how many launches of refueling Starships will be needed to take the lunar Starship to the lunar surface and back. According to WccfTech, both Blue Origin and the GAO claims that 14 refueling flights, one launch of an orbital fuel depot, and the lunar Starship itself would be needed. Musk disputes this assertion, claiming between four and eight refueling flights would be needed. Musk went on to suggest that even 16 flights would not be a problem, citing SpaceX’s cadence flying the Falcon 9 multiple times in a short period of time.
Many things must happen in a short time, with or without Musk’s help, for NASA to make the 2024 deadline. The technical problems of building and flying the lunar Starship, creating a lunar surface spacesuit, and making sure that the Orion/Space Launch System stack can fly to lunar orbit and back are serious but not insurmountable. However, all is dependent on the Biden administration and Congress not getting a sudden attack of ADD and getting stingy on funding.
In the great scheme of things, it doesn’t matter if Americans return to the moon in 2025, 2026, or some other future year, instead of in 2024, so long as they return. Marina Koren, writing for the Atlantic, suggests going slower is a good thing, the idea being that slower is safer for the astronauts. “What’s the rush?” she asks.
On the other hand, slower is also riskier because it adds to the possibility of cost overruns and schedule slippages. The International Space Station was over a decade behind schedule and suffered two near-death experiences in the halls of Congress. Fortunately, with the exception of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and his allies, the Artemis program enjoys broad bipartisan support.
Koren also offers a little shade in the direction of former President Donald Trump, repeating the suggestion that the 2024 deadline was politically motivated, the theory being that a return to the moon would prove a capstone on his second term. But if the return to the moon does slip beyond 2024, Trump may have the last laugh. If he runs in 2024 and wins, Trump will still be the president who sees the Artemis astronauts off and welcomes them home. The irony would be delicious to some and bitter gall and wormwood to others.
In a recently unearthed recording of an interview conducted nearly 30 years ago, a former assistant to Albert Einstein alleges that the famed scientist was enlisted to examine the Roswell wreckage, including the ET occupants of the downed craft. UFO researcher Anthony Bragalia uncovered the remarkable revelation when he tracked down ufologist Sheila Franklin, who interviewed Dr. Shirley Wright in 1993 about her time working with Einstein in the summer of 1947. As luck would have it, Franklin still had the tapes from her conversation with the former assistant and what she told the researcher was nothing short of stunning.
According to Wright, she accompanied Einstein to what had been dubbed a "crisis conference" that was hastily held in July of 1947 at a remote army airbase in the American southwest. Upon their arrival, the duo entered a hangar that was under heavy security and, when they entered the building, they discovered that it contained a rather curious craft that appeared to have sustained significant damage. "It was disc-shaped, sort of concave," Wright recalled, "its size stood up to one-fourth of the hangar floor." While her response to the strange scene was one of "wonderment, half curiosity and maybe half fear," she said that Einstein was "not disturbed at all" and, instead, was primarily concerned with what sort of insights about propulsion and the universe could be gleaned from the vehicle.
The strange event took an even weirder turn, Wright claimed, when the pair were then presented with the bodies of five nearly indistinguishable beings that had apparently been aboard the craft. The scientist's former assistant observed that they "were about five feet tall, without hair, with big heads and enormous dark eyes, and their skin was gray with a slight greenish tinge, but for the most part their bodies were not exposed, being dressed in tight-fitting suits." The duo were then taken to another area where there was a still-living being that was struggling to stay alive and making strange sounds, but no coherent words or communication.
Shortly thereafter, Wright told Franklin, she and Einstein were ushered away from the base and the famed scientist was tasked with writing a report about the event while "I was just told to keep my mouth shut." It would appear that she did just that, keeping the story a secret until 1993, when she finally felt an obligation to reveal it to the world. Alas, Wright passed away in 2015 and the decades-old recording appears to be her only telling of the jaw-dropping experience. Attempts to determine Einstein's whereabouts at the time that the "crisis conference" was held have, so far, proven futile as archivists have been unable to produce his exact schedule from the time period in question.
One of the greatest science fiction masterpieces avoids one of sci-fi's oldest tropes
THE EXACT PHRASE "THE SPICE MUST FLOW" doesn't appear in Frank Herbert's original six Dune novels. There are some close calls, but, the reason why we remember this phrase is that it is spoken by one of the Third Stage Guild Navigators in the1984 David Lynch version of Dune. If you were a casual fan, you would look at that zany looking dude who says, "the spice must flow...I was not here" and think he was a trippy David Lynch space alien.
But the Third Stage Guild navigator is not an alien. That's a human who has been mutated by longterm exposure to the Spice. Outside of extraterrestrial animal life, there are precisely zero space aliens inDune. Arguably, this fact is part of what makes Dune so successful. Common science fiction ideas don't really drive the story of Dune, mostly because alien life is totally left out of the equation. Here's how that works, and why Dune's world-building is super-reliant on a lack of aliens.
Although we tend to think of Dune as dense and complicated, it's not really a work of hard science fiction, at least not when it comes to the way the story unfolds. Dune doesn't really speculate on how science fiction concepts transform the world but instead takes a galaxy transformed by several sci-fi concepts (mostly interstellar travel) as a given, and then just tells a story from there. You could argue that Frank Herbert did the hard SF world-building before he actually wrote the novels and that hard SF exists beyond the page. For example, actual astronomy is a huge part of the Dune backstory — 36 Ophiuchi B (a real star in our universe) serves as the star system for Geidi Prime, while the real star Canopus is the system where the planet Arrakis (Dune) can be found.
But these facts are not a big deal in the actual story of Dune, and (arguably) not things the reader remembers. Instead, the fact that real astronomy is used as the backdrop for the Dune star systems helps lend the novels an air of credibility. It doesn't transform Dune into hard SF, but the presence of actual stars in the books does gesture at one huge decision Herbert made with the novels. Though it's not stated outright, the books basically operate on the premise that the Fermi Paradox is totally legit.
Paul and his mom are NOT seeking out new life.Warner Bros.
THE FERMI PARADOX AND DUNE
The basic premise and overly-simplistic premise of the Fermi paradox is that the reason there are no aliens is that if there were, we would have known about it by now. Because the Fermi paradox originated in the early 1950s, it's not super-clear that Frank Herbert was influenced by it, but the way Dune is written seems to proceed from the premise that as human beings expanded out into the galaxy, they did find alien life, they just didn't find any intelligent alien life.
This means Dune avoids having bipedal "humanoid aliens" popping up on different planets à la Star Trek or Star Wars. In franchises that have bipedal humanoids, the in-universe explanations range from parallel evolution to panspermia, to zero explanation at all; just deal with it. Again, Herbert avoids having to explain humanoids living on other planets because all the people living on other planets in the Dune universe are, in fact, humans. "Space aliens" as we might think of them, are basically left out of the equation in the world-building of Dune.
Again, this assumption isn't stated outright in the text. It basically exists before you start reading. Herbert doesn't really get into why there aren't aliens, because it would be a weird question to answer in a universe that just doesn't have them. Put more simply, the absence of aliens in Dune speaks volumes.
The sandworms are the only real "aliens" in Dune.Warner Bros
DUNE'S SANDWORMS ARE THE EXCEPTION
Okay, so Dune is a science fiction work that lacks aliens, but at the same time, an alien creature — the Shai-Hulud or "sandworm" — is central to the narrative. Without the sandworms, you don't have the Spice, and without the Spice, you don't have the story of Dune at all. Plus, in the later books, Paul's son, Leto II, becomes part-human, part-sandworm and lives for thousands of years. So, in this way, a very specific type of alien animal is actually what Dune is all about.
Now, is the existence of a giant worm-like alien animal more likely than the existence of a bipedal grey alien with big Area 51-oval eyes? Well, that's kind of debatable, and it's very tempting to say — yes, worm aliens or aliens with tentacles are more "realistic" than aliens with arms and legs. But some of that is connected more to our feeling of what would be truly "alien" on another planet. Dune 2020 director Denis Villeneuve famously brought tentacled aliens to life in the 2016 film Arrival, which was praised by critics partially because it gave us aliens that felt more "real." This is why it's barely shocking that Denis Villeneuve is also doing Dune — the connection between the aliens in Arrival and the sandworms in Dune is fairly simple. From a biological perspective, these creatures feel more plausible than "conventional" aliens that have arms and a face.
This isn't to say that the sandworms are exactly sentient (again, very debatable) but to pretend like they aren't aliens would be nuts. The Shai-Hulud are totally aliens, and without them, you don't have the God Emperor of Dune, and you certainly don't have Third State Guild Navigators.
But, most interestingly, the sandworms in Dune represent another paradox. Because the worms help create the Spice, and the Spice makes interstellar space travel possible, that means alien animals are the sole source of how humans make contact with alien animals.
In other words, the spice must flow because, if it didn't, then the only aliens in Dune (the sandworms) would get lonely.
DUNE 2020 IS STILL SLATED FOR A DECEMBER 2020 RELEASE, THOUGH THAT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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Filer’s Files 44, 2021 - Deep Space Warships - PART I
Easton, Pennsylvania on October 20, 2021
Filer’s Files 44, 2021 - Deep Space Warships - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Send these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Russian’s Claim Underwater UFOs/USOs Are Real
Underwater Extraterrestrials: Declassified Russian Navy Records Say They’re Real!
The declassified documents have Soviet era reports detailing many cases of possible USO encounters. Former naval officer and Russian UFO researcher Vladimir Azhazha believes these documents are of great value. Unidentified submerged objects (USOs) are not as famous as UFOs although they are often met, according to declassified Russian Navy records. The common trait of all USO phenomena is that they involve unexplained and technologically advanced objects, far superior to anything we’ve ever built.
Soviet K-222, fastest Sub
One of the most interesting cases he examined involved a nuclear submarine on a combat mission in the Southern Pacific. During the routine operation, the submarine detected six unknown objects traveling in formation at speeds in excess of 230 knots (265+ mph). In comparison, the fastest submarine was the Soviet K-222, which reached about 44 knots (51 mph).
The submarine’s sonar determined the objects were heading straight for it, so the captain gave the order to surface. The USOs followed them to the surface then flew away. Similar instances have been reported in the region of the Bermuda Triangle, as retired submarine commander Yuri Beketov recalls. On-board instruments often malfunctioned, showing the presence of strong interference. Many believe this is a clear sign of USO/UFO presence. “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 265 mph. speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But underwater resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” said Beketov.
Disc in Ocean
Vladimir Azhazha believes the issue should be thoroughly investigated. “I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So, it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”
Both UFOs and USOs seem to concentrate wherever military operations occur, showing their interest in humanity’s military arsenal.
Another USO hotspot is Lake Baikal in Russia.
The world’s deepest freshwater lake has always had a certain mysterious nature and fishermen tell tales of lights being spotted in its deep waters. Multiple folk tales describe swimmers being dragged down by creatures lurking beneath Baikal’s calm waves.’
Another of the Russian documents described the encounter between a group of military divers and several humanoid beings in silver suits. The divers were training in Lake Baikal at a depth of 150 feet (50 meters) when they came upon a group of unknown creatures. The divers went deeper in the pursuit of the humanoids. Three men were killed, while the other four were severely injured. Source
Under the oceans are various structures and apparent mining operations that do not appear human operations.
Pacific Ocean Underwater Mining
A 35 mile across terraformed on the Pacific Ocean seabed a hundred miles east of Taiwan appears to be mining operations and structures shown on Google Earth. At the bottom of the underwater floor are tubes similar to those found on Mars.
Carved Face in Center
Labeled Central Basin Trough 17,580 feet deep is a plain carved face. That can be found on Google Earth under the word Trough 500 miles east of Philippines. Thanks to Google Earth
Deep Space Warships
Space ship
The Gary McKinnon info confirms the William Tompkins material and major parts of his story “Selected by Extraterrestrials” Everything is indeed becoming known.
Yahoo News reports, “According to a hacker who is facing a ten-year legal battle after breaking into NASA computers, the United States has a fully operational fleet of Space Warships.” Gary McKinnon firmly believes that he came across the ultimate information that proves the US has a secret space program operated by the Navy with fully operational warships that operate in Space.
Gary McKinnon
In an interview on UFO channel Richplanet TV, McKinnon reveals the entire truth about his findings saying: ‘I kept going for months and months. I kept thinking, ‘They’re going to close this door’. McKinnon said that he used a software called Landsearch, which allowed him to search all files and folders of interest to him. ‘I scanned and looked for documents, I found an Excel spreadsheet which said, ‘non-terrestrial officers’,states McKinnon. ‘It had ranks and names. It had tabs for ‘material transfer’ between ships. ‘I took that to be, they must have a ship based in space – the names started with U.S.S.’ meaning United States Spaceship and had names like U.S.S. Enterprise, U.S.S. Battlecruiser,USSS LeMay, and the USSS Hillenkoetter. He was very lucky not to have been hauled to the U.S. and thrown into prison…
Navy Spaceship USS LeMay
Gary McKinnon is accused of mounting the biggest ever hack in the history of the United States by breaking into the computers of the Army, Air force, Navy and NASA. He mentions there were many other hackers from China, Russia, and other countries hacking the various U.S. Computers. These nations are quite good at copying our technology and the thousand UFOs seen a month over the U.S. some may be flown by our potential enemies.
NASA whistleblower Donna Hare, saw colleagues at NASA “airbrushing” UFOs from their photos.
There has been a series of former NASA and government employees who back up the claims made by McKinnon.
Structures on Mars
According to statements from a former Marine known as Captain Kaye, not only have humans made it to Mars in the past, but we have developed a secret space program and flotilla that operates in space. The former US Marine was posted on the red planet for years and his mission was to protect the five human colonies from indigenous life forms on Mars. According to the former Marine, not only did he spend years on Mars, but he also served aboard a giant space carrier for three years. He worked for the Mars Defense Force (MDF), which is owned and ran by the Mars Colony Corporation (MCC), which is a conglomerate of financial institutions, government and tech companies. Kaye and his team were part of a special section of the United States Marines with a highly classified mission, protect and ensure the existence of five newly established colonies on the surface of the red planet. The Space Defense Force, another secret military branch has military recruits from countries such as the United States, China and ‘.
Parts of the testimony from Captain Kaye are consistent with that of Michael Relfe, another whistleblower who claims to have served 20 years tour on the red planet.
Laura Magdalene Eisenhower
Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, great-granddaughter of former President Eisenhower claims that efforts were made to recruit her onto a human colony on Mars. She was told during the recruitment effort directed at her in 2006-07 that she would go to Mars via the jump room or technically “ARC,” which stands for “aeronautical repositioning chamber.” This is a type of Time Machine that the aliens have provided that can send people to Mars or other planets in a couple hours.
According to ‘Jackie’ while working as part of the team downloading telemetry from the Viking Lander on Mars, she saw a human foot on the surface of the red planet. a live feed from Mars. According to “Jackie”, there are humans on Mars, and we have been on the red planet for over 20 years. ‘Jackie’, and six other employees saw the exact same thing, suggesting this might be the evidence that proves that a secret space program did exist and explains how the on March 2, 2021,’s Rovers are suddenly cleaned. In an interview with Coast-to-Coast AM, Jackie talked about humans on Mars, something that has been discussed among other NASA employees for years.
On the Jeff Rense Radio Show William Tompkins on January 6-7, 2016, revealed that due to his excellent memory and model building skills he was assigned to Naval Intelligence working for Admiral Rick Abatta during World War II. According to Tompkins, his unit had a series of US Naval spies who returned from Germany who had discovered that the Germans were working on advanced wingless aircraft or types of discs apparently with the help of extraterrestrials. According to Tompkins, Adolph Hitler was working with Reptilian aliens and building early models of UFOs. The Reptilians had large caverns in Antarctica and many scientists were transferred to Antarctica to build advanced craft. The SS allowed a group of personnel to build UFOs in Germany and tried to develop their own… Tompkins job was to take this information to various aviation companies, universities and research organizations. He often flew to Naval Development Center in Warminster, Maryland that later built the Navy Space Ships.
Pentagon locked in a UFO tech race with China
New Chinese Giant Aircraft
In a recent paper, Pais described his craft, which he called a hybrid aerospace-undersea craft (HUAC), as being shaped roughly like the point of a pencil: “The HUAC is conical in configuration with an elliptical cross-section, similar in geometry to a hypersonic glide vehicle [or] dart.” The People’s Liberation Army (PLAA) is the largest standing ground force in the world. In 2019, the PLAA continued to transition into a modern, mobile, and lethal ground force by fielding upgraded combat systems and communications equipment and enhancing its ability to conduct and manage complex combined-arms and joint operation
The schematics that Pais drew up for the craft resembled the triangular UFOs occasionally spotted gliding silently around the country. The National Institute for Discovery Science, a now-defunct research organization focused on ufology, cataloged multiple sightings of “black triangle” UFOs dating back to the 1990s.
Triangle Craft
The experimental craft also closely resembled the triangular, trans-medium vehicle captured in camera by a F/A-18 fighter pilot in 2019. The pilot’s photograph was included in a Pentagon report that was widely circulated in the intelligence community, the Debrief reported last December. Federal officials told the news website that the photo was taken after the craft appeared from the ocean and ascended upward at a 90-degree angle.
According to The Drive, the Pentagon appears to be intent on creating highly advanced aircraft modeled after UFOs. It fears that China may have already developed futuristic aircraft akin to the unidentified objects witnessed by American military pilots.
“The Chief Technical Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise personally wrote a letter addressed to the examiner claiming that the U.S. needs the patent as the Chinese are already ‘investing significantly’ in these aerospace technologies,” according to an article from The Drive, which was co-written by Tingley.
Visit MilitaryTechnology.news to learn more about the fearsome weapons developed by the Pentagon in the name of national security.
Navy Destroyer Russel Captures UFO
The footage of several mysterious flying objects in the sky was captured by a U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Russell, Pentagon has admitted. The video caught a lot of attention because of its bizarre content. The green-tinged clip first features three faint orbs hovering in the sky. A fourth object is also captured by the camera. When zoomed in, the triangular shape of the object is revealed.
The 18-second clip, which was recorded by staff aboard the USS Russell, was leaked to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who made the documentary “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers,” and KLAS TV news director George Knapp, according to The Sun.
Corbell was able to verify the footage’s authenticity after procuring information from an intelligence briefing in Pentagon that took place on May 1, 2020. In the briefing, officials confirmed that the footage was indeed shot by the Navy, New York Post reported.
UFO that was spherical flying into water
“George Knapp and I were able to verify the materials you are about to consider,” Corbell told the Sun. “I can confirm their authenticity, as well as the narrative supplied to me when they were presented.”
Corbell also shared three images captured by the USS Omaha of a UFO that was spherical. “It is noted that the ‘spherical’ craft was suspected to be a trans medium vehicle and was observed descending into the water without destruction,” Corbell said.
“It is noted that the ‘spherical’ craft could not be found upon entry to the water — and that a submarine was used in the search,” the filmmaker added.
F-18 spots UAP
Moreover, Corbell and Knapp were able to receive information about a third sighting that occurred on March 4, 2019. The sighting was allegedly witnessed by a F/A-18 pilot and his weapons systems officer.
“These are authentic photos and video from actual military encounters with UFOs, generated to educate high-level intelligence officers within our military on the nature and presentation of the UAP-UFO phenomenon,” he said.
Docs Show Navy Got ‘UFO’ Patent Granted by Warning of Similar Chinese Tech Advances Patent documents show that the U.S. and China are actively developing radical new craft that seem eerily similar to UFOs reported by Navy pilots.
The United States Secretary of Navy is listed as the assignee on several radical aviation technologies patented by an aerospace engineer working at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) headquarters in Patuxent River, Maryland. One of these patents describes a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft” claimed to be capable of truly extraordinary feats of speed and maneuverability in air, water, and outer space alike thanks to a revolutionary electromagnetic propulsion system.
Sound farfetched? You’re not alone.
A primary patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) thought so too. But then the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Naval Aviation Enterprise personally wrote a letter addressed to the examiner claiming that the U.S. needs the patent as the Chinese are already “investing significantly” in these aerospace technologies that sound eerily similar to the UFOs reported by Navy pilots in now well-known encounters.
New Huge Chinese Aircraft
This raises the question, are the Chinese developing or even already flying craft leveraging similar advanced technology and is the Navy now scrambling to catch up?
REVELATIONS BY NASA HEAD BILL NELSON AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA OCTOBER 19TH MODERATED TALK
NASA HEAD BILL NELSON
October 19, 2021 – At a recent UAV event moderated by Larry Sabato, former United States Senator and current NASA Administrator Bill Nelson raised more than a few eyebrows with some comments about possible life outside of Earth and whether or not they may be visiting us now!
Nelson stated that “I’ve talked to those pilots, and they saw something, and their radars locked onto it. And they don’t know what it is. And we don’t know what it is. We hope it’s not an adversary here on Earth that has that kind of technology.” He was, of course, referring to the Navy Pilot sightings of Col. Fravor and others concerning their Tic-Tac UFO encounters.
His concern that these objects could be terrestrial enemies seemed to terrify him more than the thought of visitors from other worlds.
This echoes Senator Marco Rubio recently who voiced similar concerns that he would be more comfortable with aliens than with China or Russia having leapt ahead of us dramatically in technology.
Sputnik I.
Their comments even evoke shades of the early space race between The U.S. and the Soviet Union when the Soviets shocked America with the launching of Sputnik I.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe under President Trump alluded to the fact that The United States is apparently tracking objects coming into our atmosphere with our satellites and other technologies and President Obama this year admitted that we don’t know what these objects are. Quite a statement for an ex-president to make.
Nelson went on to say that we are currently looking right now for signs of life on Mars, but he conceded that the universe is so vast and possibly part of a larger multiverse system that intelligent, civilized life from other worlds or alternative universes may be visiting us now!
Federal investigators conduct interviews at 2 NJ veterans’ homes about COVID-19 deaths
News 12 Staff
VA Menlo Park
The federal investigation into COVID-19 deaths at some of New Jersey’s state-run veterans’ homes is intensifying.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office acknowledged that investigators from the Justice Department began interviewing staff at the Menlo Park and Paramus facilities last week.
Gov. Phil Murphy reacted to the update at his COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday.
“It’s an overwhelming tragedy, the tragedy within the tragedy is long-term care and within that, our blessed veterans,” Murphy said.
More than 150 veterans died from the virus they contracted at three federally licensed and state-run nursing homes. The majority of those deaths were in Menlo Park and Paramus.
“God bless our veterans – 64, 81, 12 – those are the lost, confirmed lives between Menlo Park, 81, 64 – Paramus, Vineland – 12. We had a most recent death in Vineland – first one in months,” Murphy said.
The federal Department of Justice last week intensified its investigation at Paramus and Menlo Park, interviewing residents and staff on whether or not the medical care was adequate during the start of the pandemic. The department may investigate whether decisions to discourage masking or restrict protective equipment had an impact.
“We have been dogged, under the leadership of Dr. Ed. Lifshitz, to be explicit in any death toll numbers,” Murphy said.
Federal investigators declined to open an investigation into disgraced New York ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of tallying nursing home deaths. In New Jersey, the federal investigation appears to be only focused on Paramus and Menlo Park and the other long-term care facilities where nearly 8,000 residents and dozens of staff members died after sick Corona virus hospital patients were put into nursing homes by Governor Murphy’s Administration.
“If there’s a federal investigation going on something, you can assume upfront that we’re not going to have any commentary,” Murphy said.
The full death toll at all three veterans’ homes is currently at 206, including probable deaths.
Genocides: Historian’s list 34 genocides that took place during the bloodiest century in the history of the world, the twentieth century. If it were ranked as the executor and enabler of a genocide of preborn children, Planned Parenthood that does 40% of U.S. abortions would rank fourth the 60 million abortions since Roe vs Wade y
that was passed by the Supreme Court ranks only with China’s Mao Zadong’s 60 million deaths, and above Joseph Stalin’s 40 million
Why is it the 128-page Democratic Party’s Manifesto has copied the 1936 Soviet Communist Constitution that allowed Joseph Stalin to rule Communist Russia with an Iron Hand killing40 million Russians.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at airfields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.
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Filer’s Files 44, 2021 - Deep Space Warships - PART II
Easton, Pennsylvania on October 20, 2021
Filer’s Files 44, 2021 - Deep Space Warships - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
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Antarctica Objects
,On September 30, 2021, was searching Antarctica on Google Earth and suddenly I noticed the existence of four objects on the bottom of the sea. What are they?’ https://earth.google.com/web/@-74.19209659,-103.4490833,1.57729717a,59542.6994596d,35y,0h,0t,0r
California Light
San Jose– on October 16, 2021, I stepped outside and looked up, and saw this white object flying towards the eastern hills of Santa Clara Valley. There are many flight paths over my home, but none head east – eastern flights at this altitude would be in the flight paths of SJC airport. I checked flight radar, and so no flights in that direction. I am used to low flying planes making sounds, but this was silent. It could be a drone from Moffett Airfield, if a predator style drone, it must have been flying quite low.
Florida Lights
Naples–at 12 pm on October 26th, 2021, I saw a low flying object moving very slowly. The object was like a traffic light, but instead with blue, red, and white lights. As I went to get a closer look, the colored lights seemed to turn to all white.
Georgia Lights
Conyers– on October 22, 2021, this is the 4th time a silver reflective object has caught my eye. First time I was getting ready to take some sunset pictures and looked up behind me and it was so fast I didn’t realize what I was looking at. Definitely silver and reflecting flashes from the sunlight…. Just disappeared. The next 2 times I was in the middle of traffic and could not stop to watch. Definitely the same kind of flashes of reflection at 5 pm. t I was able to see what looked like a silver cylinder with no visible wings.
Indian Lights
Anderson on October 15th, 2021, stepped outside of my job before 8, and quickly glanced up at and saw a reddish object, or two, stationary at the bottom left side of the moon. I stared at it and scrambled for my phone. Realized at once that this thing was massive and was pretty far up. I was not realized it was not a plane without wings or tail. It looked like a massive silent cigar with the label around the middle. It sat there for about a minute, and I got a photo. It started moving slowly to the north. Then, it started to speed up and changed direction to NE. Watched the color of the object go from red to golden. I could see that it was a solid object. It went over our building and I ran to catch more photos then it just vanished in midair. I was shaking whilst filming.
Michigan Lights
Saginaw– on October 22, 2021, then all of a sudden it got 1000 times brighter. It shot up and back and then went forward towards the trees. I work 3rd shift, and object whatever it was ended up over tree line to where I couldn’t see it anymore. Blew me away went and told a few people and showed them the photos.
New Jersey Lights
Mount Laurel– on October 3, 2021, observed two flashing lights that were moving down in a straight line. Thought it was a plane at first, then noticed that there was no outline of a plane or any other flying vehicle, and no sound. Lost sight of the object once it flew behind a building.
New York Light
Dundee– on September 27, 2021, a few years ago, the night of the Super Moon, I caught this on camera and have no explanation for the green ball in these photos that split and then came down my power line from the house to the barn. It was around 1:30 am when I took these pictures.
Note: The green orb is a lens flare as the result of taking a photo of the bright moon. The date and time of the photos were determined from the metadata in the photo files. The time contradicts what the witness lists in her report. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
North Carolina Light
Denton – on October 16, 2021, irregular rectangular object traveling at altitude normally seen with commercial aircraft. No wings, fuselage, sound or contrail. Very visible when first seen. Further away by time photo taken.
Oregon Light
Keiser– on September 13th, 2021, at 10:11pm, I was walking around the lake with my dog when I saw what looked like several UFO’s and lights in the sky. They looked to be closer than an airplane flying over so I took several photos. No other sounds were present. Seemed to be very quiet and then they moved and scattered.
Pennsylvania Object
Easton– on October 20, 2021, my friend and I were taking pictures of the night sky checking out the night scape mode on my cell phone and when we looked at what we took we found what looks like to us as a UFO
South Carolina Objects
Jackson — on October 16, 2021, was hanging laundry and looked up and saw an obvious plane, But behind was something else that was moving fast and stopping. Got out my phone and took a picture, it showed up black on the photo but to the naked eye it was super bright. 5 or 6 minutes after my phone completely blanked out.
Texas Disc
Skellytown— on October 21, 2021, there’s nothing to say here.
Wyoming Lights
Jackson– on October 26, 2021, I noticed the American Flag wasn’t hanging up on the flagpole at the USPS, so I decided to film it and it lasted 27 seconds. It wasn’t until I got home did, I even realize that I had filmed something. The object looks like a worm but has clear four separate segments.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Adelaide — on October 28, 2021, I took a photo of two black shaped objects leaving a thunder cloud. Objects were travelling north to west at high speed.
France Objects
Caen– on 19 October 2021, 1.20 pm, a very strong wind on the terrace of my apartment, located in town, on the top floor with a childhood friend, Jérôme. I then saw a UFO (sketch attached) which was flying at low altitude, slowly over the terrain of the Orange Research Laboratory. Jérome also saw the UFO. “It is not a garbage bag or garbage because its trajectory is linear, nor an airship because it is at low altitude, and seemed to go faster than an airship high in the sky. It is not a drone, and flying too low without wings, and silent to be a plane. During this time the UFO arrived right up to us and started to climb out of sight.
Reynel– on October23, 2021, static for 5 minutes then ride similar to a rocket. Multiple reports from France without photos.
Iran Light
Sharekord— on January 13, 2016, woke up at 5.30 am when it was still dark. I went to the window, and I saw a luminous object the size of a basketball. The object was flying over the mountains of Farsan. It was going south so I quickly turned on the camera, opened the window, and filmed it for about 30 seconds
UK/England Object
’Bury St Edmunds– on July 31, 2021, as driving along the A134 from Thetford I looked and saw a black object. Kept driving and glancing and it didn’t move as it was pretty much stationary. I stopped and watched it for a few minutes. It didn’t wobble or sway or anything. I took some pictures then it was gone.
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Filer’s Files 43, 2021 - Does God Have an Air Force? - PART I
Houston, Texas – Ellington Air show on October 9, 2021
Filer’s Files 43, 2021 - Does God Have an Air Force? - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special Reports: Does God Have an Air Force? China Has New Global Nuclear Missile, Unknown Submerged Object Damages Submarine U.S.S. Connecticut, Jack Sarfatti Writes, School Boards Need Parents to Run for Election, and Strange Craft. AFA/UFO Conference October 30.
,Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Maier, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, France, Germany Romania, 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 Reports
Does God Have an Air Force?
Artist’s Impression of God
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1
UFOs over Hospitals
Many people have noticed that UFOs are often seen near various catastrophes and the deaths of people in hospitals and accidents. Recently my brother had a heart attack and fell to the bottom of the basement stairs. His wife called 911 and he was taken to the hospital where it was diagnosed that he died and departed this Earth. The Doctors worked to revive him. He states, “I watched the entire episode about eight feet above my body and saw a bright light and felt warm and comfortable and the call from above. I do not fear death and look forward to the possibility of a new form of life after this one!”
Another friend was in a severe car accident and is thought to have died. He claims he has gone to heaven and was welcomed by his mother and father, great grandmother, and his friends and relatives. They all appeared as once he knew them with radiant and joyful faces. All were about the same age in the late thirties. One child he recognized who had died about five years old was in his teens. Just as suddenly as he arrived at the gates of heaven, he left. All of this might happen by magic, but technology could be involved.
My brother-in-law was dying of cancer, and I was there to watch his final hours. I was outside when a very brilliant flash of light was seen that appeared to climb into the sky. Pat his wife came to the door and yelled, “John just passed away.” I told her about the mysterious flash.
Editor’s Note: When I almost died when my main artery was punctured, and my body filled with blood during an operation I was taken to the Pearly Gates in a dream and told I had died. But a person dressed in a robe said in a loud voice, “I could live if I would help save the more than a million aborted babies in the US each year! I accepted his offer and noticed he was very upset about babies being murdered. The Bible tells us he uses angels, drowning, fire, famine, and plague when gets upset with humans.
Christianity promises eternal life for those who believe; could UFOs take part in these promises? What do you think?
Evangelist Billy Graham on Angels and UFOs
Evangelist Billy Graham has had a ministry for 50 years to almost every US. President since Truman and is close to the Clinton’s. In his bestselling book, “Angels God’s Secret Agents” Graham states, “Some reputable scientists deny, and others assert that UFOs do appear to people from time to time. Some scientists have reached the place where they think they can prove that these are possibly visitors from outer space.
Some Christian writers have guessed that UFOs could very well be a part of God’s angelic host who preside over the physical affairs of universal creation. While we cannot assert such a view with certainty, many people are now seeking some type of supernatural explanation for these phenomena. Nothing can hide the fact, however, that these unexplained events are occurring with greater frequency. (Page 21)
Released bits of the ancient Angel Scroll, “thought to be a genuine part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The bits of the scroll that is available for public examination deal with “divine chariot-throne themes with elaborate details of angels ascending Heaven’s multiple gates. According to the plan of that day, the Voice went forth and directed me and he drove me by the Spirit. And a vision was revealed to me from the Most High, and the Prince of Angels lifted me up in the Spirit and I ascended Heavenward above the high places of the clouds, and he showed me the great world and the image of the gods. The dominion of darkness was over all of the earth round about. “The Angel Scroll written over two thousand years ago gives an accurate description of a trip in a Space Shuttle of the Earth explaining the Earth is surrounded by a dark space.
Based on the various scriptures it appears the time of travel between Earth and Heaven takes only a few hours. Suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to Heaven in a whirlwind.
Much of what is written could be explained by extraterrestrial visitors and advanced technology. I personally feel that the stories in the scriptures are true, based on the knowledge then available. An Angel of the Lord spoke with Abraham in the Torah, when he was 99 years old and childless, telling the Jewish leader he would become the father of a multitude of nations. According to Genesis, the prediction was full-filled.
The Eastern religions speak of Devas who are organized in a military hierarchy and operate in a similar manner to angels. One angel brought the message of the Quran to Mohammed and the Moslems.
Jesus Transfigured on the Mount
Transfiguration Moses and Elijah arrive from Heaven
Mathew 17 states. “Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 2 and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. 3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, [a]let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” 6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. 7 But Jesus came and touched them and said, “Arise, and do not be afraid.” 8 When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.
9 Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.” Editor’s Note: Apparently a cloud brings Moses and Elijah who had died on the mount, then God also appears in a cloud. The word cloud obviously describes a UFO which are often seen within clouds. Angels are often reported in flying chariots of fire. Two thousand years later, much of world celebrates this birth at Christmas. Much of our history revolves around visitors from a planet called Heaven. In Indian Vedic writings the topmost authority in the material universe is known as Brahma, and he lives in the highest material planetary system, called Brahmaloka.
Ancient Vimana
In these ancient Indian writings, they describe UFO like craft called vimanas flown by angelic like alien beings. These extraterrestrial angelic visitors are real according to most of the great historic religious writings of humanity. It seems reasonable that these are not simply myths, but are based on actual visits by angels, visitors, watchers, ET, Devas or whatever you choose to call them. They are given credit for bringing writing to Earth.
When I spoke to Presbyterian minister Barry Downing with a Ph.D. in science and religion, who has written extensively about UFOs such as the “Bible and UFOs” told me, “UFOs provide evidence for the reality of Biblical phenomena, such as visits by angels that have often seemed mythical to many people.” Recently in Philadelphia dozens of children during a church service claim to have seen angels, while older people were unable to see them. NASA is already planning to terraform Mars, to create an inhabitable atmosphere and eventually settlers. Is it possible angels were sent to develop Earth, similar to our plan to transform Mars? Thousands of books have been written describing angels interactions with Earth bringing knowledge, new types of food, healing and even intervention in human DNA creating modern human beings.
Angel Depiction similar to some Nordics
Angels are generally described has appearing like Alien Nordics often with wings, blonde hair, or the ability to disappear. Often there are similar stories of strange flying objects in the sky. Several friends of mine seriously claim angels healed them. To understand the full ability of angels is to realize not all that happens in the world may be simply by chance, but angels may be conducting miracles among us. In addition, if you are ever in trouble or need, never forget this wonderful promise, “For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” Psalms 91.
Sumerian and Babylonian texts according to Zecharia Sitchin and geologist Christian O’Brien the Elohim or angels manipulated from earlier human forms. Genesis 6 tells us that, “The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” If you visit the great temples and churches around the world, almost all have the story of an angel who oversaw their construction.
Angels are generally described has appearing like Alien Nordics often with wings or the ability to disappear.
Often there are similar stories of strange flying objects in the sky. Several friends of mine seriously claim angels healed them. To understand the full ability of angels is to realize not all that happens in the world may be simply by chance, but angels may be accomplishing miracles among us. In addition, if you are ever in trouble or need, never forget this wonderful promise, “For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.” Psalms 91.
This image is by Flemish artist Aert De Gelder and is entitled “The Baptism of Christ” by angels. It was painted in 1710 and hangs in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. A disk shaped object is shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus.
China Has New Global Nuclear Missile
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Jack Sarfatti writes, China launched a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile that circled the entire globe at low-orbit in August, the Financial Times reported.
US Intelligence and US Military officials were left stunned. “We have no idea how they did this,” a source told the Financial Times. According to the report, the missile missed its target by about 24 miles and caught US intel by surprise. The same idiots who were stunned when the Taliban went through Afghanistan like shit through a goose? Editor’s Note: Since we have no defense against this type of missal, Washington D.C. is a likely target so stay out of D.C.
In the last one hundred years, countless reports about hostile underwater beings, underwater submersible objects or even official photos presenting disc-saucer similarities have emerged. Could the following case add-up to the overall mystery by offering conclusive evidence of underwater activity?
USS Connecticut is one of three Sea Wolf-class boats, a late Cold War attack submarine designed to hunt the most complex Soviet submarines in deep blue water. In the middle of rising tensions between the United States and its allies with China over their growing desire to repatriate Taiwan which the United States and others have vowed to protect from Chinese aggression, the U.S.S. Connecticut was struck by an underwater object of unknown nature in the South China Sea on October 8th. The U.S.S. Connecticut, a nuclear powered submarine, was on normal patrol when it struck an unknown object.
The South China Sea has long been associated with phenomena that could be construed as UFO or USO related. Newspaper reports as early as the nineteenth century describe orb like objects interacting with ships. During the Vietnam War, American sailors such as Joe Foster often described incidents in the South China Seas. The USS Connecticut (SSN-22) arrived at Naval Base Guam on Friday after almost a week sailing on the surface of the Pacific from the South China Sea. The sub is now undergoing an assessment and preliminary repairs in the midst of two investigations into the incident. Eleven sailors were injured but none seriously although one report listed their injuries as “moderate.” The sub’s nuclear reactor was not damaged. The Chinese Government is asking that the United States provide details of the incident which happened in International Waters. The Associated Press reported unnamed officials verified the submarine did not strike another submarine. This, however, adds to the mystery!
USO Climbing Out of the Ocean
Sailors describe seeing a massive object rise out of the sea. It was as big as “a football stadium” and had “rows of green and red lights around its equator. “Alexander Neill is a Singapore based defense security expert. When interviewed by the BBC, he stated” the submarine probably hit something big and was going pretty fast. I spoke with underwater divers out of Norfolk Naval Base that told me that during their dives they see strange derwater craft operating at high speed passing by stirring up the ocean
Nupur Jha reports that Marc D’Antonio, a MUFON UFO expert claims the US Navy is secretly running a program called “Fast Mover” to spot unidentified submerged object (USO), under the ocean waters.
Mar D’Antonio
He claimed he was on a US Navy submarine in the North Atlantic Ocean, where he saw a USO which travelled at an impossible speed of 700 knots. Torpedoes and submarines travel in a maximum speed of 40 knots. “As a thank you for doing some work for the Navy, they asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in a submarine, so I said yes. Once we got under, I was sitting in the sonar station and the sonar operator was sitting right next to me,” said D’Antonio as reported by Express. “Submarines are loud I was seasick and all of a sudden the sonar kid shouts ‘fast mover, fast mover’. I was told USOs are common. We even have a program to classify data and place in a special ship’s log to determine the speed of them and it goes into a vault. The U.S. nuclear attack boat that hit an underwater object in the South China Sea on Oct. 2 is now
Editor’s Note: One of my AFROTC students joined the Navy and operated Sonar on a submarine who told me the fast movers are generally tracked moving over a 100 knots, so we know they are not ours.
Artists Impression Pencil USO
The schematics that Pais drew up for the craft resembled the triangular UFOs occasionally spotted gliding silently around the country. The National Institute for Discovery Science, a now-defunct research organization focused on ufology, cataloged multiple sightings of “black triangle” UFOs dating back to the 1990s.
The experimental craft also closely resembled the triangular, trans-medium vehicle captured in camera by a F/A-18 fighter pilot in 2019. The pilot’s photograph was included in a Pentagon report that was widely circulated in the intelligence community, the Debrief reported last December. Federal officials told the news website that the photo was taken after the craft emerged from the ocean and ascended upward at a 90-degree angle.According to The Drive, the Pentagon appears to be intent on creating highly advanced aircraft modeled after UFOs. It fears that China may have already developed futuristic aircraft akin to the unidentified objects witnessed by American military pilots. “The Chief Technical Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise personally wrote a letter addressed to the examiner claiming that the U.S. needs the patent as the Chinese are already ‘investing significantly’ in these aerospace technologies,” according to an article from The Drive, which was co-written by Tingley. that there was at least one experimental demonstration of the technology. (Related: Navy patents suggest American military possesses alien technology.)
Pentagon locked in a UFO tech race with China
In a recent paper, Pais described his craft, which he called a hybrid aerospace-undersea craft (HUAC), as being shaped roughly like the point of a pencil: “The HUAC is conical in configuration with an elliptical cross-section, similar in geometry to a hypersonic glide vehicle [or] dart.”
Jack Sarfatti Writes
Jack Sarfatti Writes, Keith Wanser came up with a new idea for a crucial experiment to test my prediction that active mass need not be the same as passive mass for metamaterials resonantly pumped into the Frohlich macro-quantum coherent condensate state. Unless this effect exists as I predict then it is impossible to explain the UAP phenomenon. On the other hand, if my prediction works it is easy to explain the UAP observations. I mean 1, 2, 3 and 5 in the above slide used by Lue Elizondo, Hal Puthoff and others. I am not sure about 4. This is a crucial experiment that the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge could perhaps do. Though simple in principle the stumbling block is designing the metamaterial and putting it into the Frohlich coherent state – room temperature superconductor non-equilibrium dissipative structure with macro-quantum phase coherence similar to that of a laser.
On Oct 9, 2021, KW wrote:
Changing S would make a huge difference in the Cavendish torsion arm deflection due to a water gas phase transition (dielectric constant goes from 81 to near 1.” Who did an experiment with Cavendish torsion set up in which the pair of large lead spheres underwent a dramatic phase transition? Phase transition in lead spheres? Pretty good trick, easier perhaps with specially designed metamaterial spheres pumped by EM fields in the correct way.
Giovanni Modanese does claim a phase transition effect though not in a Cavendish set up like below. Modanese claims that superconductors generate gravity differently from normal metals – that is a second order phase transition.
Franklin Graham writes,
General Stanley McChrystal
This 4-star retired Army General says that yes, our rapid pull-out of Afghanistan is a humiliation—but it’s a “civil war” at home that he’s concerned about. General Stanley McChrystal makes an important point that should be troubling to all of us. He warns that the polarization happening in American society today is a real threat being fed by the mainstream media. We are so divided today. Yes, there are liberal Americans and conservative Americans, but we should be able to collaborate with each other for the good of all America. It seems as though the White House and the leadership in Congress want to divide America—and, unfortunately, they’re succeeding. I think General McChrystal is right. Let’s pray for our country and that the church will stand up and be a reconciling voice in a sea of hate.
School Boards Need Parents to Run for Election
Typical School Board
USA Today op-ed blasts Biden DOJ for getting involved in school board meetings. Parents are fed up with politics, wokism, race and transgender being forced down kids throats
‘The threat, in short, appears to be mostly a figment of Democratic imagination,’ Fordham University professor By Brandon Gillespie| Fox News
In media news today, America’s trust in media drops to an almost record low in a new survey, just 31 percent of independents and 36 percent of Americans overall have ‘great’ or ‘fair amount’ of trust in press: Gallup
Fordham University professor Nicholas Tampio blasted the Biden Administration in a new USA Today claiming there was no proof of dangerous threats to justify the Justice Department getting involved in monitoring concerned parents at local school board meetings.
In the piece published Thursday, Tampio argued parents should be allowed to express themselves to local elected official. That allowing the FBI to get involved would further damage the trust parents have in the schools and government, and that the perceived threat was actually “a figment of Democratic imagination.”
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland,
REUTERS Photo
Parents have appeared at school board meetings across the country to express concern over a number of issues affecting school children, including the teaching of critical race theory and mask mandates some consider counterproductive. Parents were referred to has terrorists.
Rep. Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, said Mr. Garland’s impartiality is in question because the attorney general issued a memo Oct. 4 announcing that the FBI would investigate threats against school boards by parents who object to the teaching of critical race theory and other policies. He noted that Mr. Garland’s son-in-law, Xan Tanner, co-founded Panorama Education, which he said has pushed ideas related to critical race theory and supplied services to school districts across the country. The relationship has raised questions about how much Mr. Garland’s family could receive help from a crackdown on protests against school boards.
The Biden administration on Monday directed the FBI and U.S. attorney’s offices to hold meetings with law enforcement leaders at the federal, state and local levels to discuss ways to combat what they referred to as a “disturbing trend” of harassment and threats against school officials.
“On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland released a memorandum describing how the Federal Bureau of Investigation will coordinate with law enforcement agencies across the country to address threats to school administrators and school board members,” Tampio wrote. “Alas, there is no evidence of a rise in the memorandum or references to where one could find evidence of it.”
Angry Virginia parents and community members are protesting about pedophilias and pornography in children’s books. Parents were also upset that a 9th grade girl was raped in the high school bathroom by a boy dressed in a skirt in May and parents were not notified by the School Board. The father of the girl raped was arrested when he complained at the Loudon County ‘school Board meeting. In October a second girl was raped by a transgender in a dress in another girl’s bathroom. It has become a big story in the race for governor. Republican Younkin is for the parents and if elected will remove critical race theory from the schools.. Former President Obama and former Governor McAuliffe are defending the school boards. Some 81,000 students are involved in the controversy’s .
Then it happened again in October a transgender raped anther girl wearing a dress. Fox News reports Critical Race Theory claims that white people are associated with the Devil and they hold other races down essentially teaching kids to hate themselves.
Parents were questioning a Loudoun County School Board and the meeting was halted by the school board because the crowd refused to quiet down, in Ashburn, Virginia, June 22, 2021. Loudoun has been roiled for months by accusations that it has embraced Critical Race Theory, a school of thought that maintains that racism is ingrained in U.S. law and institutions and that legacies of slavery and segregation have created an uneven playing field for Black Americans. The school system says it is simply training teachers, the majority of whom are white, to be “culturally responsive” to serve the county’s increasingly diverse student population. Loudoun County is found 25 miles west of Washington, DC, where drug addition and youth suicide in Virginia is rising.
Tampio referenced a recent letter sent to the Biden administration from the National School Board Association expressing concern over “heinous actions” by parents that “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” but noted there was no quantitative data in the letter, but instead just a string of “disparate stories” attempting to show a pattern. The people who pay t property taxes generally do not want their children receiving strong liberal propaganda similar to what is taught in Communist countries.
I think it is outrageous for the attorney general to meddle in situations that are local in nature and, so far, have led to incredibly few acts of overt violence, certainly not with the character of domestic terrorism,” he added.
Tampio noted that because different countries around the world were exempting children from mask mandates based on varying ages, parents should be allowed to passionately ask why their children have to wear them.
Concerned parents at the Fairfax County School Board Meeting (Fox News Digital)
“The threat, in short, appears to be mostly a figment of Democratic imagination,” he wrote.
He added the use of the FBI to monitor school board meetings would be an incredible expansion of the federal government’s policing power, and it could lead to parents being reported over the smallest incident of being upset over a policy.
“This action, or the possibility of it, will prompt parents to stop participating in school activities,” Tampio wrote. “When parents are less involved, parents have more negative attitudes to their children’s schools, losing trust in government and general, and becoming skeptical of the government’s ability to address social problems.”
“Without more evidence of real threats, Biden’s political appointee appears to be making a political decision rather than a prudent one,” he added. Thanks to Fox News’ and US Today
Editor’s Note:Four or five parents should run for election to your local School Boards across the country, as I did for four years. I ran for election at no cost other than giving a few speeches and meeting the local requirements. I attended all the meetings hoping parents would commit since they pay for the schools essentially run by the Democratic Unions. We fired the superintendent and put computers in the classrooms and were provided with amazing trips. I would highly recommend getting involved to protect your children.
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs
U.S. Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at air fields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra.
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Houston, Texas – Ellington Air show on October 9, 2021
Filer’s Files 43, 2021 - Does God Have an Air Force? - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
Special Reports: Does God Have an Air Force? China Has New Global Nuclear Missile, Unknown Submerged Object Damages Submarine U.S.S. Connecticut, Jack Sarfatti Writes, School Boards Need Parents to Run for Election, and Strange Craft. AFA/UFO Conference October 30.
,Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Maier, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, France, Germany Romania, 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
Alabama Object
Dauphin Island – on October 21, 2021, my son & I at around 7:30 PM people on the beach started yelling that there is something massive hovering over the oil rigs a mile or two off the island. I was on the top deck of the beach turned and saw hundreds of lights light up as if communicating in a straight line. The line of lights was well over 500 feet long about a 1,000 feet or slightly higher in altitude. I know that there were ten of us that saw this object of lights. It literally lit up the night sky over the oil rigs. I’m sure someone on the oil rigs probably had a better view than us. It wasn’t a flare. The object lit up multiple times & would turn off & light up again. Orange lights, red lights, white lights, amber lights. The lights would move in a left to right pattern. My phone was charging in the beach house. I’m not sure if the witnesses on the beach were able to video tape it. I have video & photos of the area where the object was, but it was from the afternoon & not of the object.
Arizona Light
Phoenix– on October 14, 2021, I was outside the house with my dogs and saw a solid bright orange orb. It was silent so it wasn’t either a helicopter or plane. It started to move east fast as it flashes and disappears into the night sky.
California Object
Los Angeles – on September 15, 2021, I noticed something bright and metallic looking hovering in the sky. I started filming when the silent object changed shape and spun. I called the kids over and we could easily tell that it wasn’t a plane, helicopter, drone, or balloon. The object did not have a definite shape and “flashed” at times. The object e slowly moved east and disappeared. I had seen something “similar” in Los Angeles 13 days later.
Note: I agree with the witness. I don’t believe that the object is a plane, helicopter, balloon or drone. The flashing could be the object reflecting the Sun while turning on its axis? Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Florida Lights
Lithia – on October 16, 2021, a strange ring was seen and photographed that may be a cloud, but it is quite unusual. It may not have been caused by a natural process such as a rocket launch. I have had reports where witnesses seen disk shaped UFO’s leave a ring shaped residue as if it was some sort of propulsion process. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite.
JACKSONVILLE — on September 6, 2021 – (Labor Day), I was landing on a Jet Blue flight from Boston, to as a pilot with 26 years’ experience on approach to Jacksonville. Airport. Facing Weston approach, I saw three bright white objects flying in the opposite direction. I didn’t know what they were. I couldn’t tell as they got closer, they were three long cylindrical objects. They were in a triangle pattern. They were roughly 75 feet to 150 feet above the tree line. I was above the objects. I was completely stunned what I saw.
I could clearly see these white “craft”. about the size of 2 or 3 cars (20 to 45 feet long) …. maybe a bit longer. The width was about as wide as a car. They clearly had a rounded front fuselage, and a rounded rear – everything looked completely smooth. All three were the exact same size – and they were flying in a perfect triangle. These three had NO wings, NO blades and absolutely NO exhaust. I could not see any windows. The entire encounter lasted 10-15 seconds. As they passed our Jet Blue flight, I followed them until they were out of sight. I asked the captain if he noticed anything on radar right before he turned the base leg. He said he did not notice anything. Depiction of sighting. Thanks to Peter Davenport Director of NUFORC
Idaho Object
Peter Davenport Director of the UFO Reporting Center called and said a September 3, 2021, from May, Idaho was a large football field size rectangle lighting up the whole sky.
Maine Light
Limestone – on October 19, 2021, I took my dog out at 1:15 am, and saw an odd circle with red, white, and blue strobing lights. It changed elongated shape to a circle shape with three lights randomly spinning around the outer edge. When it went to star like it was white and blue before it disappeared.
New Jersey Lights
Newfoundland– on August 15, 2021, saw this unnatural looking object moving quickly across the sky in a Northwesterly direction. There were no wings, no lights, no sounds. To was solid black, but the video and screen shots show a reflective upper surface
New York Object
Cadyville – on October15, 2021, it began with a humming sound and a feeling of electricity in my body. I heard it before I saw it and I knew right where to look. A distinct lights lit up the clouds. I could make out the form of a translucent pyramid shape of a powerful energy with 3 red lights in a triangle shape. It would move to the front of my house and fly in circles. It hovered for 20 minutes making a soft humming engine sound. Later, I was outside with my husband describing g what happened when a light appeared wasn’t moving like a plane. It continued straight toward us so slowly and seemed to glow. It did flash a silent red light, which my husband still says means it’s a helicopter.
Texas Disc
Houston– on October 9, 2021, while photographing performing airplanes at the Wings Over Houston Airshow at Ellington Air Force Base, my father noticed a small metallic object at least 12,000 a much higher altitude than the 1,000 feet performing aircraft. It hovered for about 5 minutes, and it was clear it was not an airplane. After a few minutes, the object drift to a different point in the sky and hovered. It didn’t show any evidence of engines or afterburners. My father took a picture of it with his DSLR camera and after five minutes it moved behind some clouds. My father is an engineer, and I am an engineering college student.
West Virginia Object
Seneca Rocks — on October 14, 2021, 3 Pictures taken at Seneca Rocks in progression.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Merbein– on October 18, 2021, each night for the last week there has been UFO activity that occurs between 11pm and 2-3am. An orange amber colored glowing light will appear in the south sky and make sweeping transits and fade away. A few minutes later it will reappear and make another transit, as though it were circling. An hour or two later. they reappear each night.
France Object
Walrus – on October 10, 2021, we noticed a strange object in the shape of two superimposed gray balls which moved quickly and in zigzag and at low altitude it followed a rectilinear path then changed course to finally disappear
Germany Object
Munich – on October 15, 2021, the eyewitness spotted a disk cloud moving across the city. The eyewitness states, “I saw this morning from the window of a moving train.” The disk cloud which is known to hold a cloaked alien ship also has a long thin contrail moving from the ground to the cloud itself. This means the UFO…at the break of dawn…was on the ground for a while: http://hiero.ru/2251667
Romania Object
Bucharest — on May 8, 2018, I was at the summing pool with my girlfriend and my cousin between 10.00 to 11.30 am. We watched two disc shaped objects circling around a fast moving huge Boeing 747 airplane more than 5 times, and then they disappeared. The aluminum color discs were almost the same size as the plane. An hour later, I saw them higher in the sky flying with incredible speed
UK/England Lights
Winchester– on October 15 ,2021, this object was seen hovering but spinning changing light or reflection. At one point you could see two bright lights side by side, but then only one. The pictures show that it has shape.
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The move to push the U.S. government to investigate UFOs/UAPs officially began with Senator (and Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It received a boost in 2020 when Senator Marco Rubio, via the of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, ordered the Director of National Intelligence to produce a report detailing any and all information it and other agencis have on unidentified aerial phenomena and “advanced aerial threats” – the report released in summary to the public in July 2021. For those disappointed in what’s been released so far, you have a new champion in the U.S Senate — on November 4, 2021, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand submitted an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, H.R. 4350) to establish an “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” to assume the responsibilities of the Navy-led Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. According to those who have analyzed it, the “Gillibrand Amendment” is a big deal.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
(official photo)
“The Gillibrand Amendment would encourage progress towards greater UAP transparency by the government, by requiring issuance of public, unclassified reports on UAP annually, and by expanding the list of topics to be addressed in these reports to include several areas of particular interest to longtime students of the phenomena, including UAP events associated with nuclear weapons platforms.”
UFO researcher Douglas Johnson explains in his review of the amendment (included at the end of his article) that three other legislative proposals are already in front of Congress but Senator Gillibrand’s amendment requires far more resources devoted to UAPs. The Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office would set up a UFO reporting by government or military personnel would also be moved to a “central repository” for reports “including adverse physiological effects” suffered by military personnel exposed to UFOs.
Perhaps the most surprising new development in the Gillibrand Amendment is the formation of a new “Aerial and Transmedium Phenomena Advisory Committee” made up of both government and private sector individuals. “Transmedium” became a buzzword this summer as more reports and videos emerged of UAPs seamlessly moving between air and water. Three members of the committee would be selected by the NASA administrator and three by the head of Harvard University’s Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts – that person is Professor Avi Loeb, perhaps the world’s leading proponent of the existence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth as demonstrated by his persistent push to consider the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua to be a spaceship.
Oumuamua
In addition to detailed annual reports to the public, the Gillibrand Amendment would provide for twice-annual classified briefings to the House and Senate armed services and intelligence committees to update them on progress in prior investigations and detail on new UAP reports.
It’s interesting that Senator Gillibrand is a proponent of UAP/UFO research and disclosure since she’s never been included in the discussions before. Gillibrand made a brief run for the presidency in 2020 – perhaps she picked up some information at that time which pushed her to get involved. Gillibrand, a Democrat, is currently on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Will she get the bipartisan support that Senator Rubio, a Republican, received when he pushed for more research and disclosure in 2020? Let’s hope so … before it’s too late.
In the late 1960s, there was a race to be the first astronaut to set foot on the Moon. In the early 2020s, another race has begun to be the first astronaut to set foot on Mars. Every fan of science fiction dreams of being the first astronaut to leave our Solar System and set foot on a planet orbiting another star. It should come as no surprise that scientists are already planning that trip. However, before you update your resume and look for a line to stand in, their chosen first astronaut is one of those tiny water bears known as the tardigrade. While many humans may be disappointed if that happens – even though that first trip will probably be a one-way mission – fans of panspermia may be looking at this as a different kind of first … the first time a being from another star system came to Earth and then left to populate another one.
Tardigrade drawing 1861
(public domain)
“Here we explore the biological and technological challenges of interstellar space biology, focusing on radiation-tolerant microorganisms capable of cryptobiosis. Additionally, we discuss planetary protection concerns and other ethical considerations of sending life to the stars.”
Researchers are thinking about the NASA Starlight program in a new study titled “The First Interstellar Astronauts Will Not Be Human,” to be published in Acta Astronautica in January 2022. Starlight, also known as the Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration (DEEP-IN) and Directed Energy Interstellar Studies (DIES), is one of a number of programs considering how to send small, even micro-small, spacecraft to other star systems. According to Universe Today, this study – conducted by UC Santa Barbara, the UCLA Health Center, the University of Florida, and Ruhr-University Bochum – focused not on how to propel the craft but what kind of microorganisms would make good astronauts … and whether the idea is safe and ethical.
“Tardigrade species are adversely affected by hypergravity but are more resistant than larger organisms, such as the fruit fly, D. melanogaster, while species like C. elegans fare quite well under hyperacceleration. However, tardigrades can be launched in a cryptobiotic state, with the hope that this will mitigate deleterious acceleration-dependent effects of hypergravity on their survival rate.”
Because they can survive in conditions with extreme temperatures, extreme pressures, radiation, dehydration and starvation, tardigrades have already been flown into space, left exposed to the extremes, and still brought back alive able to reproduce. They’ve already been sent to the Moon — an Israeli mission carrying thousand of dehydrated tardigrades crashed but could conceivably have survived.
If we can send tardigrades to other stars, could extraterrestrial civilizations have already done the same thing – sending them to Earth millions of years ago? That theory has been bandied about by the panspermia crowd, especially after traces of biotic material were found on 4.1 billion year old rocks in Western Australia that may have been asteroids. Whether they were propelled into space intentionally by an advanced civilization or unintentionally on space rocks, their chances of survival, especially if they were dehydrated or in some other suspended state, would be as good as the researchers in the new study believe Earth tardigrades are.
Drawing of a tardigrade on a grain of sand
“However, once initial exploratory phases have been completed and best efforts at gathering knowledge of exoplanets has been performed, there may be certain circumstances in which intentionally “seeding life” would not be unethical.”
The study considers sending Earth organisms to other star systems ethical under certain circumstances yet to be determined. However, if the tardigrades were already sent here by ETs, we’re just pulling a “they did it first” switch. The biggest challenge to Starlight and programs like it are the propulsion mechanism needed to send the micro ships at extreme speeds far beyond those of current rockets and spacecrafts. Light sails pushed by lasers are a leading candidate and the study hints that the technology is close to happening.
Should the tardigrades look forward to the beginning of a new adventure … or just the next phase of a previous one?
I have traveled to Puerto Rico on many occasions. Usually (but not always) to go on expeditions with TV companies to try and find what is popularly known as the chupacabra. As an aside, I’ll be doing another such expedition very soon. But, I’m digressing. I’ll come back to that new expedition in a forthcoming article. Today, I’m going to share with you what was the creepiest story given to me. It was 2004 and high in the hills of the El Yunque rain-forest. There comes a time in the life of every investigator of the paranormal when a case just gels. From the credibility of the witness to the importance of the story, everything combines together and in the best fashion possible. I have experienced such a deep sense of satisfaction and connection on a number of occasions. But, there is, perhaps, no greater example than the amazing affair of a woman named Norka, who had a chupacabra encounter back in 1975. Yes, this case was long before the beast was believed to have been roaming around the island. Norka was a fascinating lady, who lived in a spacious and atmospheric house high in the El Yunque rain forest. Norka’s story was one that took our quest for the truth about the chupacabra to a whole new – and largely unanticipated – level.
After me and Jon Downes (my good mate and fellow Chupacabra-seeker) devoured our breakfasts fit for a king – in the open courtyard of the Wind Chimes Inn in San Juan – our convoy of jeep, cars, and trucks once again hit the road. There were people to interview, creatures to be sought, and absolutely no time to waste. Around ninety minutes after we left bustling San Juan behind us, we arrived at Norka’s lavish home. It was dominated by a pair of huge, wrought-iron gates and a driveway that was so steep it actually required me to put the jeep in the lowest possible gear to successfully climb it. I quipped to Jon that the fortified home had probably been built to keep the chupacabra out. Who knows? After digesting what Norka said, I seriously had to wonder if my joke just may have been on target, after all. Norka, seventy-something and sporting a beaming smile, invited us in as if we were old friends. It almost felt like we were. Norka was an incredibly generous host, despite unfortunately being in failing health. She provided us with liquid refreshment and snacks, gave us a tour of her home – which was, essentially, built solidly into the hill on which it stood – and regaled us with entertaining stories of her youth, during which she was a prize-winning, passionate motorcyclist. Both Jon and I instantly bonded with Norka, who was a fellow adventurer and lover of life – and a highly skilled artist, too.
(Nick Redfern) Puerto Rico – a home of monsters
Roughly an hour after arriving, the crew had set up all of their equipment, the cameras were ready to roll, and me, Jon, and Norka assumed our required positions on the balcony of Norka’s home. It provided an incredible, panoramic view of El Yunque. Indeed, the angle of the miles-wide view, coupled with the sheer altitude of Norka’s home, provoked a slight sense of vertigo. But that was no matter. Jon and I suspected that Norka had something special to say and we wanted to hear it. We weren’t entirely sure how special, but we quickly found out. Norka’s words demonstrated that the chupacabra enigma was much older than many researchers had assumed or concluded. Norka’s account, we were fascinated to learn, dated from 1975, at the height of the summer months.
It was dusk, on a stiflingly hot, weekday night in August. The atmosphere – as day began to surrender to nightfall – was as normal and tranquil as it had ever been. It wasn’t long, however, before normality and tranquility gave way to something hideous. As Norka drove carefully and slowly along the twisting, climbing road (in a car, rather than on one of her trusty motorbikes, I should stress), something suddenly surfaced from the huge, dense trees that stood proud and tall, like gigantic green curtains, and which dominated each side of the road. Doing barely twenty miles an hour to begin with, Norka was easily able to slow down as a curious beast loomed into view. Norka, looking into the camera, said that only about twenty feet in front of her was the strangest, most terrifying animal it had ever been her misfortune to encounter. For all intents and purposes, it looked very much like a bat. Except, that is, for one astonishing thing: the abomination was around four to five feet in height.
(Nick Redfern) El Yunque rain forest
Not surprisingly, Norka could scarcely believe her eyes as the monster shuffled slowly across the road, its muscular legs taking slow but deliberate strides across the hot tarmac. With her eyes transfixed on the beast, Norka could see that its body was dark brown in color. Two large wings were folded tight against its back. The clawed fingers on its hands – that drooped in curious, limp fashion from its bony wrists – were of a distinct, white-yellow hue. Of a near-identical color were two enormous fangs that protruded from its gaping, almost slack-jawed, mouth. Most frightening of all to Norka were the eyes of the creature: focused intently on Norka herself, they were almost blazing, like red hot coals.
(Nick Redfern) Jon Downes on the look-out in Puerto Rico
After what seemed like a torturous amount of time, but which was maybe no more than twenty or so seconds, the creature unfurled its wings. At this point, Norka could see just how big those mighty, membranous appendages were: somewhere in a combined region of twelve to fifteen feet. Norka said the wings flapped in a fast, furious and loud fashion that deeply shocked her. In mere moments, the beast took to the skies, vertically, and was quickly lost from sight. It was, I said to Jon later, almost a case of the Jeepers Creepers movies come to life. He didn’t disagree in the slightest. Since this was the only interview planned for that day, there was no need for us to make a hasty drive to destinations new, and so we hung out for another hour or so, chatting further with Norka, even though the cameras had stopped rolling. Jon and I were suitably impressed. Our quest for the truth of the chupacabra had taken a major step forward – and, in terms of the date of Norka’s encounter, a major step backwards! And there was one more thing: Norka had so enjoyed the afternoon that she surprised me by presenting me with nothing less than a full-color painting she had done of the creature she encountered back in 1975. I thanked Norka for her incredible generosity. Atmospheric and captivating, her artwork has pride of place on the one wall of my office that is not dominated by mountains of bookshelves.
12 Unbelievable Things That You Will See For The First Time
12 Unbelievable Things That You Will See For The First Time
We love to discover new things, things that are surprising, strange but also fascinating. Just when you think you have seen it all, there comes a discovery that takes your breath away. We have brought for you some of the rare inventions and happenings around the world that are truly wonderful. Here is the list of cool things, we bet you would have not seen before.
UFO next to beam of light coming down through a cloud over Forest Glen Park, U.S.
UFO next to beam of light coming down through a cloud over Forest Glen Park, U.S.
Astrange beam of light and two bright spheres coming down through a cloud over Silver Spring, Forest Glen Park, U.S.
It's not the first time strange beams of light have been photographed and it seems unlikely that all these beams are just natural phenomena, camera malfunctions or digital cam glitches.
Normally we only see a beam, but this time there are two glowing spheres next to the ray. The spheres seem to be on top or connected to an oval disk-shaped construction.
It may be far-fetched, but could the beam of light be a means of teleporting a UFO that travels instantaneously between two locations without crossing the intervening space?
The battle of Los Angeles is an interesting 20th century mystery that’s still being examined to this day. On the evening of February 24, 1942, an anti-aircraft barrage of more than 1,440 rounds was launched at what is initially thought to be a Japanese aerial attack on the City of Angels. However, when the smoke cleared, just who or what had the military been firing at? Was it enemy fighters, a UFO or nothing at all? There are many theories which we will present to you today but it’s up to you to decide what you believe, as we attempt to discover the unexplained.
RT speaks to Ross Coulthart, the author of a new book, ‘In Plain Sight’, which records an array of mysterious UFO sightings around the world – and details officialdom’s extraordinary efforts to deny them or cover them up.
There’s been an explosion of UFO initiatives over the past 12 months, including the formation of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research and the launch of the Galileo Project. And then there was the groundbreaking report by the Pentagon, in which it admitted there were incidents of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) that couldn’t be explained.
Yet a new book, ‘In Plain Sight’, by award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart could be one of the most interesting developments yet. Coulthart has no reputation to uphold in the UFO community, but has long held a desire to tackle the big question: are we really alone?µ
“I’ve always been intrigued by the subject matter, mainly because there’s such a taboo attached to it. In journalism, there’s a real stigma,”he said.
“I can remember editors telling me, ‘Ross, we don’t do UFO stories.’ I did a lot of national security and defence intelligence-related stories. I’ve spent a large part of the past 30-something years covering wars, terrorist acts and all the miseries of the world. And a lot of those contacts [I made]… when I asked them about UFOs, they wouldn’t dismiss it [ie, the idea they existed].”
Born in New Zealand, Coulthart was fascinated by the 1978 incident in which a cameraman captured footage of an object flying alongside a plane above the town of Kaikoura on the country’s South Island. Weeks later, the authorities attributed it to either the planet Venus or a reflection from fishing boats.
“As a 16-year old boy, it sounded plausible to me, so I didn’t think much of it,” he admitted. But, at university, Coulthart secured his first scoop by tracking down those involved, who assured him what they saw was a solid object.
Fast-forward to the 90s and he’d established himself as a journalist and was working on the Australian investigative TV show ‘Four Corners’. Following the conclusion of a day’s filming at an air force base, the crew were invited by their host to have a drink in the on-site bar. Recalled Coulthart,“After a while, he leaned forward and said, ‘Can I ask you a question? Why don’t you media ever do stories about UFOs?”
“I freely admit I laughed, and I said, ‘Because they’re bulls**t’. And he went, ‘No, they are not’. I wish I could say who this chap was – he was a very, very senior official, one of the highest people in our military at the time.”
Hampered by the parameters of the mainstream media, he still managed to convince his bosses to do a UAP story in 2011 – but it was only because they’d sent him to London to interview a rock star who cancelled and they were left with a hole to fill.
Coulthart dug into reports of a 1980 sighting near the air force base RAF Bentwaters and tracked down Colonel Charles Halt, who claimed to have seen a flying object. He recalled,“We gave it half an hour for broadcast and it just went nuts. The public were very interested, and, more importantly, what blew us away were the number of people calling and offering information.”
“They were contacting me from all over Australia, saying they’d seen a similar object. They were stunned that the media was finally reporting on this story. The good thing for them was we weren’t ridiculing it – we were treating the subject with respect.”
‘In Plain Sight’ contains detailed analysis of many sightings, including Coulthart’s personal favourite of a man sitting in a deckchair at an outdoor cinema in the South Australian desert when a cylindrical craft appeared. The moviegoer claimed he could see light inside its windows.
Coulthart embarked on the book after going freelance and casting off the shackles of dismissive editors, and says the Pentagon’s recent admission that something is out there has been a really positive development.
He explained:“There is essentially a single line that is parroted by any Five Eyes nation [the UK, US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia]. If you ask, ‘Are UFOs real?’, they don’t answer the question. They say there’s no national security issue with UAPs and they don’t pose a threat to flight safety. But, in July this year, that all changed dramatically.”
“Anyone can read that report. It says very, very clearly that UFOs are a threat to flight safety and that they are a possible threat to national security. It’s a complete reversal. Nobody in the Pentagon is explaining why they’ve done this, but I think – and I’ve been told – it’s because they realise the game is up. They’ve got to come clean eventually about what they know.”
In his book, Coulthart drills down on the link between UFOs and nuclear facilities. ‘In Plain Sight’ begins with the 1991 tale of a woman called Annie Farinaccio, who had been at a party on a US base in Australia’s remote North West Cape. She was offered a ride back into town by two policemen and has never forgotten what she saw as they drove.
Said Coulthart, “Annie was sitting there petrified. She looked up through the windscreen and screamed, as there was this gigantic triangular craft with lights hovering right above as they were driving along at 100km/h down this road.”
“In the blink of an eye, it went to 1,000 feet and then it dropped down to the left-hand side of the car. By this time, she’s pleading [with the police] to drop her back in town, and then it jumps to 1,000 feet instantaneously again and drops down to the right-hand side of the car.”
The base housed very-low-frequency transmitters, which, in the event of war, would send signals to US nuclear submarines. Annie was visited by American officials, taken back to the base and told she had seen a weather balloon – even though the craft didn’t resemble one in any way.
The book records another incident, in Russia, in which the weapons in a nuclear silo had been mysteriously armed, ready for launch, without any input from the officers.
Said Coulthart,“They were panicking. The intelligence appeared to be demonstrating, whatever your security systems, they can be breached. If it is some intelligence of some kind, it seems to be sending a message – it seems to be expressing something about the use or potential misuse of nuclear weapons.”
Also featured in the book is the story of teacher Andrew Greenwood, from Clayton South, a suburb of Melbourne. Along with his high-school students, he saw a metallic disc appear in a cloudless sky.
Greenwood spoke to the local media before being silenced. Said Coulthart, “This is where things get very sinister. Two weeks after the incident, he gets a knock on the door at his private home.There on the doorstep is a man dressed in uniform – a senior officer – and the other gentleman is an official of some kind, perhaps a police officer or an intelligence official, more likely.”
“Andrew’s still angry at what they did. They flatly threatened [him] and said, ‘If you talk anymore about what you saw, we’ll make sure you lose your job – we’ll say you drank as a teacher.’ Andrew’s got no reason to lie about this and, more importantly, what he says he saw is backed up by 167 witnesses, all on the record, at the last count. It really is the most extraordinary case.”
More revelations have been dug up by Coulthart, including suggestions of recovered non-human craft. Sources claim the US and Russia each have facilities in which these are stored, but Coulthart says he is generally skeptical about such claims without having seen proof. “That’s the biggest problem I have. Governments are bloody hopeless at keeping secrets and I would’ve thought, if the United States government was sitting on secrets like that, then it would have been leaked by now, and it hasn’t been,” he said. “But, when you look in the archives of the US government… that’s why I called my book ‘In Plain Sight’. The evidence is right there, in plain sight. There are archives from the CIA that show it was working with the US Defense Department to recover what the documents refer to as ‘flying saucers’ from Nepal and Afghanistan.”
Along with the book, Coulthart has produced a UFO documentary, and has been met with an encouraging level of support from media colleagues and the public alike. “The response has just been mind-blowing. I’ve never in my career had a response like I’ve had to this subject matter,” explained Coulthart. “It has been overwhelming. I’m exhausted every day – I wake up and there are literally 300 to 500 emails, people telling me about their sightings, people offering me information. It’s like we’ve opened a wound and all of the reality is pouring out.”
The main purpose of the book, though, is to cut through the fog. According to Coulthart, it’s almost as if sections of the media don’t want to admit they’ve been asleep at the wheel.
He continued, “The media is failing here. The media is locked into the paradigm that, absurdly, it was encouraged to heed by the CIA and the US Air Force back in the 1960s.”
“The CIA decided to suppress the stories of UFOs – I don’t know why, but it’s claimed it was because they were worried that people reporting UFOs would get in the way of people providing early warning of a Russian ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] landing on the US. It’s an absurd argument that they wanted to stop people from jamming up the phones at NORAD [the North American Aerospace Defense Command] with sightings. It’s just ridiculous.”
For a man adept with words, Coulthart concludes by describing this complex subject appropriately succinctly. While he’s been unable so far to find out all that’s known by governments and security agencies about UFOs, he’s clear why the subject has been judged to be the pastime of fools. “We’ve been manipulated,”he said.“We’ve been had.”
ELON MUSK KEEPS BUZZ ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS IN THE NEWS
ELON MUSK KEEPS BUZZ ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS IN THE NEWS
He has said that we may be ET’s sims. Then this year he created an uproar by doubting UFOs — and another one months later by implying that they do exist. Huh?
Self-driving car and private space travel entrepreneur Elon Musk has been all over the map recently as far as ET is concerned. He has claimed that our universe may have been simulated by extraterrestrials. He has hinted that he himself is an extraterrestrial.
Earlier this year, he apparently reversed course and identified (on Twitter) the strongest argument for the idea that ET doesn’t even exist:
‘Strongest argument against aliens,’ Musk tweeted, along with two charts that shows camera resolution has advanced, but UFO pictures have remained the same.
The post concludes that extraterrestrials do not exist, due to most images showing floating blobs, but many of the comments argue otherwise.
One user responded with ‘that’s exactly what an alien would tweet,’ while another explains that most cameras ‘are only capturing 400-700 nanometers’ and are not capable of capturing ‘true reality.’
Whether Musk agreed with the commenters or not, later this year he decided that maybe ET does exist:
Is there life, Elon, but not as we know it? This is the question on Twitter’s lips in the wake of a post by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the existence of alien spacecraft.
‘I’m not saying there are UFOs … but there are UFOs,’ the entrepreneur tweeted yesterday, provoking a frenzy of responses and memes from his followers.
That last quoted comment was doubtless a jibe at Musk’s one-time claim that he is himself an alien.
The background to all this is likely the Pentagon’s June 25 report to Congress on genuinely puzzling and unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs, formerly UFOs). According to Mailonline, “Mr Musk’s comments come in the wake of plans by the US Congress to establish a dedicated governmental office to investigate sightings of UFOs by the military.”
A Daily Mail source, former U.S. National Security director John Ratcliffe noted, re the surprising Pentagon report:
‘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.’
Musk may genuinely vacillate between doubt and certainty about UFOs. But he may also be trying to focus attention on his space travel enterprises and away from his comparatively sluggish self-driving car business.
One thing we can always count on; he’ll get the hive buzzing — whether or not he is an alien:
Here’s Musk’s argument for why we probably live in a simulation (2016):
You may also wish to read: The Pentagon’s UAP (UFO) report signals a sharp attitude change. The brass have committed themselves to going “wherever the data takes us.” No, they didn’t report UFOs. But they reported enough mysteries to stop merely debunking and discrediting… and follow the evidence.
In a new incredible discovery, water has been detected in a massive galaxy located 12.88 billion light-years away from us. This is the most distant finding of a very important element for supporting life in a regular star-forming galaxy.
The large galaxy, which is called SPT0311-58, is actually two galaxies that are merging into one. They were being witnessed when the Universe was just 780 million years old – approximately 5% of its current age when the very first galaxies and stars were forming. The larger of the two galaxies contains H2O and carbon monoxide molecules which were detected by scientists who were using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
(Not the SPT0311-58 galaxy)
Sreevani Jarugula, who is an astronomer at the University of Illinois and the primary investigator of the new research, explained what they found, “Oxygen and carbon, in particular, are first-generation elements, and in the molecular forms of carbon monoxide and water, they are critical to life as we know it,” adding, “This galaxy is the most massive galaxy currently known at high redshift, or the time when the Universe was still very young. It has more gas and dust compared to other galaxies in the early Universe, which gives us plenty of potential opportunities to observe abundant molecules and to better understand how these life-creating elements impacted the development of the early Universe.”
Molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide are the two most plentiful molecules in the universe, and water comes in third on the list. Water and far-infrared emissions from dust have previously been detected in other galaxies from the early and local universe as explained by Jarugula, “The dust absorbs the ultraviolet radiation from the stars in the galaxy and re-emits it as far-infrared photons.” “This further excites the water molecules, giving rise to the water emission that scientists are able to observe. In this case, it helped us to detect water emissions in this massive galaxy. This correlation could be used to develop water as a tracer of star formation, which could then be applied to galaxies on a cosmological scale.”
(Not the SPT0311-58 galaxy)
Jarugula went on to say, “Early galaxies are forming stars at a rate thousands of times that of the Milky Way,” adding, “Studying the gas and dust content of these early galaxies informs us of their properties, such as how many stars are being formed, the rate at which gas is converted into stars, how galaxies interact with each other and with the interstellar medium, and more.” The study was published in The Astrophysical Journal.
This artist’s conception shows the dust continuum and molecular lines of carbon monoxide and water seen in the pair of galaxies known as SPT0311-58.
Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / S. Dagnello, NRAO.
These images show the molecular lines and dust continuum seen in ALMA observations of SPT0311-58. On left: a composite image combining the dust continuum with molecular lines for water and carbon monoxide. On right: the dust continuum seen in red (top), molecular line for water shown in blue (second from top), molecular line transitions for carbon monoxide, CO(6-5) shown in purple (middle), CO(7-6) shown in magenta (second from bottom), and CO(10-9) shown in pinks and deep blue (bottom).
Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / S. Dagnello, NRAO.
Are you afraid of spiders? It’s a common fear and one that keeps the roll-able magazine and foldable newspaper businesses profitable. If you’re arachnophobic, Georgia is not the state to live in – entomologists announced recently that giant Joro spiders (Trichonephila clavate), an invasive species from East Asia that only showed up in 2014, has taken over the state … covering it with its massive, intricate webs. Don’t rest too easily Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama – the entomologists say the Joro Spiders have crossed your borders with Georgia and are spreading. And, while they’re not the largest spider in North America, they may even be scaring other spiders. Is it time to subscribe to a few more magazines?
“Last year, there were dozens of spiders, and they began to be something of a nuisance when I was doing yard work. This year, I have several hundred, and they actually make the place look spooky with all the messy webs — like a scene out of ‘Arachnophobia.'”
Joro spider
University of Georgia entomologist Will Hudson explains in a statement that the Joro spiders are venomous but pose a danger only to insects caught in their webs, not humans of pets. However, their rapid spread throughout Georgia and has him concerned and he recommends killing any females one comes across – females are larger (3 inches across) and more colorful than the small brown males. Hudson himself has killed more than 300 females on his property just this year. He instructs to avoid persiticides and instead use old-fashioned methods like shovels, brinks, boots and magazines (big thick ones). And he warns it’s already too late to eradicate them from Georgia and the U.S
“Jumping spiders (Salticidae) have superb vision and are excellent predators but they can equally fall prey to other jumping spiders. In a hierarchical decision-making setup, we tested whether the common zebra jumping spider Salticus scenicus can visually recognize stationary predators.”
While Will Hudson is chasing Joro spiders, researchers led by Dr. Daniela Rößler at Germany’s University of Konstanz found something unusual about jumping spiders of the Salticidae family – they’re afraid of other jumping spiders. In a study published by the British Ecological Society and appropriately nicknamed “Arachno-Arachnophobia,” the entomologists wondered how jumping spiders, which use their springy talent to avoid predators, recognized the predators, particularly other jumping spiders. While many creatures detect, the researchers were surprised when jumping spiders recognized and backed away from a dead jumping spider. Even more interesting, Rößler says in a tweet that this behavior was present in newly hatched spiderlings too.
Jumping spider
“So, while we usually think of anti-predator adaptations in terms of morphology and behavior, we might want to include cognitive and perceptual abilities more into this discussion. Isn’t it absolutely amazing that a brain the size of a poppy seed is able to do this???”
Amazing? Yes. Frightening? Well, think about it. Something with a brain the size of a poppy seed can spot spiders before you can. And Rößler’s study only looks at jumping spiders. Do other spiders have this innate ability? Are Joro spiders already evolving to fear other spiders … boots?
Even if you’re not getting married, “Modern Bride” is a pretty thick magazine.
It’s no secret that the U.S. Space Force is worried about China’s space program, which seems to be progressing at a much faster pace than NASA or private space programs, and has a not-too-subtle tendency towards militarizing space, the Moon, other planets and beyond. A good example of this appeared recently on the screens tracking China’s satellite launches. A few days after the October 23rd launch of what was reputed to be a debris-collecting satellite, a second mysterious object pulled up alongside of it.
“US military tracking data indicated the launcher placed the Shijian 21 spacecraft into an elliptical geostationary transfer orbit ranging as high as 22,253 miles (35,813 kilometers) above Earth, with an inclination of about 28.5 degrees to the equator.”
Chinese state media reported that Shijian 21 would “test and verify space debris mitigation technologies.” That’s pretty nebulous – not that the U.S. is any more detailed on its own secret launches – but there wasn’t much concern until a few days later, as Space News reports.
“On Nov. 3 U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron (SPCS) catalogued a new object alongside Shijian-21 with the international designator 2021-094C. The object is noted as a rocket body and more precisely an apogee kick motor (AKM), used in some launches for a satellite to circularize and lower the inclination of its transfer orbit and enter geostationary orbit.”
The object is “noted as a rocket body” but it’s not acting like one. AKMs are usually maneuvered away from satellites after doing their job so they don’t collide — Shijian-21 and the SJ-21 AKM are flying side by side as if that was the intent. Space News speculates the mysterious object could be participating in counterspace operations tests such as rendezvous and proximity operations, refueling or manipulation using a robotic arm.
“We see their capabilities from direct-ascent ASAT, antisatellite capabilities, to on-orbit activity that they’ve done with that capability. All the while, China continues to maintain their public stance against the weaponization of space.”
Air Force Gen. James Dickinson told Congress earlier this year that Shijian-21 could use its robotic arm as a satellite crusher … and that was before its mysterious partner was discovered. This isn’t the first time a tight-formation pair of objects launched by China has been observed. In 2018, the TJS-3 (Tongxin Jishu Shiyan-3) satellite was launched unexpectedly and released a mysterious payload that performed coordinated maneuvers in what could be construed to be an attempt to confuse space tracking networks.
This could be the next step towards a space conflict – or it could be an indication that China is concerned about space junk like dead or malfunctioning satellites and is trying to get a jump on the geostationary satellite servicing marketplace which a number of public companies, including Space Logistics owned by Northrop Grumman, are developing spacecraft for. It all adds up to a need for the buzzword of the moment … transparency. We should have learned from previous wars and science fiction that cooperation works better than conflict.
Several UFO "Orbs" Filmed Flying In The Sky Over Illinois & Could This Be The Roar Of The Bigfoot?
First clip: This was sighted over Mokena and the bordering town of Tinley Park Illinois on October 20, 2021 and the witness stated the following: " My name is Jon Valente. I saw them on two different nights and the dates of the sightings are on the title of my videos. I saw both sightings in Mokena Illinois on 10/20/21 and on 11/4/21. The objects appeared to be over Mokena and the bordering town of Tinley Park Illinois. On both occasions the objects were well below cloud level. I would estimate between 1,000 to 2,500 feet above the ground."
Thanks to Jon Valente for allowing me the use of this footage and to view the original videos.....
Second clip: This was captured at Five Forks State Park in Virginia on October 10, 2021 and the witness stated the following: "My horse is very desensitized to loud sounds so he never bolts. You can shoot a gun off his back and he just stands there. I’m not sure what this was." Others after viewing the footage claimed that this is the roar of the "Hide & Seek" champion, Bigfoot but the woods are a very strange place with many peculiarities.
Many thanks to Wendigo_enthusiast for allowing me the use of her footage and to view the original:
Mysterious shards of glass strewn across Chile's Atacama Desert were likely created by an ancient exploding comet, a study has claimed.
The pieces of dark green or black glass, which came to scientists' attention a decade ago, are clustered in a vast corridor that stretches almost 50 miles (75km) across.
Some are up to 20 inches (50cm big) and look as if they've been folded and twisted into their current forms.
It had been thought they could have been created by volcanic activity or ancient grass fires — because the region wasn't always a desert — but new research led by Brown University has come to a different conclusion.
The study discovered that the glass contained tiny fragments with minerals often found in rocks of extraterrestrial origin.
Discovery: Mysterious shards of dark green or black glass strewn across Chile's Atacama Desert (pictured) were likely created by an ancient exploding comet, a new study has claimed
The pieces of dark green or black glass, which came to scientists' attention a decade ago, are clustered in a vast corridor that stretches almost 50 miles (75km) across
Out of this world: The fragments of glass contain exotic minerals such as cubanite and troilite (pictured) only found in meteorites and other extraterrestrial rocks, the researchers said
WHAT WERE THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL MINERALS FOUND IN THE DESERT GLASS?
Researchers led by Brown University collected more than 300 samples of the glass found in Chile's Atacama Desert before examining them under an electron microscope.
They then analysed the objects' chemical composition through spectroscopy.
Minerals in the glass called zircons decomposed to form baddeleyite, the study found, which would have required extremely hot temperatures of above 3,038°F (1,670°C).
The fragments also contained exotic minerals such as cubanite and troilite only found in meteorites and other extraterrestrial rocks.
They closely match the composition of material returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission, which sampled the particles from a comet called Wild 2, the authors said.
Those minerals closely match the composition of material returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission, which sampled the particles from a comet called Wild 2, the authors said.
They concluded that the minerals are likely the remains of an extraterrestrial object — most likely a comet — streamed down after an explosion that melted the sandy surface below.
'This is the first time we have clear evidence of glasses on Earth that were created by the thermal radiation and winds from a fireball exploding just above the surface,' said the study's lead author Pete Schultz, of Brown University.
'To have such a dramatic effect on such a large area, this was a truly massive explosion.
'Lots of us have seen bolide fireballs streaking across the sky, but those are tiny blips compared to this.'
Researchers collected more than 300 samples of the desert glass before examining them under an electron microscope and analysing their chemical composition through spectroscopy.
The samples showed evidence of having been twisted, folded, rolled and even thrown while still in molten form.
According to the researchers, that is consistent with a large incoming meteor and airburst explosion, which would have been accompanied by tornado-force winds.
They added that the glass fragments 'indicate nearly simultaneous (seconds to minutes) intense airbursts close to Earth's surface near the end of the Pleistocene' 12,000 years ago.
The glass is in patches across the Atacama Desert east of Pampa del Tamarugal, a plateau in northern Chile nestled between the Andes to the east and Chilean Coastal Range to the west
The minerals closely match the composition of material returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission, which sampled the particles from a comet called Wild 2, the authors said
Researchers collected more than 300 samples of the glass before examining them under an electron microscope and analysing their chemical composition through spectroscopy
Minerals in the glass called zircons thermally decomposed to form baddeleyite, the authors said, which would have required extremely hot temperatures of above 3,038°F (1,670°C)
WHAT WAS NASA's STARDUST MISSION?
The Stardust probe was launched back in 1999 with the primary goal of visiting the comet Wild 2.
It completed this mission in 2004, capturing dust particles from around the comet nucleus that it later returned to Earth in a capsule for study.
In 2009, this analysis revealed that a fundamental building block of life had been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that the raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space.
Traces of the amino acid glycine were found, having been captured 242million miles from Earth by the Stardust spacecraft.
However, with sufficient fuel supplies still in its tanks, NASA then decided to send the probe to the comet Tempel 1, which it swept past in 2011.
During the Pleistocene epoch, there were fertile patches in the desert with trees and grassy wetlands created by rivers extending from mountains to the east.
It had been suggested that widespread fires may have burned hot enough to melt the sandy soil into large glassy slabs.
But the amount of glass present, along with several key physical characteristics, make this theory extremely unlikely, the new research found.
Minerals in the glass called zircons thermally decomposed to form baddeleyite, the authors said, which would have required extremely hot temperatures of above 3,038°F (1,670°C), which is far hotter than a wildfire.
The glass is concentrated in patches across the Atacama Desert east of Pampa del Tamarugal, a plateau in northern Chile nestled between the Andes mountains to the east and the Chilean Coastal Range to the west.
It contains exotic minerals such as cubanite and troilite only found in meteorites and other extraterrestrial rocks, the researchers said.
'Those minerals are what tell us that this object has all the markings of a comet,' said co-author Scott Harris, a planetary geologist at the Fernbank Science Center.
'To have the same mineralogy we saw in the Stardust samples entrained in these glasses is really powerful evidence that what we're seeing is the result of a cometary airburst.'
The pieces of dark green or black glass are clustered in a vast corridor that stretches almost 50 miles (75km) across Chile's Atacama Desert
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Researchers said more work is needed to establish the exact age of the glass, which would then help determine when the ancient comet exploded in the Atacama Desert (pictured)
Pictured is an artist's impression of the Stardust spacecraft approaching comet Wild 2 in 2004
More work needs to be done to establish the exact age of the glass, which would determine exactly when the event took place, Schultz said.
But experts believe the impact happened around the time large mammals disappeared from the region.
'It's too soon to say if there was a causal connection or not, but what we can say is that this event did happen around the same time as when we think the megafauna disappeared, which is intriguing,' Schultz said.
'There's also a chance that this was actually witnessed by early inhabitants, who had just arrived in the region. It would have been quite a show.'
The research has been published in the journal Geology.
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 mystery of the massive amounts of shards of glass spread across Chile’s Atacama Desert has finally been solved and it involves an exploding comet from thousands of years ago.
In a new study that was led by researchers from Brown University, they claimed that the extensive heat from a comet exploding above the ground fused the sandy soil in the desert into countless patches of dark green or black silicate glass. These shards of glass stretched across an area of about 75 kilometers (46.6 miles). This event occurred approximately 12,000 years ago. Interestingly, it was believed to have happened around the same time that large mammals disappeared from the area, although more studies need to be conducted in order to know for sure.
During their research, they studied glass samples from the desert and they found that they contained small portions of minerals that came from space. The minerals included troilite, cubanite, and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions that were very similar to those found in samples that were collected from a comet named Wild 2 and were brought back to Earth by NASA’s Stardust mission. They were able to confidently say that the minerals found in the shards of glass in the Atacama Desert came from a space object that was probably a comet similar to Wild 2.
Scott Harris, who is a planetary geologist at the Fernbank Science Center, stated, “Those minerals are what tell us that this object has all the markings of a comet,” adding, “To have the same mineralogy we saw in the Stardust samples entrained in these glasses is really powerful evidence that what we’re seeing is the result of a cometary airburst.”
This is very significant news as it remained a mystery for such a long time, especially since experts couldn’t find any proof that they were caused by volcanic activity. Another theory was that they were caused by ancient grass fires that melted the sandy soil into glass; however, since there is so much glass as well as its space minerals, a fire seemed very unlikely. Additionally, since the glass was folded, twisted, thrown, and rolled, evidence points to an exploding comet that would have caused winds as strong as a tornado.
Furthermore, chemical analysis on the glass revealed that they contained zircon minerals that were thermally decomposed in order to create baddeleyite. This means that the temperature would have been as hot as 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,649 degrees Celsius) in order to form them – much hotter than a grass fire.
Pete Schultz, who is a professor emeritus in Brown University’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, weighed in by noting, “This is the first time we have clear evidence of glasses on Earth that were created by the thermal radiation and winds from a fireball exploding just above the surface.” “To have such a dramatic effect on such a large area, this was a truly massive explosion.” (Pictures of the shards of glass stretched across the Atacama Desert can be seen here.)
This Team Of Scientists Were Exploring This Ancient Jungle When They Made An Unexpected Discovery via Unexplained Mysteries
This Team Of Scientists Were Exploring This Ancient Jungle When They Made An Unexpected Discovery via Unexplained Mysteries
This team of scientists were exploring this ancient jungle when they made an unexpected discovery. Today, we take a look at what this team of scientists discovered inside this jungle.
The densely growing vines and choking trees that make up the jungles of the equator are likely one of the least-understood regions of the earth, second only to the ocean. Although the uncertainty of the contents of the jungle leads some to believe that it conceals ominous and otherworldly secrets, most of the mysteries within are simply fantastical occurrences that have yet to be discovered.
Today, we take a look at this compilation of incredible jungle discoveries. Thank you for watching! Thank you to CO.AG for the background music!
Someone Just Discovered A Massive Underground Tunnel In Mexico But Didn't Expect To Find This Inside via Unexplained Mysteries
Someone Just Discovered A Massive Underground Tunnel In Mexico But Didn't Expect To Find This Inside via Unexplained Mysteries
Someone Just Discovered A Massive Underground Tunnel In Mexico But Didn’t Expect To Find This Inside via Unexplained Mysteries
Someone just discovered a massive underground tunnel in Mexico but didn’t expect to find this inside. Today, we take a look at this massive underground tunnel that was just found in Mexico. Mexico is a country that has a rich history. Every year archaeologists working here discover incredible artifacts, helping to give us a glimpse into what life would have been like here thousands of years ago.
Each year researchers discover underground chambers and caves, sometimes these are emptied, but some of these are filled with artifacts and treasures. One example of this is archaeologists recently uncovered a secret ‘passage to the underworld’ at Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan. Thank you for watching!
A solar-powered spacecraft, with three special passengers onboard, is currently spinning toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system.
Nasa's Juno spacecraft is set to fire its main rocket engine early tomorrow morning to slow itself down from a speed of 165,000 mph (265,000 kph) and slip into orbit around Jupiter.
Hitching a ride are three 1.5-inch Lego figures depicting the 17th century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter, and the deity's wife Juno - all made from aluminium to withstand the Jupiter's harsh environment.
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Unusually for a robotic space mission, Juno is carrying passengers - three Lego figures depicting the 17th century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (left), the Roman god Jupiter (right), and the deity's wife Juno (centre). Lego made the figures out of aluminium rather than the usual plastic so they could withstand the extreme conditions of space fligh
In Greek and Roman mythology, Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief. From Mount Olympus, Juno was able to peer through the clouds and reveal Jupiter's true nature.
Juno holds a magnifying glass to signify her search for the truth, while her husband holds a lightning bolt.
The third Lego crew member is Galileo Galilei, who made several important discoveries about Jupiter. He used a telescope to confirm the phases of Venus and discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter - named the Galilean moons in his honour.
'Of course, the minifigure Galileo has his telescope with him on the journey,' Lego said in a statement.
By drawing attention to these Lego characters, Nasa aims to inspire the next generation of spacecraft engineers by encouraging children to explore subjects such as science and technology.
But they are on a suicide mission. Juno, along with its three passengers, meets its demise in 2018 when it deliberately dives into Jupiter's atmosphere and disintegrates — a necessary sacrifice to prevent any chance of accidentally crashing into the planet's potentially habitable moons.
NASA'S JUNO MISSION
The Juno probe is due to reach the gas giant on at 3.18am GMT Tuesday morning after a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey from Earth.
It will enter a long polar orbit flying to within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet's swirling cloud tops. Once in orbit around Jupiter, Juno will skim to within just 4,200 km of the planet's clouds once a fortnight - too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
The Earth-based observations supplement the suite of advanced instrumentation on the Juno spacecraft, filling in the gaps in Juno's spectral coverage and providing the wider global and temporal context to Juno's close-in observations.
No previous spacecraft has orbited so close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent plunging to their destruction through its atmosphere.
To complete its risky mission Juno will have to survive a circuit-frying radiation storm generated by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. The maelstrom of high energy particles travelling at nearly the speed of light is the harshest radiation environment in the Solar System.
To cope with the conditions, the spacecraft is protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding.
Its all-important 'brain' - the spacecraft's flight computer - is housed in an armoured vault made of titanium and weighing almost 400 pounds (172kg).
Juno was launched on 5 August, 2011. During more than 30 orbital flybys of the Jovian world, it will probe beneath the obscuring ammonia and hydrogen sulfide cloud cover and study the auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
Juno's name comes from Greek and Roman mythology. Jupiter, the father of the Roman gods, drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief. But his wife - the goddess Juno - was able to peer through the clouds and reveal Jupiter's true nature.
During its mission of exploration, Juno will circle the Jovian world 37 times, soaring low over the planet's cloud tops.
With Juno on autopilot, the delicately choreographed move comes without any help from ground controllers.
If successful, scientists will for the first time be able to see what lies beneath Jupiter's atmosphere, and help unlock secrets about how the solar system formed.
Juno is travelling through a hostile radiation environment, 'but it should be able to withstand it,' said Kenny Starnes, programme manager for Lockheed Martin, which built the spacecraft.
Juno's camera and other instruments were switched off for the arrival so there won't be any pictures at the moment the spacecraft reaches its destination. Scientists have promised close-up views of Jupiter when Juno skims the cloud tops during the 20-month, $1.1 billion (£828m) mission.
The fifth planet from the sun and the heftiest in the solar system, Jupiter is known as a gas giant — a ball of mainly hydrogen and helium — unlike rocky Earth and Mars.
With its billowy clouds and colourful stripes, Jupiter is an extreme world that likely formed first, shortly after the sun. Unlocking its history may hold clues to understanding how Earth and the rest of the solar system developed.
Named after the Roman god Jupiter's cloud-piercing wife, Juno is only the second mission designed to spend time at Jupiter.
Scientists are using the Hubble Space Telescope to watch Jupiter's aurora (pictured) for more than a month in the hope of trying to unravel what causes these enormous light shows. The ultraviolet and X-ray aurora on Jupiter occur continuously on the giant planet and are the size of the entire planet Earth
Juno is in a harsh radiation environment, so its delicate electronics are housed in a special titanium vault. Eventually, Juno will succumb to the intense radiation and will be commanded to plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere to avoid any collision with the planet's moons. Pictured is a 1/5 scale model size of the solar-powered Juno spacecraft
Galileo, which launched in 1989, circled Jupiter for 14 years, beaming back splendid views of the planet and its numerous moons. It uncovered signs of an ocean beneath the icy surface of Europa, considered a top target in the search for life outside Earth.
Juno's mission: To peer through Jupiter's cloud-socked atmosphere and map the interior from a unique vantage point above the poles.
Among the lingering questions: How much water exists? Is there a solid core? Why are Jupiter's southern and northern lights the brightest in the solar system?
There's also the mystery of its Great Red Spot. Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the centuries-old monster storm in Jupiter's atmosphere is shrinking.
The trek to Jupiter, spanning nearly five years and 1.8 billion miles (2.8 bn kilometres), took Juno on a tour of the inner solar system followed by a swing past Earth that catapulted it beyond the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Along the way, Juno became the first spacecraft to cruise this far out powered by the sun, beating Europe's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft. A trio of massive solar wings sticks out from Juno like blades from a windmill, generating 500 watts of power to run its nine instruments.
Plans called for Juno to swoop within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometres) of Jupiter's clouds — closer than previous missions — to map the planet's gravity and magnetic fields.
Juno launched in 2011. This image shows an Atlas V rocket carrying the Juno spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the first step in Juno's 1.8 billion-mile voyage to the gas giant planet, Jupiter
JUNO'S MISSION IN NUMBERS
—1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometres)
That's the total distance travelled from launch to arrival. Juno's journey wasn't a straight shot. Because the rocket that carried Juno wasn't powerful enough to boost it directly to Jupiter, it took a longer route. It looped around the inner solar system and then swung by Earth, using our planet as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system.
— 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometres)
That's how close Juno will fly to Jupiter's cloud tops. It will pass over the poles a total of 37 times during the mission on a path that avoids the most intense radiation, before it plunges into the planet's atmosphere.
— 48 minutes, 19 seconds
That's the time it takes for radio signals from Jupiter to reach Earth. During the encounter, Juno will fire its main engine for about a half hour to slow down. By the time ground controllers receive word that it started, the engine burn would have been completed, and if all goes as planned, Juno would be in orbit.
— 20 months
That's how long the mission will last. Because Juno is in a harsh radiation environment, its delicate electronics are housed in a special titanium vault. Eventually, Juno will succumb to the intense radiation and will be commanded to plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere to avoid any collision with the planet's moons.
— Nine
Juno carries a suite of nine instruments to explore Jupiter from its interior to its atmosphere. It will map Jupiter's gravity and magnetic fields and track how much water is in the atmosphere. Its colour camera dubbed JunoCam will snap close-ups of Jupiter's swirling clouds, polar regions and shimmering southern and northern lights.
— Three
Three massive solar wings extend from Juno, making it the most distant solar-powered spacecraft. The panels can generate 500 watts of electricity, enough to power the instruments
Juno is an armoured spacecraft — its computer and electronics are locked in a titanium vault to shield them from harmful radiation. Even so, Juno is expected to get blasted with radiation equal to more than 100 million dental X-rays during the mission.
Last week, stunning new images and the highest-resolution maps of Jupiter at thermal infrared wavelengths showed a glowing view of Juno's target, a week ahead of the Nasa mission's arrival at the giant planet.
The maps reveal the present-day temperatures, composition and cloud coverage within Jupiter's dynamic atmosphere, and show how giant storms, vortices and wave patterns shape the appearance of the giant planet.
The high-resolution maps and images were created from observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, using a newly-upgraded thermal imager called VISIR.
This left composite image of photographs made by Cassini on December 29, 2000 shows the Jupiter. The Great Red Spot, a fierce storm larger than Earth, can be seen. In recent years, it has been mysteriously shrinking. The right image shows a close up view of the region
Jupiter on fire! In preparation for the imminent arrival of the Juno spacecraft, astronomers used ESO's Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared images of Jupiter using the VISIR instrument. This false-colour image was created by selecting and combining the best images obtained from many short VISIR exposures at a wavelength of 5 micrometers
The observations were taken between February and June 2016 to characterise Jupiter's atmosphere ahead of Juno's arrival.
'We used a technique called 'lucky imaging', whereby individual sharp frames are extracted from short movies of Jupiter to 'freeze' the turbulent motions of our own atmosphere, to create a stunning new image of Jupiter's cloud layers,' said Dr Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester.
'At this wavelength, Jupiter's clouds appear in silhouette against the deep internal glows of the planet.
WHAT ARE JUPITER'S GREAT UNKNOWNS?
Water
Like the sun, Jupiter is a ball of mostly hydrogen and helium. It was probably the first planet to form. Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth and with 300 times the mass. Juno will hunt for water in Jupiter's atmosphere, which may help explain how Earth got its water. Previous spacecraft found only a trace amount in Jupiter's atmosphere, but scientists think they didn't look deep enough. Juno carries an instrument that can pierce through thick clouds to measure the water content.
Great red spot
A world of swirling clouds and colourful stripes, Jupiter's most prominent feature is the Great Red Spot, a fierce storm in the atmosphere larger than Earth that has lasted for centuries. In recent years, the spot has been mysteriously shrinking. Once an oval about 25,500 miles wide (41,036 kilometres) in the late 1880s, the spot shrank to its smallest observed size in 2014 — the shape of a circle about 10,250 miles across (16,495 kilometres). Juno will study how deep into the atmosphere the Great Red Spot extends in an effort to understand what may happen next to Jupiter's trademark.
Auroras
Earth's dazzling southern and northern lights are dim compared to Jupiter's auroras, the brightest in the solar system. Earth's polar lights are triggered by solar storms, which occur when a cloud of gas from the sun slams into the planet's magnetic field. Jupiter's powerful auroras are sparked by the planet's own rotation. Jupiter is the fastest-spinning planet in the solar system, taking just 10 hours to complete a rotation. As Jupiter spins, it drags its magnetic field around with it. Juno will observe the light show and learn about the driving forces behind it.
Polar regions
The first peek of Jupiter's poles came in 1974 when Pioneer 11 flew by en route to Saturn. Juno will get a more detailed look by passing over Jupiter's polar regions. During the next year, the spacecraft will circle Jupiter 37 times from pole to pole — a path that will cover the whole planet. At its closest approach, Juno will skim within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometres) of Jupiter's cloud tops.
'Images of this quality will provide the global context for Juno's close-up views of the planet at the same wavelength.'
Dr Fletcher and his team have also used the TEXES spectrograph on NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawaii regularly to map Jupiter's changing appearance.
The team made observations at many different wavelengths, optimised for different features and cloud layers in Jupiter's atmosphere, to create the first global spectral maps of Jupiter taken from Earth.
'These maps will help set the scene for what Juno will witness in the coming months.
'We have seen new weather phenomena that have been active on Jupiter throughout 2016.
Juno carries a suite of nine instruments to explore Jupiter from its interior to its atmosphere. It will map Jupiter's gravity and magnetic fields and track how much water is in the atmosphere
This view compares a lucky imaging view of Jupiter from VISIR (left) at infrared wavelengths with a very sharp amateur image in visible light from about the same time (right)
These include a widening of one of the brown belts just north of the equator, which has spawned wave patterns throughout the northern hemisphere, both in the cloud layers and high above in the planet's stratosphere,' said Dr Fletcher from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and Astronomy.
'Observations at different wavelengths across the infrared spectrum allow us to piece together a three dimensional picture of how energy and material are transported upwards through the atmosphere.'
Both sets of observations were made as part of a campaign using several telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, as well as contributions from amateur astronomers around the world, to understand Jupiter's climate ahead of Juno's arrival.
Jupiter's powerful magnetosphere extends up to two million miles into the space around the planet (illustrated) and is thought to be responsible for sending charged particles in the space around it hurtling at high speeds towards the poles
The huge aurora on Jupiter (pictured) are thought to be caused by solar particles and volcanic debris in the space around the giant planet being accelerated towards the poles by its powerful magnetic field
The ground-based campaign in support of Juno is led by Dr Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Once in orbit around Jupiter, Juno will skim to within just 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above Jupiter's clouds once a fortnight - too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
The Earth-based observations supplement the suite of advanced instrumentation on the Juno spacecraft, filling in the gaps in Juno's spectral coverage and providing the wider global and temporal context to Juno's close-in observations.
'The combined efforts of an international team of amateur and professional astronomers have provided us with an incredibly rich dataset over the past eight months,' said Dr Orton.
'Together with the new results from Juno, this dataset will allow researchers to characterise Jupiter's global thermal structure, cloud cover and distribution of gaseous species.
False color images generated from VLT observations in February and March 2016, showing two different faces of Jupiter. The bluer areas are cold and cloud-free, the orange areas are warm and cloudy, more colorless bright regions are warm and cloud-free, and dark regions are cold and cloudy (such as the Great Red Spot and the prominent ovals). The wave pattern over the North Equatorial Band shows up in orange.
We can then hope to answer questions like what drives Jupiter's atmospheric changes, and how the weather we see is connected to processes hidden deep within the planet.'
No previous spacecraft has orbited so close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent plunging to their destruction through its atmosphere. To complete its risky mission Juno will have to survive a circuit-frying radiation storm generated by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.
The maelstrom of high energy particles travelling at nearly the speed of light is one of the harshest radiation environments in the Solar System.
To cope with the conditions, Juno is protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding and its all-important 'brain' - the spacecraft's flight computer - is housed in an armoured vault made of titanium and weighing almost 400 pounds (172kg).
Dr Scott Bolton, Juno's principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, US, said: 'We are not looking for trouble, we are looking for data.
'Problem is, at Jupiter, looking for the kind of data Juno is looking for, you have to go in the kind of neighbourhoods where you could find trouble pretty quick.'
Juno will study Jupiter's composition, gravitational and magnetic field, and search for clues about the planet's formation and the source of its raging winds, which can reach speeds of 384 mph (618 kph).
It will also deliver stunning colour photos via its JunoCam camera, which has a wide field of view geared for panoramic images.
To provide electrical power, the spacecraft carries three huge solar panels, each 29ft long and almost 9ft wide.
The previous record for a close approach to Jupiter was set by the American space agency Nasa's Pioneer 11 spacecraft which passed by the planet at a distance of 27,000 miles (43,000 km) in 1974.
Only one previous spacecraft, Galileo, which visited Jupiter and its moons from 1995 to 2003, has orbited the planet.
Galileo made wide orbits at distances of hundreds of thousands of kilometres that kept it out of serious danger from the radiation, although it suffered a number of technical 'anomalies'.
JUPITER'S GIANT AURORA
Jupiter's auroras were first discovered by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979.
A thin ring of light on Jupiter's nightside looked like a stretched-out version of our own auroras on Earth.
But later, astronomers discovered the auroras were best visible in the ultraviolet. Scientists also discovered the planet has X-ray aurora too.
Jupiter's aurora are larger than our entire planet and unlike those on Earth, occur almost continuously.
This suggests that the mechanism causing this light show is different from that on Earth.
While Earth's Northern and Southern lights are triggered by energetic particles from the sun slamming into gas atoms high in the atmosphere, Jupiter appears to have another source.
Scientists believe its powerful magnetic field accellerates charged particles from the space around it towards its poles, to cause similar interactions.
The volcanic moon Io spews oxygen and sulfur ions into Jupiter's spinning magnetic field, which sends them hurtling towards the planet below.
Upon entering the atmosphere, their electrons are first stripped away by molecules they run into, but as they slow down they start grabbing electrons back. The 'charge exchange reaction' produces intense X-ray auroras.
Yet scientists have been baffled as to how Jupiter's magnetic field accelerates these particles.
The spacecraft sent a small probe on a one-way trip through the clouds of Jupiter, and was eventually itself crashed onto the planet at the end of its mission.
As a further safeguard, Juno is programmed to follow a long orbital path that avoids Jupiter's radiation belts as much as possible.
Despite these measures, the probe is not expected to last much longer than its planned lifespan of 20 months. At the end of he mission, Nasa plans to send the probe headlong into the Jovian atmosphere to collect as much data as possible.
Chief radiation monitoring investigator Heidi Becker, from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: 'Over the course of the mission, the highest energy electrons will penetrate the vault, creating a spray of secondary photons and particles.
'The constant bombardment will break the atomic bonds in Juno's electronics.'
Juno was launched into space by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 5, 2011. The mission is part of Nasa's New Frontiers programme of robotic space missions which last year saw the New Horizons probe obtain close up views of dwarf planet Pluto
A plaque dedicated to Galileo and provided by the Italian Space Agency is also on board.
Measuring 2.8 ins (7.1 cm) across, it shows a portrait of Galileo and a text penned by the astronomer in January 1610 while observing Jupiter's four largest moons - later to be known as the Galilean moons.
Juno was launched into space by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 5, 2011.
The mission is part of Nasa's New Frontiers programme of robotic space missions which last year saw the New Horizons spacecraft obtain close up views of dwarf planet Pluto.
Juno Peers Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds to Reveal its Complex Atmosphere
Juno Peers Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds to Reveal its Complex Atmosphere
Many papers are usually released at once for big space exploration missions. Usually, that happens when an entire batch of data has been analyzed. The most recent set of papers is from Juno’s explorations of Jupiter’s atmosphere. With this data dump, scientists now have the first 3D map of the atmosphere of the solar system’s largest planet.
Four main discoveries were highlighted as part of NASA’s press release of the set of papers. The first is that there are systems in Jupiter’s atmosphere similar to “Farrell cells,” which we covered in a previous UT article. Another has to do with one of the most famous of Jupiter’s features: the Great Red Spot.
This image shows the overall size of the Great Red Spot in comparison to Earth.Credit – JunoCam Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; JunoCam Image processing by Kevin M. Gill (CC BY); Earth Image: NASA
Discovered over 200 years ago, the Great Red Spot is one of the most fascinating parts of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Larger the Earth’s diameter, up until now, there had been no indication of how deep this enormous “anticyclone” protruded down into the atmosphere. Juno shed some light on the situation, but only as it flashed past at 209,000 kph.
Luckily it got to do so twice, and during those flybys, the probe turned its microwave radiometer (MWR) towards the towering atmospheric structure. Designed to look beneath Jupiter’s clouds, MWR was able to tell that the Great Red Spot extended between approximately 300-500 kilometers down into the gas giant’s atmosphere. More minor storms only reach about 60 km into the clouds, making the mother of all anticyclones even more gigantic than initially thought.
The outer atmosphere shrouds the inner core of Jupiter, but what is it actually made up of?
That giant atmospheric feature is only one of Jupiter’s well-known patterns in its atmosphere, though. Another – its distinct “belts” of certain colored clouds – are formed by powerful winds blowing in opposite directions for each belt. In addition to creating the Ferrel cells mentioned above, the belts are hiding another secret below the clouds – they have transition segments very similar to a phenomenon known as thermoclines here on Earth.
Thermoclines occur where dramatic temperature changes occur in bodies of water, usually Earth’s ocean. They are visually noticeable from their distinct optical properties, where the two temperatures of water appear very visually distinct from one another. Jupiter’s analog, named a Jovicline by its discoverers, is similar in its changing optical properties. The belt is exceptionally bright in MWR’s data at shallow depths into the atmosphere compared to surrounding systems. However, at deeper levels, the surrounding systems show up as brighter rather than the belt itself. Thermoclines have similar properties, with warmer water and colder water reflecting different wavelengths of light differently.
Want an interesting thought experiment? How about whether we could colonize Jupiter?
MWR wasn’t the only instrument trained on Jupiter during Juno’s 37 flybys so far. The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) was also collecting data, and in particular, spent time looking at cyclones located near the planet’s poles. Eight distinct storms form an octagon near the north pole, while five distinct storms form a pentagon in the south. Typical atmospheric modeling would have one of the cyclones pulled poleward. However, there are cyclones at the center of each pole that negate that pull, leaving each storm stuck in the same pattern for years at a time.
Juno will have plenty more years to assess those storms and other features of Jupiter and some of its surrounding moons as it continues its second extended mission well into 2025. With luck, the spacecraft can go for a third extended mission more than 16 years after it initially launched.
Composite image of Jupiter in infrared and visible light. Credit – International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NASA/ESA, M.H. Wong and I. de Pater (UC Berkeley) et al.
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Jupiter’s banded appearance is created by the cloud-forming weather layer. This composite image shows views of Jupiter in infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Missing 411: This Navajo Park Ranger Reveals The Truth About What's Happening To People Inside These Parks
Missing 411: This Navajo Park Ranger Reveals The Truth About What's Happening To People Inside These Parks
This Navajo park ranger reveals the truth about what's happening to people inside these parks. Today, we take a look at what this Navajo park ranger said about working inside this park.
The police do incredible work, and they are usually the first ones on the scene when something goes wrong. Every so often though they will encounter something that even they can't explain.
One of the places where officers are seeing strange things is that of the Navajo Reservation of the American southwest. This location is known for mysterious and legendary stories and the police here have encountered some strange things.
One of the issues though is when police report these types of encounters, they can be mocked and locked down on. The police at Navajo Reservation however have a different view on things. They take these sightings and encounters seriously and will try to look into and understand each report.
Today, we take a look at this compilation of interesting discoveries and announcements.
This fast triangular-shaped object was flying across the sky above Cincinnati in Ohio on 5th November 2021.
Witness report:
This object was triangular or delta wing shaped. Traveling from the south headed due north and recorded this from my night vision camera attached to my tripod
Sodium Vapor Outgassing Explains Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity
Sodium Vapor Outgassing Explains Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity
The 5.8-km-wide (3.6-mile) near-Earth asteroid Phaethon, which is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, brightens as it gets close to the Sun. The asteroid’s elongated, 524-day orbit takes it well within the orbit of Mercury, during which time the Sun heats the asteroid’s surface up to 750 degrees Celsius (1,390 degrees Fahrenheit).
This illustration depicts the asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun.
Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / IPAC.
“Phaethon is a curious object that gets active as it approaches the Sun,” said Dr. Joseph Masiero, a researcher at IPAC/Caltech.
“We know it’s an asteroid and the source of the Geminids. But it contains little to no ice, so we were intrigued by the possibility that sodium, which is relatively plentiful in asteroids, could be the element driving this activity.”
Dr. Masiero and his colleagues were inspired by observations of the Geminids.
When meteoroids streak through Earth’s atmosphere as meteors, they disintegrate.
But before they do, friction with the atmosphere causes the air surrounding the meteoroids to reach thousands of degrees, generating light.
The color of this light represents the elements they contain. Sodium, for example, creates an orange tinge. The Geminids are known to be low in sodium.
Until now, it was assumed that these small pieces of rock somehow lost their sodium after leaving the asteroid Phaethon.
The new study suggests that the sodium may actually play a key role in ejecting the Geminid meteoroids from the asteroid’s surface.
The researchers think that as Phaethon approaches the Sun, its sodium heats up and vaporizes.
This process would have depleted the surface of sodium long ago, but sodium within the asteroid still heats up, vaporizes, and fizzes into space through cracks and fissures in Phaethon’s outermost crust.
These jets would provide enough oomph to eject the rocky debris off its surface.
So the fizzing sodium could explain not only the asteroid’s cometlike brightening, but also how the Geminid meteoroids would be ejected from the asteroid and why they contain little sodium.
“Asteroids like Phaethon have very weak gravity, so it doesn’t take a lot of force to kick debris from the surface or dislodge rock from a fracture,” said Dr. Björn Davidsson, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“Our models suggest that very small quantities of sodium are all that’s needed to do this — nothing explosive, like the erupting vapor from an icy comet’s surface; it’s more of a steady fizz.”
To find out if sodium turns to vapor and vents from an asteroid’s rock, the researchers tested samples of the Allende meteorite.
The meteorite may have come from an asteroid comparable to Phaethon and belongs to a class of meteorites, called carbonaceous chondrites, that formed during the earliest days of the Solar System.
The scientists then heated chips of the meteorite to the highest temperature Phaethon would experience as it approaches the Sun.
“This temperature happens to be around the point that sodium escapes from its rocky components,” said Dr. Yang Liu, also from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“So we simulated this heating effect over the course of a ‘day’ on Phaethon — its three-hour rotation period — and, on comparing the samples’ minerals before and after our lab tests, the sodium was lost, while the other elements were left behind.”
“This suggests that the same may be happening on Phaethon and seems to agree with the results of our models.”
The study was published in the Planetary Science Journal.
Joseph R. Masiero et al. 2021. Volatility of Sodium in Carbonaceous Chondrites at Temperatures Consistent with Low-perihelion Asteroids. Planet. Sci. J 2, 165; doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ac0d02
Former UK Astronaut Suggests Alien Beings Are Here On Earth
Former UK Astronaut Suggests Alien Beings Are Here On Earth
(Arjun Walia) Dr. Helen Sharman was Britain’s first astronaut. She went to space 28 years ago and recently made headlines by stating that there is no doubt whatsoever that “All sorts of forms of life” exist in the universe, and it’s possible that “They’re here right now” and in some cases we “simply can’t see them” as they are so different to humanity.
Could she have been referring to beings that exist within other dimensions? Based on my research, when it comes to the topic of UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for some of these objects, many have hypothesized that some of these craft simply pop in and out of our existence, perhaps from another dimension.
Sharman told the Observer Magazine that “Aliens exist, there’s no two ways about it” and that “There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of forms of life.”
The chemist spent eight days as a researcher on the space mission when she was 27, making her one of the youngest people to enter orbit.
This echoes the thoughts and feelings of the majority, if not all of the scientific community right now when it comes to contemplating life beyond our own world.
The list of astronauts around the world who have shared their belief that intelligent life exists, in abundance, elsewhere in our known universe is quite long. Some have even stated that they have been privy to evidence suggesting that we have been visited, and are being visited.
Not long ago, Bigelow Aerospace CEO Robert Bigelow said that one doesn’t have to go anywhere to find this type of life, that it’s already here…
Apollo 14’s Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a great example. He spent many years creating awareness about the UFO phenomenon, and made many incredible statements throughout his life. He claimed to be “privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet” and that “the UFO phenomenon is real.”
His words were verified after his passing by the leak of this document. The focal point of the document is about a meeting (and what happened after that meeting) that took place in 1997 between UFO researcher Dr. Steven Greer, Admiral Wilson, Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14 astronaut) and other high ranking individuals within the military. This meeting was spoken about by Dr. Greer and Dr. Mitchell nearly four years prior to the leak of these documents on multiple occasions. You can learn more about this document, here.
Dr. Brian O’leary, a former astronaut and Princeton physics professor has stated that “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted,” astronaut Story Musgrave has done the same, stating that intelligent life most certainly exists and that “they’re doing star travel, that’s how good they are.” Gordon Cooper and again, several others have done the same. Apollo 12 astronaut Al Worden has also made some interesting comments about aliens.
All of these statements are quite out-dated, and since they’ve been made it’s been proven without a doubt that the UFO phenomenon is real. The mainstream seems to be getting more acclimatized to this fact, as objets performing maneuvers that no known air-craft can have been documented via electrooptical data, like video recordings and radar trackings, as well as high ranking testimony from hundreds trained observers.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Impeccably researched, this riveting journalistic investigation separates fact from fiction, and documents the existence of—and government reactions to—actual UFOs. “A treasure trove of insightful and eye-opening information.”—Michio Kaku, PH.D., bestselling author of Physics of the Future
A former Pentagon official who led a secret government program to research potential UFOs, revealed in 2017, told CNN at the time that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth, and that the UFO phenomenon is part of that evidence.
We’ve see mainstream UFO disclosure ramp up quite a bit every single year, as it continues to be legitimized by articles taking the subject seriously in media outlets like the Washington Post, and the New York Times. It’s quite clear that something is going on.
For a deeper discussion into mainstream UFO disclosure, the motives, and more, you can refer to this article I recently published on the subject.
This subject is huge, and like I’ve said many times before, leaves no aspect of humanity untouched.
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06-11-2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
UFO's Just Over Head?(Two UFO Sightings)
Two strange UFO sightings starting out in Texas then our next sightings is in Washington State.
First Video Source: MUFON Case # 118980
Second Video Source: MUFON Case # 119021
Flying Humanoid Figure Filmed In The Sky Over Maryhill In Glasgow, Scotland.
Lynsey Currie and her boyfriend filmed this strange object above his flat and at first they though it could be a weather balloon but given the odd shape to this object it looks like no weather balloon we have seen. One thing is sure it that this is a UFO as it is flying over this area in Glasgow but to me the object seem to be "Humanoid" in appearance as we can see a head, arms and legs which are attached to a body. Lynsey Currie also added " it was flying across the sky going from the northwest of Glasgow towards the southwest." Thanks to Lynsey Currie and her boyfriend for filming this.. Source and Story: Glasgow Live
Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that launched Sept. 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth.
Mangroves are prominent along the northwest coast of Australia. The first image collected by Landsat 9, on Oct. 31, 2021, shows mangroves clustered in protected inlets and bays on the edge of the Indian Ocean. Fluffy cumulus clouds and high-altitude cirrus clouds hover nearby. The aqua colors of the shallow near-shore waters give way to the deep, dark blues of the ocean.
Credits: NASA
The images, all acquired Oct. 31, are available online. They provide a preview of how the mission will help people manage vital natural resources and understand the impacts of climate change, adding to Landsat's unparalleled data record that spans nearly 50 years of space-based Earth observation.
"Landsat 9's first images capture critical observations about our changing planet and will advance this joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that provides critical data about Earth's landscapes and coastlines seen from space," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "This program has the proven power to not only improve lives but also save lives. NASA will continue to work with USGS to strengthen and improve accessibility to Landsat data so decision makers in America - and around the world - better understand the devastation of the climate crisis, manage agricultural practices, preserve precious resources and respond more effectively to natural disasters."
These first light images shows Detroit, Michigan, with neighboring Lake St. Clair, the intersection of cities and beaches along a changing Florida coastline and images from Navajo Country in Arizona that will add to the wealth of data helping us monitor crop health and manage irrigation water. The new images also provided data about the changing landscapes of the Himalayas in High Mountain Asia and the coastal islands and shorelines of Northern Australia.
This image collected by Landsat and released by NASA, shows the white sands of Pensacola Beach stand out of the Florida Panhandle of the US.
(NASA/AFP)
Landsat 9 is similar in design to its predecessor, Landsat 8, which was launched in 2013 and remains in orbit, but features several improvements. The new satellite transmits data with higher radiometric resolution back down to Earth, allowing it to detect more subtle differences, especially over darker areas like water or dense forests. For example, Landsat 9 can differentiate more than 16,000 shades of a given wavelength color; Landsat 7, the satellite being replaced, detects only 256 shades. This increased sensitivity will allow Landsat users to see much more subtle changes than ever before.
Landsat 9 carries two instruments designed to work together to capture a broad range of wavelengths: the Operational Land Imager 2 and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2. Data from both instruments are shown in this image.
Credits: NASA
"First light is a big milestone for Landsat users - it's the first chance to really see the kind of quality that Landsat 9 provides. And they look fantastic," said Jeff Masek NASA's Landsat 9 project scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center. "When we have Landsat 9 operating in coordination with Landsat 8, it's going to be this wealth of data, allowing us to monitor changes to our home planet every eight days."
Landsat 9 carries two instruments that capture imagery: the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2), which detects visible, near-infrared and shortwave-infrared light in nine wavelengths, and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 (TIRS-2), which detects thermal radiation in two wavelengths to measure Earth's surface temperatures and its changes.
These instruments will provide Landsat 9 users with essential information about crop health, irrigation use, water quality, wildfire severity, deforestation, glacial retreat, urban expansion, and more.
"The data and images from Landsat 9 are expanding our capability to see how Earth has changed over decades", said Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "In a changing climate, continuous and free access to Landsat data, and the other data in NASA's Earth observing fleet, helps data users, including city planners, farmers and scientists, plan for the future."
NASA's Landsat 9 team is conducting a 100-day check-out period that involves testing the satellite's systems and subsystems and calibrating its instruments in preparation for handing the mission over to USGS in January. USGS will operate Landsat 9 along with Landsat 8, and together the two satellites will collect approximately 1,500 images of Earth's surface every day, covering the globe every eight days.
"The incredible first pictures from the Landsat 9 satellite are a glimpse into the data that will help us make science-based decisions on key issues including water use, wildfire impacts, coral reef degradation, glacier and ice-shelf retreat and tropical deforestation," said USGS Acting Director Dr. David Applegate.
"This historic moment is the culmination of our long partnership with NASA on Landsat 9's development, launch and initial operations, which will better support environmental sustainability, climate change resiliency and economic growth - all while expanding an unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes."
John Hanson, who has spent more than two decades studying UFOs, is to make his vast collection of extraterrestrial information available to the public.
A former policeman has released thousands of UFO reports to the public.
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John Hanson has investigated extraterrestrial sightings in the UK for the past two decades and his books on UFOs were praised by the late Prince Philip.
Hanson has 25,000 reports that will go on display at the British UFO Information Office to allow the public to look at his vast collection of documents and files.
He told The Sun newspaper: "I began collecting information and records from a number of UFO groups over the years.
"I thought it best to date all of the material - for example, if you said what happened in January 1995, I would set out four huge files showing on a day-to-day basis what was reported both by the press and the UFO groups concerned.
"I anticipate 25,000 documents, I haven't finished yet!"
Long time Live Webcam viewer Eoin O’Faodhagain recorded another strange occurrence in Scotland’s Loch Ness. On October 19th, he noticed a black object that emerged high out of the water on the northern side of the loch and began moving through the water. Based on the video and the distance that the webcam is from the loch, the object would have been at least a couple of feet out of the water. While it was moving down the water, it got closer to the surface and eventually went under as soon as a cruiser began getting closer.
Once the cruiser came into view on the webcam, the unexplained dark object was completely under the water. However, there was still a straight line wake on the surface which indicated that it was still very close to the surface and possibly even touching it. But when the cruiser reached the exact spot where the object was last viewed, it was totally gone so it must have been submerged a good distance down from the surface.
O’Faodhagain posted his recordings on YouTube where the first part of the video can be viewed here and part two can be seen here.
This is O’Faodhagain’s fifth sighting of the year. His first occurred on January 19th when he witnessed a mysterious shape in the water for about 20 minutes. Three days later, he saw two unexplained objects splashing around in the water. He noticed a black shape moving up and down in the water, followed by two mysterious objects on March 12th. And on August 22nd, he again saw two shapes moving across the surface. There were five other webcam sightings reported by other viewers this year for a total of ten so far.
As for visitors who actually witnessed the elusive creature in person at the loch, there have been six reports so far this year that included a sonar image on August 26th. The image, which was captured on board the “Nessie Hunter” of Loch Ness Cruises, showed a mysterious shape that was estimated to have been 3 to 4 meters in length (9.8 to 13.1 feet). All of the sightings can be viewed on The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register page.
There was another interesting and very questionable sighting that included a drone camera but it hasn’t been accepted or listed on the register’s page. A camper named Richard Mavor was part of the great glen canoe challenge for Alzheimer’s Society when he decided to send his drone in the air to capture some footage of the loch for his YouTube channel and that’s when he allegedly filmed the Loch Ness Monster.
You too could find Nessie if you stop looking at the surfers and swimmers
However, not everyone is convinced that the footage is real and some have even called it out, saying that it was a toy used in a hoax. Maybe that’s why it hasn’t been accepted to The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register page.
Rocky exoplanets are even STRANGER than we thought! Most nearby worlds are made of rock types that can't be found in our solar system - with some so exotic that scientists have had to create new names for them, study finds
Rocky exoplanets are even STRANGER than we thought! Most nearby worlds are made of rock types that can't be found in our solar system - with some so exotic that scientists have had to create new names for them, study finds
Scientists have identified 'exotic' rock types that do not exist in our solar system
These rock types are so 'strange' that they have had new names created for them
The team based their results on telescope data from white dwarfs - former stars
Rocky planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, are composed of 'exotic' rock types that don't even exist in our planetary system, a study shows.
Researchers have used telescope data to analyse white dwarfs – former stars that were once gave life just like our Sun – in an attempt to discover secrets of their former surrounding planets.
The experts found that some exoplanets have rock types that don't exist, or just can't be found, on planets in our solar system.
These rock types are so 'strange' that the authors have had to create new names for them – including 'quartz pyroxenites' and 'periclase dunites'.
Some of these rocks would dissolve more water than rocks on Earth, which might have impacted how oceans formed on these planets prior to their demise.
Rocky debris, the pieces of a former rocky planet that has broken up, spiral inward toward a white dwarf in this illustration. Studying the atmospheres of white dwarfs that have been 'polluted' by such debris, an NSF astronomer and a geologist have identified exotic rock types that do not exist in our solar system
EXOPLANETS AND WHITE DWARFS
An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most orbit other stars, but free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, orbit the galactic center and are untethered to any star.
A white dwarf is the remains of a smaller star that has run out of nuclear fuel.
While large stars – those exceeding ten times the mass of our Sun - suffer a spectacularly violent climax as a supernova explosion at the end of their lives, smaller stars are spared such dramatic fates.
When stars like the Sun come to the ends of their lives they exhaust their fuel, expand as red giants and later expel their outer layers into space.
The hot and very dense core of the former star - a white dwarf - is all that remains.
White dwarfs contain approximately the mass of the Sun but have roughly the radius of Earth, meaning they are incredibly dense.
The gravity on the surface of a white dwarf is 350,000 times that of gravity on Earth.
The new study has been led by the NSF's NOIRLab, an astronomical research centre based in Tucson, Arizona.
'While some exoplanets that once orbited polluted white dwarfs appear similar to Earth, most have rock types that are exotic to our solar system,' said study author astronomer Siyi Xu at NOIRLab.
'They have no direct counterparts in the solar system.'
So far, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars in our galaxy.
Some 4,374 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,234 systems since the first exoplanet discoveries in the early 1990s.
The majority of these exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, rather than terrestrial, according to NASA's online database.
The closest exoplanet is called Proxima Centauri b, around 4.2 light years away from our Sun.
However, it's difficult to know what exactly exoplanets are made of, or whether any resemble Earth.
To try and find out more, astronomer Xu partnered with geologist Keith Putirka of California State University, Fresno, to study the atmospheres of what are known as polluted white dwarfs.
White dwarfs are the incredibly dense stellar remains of dead stars after they exhaust their nuclear fuel, shrunk down to roughly the size of Earth.
They contain foreign material from planets, asteroids or other rocky bodies that once orbited the star but eventually fell into the white dwarf and 'contaminated' or 'polluted' its atmosphere.
Roughly 98 per cent of all the stars in the universe will ultimately end up as white dwarfs, including our own Sun.
Artistic rendering of what an exoplanet might look like, with its star in the background. So far, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way
NEW CLASS OF EXOPLANETS DUBBED 'HYCEAN' PLANETS COULD SUPPORT ALIEN LIFE
A new class of 'waterworld' exoplanets have been found by astronomers, who say that despite being hot, ocean-covered and hydrogen-rich - could support life.
They have been dubbed 'Hycean' world's by the team from the University of Cambridge, who say they 'greatly increase our chance of finding alien life'.
Hycean worlds are habitable and more numerous than Earth-like planets. They are hot, ocean-covered worlds with hydrogen-rich atmospheres, and are more observable than Earth-like planets due to their temperature, making them easier to detect with current telescopes.
According to the scientists, the findings could mean the discovery of biosignatures of life outside our Solar System is a real possibility within the next two or three years.
By looking for elements that wouldn't naturally exist in a white dwarf's atmosphere (anything other than hydrogen and helium), scientists can figure out what the rocky planetary objects that fell into the star were made of.
The team looked at 23 polluted white dwarfs, all within about 650 light-years of the Sun, where calcium, silicon, magnesium and iron had been detected, using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawai'i, the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.
The list of polluted white dwarfs studied included WD 1145+017, approximately 570 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Virgo.
The scientists then used the measured abundances of those elements to reconstruct the minerals and rocks that would form from them.
They found that these white dwarfs have a much wider range of compositions than any of the inner planets in our solar system, suggesting their planets have a wider variety of rock types.
'Some rock types might melt at much lower temperatures and produce thicker crust than Earth rocks, and some rock types might be weaker, which might facilitate the development of plate tectonics,' said Putirka.
Earlier studies of polluted white dwarfs had found elements from rocky bodies, including calcium, aluminum and lithium.
But these are 'minor elements' (which typically make up a small part of an Earth rock), so measurements of 'major elements' (which make up a large part of an Earth rock), especially silicon, are needed to truly know what kind of rock types would have existed on those planets.
The team studied polluted white dwarfs using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawai'i (pictured) and other observatories
High levels of magnesium and low levels of silicon measured in the white dwarfs' atmospheres suggest that the rocky debris detected likely came from the interiors of the planets, from the mantle, not their crust.
This is because high magnesium and low silicon are characteristic of Earth’s mantle composition.
Some previous studies of polluted white dwarfs reported signs that continental crust existed on the rocky planets that once orbited those stars.
Interestingly, Putirka and Xu found no evidence of crustal rocks, although this does not completely rule out that the planets had continental crust or other crust types.
'We believe that if crustal rock exists, we are unable to see it, probably because it occurs in too small a fraction compared to the mass of other planetary components, like the core and mantle, to be measured,' said Putirka.
SORRY EARTHLINGS: OUR SUN WILL BECOME A RED GIANT IN ABOUT 5 BILLION YEARS BEFORE SHRINKING DOWN TO A COMPACT WHITE DWARF
The Sun is only 4.6 billion years through its roughly 10-billion-year lifetime.
When hydrogen fuel at the centre of a star is exhausted, nuclear reactions will start move outwards into its atmosphere and burn the hydrogen that’s in a shell surrounding the core.
As a result, the outside of the star starts to expand and cool, turning much redder.
Over time, the star will change into a red giant and grow to more than 400 times its original size.
As they expand, red giants engulf some of their close-orbiting planets. In the Sun's case, this will mean the fiery end of all the inner planets of our Solar System, which might also include the Earth.
But don't worry - this won't happen for another 5,000,000,000 years.
Once swelled into a red giant, engulfing the inner planets and searing the Earth’s surface, it will then throw off its outer layers, and the exposed core of the Sun will be left as a slowly cooling white dwarf.
This stellar ember will be incredibly dense, packing a large fraction of the mass of the Sun into a roughly Earth-sized sphere.
According to new analysis, rocky planets found in other systems are muchmore diverse than previously thought. An astronomer named Siyi Xu from NSF’s NOIRLab and a geologist named Keith Putirka from California State University, Fresno, focused on rocky worlds that orbit nearby stars as well as “polluted” white dwarfs’ chemical compositions. Polluted white dwarfs are the collapsed dense cores that were once suns (similar to own sun). Their “contaminated” atmospheres contain materials from asteroids, planets, and other rocky worlds that orbited them at one time.
The experts were able to determine what the rocky planets were composed of by figuring out what types of foreign materials were in the atmospheres of the white dwarfs. They focused on 23 polluted white dwarfs that are all located within 650 light-years away from our sun. They used several observatories for their study that included the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawai’i, as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope. They were able to measure the amount of calcium, magnesium, silicon, and iron in the atmospheres of the white dwarfs. Then they used their calculations to determine which types of rock could have been formed from those specific elements and measurements.
And what the scientists found was that the rocky planets contained a large amount of different types of rock. What’s even more jaw-dropping is that several of them were previously unknown rocks that have never been found in our own Solar System. In fact, Xu and Putirka had to give names to some of the odd new rock types – “quartz pyroxenites” and “periclase dunites”.
Putirka & Xu present the first estimates of rock types on exoplanets that once orbited polluted white dwarfs — stars whose atmospheric compositions record the infall of formerly orbiting planetary objects.
Image credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani & M. Kosari, NSF’s NOIRLab.
As for these exotic rocks, Putirka described them in further detail, “Some of the rock types that we see from the white dwarf data would dissolve more water than rocks on Earth and might impact how oceans are developed.” “Some rock types might melt at much lower temperatures and produce thicker crust than Earth rocks, and some rock types might be weaker, which might facilitate the development of plate tectonics.”
Another interesting discovery was that based on the large amount of magnesium and the small amount of silicon in the atmospheres of the white dwarfs, it is believed that the rocky materials probably came from the planets’ mantle instead of the crust. “We believe that if crustal rock exists, we are unable to see it, probably because it occurs in too small a fraction compared to the mass of other planetary components, like the core and mantle, to be measured,” Putirka explained.
Triangle UFO Formation Over Rome, Italy, Nov 2, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Triangle UFO Formation Over Rome, Italy, Nov 2, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 2, 2021
Location of sighting: Rome, Italy
An eyewitness as sitting on a train passing near Rome when they noticed three glowing lights in the sky. The lights were in a formation of a triangle which makes me think it may have been a single UFO. Some alien craft have propulsion systems that glow when warming up. Similar to the USAF TR3B, triangle UFOs have been seen for decades across Europe and most often seen in the UK and this one is closer than we have seen in many years. Undeniable proof that UFOs exist.
Glowing UFO Over Hill In Utah On Oct 30, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over Hill In Utah On Oct 30, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 30, 2021 Location of sighting: Moab, Utah, USA Source:MUFON
This eyewitness accidentally caught a UFO in a photo of an area in Utah. The glowing object moved from behind a rock to get caught in a photo. Although the UFO was not seen with the naked eye, the digital eye is more perfect and captures every detail. There are many colors of the spectrum that the human eye cannot see. For instance if the UFO is cloaked in infrared then we wont be able to see it, but every camera can detect it to some degree. All the videos of UFOs released by the US government were recorded using an infrared camera to capture them in high detail. So...such cases have been documented.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
We were in Moab, Utah. One of the first couple photos that I took of a large rock formation has this object in it that appears to be elevating at an extremely high rate of speed. The object was a bit above the rock formation when I took the photo. I did not look at it until the next day when I noticed the object.
A “door seems to open” in Antarctica and fuels all kinds of theories
A “door seems to open” in Antarctica and fuels all kinds of theories
Theories about the ‘Hollow Earth’ are intensifying after news that a huge entrance to Earth in Antarctica has appeared on maps.
It seems that fans of conspiracy theories have been given a new topic to discuss. Onlookers have already suggested that the structure could be an entrance to the “hollow earth” or a “military cover-up.”
The huge mystery hole located on a remote island in Antarctica has been spotted again on Google Maps, sparking much debate on social media.
The discovery, whose authenticity cannot be verified, was made by the authors of the YouTube channel ThirdPhaseFromTheMoon, who published a video showing what looks like a giant cave.
Two elements continue to intrigue the channel’s hosts: the origins of this strange entrance and its impressive size.
Using Google Maps, Blake and Brett Cousins showed that the cryptic hole first appeared in 2007 only to disappear several months later.
Another detail that astonished the hosts is that such a giant structure, which is 83 meters high and 75 meters wide, did not exist in 2006.
According to the hosts, this cave could house “hundreds, if not thousands, of people”.
Speaking about the origins of this enigmatic hole, Brett Cousins said that it could be the result of a natural event.
His co-host pointed out an unusual structure leading up to the entrance that looked like a staircase or some kind of access.
“It is large enough for spaceships and flying saucers or even the assets of our military to fly into this massive opening. Is this a base? There is no indication that it is a sinkhole, ”said Brett Cousins.
Social media users added even more mystery, with some suggesting that the giant structure could be an entrance to a submarine or a secret government project.
Although other users said it could just be a melt hole.
But the theory that has taken the cake is the one that defend that the structure is actually a door to the depths of the Earth.
The NBC4 I-Team has obtained new records that add additional detail to the latest reported “jetpack” sighting near LAX. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021.
Air traffic control recordings and documents show the latest jetliner pilot to report seeing what looked like a person flying in a jetpack near Los Angeles International Airport offered a description of the flying-person’s clothing, according to records obtained from the FAA by the NBC4 I-Team under the Freedom of Information Act.
A Kalitta Air cargo pilot, using the call sign “Connie 363,” made the most recent report July 29 while lining up for final approach to the south runways at LAX, according to an FAA recording made directly from its communications network.
“Connie 363, possible jet pack man in sight at position Gate,” the pilot said while descending through 5,000 feet near the 710 and 105 freeways.
“Was he off your left or right sir?,” the controller asked.
“Uh, right wing, red outfit,” the pilot replied.
The controller, working from a remote air traffic control center referred to as “So Cal Approach,” then warned other pilots to be on the lookout for the flying object.
“Attention all aircraft use caution for the jetpack. He is just north of the final around 5000 at 'Gate' last reported.”
Minutes later, the same controller asked a FedEx cargo pilot to look for the object.
“FedEx 326 heavy let me know if you see that, uh, jet man. He was reported just up here right just now,” she said.
“I'm looking I have no [inaudible] so far, I’ll let you know, FedEx 326 heavy,” the pilot replied.
“Okay, they're all calling them Iron Man,” the controller said.
The incident was summarized in an FAA “Mandatory Occurrence Report,” which are used to document a variety of unusual events. The initial report, also obtained by the I-Team, said an LA County Sheriff’s Department helicopter crew was notified about the sighting, as it was reported in airspace above an area patrolled by the sheriff’s department.
Minutes later, the same controller, while apparently briefing another air traffic controller, said that no other pilots in the same area at the same time saw anything similar.
“Man in the jet pack was reported right here about 15 minutes ago now and no one else reported them so I think he got scared,” the controller said.
Multiple law enforcement sources have told the I-Team that, to date, no corroborating witnesses or evidence -- like cellphone video -- have been found for the July 2021 report. The first two pilot reports in August and October 2020 have reportedly led to similar dead ends.
The I-Team has confirmed that sometime after the second sighting in 2020 an LAPD helicopter crew recorded video of a flying object that resembled a, “scarecrow,” possibly being carried aloft by balloons. The LAPD denied our request for a copy of the video, which has been shared with both the FBI and FAA.
The FBI said Wednesday there was no new information to share publicly on the case, characterizing it as an open and ongoing investigation.
Is a greenhouse on Mars called… a ‘redhouse?’ While agricultural endeavors on Mars aren’t quite possible yet, scientists have made a discovery that can help us get there.
New research shows that nitrogen-fixing bacteria can help plants grow better in Mars-like soils. This finding, presented in the journal Plos One, by Franklin Harris of Colorado State University and his colleagues, increases the possibility of farming Martian regolith—a necessary achievement if humans are to set up bases on Mars for an extended period of time.
BACKGROUND: MARTIAN SOIL
While the colonization of Mars is an increasingly prevalent topic, there are plenty of reasons why it’s still a pipe dream, chief among them is the obvious incompatibility of the planet with our lifestyle as humans. If humans are to survive on Mars, we’d naturally require water and food.
Growing crops on Mars is difficult; the Martian regolith lacks essential plant nutrients and microorganisms, including nitrogen-containing molecules. On Earth, soil bacteria play a crucial role in converting—fixing—atmospheric nitrogen into molecules needed for plant growth.
This research into the performance of plant life on Mars has led scientists to several possibilities, including using hydroponic greenhouses and controlled environmental systems, like in the International Space Station, or even using advanced synthetic biology to engineer whole organisms.
The alternatives for adapting conditions for plant growth require looking to different and non-traditional sources of food, with previous research even suggesting the substitution of food with microbes.
ANALYSIS: ASTROAGRICULTURE
To examine what the introduction of nitrogen-fixing bacteria could do in the field of astroagriculture, the researchers planted clover in man-made regolith that imitated Martian soil. They inoculated some of the plants with the microbe Sinorhizobium meliloti, typically found in clover root nodules.
The experiment showed that the inoculated clover experienced 75% greater roots and shoots growth compared to the uninoculated clover. When researchers tested the soil of the inoculated clover, they found no signs of elevated NH4—a crucial nitrogen-containing molecule for plants—suggesting that the microbes helped the plant more efficiently absorb the nutrient.
This finding implies that while the symbiotic microbes boosted clover growth, they did not produce an excess of nitrogen compounds that other nearby plants could hypothetically use.
“This study shows that nodule forming bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti has been shown to nodulate in Martian regolith, significantly enhancing growth of clover (Melilotus officinalis) in a greenhouse assay,” the authors write.
“This work increases our understanding of how plant and microbe interactions will help aid efforts to terraform regolith on Mars.”
OUTLOOK: SPACE FARMING ON MARS
While this research could potentially alleviate some of the problems posed by the lack of plant nutrients on Mars, there are other hurdles scientists still need to overcome. The Martian regolith isn’t just inadequate for plant growth; it’s also toxic, containing high levels of perchlorate compounds containing chlorine.
This new research suggests that different combinations of symbiotic bacteria could help plants avoid taking in harmful molecules.
Hopefully, with the progression of astroagriculture research, future inhabitants of Mars can enjoy more than just microbes for dinner.
Candy Chan is a journalist based in New York City. She recently graduated from Barnard College with a degree in History. Follow her reporting on her Twitter @candyschan.
Chicago Woman Spots Black Object Floating in Sky, Footage Leaves UFO Watchers Stumped
Chicago Woman Spots Black Object Floating in Sky, Footage Leaves UFO Watchers Stumped
Aiyana said that the object floated in the south east direction with no significant movement. She added that the shape floated few miles in around 20 minutes.
The black wishbone shape with wings ending in a sphere, which could be seen in the video, was spotted by Aiyana from her terrace.
(Representational image: Reuters)
This world has a lot of hidden secrets and unanswered questions. Strange and bizarre occurrences often put people and experts in a dilemma. Spotting of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs are among these events. In one such incident, a woman from Chicago was “creeped out” when she saw a weird black object floating in the sky, reported Mirror. The woman whose name is Aiyana was left in “total confusion” after spotting the strange shape. The black wishbone shape with wings ending in a sphere, which could be seen in the video, was spotted by Aiyana from her terrace. The report quoted her saying, “I literally have no idea what it was. There is nothing comparable.” She further told that the object seemed like some ball with two long strings attached to it. The strings had knob attached to them in the middle and end.
The report further quoted Aiyana and her son saying that they had no idea what they had seen. They kept seeing the object until it was no more in sight. Aiyana said that the object floated in the south east direction with no significant movement. She added that the shape floated few miles in around 20 minutes.
To seek some clarity as to what that object was, Aiyana’s friend shared the surreal footage online with UFO watchers. But instead of getting any clarification, the UFO watchers themselves got bewildered, watching the object floating so calmly above the “windy city,” the report stated.
One of the watchers said, “I've never seen a balloon just hang still in the open air like that. It should bob, even if just a little."The watcher added that this could happen only if there was absolutely no wind.
Another watcher stumped by the footage said that they had no explanation. The person said that it seemed like some object hanging from a helicopter, sans helicopter.
One of them ruled out the possibility of the object being a balloon or rooftop antenna covered by clouds.
There’s good and bad news. Let’s start with the latter. As everyone knows—at least, those who are sane—there’s this thing called global warming. Earth is rapidly becoming uninhabitable, with polar ice caps melting and sea levels rising, and more frequent wildfires and hurricanes. This is bad news. Very bad news.
But the good news, though not really comparable in magnitude as, you know, our planet dying, is that there are people building things that could help fight climate change. So while it is easy to view our future as a dystopian hell world with rising sea levels, dead agricultural crops, and a massive die-off of the human species— The Debrief has decided to provide a nice little list of how some people are working to save our asses. So, here we go.
THE TOP 4 WAYS HUMANITY CAN BE SAVED FROM GLOBAL WARMING:
1. China’s Artificial Star
A non-negotiable way of fighting climate change is switching to renewable energy. Solar energy is one thing, but what if we can generate energy comparable to that of the Sun itself? Instead of using our Sun as a source of energy, scientists are wondering if it’s possible to create the Sun itself.
That line of research has led to the birth of an artificial star. In the hopes of finding a better way to fuel the Earth, China is betting on one of its own inventions: EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak).
Harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, EAST burns at temperatures eight times hotter than the Sun. And it’s sustainable, too! Nuclear fusion reactors not only produce an extreme abundance of energy, but it also generates (practically) zero waste and is safe to use, despite having the word “nuclear” in its title.
So how does this artificial star do all this?
When particles of hydrogen nuclei collide, they fuse to form helium nuclei. The resulting helium atom is lighter than the two hydrogen ones, and since energy is conserved, the lost mass of the collision results in the creation of pure energy.
A rendering of hot plasma moving inside the EAST system. (Image: ITER)
To get enough of these hydrogen nuclei particles to collide, they need to be sped up via heat. This is basically what is going on in the Sun, and it’s the same process that is replicated in the artificial star. It’s nuclear fusion.
The problem scientists have previously faced with nuclear fusion is not blowing things up. But in the 1950s, Russian scientists discovered a way around that unfortunate side-effect. Nuclear fusion can happen safely when it’s in a donut-shaped chamber filled with magnets—a Tokamak.
So really, China’s artificial star is more of a hot nuclear donut.
EAST isn’t anywhere close to producing enough energy for consumers yet. Scientists behind the project are still focused on the goal of keeping the temperature stable for a long time, but so far, it’s looking like a positive step towards solving the energy crisis.
2. Algae photobioreactor
We’ve established that we need clean energy if we’re to fight climate change, but we also need clean water. An algae photobioreactor can help us get both.
NASA invented a new method to grow algae, clean wastewater, and capture carbon dioxide to produce biofuel.
A photobioreactor uses a light source to cultivate microorganisms. These microorganisms then generate biomass from light and carbon dioxide. NASA’s photobioreactors in particular have semi-permeable membranes which utilize osmosis to clean the water as well.
Algae-derived fuel is an emerging practice in the field of renewable energy, with similar projects coming out of Scotland-based BioEconomy (ENBIO). ENBIO’s photobioreactor uses LED technology to produce microalgae and has cultivation systems that allow for integration with local renewable energy grids.
“Since microalgae are grown using only light, CO2, and nutrients, the use of algae-based fuel could limit the impact on the environment,” said ENBIO business development officer Carole Shellcock.
While NASA and ENBIO have pushed for algae in discussions on biofuel, algae-derived fuel isn’t going to be the kind of showstopper-energy-producer that China’s EAST plans to be. Instead, algae proves to be a hub of innovation in the realm of biofuel, with more projects using the organism to refine and re-invent.
3. Alternatives to lithium-ion batteries
What good is producing energy if there’s no sustainable way to store it?
A central reason why renewable energy has yet to catch up with the petrochemical industry is because of the challenges that come with producing, storing, and disposing of this energy form. Renewable energy is already difficult to store, but the whole dilemma is made even harder when factoring in how expensive it is to create energy storage tools, and how unsustainable it is.
A rechargeable lithium-ion battery from scooter company Kumpan Electric. Great for your bike, not so great for the Earth. (Image: Kumpan Electric)
Lithium-ion batteries are currently viewed as the go-to renewable energy storage solution, but they are costly to produce and dispose of. They also require sourcing raw materials—lithium, nickel, manganese, cobalt, and graphite—a process which has led to dire ecological consequences, such as toxic black holes and ecological die-offs (like the flamingos in Chile!).
But there are innovators in search of technology that can dethrone the lithium-ion battery. Volt Storage is a new company looking to use its new vanadium redox flow storage technology. Volt Storage uses a vanadium-based liquid electrolyte, which flows through the battery cells in two separate circuits. The technology promises to be resource-saving and CO2-reducing.
Another company looking to put forth a new battery is Form Energy. With the invention of flow battery, a new type of sulfur-based battery, Form Energy promises to reform the electricity grid to run on low-cost, renewable energy.
Yet-Ming Chiang, Form Energy co-founder, said, “this battery literally inhales and exhales air, but it doesn’t exhale carbon dioxide, it exhales oxygen.”
In August, Form Energy announced that it raised $240 million in funding, with backing from investors like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Talk about an energized industry!
4. Alternative meat
It’s long been understood that meat consumption is bad for the environment. Yet there’s no stopping us carnivores. The average American eats 274 pounds of meat per year, and that doesn’t include seafood. Meat and dairy production accounts for 14.5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. Safe to say, we should all be eating way less meat.
Targeting those who just can’t seem to give up meat, companies have started producing alternatives: laboratory-grown meat.
In the last decade, this field of cellular agriculture has raised $7 billion worth of investor and venture capital funding, with Bill Gates and SoftBank showing support. There are currently over 70 startups worldwide dedicated to the production of this alternative meat product. But what is this form of lab meat exactly, and how is it different from most of the vegan meats you can find at Whole Foods?
Cultured meat is meat created using animal stem cells. These cells are nurtured to grow into muscle cells or fat cells, then assembled to replicate the structure of meat itself. This method bypasses animal slaughter and cruelty and promises to have a smaller environmental footprint than traditional meat production.
The first time cultured meat was approved for sale was in December 2020. In Singapore, a private members club started serving chicken nuggets made by San Francisco-based Just Eat. Now companies have manufactured lab-grown Italian pork sausages and bluefin tuna.
While a report from consulting firm AT Kearney predicts that most meat in 2040 would not come from dead animals, and innovation in the field of cellular agriculture is rapidly growing, cultured meat is still a long way away from being a dinnertime staple. But at least it’s on its way.
Humanity still has a way to go to solve the climate crisis. However, if any of these ideas can become a mainstream change, there may be hope for us. Otherwise, we are all going to have to go ‘Mad Max’ for a few centuries…
Candy Chan is a journalist based in New York City. She recently graduated from Barnard College with a degree in History. Follow her reporting on her Twitter @candyschan.
ALS HET AAN WETENSCHAPPERS LIGT, GAAN BACTERIËN RAKETBRANDSTOF KNUTSELEN OP MARS
ALS HET AAN WETENSCHAPPERS LIGT, GAAN BACTERIËN RAKETBRANDSTOF KNUTSELEN OP MARS
Vivian Lammerse
Het eens zo bizarre idee dat we op een dag de rode planeet zouden kunnen koloniseren, krijgt nu toch steeds meer vorm.
Sinds jaar en dag wil de mensheid al naar Mars. Het idee om de onherbergzame en exotische planeet daadwerkelijk te kunnen bewonen, prikkelt de verbeelding. Toch leek het lang niet echt realistisch. Maar daar komt langzaam maar zeker verandering in. Zeker nu onderzoekers een vernuftige methode hebben bedacht om ter plekke raketbrandstof te fabriceren.
Hulpmiddelen op Mars Zoals je je kunt voorstellen komt er een hoop bij kijken als we daadwerkelijk onze stoffige buurplaneet willen gaan bewonen. Niet alleen hebben we zuurstof, water en voedsel nodig om onszelf in leven te houden, ook raketbrandstof behoort tot het boodschappenlijstje. Want hoe kom je anders van de rode planeet weer terug op aarde? Op dit moment overweegt men methaan en vloeibare zuurstof (LOX) te gebruiken. Maar geen van beide komt van nature op Mars voor, wat betekent dat we dit vanaf de aarde zouden moeten meenemen. Dat transport is vrij prijzig; het vervoeren van de benodigde 30 ton methaan en LOX kost naar schatting zo’n 8 miljard dollar. Om deze kosten enigszins te drukken, heeft NASA voorgesteld een chemische katalyse te gebruiken om kooldioxide op Mars om te zetten in LOX. En hoewel dat op zich een prima oplossing lijkt, zou in dit geval alsnog de benodigde methaan van de aarde naar Mars moeten worden verscheept.
Oplossing Onderzoekers hebben nu echter een betere oplossing bedacht om zowel aan LOX, als aan methaan te komen. Zo willen ze op vernuftige wijze beide stoffen uit CO2 vervaardigen; een gas dat al ruimschoots op Mars aanwezig is. Een slim plan, dat de missiekosten aanzienlijk zou kunnen drukken. “Kooldioxide is één van de weinige bronnen die op Mars beschikbaar is,” zegt onderzoeker Nick Kruyer. “Wetende dat de biologie bijzonder goed is in het omzetten van CO2 in bruikbare producten, maakt dit het goedje heel geschikt voor het vervaardigen van raketbrandstof.”
Hoe werkt het? Op het ingrediëntenlijstje vinden we eigenlijk maar drie dingen, die allemaal al op de rode planeet te vinden zijn en dus niet in de reiskoffer mee hoeven: koolstofdioxide, zonlicht en bevroren water. Daarnaast moeten er wel twee microben naar Mars worden vervoerd. De eerste betreft cyanobacteriën (blauwalgen) die CO2 uit de atmosfeer van Mars halen en zonlicht gebruiken om suikers te maken. De tweede is een gemanipuleerde E.coli-bacterie, die de door de blauwalgen vervaardigde suikers omzet in een Mars-specifiek drijfgas. En daar kunnen vervolgens de raketten mee worden voortgestuwd.
Reactoren ter grootte van vier voetbalvelden, bedekt met cyanobacteriën, zouden op Mars raketbrandstof kunnen produceren.
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WIST JE DAT…
…het Mars-specifieke drijfgas, dat 2,3-butanediol wordt genoemd, momenteel al bestaat? Dit wordt op aarde gebruikt om polymeren te maken voor de productie van rubber.
Een fijne bijkomstigheid: tijdens het proces komt er zo’n 44 ton overtollige schone zuurstof vrij. En dat komt natuurlijk handig van pas. Zo kan dit voor talloze andere doeleinden worden ingezet, zoals het ondersteunen van een heuse menselijke kolonie.
Zwaartekracht Het betekent dat de onderzoekers een slimme manier hebben uitgevonden om raketbrandstof te maken die een retourtje naar de aarde mogelijk maakt. Dat is overigens mede te danken aan de zwaartekracht op Mars, die slechts een derde is van de aantrekking op aarde. Dit betekent dat de onderzoekers creatief konden zijn in het bedenken van mogelijke brandstoffen. “Je hebt veel minder energie nodig om op Mars op te stijgen,” legt onderzoeker Pamela Peralta-Yahya uit. “Dit gaf ons de flexibiliteit om verschillende chemicaliën te overwegen die niet bij raketlanceringen op aarde werken.”
Uitdagingen Hoewel het een briljante oplossing lijkt, zijn er toch ook nog wat uitdagingen te overbruggen. Zo is het volledige proces aardig zwaar en zoekt het onderzoeksteam nu naar mogelijkheden om het proces lichtgewicht te maken. “Daarnaast moeten er experimenten worden uitgevoerd om aan te tonen dat blauwalgen inderdaad kunnen worden gekweekt in Mars-omstandigheden,” zegt onderzoeker Matthew Realff. “We moeten bijvoorbeeld rekening houden met het verschil in zonneschijn, zowel vanwege de afstand tot de zon als vanwege het gebrek aan atmosferische filtering van het zonlicht. Hoge ultraviolette straling kunnen de blauwalgen beschadigen.”
Al met al is er nog genoeg te doen. Maar toch is deze studie een belangrijke stap in de richting van een bewoonbare rode planeet. Het betekent dat de plannen om Mars te koloniseren, steeds meer vorm beginnen te krijgen. Het is dus niet meer de vraag of, maar wannéér we gaan.
Al eerder suggereerden onderzoekers dat microben zoals blauwalgen nodig zijn om ons verblijf op Mars een stuk aangenamer te maken. Al weten we ook dat blauwalgen niet rechtstreeks in de Martiaanse atmosfeer kunnen gedijen. Maar ook daar hebben onderzoekers een oplossing voor bedacht, zodat we deze cruciale microben toch mee kunnen nemen naar Mars. Lees hethier!
An odd video said to be dashcam footage from a UFO sighting reported by police in Canada over a decade ago has surfaced online. The material allegedly comes from a case that occurred on April 24th, 2011 in the city of Selkirk, Manitoba and was obtained by the website Vice from "a government source with knowledge of the incident." The sighting in question centered around what officers described as "an unidentified bright yellow and orange light traveling west to east" at around 2:15 in the morning. The witnesses also asserted that they were familiar with conventional aircraft and insisted that the object was no such thing.
The case was apparently intriguing enough that it wound up being sent to NORAD as well as Canada's federal transportation department, which included a post about it in their Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS). Alas, as with so many intriguing UFO sightings, that appears to be where the official investigation ended with no clear answer as to what the mysterious craft might have been. This dead-end is reportedly what prompted Vice's source to share the video with the website after all these years. However, the origins and nature of the footage far outweigh what can be seen on screen which is, sadly, not particularly fantastic.
In the video, a glowing ball of light can be seen slowly ascending in the sky over the city of Sekirk with no response from the officers watching the scene unfold. Opinions on the decade-old footage seems to largely fall into two camps: that the object was a plane or, failing that, a lantern. The latter theory has been met with skepticism since the possibility of a solitary lantern floating over the community at that time of night seems doubtful. However, the possibility that the UFO was a plane does seem plausible considering its trajectory in the video. That said, ten years later, the true nature of the peculiar object remains a mystery. With that in mind, what's your take on the intriguing footage? Share your thoughts with us at the C2C Facebook page.
On Thursday, in news potentially related to UFOs, a NASA sponsored report by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, stated that the search for alien life is the top priority of astronomers in the next ten years.
“The coming decades will set humanity down a path to determine whether we are alone,” the report stated.
Based on much of the recent UFO and alien news, it’s understandable why they would want to take such a hard look at the issue.
One of the more interesting stories of late with regard to people witnessing UFOs comes to us from someone who says they were a passenger on a recent Jet Blue flight from Boston to Jacksonville.
The incident report, filed with the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), notes that the organization “spoke at length with the witness, and consider him to be exceptionally capable, and credible.”
It begins, “In full disclosure, I have been a licensed private pilot for 24 years, and a licensed drone pilot for 6 years. Typically when I fly commercially, I tend to book a window seat… on an exit row. On this flight, I was sitting in Row 12, window seat – exit row, on the left side of the aircraft. The jet configuration was two seats on the left, an aisle, and two seats on the right.”
The witness goes on to state that at approximately 12:35 p.m. they had just entered the “pattern” for landing at Jacksonville International Airport, heading due west at approximately 2,800 feet in the air, traveling at roughly 240 MPH. Visibility was very clear.
“Flying over this part of the pattern is a thick, heavy forest. In August, the leaves on the trees are very dark green,” the witness continued.
“As I looked out the window, facing west, I saw three bright white objects flying in the opposite direction. I didn’t know what they were.”
The witness says the UFOs he saw were definitely not birds or drones.
“As they got closer, they were three long cylindrical objects. They were in a triangle pattern. They were roughly 75 feet to 150 feet above the tree line. I was above the objects. I was completely stunned what I saw. It was crystal clear and their white fuselage stuck out against the dark tree line.
“I could clearly see these ‘aircraft’. They were all white, I am guessing about the size of 2 or 3 cars (20 to 25 feet long)… maybe a bit longer. The width was about as wide as a car. They clearly had a rounded front fuselage, and a rounded rear – everything looked completely smooth. All three were the exact same size – and they were flying in a perfect triangle. These three had NO wings, NO rotors (blades), and absolutely NO exhaust. I could not see any windows.”
This UFO encounter reportedly lasted 10 to 15 seconds as once the objects flew past his Jet Blue flight they were out of his field of vision.
“I was completely stunned! After the flight, the captain of our plane was standing in the aisle outside of the cockpit. I stopped and asked him if he noticed anything on radar right before he turned the base leg. He said he did not notice anything.
“As I got into my vehicle, I was so upset that I pulled over and contacted the Jacksonville Control Tower. They took my information, and took a report. I told two people in the control tower what I saw.”
The witness says he also contacted Naval Station Mayport and left two messages, one with a Lieutenant of Air Operations.
“To say that I am upset with what I saw is an understatement,” the witness added. “Aeronautically speaking, what I observed is not possible. BUT I SAW IT!”
Footage of an apparent 'UFO' has left people scratching their heads after the mysterious object was filmed above a flat in Glasgow.
Lynsey Currie said her boyfriend had filmed the mystery object above his flat in the Maryhill area of the city.
She told Glasgow Live it was 'flying across the sky going from the northwest of Glasgow towards the southwest'.
The video footage appears to show an unidentified object floating across the city skyline, but what exactly the shape is remains a mystery.
What do you think? Is it a UFO or something a little more terrestrial? Let us know in the comments.
It was recorded from a flat in Maryhill
The latest sighting isn't the first suspected UFO that has been documented in recent weeks.
In Springfield, Missouri one man claimed to have seen a mysterious rotating metallic cube-shaped object in the sky.
Justin Johnson spotted something he just couldn't explain hovering over some shops in the city.
The 30-year-old said it left him spooked - and others have come forward with similar experiences.
And last month it was revealed that Yorkshire is a 'hot bed' for UFO encounters after hundreds were reported in the past two decades alone.
In September, a strange triangular light moved across the night sky over Kingston-upon-Hull in Humberside.
In August a large orange glowing ball of light around 300ft high was spotted moving north to south in a smooth motion at about 11.30 at night in Otley.
And the same month in Pontefract four black objects were seen in a diamond formation travelling upwards and slowly out of view at around 8:30 at night.
Across the UK in just March and April 2020 alone there were 192 UFO sighting recorded in the country - up 200 per cent from 2019.
Meet little Leti: Tiny 250,000-year-old skull discovered in South Africa is the first child found from an ancient human species known as Homo naledia which had features of humans and extinct primates
Meet little Leti: Tiny 250,000-year-old skull discovered in South Africa is the first child found from an ancient human species known as Homo naledia which had features of humans and extinct primates
The remains were found in 28 pieces, along with six teeth that researchers reconstructed to form the partial skull of the child Homo naledia - the first to be discovered
Scientists say Leti, the name given to the child, died when it was between ages of four and six about 250,000 years ago
The location of the tiny skull suggests the body had been placed there on purpose and could have been part of an ancient ritual
Homo naledia was a species of archaic human that lived in what is now Africa during the Middle Pleistocene about 335,000 to 236,000 years ago and had a combination of human and non-human traits
A tiny skull discovered in the remote depths of the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg, South Africa is the first evidence of a Homo naledia child ever found.
A team of international researchers led by Wits University found the partial skull and teeth of the child – which they have named 'Leti' – and concluded that it was between the ages of four and six when it died roughly 250,000 years ago. The child's gender has not been disclosed.
Homo naledia was a species of archaic human that lived in what is now Africa during the Middle Pleistocene about 335,000 to 236,000 years ago and had a combination of human and non-human traits.
Remains of adults have been previously found in the Rising Star Cave System, but Leti is the first child to be unearthed, which provides insight into the growth and development of this species.
The location of the tiny skull, which was found in pieces and later reconstructed, suggests the body had been placed there on purpose and could have been part of an ancient ritual.
The placement 'adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system,' said Professor Guy Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who led the team and made the announcement Thursday.
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A team of international researchers led by Wits University found the partial skull and teeth of the child that they say died when it was between ages of four and six about 250,000 years ago
The name Leti, which means 'lost one' in Setswana, was chosen because it was found alone without any other parts of its body.
The remains were discovered in a tight passage that measures only five inches wide and 31 inches long and was located just beyond an area named the 'Chaos Chamber.'
The partial skull consists of 28 fragments and six teeth and when reconstructed, the team found it had frontal orbits and the top of the skull showed some dentition.
Dr Darryl de Ruiter, a paleoanthropologist who previously led a study of the adult skull of Homo naledi and who is a co-author on the paper, said in a statement: 'There were no replicating parts as we pieced the skull back together and many of the fragments refit, indicating they all came from one individual child.
The partial skull consists of 28 fragments and six teeth and when reconstructed, the team found it had frontal orbits and the top of the skull showed some dentition
Remains of adults have been previously found in the Rising Star Cave System, but Leti is the first child to be unearthed, which provides insight into the growth and development of this species. Pictured are the skull fragments found
Leti's brain size is estimated at around 29 to 37 cubic inches.
Leti's brain size is estimated at around 29 to 37 cubic inches
Dr Debra Bolter, co-author on the paper and a specialist in growth and development, said in a statement: 'This would have been around 90 percent to 95 percent of its adult brain capacity.
'The size of Leti's brain makes it very comparable to adult members if the species found so far,' said Bolter.
The first remains of a Homo naledi were found in 2015 in in the Rising Star cave system.
Scientists unearthed more than 1,500 bones belonging to at least 15 individuals.
Human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer, who was involved in the 2015, work said: 'Some of Homo naledi's features, such as its hands, wrist and feet, are very similar to those of modern humans and Neanderthals.
'Other characteristics are much more primitive. The species' small brain and the shape of its upper body are more similar to the pre-human australopithecines and the very early human species Homo habilis.
Homo naledi's anatomy suggests it walked on two legs with a modern gait and an efficient long-distance stride.
A tiny skull discovered in the remote depths of the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg, South Africa is the first of a Homo naledia child ever to be found – and researchers have named it 'Leti'
Its shoulder position and shape of its fingers would have helped it climb and hang from trees and could be traits retained from a more ape-like ancestor.
'Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered,' said Berger.
'It is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.'
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HOMO NALEDI
- Homo naledi lived in Africa between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago
- The species' feet share many features with a modern human foot, indicating it is well-adapted for standing and walking on two feet
- Wrist bones and thumb show anatomical features that are shared with Neanderthals and humans and suggest powerful grasping and the ability to use stone tools
- Finger bones are more curved than most early fossil human species, suggesting that H. naledi still used their hands for climbing in the trees
- The species had delicate bones of the inner eye region and nose
- The average height of the Homo naledi was around 5 feet (1.5 metres)
- They had a brain the size of an orange - this is around one third the size of a human brain
- Homo naledi may have stored the dead, suggesting they were an intelligent species
Does it seem as if not a day goes by without news concerning yet another ancient human ancestor that may or may not have had sexual relations with humans? Most of these discoveries are tiny bone fragments or environmental DNA (eDNA) – cellular material from skin, feces or other sources – so the discovery of a 250,000-year-old skull of a child of the ancient species known as Homo naledi is a stop-the-presses moment (ask your grandparents what it means). Not only may it reveal more on how we’re related to this species which had both human and non-human traits, the skull was positioned purposefully in what may have been a funeral ritual. Did you say non-human traits? Is this the missing link?
“This is the first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi yet recovered and this begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.”
Juliet Brophy, lead author of a study of the skull and an associate professor at Louisiana State University, explained in a press release announcing the discovery that the team nicknamed the fossil “Leti” which is short for “letimela” and means “the lost one” in the South African Setswana language. The skull was found with great difficulty in the Rising Star cave where the first Homo naledi fossils were discovered in 2013. They date to the Middle Pleistocene era 335,000–236,000 years ago and the 1,550 fossil specimens have been linked to at least 15 different individuals. Homo naledi were small and had unusually small brains – Leti confirms this (photo here)
— but indications are that they could speak, use tools and intermingle with other larger-brained homo species in the Cradle of Humankind. (More photos here.) However, Lee Berger, lead researcher on the study, says Leti was very different from the other hominids at the time.
You can learn so much from a skull
“Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered. It is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.”
Perhaps the biggest ‘complexifier’ is the location where Leti’s skull was discovered in 2017 – deep within a spiderweb of passages in a narrow one only five inches wide and 31 inches long. It seems obvious the 4-to-6-year-old was carefully and painstakingly placed there for a reason. What was it?
“It is not known whether Leti was buried in the passage or whether her bones were placed there. The situation is very similar to the way Neo, and adult male Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber of the Rising Star system, in that he was also found in a narrow passage. However, there have been no remains of Leti’s body found yet. The situation where Leti’s skull was found is very difficult to access, making excavation difficult, but at this stage it appears that only Leti’s skull was in the passage.”
One is enough
Only the skull … that makes the discovery even more puzzling. But what a skull it is – not only is it the first skull remains of a child of Homo naledi discovered, it has a set of teeth that will help researchers better understand the growth and development of the species.
UFO Shooting Into Volcano, Mexico, Nov 2, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shooting Into Volcano, Mexico, Nov 2, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 2, 2021 Source: POPOCATEPETL Live Cam Location of sighting: Volcano near Mexico City, Mexico
While watching the Popocateptetl live cam I noticed a disk shaped glowing object depending from the right side of the screen. Just as a huge plume of smoke came out of the volcano, the UFO shot toward it, all the while descending until it vanishes inside the mouth of the volcano.
For over 15 years I have been watching this live cam, and have caught dozens of UFOs entering and exiting this volcano on live cam. UFOs enter the volcano, because the mouth is inaccessible to humans since its an active volcano, making it harder for humans to accidentally stumble into the alien base. Such a thing could happen if a person were at the exact location where a UFO was descending. Because at that location, a tunnel opens...like an elevator taking the ship lower and lower until it reaches the base below...all the while, closing above them sealing up the tunnel from above. The base itself is 5-6km below the lower base of the volcano.
A routine flight turns terrifying when a bush pilot witnesses unsettling UFO activity. A former government operative A routine flight turns terrifying when a bush pilot witnesses unsettling UFO activity. A former government operative reveals top-secret coordinates to an alleged alien base. A man chases a playful pair of levitating lights across Juneau, Alaska.
Freaky moment 'UFO' orb drops suddenly to Earth sparking frenzy of theories
Freaky moment 'UFO' orb drops suddenly to Earth sparking frenzy of theories
Night vision binoculars spotted an alleged UFO hovering above a man's house in Azpeitia, Spain. The mysterious object appeared to move incredibly fast towards the ground
A weird video shows an alleged UFO hovering in the sky before dropping very fast towards Earth – with conspiracy theorists calling it "legit".
In the clip, recorded on October 8 by Xan Bernardo with night vision binoculars, a large orb is floating in the night sky above Azpeitia, Spain.
The movement of the strange object is seen clearly with the infrared as it moves slightly from side to side above the rooftops, before dropping down extremely fast and out of sight.
It was shared on the YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 who described the mysterious footage and said it was "pretty cool".
He said: "This orb can not be seen with the naked eye. This has been picked up with night vision.
The grey orb is flying to the right of the aerial(Image: YouTube / The Hidden Underbelly 2.0)
"And we just see this thing hovering and then all of a sudden it just dives straight down.
"For me, this isn't the behaviour of any object that we possibly have.
"This thing just shoots right down to the ground."
Since it was uploaded, the video has been watched hundreds of times and sparked a debate about what the orb might be, with many viewers suggesting an alien craft.
One said: "Eww yeah, that's a legit one. The curvy gyro movements about an invisible axis."
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1971 was a banner year for classic UFO Cases throughout the world. Perhaps two of the most intriguing investigated that year had what we would consider trace evidence.
First, let's look at the September 4th, 1971 Lago De Cote, Costa Rica case. One of the most analyzed UFO photographs ever was taken by a Costa Rican Government plane whose crew were doing an aerial mapping mission. Since these were days long before digital photography the negative went through much testing to verify if what was on it was real, a hoax or a blemish. The flight crew and mapping engineers were considered above reproach and no hoax was suspected. However, the object in the photo was only seen later. No one on the plane observed anything below them with their own eyes.
Richard Haines and Jacques Vallee analyzed the photo in The Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume #3, Issue number #2 and concluded "In summary, our analyses have suggested that an unidentified, opaque, aerial object was captured on film at a maximum distance of 10,000 feet. There are no visible means of lift or propulsion and no surface markings other than dark regions that appear to be nonrandom. There is no indication that the image is the product of a double exposure or a deliberate fabrication". Richard Hall of NICAP’s analysis was as follows: Very high reliability, unquestionably an authentic photograph. The lack of a visual sighting or any observed or recorded extraordinary performances reduces the "strangeness" level. Yet, the evidentiary data is strong and the investigation thorough, resulting in a well-documented and well-investigated anomaly. Ray Stanford, another longtime UFO researcher most famous for his analysis of the April 1964 Socorro New Mexico egg shaped UFO encounter of Officer Lonnie Zamora provided his take next and was at odds with his fellow contemporaries as to what was seen. He considered it may have been the bulb reflector in a common flashlight. See his analysis below.
To this day there is great debate about what was seen. Entire internet forums are dedicated to attempting to debunk the photo outright or to suggesting various types of camera artifacts such as emulsion blemishes.
Our second case took place in Delphos, Kansas on November 16, 1971 when a sixteen-year-old named Ronald Johnson saw a mushroom shape descending on the farm where he was tending sheep with his dog.
Ronald came within 25 feet of the object which was covered in multi-colored lights. The object was reported to be nine feet wide and ten feet high. Ron ran to get his parents and when they returned, the object was gone but a glowing ring was found in the dirt where the object was seen hovering.
The case has several interesting facets including possible missing time for Ron, the farm animals being disturbed at the time of the sighting and for weeks afterwards but most of all was the physical effect suffered by Ron’s mom after touching the glowing material. Her fingers became numb for days and where she wiped off the dust on her leg that area of skin became numb also. Ted Phillips initially investigated with the cooperation of the Delphos police and the story eventually appeared in the September 1985 MUFON Journal. Again, Jacques Vallee got involved and tested the soil sample finding Actinomycetes which are intermediate organisms between bacteria and fungus according to Vallee. So, was it merely the result of a natural phenomenon of fungus growth called Fairy Rings? Even noted debunker Phillip Klass got involved claiming the ring was caused by sheep urine. Phyllis Budinger, a well-known Ohio chemist who has helped MUFON on innumerable trace evidence cases, tested the samples and found Oxalic Acid which could have been the result of exhaust from low level ionization or even a combustion engine. The National Inquirer even convened a panel of well-known UFO researchers to examine the best cases of the time with a $5,000 prize on the line. The Delphos Case and Ron Johnson’s family won the prize!
Photo of the National Inquirer panel from 1975. From left: Dr. Leo Sprinkle, Dr. Frank Salisbury, Dr. James Harder, Dr. Robert Creegan, Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Mr. Jim Lorenzo of APRO. Photo credit: APRO
Claims of a crashed UFO in October 1998, possibly a vehicle of extraterrestrial origin is one that not only shares the same details of other apparent crash and retrieval operations but also shares the same official explanations of a “crashed weather balloon”.
The sudden appearance of a strange, silvery craft over a small village in Chile was witnessed by most of the local population. As was the sudden crashing to the ground of the aerial object several moments after it appeared. And while the crippled, ruined craft remained where it fell for several days, a sudden military presence, which as we will see shortly also had a discreet American “feel” to it, would suddenly descend on the village, restrict access to the area, and confiscated the remains.
Is this another case of an alien craft crashing to Earth, bringing with it proof of life elsewhere in the Universe being removed and suppressed by unknown powers? Or might the incident be one involving an equally strange military-type craft that resulted in a tragic accident during an experimental flight?
The account comes to us from several UFO researchers in the region, many of whom would visit the region in the aftermath, including Patricio Diaz, Luis Sanchez Perry, Miguel Jordan, and Roderick Bowen.
A Silvery Object That Split In Two And Crashed To The Ground
According to the report, at just before 4 pm on the 7th of October 1998, in the small village of Paihuano in the Valle de Elqui district of Chile, multiple residents of the village noticed the sudden appearance in the late-afternoon skies over the Las Mollacas hill of a strange silver disc. Reports would later suggest that the object was approximately 50 feet across.
After remaining completely motionless for several moments the object would suddenly rise into the air. It then made an equally sudden turn which seemed to “split it in two” as the residents of the town looked on.
As they watched in awe and confusion, the object came crashing to the ground. One piece of the wreckage would land on the top of the hill while the other fell a little way behind it.
According to the many reports of the locals who not only witnessed the crash but also went to inspect the wreckage, the object was definitely of a solid, metallic exterior which was silvery and shiny. So much so, the sun would reflect brilliantly off its surface. Furthermore, when it was in one piece, it was of an elongated shape.
Even stranger, in the days following the incident, several earthquakes were noticed. What’s more, the region experienced several strange blackouts. Whether they were connected, several towns in the region experienced disturbance to television and radio broadcast.
The object itself would remain on the hill where it fell for two days until a strange military-type unit “in uniform” arrived and removed the wreckage.
The report continues that the Chilean military did investigate the case. They first sent a unit on horseback who would confirm the crashed craft from a distance as the terrain of the hill area made it difficult to reach. According to the report, they did attempt to reach the wreckage, but the operation resulted in the death of one of the horses.
There is, it would appear, evidence of a cover-up taking place at this stage. Communications from the unit were seemingly intercepted by the police of the region. Shortly after, the unit received orders to vacate the area, upon which the “uniformed” unit arrived. As well as removing the wreckage, they would cordon off the area and allow no further access.
The unit would conduct extensive investigations and interviews with the local population. Furthermore, they would also extend these interviews to the residents of several nearby towns. Even stranger, according to the research of UFO investigators, several hotels in the region experienced a sudden surge of “American tourists” booking their rooms in the days following the incident, and especially following the arrival of the mysterious military unit.
One anonymous witness – a local goatherder who was familiar with many of the routes around the suddenly restricted area – claimed to have also witnessed the arrival of unmarked helicopters. These aerial vehicles would “work tirelessly from midnight until the early hours of Friday 9th March”. In their military nets, they carried away pieces of the wreckage.
These were not the only accounts of strange goings-on during the night hours. Local researcher, Patricio Diaz would collect several such accounts and it is to those where we will turn our attention to next.
Evidence Of A Heavy-Duty Operation!
According to Diaz’ files, several local residents described significant activities during the night, including the presence of helicopters over the village. One such resident, Omar Prieto who managed one of the town’s tourist resorts, would claim that he witnessed the wreckage “with his own eyes”. He would describe it as “something like the wing of a plane”.
He would also state that following the sudden activity on the evening of Thursday 8th March the wreckage had disappeared. What was left behind, though, was evidence of heavy-duty military trucks in the form of tread marks. One member of the public who did manage to get a closer look would state there were also boot markings near the tread marks, themselves leading to a “large cleft” on the hillside.
An image showing a UFO in the daytime sky
Even more suspicious was that by Monday 12 March, there appeared signs of an effort to plant disinformation at the location so as to cover up what had occurred. Many residents would find stones that had been painted with silvery and reflective paint. A number of bizarre and strange explanations would surface for the strange events. All of which was seemingly rejected by those who had witnessed the events for themselves.
Perhaps one of the strangest claims came from the El Tololo Astronomical Observatory. They would state that the crashed craft was actually an “out of control weather balloon”. However, this claim was publicly refuted by a high-ranking member of CEFAA. Gustavo Rodriguez would state no such weather balloon launches had taken place. And furthermore, any launches would require 48 hours’ notice, which he had not received.
One of the most interesting aspects of the apparent incident could be the location itself. The soil there is said to be mineral-rich, with very valuable uranium deposits. This is intriguing as uranium, according to collective research in the field, comes up often in UFO reports.
Might it be that these seemingly otherworldly vehicles are reliant on this particular mineral? Perhaps for fuel, for example?
What’s more, several months earlier in June 1998 reports of a similar crashed craft surfaced. According to the reports a “deafening noise” would ring out suddenly. At the same time so did a flash so bright that it seemed “night had turned into day”. Some reports also claim that the region experienced strange storms.
This is perhaps an interesting point. Especially when we recall that following the October incident the region experienced significant earthquake activity. Might the arrival of these crafts be responsible for such activity on Earth? Could it be possible that such activity is a result of these crafts entering our atmosphere? Or might such atmospheric storms and even earthquakes be the result of a gateway or portal? One that allows these strange crafts passage into our world?
Like the case itself, the possibilities and questions remain in abundance.
The incident of October 1998 in Paihuano is one of the most intriguing on record. Of that, there is little doubt. It perhaps also appears to be very credible. That something most definitely happened that fall afternoon is surely beyond doubt.
Of course, whether the object was a military vehicle or a craft from another world under the control of another intelligence remains open to debate. We should perhaps note that during the time there were joint military UNITAS exercises taking place. Interestingly or not between the militaries of the United States and Chile.
This itself proposes several questions. Firstly, that the craft was a secret military craft, either an American or Chilean one. Or possibly some top-secret joint effort. Or, let’s assume that there is an alien presence on our planet. Do such military operations attract the attention of these extraterrestrials? In the same way that UFO sightings increase during wartime, researchers suggest they also increase during such military exercises.
Although the incident itself occurred over two decades ago it remains of interest to UFO researchers today. Just what did come crashing to the ground that afternoon in the small Chilean village? And why was there such an effort to seemingly cover over the events? And perhaps most interesting, particularly to the larger UFO picture, what should we make of the increased but discreet American presence in the background of the crash?
The incident remains unresolved and without a satisfactory explanation
Researcher claims to have found an alien city on Titan (Saturn)
Researcher claims to have found an alien city on Titan (Saturn)
For decades, experts have claimed that Titan is one of the best places to start looking for signs of alien life. However, an image taken of Saturn’s satellite could reveal that not only is there life, but it is intelligent.
The image analyzed by Waring.
The controversial researcher and ufologist, Scott C. Waring, administrator of the web portal Ufo Sightings Daily, has published an image of Titan taken by the European Space Agency’s radar.
In it, what could be an alien ship entering a developed city is observed.
Intelligent life on Titan?
Waring stated that he was looking at a photo of the satellite , which was taken thanks to the radar of the Cassini orbiter.
In detailing it, he noticed that in the lower right corner there is a round tubular artificial structure . It’s hidden under the surface, but it’s really big.
Although it made it difficult for him to estimate its exact size, he believes it would be about 25 miles wide . The ideal size to house an alien colony.
Waring assures that it is impossible for nature to have made such a structure on Titan, so it is most likely an alien construction . The researcher suggests that it could be a ship that landed in that place to do some work or simply to rest.
On the left side, the object is also more rounded , like a disk, which is probably the front of the ship.
And this couldn’t be something totally strange, especially when many scientists have revealed over decades that Titan is a perfect candidate to search for life.
According to experts, Titan is an ideal place for life to be born.
Ideal for the formation of life?
The natural satellite of Saturn has a surface covered with lakes, rivers and seas . However, these areas are covered in liquid methane and ethane, rather than water.
This makes the surface air full of nitrogen and methane, making it toxic to human life. However, what makes us think that an alien life that has developed differently from us could not live on Titan?
Cassini-Huygens missions, over the past 20 years, have provided information on the chemical composition of the satellite. This has led experts to detect the presence of polyimine, which could lead to life in very cold temperatures .
In fact, in its early days, life on Earth began thanks to the presence of hydrogen cyanide and polyimine.
According to computer simulations by experts, all these data suggest that what has been found on Titan is a prebiotic chemistry . That is, a series of requirements that could ultimately lead to life as we know it .
Second, there is a strong possibility that there is liquid water under the surface of the icy satellite, enclosing a massive subterranean ocean.
Could this be proof that there is an alien civilization inhabiting Titan? Or, at least is it habitable enough for an advanced civilization to take it as a place of passage?
DID UFOS REALLY DISABLE NUCLEAR-ARMED AMERICAN MISSILES IN 1967?
Robert Salas’s UFO story begins as the best ones always do: on night shift, working in a top-secret facility monitoring nuclear warheads.
Then a young Air Force first lieutenant, Salas was on duty deep underground on March 14, 1967, at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base when he received a phone call from the flight security controller working topside. The noncommissioned officer reported some unusual lights making strange maneuvers in the sky. It was nonthreatening but notable.
Only minutes later, the controller called back. This time his tone was frantic; over the phone, he screamed about a large, glowing red object hovering over the facility’s front gate. He and his men were ready with weapons drawn to confront whatever it was. According to an affidavit he later signed, Salas ordered the controller to not let anything past the gate.
After that, Salas woke his commanding officer, 1st Lt. Frederick Meiwald.
As Salas recounted the unfolding situation, alarms flashed red on the command console, indicating that all ten Minuteman III nuclear ICBMs under the facility’s control were unable to launch. Someone — or something — had disabled the missiles.
Some lights indicated a fault code for guidance system failure, and some of the fault lights also had the attached security violation indicators blinking brightly. It meant a security breach at the launch site. Salas quickly dispatched a team to investigate.
The team reported that personnel at the launch site had witnessed the same unexplained object, but it was already long gone.
Just as quickly as it began, the event was over. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations later told Salas not to speak about his experience again and classified the incident at the “secret” level.
Salas signed a 2010 affidavit regarding his 1967 incident, hoping the move would help other veterans come forward with their own accounts of unexplained activity. Salas, undeterred by Washington’s previous dismissals, continues his efforts to compel government officials to take veterans’ UFO experiences seriously. He also warns that UFO sightings tend to occur at nuclear weapons sites.
On Oct. 19, 2021, Salas held a press conference sharing veterans’ UFO accounts. Some had recorded their experiences before they died, such as US Navy pilot Lt. j.g. Clarence “Bud” Clem.
In 1945, Lt. j.g. Clarence “Bud” Clem helped relay radar information from the guard tower over the Hanford Site, a nuclear refinery site in Washington state that’s pictured here in 1960. Clem died in 2014, but his 2013 interview of his UFO experience lives on for investigators to reference.Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Clem presciently recorded his account of a January 1945 incident that he witnessed over the Hanford Site in Washington state. Hanford produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, supplying the nuclear core that went into Fat Man, the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945.
Clem and his two wingmen saw on the ground radar that an unknown aircraft had entered the area near the plutonium facility. The two other pilots jumped into their Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft. As their 2,200-horsepower engines sputtered the propellers to life, Clem went to the radar tower to relay the readings over the radio while the pilots followed the unidentified bogey. The “glowing fireball” shot off too fast for the pilots to follow.
Clem noted that the Navy logs never reflected the intrusion.
“There does indeed seem to be some sort of nexus between UAP activity and our critical nuclear technology—whether it’s propulsion, or weapons systems and whatnot,” Luis Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told Nextgov.
EXCLUSIVE: Striking video shows pulsating orb drop down from the sky and cruise alongside two FedEx pilots flying over Mexico that experts believe is a UFO with a plasma forcefield to deflect radar
EXCLUSIVE: Striking video shows pulsating orb drop down from the sky and cruise alongside two FedEx pilots flying over Mexico that experts believe is a UFO with a plasma forcefield to deflect radar
On March 19, 2020 two FedEx pilots flying a cargo airplane near Monterrey, Mexico, saw a bright light drop down from the sky
The UFO stopped at their altitude, shot them with a beam of light, then moved in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away
Mysteriously, the UFO did not show up on the plane's radar
The captain shot video of the encounter, which was analyzed in a report by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP)
In the video the captain can be heard expressing his shock at seeing a UFO, which he described as 'a brilliant yellow white plasma object, teardrop shaped'
'I thought it was a shooting star but then it stopped,' the former Air Force pilot said in the video
Aviation experts tried to explain the light as the planet Venus, and the pulsating as a deceptive effect from the camera autofocus adjusting its lens in the dark
However, the pilots told NARCAP they saw the pulsing, plasma-like appearance with their own eyes as well as capturing it on camera
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe told DailyMail.com that the pilots' account was 'very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years'
A video exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com shows a pulsating orb caught on camera by FedEx pilots flying over Mexico – which experts say could be aUFOwith a plasma forcefield that may help it fly or deflect radar.
On March 19, 2020 two FedEx pilots were flying a cargo airplane near Monterrey, Mexico, when they saw a bright light drop down from the sky, stop at their altitude, shoot them with a beam of light, then move in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away.
The captain shot a stunning video of the encounter, which was analyzed in a report by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), a nonprofit organization that studies pilots' brushes with UFOs to help develop safety procedures.
The report did not name the pilots, as many in the aviation industry are still wary of the stigma around UFOs despite official acknowledgement of the phenomena by the U.S. and other governments.
But NARCAP executive director Ted Roe, the author of the report, told DailyMail.com that the pilots' account was 'very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years.'
On March 19, 2020 two FedEx pilots flying a cargo airplane near Monterrey, Mexico, saw a bright light drop down from the sky
The UFO stopped at their altitude, shot them with a beam of light, then moved in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away
Mysteriously, the UFO did not show up on the plane's radar. Experts say it could be a UFO with a plasma forcefield that may help it fly or deflect radar
The captain of the Boeing 767 cargo plane is 'a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company with an additional 10yrs flying KC-135 refueling tankers for the US Air Force,' according to the report, while the first officer was a 'career fighter pilot that flew f-15s before working in the private sector.'
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe told DailyMail.com that the pilots' account was 'very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years'
They were described as 'competent airmen, highly experienced with observing and identifying aircraft, and are capable of determining normal observations and incidents from unusual ones.'
The plane left Queretaro International Airport north of Mexico City at 8.05pm, and was about 150 miles south of Monterrey on its way to Memphis, Tennessee, when the unidentified object appeared.
'The incident began when the First Officer, looking across to the left side of the cockpit, saw a yellowish white light descend into view from above,' the report said.
'He first believed that it was a meteor and began to say so when it suddenly stopped near the same altitude as their aircraft. The UAP [unidentified aerial phenomenon]/Light then projected an illuminating beam of bright, white, light on their aircraft, and appeared to take a collision heading.
'At this moment the Captain also saw the beam of light projected onto their aircraft from the UAP/Light. Both crewmen, in the belief that an aircraft with its landing lights on had turned onto a collision heading with their aircraft, took a defensive attitude and prepared for evasive control inputs.'
But instead of heading to crash into them, the UFO then started to move in tandem with the plane between 1,000 and 2,000 ft away.
'As they prepared to avoid the apparently approaching UAP/Light, the beam of light illuminating their aircraft ceased, and the UAP/Light suddenly accelerated to the same speed and heading of the aircraft, maintained separation, and paced the aircraft,' the report said.
In the video the captain can be heard expressing his shock and excitement at seeing a UFO, which he described as 'a brilliant yellow white plasma object, teardrop shaped.'
The report said it had 'no navigation lights or other features associated with airplanes'.
The captain took a five-minute video of the object, three other clips and eight photographs.
Mysteriously, the UFO did not show up on the plane's radar.
'I thought it was a shooting star but then it stopped,' the former Air Force pilot said in the video.
'It's like an orb man, look at that s**t. It's pulsating. This is awesome. And he's not on TCAS [the plane's radar].
'That is s**t hot… Oh man, look at that thing dude.
'That is an unidentified flying object bro, I can finally say I saw one. That is cool.'
'You saw it just drop out of the sky and just stop?' he asked his copilot.
'Yeah. I thought it was a shooting star and then it stopped,' the former F-15 pilot replied.
The plane left Queretaro International Airport north of Mexico City at 8.05pm, and was about 150 miles south of Monterrey on its way to Memphis, Tennessee, when the unidentified object appeared
The captain was flying a similar Boeing 767 cargo plane. He was described as a 'a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company'
Discussing whether it could be a weather balloon, the captain said: 'The only weather balloon we have is near [inaudible], it's 15,000 ft AGL [above ground level]. This thing's above our altitude.'
The 767 was flying at approximately 575 mph at 37,000 ft when the encounter happened.
'As the aircraft and its attendant UAP/Light approached the Mexico/US border the UAP/Light began to flicker, it changed colors from yellow-white to pinkish/purple, and turned on a perpendicular heading away from the aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the United States,' the report said.
'We're going to lose him in the clouds, son of a b***h,' the captain said towards the end of the video.
'There's weather about 40 miles off our left wingtip where this thing seems to have disappeared. It didn't have strobes or beacon or nothing.'
The captain filmed his radar screen showing no sign of the UFO, just patches of clouds to the west of the 767.
Aviation experts on the website Metabunk, including renowned UFO debunker Mick West, tried to explain the light as the planet Venus, and the pulsating as a deceptive effect from the camera autofocus adjusting its lens in the dark.
Although the flight was not identified in the NARCAP report, West identified it from flight records matched to the times in the report as FedEx flight FDX82, which departed Queretaro 50 minutes late at 8.55pm and arrived in Memphis around 12.20am.
West dug out star maps showing Venus was in a similar location in the sky to where the pilots saw the pulsating light, sitting about 10 degrees above the horizon at that time of night.
'Out of focus with atmospheric distortion and focus seeking, it looks like a wobbly pulsating blob,' he wrote.
West posted videos on the debunking forum showing how stars can appear to flash or ripple on camera from atmospheric distortions or heat shimmer, exaggerated by an autofocus lens coming in and out of focus.
However, the pilots told NARCAP they saw the pulsing, plasma-like appearance with their own eyes as well as capturing it on camera, and described seeing the pulsing light, as well as the inexplicable movement of the object – dropping from the sky, coming to a complete stop in mid-air and then matching their speed and direction.
NARCAP executive director Ted Roe says, 'We have a database going back to 1916. It describes four basic types of UAP encounters and they are balls of light, spheres, cylinders and discs,' he said.
'I went through the analysis. There was some argument that it could have been an astronomical effect. Venus was quite bright that night.
'But when you take the entire narrative of how they describe it dropped in vertically, stopped at their altitude and then paced their aircraft, that is a very consistent story. We've had many of those.
'They flew northbound out of Queretaro Airport. Venus was quite high in the western sky at that point and bright, they were well aware of it. They were at 37,000 ft.
'When he turns the camcorder towards his radar, which is probably the most important aspect of this case and really the only reason I took it on, it confirmed what I've been saying all along which is that UAP are intermittently detected on radar. He turned his camera on his radar monitor and there was no detection.
'It also showed there were clouds to the West, and if Venus was parallel to his aircraft, appearing to be at his altitude, the clouds would have obstructed it.'
Roe said both the 'teardrop' shape that the UFO made as it moved through the air and the lack of radar return could be due to plasma surrounding it.
'We didn't get a clearly defined video of what this phenomenon was. But we have the description. It was teardrop shaped, white/yellow. I'm guessing that these things are plasma or have plasma involved in them,' he said.
'We use plasma to cut the radar cross-section on the reflectable parts of a stealth aircraft. They might use plasma actuators to absorb that signal rather than allow it to reflect.'
The plane left Queretaro International Airport (pictured) north of Mexico City at 8.05pm on its way to Memphis, Tennessee
In 2011, researchers at the University of Florida wrote a report on a 'proof-of-concept demonstration' of how plasma could be used to make a wingless object 'selflift, hover and fly'.
Their experiments, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, involved 'building, characterization, testing, and simulation of plasma actuators, aerodynamics, power and propulsion systems, micromachining and microfabrication.'
NARCAP was founded in 1999 specifically to investigate and document the safety implications of pilots' encounters with reports of UFOs,
It has a staff of about 50 specialists that conduct 'investigations, analysis, publications and activism related to UAP and aviation safety.'
NARCAP's chief scientist, Dr. Richard Haines, has collected 'over 3,400 cases of aviation-related observations and incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena' according to the organization.
Roe told DailyMail.com that one of his continued frustrations is that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) refuses to document incidents like those of the FedEx pilots.
'The FAA literally will not accept their reports,' he said. 'The aeronautical instruction manual, which is the primary manual for air crews, tells them if they want to report a UFO they can contact a civilian UFO reporting center.
'This has been going on for decades. The information is lost to the aviation system and safety planners because the data is never presented to the aviation system to begin with.
'Recently we've had this UAP Task Force and government activity on the subject. In the report, the Director of National Intelligence on June 25 stated that UAP are a hazard to aviation, and they were rather clear about it.
'When they were out looking for data, I can't imagine what it was like going into the FAA's offices, and saying 'you guys must have all this great UFO data, we need it now,' and there isn't any because they've been telling the pilots they don't take those reports.'
Two FedEx pilots flying a cargo plane filmed a brush with what they called a pulsating orb that followed them for more than 30 minutes.
The UFO incident occurred near Monterrey, Mexico and video of the encounter has been analyzed by the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP).
Two FedEx pilots flying a cargo plane near Monterrey, Mexico had an encounter at 37,000 feet with a UFO that has experts perplexed.
The pilots claim that as they were flying near Monterrey, Mexico a bright light dropped down from the sky, stopped at their altitude, shot them with a beam of light, then moved in tandem with the plane for over 30 minutes before flying away, reports DailyMail.com.
The UFO incident, which occurred on March 19, 2020, was captured on video, along with audio revealing their dialogue during the sighting.
While the two pilots remain unnamed, the captain of the Boeing 767 cargo plane is “a career pilot with 19 years of experience flying wide-body aircraft for a major cargo company with an additional 10yrs flying KC-135 refueling tankers for the US Air Force,” according to a National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) report. The first officer is “a career fighter pilot that flew f-15s before working in the private sector.”
The initial reporting of this UFO sighting shed little light on the details surrounding it, but this week NARCAP executive director Ted Roe spoke with DailyMail.com and offered up some new insight.
‘The FAA literally will not accept their reports,’ he said. ‘The aeronautical instruction manual, which is the primary manual for air crews, tells them if they want to report a UFO they can contact a civilian UFO reporting center.
‘This has been going on for decades. The information is lost to the aviation system and safety planners because the data is never presented to the aviation system to begin with.
‘Recently we’ve had thisUAP Task Force and government activity on the subject. In the report, the Director of National Intelligence on June 25 stated that UAP are a hazard to aviation, and they were rather clear about it.
‘When they were out looking for data, I can’t imagine what it was like going into the FAA’s offices, and saying ‘you guys must have all this great UFO data, we need it now,’ and there isn’t any because they’ve been telling the pilots they don’t take those reports.’
Footage of the UFO incident near Monterrey, Mexico taken by the FedEx pilots, described as “competent airmen, highly experienced with observing and identifying aircraft, and are capable of determining normal observations and incidents from unusual ones,” was analyzed by Roe’s group at the NARCAP.
In the video, one of the pilots can be heard talking about “a brilliant yellow white plasma object teardrop shaped” object in the sky.
They were so concerned about what they were seeing that the daptain engaged the Combined TCAS and cockpit display and activated the Airborne Collision Avoidance System SSR (Secondary Surveillance radar) system.
Radar did not detect anything in the sky.
According to the NARCAP report, “The UAP/Light came from above and stopped/hovered near FL37, about the same altitude as the aircraft, shone a light on the 767 and briefly approached the aircraft. Then it instantly matched the speed, and heading of the aircraft and maintained a consistent separation.”
a. The light descended vertically, stopped abruptly, and shone a light on the 767 causing the crew to believe that there was another airliner on a collision heading with its landing lights on.
b. It changed direction from vertical descent to a sudden stop/hover, to approaching the aircraft briefly, to taking the same heading and speed of the aircraft at about the same altitude and an estimated distance of 1-2k ft.
c. It matched the altitude, speed, and heading of the aircraft, 575mph and at 37,000ft for over 32 minutes.
d. The UAP/Light changed colors and turned away from the aircraft on a perpendicular heading, West, just inside the Mexico/US border.
e. The UAP/light did not have wings or running lights. It was a new and unique observation to the experienced air crew.
These movements, the report explains, “are not consistent with known aerial phenomena but they are characteristic movements of UAP.”
“We have a database going back to 1916. It describes four basic types of UAP encounters and they are balls of light, spheres, cylinders and discs,’ Roe told DailyMail.com.
“I went through the analysis. There was some argument that it could have been an astronomical effect. Venus was quite bright that night.
“But when you take the entire narrative of how they describe it dropped in vertically, stopped at their altitude and then paced their aircraft, that is a very consistent story. We’ve had many of those.”
Roe also added that the FedEx pilots’ account of their UFO experience is “very consistent with what pilots have been reporting for over 100 years.”
“The primary difference being that this case is on video. Now there are cameras in the cockpits and they are validating what pilots have been describing anecdotally for over 80 years and the work of NARCAP over the last 20 years,” reads the report.
NASA chief Bill Nelson latest official to suggest UFOs have otherworldly origins
NASA chief Bill Nelson latest official to suggest UFOs have otherworldly origins
BY MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
In a freewheeling Oct. 19 discussion on space policy, NASA administrator Bill Nelson spoke passionately about his agency’s mission to seek out life beyond Earth. In his comments, Nelson pivoted almost immediately to a series of U.S. military encounters with mysterious flying objects, many of which appeared to maneuver in extraordinary ways while inrestricted airspace.
After speaking with several of the naval aviators who observed the unknown craft, NASA’s chief is convinced that the pilots “saw something, and their radars locked onto it.” Asked to speculate about the nature of the phenomena, Nelson – an Army veteran, former senator and ex-astronaut – responded, “Who am I to say that planet Earth is the only location of a life form that is civilized and organized like ours?”
As surprising as his answer may be, Nelson is only the latest high-level official to hint that UFOs may have otherworldly explanations.
Asked in June about the military’s recent encounters with mysterious craft, former President Bill Clinton – like Nelson – responded by pondering the vastness of the universe and the high probability of life existing beyond Earth. Similarly, former President Obamaspeculated about the extraordinary implications if recent incidents involved otherworldly objects. Of note, Clinton and Obama retain access to top-level intelligence briefings.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Queried about the Navy’s encounters with UFOs, former CIA director John Brennanspeculated that the objects might “constitute a different form of life.” Channeling Clinton, Obama and NASA’s Nelson, Brennan stated that “it’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there’s no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe.”
In much the same vein, former CIA Director James Woolsey, a longtime UFO skeptic, recently signaled openness to the possibility that such encounters have otherworldly explanations.
In a series of interviews, Ratcliffe ruled out secret U.S. technology and cited “high confidence” intelligence assessments to eliminate foreign adversaries as possible explanations for the most compelling UFO encounters. According to the former head of U.S. intelligence, some UFOs exhibit “technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.”
Like Ratcliffe, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) ruled out foreign powers or highly classified American technology, leaving few explanations for the phenomena.
By now, readers should be sufficiently convinced that this topic transcends America’s deepest political fault lines.
Perhaps more importantly, Luis Elizondo, former director of a Pentagon unit that analyzed military encounters with UFOs, has suggested that the most compelling incidents have extraterrestrial explanations. Ditto for Christopher Mellon, the top civilian military intelligence official during the Clinton and second Bush administrations. At the same time, U.S. intelligence analysts are reportedly considering the possibility that recent encounters involved “non-human technology.”
As surprising as these developments may seem, a holistic view of the phenomenon suggests that history is repeating itself.
Reports of unidentified craft maneuvering in extraordinary ways surged in the 1940s, shortly after the first nuclear weapons were detonated. With stark parallels to recent developments, declassified documents show that from 1947 to 1952, U.S. intelligence analysts ruled out foreign adversaries – such as the Soviet Union – or highly classified American technology as plausible explanations for the most credible and compelling UFO encounters. Unsurprisingly, top military officials began “seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary ships.”
In early 1953, however, such objective, open-minded government analyses came to an abrupt halt.
In response to these Cold War fears, the CIA convened a panel of scientists to assess the UFO phenomenon. Over the course of two days, the scientists, who – critically – were “not given access to the truly puzzling [UFO] cases,” recommended a sweeping government effort to “debunk” UFO sightings.
Fearing another flood of UFO reports, the CIA-convened panel reasoned that a “debunking” campaign would decrease “public interest in ‘flying saucers’” and reduce Americans’ “susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda.”
As investigative journalist Leslie Kean notes, the CIA’s remarkably brief, superficial meetings “would forever change both the course of media coverage and the official attitude toward the UFO subject.”
Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first director of the CIA, summarized the situation: “Through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe [UFOs] are nonsense. … Behind the scenes,” however, “high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned…”
As the Air Force systematically discredited witnesses (many of whom had nothing to gain by coming forward), widespread public and congressional anger followed.
Unsurprisingly, the Air Force’s campaign to “debunk” UFO sightings at all costs fueled widespread perceptions of a government coverup, creating fertile ground for an array of exotic (and enduring) conspiracy theories. Moreover, by wrongfully tarring credible witnesses as kooks, the Air Force further fueled the powerful stigma that continues to stifle good-faith reporting of unidentified objects by reliable observers.
Perhaps worst of all, as astronomer and long-time consultant to the Air Force’s UFO project J. Allen Hynek bluntly stated: The 1953 CIA panel “made the subject of UFOs scientifically unrespectable.”
Ultimately, the two scientists who immersed themselves in the study of UFOs more than any of their contemporaries became fierce advocates of serious academic inquiry of the phenomenon.
Sixty year later, as high-level officials speculate openly about such extraordinary possibilities, McDonald and Hynek’s meticulous, undeniably scientific work deserves close examination.
Marik von Rennenkampff served as an analyst with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, as well as an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Defense. Follow him on Twitter @MvonRen.
Egypt's long-rumoured second sphinx may have been unearthed by construction workers building a new road.
According to local reports, a sphinx-like statue was found on Al-Kabbash Road, which connects the two temples of Karnak and Luxor built around 1400BC.
Officials have confirmed the statue has a 'lion's body with a human head'.
The 'second sphinx' has not yet been lifted from the ground, however, officials said tourists are welcome to visit the construction site to view the ancient statute.
No photographs of the structure have been published, the Director General of Antiquities has confirmed.
The Great Sphinx of Giza was discovered by the Great Pyramids on the west bank of the river Nile. It is the oldest and largest known monumental sculpture in the world.
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Reports suggest a sphinx-like statue (stock image) has been discovered between the ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor which date to around 1400BC
Excavations first started on the Karnak and Luxor temple complexes, located within the ancient city of Thebes, back in 1884, according to RT.
This led to a flurry of significant archaeological discoveries until around 1960, when excavation work at the sites ceased.
Construction workers uncovered the 'second sphinx' during a roadworks project between the temples of Karnak and Luxor.
The Egyptian infrastructure project has been halted while the statue is examined.
According to the area's Director General of Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, the statue can not yet be lifted 'due to the nature of the environment it is in'.
Aziz has confirmed tourists are able to visit the road to see the statue for themselves, however, he confirmed no images of the statue have been released.
The Al-Kabbash Road project to excavate and restore the road first began in 2005 and is scheduled to be finished by the end of this year at a cost of $12.7 million (£10m).
The Al-Kabbash Road project in Luxor is due to be finished by the end of this year at a cost of $12.7 million (£10m)
The Great Sphinx of Giza was found by the Great Pyramids on the west bank of the river Nile and is the oldest and largest known monumental sculpture in the world
With the body of a lion and the head of a human, Great Sphinx of Giza measures a grand 239ft (73 metres) long and 65ft (20 metres) high.
Literally translating to 'Father of Dread,' this mythical creature is believed to resemble Pharaoh Khafre, who was the ruler at the time of construction.
It is believed that Djadefre, the elder brother of Khafra, built the Sphinx to honour his father Khufu.
With the body of a lion and the head of a human, Great Sphinx of Giza measures a grand 239ft (73 metres) long and 65ft (20 metres) high
It is just next to the Great Pyramid of Giza which was built as a tomb and a symbol of eternity for the Pharaoh Khufu
This would place the time of construction somewhere between 2550 BC and 2450 BC.
However the limited evidence linking the Sphinx to Khafra is circumstantial and somewhat ambiguous.
It was constructed around during the reign of Pharaoh Khafra, and it is thought that the face of the statue was modelled on his.
Over time it gradually became buried up to its neck in sand, which helped to preserve it before it was finally excavated in 1925.
It is just next to the Great Pyramid of Giza which was built as a tomb and a symbol of eternity for the Pharaoh Khufu.
It stands 456ft (139 metres) high – just over nine double decker buses stacked on top of one another.
It was the tallest man-made structure on Earth for 3,800 years and is accompanied by the smaller pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure
WHAT IS THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS?
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions, situated next to the Giza pyramid complex.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock.
The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues as to the beliefs and funerary rituals of the period.
Almost all of the tombs were opened and looted centuries ago, but the sites still give an idea of the opulence and power of the Pharaohs.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock. Pictured are godess statues in the valley
The most famous pharaoh at the site is Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered in 1922.
Preserved to this day, in the tomb are original decorations of sacred imagery from, among others, the Book of Gates or the Book of Caverns.
These are among the most important funeral texts found on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions, situated next to the Giza pyramid complex
A SPHINX, possibly more than 4,000 years old, has been discovered buried by workmen building a road in Egypt.
The roadworks between the ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor have been halted after the large statue was discovered featuring a “lion’s body and a human head”.
Archaeologists photographed the find alongside a metre-long measuring stick to give an idea of the sphinx's size, although much of the statue remains buried in sandCredit: Ministry of Antiquites
The relic could date as far back as 2500 BC and the reign of Pharoah Kafre.
The Director General of Antiquities Mohamed Abel Aziz announced plans to excavate the statue, which is still buried in the ground and embedded in the soil.
He added the process could take some time due to the age of the statue and the chances of damaging it after thousands of years.
Mr Abel Aziz confirmed the new find had similarities to the “classical” Great Sphinx of Giza which stands 66ft tall in front of the Great Pyramids.
Images from the site show unearthed parts of the statue, which experts say has a human head and lion's body
Credit: Ministry of Antiquites
The Great Sphinx at Giza stands 66ft tallCredit: Getty - Contributor
A mystery sarcophagus has been opened in Egypt despite a deadly history of Egyptian archaeology
What does the Sphinx represent?
A sphinx is a mythical creature usually depicted in Egypt as having a human head with the body of a lion.
Egyptian sphinxes are usually depicted as male but Greek ones are often female.
The Egyptian ones are seen as benevolent, but possessing incredible strength, and seen as guardians and can often be seen outside the entrance to temples.
Many believe the head of the sphinx at Giza to be the pharaoh Khafra.
The oldest known sphinx was found near Gobekli Tepe in Turkey and is believed to date to 9500 BC.
In Greek mythology, the sphinx was said to ask all passers-by the riddle: ""Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?"
The sphinx then is meant to have devoured anyone who could not answer.
Oedipus, according to legend, finally solved the riddle by replying: "Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age"
Mysterious void discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
Mysterious Void Detected Inside Giza’s Great Pyramid ...
Khaled al Anani, the national heritage chief, encouraged people to go and visit the site to see the new discovery.
Local news website Youm reported that the statue could not yet be lifted above ground “due to the nature of the environment it is in.”
The "second sphinx" was found just over six miles from the famous Valley of Kings – the burial place of the ancient Pharaohs.
It was uncovered between two the temples on the opposite bank of the River Nile.
Egyptologists and archeologists have a number of holy grails on their bucket lists – the tomb of Alexander the Great and that of Antony and Cleopatra are certainly at or near the top. A non-tomb Egyptian grail is the long rumored second Sphinx which many believe is positioned very near to the current one-and-only Great Sphinx of Giza. One would think that a statue of that size would easy to find but that hasn’t been the case, leading many to believe that ancient writings touting its existence are fakes. That hasn’t stopped sphinx-seekers like Reda Abdel Halim, who claims he’s known the location of the second sphinx since 1986 and is finally ready to reveal its location. Would this have anything to do with the fact that Reda Abdel Halim is currently the director of public relations for the Giza pyramids district at the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities?
“Dr. Reda Abdel Halim, Director of Public Relations at the Giza Pyramids, and the discoverer of the second Sphinx rock in the Giza pyramids area, said that this rock has existed for a long time in the tenth of King Khafre and perhaps before him, because some inscriptions found inside suggest that there is a connection between these The rock and between the ancient first Sphinx.”
(Google translation from Cairo Live)
Reda Abdel Halim announced his discovery to Cairo Live in late October and the news was met with skepticism throughout the Egyptology world, not to mention in his own department. Halim claimed he brought in a “property manager” in 1986 to measure the giant rock he found and its dimensions were 73 meters (246 feet) long, 20 meters (67 feet) high at the head, and the hands reach 15.5 meters (50.8 feet), which is … get ready … the same size as the Great Sphinx of Giza. Abdel Halim did not reveal the location, only to say it is in the area of the pyramids and he found it using research done by archeologists at Zagazig University.
“This is completely not true. The Sphinx is unique in Egypt and the world. … Any talk about discoveries of other similar statues is baseless and has only one purpose, which is creating media fanfare. Any claims about research on the Sphinx at the Zagazig University is also false. Studies and research must be published in a scientific journal so that we can respond with scientific evidence. Talks about a text that is said to have been inscribed on the Sphinx but got erased by the passage of the time mentioning the existence of another similar statue, are baseless.”
Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, former Minister of Antiquities and an archaeologist who oversaw the pyramids area for nearly 20 years, told Al-Monitor Abdel Halim’s claims are completely false and he scoffed at the ‘evidence’ – a description that was once on the Great Sphinx but is now worn off. Nevin al-Arif, media advisor to the minister of tourism and antiquities, agreed with Hawass and revealed the identity of the statue Adel Halim claims is the second Sphinx.
“The statue in question was discovered a long time ago in the area and has nothing to do with the original Sphinx. It is nothing but a normal statue.”
However, the final nail in the sarcophagus was hammered by Mohammed Hamza, the former dean of the faculty of archeology at Cairo University, who said:
“The Giza pyramids area is an active zone in terms of archaeology and tourism. If there were another Sphinx, scientists would have discovered it earlier. This area is of paramount importance, whether in the past or nowadays. Had there been any other Sphinx statue, it would have been discovered two hundred years ago. Excavations and digging operations are nonstop there.”
The Giza pyramids area is one of the most studied, looted, probed, scanned and searched archeological sites in the world. And yet, professional and amateur Egyptologists and archeologists are like Fox Mulder – they want to believe there’s a second Sphinx … so much so that they’re willing to ignore that Abdel Halim claims to have known about what would be a ‘this changes everything’ discovery since 1986.
Amerikaanse vliegtuigbouwer Boeing krijgt toestemming voor satellietconstellatie
De Amerikaanse autoriteiten hebben Boeing woensdag lokale tijd toestemming geven om 147 satellieten in een baan rond de aarde te brengen. Op die manier wil het bedrijf consumenten wereldwijd toegang geven tot breedbandinternet.
De Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "heeft een aanvraag goedgekeurd voor een vergunning om een satellietconstellatie te bouwen, te stationeren en te exploiteren", aldus een verklaring. "Boeing is van plan breedbandinternet en communicatiediensten aan te bieden aan particuliere, commerciële, overheids- en zakelijke gebruikers."
De FCC heeft 147 satellieten goedgekeurd voor Boeing, waarvan de grote meerderheid in een lage baan om de aarde (Low Earth Orbit (LEO)) zal worden gebracht. Zo worden er 132 op een hoogte van ongeveer 1.000 kilometer geplaatst, vijftien anderen zullen geplaatst worden op een hoogte tussen 27.000 en 44.000 kilometer.
Concurrerende bedrijven kwamen eerder al met plannen voor satellietconstellatieprojecten. De Amerikaanse miljardair Elon Musk, hoofd van SpaceX, heeft al meer dan 1.500 satellieten in een baan om de aarde gebracht. Amazon-oprichter Jeff Bezos heeft een soortgelijk project lopen onder de naam Kuiper.
Boeing proposes a constellation of between 1,396 and 2,956 V-band satellites in 35-74 orbital planes at 1,200 km in altitude. Each satellite's footprint would be subdivided into thousands of 8-11-km-diameter cells, with each cell using up to 5 GHz of bandwidth. Boeing also wants regulators to clear the way for a mega-constellation in C-band, athough Boeing is not planning its own C-band constellation.
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UFO Fleet Seen Over Hong Kong, China On Nov 4, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Seen Over Hong Kong, China On Nov 4, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 4, 2021 Location of sighting: Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
A fleet of UFOs were seen lined up on top of each other. The objects are thin disks, with a visible transparent center. much like the classic disk. The objects wobble every now and then, but they seem to be holding position in one place. I really wish the eyewitness could have gotten out of his car, but it looks like he was in a very busy part of Hong Kong and had no chance to pull over. But wow! Absolutely amazon catch. Aliens are probably keeping an eye out on Hong Kong, now that China has taken control of it.
Ok, just another day of exploration. I think I found the lost island of Atlantis. I mean only a technologically advanced civilization could construct such a massive face. It measures 4km across and over 14km tall from neck to top of head. The face looks very similar to ancient statues found on archeological digs around the world, and yet, this one is 14km long! I believe this is part of the lost island of Atlantis. I circled the island in a Google Earth photo at the bottom of this post. It looks like a sunken island that measures hundreds of km across. This could be the legendary island of Atlantis. This face...could be the face of the ancient Atlantans who lived there. A species of ancient aliens that tried to live on Earth long ago.
Even Plato told a story of Atlantis around 360 B.C. The founders of Atlantis, he said, were half god and half human. They created a utopian civilization and became a great naval power. Plato said Atlantis existed about 9,000 years before his own time, and that its story had been passed down by poets, priests, and others.
And now...we have found it! If people explore and find ancient alien technology still remaining intact...what will the world do with such technology?
What Happened to the Astronauts Who Were Lost in Space for 311 Days?
What Happened to the Astronauts Who Were Lost in Space for 311 Days?
Mankind has already attained several milestones in the field of modern space exploration. We have put several humans on the surface of the moon, sent unmanned space probes to foreign planets, and are currently even making plans to permanently colonize other celestial bodies.
In view of present and future achievements, however, we should not forget that the foundations of manned space flight were not laid out of pure scientific interest, but rather because of the political turmoil of the time.
In order to prove to their hated adversary that their own nation possessed the most advanced technology of all time, the United States and the Soviet Union showed little regard for casualties during the Cold War.
We'd like to join you in taking a look at a somewhat lesser-known side of the "race to space." We take a look at the stories of some Soviet cosmonauts, which raise the critical question of how much human suffering is acceptable for the sake of technical progress.
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1. Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first Soviet cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, its first crewed test flight. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight.
2. On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.
But, was Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova the first woman to travel into space?
The Torre Bert Recordings.
The Judica-Cordiglia brothers are two former amateur radio operators who made audio recordings that allegedly supported the conspiracy theory that the Soviet space program had covered up cosmonaut deaths in the 1960s.
On May 19, 1961, the Torre Bert listening station ( Judica-Cordiglia brothers) in northern Italy purportedly picked up a transmission of a woman’s voice, sounding confused and frightened as her craft began to break up upon reentry.
Is this the first woman in space?
The supposed recording of a Soviet space flight in 1961. In it, a Russian woman can be heard complaining about the increasing temperature inside the craft before it is destroyed attempting re-entry.
This was recorded by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers in 1961. It is reportedly one of many transmissions intercepted by the two brothers that prove the existence of the lost cosmonauts.
The following is a translation of what the woman is saying:
five…four…three …two…one…one two…three…four…five… come in… come in… come in… LISTEN…LISTEN! …COME IN! COME IN… COME IN… TALK TO ME! TALK TO ME!… I AM HOT!… I AM HOT! WHAT?… FORTYFIVE?… WHAT?… FORTYFIVE?… FIFTY?… YES…YES…YES… BREATHING… BREATHING… OXYGEN… OXYGEN… I AM HOT… (THIS) ISN’T THIS DANGEROUS?… IT’S ALL… ISN’T THIS DANGEROUS?… IT’S ALL… YES…YES…YES… HOW IS THIS? WHAT?… TALK TO ME!… HOW SHOULD I TRANSMIT? YES…YES…YES… WHAT? OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW… FORTYONE… THIS WAY… OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW… FORTYONE… THIS WAY… OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW… FORTYONE… YES… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… IT’S ALL… IT’S HOT… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… … I CAN SEE A FLAME!… WHAT?… I CAN SEE A FLAME!… I CAN SEE A FLAME!… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… THIRTYTWO… THIRTYTWO… FORTYONE… FORTYONE AM I GOING TO CRASH?… YES…YES… I FEEL HOT!… I FEEL HOT!… I WILL REENTER!… I WILL REENTER… I AM LISTENING!… I FEEL HOT!…
“A race of Venus came to planet Earth millions of years ago”
“A race of Venus came to planet Earth millions of years ago”
The Ancient Astronaut theory is being taken more and more seriously by science. But who were these beings and where did they come from? According to a new hypothesis, some of these beings could come from Venus.
According to science, Venus is an inhospitable place.
In recent years, the existence of extraterrestrial life in scientific nuclei has been discussed more , reaching the point of questioning whether we have not been visited for thousands of years. A new theory could show that beings from Venus came to Earth long before humans evolved.
Beings of Venus on Earth?
For decades, NASA has shown various aspects of the physical nature of Venus, thanks to space probes.
Spokesmen for exploration missions have stated that its environment is extremely hostile , with air laden with carbon dioxide and infernal barometric pressure . It also has a heat that exceeds 100 degrees Celsius along with dense clouds of sulfuric acid.
In short, on Venus it would be impossible for life to be born. But a declassified archive from 1989, which is practically unknown , could change our perception of that world.
The document relates to the different contacts that have existed between Earth and Venus and how the inhabitants of the latter came thousands of years ago , and continued to come to “meet” the human being.
They even talk about the “selection” of people they have had over the years, highlighting people from the field, the humble, even scientists and government officials.
This declassified document presents, then, a direct contradiction to what NASA has explained about the inhospitable nature of Venus.
Obviously, many people prefer to trust what science has said and forget everything that changes the official version .
However, there is a question … Why was a document that, supposedly, contradictory, was classified and kept hidden for more than 30 years?
Obviously, theorists around the world have started to make statements, blaming NASA and the elites for hiding information about space.
Venusians have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.
“They want to help humanity”
If scientists, the only ones with the ability to study beyond Earth’s borders, have lied to us in the past, why not distrust their information about Venus?
The possibility of life on Venus completely changes general thinking about our Solar System. This is because we have been led to believe that the galaxy is an immense desert with only one oasis; the earth.
Obviously, there is another possibility; that terrestrial technology is not advanced enough to locate life on that planet.
According to this report, we can understand that the civilization of Venus managed to solve all the problems that afflict humanity today. An example of this are wars, crime, corruption and other issues that do so much damage to society in general.
This is due to the development of peaceful collective values that are based on respect, understanding and love. Through their frequent contacts with different personalities on Earth, Venusians came to offer us help in solving all these issues that prevent us from evolving as humanity.
The problem is that this support is always accompanied by a request for the abandonment of weapons of mass destruction. Reason that makes us understand why this document has been classified and, subsequently, hidden.
If there is a developed civilization on Venus and NASA has hidden it or does not know of its existence, it is something that we will probably never know. However, if we manage to make contact with a civilization that supports us in our evolution, would we react correctly?
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The hacker who was able to access NASA and saw alien ships (Video)
The hacker who was able to access NASA and saw alien ships (Video)
One of the most important hackers in history is Gary MacKinnon, better known as Solo, revealed that NASA has alien secrets in its files.
Gary McKinnon
Born in February 66, Gary McKinnon is considered one of the most dangerous alleged hackers . He was accused of robbing 97 computers, both military and NASA between 2001 and 2002.
The most dangerous hacker in history
He was only in charge of reviewing secrets from the Army, Navy, Defense Department, Air Force and the Pentagon.
The costs of tracking and correcting the problems the hacker created are believed to be as high as $ 700,000 .
According to experts, if the extradition to the United States had been carried out, McKinnon would have faced up to 70 years in prison . He even expressed fear many times that he had been sent to Guantánamo.
But what did Solo see? During an interview with the BBC, he claimed that he was able to access military networks thanks to a simple script in the Perl programming language.
He explained that there were many computers with their default passwords. Something that allowed him easy access.
Being a fan of UFOs, I was looking for related information. Supposedly, he found a list of Non-Terrestrial Officers . This includes ship names that were not listed in any official Navy catalog in a ship-to-ship freight movement log .
He also observed a photograph of a cigar-shaped ship that the military. Also from an antigravity propulsion system manufactured by the military through reverse engineering.
MacKinnon’s discovery
This finding is said to be kept hidden because the implementation of this technology would generate free energy , ending dependence on fossil fuels.
In other interviews, the hacker said that among the high officials of the army are extraterrestrial. And it is not ruled out that other governments in the world also have them.
He also discovered that NASA has photographs of alien spacecraft, both on and off the planet.
In March 2002, due to a mistake he made in the schedules, he entered a computer and officials realized that he was being remotely interfered with.
They quickly found his whereabouts and through this event, the hacker’s legal ordeal began. The United States requested the extradition of Gary McKinnon, but it never proceeded.
This case raises many questions. From a logical perspective, Solo could not be blindly believed, especially if these are not backed up with tacit evidence.
If you want to know more about the subject, you can watch the following video from Snakedos.
Scientist invents technology to see multidimensional beings
Scientist invents technology to see multidimensional beings
Daniel Nemes scientist and inventor, originally from Spain but residing in Colombia, since he was 14 years old he became interested in astronomy and science. He was a member of the astronomical group of Madrid, Spain.
He says that the project started when he read an article in a magazine about the Dark Matter of the universe and the multidimensional universe momentarily interested him and called attention so he had the initiative to perform mathematical calculations and optical experiments to be able to capture images of ” the beyond”.
He discovered a method of capturing far superior to infrared, ultraviolet, black light, video camera with TV without antenna, etc. And that method I call ENERGIVISION . I use special lenses, ultrasensitive screens of his invention and above all sunlight. The images that he captures are of unknown origin. He explains that his theory is that they are images of other planes. However he says he has not traveled to other places to expose the invention. He has tried to make known to the scientific community and only answered a scientific body of the USA and in a rude way. The media have ignored and silenced the discovery along with the images captured.
Daniel Nemes says: “The only way I have to publicize my invention and the captures are by Facebook, since 2015 I have posted 1000 photos on my facebook. When I started to publish my images on my social network I had a lot of rejection, it was very hard and even insults towards me, fortunately my images are now more known and when I post on my facebook or in other groups it is rare to receive a disqualification or insult ” .
Judge for yourself the following images, the note is at the discretion of each person.
If you want more information about this technology I suggest you go to the following link: Daniel Nemes
Discussion of unidentified flying objects — or, as they have recently been rebranded, unidentified aerial phenomena(UAP) — was long relegated to society's fringes. The topic was toxic, and many people avoided serious engagement with it out of fear of being branded a crackpot.
But that has begun to change in the past few years. Prominent scientists now openly push for serious study of UFOs, and the U.S. Navy recently drew up new guidelines that encourage pilots to report curious or confusing sky sights.
Read on for a brief history of UFO sightings, potential explanations for them and cultural attitudes toward the phenomenon.
People have seen intriguing or confounding objects in the sky for as long as we've been looking up.
Over the eons, for example, many different cultures have regarded meteors and comets as supernatural phenomena, or at least processed them through a supernatural lens. These dramatic sky lights have been deemed manifestations of a deity's displeasure or interpreted as signs that something wonderful, terrible or simply consequential is soon to happen.
Evidence of this view can be found in the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, which chronicles the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 CE. The famous Halley's Comet zoomed through the inner solar system that same year, and the 230-foot-long (70 meters) tapestry depicts it blazing ominously above the head of England's King Harold II.
"We see the new king sat on a throne, with nobles to the left and Archbishop Stigand to the right," the Reading Museum wrote in a description of the tapestry's comet scene. (Harold was crowned on Jan. 6, 1066.)
"At the far side, he is cheered on by the masses," the description continued. "On the far right, Halley's Comet appears in the sky. People think it an evil omen and grow terrified. News of the comet is brought to Harold. Beneath him, a ghostly fleet of ships appears in the lower border, a hint of the Norman invasion to come."
Harold was killed by William the Conqueror's troops during the decisive Battle of Hastings, on Oct. 14, 1066.
UFOS: THE EARLY YEARS
The UFO phenomenon as we know it today is much more recent, dating to the era of powered flight. This makes a lot of sense; there weren't nearly as many flying objects to be puzzled by in William the Conqueror's day.
UFOs really took off during World War II, when Allied pilots in both the European and Pacific theaters reported seeing puzzling lights or objects in the sky. They called these curiosities "foo fighters," a term better known today as the band fronted by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.
Then, in June 1947, American businessman and aviator Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine shiny, mysterious craft zipping through the skies near Washington's Mount Rainier. Some newspaper stories described these UFOs as "flying disks" or "flying saucers," and the latter term soon wormed its way into the public consciousness.
UFO reports surged in the wake of Arnold's sighting, some of them even winding up in the pages of The New York Times. One of the items the Times picked up was the discovery of some seemingly exotic wreckage on a ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1947.
In July of that year, a public information officer at the (relatively) nearby Roswell Army Air Field described the debris as a "flying disk," briefly igniting a firestorm of confused interest. Army officials quickly retracted that statement, explaining that the material in question was the remains of a crashed weather balloon, and the "Roswell incident" faded into obscurity.
(It came roaring back three decades later, however, revived by UFO enthusiasts who claimed that the U.S. government had found an alien spacecraft in New Mexico, perhaps even with extraterrestrials inside, and covered the whole thing up. Some conspiracists believe the wreckage was spirited to a hush-hush military site in southern Nevada called Area 51, where study of the aliens and their craft continues to this day.)
The U.S. military, concerned that some of these UFOs might pose a threat to national security, soon began to investigate sightings systematically. The Air Force established Project Sign to this end in 1947, then followed that with the similarly short-lived Project Grudge in 1948. The more well-known Project Blue Book got started in 1952 and ran all the way to 1969, examining more than 12,600 UFO reports along the way.
One of the sightings Project Blue Book investigated was that of Betty and Barney Hill, who claimed they were captured and examined by extraterrestrials in rural New Hampshire in September 1961. The couple's account started getting picked up by newspapers in 1965, becoming the first-ever widely publicized alien-abduction story, as History.com noted.
UFO sightings didn't end when Project Blue Book wrapped up, of course; they've kept on rolling in over the decades.
Some of the most famous ones in the past half-century include that of Travis Walton, an Arizona man whose 1975 alien-abduction claim was dramatized in the 1993 film "Fire in the Sky;" the Rendlesham Forest incident, a string of mysterious observations near England's Royal Air Force Woodbridge station in December 1980; and the Phoenix Lights, which confused many Arizonans in March 1997.
And, in November 2004, several U.S. Navy pilots flying off the coast of San Diego reported seeing bizarre craft zooming through the sky, seemingly maneuvering in ways that exceeded the limits of known technology. Other Navy pilots had similar experiences off the U.S. East Coast a decade later, making a series of intriguing observations from June 2014 to March 2015.
The pilots captured infrared video of some of these encounters using their onboard camera systems. Three of these videos went viral in December 2017 when The New York Times published them as part of a blockbuster story about a previously secret military UFO-investigating effort called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP for short.
Politico and The Washington Post also published deep dives into AATIP, which was first funded at the request of then-Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and appears to have been a driving force in the rebranding of UFOs to UAP, a term with less historical baggage. The program ran from 2007 until a funding phaseout in 2012, though AATIP personnel have said its work continued in an unofficial capacity for a few years after that.
AATIP has a successor, and it was born in the sunlight, comparatively speaking. In the summer of 2020, the Pentagon announced the establishment of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), whose mission is "to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security."
We've seen some of the task force's work already. In June 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a congressionally mandated report outlining what the UAPTF, the FBI and the Office of Naval Intelligence make of 144 recent UFO encounters documented by U.S. government sensors, with a focus on sightings by Navy pilots between November 2004 and March 2021.
The report, a preliminary nine-page assessment that you can read here, found that 18 of the 144 UFOs moved in odd or unexpected ways.
"Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings," the report states.
UFOs are undeniably real; people often see things in the sky that they can't identify. But that doesn't necessarily mean there's anything exotic going on.
Alien-abduction stories are more complicated, as they tend to involve more psychological components. But some research suggests that at least some such reports may be explained by lucid dreaming, an odd sleep state in which people can control their dreams.
Project Blue Book got to the bottom of the vast majority of the 12,600 sightings it investigated, ascribing most of them to natural phenomena such as clouds, stars and bright planets. The Air Force researchers could not explain 701 of the encounters, but they concluded that none displayed evidence of otherworldly technology or posed a threat to national security.
The 2021 DNI report evinces less certainty, positively identifying just one of the 144 examined UAP. (That lone demystified object was a large, deflating balloon.) The investigators stressed that more data are needed to understand UAP, which likely have multiple explanations. For example, strange and seemingly inexplicable movement patterns "could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis," the report states.
Advanced technology developed by foreign adversaries is another potential cause. If foreign tech is indeed behind some of these sightings, UAP would "represent a national security challenge," the report adds.
This possibility has spurred the U.S. military to take the UAP issue more seriously than ever before. In 2019, for example, the Navy formalized its UFO-reporting guidelines, a revision that could remove much of the stigma that has long been associated with sightings, as Politico noted.
The 2021 DNI assessment does not explicitly mention the alien hypothesis; it's implicitly lumped into a catch-all "other" category of possible explanations. And there are good reasons not to leap to the E.T. conclusion, experts say.
For example, the Navy pilots' sightings in 2004, 2014 and 2015 occurred in coastal waters, which is where you might expect to find advanced reconnaissance craft operated by rival nations, pointed out Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California. (Flights over the U.S. mainland would be much easier to detect.) And some of the encounters apparently occurred shortly after the Navy jets' radar systems were upgraded, suggesting a glitch of some kind might be responsible.
Indeed, it may be telling that imagery of UFOs, no matter what era it was captured in, tends to depict the objects as fuzzy blobs.
"The sightings always recede to the edge of what technology allows you to do," Shostak told Space.com in 2019. "The aliens are kind of keeping pace with technology."
Common sense also argues for relatively mundane, terrestrial explanations, and not just because of Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is usually the best one). For example, if some UFOs are indeed alien spacecraft, what exactly are they up to?
"If the aliens are here, you gotta say they're the best houseguests ever, because they never do anything," Shostak said. "They just buzz around. They don't address climate change; they don't steal our molybdenum."
Still, the E.T. idea should not be dismissed or ridiculed, Shostak and others argue. It's not very scientific to eliminate a hypothesis out of hand, after all, and some UAP encounters are very difficult to explain.
For example, the November 2004 Navy sightings off the California coast were made by four pilots in two different jets, and they saw the bizarre, fast-moving object with their own eyes, two of the aviators told the CBS news program "60 Minutes" in 2021. That rules out the possibility that an instrument glitch was responsible in that case. And the same UAP was also documented by radar.
"It's not trivial to say what these things are," Shostak said.
There's a growing willingness to entertain all possible explanations, including the alien hypothesis, for such encounters. For example, in July 2021, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and colleagues announced a venture called the Galileo Project, which will look for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) using a network of new telescope systems around the world.
Among other aims, the Galileo Project will attempt to determine the true nature of UAP and odd bodies such as 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed in our own solar system.
'Oumuamua's strangeness led Loeb to suggest that the visitor may be a defunct alien spacecraft. This notion, while still well out of the scientific mainstream, is less outre today than it would have been just a decade or so ago, largely because of the exoplanet revolution.
In recent years, astronomers have learned that roughly 20% of the Milky Way's 200 billion or so stars probably harbor a rocky planet in their "habitable zone," the range of orbital distances in which liquid water could exist on a world's surface. And a world doesn't have to be in the habitable zone to harbor habitable environments. Multiple moons in our own solar system, such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, sport huge oceans beneath their icy shells, after all.
"Given the recently discovered abundance of habitable-zone exoplanets, with potential for extraterrestrial life, the Galileo Project is dedicated to the proposition that humans can no longer ignore the possible existence of ETCs," Loeb said in a July 2021 statement.
"Science should not reject potential extraterrestrial explanations because of social stigma or cultural preferences that are not conducive to the scientific method of unbiased, empirical inquiry," he added. "We now must 'dare to look through new telescopes,' both literally and figuratively."
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.
At first glance there doesn’t seem to be anything all that remarkable about the town of Carman, in the Pembina Valley Region of southern Manitoba, Canada. The small agricultural town of around 3,000 is mostly rural, a quiet and serene place surround by a rich prairie agricultural belt as far as the eye can see, where not much ever really happens. It is the sort of place one could drive right on by without paying much attention to it. Yet in the years of 1975 and 1976, this rural hamlet of farms would become the center of one of the strangest and well-witnessed UFO sighting flaps in Canadian history, when the area would be visited by a persistent, mischievous, almost playful UFO that would affectionately come to be known as “Charlie Red Star.”
It seems to be unclear just when exactly the wave of sightings and the overall phenomena started, but it is most often said to have begun in February of 1975, when a farmer was going about his daily chores near his barn when he saw a “red light that looked like a ball” and measuring 14 to 18 inches in diameter swoop down to buzz right over his head. It would apparently emit a searing heat and disorient the farmer for the duration of its appearance, before shooting off into the night. After this, a strange red light or fireball would frequently be seen hovering and bobbing about the area, and the sightings would start to come in at a good clip, sometimes reporting a smallish orb of light that seemed to dart towards people and dart away as if playing, while other reports seem to describe objects more akin to a traditional UFO or “flying saucer,” sometimes even making mention of a larger object with the orbs dancing about it, and some of the reports particularly stand out.
One of these occurred on March 27, 1975, when a young girl was woken in the middle of the night by a piercing screaming noise outside that sounded sort of like a siren. As she sat there in her bed, she claimed that the whole house began to shudder as if an earthquake was happening and she rushed to the window to look outside. As she did, she claimed that she had seen a blazing red ball of light pass her window, flooding the room with light and emanating so much heat that she at first thought that it had set her home ablaze. As it rose up it passed over the house and then flew back in front of her, hovering there in the night and so bright that she would describe it as “looking like the Sun was coming up” before finally whizzing off into the distance, illuminating the ground along the way.
The following month, on April 10, 1975, a couple by the names of Bob and Elaine Diemert were out at a private airfield on their rural farmland property when they were startled to see a large red slow-moving light hovering over the tree line not far away. When they approached, they could see through the light that it was a disk shaped object with a dome attached. The object hovered there for about 5 minutes, immersed in a “red, pulsing light,” before flying straight at them and then suddenly veering off to fly off over the tree tops. After this, the mysterious object began to visit their farm on a nearly nightly basis, to the point that droves of curiosity seekers began showing up every evening to see the light show for themselves, with most witnesses describing it as playful and mischievous. Hovering over them, shooting back and forth, approaching observers, and repeatedly flying over their heads in a breathtaking display of aerial acrobatics, it was quite the sight to behold. It was at around this time that people began referring to the object as “Charlie Red Star,” delighting whole crowds of people. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable by the name of Ian Nicholson also came to the Diemert farm to see the object for himself, describing it as “as an oval red light, surrounded with an X-shaped white halo.” The Constable would
I sat there for two or three minutes just looking at the object, which appeared stationary at the time. Then I decided to get a closer look at it. I drove west…and I can say I was moving pretty fast. As I was going west, the object seemed to be flying in a northeasterly direction. I continued for approximately 12 miles, keeping the object in sight, trying to get somewhat abreast of it so that if the opportunity presented itself, I could have driven north toward it. About 16 miles west of Carman, I stopped the car. I’d seen there was no way I was going to catch up to it. So I just stopped the car and watched the object go out of sight over the tree line on the horizon.
In the meanwhile, the UFO (or UFOs) was being spotted all over the area by people from all walks of life, most often described as a large bright red, domed disc, sometimes with fiery orbs darting about it. Word was getting out about the very strange phenomena in the skies of the area of Carman, and before long people were pouring into the region to get a look, causing traffic jams and making a big fuss. Many of those who saw the phenomena were traditionally reliable witnesses such as law enforcement officers and pilots. One airline pilot by the name of Roger Pitts saw it, and would say of his experience:
It was flying on a 45-degree angle, but it was still flying straight at us. As we watched, it didn’t turn around. It just went directly the other way straight away from us. It just went off into the distance away from us, and a puff of smoke appeared – an odd shape, like a small cloud, and it disappeared in that.
Image by Steve Baxter
One of the strangest events concerning Charlie Red Star allegedly occurred on the night of May 13, 1975, when a TV news crew comprised of a Bill Kendricks, John Berry, and two others arrived in Carman to see if they could try and film whatever Charlie Red Star was. The crew had arrived on May 11, but had seen absolutely nothing of interest except a far-off slow-moving light that they wrote off as an airplane, but on May 13, things would get strange. Kendricks headed out to try again, along with a crew including film technician Alan Kerr and newspaper editor Howard Bennett. This time they would witness a light that rose up over the tree line, flashed a bright light, and then shot straight up into the sky at breathtaking speed. The group then split up and the object then returned, and Bennet would say of what he saw:
I could see this big glow behind some trees less than half a mile away off to the right and ahead of us … It was smoky red, a hazy glow, and to me the thing was higher than the trees, maybe 50 feet tall. It was about 20 feet thick and was sitting at an angle of about 45 degrees. The edges were fuzzy and not sharply defined. It was much like seeing a drive-in movie screen from the side.
The other groups also saw it, describing it as looking “like a blood red Moon” bobbing up and down through the trees, always completely silent. Allen Kerr, the cameraman, was even able to capture a few seconds of footage of the object as it flew overhead, although since it merely shows a red light in the sky it is inconclusive. The team would return to the site a few days later with a radiation meter and claim to have found several spots with radiation anomalies. What was going on here and what did this crew see and film? Sightings would continue on through the summer. On June 4, 1975, a farmer was out in his pasture when he saw a huge, glowing red disk with two domes on top. It was so frightening to him that he tried to leave in his truck but the craft allegedly made his engine die before flying off. On July 1st, a group of three witnesses saw the object hovering and moving about erratically around a grain elevator before landing in a nearby field and then flying off. These witnesses would give a very detailed description of the object, with one of them reporting:
It was about 85 feet in diameter and perfectly round so round it was unbelievable. It was saucer shaped…and the top and bottom travelled in different directions. The bottom one spun…to the right, and the top one spun to the left. There was a center section that didn’t move, about six to eight feet in width, and there were oval shaped windows in it. I’d say that there were about 16 windows in the whole circumference, eight looking on the side we were on.
The very next day, another witness claimed that the object had landed in one of his fields and left behind an oval patch of dead vegetation and “tripod marks.” The sightings went on throughout the summer, and the Carman region was becoming well-known nationwide as a UFO watching hotspot. People from all over Canada and the United States came in large numbers to catch a glimpse, with some even claiming to have chased it in their cars, and there were hundreds of sightings reported throughout the summer. Sightings of Charlie Red Star would continue on through the fall and winter, and well into 1976 before decreasing in frequency and then just stopping altogether to leave the area in bafflement. UFO researcher Grant Cameron would provide the most in-depth account of these events in his book Charlie Red Star: True Reports of one of North America’s Biggest UFO Sightings, where there is a treasure trove of more sightings like these in great detail, and Cameron himself even says he witnessed Charlie Red Star on several occasions. He would wait over 30 years before publishing his research on the strange flap, and would later speculate that whatever it was, it had been drawn to secret nuclear facilities in the region just south of the U.S. and Canadian border. He would find that the missiles being stored there had been removed at the end of 1975, and that this might have a connection with the phenomena stopping.
In the end there is little that we can do to come to terms with all of these sightings. We don’t know what the objects or objects were, or what they wanted. Why did this happen here in this nondescript little place? Where did it come from and what did it want? Was this all hallucinations and a massive hoax, or was it something else? It remains unknown.
Researchers Discovered A Method To Manipulate Orbiting Debris With Spinning Magnets
Researchers Discovered A Method To Manipulate Orbiting Debris With Spinning Magnets
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –Space has become a trash heap. According to NASA, there are more than 27,000 pieces of space debris bigger than the size of a softball currently orbiting Earth, and they are traveling at speeds of up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a small chunk to damage a satellite or spacecraft like an intergalactic cannonball.
A computer-generated image representing the locations, but not relative sizes, of space debris as could be seen from high Earth orbit.
Image credit: NASA
Consequently, cleaning up this space junk will be an important task if agencies are to shoot more rockets and satellites into orbit. University of Utah mechanical engineering professor Jake J. Abbott is leading a team of researchers that has discovered a method to manipulate orbiting debris with spinning magnets. With this technology, robots could one day gently maneuver the scrap to a decaying orbit or further out into space without actually touching it, or they could repair malfunctioning objects to extend their life.
Their research is detailed in the paper, “Dexterous magnetic manipulation of conductive non-magnetic objects,” published this month in the science journal, Nature. The co-authors include U graduate students Lan Pham, Griffin Tabor and Ashkan Pourkand, former graduate student Jacob L. B. Aman, and U School of Computing associate professor Tucker Hermans. You can read a copy of the paper here.
The concept involves moving metallic, non-magnetized objects in space with spinning magnets. When the metallic debris is subjected to a changing magnetic field, electrons circulate within the metal in circular loops, “like when you swirl your cup of coffee and it goes around and around,” says Abbott.
The process turns the piece of debris into essentially an electromagnet that creates torque and force, which can allow you to control where the debris goes without physically grabbing it.
While the idea of using these kinds of magnetic currents to manipulate objects in space is not new, what Abbott and his team have discovered is that using multiple magnetic-field sources in a coordinated fashion allows them to move the objects in six degrees of movement, including rotating them. Before, it was only known how to move them in one degree of movement, like just pushing them.
“What we wanted to do was to manipulate the thing, not just shove it but actually manipulate it like you do on Earth,” he says. “That form of dexterous manipulation has never been done before.”
With this new knowledge, scientists for example could stop a damaged satellite from wildly spinning in order to repair it, something that would not have been possible before.
“You have to take this crazy object floating in space, and you have to get it into a position where it can be manipulated by a robot arm,” Abbott says. “But if it’s spinning out of control, you could break the robot arm doing that, which would just create more debris.”
This method also allows scientists to manipulate objects that are especially fragile. While a robot arm could damage an object because its claw applies force to one part of it, these magnets would apply a gentler force to the entire object so no one section is harmed.
To test their research, the team used a series of magnets to move a copper ball on a plastic raft in a tank of water (the best way to simulate slow-moving objects in microgravity). The magnets moved the sphere not only in a square, but they also rotated the ball.
Abbott says this newly discovered process could be used with a spinning magnet on a robotic arm, a stationary magnet that creates spinning magnetic fields, or a spinning super-conductive electromagnet like those used in MRI scanners.
Abbott believes this principle of manipulating non-magnetic metallic objects with magnets could also have applications beyond the clearing of space debris.
“I’m starting to open my mind to what potential applications there are,” he says. “We have a new way to apply a force to an object for precise alignment without touching it.”
But for now, this idea could immediately be applied to help fix the problem of space junk orbiting the Earth.
“NASA is tracking thousands of space debris the same way that air traffic controllers track aircraft. You have to know where they are because you could accidentally crash into them,” Abbott says. “The U.S. government and the governments of the world know of this problem because there is more and more of this stuff accumulating with each passing day.”
I found a small face on Mars near the NASA rover. The photos were taken today and show a small fossil face with some bone fragments not far from it. The face is more like from the movie Shrek, big rounded, troll like. Its clearly has a lot of human features. Its eye ridges are massive and its nose several times our own. Its upper lip is extending farther than its lower lip. Its cheeks long, its ear behind the eye ridge. It even appears to have a muscle wrinkle at the mouth edge...a smile line from so much smiling perhaps.
I believe this to be an alien fossil. The detail and the uniqueness make it highly unlikely that its a sculpture. The detail is just too good. Also there are thick bone fragments not far from the head. Why is the face so well preserved? Well, if an alien species has more than 3 strands of DNA, it would actually harden the skin, muscles, bones...making them more compact, more difficult to break down in the environment The more strands of DNA the species has, the less it will break down. The face is only about 2 inches or 4cm across. Very small, yet only 1/2 meter from the rover itself...and NASA ignored it.
100% proof that NASA is not doing their job on Mars with the Rovers! NASA has no intention of telling the public the truth. If they did, it would create a race to get there by other countries, to find ancient technology left behind.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
NASA put the photos into false color, which hides detail, so I put it back into normal color mode.
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Aliens in Alaska – Men in Black S01E01
Aliens in Alaska – Men in Black S01E01
Ancient Aliens – Men in Black
Season 1, Episode 1
15th February 2021, Discovery+
A woman is visited by strange men in black suits after an eerie light show. Alaska is a hotbed for UFO sightings, abductions and extraterrestrial encounters. Why are these otherworldly visitors drawn to America’s last frontier? Shocking new evidence and personal testimony from local witnesses shed light on the alien activity.
New Research Rewrites History of Egyptian Mummification Process!
New Research Rewrites History of Egyptian Mummification Process!
There is new research to show that the ancient Egyptians started using their complex mummification process a good 1000 years before previously believed. This startling revelation will be made in National Geographic’s new season of its documentary series called ‘ Lost Treasures of Egypt ’. The mummy that is behind this discovery was found in 2019, and it was thought to be 1000 years younger than the recent dating analysis has found. If this discovery is reinforced by further evidence, it could lead to a rewriting of history books!
The finding indicates mummification was well understood and used ten centuries before any previous evidence found in Egypt has indicated. The Khuwy mummification was very advanced and involved the use of superior-quality linen bandaging and a lot of excellent resin, reports The Guardian .
More important for some researchers is the fact that the mummy of the high-ranking nobleman called Khuwy is from one of oldest Egyptian tombs ever discovered. Khuwy’s tomb was dated to the Old Kingdom, 2700–2200 BC but the mummy was thought younger due to the mummification processes used and hence the condition of its preservation.
Egyptian archaeologists examining the inside of Khuwy’s tomb, where the earliest example of advanced mummification was discovered and dated to the Old Kingdom period.
The 2019 Saqqara Discovery Rewrites Mummification History
The original discovery of the new Saqqara mummy in 2019 figured in an earlier season of National Geographic’s program. The mummy was found in a very well-appointed tomb in the necropolis at Saqqara. A well-researched article appeared on the Ancient Origins website detailing the fascinating discovery.
The mummy was found while listing the collection of pyramids from the time of Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi. He was the last king of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt which ruled for approximately 150 years from the early 25th century BC to mid-24th century BC. The Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth dynasties are clubbed together as Egypt’s Old Kingdom period . The entrance to the tomb replicated the architecture of royal pyramids from the Fifth Dynasty.
Although the pottery in the pyramid dated to the Old Kingdom, the mummy’s state of preservation and the materials used in the process originally misled the archaeologists involved in the excavation and so they believed he was younger than the artifacts recovered from his tomb by 1,000 years.
However, subsequent dating and analysis of the mummy revealed its age and its advanced mummification process . It is the investigation into this process as well as the discoveries it has led to that will be aired in an episode of the new season of National Geographic’s Lost Treasures show.
A cow being slaughtered as depicted in the nobleman’s tomb where the mummification process was suddenly found to be 1,000 years older than previously believed.
Now Scientists Have To “Rewrite” The Old Kingdom Period
Hieroglyphics found in the Saqqara tomb revealed that the body was that of Khuwy, who was related to the royal family and lived more than 4000 years ago.
As reported in the Guardian, Salima Ikram, a member of the archaeology team who is head of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, said:
“If this is indeed an Old Kingdom mummy, all books about mummification and the history of the Old Kingdom will need to be revised. This would completely turn our understanding of the evolution of mummificationon its head. The materials used, their origins, and the trade routes associated with them will dramatically impact our understanding of Old Kingdom Egypt.”
She further stated,
“Until now, we had thought that Old Kingdom mummification was relatively simple, with basic desiccation – not always successful – no removal of the brain, and only occasional removal of the internal organs. Indeed, more attention was paid to the exterior appearance of the deceased than the interior. Also, the use of resins is far more limited in the Old Kingdom mummies thus far recorded. This mummy is awash with resins and textiles and gives a completely different impression of mummification. In fact, it is more like mummies found 1,000 years later.”
The embalming process in ancient Egypt involved bathing the body in resins from tree sap which served to preserve the flesh. The cadaver was then wrapped in linen cloth bandages. Khuwy’s body was coated with high-quality resins and wrapped in fine linen bandages . According to Ikram such good-quality linen was seen only around the time of the 21st Dynasty of Egypt. Astonishingly, the 21st Dynasty reigned more than 1000 years after Khuwy lived!
In many ways, our understanding of Egypt’s mummies and mummification can be dramatically revised when an older mummy or tomb is discovered, as Khuwy’s tomb has so clearly proven.
Top image: The tomb of Egyptian nobleman Khuwy, where evidence showed that advanced mummification process knowledge existed 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Aerial Survey Reveals Hundreds of Olmec and Maya Sites in Mexico
Aerial Survey Reveals Hundreds of Olmec and Maya Sites in Mexico
Researchers from the University of Arizona recently completed a groundbreaking and breathtaking aerial survey of large areas of southern Mexico that were once occupied by Olmec and Maya civilizations, the builders of ancient Mesoamerica’s first great civilizations. The survey was groundbreaking because it was the largest aerial imaging study ever carried out, covering more than 32,000 square miles (84,000 square kilometers) in five southern Mexican states. The results were breathtaking because the researchers were able to identify the remains of 478 Olmec and Maya ceremonial complexes, an extraordinary result that could profoundly impact modern archaeology’s understanding of both cultures.
This massive research project utilized an imaging technology known as LiDAR to detect the Olmec and Maya ritual centers, most of which would have been constructed between the years 1,100 BC and 400 BC. The territories surveyed covered most of ancient Olmec territory and the western Maya lowlands, which on modern maps represents the entire state of Tabasco, southern Veracruz, and smaller sections of Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Campeche.
What was most remarkable about the survey results, which have just been published in the journal Nature Human Behavior , is the close relationship they revealed between Olmec and Maya ceremonial construction practices and themes.
Mexico’s Aguada Fénix archaeological site as seen from the air reveals little about Olmec and Maya similarities and imitations in ritual architectural design. It took a LiDAR survey, see image below, to reveal what was really there!
In 2020, the same team of researchers, led by University of Arizona anthropologist Takeshi Inomata, discovered the oldest and largest Maya ceremonial site ever found, which they dubbed Aguada Fénix .
This long, flattened, rectangular mound is almost one mile (1.6 kilometers) in length and is raised between 33 and 50 feet (10 and 15 meters) off the ground. It features 20 much smaller platforms built around its perimeter, and from the air resembles a long banquet or pool table. Aguada Fénix was constructed between 1,000 BC and 800 BC, in the pre-classical stage of the Maya civilization .
Many of the religious complexes discovered in Maya territory during the latest survey greatly resemble Aguada Fénix in shape and design. Most significantly, all of these sites seem to mimic a newly discovered rectangular ceremonial complex found at San Lorenzo , the oldest and one of the most important Olmec population centers . It is here that the famed colossal heads that depict Olmec rulers were discovered, along with other signs of a complex culture that created the first great Mesoamerican civilization in the second millennium BC.
The newly discovered ceremonial monument at San Lorenzo is 3,300 (1,000 meters) long and 900 feet (275 meters) wide, with 20 raised platforms arranged around its edges. It was clearly a gathering place of some sort, and important religious ceremonies or rituals were almost assuredly held there, the researchers believe.
The monument’s resemblance to Aguada Fénix and the other freshly detected Maya sites is unmistakable. Yet it was constructed two or three centuries earlier, which has led the University of Arizona researchers to speculate that the San Lorenzo site may have acted as a template for Maya ceremonial site construction.
"People always thought San Lorenzo was very unique and different from what came later in terms of site arrangement," Inomata said, in a University of Arizona press release announcing his research team’s discoveries. "But now we show that San Lorenzo is very similar to Aguada Fénix – it has a rectangular plaza flanked by edge platforms. Those features become very clear in LiDAR and are also found at Aguada Fénix, which was built a little bit later. This tells us that San Lorenzo is very important for the beginning of some of these ideas that were later used by the Maya ."
A LiDAR view of the same landscape shown in the previous picture at the Aguada Fénix archaeological site that reveals the Maya building complex and its similarities to Olmec design.
According to Inomata and his colleagues, the Maya would have been imitating Olmec building practices because the two cultures shared elements of the same metaphysical belief system.
“City plans symbolizing cosmologies have long been recognized as a defining element of Mesoamerican civilizations,” they noted in their Nature Human Behavior paper.
After analyzing the orientations of the ancient Olmec and Maya sites carefully, the researchers discovered that most are aligned with the sunrise on certain dates. These choices appear to be related specifically to zenith passage day, when the sun at its highest point is aligned directly overhead the ground level observer, at a 90-degree angle to the horizon.
Zenith passage day varies by latitude and occurs on May 10 in the region surveyed. The researchers found that many of the Maya and Olmec sites were oriented to face the sunrise exactly 40, 60, 80, or 100 days before that date. Mesoamerican calendars are based on the number 20, which would explain why such orientations were chosen. It would also explain why there were 20 small platforms placed around the edges of the larger ceremonial platforms built at San Lorenzo, Aguada Fénix, and other newly discovered Maya sites.
"This means that they were representing cosmological ideas through these ceremonial spaces," Inomata declared. "In this space, people gathered according to this ceremonial calendar."
Zenith passage day was important to Mesoamerican civilizations because it represented the arrival of both maize planting season and the rainy season that would help new crops grow tall and strong. But the coordination of monumental structures with important astronomical alignments was a common practice among virtually all the ancient cultures in the Americas, including the Olmecs, the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Hopewell culture of North America.
One mystery archaeologists and ancient historians have pondered over the years is how much influence Olmec practices and customs had on their Maya neighbors. If San Lorenzo was indeed an inspiration for the Maya ceremonial building practices, it would seem the influence was quite strong, at least in this one vitally important area.
This Olmec style stone face on the Lamanai Mayan temple in Belize is almost identical to the later Maya temple shown in the main image at the top of this article.
This extraordinary new study has enlightened scholars about the deep connections that may have developed between the Olmec and Maya cultures, which existed side-by-side in Mesoamerica for approximately 1,500 years. This research was only possible because of the LiDAR remote-sensing system, which has been a boon to archaeologists seeking to study ruins and artifacts on a broader and more inclusive scale.
LiDAR, which stands for “light detection and ranging,” is an aerial sensing technology that uses pulsed laser reflections to create precise three-dimensional images of the earth’s surface. This methodology can be used to spot ruins that would otherwise be hidden by trees, vegetation, or shallow layers of earth.
"The advantage of LiDAR is that it provides a three-dimensional, birds-eye view of the landscape and modifications to it made by humans - ancient and modern - in the form of building, transportation, agricultural and water control infrastructure," study participant Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, who works at the University of Houston's National Center of Airborne Laser Mapping, told Reuters .
In addition to producing superior imagery, LiDAR technology also gives archaeologists the ability to explore large sections of the land from the air. The process is swift and efficient, making studies like this new one far easier to complete.
This ambitious research project fully leveraged the capabilities of LiDAR, more so than any other study that has been carried out in the area so far. It will likely be used again to explore these regions, as archaeologists and historians continue to search for more information about the great pre-Columbian civilizations that once flourished in ancient Mesoamerica.
Top image: Olmec and Maya architecture have more than a few things in common as has been recently revealed by a massive LiDAR survey project in southern Mexico. The Olmecs came first but the Mayas copied their approach to ritual architecture. This image shows a Maya building in the Lamanai archaeological reserve in Belize. Source: vadim.nefedov / Adobe Stock
Early in his presidency, former president Donald Trump was widely reported to have asked during a hurricane briefing why the military couldn’t drop a nuclear bomb into the eye of a storm, detonate it and weaken or eliminate the hurricane. While Mr. Trump later denied asking the question, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was concerned enough to post a page explaining why a nuclear bomb would not alter the storm but would release radioactive fallout that would spread quickly with the trade winds already moving the hurricane towards North and Central America. Proving that bad ideas don’t die … they just move to another country, a politician in Spain has proposed bombing a volcano to stop it from erupting. What could possibly go wrong … that hasn’t already been demonstrated with Mentos and Diet Coke?
“Isn’t there a plane that could fly and drop [a bomb]? It arrives, drops and boom. And it sends the lava in a different direction? Maybe it’s madness, but I get the impression from a technological point of view that it should be tried.”
What could possibly go wrong?
The La Cumbre Vieja volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands has been erupting constantly since September 19, 2021, with no sign of letting up. Lava flows have destroyed buildings on the southwest part of La Palma, forcing at least 7,000 island residents to evacuate. At the same time, recent earthquakes – one a magnitude 5.0 – caused the partial collapse of the volcano’s cone and reconfigured the lava flows. Casimiro Curbelo, the president of the La Gomera Municipal Council (La Gomera is another Canary Island), wants to protect his constituents so he recently proposed taking a drastic measure — using military planes to bomb the volcano into submission.
Hasn’t the history of warfare shown this doesn’t work? Actually, the history of bombing volcanoes is a better gauge.
“Hours after bombs were dropped by U.S. Army Air Corps airplanes, Jaggar declared the bombing a success on a radio broadcast. “Our purpose was not to stop the lava flow, but to start it all over again at the source so that it will take a new course,” he said. The bombs were successfully dropped (“direct hits on all targets”), but Jaggar waited to see any effects on the lava flow.”
On December 27, 1935, Thomas A. Jaggar, Director of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, ordered bombs dropped on the lava flows of the Humu‘ula volcano flow to redirect them away from the nearby city of Hilo. Jaggar thought the bombs slowed the flow and helped stop it in 1936, but a study in the 1970s concluded it was already dying out and the bombs had no effect.
In 1983, an erupting Mouth Etna in Sicily was threatening a nearby village so engineers placed around 900 pounds (408 kilograms) of explosives, enclosed in water-cooled pipes, next to the flow. The explosion successfully redirected the lava flow to an artificial trench, but it also split another part of the lava stream which had to be redirected manually. While touted as a success, the Mount Etna explosion still caused other problems and was not a true bomb dropping.
What about a giant stopper?
Will Casimiro Curbelo get his wish to have the La Cumbre Vieja volcano bombed into submission? Live Science reports that Spain’s military has not responded to Curbelo’s suggestion, and neither has Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The eruption hasn’t caused any deaths and most of the population lives away from the volcano’s active west side. In other words, it hasn’t affected tourism or cost those in charge any money … yet.
Let’s hope cooler heads prevail and cut the fuse on this bomb of a scheme to stop an active volcano.
Wingless Object, Madison Heights, Michigan Nov 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Wingless Object, Madison Heights, Michigan Nov 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: November 1, 2021 Location of sighting: Madison Heights, Michigan, USA Source: MUFON
This raw footage is just blowing my mind! Its amazing to watch this white circular craft moving across the sky and yet, it has no wings! It's not a rocket, it's not a jet or helicopter nor drone, so that only leaves Unidentified Flying Object. The US government cannot alway see them on flight radars. The radars used across the world are old style and have had few upgrades in the last three decades. So I believe that its easy for most UFOs to go undetected by radar and thus we don't see a lot of military fighter jets intercepting them.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
White object no clouds were near it and there was a plane underneath it far away but the object didn’t have any wings or anything it was just a circle. White circle no wings like an airplane would have it was just a white circle that kept going.
UFO During Sunset, Bluffton, South Carolina Nov 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO During Sunset, Bluffton, South Carolina Nov 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 1, 2021 Location of sighting: Bluffton, South Carolina, USA Source: MUFON
Watch this UFO caught during sunset in South Carolina yesterday. The object flashes once as it moves across the sky. The wingless craft is sphere shaped and as big as a bus. It's seen in a cloudless sky and was probably darting to the next cloud to hide within. This white sphere is one of the most common types of UFOs seen world wide, however its usually seen on top of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado. But this is far from Denver. 100% proof that UFOs are everywhere and not limited by country or borders. All it takes to see one is a little time and patience...but only if you look up from your phones.
UFO Fleet Over Salt Lake City, Utah Oct 31, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News
UFO Fleet Over Salt Lake City, Utah Oct 31, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 31, 2021 Location of sighting: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Source: MUFON
Some eyewitnesses in Salt Lake City, Utah caught sight of several long objects moving across the sky. They swear its not geese or ducks and the objects were obviously going much too fast for geese in the video. The long objects we are seeing in the video are UFOs, or at least...the front edge of them. You see, UFOs often cloak themselves to hide, and sometimes these cloaks are vulnerable and have glitches, like what we see here. The UFOs from edges are visible because its pushing clouds out of the way, carrying with it some parts of the clouds, compounded with the lights from the city below reflection off of them. Thus...we see the front edges of UFOs above Salt Lake City. The craft itself is much larger since only 4% is showing, 96% of the craft is invisible. Probably scanning the population to measure how much covid, variants are spreading and effecting the public. With winter here...covid only grows stronger.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This happened last night (10-31-2021) at 7:20pm, time of video is at 7:24 less than 1 mile from downtown Salt Lake City I was in my backyard letting one of my dogs go to the bathroom and I had a sudden feeling a star to the west was feeling at me. I looked at it and could feel the connection for a moment, when out of nowhere five of these giant waves of ships (I believe) suddenly started glowing in the sky. I know for a fact it wasn’t geese, as five minutes before a flock flew by and were, as a matter of fact, not glowing orange-yellow. Plus, they were loud with their squawking. After taking in the sight for a moment, and truly feeling so much, I quickly ran inside to get my wife and our friends screaming; “YOU GUYS HAVE TO COME QUICK, THERE’S A FLEET OF UFOS OUTSIDE!! I then proceeded to break my coat rack as I ran back out the door to go see and show everyone. The giant wave that came by was first, probably spanning a mile wide. They seemed to be just above the clouds. Then the second and third came! It was amazing. Truly, cool. It was at this time I realized I didn’t have my phone on me and had to run inside to grab it. By the time I got out to take the video, there was a little of the second to last (just above the clouds) and the last one coming in nice and slow. I also saw two of the ships break off and fly west, (or up?). I have an impression of who they could be, and I’d love to hear your feedback! My intuition told me that was Commander Ashtar’s fleet. I haven’t heard too much about them, but when I think on this I get chills. Sorry for the quality, the day before I dropped my phone on some gravel at work and cracked my lens cover so that’s why some parts are kinda blurry. The darkness in the middle of the video is light interference from the building right next to me, as seen just after.
MOGELIJK VOOR HET EERST EEN PLANEET ONTDEKT DIE ZICH NIET IN ONZE MELKWEG BEVINDT
MOGELIJK VOOR HET EERST EEN PLANEET ONTDEKT DIE ZICH NIET IN ONZE MELKWEG BEVINDT
Vivian Lammerse
Na een zinderende speuractie hebben astronomen mogelijk een exoplaneet ontdekt op maar liefst tientallen miljoenen lichtjaren afstand.
Astronomen speuren al jaren de nachtelijke hemel af, op zoek naar planeten die zich buiten ons zonnestelsel ophouden. En dat werpt zijn vruchten af. Op dit moment zijn er al duizenden planeten rond andere sterren ontdekt. Deze exoplaneten bevinden zich echter allemaal op minder dan 3000 lichtjaar afstand van de aarde. Onderzoekers komen nu echter met spannend nieuws. Want mogelijk hebben ze voor het eerst een planeet buiten ons Melkwegstelsel ontdekt, op maar liefst tientallen miljoenen lichtjaren afstand.
Messier 51 De onderzoekers kwamen de ‘exoplaneet-kandidaat’ op het spoor met behulp van NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. De vermoedelijke planeet bevindt zich in het dubbelstersysteem M51-ULS-1, te vinden in het draaikolkstelsel Messier 51: een interagerend spiraalvormig sterrenstelsel op een afstand van ongeveer 28 miljoen lichtjaar van de Melkweg. Dit is, zoals je je kunt voorstellen, veel te ver weg om een planeet direct waar te nemen. De onderzoekers zochten dan ook naar kleine dipjes in de helderheid van de dubbelster, bekend als de transit-methode. Want dergelijke afnames kunnen namelijk veroorzaakt worden doordat een planeet voorlangs beweegt en tijdelijk een deel van het sterlicht tegenhoudt.
Transit-methode Veel telescopen die jagen op exoplaneten – denk aan de ondertussen gepensioneerde telescoop Kepler en planetenjager Tess – gebruiken de zogenaamde transit-methode. Hierbij wordt de helderheid van sterren langdurig in de gaten gehouden in de hoop dat deze met regelmaat afneemt. Zo’n regelmatige afname in de helderheid van het sterrenlicht kan namelijk wijzen op de aanwezigheid van een planeet die zo af en toe voor de ster langs beweegt en daarbij een deel van het sterrenlicht tegenhoudt. De mate waarin de helderheid van de ster afneemt, vertelt vervolgens meer over de omvang van de planeet; hoe groter de afname, hoe groter ook de straal van de planeet.
In de nieuwe studie zochten de onderzoekers echter niet naar dipjes in optisch licht, maar naar afnames in de helderheid van röntgenstraling. Het bestudeerde dubbelstersysteem M51-ULS-1 bestaat namelijk uit een neutronenster of zwart gat, dat gas aanzuigt van een begeleidende ster. Het materiaal in de buurt van de neutronenster of zwarte gat raakt vervolgens oververhit en gloeit in röntgenstraling.
Röntgenstraling Omdat het gebied dat heldere röntgenstraling produceert klein is, zou een planeet die ervoor langs trekt de meeste of zelfs alle röntgenstraling kunnen tegenhouden. En dat is exact wat de onderzoekers ontdekten. Met behulp van het Chandra-observatorium vonden ze een ongeveer drie uur durende dip in de röntgenhelderheid van de dubbelster in Messier 51. En dat kan dus betekenen dat de dubbelster vergezeld wordt door een planeet. Op basis van verschillende informatie schatten de onderzoekers dat de vermoedelijke planeet ongeveer zo groot is als Saturnus uit ons eigen zonnestelsel en zich in een wijde baan – van ongeveer twee keer de afstand tussen Saturnus en onze zon – rond de neutronenster of zwarte gat bevindt.
*Samengesteld beeld van Messier 51. Het vierkantje geeft het dubbelstersysteem aan waar de vermoedelijke planeet zich mogelijk ophoudt.
Afbeelding: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. DiStefano, et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/Grendler
Het zijn prikkelende bevindingen. Want het betekent dat onderzoekers nu mogelijk voor het eerst een planeet buiten ons eigen Melkwegstelsel hebben ontdekt. Toch houden ze tegelijkertijd een slag om de arm. Zo benadrukken ze dat er meer onderzoek nodig is om resultaten te verifiëren. En daar kan nog weleens wat tijd overheen gaan. Vanwege de wijdse baan van de planeet, kan het mogelijk nog zo’n 70 jaar duren voordat ie wederom voor zijn sterren langs beweegt en röntgenstraling tegenhoudt. “Om te bevestigen dat we een planeet zien, moeten we waarschijnlijk tientallen jaren wachten om een andere transit te zien,” aldus onderzoeker Via Imara. “En omdat we ook niet precies weten hoe lang het duurt voordat de planeet een baantje heeft voltooid, weten we ook niet wanneer we moeten kijken.”
Is het wel een planeet? Ook is het nog niet helemaal zeker of het dipje in de röntgenhelderheid daadwerkelijk door een planeet is veroorzaakt. Al lijkt een alternatieve verklaring zoals een stofwolk ook onwaarschijnlijk. Tot nu toe lijken alle aanwijzingen nog altijd in de richting van een planeet te wijzen. “We weten dat we een opwindende en gewaagde bewering doen,” zegt onderzoeker Julia Berndtsson. “We verwachten dan ook dat andere astronomen er heel zorgvuldig naar zullen kijken. Maar we denken dat we een sterk argument hebben.”
Mocht er inderdaad een planeet in het dubbelstersysteem te vinden zijn, dan heeft deze waarschijnlijk een behoorlijk tumultueuze geschiedenis achter de rug. Zo is ie in dat geval waarschijnlijk getuige geweest van de gewelddadige supernova-explosie waar de neutronenster of het zwarte gat uit is gevormd. Ook de toekomst ziet er turbulent uit. Op een gegeven moment zal namelijk de begeleidende ster tevens als supernova kunnen exploderen. En dat betekent dat de vermoedelijke planeet wederom gebombardeerd zal worden met extreem hoge stralingsniveaus.
NEGEN FEITJES OVER HET VRIJWEL ONVERWOESTBARE BEERDIERTJE
NEGEN FEITJES OVER HET VRIJWEL ONVERWOESTBARE BEERDIERTJE
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Piepklein, maar niet klein te krijgen. Dat is het beerdiertje in een notendop. Maar er valt nog zoveel meer over te vertellen.
En dat doen we dit weekend aan de hand van negen feitjes waarmee je op een verjaardag of bij de koffiemachine op het werk moeiteloos de blits kan maken. Want beerdiertjes zijn hartstikke cool!
1. Klein en overal te vinden (ook in Nederland!) Beerdiertjes – ook wel waterberen genoemd – zijn heel kleine, meercellige organismen. Ze kunnen tot een halve millimeter lang worden en hebben acht pootjes, waarmee ze kunnen lopen én rennen. Hét beerdiertje bestaat niet; er zijn meer dan 1000 soorten beerdiertjes bekend! En die leven in uiteenlopende omgevingen; van bergtoppen tot diepe zeeën en van tropische regenwouden tot op Antarctica. Ook in Nederland komen beerdiertjes voor. Zo zijn ze bijvoorbeeld aangetroffen op de stranden langs de Oosterschelde.
2. Beerdiertjes zijn stokoud Zo’n 66 miljoen jaar geleden sloeg op aarde een planetoïde in. Het bleek de laatste nagel aan de doodskist van de dinosaurussen en tal van andere soorten te zijn. Het is misschien wel de bekendste massa-extinctie die de aarde trof. En hoe catastrofaal de gevolgen ook waren; het beerdiertje heeft deze massa-extinctie overleefd. Net als de vier(!) grote massa-extincties daarvoor, want wetenschappers denken dat het beerdiertje al zo’n 540 miljoen jaar op aarde voorkomt.
3. Het beerdiertje gaat waarschijnlijk nog wel even mee Hoewel de beerdiertjes al heel wat jaren meegaan en menig catastrofe het hoofd hebben weten te bieden, denken veel onderzoekers dat er voor de minuscule beestjes nog veel meer in het verschiet zit. Zo suggereerde een studie in 2017 dat eigenlijk alleen het sterven van de zon tot het uitsterven van de taaie beerdiertjes zou kunnen leiden. Het zou betekenen dat beerdiertjes nog zo’n 10 miljard jaar voor de boeg hebben.
4. Kou is geen probleem… Waar wij bij een paar graden vorst al flink beginnen te klagen, geven beerdiertjes geen krimp. Sterker nog: je kunt ze jaren invriezen en er vervolgens als je ze ontdooit, getuige van zijn hoe ze hun leven moeiteloos weer oppakken! Dat ontdekten onderzoekers een jaar of vijf geleden, toen ze beerdiertjes aantroffen in Antarctisch mos dat 30 jaar eerder voor onderzoeksdoeleinden was ingevroren. Ze ontdooiden twee beerdiertjes en zagen vervolgens hoe één ervan zijn in 1983 stilgelegde leven weer succesvol oppakte en een week of zes na zijn ontdooiing zelfs eitjes legde die ook nog eens bijna allemaal uitkwamen. Ook een eitje dat in het mos werd aangetroffen, kwam na ontdooiing – en dus met zo’n 30 jaar vertraging – uit en het beerdiertje dat daar uit kwam zetten, plantte zich ook weer succesvol voort.
Een beerdiertje. Afbeelding: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. (2012)
5. …en gevaarlijke UV-straling ook niet Beerdiertjes hebben in naam der wetenschap al heel wat te verduren gekregen. Zo werden ze vorig jaar bijvoorbeeld nog onder een kiemdodende ultraviolette lamp gelegd. Doel was om te achterhalen hoeveel UV-straling verschillende soorten beerdiertjes konden hebben. De meeste beerdiertjes bleken behoorlijk taai te zijn. Een dosis die voor bacteriën en rondwormen al na vijf minuutjes fataal is – bleek de meeste beerdiertjes pas na 24 uur fataal te worden. En één van de onderzochte soorten gaf helemaal geen krimp, waarop de onderzoekers besloten de dosis ultraviolet licht vier keer te verhogen. En ook deze keer gaven de mysterieuze beerdiertjes zich niet zomaar gewonnen. Ongeveer zestig procent van deze kranige beerdiertjes leefde na toetakeling nog zeker een maand door!
6. Je kunt ze ook afschieten Alsof dat experiment nog niet heftig genoeg was, gingen wetenschappers – op jacht naar de grenzen van het beerdiertje – eerder dit jaar nog een stap verder. Ze stopten bevroren beerdiertjes in een geladen geweer en schoten ze vervolgens met hoge snelheid af. Het onderzoek wees uit dat beerdiertjes inslagen tot ongeveer 900 meter per seconde kunnen overleven. “Het zijn taaie beestjes,” zo concludeerde onderzoeker Mark Butchell, die middels het experiment wilde vaststellen of beerdiertjes die tijdens een inslag op aarde samen met gesteente naar de maan worden geslingerd, dat kunnen navertellen. De experimenten suggereren dat het onder bepaalde omstandigheden denkbaar is. Of ze vervolgens ook van de maan hun thuis zouden kunnen maken, is trouwens dan weer heel twijfelachtig.
7. Of uit laten drogen Wanneer wij enkele dagen op rij niet drinken, raken we uitgedroogd. En dat is niet best. Het beerdiertje is een stuk minder afhankelijk van vocht; experimenten wijzen uit dat het diertje tot wel tien jaar zonder water kan! Zodra ze minder dan vijf procent van hun normale hoeveelheid water herbergen, gaan ze in standby-modus en maken en passant eiwitten aan die delen van hun lichaam in een soort glasachtige substantie veranderen en er zo voor zorgen dat hun cellen tegen uitdroging beschermd zijn. En als ze dan toch weer nattigheid voelen? Dan kunnen ze – zelfs als ze jaren op water gewacht hebben – in twintig minuten tijd weer tot leven komen.
8. Ze zijn al in de ruimte geweest Ruimtevaarder worden: wie droomt daar nu niet van? Voor sommige beerdiertjes is die droom al werkelijkheid geworden. In 2007 schoot ESA een bonte verzameling beerdiertjes de ruimte in. “Onze belangrijkste ontdekking is dat het vacuüm in de ruimte – en daarmee gepaard gaande uitdroging – en kosmische straling geen probleem waren voor beerdiertjes,” zo concludeerde onderzoeker Ingemar Jönsson in 2008. Hetzelfde gold voor de extreme kou waaraan de beerdiertjes in de ruimte werden blootgesteld. In de jaren erna volgden nog meer experimenten in de ruimte en stuk voor stuk bevestigden ze dat het beerdiertje over het algemeen niet erg onder de indruk is van de daar geldende omstandigheden. Wetenschappers kunnen dat nog altijd lastig verklaren en daarom zijn eerder dit jaar beerdiertjes naar het internationale ruimtestation gestuurd. Tijdens experimenten wordt gekeken wat er met de genen van beerdiertjes gebeurt wanneer ze in de ruimte vertoeven. Welke genen worden uitgezet of juist geactiveerd? En wat gebeurt er dan? Onderzoekers hopen zo meer inzicht te krijgen in de overlevingsstrategieën van het beerdiertje en daar kunnen toekomstige astronauten dan misschien weer hun voordeel mee doen. Zo kan het leiden tot nieuwe manieren om biologische materialen – zoals voedsel, maar ook medicijnen – beter te wapenen tegen extreme temperaturen, uitdroging en kosmische straling.
Naar de maan Dat de piepkleine beestjes naar het ISS zijn afgereisd en daar weleens een grote bijdrage kunnen leveren aan toekomstige ruimtemissies is al heel indrukwekkend. Maar er zijn beerdiertjes die het nog verder geschopt hebben en helemaal naar de maan zijn gevlogen. Deze beerdiertjes liftten in 2019 mee met maanlander Beresheet. De lander crashte helaas op het maanoppervlak, maar de beerdiertjes hebben de crash misschien wel overleefd. Het is echter uitgesloten dat ze de maan as we speak aan het koloniseren zijn; in de lander bevonden zich uitgedroogde beerdiertjes die alleen weer actief kunnen worden als ze aan behoorlijke hoeveelheden water worden blootgesteld en die zijn op de maan niet voorhanden.
9. Ze leggen enorme drollen (relatief gezien dan) Beerdiertjes mogen dan veel weghebben van superhelden; in bepaalde opzichten zijn ze ook weer net als wij. Zo moeten ze soms ook gewoon poepen. Maar de beerdiertjes zouden geen beerdiertjes zijn als ze ook op dat gebied niet de show zouden stelen. Zo heeft onderzoek uitgewezen dat de piepkleine beestjes enorme drollen fabriceren die soms bijna net zo groot zijn als zijzelf! En jawel, daar zijn beelden van. Klik!
A skull of a new species of ancient human has been discovered in Africa that experts believe was a direct ancestor of modern humans.
The new species has been named Homo bodoensis, and lived during the Middle Pleistocene, around 500,000 years ago.
Researchers from the University of Winnipeg hope the discovery will bring some clarity to this era, during which human evolution is poorly understood.
Dr Mirjana Roksandic, who led the study, said: 'Talking about human evolution during this time period became impossible due to the lack of proper terminology that acknowledges human geographic variation.'
A new species of ancient human has been discovered in Africa that experts believe was a direct ancestor of modern humans
(artist's impression pictured)
In their new analysis, the researchers suggest that a skull found in Bodo D'ar, Ethiopia belongs to neither H. heidelbergensis or H. rhodesiensis, but instead, is a new species entirely
What do we know about the new species?
In honour of the location in which the skull was discovered, the researchers have named the species H. bodoensis.
While little is know about the new species yet, the researchers believe that H. bodoensis had a short, stocky body adapted to conserve heat in colder climates.
Males were likely about 5 ft 9 in tall and weighed almost 10 stone, while females averaged 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) and around 8 stone.
The species went extinct around 200,000 years ago - long before modern humans migrated out of Africa.
In the study, the researchers reassessed existing fossils from Africa and Eurasia dating back to the Middle Pleistocene period.
Traditionally, these fossils have been identified as either Homo heidelbergensis or Homo rhodesiensis.
However, recent DNA evidence has shown that some fossils in Europe identified as H. heidelbergensis were actually early Neanderthals.
Meanwhile, African fossils from this period have previously been identified as both H. heidelbergensis and H. rhodesiensis, confusing things even further.
In their new analysis, the researchers suggest that a skull found in Bodo D'ar, Ethiopia belongs to neither H. heidelbergensis or H. rhodesiensis, but instead, is a new species entirely.
In honour of the location in which the skull was discovered, the researchers have named the species H. bodoensis.
While little is know about the new species yet, the researchers believe that H. bodoensis had a short, stocky body adapted to conserve heat in colder climates.
Males were likely about 5 ft 9 in tall and weighed almost 10 stone, while females averaged 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) and around 8 stone.
While little is know about the new species yet, the researchers believe that H. bodoensis had a short, stocky body adapted to conserve heat in colder climates
The species went extinct around 200,000 years ago - long before modern humans migrated out of Africa.
Going forwards, most Middle Pleistocene humans from Africa and some from Southeast Europe will be classified as H. bodoensis, while many from the latter continent will be reclassified as Neanderthals,
Predrag Radović, an author of the study, said: 'Terms need to be clear in science, to facilitate communication. They should not be treated as absolute when they contradict the fossil record.'
The team hopes the findings will help to 'cut the Gordion knot' and allow clearer understanding of the Middle Pleistocene.
Dr Roksandic added: 'Naming a new species is a big deal, as the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature allows name changes only under very strictly defined rules.
'We are confident that this one will stick around for a long time, a new taxon name will live only if other researchers use it.'
In honour of the location in which the skull was discovered — Bodo D'ar — the researchers have named the species H. bodoensis
WHEN DID HUMAN ANCESTORS FIRST EMERGE?
The timeline of human evolution can be traced back millions of years. Experts estimate that the family tree goes as such:
55 million years ago - First primitive primates evolve
15 million years ago - Hominidae (great apes) evolve from the ancestors of the gibbon
7 million years ago - First gorillas evolve. Later, chimp and human lineages diverge
A recreation of a Neanderthal man is pictured
5.5 million years ago - Ardipithecus, early 'proto-human' shares traits with chimps and gorillas
4 million years ago - Ape like early humans, the Australopithecines appeared. They had brains no larger than a chimpanzee's but other more human like features
3.9-2.9 million years ago - Australoipithecus afarensis lived in Africa.
2.7 million years ago - Paranthropus, lived in woods and had massive jaws for chewing
2.6 million years ago - Hand axes become the first major technological innovation
2.3 million years ago - Homo habilis first thought to have appeared in Africa
1.85 million years ago - First 'modern' hand emerges
1.8 million years ago - Homo ergaster begins to appear in fossil record
800,000 years ago- Early humans control fire and create hearths. Brain size increases rapidly
400,000 years ago - Neanderthals first begin to appear and spread across Europe and Asia
300,000 to 200,000 years ago - Homo sapiens - modern humans - appear in Africa
50,000 to 40,000 years ago - Modern humans reach Europe
A year after the apparent first sighting of what is very likely to be the Air Force’s so-called ‘RQ-180’ very stealthy flying-wing surveillance aircraft above the Mojave Desert, what looks like the very same aircraft has now been photographed over Area 51, the clandestine flight test center deep within the Nevada Test and Training Range. While we still don’t know for absolute certain the details surrounding this craft, or even its official designation, the latest appearance follows a previous sighting over the Philippines in September that The War Zone was first to report and suggests perhaps that the secret drone is now edging toward a more operational, and possibly even less clandestine, status.
The latest photo of the purported RQ-180, which has all the hallmarks of a high-altitude, long-endurance type with obvious stealthy characteristics, was posted on October 31 by our friends over at the Dreamlandresort.com website, maintained by Joerg Arnu. He was on the scene and described how the sighting unfolded:
“A friend who wishes to remain anonymous and I were at the Groom Lake Road gate yesterday. I heard a faint aircraft noise and noticed a contrail straight above us, inside the Area 51 restricted airspace, heading roughly SSW. Through my IS [image stabalized] binoculars, I first thought I was looking at a B-2 until I realized it had a POINTED tail. The B-2 has a serrated tail. My friend took the enclosed photo (two enhanced versions superimposed). It is clearly a twin-engine aircraft.”
Arnu added that the photo was taken with a Canon 20Mpix camera with a 1,600-mm equivalent focal length, and he subsequently estimated that the drone was flying at around 70,000 ft. Of course, that is speculative, as we have little idea about the true dimensions of the craft. It is rumored to have a wingspan of around 120 feet, but that remains totally unverified. The aircraft was leaving two telltale contrails behind it, indicative of a closely-set twin-engine arrangement, exactly as we have seen it before. The shape is also a perfect match, with slender wings and a diamond-like center fuselage area, very much like those of Northrop’s original high-flying Advanced Technology Bomber design and the upcoming B-21 Raider. You can read more about how this configuration is something of a ‘back-to-the-future’ moment for the USAF and Northrop Grumman in this past feature of ours.
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The latest sighting of the apparent RQ-180, spotted over Area 51 on October 30.
Joerg thinks the direction of the aircraft was headed suggests it may be operating out of Edwards Air Force Base in California, where we believe that at least some of the RQ-180 operations have migrated, and it may have been making use of some of the capabilities at the clandestine flight test facility located at Area 51, also known as Groom Lake. The secretive base’s DYCOMS facility has the ability to measure the radar signatures of stealthy aircraft in flight for testing and verification purposes. This facility would be a regular waypoint for the RQ-180, including possibly before and after heading out on long-endurance missions.
While Arnu and his associate were watching the RQ-180, a truck hauling an apparent Soviet-era Spoon Rest air-defense early-warning radar emerged from one of the Groom gates and apparently waited at a distance for the pair to leave. While it is unlikely that the radar’s movement was in any way related, it’s interesting, at least, that this activity was taking place at the same time, especially on a Saturday, when the ranges are traditionally quieter. All types of foreign threat sensors and air defense systems are used for development and training purposes out at the NTTR.
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A truck that emerged from Groom Lake with an apparent Soviet-made radar system onboard, while the RQ-180 made its appearance overhead.
Whether coincidental or not, it was in October last year that we got our first look at what seems to be the RQ-180. On that occasion, the drone was sighted north of Edwards Air Force Base.
More recently, in September this year, what appeared to be the so-called RQ-180, or another aircraft with nearly exactly the same planform, was sighted over the Philippines, suggesting that the drone is now in very limited operational service, or at least very advanced real-world testing, while its development continues.
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Michael Fugint’s September photograph that appears to show the RQ-180 over the Philippines.
In all three cases, the drone was flying during the daytime, which may seem odd for an asset that is still so secretive. Then again, we are talking about an aircraft that can fly for dozens of hours, so it won’t really have a choice with regard to flying during the day or not, but mission planning can help alleviate some risk in that regard. As such, daytime movements are likely fundamental to its planned persistent operations and, as we have suggested in the past, the unusual light color scheme could even have been applied specifically to optimize the aircraft’s visual signature for high-altitude operations in daylight hours.
In addition, in the Phillippines case, it was seen crossing the coast heading east out into the open Pacific at sunrise. In this recent case, it was over highly surveilled and controlled airspace that has incredibly sparse population density below. The area north of Edwards AFB is also thinly populated and a major aerospace testing area for that reason.
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A notional RQ-180 concept rendering prepared for The War Zone.
Putting the growing photographic evidence together from multiple sources leaves little question that we really are dealing with a classified, high-flying drone, the existence of which we have long discussed, but now there can no longer be any doubt that this specific configuration is indeed a reality.
Now is this the ‘RQ-180’? We really don't know for sure, but it fits perfectly with the rumored configuration of that aircraft and publicly available design studies that would have informed its design. It’s also possible that the U.S. Air Force has multiple high-altitude, long-endurance, very low-observable platforms under development. As we have discussed in-depth, there are plenty of things a notional RQ-180 could do beyond surveillance, yet using a common platform for multiple mission sets would be far more logical.
The places where it has been photographed also make all too much sense — near Edwards AFB, over Area 51, and in what is very likely to be one of its primary operating environments, right between the Phillippine and South China Seas. We also have those very peculiar high-altitude corridors leading from the Air Force’s primary testing areas in Nevada and California and heading out to the greater Pacific.
Still, even with this mysterious aircraft popping up in the most logical of places and photos of it having been in circulation for over a year, when exactly the Air Force will confirm its existence is a total unknown. It could be tomorrow or years from now. But considering how important this aircraft is likely to be to the service’s future air-combat architecture, we will probably be hearing about it sooner rather than later.
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A newly named ancient species that lived over half a million years ago might have been a direct ancestor of modern humans. Scientists have officially named this ancient species Homo bodoensis.
While Homo sapiens currently inhabit the planet, there were several other ancient species that were previously alive, such as Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo floresiensis. And a new study has focused on another ancient species, Homo bodoensis.
Several human bones dating back between 774,000 and 129,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene Period (also known as the Chibanian period) were analyzed by researchers. This was a time in human evolution that is a little foggy to experts and has even been described as “the muddle in the middle” by paleoanthropologists.
Human fossils from that time period have normally been categorized as belonging to either the Homo heidelbergensis or Homo rhodesiensis species. The problem with that was they had characteristics that often contradicted each other. For example, DNA analysis has recently confirmed that several bones found in Europe that were categorized as being Homo heidelbergensis were in fact from Neanderthals.
Picture of Neanderthals by Charles R. Knight in 1920.
(Via Wikipedia)
The same thing happened with DNA analysis of numerous fossils in East Asia that were identified as being Homo heidelbergensis. Several of their facial and other features were quite different than the ones seen on the European and African bones from the same time period. The Homo rhodesiensis species was also poorly categorized.
The researchers recently analyzed a skull dating back about 600,000 years that was discovered in Bodo D’ar, Ethiopia, back in 1976, and it has been identified as being a new species that they named Homo bodoensis. Interestingly, this new species has been identified in numerous ancient fossils that were previously categorized as being either Homo heidelbergensis or Homo rhodesiensis.
Since the majority of ancient bones discovered in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Chibanian period will be reclassified as being Homo bodoensis, many more of the fossils found in Europe from the time period will be re-identified as being Neanderthals, although the researchers will study the remains to see if there are any belonging to Homo bodoensis. This means that the Homo heidelbergensis and Homo rhodesiensis names will no longer be used. As for the Chibanian remains from East Asia, they might receive their own names but more research needs to be conducted before that happens.
The experts then went a step further and suggested that this newly identified species was a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens. They would have come from a different branch of the human family tree than where Neanderthals and Denisovans came from. The study was published in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews.
An image of what Homo bodoensis may have looked like can be seen here.
Homo bodoensis may help to untangle how human lineages moved and interacted across the globe.
(Image credit: Ettore Mazza)
Homo bodoensiswas named after a 600,000-year-old skull found in Ethiopia.
Recent months have seen the UFO subject reaching a new apex, with widespread interest culminating around the delivery of a report to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in late June.
In addition to widespread reporting on the subject—particularly in the days leading up to the report’s publication–recent surveys appear to show that many Americans have softened their skepticism toward the UFOs, even having warmed up to the idea that some of these objects could represent extraterrestrial technologies.
With all the interest in UFOs we have seen in recent days, however, many have been left asking the question, “what’s next?” More specifically, now that the UAP Task Force has delivered the first of what is expected to be periodic reports on its findings, where does the civilian UFO research effort go from here?
This may be especially pertinent for recent arrivals to this area of study, who may not yet see it as the hall of mirrors that many longtime proponents have come to recognize it for being. Going beyond a superficial look at the UFO subject often has the unsettling effect of revealing more about what it means to be human than it does in terms of pointing us in the direction toward resolving what these objects might be and where they come from.
However, something else that knowledge of the deeper history of this subject offers us is an idea about what UFO studies—or UFOlogy as it is sometimes called—has already taught us, and where researchers in decades past might have envisioned the field would find itself today.
In September 1995, Jim Klotz of the Computer UFO Network interviewed Dr. Michael Swords, who earlier that year had lectured at the MUFON International UFO Symposium in Seattle, Washington, where they met and began an ongoing correspondence. Swords would later go on to coauthor UFOs and Government: A Historical Perspective, which is widely regarded as one of the most authoritative books ever to look at the history and national security implications of the UFO subject.
So what had Swords recommended back in 1995, as far as how far UFOlogy had come, and where it might be going?
“There is essentially no UFOlogy today, and rarely has there ever been,” Swords told Klotz, adding that “There is much pseudo-UFOlogy (lacking in objectivity or any sense of the history of the subject or the scope of previous research and other relevant disciplines), and even more UFOria (sort of a wide-eyed gee whiz fooling around with “wonders”).”
Among those Swords named who were active in the field were Mark Rodeghier, Ph.D., who today still maintains the position of President and Scientific Director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, which he has held since 1986. Swords also named longtime chronicler Thomas Eddie Bullard, Ph.D. and researcher Stuart Appelle. Such individuals, Swords said, “find themselves isolated in an intellectual desert filled with UFOric persons who are constantly jumping beyond the evidence,” in addition to “insisting upon concrete answers to questions” which are far from conclusive.
“The few UFOlogists who do exist should come together as a separate research community and remove themselves as much as possible from the greater carnival which continuously defeats their attempts to achieve credibility,” Swords advised.
When asked what he saw for the future of the subject, Swords provided a number of points that might be viewed today as having been prescient for their time, which he grouped in terms of possible negative and positive outcomes. Particularly striking, however, had been the warning Swords provided about how apt the UFO community seems to be at avoiding unity and teamwork, in addition to ignoring its history.
“Negatively speculating, one could easily imagine a ‘future’ like our past: no unity, no team-research, no sense of any history or anything being established, the disappearance of solid work as if it had never been done, the collapsing of FUFOR, CUFOS as key members die or move on, the disaggregation of MUFON, & the continued prejudicial ignorance of the academic community,” Swords said.
On the more positive side of the equation, Swords told Klotz that he could “easily imagine a coming together of a serious research community,” which under ideal circumstances might be capable of publishing “careful research in journals uncluttered by embarrassing ‘contributions,’ which would issue occasional ‘white papers’ commenting professionally & responsibly on issues of importance,” producing future researchers who might one day “be recognized by the more serious media as an authoritative voice of reason worth consulting on this important subject.”
As to the likelihood of this latter “positive” scenario, Swords maintained fairly bleak expectations.
“You may guess which way it is likely to go,” Swords lamented.
With hindsight on our side, one can look at events in recent years and argue that Swords’ predictions were true in many regards on both counts: efforts to move UFO studies in a more serious direction have led to the establishment of organizations like the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies and, more recently, the Galileo Project headed by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb. This, on the positive side of things, seems to be among the more promising developments that were among what Swords envisioned in 1995.
However, some of the negative outcomes Swords envisioned—particularly a UFO field lacking any unity or sense of history for the subject—remain present as well. Rather than collaborating and combining their efforts, much of the modern UFO debate is dominated by commentators who seem to have more concern for building their individual legacies off the subject, rather than moving our collective knowledge about it forward. As far as history, even the UAP Task Force’s preliminary assessment delivered to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence back in June cited information going no further back than 2004, with most of the data it examined having been collected within just the last two years. One has to wonder what the Task Force may think about the UFO data—collected both by civilian and government groups—that has already accumulated now for more than half a century.
Indeed, many of the points and critiques about UFOlogy that Swords made in 1995 remain valid today, if not more so now than ever before. Maybe some things really don’t ever change, do they?
As far as where we go from here, in addition to understanding the deeper history of the subject itself, by learning from past mistakes our future efforts can be concentrated on correcting some of the longstanding issues the field of UFO studies has faced since its earliest days. In other words, those interested in moving our current knowledge of the UFO subject forward might do well to look to the past for guidance.
Plane passenger caught UFO during flight over Lake Michigan, Grand Rapids area
Plane passenger caught UFO during flight over Lake Michigan, Grand Rapids area
On October 17, 2021 during a flight from Boston, MA to Denver, CO a plane passenger recorded a UFO as they flew over Lake Michigan, grand rapids area.
The passenger recorded the object for about one minute before it disappeared from sight on its eastward cruising path. It did seem to change elevation or speed.
The object which was white and cylindrical had no features.
No wings
No windows
No tail
No exhaust
No flight surfaces
Did the passenger accidentally filmed a so-called tic tac UFO?
Stationary UFO lights over Federal Way, Washington 23-Oct-2021
Stationary UFO lights over Federal Way, Washington 23-Oct-2021
Stationary UFO lights were filmed over Federal Way, Washington on 23rd October 2021.
Witness report:
We thought they were planes coming in to land then we realized they weren’t moving in that manner. A friend and I were by Rodondo beach when we saw the objects just hovering and then changing positions. It was the night of the bomb cyclone. She lives there and has never seen anything like it and neither have I. It was very strange and no logical explanation
Tic Tac UFO filmed from a plane over Lake Michigan 17-Oct-2021
Tic Tac UFO filmed from a plane over Lake Michigan 17-Oct-2021
This fast TIC TAC UFO was filmed from a plane flying over Grand Rapids, Michigan on 17th October 2021.
Witness report:
tic tac ufo seen (video recorded) from airplane while flying over lake michigan, over grand rapids area. Was on flight UA267 from Boston, MA to Denver, CO on Oct 17, 2021. I was seated in the window seat, looking north as we flew over Lake Michigan. At 8:50 am local time, I spotted below the plane and several miles away a tic tac ufo. The object was flying east and had no features. It had no wings, no windows, no tail, no exhaust, no flight surfaces. It was white and cylindrical. I recorded a video of it for about one minute before it disappeared from sight on its eastward cruising path. It did seem to change elevation or speed.
Triangle UFO formation appeared over Long Crendon, UK 31-Oct-2021
Triangle UFO formation appeared over Long Crendon, UK 31-Oct-2021
This triangular formation appeared in the night sky above Long Crendon, a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England. Filmed on Saturday, 31th October 2021.
Witness report:
Last night in the direction of Oxford looking east to west approximately three or more brightly glowing lights hovered in the sky not far above the horizon and seemed to disappear and then reappear in slightly different locations. Then when a single light remained, it seemed to very slowly descend on the horizon.
Here on the little space rock we call Earth, humans often wonder whether or not we are alone in this universe. Though that question was not answered in 2020, many discoveries seemed to increase the prospect of extraterrestrial entities existing. Findings on the closest planet to us, in the outer solar system and the far beyond seemed to point to the possibility that other worlds could host organisms ranging from bacteria to technological beings. Perhaps, new results in the coming year will finally reveal who else might be out there.
1. Is E.T. phoning us from Proxima Centauri?
(Image credit: CSIRO/A. Cherney)
The answer to weird signals happening in the universe is never aliens, until maybe it is. Earlier this month, researchers announced that they had captured a very mysterious beam of energy in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum at 980 megahertz, coming from the closest star to our own. Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light-years away, hosts one gas giant and one rocky world 17% larger than Earth that happens to be in its star's habitable zone, meaning liquid water could exist there. The unexplained signal reportedly shifted slightly while it was being observed, in a way that resembled the shift caused by the movement of a planet. Researchers are excited but cautious, explaining that they will need to figure out if more mundane sources, such as a comet, hydrogen cloud or even human technology, could be mimicking an alien signal, and that it will likely take time before they know one way or another if E.T. is phoning us.
2. Alien bacteria might live in the clouds of Venus
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Astrobiologists were a-twitter with anticipation and skepticism in September when news broke of potential evidence of life in the upper clouds of Venus. The announcement pointed to the presence of phosphine, a rare and often poisonous gas that, on Earth at least, is almost always associated with living organisms. With its hellish surface temperature, outlandish pressure and sulfuric-acid clouds, Venus has long played second fiddle to the seemingly more potentially habitable Mars. But a team aimed both the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii and the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array in Chile at Venus and picked up phosphine's signature in a Venusian cloud layer with downright Earth-like temperatures and pressures. Terrestrial bacteria are known to thrive in some pretty tough conditions, making the biological explanation a not unreasonable one. The research team doesn't claim that it is airtight evidence of space bugs, and many in the community aren't quite convinced, but if nothing else it will mean more funding in the hunt for life in unlikely places.
Two years ago, scientists spotted a cigar-shaped object hurtling through the solar system. Dubbed 'Oumuamua, the entity is considered by most to be an interstellar comet flung out from around another star. But close observations showed that 'Oumuamua was accelerating, as if something were propelling it, and scientists still aren't sure why. Avi Loeb, a Harvard University astrophysicist has proposed that, instead of a comet, the interstellar visitor could have been an alien probe pushed by a lightsail — a wide, millimeter-thin piece of material that accelerates as it's pushed by solar radiation. Other scientists have thrown cold water on Loeb's idea, pointing out that hydrogen ice could have melted off the object in a way that was similar to a rocket engine or other propulsion method. But in August, Loeb fired back, writing in a study stating that hydrogen ice is very easily heated, even in the cold depths of interstellar space, and should have sublimated away before 'Oumuamua reached our system. It seems the debate might go on for a little longer at least.
4. Navy declassifies UFO videos but don't believe the hype
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A fair number of Earthlings don't care what ambiguous evidence scientists come up with to show that aliens are out there. They are convinced that we've been visited by technological beings many times, pointing to stories about UFOs and alien encounters (pretty much all of which have been debunked). True believers received a boost in April when the U.S. Navy released footage captured by pilots that showed odd wingless aircraft traveling at hypersonic speed, looking for all intents and purposes like bizarre alien machinery. Despite the existence of such videos, people should still be wary, argued freelance journalist Sarah Scoles in her book "They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers" (Pegasus Books, 2020). After deciding to look into the Navy evidence, Scoles was unable to determine if it really showed alien aircrafts. But she found a much more human story by speaking to leaders in contemporary UFO culture and discussing our very basic need to believe in something beyond ourselves.
Ocean worlds, which are classified as those having significant amounts of water on or just beneath their surfaces, are surprisingly common in the solar system. Earth is obviously one such place, but Jupiter's moon Europa is thought to host vast seas under its icy shell and Saturn's moon Enceladus is known to have watery geysers spewing from its exterior. Momentum is in fact building in the astronomy community to send a probe that could land on either satellite sometime in the 2030s and check if any living things might lurk under their shells. As for ocean worlds beyond our sun, in a study released in June, researchers looked at 53 exoplanets similar in size to Earth and analyzed variables including their size, density, orbit, surface temperature, mass and distance from their star. The scientists conclude that, of the 53, roughly a quarter might have the right conditions to be considered ocean worlds, suggesting that such places could be relatively common in the galaxy.
6. Earth bugs breathe hydrogen, maybe aliens do too
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Most Earthlings require oxygen to survive. But oxygen isn't common in the cosmos, making up about 0.1% of the ordinary mass of the universe. There's far more hydrogen (92%) and helium (7%), and many planets, including gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, are made mostly from these light elements. In May, scientists took E. coli (a bacteria found in the guts of many animals, including humans) and ordinary yeast (a fungus used to bake bread and make beer) and tried to see if they could live in different environments. Such microbes are already known to survive without oxygen and, when placed in a flask filled with either pure hydrogen or pure helium, they managed to grow, albeit at slower rates than usual. The findings suggest that when searching for organisms elsewhere in the universe, we might want to consider places that don't look exactly like Earth.
When hunting life on other worlds, most scientists stick to what they know — searching for Earth-size worlds orbiting sun-like stars. But far more exotic configurations could exist such as a planet circling around and heated by a black hole. At first glance, such a scenario seems absurd. But, contrary to popular depictions, black holes don't just suck in everything around them. Gravitationally stable orbits are possible and the light from the cosmic background radiation — a relic with temperatures at near absolute zero from the early universe that permeates all of space — would get heated as it fell into the black hole. As a paper released in March showed, this could provide warmth and energy to any organisms that happened to evolve in such a strange location.
As we hunt for beings beyond our planet, it's important to keep in mind that we might not be the only ones doing so. In October, researchers came up with a catalog of 1,004 nearby stars that would be in a good position to detect life on Earth. "If observers were out there searching [from planets orbiting these stars], they would be able to see signs of a biosphere in the atmosphere of our Pale Blue Dot," study lead author Lisa Kaltenegger, an associate professor of astronomy at Cornell and director of the university's Carl Sagan Institute, said in a statement. Using observational tools similar to the transit-timing methods that human astronomers use to study exoplanets, such alien onlookers could hunt for oxygen and water in our atmosphere and perhaps conclude that Earth is a good home for organisms.
Where there's life, there's also death. While we like to imagine that our galaxy is teeming with technological beings capable of contacting us, the flip side is recognizing that all cultures rise and fall, meaning that plenty of cosmic societies likely bit the dust long ago. A model released in December put some numbers to these truths, taking into account such things as the prevalence of sun-like stars hosting Earth-like planets; the frequency of deadly, radiation-blasting supernovas; the time necessary for intelligent life to evolve if conditions are right; and the possible tendency of tool-bearing beings to destroy themselves. The analysis found that the highest probability of life emerging in the Milky Way likely happened around 5.5 billion years ago, before our planet even formed, suggesting that humanity is a relative latecomer to the galaxy and that plenty of our potential otherworldly partners are no longer around to talk to us.
10. We should be open-minded as we search for life elsewhere
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The human brain has plenty of constraints. We are misled by cognitive biases, optical illusions and inattentional blindness to things we don't expect to see. One question that has always dogged research into alien creatures is whether or not we could recognize life that is so different from what we encounter here on Earth. Scholars have long urged us to expect the unexpected, trying not to let theory too heavily influence what we count as significant. Life on other planets might not leave the same biological signatures as terrestrial organisms, making them difficult to spot from our vantage point. And, as Claire Webb, an anthropology and history of science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Live Science in January, we must train ourselves to "make the familiar strange," looking at ourselves through an alien lens in an effort to constantly reexamine our own assumptions. That way, we might be able to better understand ourselves through the eyes of another and perhaps meet creatures on other worlds on their own terms rather than ours.
Popular culture has given us lots of ideas of what extraterrestrials might look like, behave, and interact with us. (Mostly by killing us, though occasionally by phoning home.) But it turns out a lot of serious scientists have thought about it, too. Here’s what the scientists think.
1. THEY MAY LOOK JUST LIKE US.
Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary biologist at Cambridge, thinks there’s a good chance intelligent extraterrestrial life will look a lot like us. Different species independently evolve in similar patterns, Morris argued in The Runes of Evolution, and would likely do the same on other planets. “The things which we regard as most important,” he said in an interview, “cognitive sophistication, large brains, intelligence, tool making, are also convergent.” If there are other planets that look a lot like planet Earth — and the Kepler spacecraft is discovering that there are — then the likelihood of human-like extraterrestrial intelligence on those planets isn’t a huge stretch. “If the outcomes of evolution are at least broadly predictable,” Morris said, “then what applies on Earth will apply across the Milky Way, and beyond.”
2. THEY’LL SEND MACHINES FIRST.
Popular culture has extraterrestrials stepping off spacecraft onto Earth. But scientists, like SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak, dispute that idea. Because space travel is a long, far journey and a huge investment, if aliens wanted contact with planet Earth, they would most likely send robots and computers first. “It’s not like, the hatch would open and we’ll see a strange alien paw coming out,” Shostak said in an interview. “It’s more likely to be a robotic arm.”
But Shostak and other scientists have also suggested that the extraterrestrial visitors could be the machines. Steven J. Dick, an astronomer and then-chief historian for NASA, argued in a paper that extraterrestrial intelligence is most likely “post-biological” artificial intelligence. “Because of the limits of biology and flesh-and-blood brains,” he wrote, “cultural evolution will eventually result in methods for improving intelligence beyond those biological limits.” And that may make aliens in fact more likely to visit: “Silicon-based creatures are more likely to engage in space travel, having durable systems that are practically immortal,” Shostak wrote in an op-ed. “They may be the kind of the creatures we first encounter, if we encounter anyone.”
3.THEY MIGHT NOT COME IN PEACE.
Stephen Hawking has made his opinions on extraterrestrial life very clear. “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans,” he said in an interview. Later, he told reporters that “a civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.” Other scientists have noted that extraterrestrials, like humans, will likely prize natural resources. “I suspect resources would be finite anywhere in the universe,” Shostak said.
4. THEY MIGHT WIPE US OUT.
Cross-planetary contamination is a dangeous possibility that astrobiologists have begun to consider. Foreign microbes might be benign, said John Rummel, then NASA’s planetary protection officer, to Astrobiology Magazine. But they might not. It’s why so many safety protocols and have been established to protect Earth from unknown microbes from interstellar samples. “While there should be no similarity between the warm, wet human body and the cold, dry Martian environment, there certainly can be environments on Earth where Mars life might thrive if carried here by a probe or human mission,” wrote David Warmflash, an astrobiologist. “Environmental ecology and biospheres on Earth are notoriously complex, so we don’t want to release a native Martian microbe on Earth, particularly in ‘Mars-like‘ regions of our planet.”
5. THEY WILL BE UNPREDICTABLE.
If no one’s really sure what extraterrestrial life will look like, the form they’re in, or their motives in contacting humans, who knows how they’ll act? “It would be like humans meeting trilobytes, because aliens could be billions of years more advanced than us,” Shostak said in an interview. “They could be aggressive — because aggression is favored in a Darwinian system — but they could be peaceful. No one knows.”
It’s possible that extraterrestrials may have evolved just like humans — to be capable of both violent aggression and peaceful compromise. But if evolution is based on survival of the fittest, “we have good reason to believe that aggressive instincts will be present in extra as well,” wrote astrobiologist Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya. “To what extent alien life can curb their aggressive instincts (or else they will possibly self-destruct) is anybody’s guess.”
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