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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld
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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

Une arme sonore contre les drones ?

Une arme sonore contre les drones ?

Des chercheurs coréens ont montré qu'il était possible de déstabiliser un drone en le soumettant à certaines ondes sonores. Mais le procédé est loin d'être efficace dans tous les cas.

Façade de haut parleur en gros plan ©AFP/J-C.&D. Pratt / Photononstop
Façade de haut parleur en gros plan ©AFP/J-C.&D. Pratt / Photononstop

ONDES. Désorienter le système de stabilisation des drones et les faire se crasher en les bombardant... d'ondes sonores. C'est la technologie sur laquelle travaille une équipe de l'Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) en Corée du Sud. Leurs expériences ont montré que la chose était théoriquement possible... mais absolument pas exploitable en l'état. L'idée ? Exploiter un défaut technique bien connu de ces dispositifs électroniques miniaturisés que sont les gyroscopes. Ces derniers ont pour fonction de mesurer l'inclinaison de l'appareil selon trois axes, ce qui permet à la machine volante de se repérer dans un espace à trois dimensions et de stabiliser son vol.

Structure d'une carte électronique portant des gyroscopes. © genelaix.free.fr

PRINCIPE. "On sait que ce type de dispositif électronique peut entrer en résonance lorsqu'il est exposé à certaines ondes, ce qui dégrade leur précision", expliquent les chercheurs dans un article présenté durant un symposium sur la sécurité qui s'est tenu du 12 au 14 août 2015 à Washington. En effet, une onde sonore consiste en une vibration qui se propage dans l'air. Lorsqu'elle vient frapper une surface (la membrane d'un microphone par exemple), cette vibration se transmet à l'objet touché, qui se met alors à vibrer lui aussi. De la même façon qu'il est possible d'amplifier progressivement le mouvement d'une balançoire en la poussant au bon moment de manière régulière, certaines fréquences sonores bien spécifiques peuvent amplifier les mouvements vibratoires d'un objet de manière très importante. C'est ce qu'on appelle la résonance. Et c'est ce phénomène qui peut dégrader considérablement la précision des capteurs électroniques soumis à de telles vibrations. "L'idée est de voir si cette propriété peut être exploitée de manière à neutraliser un drone", poursuit l'article.

Un talon d'Achille difficile à trouver

Pour ce faire, l'équipe a passé au banc d'essai 15 modèles de gyroscopes. Première mission : trouver le talon d'Achille de chacun des dispositifs électroniques. En effet, les fabricants de microélectronique se gardent bien d'inscrire dans la documentation de leur matériel à quelle fréquence résonnent leurs gyroscopes. Les chercheurs ont donc méthodiquement soumis les capteurs à un son dont ils ont fait varier la fréquence tout en enregistrant l'activité des gyroscopes. Si la fréquence est trouvée, cela se traduit par l'envoi de données incohérentes par le capteur. Mais la mission s'est avérée plus compliquée qu'il n'y paraît puisque la fréquence perturbante n'a été découverte que dans un cas sur deux (7 modèles seulement). Il est également à noter que la fréquence fatale varie d'un gyroscope à l'autre, et s'étend du spectre audible aux ultrasons. 

L'équipe a ensuite bombardé les drones vulnérables avec ces fréquences particulières. Mais là encore, les résultats n'ont été concluants que dans un cas sur deux. En effet, dans 10 essais sur 20, les gyroscopes ont été suffisamment perturbés pour provoquer la chute du drone. Et ce bien que les chercheurs aient mis toutes les chances de leur côté en fixant de petits hauts parleurs directement... sur les drones. Néanmoins, dans une configuration idéale, l'équipe a calculé qu'il était possible d'abattre un droneà presque 40 mètres de distance avec un son à 140 décibels réglé sur la bonne fréquence. On est toutefois encore loin d'un dispositif opérationnel pour lutter contre les survols illégaux de ces machines volantes.

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Video: Cruise over dwarf planet Ceres

Video: Cruise over dwarf planet Ceres

Take a tour of weird Ceres! Visit the mysterious bright spots and a 4-mile-tall mountain. And get your red/blue glasses out for a global view in 3D.


Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, a deep crater with bright spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA’s Dawn mission.

Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In March 2015, the Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres – the first mission to reach a dwarf planet. On June 3, Dawn moved from an original orbit to a second, closer orbit. The spacecraft observed the dwarf planet from 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) above its surface until June 28.

Dawn will resume its observations of Ceres in mid-August from its next orbit, an altitude of 900 miles (less than 1,500 kilometers), or three times closer to Ceres than its previous orbit. We’re looking forward to what we might see!

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Bottom line: New video from NASA’s Dawn mission is takes a tour of dwarf planet Ceres, over a towering mountain and the mysterious bright spots.

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From UFOs to JFK: Conspiracy theories are so 'romanticised' that believers are willing to ignore factual errors to boost their argument

From UFOs to JFK: Conspiracy theories are so 'romanticised' that believers are willing to ignore factual errors to boost their argument 

  • Researchers from Winchester University asked 802 Americans to read a 'short mock news article about a fictitious political scandal in Canada'
  • One headline included the words 'conspiracy theories' and one didn't
  • The results showed there was ‘no evidence of a negative effect of calling something a conspiracy theory’ on its believability
  • Romantic image of theories on TV may make them as believable as facts

People are no less likely to believe something just because it has been called a conspiracy theory.

Calling a story silly and paranoid does not make people dismiss it out of hand as one might expect, a study has found.

In fact, the ‘romanticised image’ of conspiracy theories on TV shows such as The X-Files has made them as believable as facts, experts claim.

Calling a story a silly and paranoid conspiracy theory does not make people dismiss it out of hand as one might expect, a study has found. A stock image of a UFO is shown

Calling a story a silly and paranoid conspiracy theory does not make people dismiss it out of hand as one might expect, a study has found. A stock image of a UFO is shown

The study suggests there is a good reason for longevity of supposed plots about everything from UFOs to the death of Princess Diana - we find them so attractive that we ignore the holes in their arguments.

The researchers from Winchester University asked 802 American participants to read what they called a ‘short mock news article about a fictitious political scandal in Canada’.

In some cases the article was given the headline: ‘Conspiracy Theories Emerge in Wake of Canadian Election Result’.

Other times it was headlined: ‘Corruption Allegations Emerge in Wake of Canadian Election Result’.

Canada was chosen because the thinking was that Americans do not know much about Canadian politics so would have to decide on the article’s merits alone.

The study suggests there is a good reason for longevity of supposed plots about everything from UFOs to the death of Princess Diana - we find them so attractive that we ignore the holes in their arguments

The study suggests there is a good reason for longevity of supposed plots about everything from UFOs to the death of Princess Diana - we find them so attractive that we ignore the holes in their arguments

BUT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS CAN BE VIEWED NEGATIVELY 

  •             Dr Wood wrote: ‘While conspiracy theories might not be viewed very negatively, it is possible that conspiracy theorists are viewed quite negatively.
  •            ‘Unlike the conspiracies they believe in, conspiracy theorists do not often enjoy a positive or romanticised portrayal in popular media: their fictional counterparts are generally unbalanced, paranoid, dogmatic, and antisocial’.  

The results showed there was ‘no evidence of a negative effect of calling something a conspiracy theory’ on its believability.

Psychologist Dr Michael Wood, the lead author of the study, said that the results were surprising.

He sought to explain it by saying that the test participants may be so cynical about politics that their reaction might be: ‘This isn't really a conspiracy theory; it's just politics as usual’.

Another reason was that the conspiracy theory label may have ‘lost some of its power’ and been ‘diluted’ so that it encompasses general speculation about intrigue.

Other people may be just ‘sympathetic to the idea of conspiracies in general’.

Dr Wood wrote: ‘Conspiracy theories are a common topic in popular media: Many films, video games, and television shows feature the protagonists fighting against shadowy conspiracies of frightening reach and power.

The results showed there was ‘no evidence of a negative effect of calling something a conspiracy theory’ on its believability. A stock image of a memorial plaque outside The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza In Dallas is shown. The word 'allegedly' has been highlighted by scratches on the plaque

The results showed there was ‘no evidence of a negative effect of calling something a conspiracy theory’ on its believability. A stock image of a memorial plaque outside The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza In Dallas is shown. The word 'allegedly' has been highlighted by scratches on the plaque

Conspiracy theories abound on 50th JFK anniversary in 2013
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‘Conspiracy theories have a kind of romanticism to them; they often take a utopian, Manichean view of the world, where humanity lives in a natural state of peace and harmony that was disrupted only by the conspirators' sinister meddling.

‘Despite their perceived lack of intellectual rigor, conspiracy theories are nevertheless attractive - perhaps attractive enough that the label prompts ambivalence rather than scorn when applied to an ambiguous event.’

Dr Wood did however have a warning for conspiracy theorists themselves.

In the study he wrote: ‘While conspiracy theories might not be viewed very negatively, it is possible that conspiracy theorists are viewed quite negatively.

‘Unlike the conspiracies they believe in, conspiracy theorists do not often enjoy a positive or romanticised portrayal in popular media: their fictional counterparts are generally unbalanced, paranoid, dogmatic, and antisocial’.  

'ALIENS STOPPED NUCLEAR WAR ON EARTH' SAYS FORMER ASTRONAUT

  •            Aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia, according the bizarre claim of a former astronaut.
  •          Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military officials witnessed alien ships during weapons tests throughout the 1940s.
  •            The UFOs, he says, were spotted hovering over the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico.
  •          The Nasa veteran has regularly spoken about his belief in aliens ever since he landed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military sources witness alien ships hovering during weapons tests
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military sources witness alien ships hovering during weapons tests.  The UFOs, he says, were seen during the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico

Edgar Mitchell (left), the sixth man to walk on the moon, says high-ranking military sources witness alien ships hovering during weapons tests. The UFOs, he says, were seen during the world's first nuclear weapons test which took place on July 16, 1945 in the desolate White Sands deserts of New Mexico

'White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons - and that's what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,' the 84-year-old Texan told Mirror Online.

'They wanted to know about our military capabilities.

'My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.'

Dr Mitchell says stories from people who manned missile bases during the 20th Century back up his claims.

'Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft,' he said.

He previously said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.

He claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and 'had they been hostile', he warned 'we would be been gone by now'. 

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New Camera Makes Incredible Discoveries In Our Skies

New Camera Makes Incredible Discoveries In Our Skies

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Strange Polymorphic Anomaly in the sky over Miami, Fl

Everybody knows that we are constantly immersed in a soup of microorganisms, inside us and all around us, but we can’t see them, because they are very tiny, microscopic.The fact that we cannot see them do not implies that they do not exist.
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We have an intrinsic limitation in our senses that blocked us from be aware of them until somebody invented the microscope, after that we were able to know that they are thousands of different types of microorganisms, with multiple and very varied shapes, configurations, some of these shapes change like tiny amoebas.

To be able to see some of them, virus for example, electronic microscopes are needed with very powerful magnification.

Only after the invention of the microscope we were fully aware of their existence and the overwhelming influence that these very tiny living beings have for our continual survival and in all earth biosphere.

The same can be said word by word of anomalies.

The sky produce a very strong scattering of visible light, almost a third of the sun light is scattered by the atmosphere. This “simple” phenomenon has tremendous repercussions on the topic at hand.

Because of this scattering any small semi-opaque object, let’s say one meter in dimension will be invisible to our eyesight in daylight just at a few thousands of feet in altitude, if the object is smaller or more opaque it will be “invisible” even at lower altitude.

So then this “simple” phenomenon causes a very misleading impression to anybody looking up in a clear sky, the many small and not so small objects that populate our sky: bugs, birds, drones, high altitude airplanes and other things, almost all of them are “invisible” to our senses creating in us the false impression that in a blue sky when we do not see anything then nothing is up there.

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That impression has been with us all the time, since the very first humans were looking at the sky.

So we have an intrinsic limitation in our senses that had blocked us from being aware of the many different objects that populate our skies.

Now you will start seeing the parallel with the microorganisms case.

But now we have a “new” instrument that allow us to bypass that limitation in our senses, like a microscope for microorganisms, and that “new” instrument allows us to “see” almost all the little objects that populate our skies.

That new instrument is a “dual optical system”. A dual optical system is a combination of two independent optical parts.

At his point in time, my experience and knowledge tells me that without the use of a dual optical type system, anybody trying to observe the small objects in our sky will be very limited, it will be like using a loupe to observe microorganisms.

Now in the same way that by using microscopes a “new world” of life forms was open to our knowledge and study, by the systematic use of a dual optical system a “new world” is being opened to our observations and you will detect “new” objects that are not the standard ones that almost anybody will expect.

These new objects are what some of us call: anomalies or sky anomalies.

For example Unidentified Flying Objects forming digits 3 and 5.

These objects are “messages” in themselves and you can get a reply back from them, not using multi-million dollars Radio-Telescopes dishes, just simple mirror signals, a “low-tech” way to send signals in daylight that have been used for thousands of years, how ironic life can be!!

I always sent prime numbers mirror reflections to the “anomalies”, number 3 first and then number 5, the first primer numbers after 2, well this anomaly formed these two numbers: 3 and 5. Coincidence?

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If these objects have an earthly origin since they appear to be in the high level of the atmosphere then they will be all over the planet because the conditions on those high levels are almost the same in any location, now if these objects are not from earth then since the universe extend in all directions, these objects will be coming from any direction at any time.

In the same way that stars are masked by the sky scattering of visible light in daylight any small object in the atmosphere is also masked. This masking effect is lower in the infrared portion of the spectrum and even lower in the short radio wave portion, so scanning the sky in the infrared or in the short radio wave (radar) portion of the spectrum is a lot more effective than scanning the sky in visible light.

Some anomalies respond with bright flashes to direct light signals in daylight or at night.

Some anomalies had responded by morphing into digit shapes correlated to the signals sent to them.

After observing anomalies systematically the idea that they are living beings is a natural one.

The videos below show some of these amazing and surprising anomalies.

By Jeremy Thomas.
Cameras used:

1- A modified LG camera, 1/3″CCD, standard definition, with 16-160mm motorized lens and 950nm pass IR filter, USB video capture card used in a PC with iSpy. Magnification up to 26x.

2- An unmodified IP camera, 1/2.5″ CCD, 5MP 2k high definition, on a 900mm Telephoto no filters. Connected to the local network and used in a PC with iSpy. Magnification: 130x

3- A SDI-HD Panasonic board camera in “prime on a Meade 1000mm short tube scope, no filters connected via coaxial cable an AJA SDI-HD video capture card on the “observing station” PC. Magnification 166x.

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Daily UFO Headlines 8/14/2015

Daily UFO Headlines 8/14/2015

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Rare Triangular Fireball During The Perseid Meteor Shower Over Hampshire, UK – Aug 2015 (Video)

Rare Triangular Fireball During The Perseid Meteor Shower Over Hampshire, UK – Aug 2015 (Video)

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Around the globe, people looked up to the night sky to catch what is considered to be the best meteor shower of the year.
 
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The Perseid meteor shower hit its peak Wednesday night and stargazers captured the sparkling show, which was even more dazzling this time around due to the moon’s new phase.

The light from the moon was less likely to get in the way of faint meteors, a plus for observers, and a phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 2007.

Check out the video of a rare triangular Perseid fireball rushing across the screen from the UK Meteor Observation Network.

Is it really a fireball or it could be something else?
 

  
 
 
Check out more contributions by Jeffery Pritchett ranging from UFO to Bigfoot to Paranormal to Prophecy
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Drivers Close Encounter In The Yucatan

Drivers Close Encounter In The Yucatan

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DRIVERS CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN THE YUCATAN   JULY 1989   

……….  TEKAY YUCATAN   

I had to make a last-minute trip to Chetumal and was no longer able to go to the game. Nothing happened on the outward trip, but on the way back, my co-worker and I experienced something I’ll never forget.  “We were already in Yucatán, and we were about to reach Tekax when I suddenly saw a bright light in front of us, like a car shining its high beams at us. It was more or less 100 meters away. We were flashing it with our own lights, but then we saw the light veer off to the right, as if going into the wilderness. We thought the car or truck had overturned and slowed down to see if they needed help. To our surprise, we saw nothing at all, and there wasn’t any street or little trail through which it could have vanished. It didn’t make any noise either. 

“Minutes later, when we had driven no more than five kilometers, I saw that light again, but this time it was behind us, and to our amazement, it began to rise until it vanished into the heavens. We both saw it, so I’m certain it wasn’t a hallucination. I still find it hard to believe today, but my eyes did not deceive me, “he explained  “When I brought this up to my co-workers, some of them explained that they had already had similar experiences in that segment of the road, but preferred to keep quiet to avoid scorn.  

“But the story of my UFO encounters doesn’t end there. In the late ’90s I ran into some strange lights in the Mérida-Tizimín road in the vicinity of the community of Chenché de las Torres. There was a clearing at the time that allowed for a view of the whole landscape, as the grass wasn’t that tall. That’s where I saw four lights in a straight line before they suddenly split. At first I thought it was a plane, but after the lights separated I realized this couldn’t be the case, as it made no noise whatsoever.  “I was lucky to see it, because I had pulled my truck over to clean the windshield by hand, as the wipers had broken. I think that if I hadn’t stopped, I would’ve never realized it. I wasn’t afraid. I just felt helpless because I was alone and aware that no one would believe what I saw. 

NOTE: The above image is a rendering   

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Astronomen vinden 'zomaar' met telescoop 'jonge Jupiter' buiten ons zonnestelsel - HLN.be

Astronomen vinden 'zomaar' met telescoop 'jonge Jupiter' buiten ons zonnestelsel - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

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Astronomen hebben de kleinste planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel gevonden, tenminste dankzij rechtstreekse waarneming met een telescoop. Dat heeft space.com gisteren gemeld.

De nieuwe exoplaneet kreeg de naam 51 Eridani b (of 51 Eri b) en draait rond een ster op ongeveer 96 lichtjaar van ons. Mogelijk gaat het om een planetair systeem dat veel lijkt op het onze, waardoor wetenschappers meer kunnen leren over ons zonnestelsel.

51 Eridani b is een "jonge Jupiter" of een door methaan omgeven gasgigant zoals "onze" Jupiter.

De laatste twintig jaar zijn meer dan 1.800 planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel gevonden, maar veel hebben weinig gemeen met "onze" planeten.

Exoplaneten laten zich vooral verschalken als ze voor hun moederster passeren en diens licht dimmen, of door hun zwaartekracht de ster aan het 'wiebelen' brengen. In dit geval fotografeerden de wetenschappers onder leiding van Bruce Macintosh van de Stanford-universiteit met de Gemini Planet Imager telescoop in Chili rechtstreeks de 'jonge Jupiter'.

Het licht van 51 Eri b is nochtans een miljoen keer zwakker dan dat van de moederster en gloeit nog na van de hitte van zijn ontstaan. De planeet draait op 13 keer de afstand Aarde-Zon rond de ster.

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NASA ontdekt ijsvlakte op 'hart' van Pluto - HLN.be

NASA ontdekt ijsvlakte op 'hart' van Pluto - HLN.be

Bron: Volkskrant.nl, NYT

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IJsvlakte 'Tombaugh Regio' op het 'hart' van Pluto. © ap.

NEW HORIZONS Ruimteorganisatie NASA heeft een nieuw beeld vrijgegeven, dat ruimtetuig New Horizons afgelopen dinsdag van dwergplaneet Pluto heeft gemaakt. Op het beeld is een ijsvlakte te zien, die zich op het groot hartvormig vlak op de planeet bevindt.

New Horizons slaagde er voorlopig in 1 à 2 procent van de verzamelde beelden en gegevens door te sturen naar de aarde. Het ruimtetuig, dat dinsdag langs Pluto vloog, maakte verschillende gedetailleerde beelden van de dwergplaneet en zijn vijf manen. Het tuig was daarvoor maar liefst negen jaar onderweg naar de verste uithoek van ons sterrenstelsel.

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IJsbergen

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Op de vlakte zijn onregelmatige, veelhoekige segmenten te zien, die afmetingen van tientallen kilometers hebben. De segmenten zijn omringd door smalle troggen, waarvan sommigen heuvels vertonen.

De vlakte, die de naam Sputnik Planum kreeg, maakt deel uit van het grotere, hartvormige vlak op Pluto, dat 'Tombaugh Regio' werd gedoopt naar de ontdekker van de dwergplaneet. 

Ten zuiden van de ijsvlaktes bevindt zich een bergketen, die de naam Norgay Montes kreeg. De keten is vernoemd naar Tenzing Norgay, de scherpa die de Mount Everest met Edmund Hillary beklom.

Verklaring

Volgens Geoloog Jeff Moore, die tijdens een persconferentie uitleg gaf bij het nieuwe beeld, is het moeilijk te verklaren hoe de structuur van de ijsvlakte is ontstaan. Omdat er geen kraters te zien zijn, zou het om jong terrein gaan. Maar hoe jong is onduidelijk. "Het overstijgt al onze verwachtingen voordat we Pluto langs Pluto vlogen", aldus Moore. 

NASA presenteerde ook onderstaande video van de ijsvlakte.

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Wetenschappers vinden onderaards meer onder piramide in Mexico * HLN.be

Wetenschappers vinden onderaards meer onder piramide in Mexico * HLN.be

Bron: Belga, Fox News

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In de Mexicaanse Maya-stad Chichén Itzá op het schiereiland Yucatán hebben wetenschappers een onderaards meer onder een piramide gevonden. Het meer is tot 35 meter lang en meer dan 20 meter diep.

Het gaat om de eeuwenoude tempel van Kukulcán, ook bekend als 'El Castillo', op het schiereiland Yucatán in Mexico. Hij werd gebouwd door de Maya's en is één van de bekendste bouwwerken in Mexico. Archeologen hebben nu ontdekt dat de piramide gedeeltelijk gebouwd werd op een meer van wel twintig meter diep. Tussen het fundament van het bouwwerk en het meer ligt een natuurlijke kalksteenslaag van vijf meter dik.

De wetenschappers deden de eigenaardige vondst niet aan de hand van opgravingen, maar door een geo-elektrisch onderzoek. Volgens archeoloog Guillermo de Anda is de ontdekking van groot belang. De aanwezigheid van het onderaardse meer kan namelijk bevestigen dat de Maya's de tempels gebruikten als kosmologische instrumenten. "De vier grotten die de tempel omringen zouden bijvoorbeeld de vier windstreken kunnen voorstellen, met in het midden het meer als het centrum van het universum", aldus de Anda.

Mysterieuze cultuur
Volgens geoloog Rene Chavez zijn er nu eerst andere vragen te beantwoorden. "Wisten de Maya's dat er water aanwezig was vooraleer ze aan de bouw van de piramide begonnen? Het antwoord op dergelijke vragen kan ons alweer meer inzicht geven in hun mysterieuze cultuur".

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Proberen aliens contact met ons op te nemen? Signalen uit de ruimte stellen wetenschappers voor raadsel Proberen aliens contact met ons op te nemen? Signalen uit de ruimte stellen wetenschappers voor raadsel

Proberen aliens contact met ons op te nemen? Signalen uit de ruimte stellen wetenschappers voor raadsel

Proberen aliens contact met ons op te nemen? Signalen uit de ruimte stellen wetenschappers voor raadsel

Wetenschappers hebben in de afgelopen 15 jaar vreemde radiogolven gedetecteerd die een patroon volgen dat niet kan worden verklaard aan de hand van bekende natuurlijke fenomenen.

In de film Contact uit 1997 is een astrofysicus, die gespeeld wordt door Jodie Foster, de eerste mens die contact maakt met een buitenaardse beschaving, nadat ze een sterk radiosignaal oppikt uit de ruimte.

Was het een profetische film? Wetenschappers detecteren al 15 jaar lang vreemde radioflitsen uit de ruimte die een wiskundig patroon lijken te volgen. Er zijn twee mogelijkheden: ze worden veroorzaakt door een nog niet ontdekt fenomeen in de ruimte of ze worden geproduceerd door een bepaalde vorm van technologie. Als ze een technologische oorsprong hebben en niet door ons worden gegenereerd, kunnen het signalen zijn van een buitenaardse intelligentie.

Kan geen toeval zijn

De astronomen die de radioflitsen hebben waargenomen, hebben zoiets niet eerder gezien en ze begrijpen er evenmin iets van. De krachtige radiogolven duren slechts een paar milliseconden en stoten dan net zoveel energie uit als de zon in een hele maand doet.

Sinds 2001 zijn er 10 van deze radioflitsen gedetecteerd. De bron moet volgens onderzoekers klein zijn, maximaal enkele honderden kilometers in doorsnee. Ook komen ze van ver, mogelijk uit een geheel ander sterrenstelsel.

De radiosignalen hebben allemaal een golflengte die een veelvoud is van 187,5 centimeter. Er bestaat een kans van 1 op 2000 dat dit patroon toeval is. In het heelal zijn enkele kosmische objecten die radioflitsen kunnen produceren, zoals bijvoorbeeld pulsars. Misschien zijn er nog niet ontdekte soorten sterren die deze radiogolven verspreiden.

Geavanceerde technologie

Het is ook mogelijk dat deze signalen een meer aardse herkomst hebben. Misschien hangt er een onbekende spionagesatelliet boven de aarde, die signalen vanuit de ruimte lijkt te sturen. In 2010 pikte de Parkes Observatory in Australië 16 signalen op die leken op radioflitsen, maar uiteindelijk afkomstig bleken te zijn van magnetrons in de sterrenwacht.

Als de radioflitsen inderdaad worden veroorzaakt door buitenaardse intelligente wezens, iets wat niet bij voorbaat wordt uitgesloten, is het niet gemakkelijk om ze te versturen als boodschap. Ze zouden over een technologie moeten beschikken die veel geavanceerder is dan we ons kunnen voorstellen. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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Vliegtuig verdwijnt, om 10 minuten later weer te verschijnen: time slip? Vliegtuig verdwijnt, om 10 minuten later weer te verschijnen: time slip?

Vliegtuig verdwijnt, om 10 minuten later weer te verschijnen: time slip?

Vliegtuig verdwijnt, om 10 minuten later weer te verschijnen: time slip?

Zo’n 40 jaar geleden zou een passagiersvliegtuig in het niets zijn verdwenen terwijl het boven Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport de landing inzette.

Er werden gelijk hulpdiensten ingeschakeld omdat men vermoedde dat het toestel in de buurt van de luchthaven was gecrasht. Terwijl de hulpvoertuigen zich verzamelden op de plek waar het toestel voor het laatst was gezien, verscheen het plotseling recht boven ze.

Er waren 10 minuten voorbijgegaan en het vliegtuig verscheen op de exacte locatie waar het ook was verdwenen. De klokken aan boord van het toestel, inclusief de horloges van de passagiers, liepen allemaal 10 minuten achter. De mensen aan boord wisten echter niet dat er 10 minuten waren verstreken. Voor hun was het alsof er ineens vanuit het niets hulpdiensten waren verschenen.

Mannen in pakken

Dit incident is uitgebreid onderzocht door luchtvaartdeskundige Martin Caidin (1927-1997). Hij werd vaak geconsulteerd door de NASA. Vlak voor zijn dood deelde Caidin zijn onderzoek met Loyd Auerbach. Die zei dat vlak na het incident ‘mannen in pakken’ verschenen bij de landingsbaan en het vliegtuig binnengingen.

Was het een zogeheten time slip? “Time slips zijn niet echt paranormaal van aard,” zei Auerbach. “Het gaat erom dat tijd op een vloeiende manier beweegt. We weten niet eens wat tijd is. Veranderingen in snelheid en zwaartekracht kunnen tijd beïnvloeden. Dit gebeurt onder zeer ongewone omstandigheden en de effecten zijn bijna verwaarloosbaar. Er is veel meer voor nodig om te kunnen verklaren hoe een vliegtuig tijdens de landing een verandering in tijd veroorzaakt.”

Wormgaten

Auerbach, die aan de John F. Kennedy University in Californië verschillende lezingen heeft gegeven over tijd, houdt zich met name bezig met het onderzoek naar tijdreizen en time slips. Sommige theorieën die hij voorbij heeft zien komen gingen over gravimetrische oorzaken en wormgaten. Maar gedacht wordt dat wormgaten microscopisch klein zijn. Als ze al bestaan, hebben we geen idee wat ze doen.

Over de hele wereld worden time slips gemeld, alleen worden de bizarre verhalen vaak niet serieus genomen, aldus Auerbach. Hoe kan de verdwijning van dit vliegtuig worden verklaard? Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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Buitenaards wezen opgegraven in India?

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Het komt niet iedere dag voor, maar in de Indiase deelstaat Jodphur stonden boeren vreemde te kijken toen ze een put aan het slaan waren. 

Ze hadden misschien vanalles verwacht, maar niet dat ze een buitenaards uitziend wezen zouden opgraven. 


Eind juli waren een aantal mensen bezig met het graven van een gat voor het maken van een put in de Indiase deelstaat Jodphur. 

Toen stuitten ze naar eigen zeggen op een vreemd uitziend wezen wat een soort kruising lijkt tussen iets menselijks en buitenaards. 

Te oordelen aan de ogen zou je zeggen dat je hier te maken hebt met een buitenaards wezen. Na publicaties van de foto’s die hieronder staan, ging het verhaal viraal via de sociale media.


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Volgens ufoloog Scott Waring bestaat er geen enkele twijfel en hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaards wezen want zoals hij zegt: 

“Dit vreemde wezen heeft zoveel mensachtige trekken dat het wel buitenaards moet zijn. Het heeft hele donkere ogen om het tegen zonlicht te beschermen. Dit is bewijs dat het liever ondergronds woont dan erboven”. 

Het is jammer dat er verder weinig gegevens bekend zijn over deze vreemde vondst. Zoals of het wezen dood was toen het werd aangetroffen of nog leefde? Als het wel dood was toen het werd aangetroffen dan moet het met grote waarschijnlijkheid onlangs zijn overleden omdat het lichaam nog geen tekenen van ontbinding vertoont. 

Of hebben we hier te maken met enkele creatieve Indiase boeren die denken dat een beetje roem altijd beter is dan in de grond wroeten. 

Het is in ieder geval een populair onderwerp op de Indiase sociale media. 

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Anne Strieber Has Died

Anne Strieber Has Died

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After a long and courageous struggle, Anne Strieber died on August 11, 2015. She founded Unknowncountry.com as Whitleysworld in 1998. In 2001, she changed the name and expanded it to include what she described as "the credible edge of science and reality." She was its managing editor until January of 2015. Anne was also a novelist, and published three books, "the Cave" as Anne Matthews, "the Invisible Woman," and her personal favorite, "Little Town Lies," both as Anne Strieber. In nonfiction, she published "the Communion Letters," a compendium of letters from close encounter witnesses. She was also the author of "Anne's Diary" on this website. She also co-authored an account of her illness, "Miraculous Journey," with Whitley.


She supported her husband Whitley throughout his career, and edited every book he published. After reading and cataloging hundreds of thousands of letters written to him in response to his book "Communion," she was the first person to realize that the appearance of what she termed "the visitors" was associated with the simultaneous appearance of ghostly apparitions. She never ceased her research into the strange and ignored phenomenon called the "close encounter" experience, and formed the fundamental approach to it that is the basis of Whitley Strieber's work.

Anne is survived by Whitley, her husband of 45 years, and her son Andrew and his family. Services for Anne will be private. Anne contributed to many charities, and her wish was that others contribute on her behalf to the charities of their choice. 

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TAKEN : AN ALIEN ABDUCTEE TURNS THE TABLES ON AN ABDUCTION

TAKEN : AN ALIEN ABDUCTEE TURNS THE TABLES ON AN ABDUCTION

He had been taken from the desert, in Texas, when he was seven years old.

ALIEN ABDUCTEE

Photo taken over Scotland on September 20, 2011

His father, shot-gun in hand, and he had been climbing rocky outbreaks amidst cactus and scrub.

They had hunted coyote there before,

and had used a coyote lure, a blow- into device that produced a sound that resembled a rabbit’s cry of pain; with their backs to the setting sun to blind the predator’s approach, they had shot and killed six, that evening.

But soon they had been prey and not predator.

A craft had appeared overhead.

It had appeared from nowhere, instantly.

It was blue like the sky, slowly changing to brown, like the desert floor, then silver as though the color progression change of metal cooling.

Later, when his father had awoken, a shell had been discharged, missing from the chamber, but he had no memory of ever firing the gun.

The seven year old had been swept aloft into an overhead craft and examined by small, dark, large-eyed, hairless beings with large pear-shaped heads extended in the back.

They had a thin torso, long arms with three long fingers, spindly legs, no ears and mere slits for mouth.

The large black eyes strangely had compelling power.

“You will not remember!”

But he had remembered..

He had felt pain unlike any ever imagined and he screamed

The large black-wet eyes had stared at him endlessly, extensively, close up to his head.

“This will not hurt.”, they had said.

But agony had suffused lines and channels throughout his body.

Terror, rage and pain had overcome him.

The creatures had been puzzled by his pain, saying,” You will not remember.”

When he was returned to the desert floor, some forty minutes later, his father had looked switched off, eyes glazed, saliva dribbling from the right corner of his mouth.

It was his sobbing, he had then believed that had awoken his father.

His father had told him that he had imagined and dreamed it.

“The Texas sun can give you heat stroke, make you see things”, he had said, holding the shaking boy close and placing a hand over his son’s forehead.

” Let’s find some shade.”

They had walked to the shade of hemlock and mesquite at the foot of rock outgrowth and had eaten bologna sandwiches with yellow mustard and had washed it down with canteen water.

During this, the child had held his father’s hand and  had not let go; while his father had chewed slowly watching his son in puzzlement, the child had stared upwards in fear.

When he was seventeen,  an abduction’s violence became mutual, one night  :

*One night, a creepy psychic feeling had prevailed, and aware of them, and their approach, he had pretended to be asleep, had gone into deep, regular breathing, and had visualized a dream he would like to be in, but instead, he had waited.

‘The wallpaper on three walls had distorted and bulged and animal-like small snouts and pear-shaped grey heads, on small creatures had waggled in rapid fashion, back and forth.

They had seemed to melt out of his bedroom walls, had stood coldly  to surround him and his bed, one close by his side, two at the footboard, and another by the doorway.

He had jumped up and had grabbed the closest one to him around the neck, had clutched the feather-like being’s back to his own chest, pinioning him.

The creature had frantically struggled to hit him with a small hand-held rod-like device, but the pillows had

prevented the creature from reaching the teenager’s body with it.’

In panic, the lightweight creature had squirmed and had thrashed in the boy’s tightening grip.

The others had in quick moves, like jumping spiders, scattered from the tight circle.

He had tightened his grip and had squeezed hard until

something brittle had snapped in the creature’s neck.’

Suddenly the scene had changed; he had seen his whole family, brother, mother and father surgically eviscerated, but alive and in tears.

On a black floor under hospital lights, had been lungs, intestines, strewn amidst their gore,  and as they had laid there amidst their organs, they had pleaded with their eyes for him to save them.

The image had been so real that it had successfully worked to confuse, startle and distract him.

He had been convinced that real harm had come to his family and he had quickly loosened his grip.

His parents  had writhed in agony, butchered horribly in front of his eyes.

There had been a dank, musty smell that had then permeated the bedroom.

The creature in his arms had, in self protection, in desperate panic to free itself,  flashed the imagery into his mind, but he had killed one of them.

They never came for him physically, after that night;  when he was safely deep within R.EM. sleep, they would tease away, vibrate his astral soul, from his body left behind in bed, in alien astral abductions, and he’d awaken with vivid screen memory “bad dreams”, feeling even more bereft, completely unable in out of body abductions, to strike  back at his tormentors.

He once read that another abductee wrote:

‘A leap in consciousness will require a dissolution and restructuring of your beliefs about the nature of reality’.

To his mind, to live unburdened by an insatiable curiosity to comprehend the mysteries of the motives and tactics of  the pilots of UFOs in our universe, was in itself, quite an amazing thing.

But her eloquent published words brought him peace:

‘The history of mankind has been punctuated by personalities who refused to be bound by the grand illusion of space and time, seekers who penetrated the limitations of space and form.’

‘Knowing that the aliens reside in a different reality explains why this whole UFO phenomenon is so slippery; we exist within a matrix of other realities all merging in one spot: the mind.’

‘Their world coexists with our own intimately intertwined and separated by the thinnest veil- our arrogant assumption that we are the sole proprietors of the only reality.’

And he knew forever, by her words, that abductees are all alone, together..

*based, in part on a Gulf Breeze account, from the sixties

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Project Serpo – The Exchange Program Between Humans and Aliens

Project Serpo – The Exchange Program Between Humans and Aliens

In 2005, an anonymous source sent a series of emails to a UFO Discussion Group led by former U.S. Government Employee Victor Martinez.

These emails detailed the existence of an Exchange Program between the U.S. Government and the Ebens – alien beings from Serpo, a planet from the Zeta Reticuli Star System. The program was thus called Project Serpo.

The source identified himself as a retired employee of the government, claiming he had participated in a special program.

The program’s origins lay with the two UFO crashes in New Mexico in 1947, the famous Roswell incident and another one in Corona. 

He claimed one extraterrestrial survived the crash and was transferred to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The other six deceased extraterrestrials were placed in a freezing facility in the same laboratory.

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Establishing communications with the scientists and military personnel, the survivor provided them with the location of its home planet and continued to cooperate until its death in 1952. 

The alien provided information regarding the items found inside the crashed UFOs. One of the items was a communication device that it was allowed to use, contacting its home planet.

A meeting was set for April 1964, when an alien craft landed near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Upon retrieving the bodies of their dead comrades, the extraterrestrials engaged in an information exchange that was carried out in English, thanks to the aliens’ translation device.

One thing led to another and in 1965, the aliens accepted to take a group of humans back to their planet as part of the exchange program. 

Twelve military personnel were carefully selected for a ten year stay on Serpo. The ten men and two women were specialists in various fields and their task was to gather as much information as possible, regarding all aspects of life, society and technology on the alien planet.

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They were three years late and four people short when they finally returned in 1978. Two men had died on the alien planet. One man and one woman had decided to stay. The journey to Serpo, located 37 light years from Earth, took only nine months aboard the alien craft.

They had learned that Serpo was a planet similar to our own, albeit smaller. It orbited around a binary star system and had an atmosphere similar in composition to the one on Earth. 

However, the two suns meant there were higher levels of radiation and the twelve humans had to resort to protection at all times. Two of them died from complications. The heat was extreme and it took the remaining humans several years to adjust.

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Another problem was the food. The crew had taken enough food to last them for two and a half years but eventually had to resort to eating native Eben food. Anyone who’s traveled abroad knows about the serious gastrointestinal implications posed by eating local food but the human crew eventually adjusted.

Another problem was the length of the day on Serpo, which was 43 Earth hours long. Also, it never got fully dark as their night skies were dimly lit by the smaller sun. The crew had complete freedom to explore the alien planet and they were not hindered in any way.

The geology of the alien world was different; there were few mountains and no oceans. Several types of plant-like life existed but mostly near the polar area, where it was cooler. 

There were also types of animal life and some of the larger ones were used by the Ebens for work and other tasks but never as food sources. They produced their food through industrial processes, of which they had many.

The inhabitants of Serpo lived in small communities led by a large city. They lacked a central government but seemed to be doing fine without it. 

The Ebens had leadership and an army but the Earth team noticed they never used weapons of any type and violence was virtually unheard of. They had no concept of money or commerce. Every Eben was issued items in accordance with their needs.

The planet’s population was about 650,000 individuals. The human crew noted the Ebens were disciplined in all aspects of their lives, working on schedules based on the movements of their suns. There were no other civilizations on Serpo except the Ebens.

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Their method of reproduction was similar to our own but it had a much lower success rate. Therefore, their children were highly isolated. 

In fact, the only problem the human crew had was when they intended to photograph Eben children. They were escorted away by the army and asked not to attempt that again.

Upon returning to Earth, the remaining eight members of the expedition were quarantined for a year. During this period, they were debriefed and the complete account amassed around 3,000 pages. 

All members of the expedition have since died from various complications due to radiation exposure. The fate of the two people who chose to remain on Serpo is unknown. The Ebens have not contacted Earth since 1985.

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When a 'UFO' flies by, does it bother bears?

When a 'UFO' flies by, does it bother bears?

When a 'UFO' flies by, does it bother bears?

On a completely autonomous mission, the UAV flies towards the location of a collared bear in northwestern Minnesota.

Credit: Jessie Tanner (@jessiectanner)

If an unidentified flying object suddenly appeared in the sky, it's likely your heart would beat faster. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 13 have found that the same is true for bears.

The UFOs in this case are actually unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which have become increasingly valuable to wildlife researchers, allowing them to observe animals, including endangered species, in their natural settings from long distances and over difficult terrain. It had appeared as though the animals were taking these encounters in stride. For instance, American black bears rarely seem to startle or run away when a UAV comes near. But the new study reveals that despite the bears' calm demeanor when in the presence of UAVs, their heart rates soar, a sign of acute stress.

"Some of the spikes in the heart rate of the bears were far beyond what we expected," says Mark Ditmer of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. "We had one bear increase her heart rate by approximately 400 percent—from 41 beats per minute to 162 beats per minute. Keep in mind this was the strongest response we saw, but it was shocking nonetheless."

The researchers fitted free-roaming American black bears living in northwestern Minnesota with Iridium satellite GPS collars and cardiac biologgers. The collars sent the researchers an email with each bear's location every 2 minutes while the biologgers captured every heartbeat. Then Ditmer and his colleagues programmed a UAV to fly to the bear's most recent location.

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Mark Ditmer downloads the current GPS coordinates of a collared bear to input into a UAV mission. The bear's location is emailed every 2 minutes via Iridium satellite-capable GPS collars, and the researchers programmed the UAV to fly to the …more

In the end, the researchers were able to analyze their data very precisely to find out what hidden effect their UAV flights—which lasted only a brief 5 minutes due to battery life and other logistical constraints—might have had on the bears.

In 18 UAV flights taken in the vicinity of four different bears, individuals only twice showed any major change in their behavior in response to the UAVs. However, the biologgers revealed consistently strong physiological responses. All of the bears in the study responded to UAV flights with elevated heart rates. Fortunately, the bears recovered very quickly.

"Without the use of the biologger, we would have concluded that bears only occasionally respond to UAVs," Ditmer says.

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Mark Ditmer watches the successful landing of a UAV after a mission involving flying over a bear foraging in a cornfield in northwestern Minnesota. Credit: Jessie Tanner (@jessiectanner)

The researchers say it will now be important to consider the additional stress on wildlife from UAV flights when developing regulations and best scientific practices. UAVs are growing in popularity for many uses in addition to research—for example, to discourage poachers and track down wildlife for ecotourists. In many countries, few rules are in place to guide UAV use.

"UAVs hold tremendous potential for scientific research and as tools for conservation," Ditmer says. "However, until we know which species are tolerant of UAVs, at what distance animals react to the presence of UAVs, and whether or not individuals can habituate to their presence, we need to exercise caution when using them around wildlife."

Ditmer and his colleagues are now working with captive bears to find out whether the animals can get used to overhead UAV flights over time and, if so, how long it takes.

Explore further: Unmanned aerial vehicles mark robotic first for British Antarctic Survey

More information: Current Biology, Ditmer et al.: "Bears Show a Physiological but Limited Behavioral Response to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.024 

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Hello Drones, Goodbye UFO Hunting

Hello Drones, Goodbye UFO Hunting

The mystery of unidentified flying objects has suddenly become much more complicated and I'm very unhappy about it. The cause of the additional confusion can be explained in one word: drones.

The remote-controlled aerial devices are showing up everywhere. Their benefits are touted by a large and growing fan base that includes federal and state agencies, local police forces, farmers, and plenty of backyard hobbyists. The sky is becoming a busier place every day.

As a boomer, I grew up hearing about flying saucers and space aliens at an early age. Grade-B science fiction movies from the 1950s were a fixture on late-night TV during my childhood. In my teens I read extensively about Roswell, the Mantell incident, Barney and Betty Hill, and other highly publicized close encounters. I'm familiar with various types of alleged abduction and descriptions of 'missing time.' You can call me an open-minded skeptic. I've made no conclusions but I'm always willing to consider any evidence that seems compelling.

The proliferation of phone-cams during the past few years was, in my opinion, a huge benefit for UFO research. It created myriad opportunities for gathering and analyzing visual images of peculiar aerial sightings. The sheer number of cameras being operated around the globe at any given moment made me believe that sooner or later we'd get something truly conclusive like close-up footage of a landing. Perhaps a witness might sneak through an open door and bring back pictures from inside the craft. Or maybe we'd find out all those supposed 'objects' had an optical/atmospheric explanation. The statistical probability of an authentic breakthrough event that would resolve the puzzle seemed promising.

Suddenly everything has changed. The evidence pool is being polluted by an ever-increasing presence of small, sophisticated flying machines that are totally terrestrial in origin. It won't be long before drones become the default explanation for every shiny speck or glowing orb that traverses the wild blue yonder. They also present an array of new opportunities for UFO-related pranks and hoaxes.

These sad realizations all came crashing down on me recently as I was driving home from work and experienced my first drone flyover. While waiting at a stoplight next to a shopping center, I noticed a bright bluish light in the sky directly ahead. How do I know it wasn't a plane or helicopter? I've seen plenty of them in the past, along with hot air balloons, kites, and even streaking green meteorites that broke into pieces.

This object was different. It moved slowly, hovered, went dim and then brightened, and was definitely at a low altitude. The stoplight changed to green just as the object passed over my car. I pulled into a gas station, jumped out and looked up, but could not regain visual contact. There was no feeling of awe or mystery. I drove home and said to my wife, "I think I just saw a drone." She went online and found out there's a drone store in the shopping center where the sighting happened. I was probably witnessing an aerial test drive.

"Keep watching the skies!" is a famous line from the 1951 version of 'The Thing' and it always gave me a feeling of excitement and foreboding. It's entirely possible the truth really is out there, but good luck finding it now. The era of drones is in full flight. I'm pretty sure it means my hopes of getting a final answer to the Great UFO Riddle have been permanently grounded.

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WATCH: Has 'US security service jet cam recorded first ever confirmed UFO sighting'?

WATCH: Has 'US security service jet cam recorded first ever confirmed UFO sighting'?

VIDEO alleged to have been leaked from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which shows a "UFO being tracked by thermal imaging camera" has appeared online.

It is claimed the video was leaked from the US Homeland Department

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It is claimed the video was leaked from the US Homeland Department

The almost four minute long footage is being taken seriously by UFO and alien researchers and was placed online by a group calling itself the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU).

According to the SCU website, its researchers say the UFO "exhibits characteristics that cannot be explained by any known aircraft or natural phenomenon". 

The video was allegedly captured by a DHS camera on one of its aircraft.

The SCU site claims a DHS whistleblower leaked the video and a number of witnesses have come forward.

All are believed to have requested anonymity.

The group says it spent two years investigating the footage before releasing a 161-page report and going public for the first time this week.

Six named scientists and researchers are said to have conducted the research.

The UFO incident allegedly began at about 9.20 pm on April 25 2013 at the Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and was "monitored by the crew of a DHC-8 Turboprop aircraft from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) - part of DHS.

The object appears to move very quickly over land and then into the ocean and seems to tumble or change shape. 

Nick Pope, who formerly investigated UFO sightings for the Ministry of Defence, is intrigued by the footage.

He said: "Assuming the video isn't a clever hoax - which is always a possibility these days - it's a fascinating piece of footage.

"About the only conventional explanation that might fit the bill is that this is some new drone, but the entry and exit from the sea and the apparent splitting in two of the object makes even this explanation seem unlikely.

This is exactly the sort of video that I and intelligence specialists at the MoD got most excited about, as the available data allows for a proper, scientific analysis.

I'll be watching developments on this one with interest."

A US Customs and Border Protection Bombardier DHC-8Q200

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A US Customs and Border Protection Bombardier DHC-8Q200

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It also appears to fly over buildings and through trees before seemingly moving in and out of the ocean without slowing down.

By the end of the footage, it either splits into two, or another object appears.

Daina Chaviano, a Cuban-born fantasy and sci-fi author and UFO researcher, claims to have first been contacted by an acquaintance of the source, before putting the initially "skeptical" team together. 

The SCU website said: "The source of this video evidence was vetted and identified.”

They claim to be "absolutely certain" the information came from sources on board the DHS aircraft and the "video is genuine". 

According to the report the DHC-8 took off on a routine flight and soon after take-off the crew noticed “a pinkish to reddish light over the ocean approaching towards the south.”

They were "concerned" at the tower not informing them of incoming traffic, so radioed it in. 

It is claimed the response was the "tower told them they also had a visual on the object, but they were unsure of its identity."

At this stage, it is claimed, as the object neared land, it turned its lights off, but the DHC-8 could track and film it with onboard thermal imaging equipment. 

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A still from the "thermal image video"

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According to the source, a further flight was allegedly delayed due to the object. 

SCU claimed airport records confirmed a FedEx flight scheduled to leave at 9:10 pm was delayed until 9:26 pm.

The team has released details from a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request response which purportedly shows the DHC-8 took off at 9.16 pm and circled the airport twice before leaving the area after 10 minutes.

Further dates released is said to show the tower tracked on radar an "unknown object" minutes before the DHC-8 took off which was offshore to the north and north waist of the airport from 8.58pm to 9.14pm.

The report states: “The object was between three to five feet in length and its speed varied between approximately 40 mph to 120 mph. Its median speed was roughly 80 mph.”

It said the object "apparently submerged into the ocean for over half a mile and flew back out."

The authors determined it came in from the ocean, north or northwest of the airport, flew the airstrip, then turned back to the north and headed back to the ocean.

The "researchers ruled out a theory the object was a balloon as wind speeds of "eight to 13 mph" at ground level and 12 to 18 mph at 400 to 3,200 feet", meaning the object "was moving too fast to be carried by wind currents," plus it seemed to submerge in water.

Another possibility they looked at was it being a bird, but said a peregrine falcon's top speed in stoop was 69 mph.

A SCU graphic showing the flightpath of the object and craft

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A USC graphic showing the flightpath of the object and craft

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One option given most credence was a secret Naval test of a "flimmer" drone which can fly and dive under water, but has an air speed of 68mph.

But they questioned why this would be done in civillian areas near an airport.

The report concluded: “There is no explanation for an object capable of traveling under water at over 90 mph with minimal impact as it enters the water, through the air at 120 mph at low altitude through a residential area without navigational lights, and finally to be capable of splitting into two separate objects.

"No bird, no balloon, no aircraft, and no known drones have that capability.”

UFologist ALEJANDRO ROJAS, editor of Open Minds Magazine, who was not involved in the research has called the case "remarkable."

He said: "Is alien technology being demonstrated in this video? This careful report, which the researchers say took over 1,000 man hours to complete, indicates that whatever took place, it is certainly unusual. 

"The entire report is 161 pages long, and thoroughly explains their work, and how they came to the conclusions they did.

"Even if the report had come to a mundane conclusion, the effort put into the investigation is remarkable.

"However, the fact that they could not determine what the object was, and have determined that it displayed characteristics that cannot be explained, makes the report remarkable."

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