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UFO map shows where you're most likely to see 'alien spacecraft' in Houston

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Photo: Eddy Hartenstein, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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A UFO is spotted over Seguin, Texas.

A woman in Seguin took this photo at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 23, 2015, and submitted it to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). She said she noticed a star to the east, which changed shape and flattened out to this disk shape.
Photo: Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)

This image made during a Houston thunderstorm Aug. 11, 2014, shows what some people say could be a UFO.
Photo: NDN
Website UFO Stalker offers a reporting platform for people who've seen UFOs in their neighborhood. For Houston, the Katy Freeway east of downtown, the Galleria area, downtown, Bellaire and among others are the highest reported locations for the city.
Continue clicking to see recent UFO sightings throughout Texas.
UFO enthusiasts have a website to congregate with each other to report the "alien spacecraft" that they see in their area.
Website UFO Stalker offers spacecraft spotters a place to report their sightings, which are then displayed on an interactive map that shows what type of craft was seen, where and what time of day.
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The map, which uses Google Maps interface, covers the entire world and users are able to zoom in and out of different cities. For Houston, there are distinct hotspots throughout the metropolitan area.
The densest locations clearly lie in Katy near the Grand Parkway, downtown Houston, the Sugar Land area, Willowbrook area, near Space Center Houston off of I-45, Humble (near Bush Airport) and Pasadena.
You would think that sightings near Bush Airport would be written off as an airplane, yet there is a large concentration of reports right by the large airport.
Shockingly, Houstonians keep seeing "UFOs" near and around Houston's busy airports, like the George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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The postings detail what day the event occurred, the location, a summary of the sighting and the object that was seen. Spotters can choose from several categories for their report, including "alien encounter," "black triangle sighting" and a "UFO sighting." The UFO sightings are the most common in the Houston area, though there are several black triangle sightings.
Users are also able to upload photos and videos of their encounter to use as additional evidence to their experience. To see some of the recent UFO sightings in Texas, click through the gallery above.
And if you're wondering why you've never seen a UFO yourself, there's a simple way to increase your chances - just look up to the sky, especially if you're near an airport.
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Planetoïde passeert aarde amper twee dagen na ontdekking - HLN.be

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Amper twee dagen nadat wetenschappers een naderende planetoïde opmerkten, is de vliegende rots de Aarde gepasseerd aan een snelheid van 16 kilometer per seconde.
De planetoïde, die de naam 2017 AG13 kreeg, vloog op een afstand van ongeveer 190.000 kilometer voorbij onze planeet: dat is ongeveer halfweg de afstand tussen de aarde en de maan.
2017 AG13 werd zaterdag ontdekt door Catalina Sky Survey, dat gebaseerd is in de universiteit van Arizona. De rots is naar schatting tussen 11 en 34 meter groot, zeggen wetenschappers van het Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ter vergelijking: de planetoïde die in februari 2013 ontplofte boven de Russische stad Chelyabinsk en daarbij meer dan 1000 mensen verwondde, had een diameter van ongeveer 20 meter.
De passage van een planetoïde die pas zo laat wordt opgemerkt, is niet uniek. Per dag worden ongeveer vijf nieuwe planetoïden ontdekt.
Miljoenen planetoïden zweven door de ruimte in nabijheid van de Aarde. Ze verschillen onderling in omvang, helderheid en de baan die ze afleggen, waardoor ze vaak moeilijk te identificeren en traceren zijn. De planetoïden kunnen variëren van enkele meters tot verschillende kilometers in doorsnede. Sommigen bestaan uit ijs, anderen uit gesteente of zelfs puur metaal.
Het goede nieuws is dat de overgrote meerderheid van de planetoïden die zware schade kunnen berokkenen als ze op de aarde zouden botsen, ontdekt zijn. Geen van hen stelt een gevaar in de nabijgelegen toekomst, zeggen wetenschappers van ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA.
Deze week maakte het Witte Huis bekend dat het in samenwerking met de NASA en het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie werkt aan een plan om de aarde voor te bereiden op een eventuele meteorietinslag. Hoewel een inslag beschouwd wordt als weinig waarschijnlijk, maar met een potentieel gigantische impact, werd er werk gemaakt van een uitgebreide strategie die de VS en bij uitbreiding de hele aarde moet beschermen mocht het ooit zo ver komen.
NASA-telescoop onthult twee gigantische zwarte gaten in nabijgelegen sterrenstelsels - HLN.be

Een ster nabij een zwart gat dat ongeveer 100 miljoen keer groter is dan onze zon.
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Zwarte gaten zijn erg moeilijk op te sporen: ze absorberen niet alleen licht, maar hun bestaan wordt vaak verdoezeld door stof en gassen, waardoor het voor wetenschappers moeilijk is om hun omvang in te schatten. Maar nu is een NASA-telescoop erin geslaagd om door de obstakels heen te kijken. De NuSTAR ontdekte twee gigantische zwarte gaten.
"Deze zwarte gaten bevinden zich dicht bij de Melkweg, maar tot nu toe bleven ze verborgen voor ons. Ze zijn zoals monsters die onder je bed liggen te bonken."Ady Annuar, Durham University
NASA's ruimtetelescoop NuSTAR ziet geen zichtbaar licht, maar wel röntgenstralen, waardoor de telescoop door het stof heen kan kijken. Twee teams van wetenschappers gebruikten de NuSTAR om de sterrenstelsels IC 3639 en NGC 1448 te bestuderen. IC 3639 ligt op ongeveer 170 miljoen lichtjaren, terwijl NGC 1448, in kosmische termen, relatief dichtbij ligt: op ongeveer 38 miljoen lichtjaren.
Daarbij ontdekten ze twee bijzonder heldere gigantische zwarte gaten - met een massa die miljoenen keren groter is dan die van onze zon.
De ontdekking van deze zwarte gaten is niet nieuw, maar de omvang ervan wel. Aangezien gassen verhinderden dat de zwarte gaten volledig konden waargenomen worden, konden wetenschappers tot nu toe niet inschatten hoe groot ze precies waren.
"Deze zwarte gaten bevinden zich dicht bij de Melkweg, maar tot nu toe bleven ze verborgen voor ons. Ze zijn zoals monsters die onder je bed liggen te bonken", zegt Ady Annuar, een student van de Durham University in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, die de resultaten voorstelde op de American Astronomical Society conventie in Grapevine, Texas.
De zwarte gaten zijn "actieve sterrenstelsels": sterrenstelsels die zeer veel energie vrijgeven en erg helder zijn door de opwarming van deeltjes rondom het zwarte gat.
"Net zoals we de zon niet kunnen zien op een bewolkte dag, kunnen we niet direct zien hoe helder deze actieve sterrenstelsels echt zijn omwille van al het gas en stof nabij de kern," aldus Peter Boorman, een student van de universiteit van Southampton die de studie van IC 3639 leidde.
Behalve de zwarte gaten ontdekten de wetenschappers ook dat NGC 1448 een grote populatie jonge sterren telt, wat doet vermoeden dat het sterrenstelsel nieuwe sterren blijft creëren terwijl het zwarte gat sterren en andere materie opslorpt.
Mysterious spinning ice circle forms in Washington river
VIDEO: Mysterieuze draaiende ijscirkel ontdekt in Washington

Wandelaars in Washington werden afgelopen weekend getrakteerd op een bijzonder fenomeen: een enorme ijscirkel in de Snoqualmie River. Dat meldt AOL News.
Door de zachte wind en de lage temperaturen waren de omstandigheden voor ijscirkels ideaal, aldus meteoroloog Walter Kelley van zender KCPQ.
In tegenstelling tot graancirkels kwam er in dit geval geen buitenaardse activiteit bij kijken, hoewel zo’n patroon wel zeldzaam is.
Als twee waterstromen tegen elkaar botsen ontstaan golven of draaikolken. Wanneer het erg koud is ontstaat er vervolgens een draaiende ijscirkel.
Hieronder kun je beelden zien van het hypnotiserende fenomeen:
Dergelijke schijven van ijs worden het vaakst gezien in gebieden met een koud klimaat, bijvoorbeeld in Scandinavië en Noord-Amerika, maar ze komen ook voor in Engeland.
Hoewel ze zeldzaam zijn, kunnen ze een enorme omvang bereiken als ze ontstaan.
In 2013 werd een ijscirkel gespot in de Sheyenne River in North Dakota met een doorsnee van ruim 15 meter.
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VROUW VAN 800 MILJOEN JAAR OUD ONTDEKT IN RUSLAND
VROUW VAN 800 MILJOEN JAAR OUD ONTDEKT IN RUSLAND
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Mijnwerkers in Siberië ontdekten in 1969 een vreemd uitziende zwarte kist op een diepte van 70 meter.
Kemerovo is een stad in Siberisch Rusland, hoofdstad van de gelijknamige oblast, gelegen bij de samenvloeiing van de rivieren Tom en Iskitim. Tot 1932 heette de stad Sjtsjeglovsk. In het jaar 1969 toen het land nog een communistische bewind had, vond er daar een vreemde gebeurtenis plaats bij de plaatselijke kolenmijn.
Ze was bedekt met een soort bruin doek en was gekleed in een witte transparante jurk tot net boven de knie met korte mouwen die prachtig waren geborduurd met kleurige bloemen. Ze droeg geen ondergoed. Het leek alsof ze niet dood was, maar sliep. |
Illinois UFO described as five orbs inside bright light

An Illinois witness at Lake County reported watching and photographing a bright light UFO that appeared to have five smaller orbs inside of it, according to testimony in Case 81037 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness noticed a bright light in the sky at 5:30 p.m. on December 18, 2016.
“Thought it was a star or planet, but then it started flashing and then started moving more to my right,” the witness stated. “Thought it was a satellite, but thought it was too large to be one.”
The witness then used a cell phone and zoomed in on the object.
“I saw a big orb with five little orbs inside. I tried to take a video, but it was too far out there to zoom in on for a video. I kept looking at it through a zoomed picture and it kept breaking up into five smaller orbs, then three, then two, and then reassembled itself into one big orb. I then noticed an orb by it detach itself and then sporadically went left of the orb and then vanished. The object was in my sight for about two hours and then slowly vanished behind the treeline of my house.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness uploaded five images with the MUFON report, which was filed on December 18, 2016. Illinois MUFON State Section Director James Wolford investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“The complex structure and behavior of the object rules out natural phenomena,” Wolford stated in his report. “This was something artificial with technology that may be beyond man-made construction. My disposition for this case is Unknown – Other.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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UK: Residents Experience Power Cut As Mysterious UFO Shoot Over Houses
Stunned witnesses have claimed a UFO hovered above a park before shooting over houses. Some Buckingham Park residents claimed they observed a mysterious circular object hovering before flying into the distance in the night sky. They further reported power interruptions following the strange event.
One Buckingham Park resident, who requested not to be named, said that they were lying in bed when a dazzling light lit up their room. It was a clear night, so they assumed it was just a bright star. Then the thing that they thought a star slowly rose up and shot over the top of their house with an aircraft like noise but a speed too fast to be an airplane.

The concerned resident further reported that a sudden power interruption took place in his home. They said that as it passed over their house, the power dropped.
Approximately 45 minutes later, they heard the same sound and the power dropped for the second time briefly and came back.
They managed to take a photo of the UFO but did not have a chance to take a video since the UFO shot off suddenly.
Another resident claimed to have observed the same aerial thing. They were sitting watching television with blinds closed, but one of them was lit up as if someone was aiming a torch on it. They looked up and spotted a bright light that then shot across the top of the house. All the lights went down as the UFO passed over the house and came back on after the UFO shot off. They also said that the lights went down a few more times before they returned to normal.
Triangle UFO formation in the sky above Gosport, UK 9-Jan-2017

Here’s one new footage of a bright orbs in triangular formation in the sky above Gosport in South Hampshire, UK. This was filmed on Monday, 9th January 2017.
Witness report:
3 lights flying randomly side to side, up and down, forming triangles, seemed random flight paths. I work as a cleaner, I went outside at 22.50 to dispose of rubbish bags into a bin and noticed 3 green lights at around a 30 degree angle north-west of my position. Distance and height were too difficult to estimate from my position but after checking on google maps there are mostly only fields in that direction. The postcode I observed from was PO13 0HR. The lights were evenly spaced in a large triangle formation with one more forward than the others when I first noticed them. They then all turned purple and started to move. You can observe in the video how them moved. I had full zoom using a phone camera so quality isn’t great but they were all bright purple in colour and didn’t change again. They seemed to move in a random manor, moving side to side and up and down very quickly and turning very sharply. They would pass each other to swap sides, sometimes coming back to form triangles for a few seconds before moving again. Several times it looked as though one moved into another and became one light before breaking apart again. They disappeared below the houses several times so that I couldn’t see from my position what they were doing until the final time when I waited several minutes before giving up that they wouldn’t appear again so whatever it was possibly landed because they didn’t appear above the houses again. I went back inside the building onto the second level to view from a higher angle and could see one light again just above the house but it quickly disappeared downwards and that was the last I saw of them. They never went higher than the initial height I observed them at.
There were no other aircraft I noticed in the area although there is a small airfield behind my position. The weather was dry (although rain earlier in the day), the sky seemed clear, stars were visible overhead but none visible at the angle/height of these lights, presumably because of light pollution. When I left where I was 30 minutes later, the sky around the area where the lights were was a hazy red colour. The rest of the sky in the surrounding area was black but this area specifically was a different colour. I thought this might be some kind of heavy light pollution in that direction but according to google maps there are mostly just fields there, nothing that would give off unusual light pollution.Author (source: MUFON)
UFOs caught on tape over Las Vegas, Nevada 8-Jan-2017

Here’s a new video of a bright objects hovering in the night sky above Las Vegas in Nevada. This was filmed on Sunday, 8th January 2017.
Witness report:
The end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 have been strange here in Las Vegas. I don’t remember a time where we had so much wind and rain. Between November of 2016 and now I have only had a few opportunities to get outside to do some skywatching and last night was one of them. I got video from Nellis, Henderson and a short night vision clip from the Blue Diamond Hills and the Southern Valley. This video is just Nellis. In parts of the video, you can see it hasn’t been very warm here because you can see heat waves from somebody’s home distorting the objects I am filming. I didn’t speed this video up at all so that you could witness these incredible objects just like I do. When one of my videos is really good the tabloids get hold of them and make up all kinds of stories to go along with them. To date, not one of the tabloids has ever tried contacting me to get the real facts and that really bugs me. All along I have said that I don’t know exactly what these are and I would never make an “as a matter of fact” claim that these are anything other than amazing technology that is being systematically withheld from us. My hope is that one day soon I will be able to tell you exactly what they are but until that happens they are just amazing aerial objects that defy plausible explanations.
Author (Steven Barone @ youtube)
‘Flaming UFO’ lights up skies over Devon for three hours

A ‘flaming UFO’ has been spotted soaring above Exmouth in Devon.
At least that’s what this musician claims he saw shortly after 1pm on Wednesday.
According to Mark Emmins, the oval-shaped luminous object appeared in the sky and remained there for about three hours.
His friend, Tyron Osborne, snapped the rare sight as the pair looked on in amazement, convinced it was a UFO.
The rare object remained in the sky for three hours
(Picture: Tyron Osborne/Facebook)
Posting pictures online, Mark wrote: ‘Today for the second time in my life I can honestly say that myself and my neighbour watched a UFO.
‘It was stood still in the sky for some hours and then decided to move and then vanish. We got photos too.’
The object, which is most likely not a UFO, was initially dismissed as a star, but Mark insists he later windows on it.
He said: ‘If you look closely you can see what appears to be windows. I have never seen anything like this.
His post led to dozens of people speculating at what it could be
(Picture: Tyron Osborne/Facebook)
‘As for believing in aliens, I’ve always thought we are not alone in the universe and hoped to see something that would make me believe they would visit us.
‘I didn’t expect it to actually happen.’
Mark believes the object came from the US after he noticed it was traveling east from Dawlish.
His post led to dozens of people speculating at what it could be, with most people saying it was probably not a UFO.
Wendy Seaman wrote: ‘Looks like the Enterprise. Are you sure it wasn’t a satellite, one goes over about 4ish daily. When its a clear day you can see it clearly.’
Paul Oxenham said: ‘It could have been someone’s drone.’
But Steph Pommier wasn’t going to put it off that easily, writing: ‘UFOs have been spotted since the beginning of Man. Just accept it. We cannot know nor control everything.’
Source metro.co.uk
BRITISH COP WITNESSES TALL WHITE ALIENS INSPECTING FRESH CROP CIRCLE

According to a story circulating in the UFO and alien conspiracy theory blogosphere, a British Police Sergeant had an encounter with Tall White Aliens on July 6, 2009. The aliens were allegedly inspecting a freshly-made crop circle in a field in Wiltshire, England, when the police officer, who was off-duty at the time, encountered them.
The mystery of the incident was reportedly compounded by the refusal of Wiltshire Police to comment when contacted by local UFO and paranormal investigators. A police spokesperson reportedly said the authorities could not comment on the incident because it was a “personal matter,” according to the paranormal blog Tales from Out There.
“The police officer was apparently off duty when this happened so we have no comment to make because it is a personal not a police matter.”
The unnamed Wiltshire Police officer was driving past a field when he saw strange-looking men walking in the field. He had a “strange feeling” about the appearance of the “men” from afar, so he stopped his car to investigate, Express reports.
As he walked towards the field, he saw three tall men with long blond hair, all more than six feet tall. The men were walking slowly in the middle of the field as if they were searching for something or inspecting the crop. Because the men were dressed in white overalls, he thought they could be forensic officers investigating an incident in the field.
When he reached the side of the field, he heard a crackling sound similar to the “sound of static electricity.” The strange sound seemed to be running through the field and the crop moved in ripples with the crackling noise.
He raised his voice to draw the men’s attention, but they ignored him and refused to look up. But as soon as he entered the field, they looked up and appeared agitated.
And as he approached, they suddenly took to their heels.
The strange men, according to the officer, “ran faster than any man he had ever seen.”
“I’m no slouch but they were moving so fast. I looked away for a second and when I looked back they were gone.”
Possible tall white/nordic Alien. I think she/he is beautiful.
The crackling noise continued spreading around on the field as the strange-looking men ran away. The officer noticed they ran with an odd gait.
Unnerved by the strange encounter, he hurried back to his car and drove back to Marlborough in Wiltshire.
“I then got scared,” he said. “The noise was still around but I got an uneasy feeling and headed for the car.”
He reported the incident to his superiors but they did not take his story seriously. He continued to have an uneasy feeling all day, with a pounding headache.
“For the rest of the day I had a pounding headache I couldn’t shift,” he said.
The witness heard a sound like static electricity passing through the field
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Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, he contacted Andrew Russell, a local crop circle expert. Russell investigated the incident with the help of a colleague identified as Colin Andrews.
“At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls,” Russell wrote in a report summarizing the officer’s experience. “He stopped his car and approached the field.”
“The figures seemed to be inspecting the crop,” he continued. “When he got to the edge of the field he heard what he believed to be a sound not dissimilar to static electricity.”
“This crackling noise seemed to be running through the field and the crop was moving gently, close to where the noise was,” he added.
“He shouted to the figures who, at first, ignored him… When he tried to enter the field they looked up and began running.”
The investigators said they were convinced the officer’s account was truthful.
“I am quite convinced the officer had an experience that day and one that we have not fully explored,” Russell wrote.
According to Russell, the witness’s description of the tall men matches the appearance of Tall White Aliens. The crop circle experts concluded after investigations that the aliens were inspecting crop circle created a few days before.
Who made the crop circle remains a mystery. Russell could only guess the crop circle carried a coded message that the Tall White Aliens were trying to decode at the time the police officer saw them.
When the investigators contacted the Wiltshire police, the authorities refused to comment. They insisted the incident was a “personal matter” and that the police authorities were not investigating the strange claims.
The incredible story sparked discussion on Scott C. Waring’s UFO Sightings Daily blog.
According to Waring, the police officer’s claim that the strange men moved oddly could be explained by the structure of the legs of Tall White Aliens. Tall White Alien legs below the knees have a shape similar to a dog’s, Waring claimed.
“The police officer says that they moved oddly, which they do, because the shape of their leg (from the knee down) actually goes opposite direction from ours,” the alien hunter commented.
But, according to Waring, Tall Whites are able to mingle with humans unnoticed because they use advanced technology to disguise their appearance.
“Some kind of holo-emitter makes [their feet] appear human like, but they still cannot mask their odd walk,” Waring wrote.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that Tall White Aliens concluded a trade agreement with the U.S. government in the 1950s. The treaty required the U.S. government to provide certain mineral resources the aliens needed in exchange for access to advanced aerospace technology needed to run Pentagon black projects.
It is claimed that a community of Tall White Alien scientists, engineers, and technicians live in an underground base at the Nellis Air Force Base, a few miles outside Las Vegas.
[Image via Shutterstock]
Source www.inquisitr.com
Illinois UFO described as five orbs inside bright light

An Illinois witness at Lake County reported watching and photographing a bright light UFO that appeared to have five smaller orbs inside of it, according to testimony in Case 81037 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness noticed a bright light in the sky at 5:30 p.m. on December 18, 2016.
“Thought it was a star or planet, but then it started flashing and then started moving more to my right,” the witness stated. “Thought it was a satellite, but thought it was too large to be one.”
The witness then used a cell phone and zoomed in on the object.
“I saw a big orb with five little orbs inside. I tried to take a video, but it was too far out there to zoom in on for a video. I kept looking at it through a zoomed picture and it kept breaking up into five smaller orbs, then three, then two, and then reassembled itself into one big orb. I then noticed an orb by it detach itself and then sporadically went left of the orb and then vanished. The object was in my sight for about two hours and then slowly vanished behind the treeline of my house.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness uploaded five images with the MUFON report, which was filed on December 18, 2016. Illinois MUFON State Section Director James Wolford investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“The complex structure and behavior of the object rules out natural phenomena,” Wolford stated in his report. “This was something artificial with technology that may be beyond man-made construction. My disposition for this case is Unknown – Other.”
Cropped and enlarged witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Some additional Rendlesham documentation from the US Air Force
Some additional Rendlesham documentation from the US Air Force

Explained: Chilean Navy
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFfuIidCK0
Infrared footage from the Chilean Navy appears to show some kind of flying object that briefly leaves a trail behind it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry..._us_586d37bce4b014e7c72ee56b?lciacn1ruwjkmx6r
At 1:52 pm, while filming the terrain, the technician observed a strange object flying to the left over the ocean. Soon both men observed it with the naked eye. They noticed that the velocity and the altitude of the object appeared to be about the same as the helicopter, and estimated that the object was approximately 35 to 40 miles (55-65 km) away. It was traveling W/NW, according to the Captain. The technician aimed the camera at the object immediately and zoomed in with the infra red (IR) for better clarity.
(Full footage can be seen here)
This looks like a plane, flying away from the camera considerably higher than the helicopter (somewhere around 15,000 to 25,000 feet), that briefly creates an aerodynamic contrail.
Based on analysis by @Trailblazer, @Trailspotter, myself, and others, There are likely TWO planes involved IB6830 and LA330. The plane that initially seems to fit best is LA330, a two engined A320, which was reported to be climbing through 20,000 feet at that exact visual position at 14:01:39. It was actually 65 miles away, not 35-50. This explain why it was not seen on radar (the actual plane was on radar, just not where they thought it was)
https://planefinder.net/flight/LXP330/time/2014-11-11T17:01:39 UTC/speed/15.00
The second plane is IB6830 which left earlier, and was climbing out more to the south, nearer to the helicopter. At the time this was spotted (the very first sighting on the video, at 13:52:34) the plane was actually around 35 miles away. However it would very quickly get further away. By 13:57 it would be 65 miles away.
Plane Finder misreports the altitude in the web browser, likely because of some zero altitude ADS-B report. Inspecting the actual data packets reveals the real reported altitude. Repairing the data by interpolating the missing altitudes allows us to recreate 3D tracks in Google Earth with correct timestamps (attached). (Update 1-10-2016: Added Flightaware track)
We can now geolocate the LA330 and the other candidate (plane IB6830) in the helicopter image. Their tracks intersect in the region viewed in IR, they have correct slope, and appear in that region at the same time as they appear in the video.
And it is not simply that the tracks intersect. The planes are in exactly the right position. We can position both the planes and the chopper precisely with the GPS data, match the camera direction from the wide shot, and the position of the plane then matches exactly.
The two large blobs are flared images from the heat of the engines (much smaller in reality). You can see this effect with some candles if you view them from a distance.
(Here's a video of the above experiment)
The flaring is more apparent if you look at it uninverted. The engines appear as two very bright lights
The aerodynamic contrail starts ands stop in a similar way to the trail in this video (not a "chemtrail" though, this just a regular aerodynamic contrail)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjy0NcUCTEc
There are a few different relevant images from the video:
This is a close-up of the object early in the video:
This shows that the plane is banked at this point - i.e. it is turning to the right (remember it is flying away from the camera). This matches the earlier part of the track for both LA330 and IB6830 (and is likely IB6830, based on the time). Compare it with this video of a plane taking off. It is much closer, however at the end of the video you see the two engines tilted at about the same angle as the "UFO" while the plane turns right.
At one point (9:08) they switch between the IR camera and a regular (visible light) camera. you can see the trail qute distinctly. It looks very like a contrail.
Why is it showing up as warmer? Aerodynamic contrails can form in air is that is water saturated, but in which no clouds have yet formed. The drop in pressure increases the relative humidity enough for a water condensation cloud to form. This can also freeze if the temperature is cold enough.
There's a couple of possibilities. Possibly we are seeing a water cloud aerodynamic contrail that has absorbed heat from the exhaust, temporarily making it warmer than the surroundings.
But a more likely possibility is that the dense contrail is simply reflecting heat. FLIR measures the temperature of things by the heat they emit, so if they are reflective then they can give a misleading reading. Clouds reflect heat, in one shot in the video the clouds seem like the same color as the jet exhaust (black). That does not mean they are the same temperature:
A few seconds later
[Note: this top post will be updated with information from the discussion below, so some of what follows may seem repetitive]
References: IPACO Report
[Note on change from just LA330 to mostly IB6830 - I had originally identified the entire sequence as LA330 when I was working with only the image of the planes tracks from Planefinder.net. After I was able to extract the actual 3D tracks and view them from the position of the Chopper in google earth, it became apparent that IB6830 was the better fit (pretty much a perfect fit). However it did not fit the last short sequence, which still was best explained by LA330]
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: If it was a plane then why did it not respond to hailing
A: A pilot familiar with Santiago departure responds:
]The helicopter seems to have tried to call on 121.5. The are a couple of problems with that, Most aircraft don't set that frequency until some time after takeoff which can vary from airline to airline, and if they were listening, unless whoever was calling used their callsign, they wouldn't respond.
Q: Why did it not show up on radar?
They were looking for a low flying object south of the airport about 35 miles away, by the time they looked it was at a high altitude and 65 miles away.
Q:How can it be a contrail cloud if it's as hot as the engine?
A: It's not as hot as the engines, it's a similar color in the IR to other clouds in the images. It's just a denser cloud, and so reflects more radiation. Even if they were dumping boiling water it would have been atomized into a cloud cooled to ambient temperature in less than a minute. But this looks just like a contrail.
Q: Don't contrails only form above 30,000 feet?
A: That's where exhaust contrails are most frequent. However this appear to be a semi persistent aerodynamic contrail which often form on climbing aircraft between 20,000 to 30,000 feet (and sometimes lower).
Q: Why should we trust your theory over the experts?
A: I could argue I'm an expert too (at identifying planes and contrails), or that the CEFAA is really a UFOology group, or that even experts make mistakes. However let's drop that "Argument for authority", and look at facts you can verify yourself.
We have some very solid verifiable evidence in
1 matches 2 in every way
This is not my theory. These are verifiable facts that I (and others) simply discovered. Unless there was a UFO flying between the plane and the helicopter, mimicking the motion, the banking, the size and and the thermal signature of the plane, then it's a plane.
see the full article in :