Four UFO Disks Sucking Data Over Communication Towers In Mexico, Photo, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 2-5-2006

Location of sighting: Mexico

Source: MUFON #81662

I think I report more UFO sightings from Mexico than any other country in the world. Here is a UFO report that came in today, but occurred back in 2006. Look closely, you can even see into the clear dome on top of the ships. Four glowing green disks were recorded near some telecommunication towers. The UFOs were obviously recording data and information being sent around the globe from those towers. One photo caught them, but by the time the second photo was taken, the UFOs self monitoring systems had already detected the person and camera and altered their cloaking shields to once again appear invisible. AI probably runs these functions on their ships so it can react lightening fast. All photos are untouched, original. At first, the UFOs might be mistaken for a reflection, but in all actuality, the UFOs were revealed by the powerful lights below, some of which contain infrared lights which can see at night, and it was night, so this caused them to become visible to the camera for a few moments until shield harmonics were altered to hid them. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

Take a photograph with a long exposure of the telecommunications towers, about 800 m away, seeing the photograph in my house I discovered those lights, the exhibition was 3 minutes. Return to the following week and take another with the same parameters and this time did not appear anything.

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Explained: Chilean Navy "UFO" video - Aerodynamic Contrails, Flight IB6830

If you are short on time, then I made a one minute video explaining this:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFfuIidCK0

Background: Infrared footage from the Chilean Navy appears to show some kind of flying object that briefly leaves a trail behind it.µ

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry..._us_586d37bce4b014e7c72ee56b?lciacn1ruwjkmx6r

(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 were only two planes possibly 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.

https://planefinder.net/flight/LXP330/time/2014-11-11T17:01:39 UTC/speed/15.00

While this seemed like a good fit just based on this overhead view, subsequent 3D analysis revealed that IB6830 (a four engined A340) is actually a perfect match. IB6830 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) IB6830 was actually around 35 miles away. However it would very quickly get further away. By 13:57 IB6830 would be 65 miles away. This explain why it was not seen on radar (IB6830 was on radar, just not where they thought it was)

Initially I had to extract the data for the track from Planefinder, but then I located the FlightAware GPS track. Using this, multiple other examples of IB6830's departure, and the official departure charts, I was able to create a track in google earth using actual GPS coordinates (blue) and estimated positions (orange).

 

Since we have timestamped GPS locations, we can now geolocate IB6830 and LA330 in Google Earth, and create views of frames from the helicopter video using the coastline and mountains to get the exact heading.

IB6830 is 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 IB6830 then matches exactly. 



Here's a video showing how it matches up:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoqxr6AI7VQ


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 with an IR camera. I used the FLIR ONE to do this:

(Here's a video of the above experiment)

We can see how large the flares look at various stages of the path.



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. This matches the part of the track for IB6830 where it turns to the north, 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 are essentially clouds, and at this altitude they will be ice clouds, below below freezing. They show up as darkly colored for the same reason that other clouds in the scene show up dark. It's simply the camera adjusting the exposure for the very cold sky. The engines are small so they don't effect the exposure much (and hence they flare). So the net result is that anything warmer than radiation coming from clear sky will appear dark.

A few seconds later



It also seems a bit odd that there is very little change in the heading and elevation angles in the video. This becomes clear if you look at the angles and distances involved

 

The thin white lines here connect the chopper and the plane at equal times, as you can see the heading angle between them does not change much.

The altitude of the plane varies from ~5000m to 9000m, while the distance varies from 70km to 170km, the chopper is about 1400m, we can draw a diagram to see the angles

As you can see there is very little change from the start (2.93°) to the end (1.94). Basically it should vary from about 3° to about 2° (appearing to be descending faster at the start)

[Note: this top post will be updated with information from the discussion below, so some of what follows may seem repetitive]

References: IPACO Report

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:

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. The plane actually does show up on radar in data supplied by CEFAA

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 dense cloud which is a lot warmer than the far background sky. Even if they were dumping boiling water it would have been atomized by the 300 mph wind into a cloud and cooled to ambient temperature in seconds.

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 did you change from LA330 to both IB6830 and then to just IB6830?
There were only every two possible planes. LA330 looked better when simply viewing the tracks from above. But later 3D recreation showed that IB6830 (flying a similar path) was a better fit. LA330 still looked like a good fit for the final shot, but more detailed analysis of the path eventually showed it could only be IB6830

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 lacks expertise in some areas, 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. The helicopter video with timestamps and GPS coordinates.
2. The IB6830 and LA330 ADS-B tracks with timestamps and GPS coordinates.

1 matches 2 in every way

• IB6830 is in the right place at the right place
• IB6830 is going in the right direction
• IB6830 banks when the "UFO" banks,
• IB6830 would create a visual thermal signature the same size as in the video.
• IB6830 engine configuration matches the flares seen in the banking
• The size of IB6830's thermal signature shrinks proportional to its distance, matching the video.
• Contrails derived from the IB6830's track would have the same apparent size as in the video.

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 also:

• Explained: Contrails Appear "Hot" in Thermal Imaging because the Sky Appears Very Cold
• Recreating the missing section of IB6830's ADS-B track

Huffington post update:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...deo-is-it-a-plane_us_587e7277e4b06a0baf6490ef

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CIA releases INCREDIBLE top secret image of UFO flying over the Eiffel Tower

IS this finally proof of the existence of extra terrestrial life?

By George Martin 

CIA

The CIA has released a mind-boggling image of what appears to be a UFO flying over the Eiffel Tower.

The black and white photo shows what looks like a flying saucer hovering over the famous landmark in Paris.

It is unclear who the photographer was, or even when the snap was taken, but the grainy photo will be heralded as a huge discovery for UFO-believers.

CIA

The photo was revealed as part of a mass “de-classification” by the CIA.

A huge haul of documents were released - consisting of 800,000 files with 12 million pages

The CIA uploaded the trove of material following a battle against freedom of information campaigners and a lawsuit taken out against it.

The files include records of credible UFO sightings, controversial psychic experiments that were carried out and intelligence briefings.

Some of the most shocking documents include those about a top secret programme that was codenamed the “Stargate Project”.

They also contain spy-like instructions on formulas used to make “secret ink” and how to open sealed letters.

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CIA files: Uri Geller has real powers

The documents include, amongst other things, research documents, intelligence briefs, UFO sightings, psychic experiments, and others.

Among the documents there are records of Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, hundreds of thousands of pages of intelligence analysis, and other scientific studies. There are also documents from the "Star Gate" program, which dealt with mental powers and extrasensory perception.

Uri Geller (Photo: Dana Koppel)

According to the papers, scientists from Stanford University tested Israeli mentalist Uri Geller in 1973. Geller was already famous all over the world by this point.

The scientists said of Geller that he had “proven his supernatural perception unequivocally.”

The CIA's drawings, right, with Geller's drawings, left

A 2013 documentary claimed that the CIA asked Geller to use his powers, but that he refused the request once he was instructed to stop pigs’ beating hearts. He worried that he will be requested to do this on a human. Geller said that he refused to do several other “dark” experiments, and only would do positive tasks.

Some of the other tasks requested of Geller were to levitate plates, and to recreate a drawing drawn by researchers in a separate, closed room. Geller, having never seen the drawings, was able to reproduce them to a high degree of accuracy.

Jimmy Carter's UFO Sighting - Was it Venus, or a Space Cloud?

A NASA rocket launch with a barium payload.

A UFO sighting was reported in 1973 by at-that-time future president president Jimmy Carter. It didn't attract much attention at the time. I began investigating the case in 1976, when Carter was running for president. However, there was no accurate information available to make it possible to find out what Carter saw. I began making various inquiries, looking for someone who might be able to provide some facts on the case. Finally, someone suggested that I contact Hayden Hewes, director of the International UFO Bureau, who had written a brief piece on the Carter sighting for Argosy UFO [Nov., 1976]. I reached Mr. Hewes by telephone at his home in Oklahoma City, and it was he who provided the first significant lead. When brief press reports appeared during the big UFO flap of 1973 to the effect that Governor Carter had previously spotted a UFO, the International UFO Bureau mailed a UFO sighting report to Carter at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Carter apparently filled out the form in some haste, his handwritten replies brief and not easily legible. He then mailed it back to Oklahoma. Mr. Hewes was kind enough to lend me a photographic transparency of the 1973 report in Carter's own handwriting.

It turns out that the sighting occurred in Leary, Georgia, about forty miles from Carter's home town of Plains, on the evening of January 6, 1969. (Carter mis-remembered the date as sometime on October, 1969, but I contacted the Lions Club headquarters in Illinois, which established the date as January 6). The future president was then the local district governor of the Lion's Club, and had come to Leary to boost the local chapter. While standing outdoors at approximately 7:15 pm, waiting for the Lion's Club meeting to begin, Mr. Carter reported seeing a single "self-luminous" object, "as bright as the moon," which reportedly approached and then receded several times. A reporter taped Carter's exact words in 1973 describing the UFO sighting. Carter said, 

There were about twenty of us standing outside of a little restaurant, I believe, a high school lunch room, and a kind of a green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter. And then eventually it disappeared. It didn't have any solid substance to it, it was just a very peculiar-looking light. None of us could understand what it was. I've never made fun of people who've seen other things of that kind (From the documentary recording Factual Eyewitness Testimony of UFO Encounters, Chicago: Investigative Research Associates, Inc., 1978).

A copy of Carter's hand-written UFO sighting report, that I obtained from Hayden Hewes.

Although Carter reports that "ten members" of the Leary Lion's Club also witnessed the event, attempts to locate ten other witnesses proved fruitless. No one else seems to have paid much attention to the "UFO." While most Leary residents I interviewed did recall Mr. Carter's visit, even those who attended the meeting had no recollection or knowledge of any unidentified object being sighted.

I began making inquiries of various UFO researchers, looking for someone who might be able to provide some facts on the case. Finally, someone suggested that I contact Hayden Hewes, director of the International UFO Bureau, who had written a brief piece on the Carter sighting for Argosy UFO [Nov., 1976]. I reached Mr. Hewes by telephone at his home in Oklahoma City, and it was he who provided the first significant lead. When brief press reports appeared during the big UFO flap of 1973 to the effect that Governor Carter had previously spotted a UFO, the International UFO Bureau mailed a UFO sighting report to Carter at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Carter apparently filled out the form in some haste, his handwritten replies brief and not easily legible. He then mailed it back to Oklahoma. Mr. Hewes was kind enough to lend me a photographic transparency of the 1973 report in Carter's own handwriting.

Mr. Carter reports that his "UFO" was in the western sky, at about 30 degrees elevation. This almost perfectly matches the known position of Venus, which was in the west-southwest at an altitude of 25 degrees, azimuth 237 degrees. It was shining brilliantly at Magnitude -4.3, brighter than anything else in the sky. Weather records show that the sky was clear at the time of the sighting. Given the long history of Venus as "Queen of the UFOs," it seemed that we had the clear solution on hand. I wrote in  The Humanist magazine (then edited by Paul Kurtz), July-August, 1977 (p.46)

President Carter's "UFO" Is Identified as the Planet Venus

President Jimmy Carter's widely-reported "UFO sighting," which he made public while Governor of Georgia, was in fact a misidentification of the planet Venus. Several errors of identification within Mr. Carter's report demonstrate that the eyewitness testimony of even a future president of the United States cannot be taken at face value when investigating UFO sightings.

The incident occurred in Leary, Georgia, about forty miles from Plains, on the evening of January 6, 1969. Mr. Carter was the local district governor of the Lion's Club, and had come to Leary to boost the local chapter. While standing outdoors at approximately 7:15 pm, waiting for the Lion's Club meeting to begin, Mr. Carter reported seeing a single "self-luminous" object, "as bright as the moon," which reportedly approached and then receded several times. Mr. Carter reports that his "UFO" was in the western sky, at about 30 degrees elevation. This almost perfectly matches the known position of Venus, which was in the west-southwest at an altitude of 25 degrees. Weather records show that the sky was clear at the time of the sighting.

No other object generates as many UFO reports as the planet Venus. Venus is not as bright as the moon, nor does it actually approach the viewer, or change size and brightness, but descriptions like these are typical of misidentifications of a bright planet. Every time Venus reaches its maximum brilliance in the evening sky, hundreds of "UFO sightings" of this type are made. At the time of the Carter UFO sighting, Venus was a brilliant evening star, nearly one hundred times brighter than a first-magnitude star.

And for the most part, serious UFO researchers accepted this identification. After all, Jacques Vallee, who is certainly no debunker, had written,

No single object has been misinterpreted as a "flying saucer" more than the planet Venus. The study of these mistakes proves quite instructive, for it shows beyond all possible dispute the limitations of sensory perception and the weakness of accounts relating shapes and motions of point sources or objects with small apparent diameters. (Challenge to Science, 1966, p. 110).

The southwest sky as seen from Leary, Ga, at 7:15 PM January 6, 1969. The Bull's Eye shows the calculated position where a barium cloud might have been visible, quite close to Venus. (Sky chart generated using the free open-source program Cartes du Ciel.)

So there the matter stood for forty years. Then just a week ago, an associate of space writer and skeptic James Oberg contacted him, suggesting the possibility that what Carter might have seen was a bright barium space cloud from a NASA rocket, launched to study the behavior of the upper atmosphere. In fact, this possibility was discussed in episode 561 of the popular skeptics' podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe on April 9, 2016, although neither Oberg nor I was aware of this. I was familiar with such launches, and even saw one in the 1970s when I was living in Maryland. (Frankly, the one I saw was not all that bright or spectacular.) 

James Oberg made this map, showing the location of Leary, Georgia, and the path of the rockets.

It turns out that there were in fact two rocket launches from Eglin AFB in the Florida panhandle on the evening of January 6 that might possibly have been seen from Leary. The first one was launched at 6:41 PM, and contained Barium, which would usually appear red. The second was launched at 7:35 PM, and contained Tri-methyl aluminum (TMA), which would appear white or blue. Each would have become visible about 3-4 minutes after launch, and might have remained visible for 30 minutes or more. Carter said that he was "Outside waiting for a meeting to begin at 7:30 PM." If that information is correct, it would seem to rule out them seeing the second launch. However, the cloud that became visible about 6:45 PM might still be visible at 7:15. And that cloud would have been right next to the brilliant Venus!

Supporting the Barium cloud hypothesis are Carter's statements that the object "Seemed to move tow(ard?) us from a distance - Sto(p?) move partially away Return then depart Bluish at first - then reddish - Luminous - not solid.

Against the Barium cloud hypothesis is Carter's statement that the object was "sharply outlined."

More research needs to be done before we can conclude that a Barium space cloud was definitely responsible for this famous sighting. But it seems an intriguing possibility.

For a lot more information on the Carter UFO sighting, see my book UFO Sightings - The Evidence (Prometheus, 1998) and my page on the Carter sighting on Debunker.com.

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André Skondras Is it true, as some skeptics proclaim, that most UFOs are IFOs caused by the planet Venus, ice crystals, clouds and other atmospheric phenomena? Is this substantiated from the sightings statistics?Bekijk vertaling

Vind ik leuk · Antwoorden · 43 min.

André Skondras I just received a reply from a highly skeptical researcher: "Skeptics and debunkers cannot provide any Venus IFO stats. I challenged a Belgian UFO researcher a few years back and he had nothing, in fact could not even find a single recent case on his UFO reporting group's sighting list." ;)Bekijk vertaling

Vind ik leuk · Antwoorden · 9 min.

André Skondras And this highly skeptical researcher went on to say: "The Carter sighting has been nailed as the rocket barium cloud and here we find Sheaffer trying to oppose it with nitpicking and pleas for open mind because it explodes his Venus theory." ;)Bekijk vertaling

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Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier

By 1983, the fundamental elements of American stealth innovation were at the point of being public knowledge.

After the war, the latest scientific improvements prompted the idea of planning an airframe that could sidestep radar. It was found that a jet-powered, flying wing design, just like the Horten Ho 229 will have a little radar cross-area to traditional contemporary twin-motor aircraft. This is because the wings were merged into the fuselage and there were no extensive propeller disks or vertical and horizontal tail surfaces to give a locatable radar signature.

Reimar Horten said he blended charcoal dust with the wood paste to soak up electromagnetic waves (radar), which he accepted could shield the aircraft from identification by British early warning ground-based radar that worked at 20 to 30 MHz (the top end of the HF band), which is called Chain Home radar.

Engineers of the Northrop-Grumman Corporation had a great interest on the Ho 229, and a few of them went to the Smithsonian Museum’s office in Silver Hill, Maryland in the 1980s to learn about and study the V3 airframe. A group of engineers from Northrop-Grumman did some electromagnetic experimentation the V3’s multilayer wooden middle-area nose cones.

The cones are 3/4 of an inch (19 mm) thick and made up of thin sheets of veneer. The group inferred that there was surely some type of conducting element within the paste, as the radar signal lessened extensively as it passed through the cone.

So it turns out Hitler was far along with developing a plane that was far ahead of its time!

The Horten Ho 229 being restored at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Credits: Cynrik de Decker)

This is the only surviving prototype

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Marsrover Curiosity heeft mogelijk sporen van opgedroogde modder in het vizier

Caroline Kraaijvanger

De rover heeft gesteente met daarop kleine richeltjes ontdekt die mogelijk een heel interessant verhaal vertellen.

Wat nu richeltjes zijn, waren in een grijs verleden waarschijnlijk scheuren in opgedroogde modder, zo stelt NASA. De opgedroogde modder met daarin de scheuren zou zo’n drie miljard jaar geleden met sedimenten bedekt zijn. Veel later werden die sedimenten door toedoen van erosie verwijderd. Materialen die de scheuren in de modder gevuld hadden, konden die erosie beter hebben dan de opgedroogde modder eromheen. Vandaar dat we de scheuren nu als hogergelegen richeltjes aantreffen. NASA heeft de plek waar de vermoedelijke sporen van opgedroogde modder zijn aangetroffen Old Soaker gedoopt.

Old Soaker. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.

Curiosity doet onderzoek in de Gale-krater en heeft diverse aanwijzingen gevonden dat deze krater in het verleden gevuld was met water. Maar Old Soaker suggereert dat dit meer ook periodes van droogte kende, zo stelt NASA. Eerder zijn in gesteentelagen die lager liggen dan Old Soaker sporen gevonden van een oud meer. Hetzelfde trof de ruimtevaartorganisatie aan in gesteentelagen die jonger zijn dan Old Soaker. Die gesteentelagen – die elk uit een andere periode in de geschiedenis van Mars stammen – lijken van elkaar gescheiden te worden door een gesteentelaag die getuigt van een periode van droogte. Blijkbaar varieerde de diepte en omvang van het meer van tijd tot tijd en verdween het meer zelfs zo af en toe compleet. “We zien meer bewijs voor droge perioden,” stelt onderzoeker Ashwin Vasavada.

Onderzoekers zullen de komende tijd gebruiken om de gegevens die Curiosity over Old Soaker heeft verzameld te analyseren. De rover heeft Old Soaker inmiddels weer verlaten. De rover zoekt het nog altijd hogerop op Mount Sharp, de berg in het hart van de Gale-krater. Binnenkort zou Curiosity één van de gesteentelagen die deze berg rijk is nader moeten bestuderen met behulp van zijn boor. Onderzoekers kijken momenteel hoe de rover dat het beste aan kan pakken, aangezien er vorige maand een probleem met de boor ontstond.

Bronmateriaal:

"Mars Rover Curiosity Examines Possible Mud Cracks" - NASA

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'Het leven is mogelijk meerdere keren op aarde ontstaan'

Caroline Kraaijvanger

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THE MYSTERIOUS MONCHEGORSK OBJECT

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Is this a UFO coming out of the ocean in El Salvador?

According to Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher “Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans.”

So UFOs tend to stick to the oceans and flying in and out of the water? 

Now look at this satellite image of the Gulf of Fonseca near the Island of Meanguera in El Salvador, it shows a very strange unknown object in the sea that generates strange patterns on the water.

According to researchers it is a natural maritime phenomenon but I don’t buy it. What kind of a natural phenomenon can create such strange patterns and ripples in a further perfectly calm ocean?

There is much discussion as whether it is a natural phenomenon or a UFO coming out of the water or going into the water.

Any idea what it could be? Check it out yourself:

Google Earth coordinates: 13° 9'38.34"N 87°42'26.38"W
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@13.1606302,-87.7082928,760m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

Cassini Gets Up Close and Personal With Saturn's 'Wavemaker' Moon Daphnis

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Cassini's daring ring-skimming orbits of Saturn are already paying off, producing some beautiful and awe-inspiring views that have, until now, been too far away to see. But now, as this almost surreal observation of Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis shows, we're finally getting a really good look at the small-scale processes that are at work in Saturn's rings.

Orbiting the Saturnian system since 2004, NASA's Cassini mission has enriched us incredible views of the seemingly flat ring plane. Beyond the robotic probe's camera resolution, however, are the ripples and waves that are inevitably caused by the gravities of small moons embedded in the many ring gaps. In one 26-mile-wide gap, called the Keeler Gap, a 5-mile-wide moon roams and it has a pretty dramatic effect on the tiny particles at the gap's borders.

The oblique viewing angle is a little misleading; we're not looking directly down on the ring plane, we're actually looking at the moon from the side. The waves in the foreground are therefore rippling up and down as the moon goes about its orbit. The ring gap also looks more narrow than its 26-mile width, an optical effect known as foreshortening. Cassini was 17,000 miles from the moon when this image was captured on Jan. 16.

RELATED: Cassini's Last Days at Saturn Will be Science Gold

Previously, in 2009, Cassini was able to spot these waves in Saturn's rings, albeit from afar, when the ringed gas giant was passing through its equinox. At this time, the ring plane was parallel to the direction of sunlight, allowing any vertical structures in the rings to cast a long shadow:

Cassini's view of Daphnis and the waves it creates in 2009 when the spacecraft was 414,000 miles from the moon.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Viewing Daphnis so close means that previously unseen details pop into view. Of particular note is the narrow ridge that seems to run around the moon's equator and the smooth layer that covers its surface — traits shared by other ring moons Atlas and Pan. These features are likely a build-up of ring particles that have collided with the moon and accumulated during its orbits. Also, small craters are evident, proving that even the smallest of moons are not immune from impacts.

RELATED: Cassini's Breathtaking New View of Saturn's Enigmatic Hexagon

Another feature is a thin wisp of dusty material to the left of the moon, likely a clump of dust pulled from the gap's edge, which is now trailing the moon and spreading out.

Although Cassini's mission will end in September, with a fiery farewell into Saturn's atmosphere, as this latest observation shows, there's a lot more surprises in store as it sets itself up for a sequence of polar orbits that will take the spacecraft through the ring plane — a feat that has never before been attempted.

WATCH VIDEO: Why Doesn't Earth Have Rings?

Originally published on Seeker.

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The Most Amazing Space Stories This Week!

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last human to set foot on the moon, seen on the lunar surface in December 1972. Cernan passed away on Jan. 16, 2016.

Credit: NASA

The last human to walk on the moon died. A first-time astronaut shared his first-ever spacewalk with the world. The U.S. got a new president, leaving experts to contemplate the future of space policy. 2016 set a record for global temperatures. And scientists found ice spikes on Pluto and a meteorite on Mars. Here are our picks for the best and most important space stories of the week.

Rest in peace, moonwalker

Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last human to set foot on the moon, passed away on Jan. 14. He was 82. Cernan's friends and colleagues have been memorializing his life and legacy this week. [Full Story: Apollo Astronaut Eugene Cernan, Last Man to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 82]

Trump and NASA

Donald J. Trump, who was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday (Jan. 20), may have to make some big decisions regarding NASA programs. Here are six things to know about the new administration's relationship with and plans for the nation's space agency. [Full Story: 6 Things to Know About Trump and NASA]

It's getting hot in here

2016 was officially the hottest year on record, and human activity is to blame for the rise in temperatures, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This is the third consecutive year to reach record temperature highs. NASA's Earth Science program assisted NOAA in measuring the year's global temperatures.[Full Story: 2016 Was Earth's Hottest Year on Record, and Humans Are to Blame]

This rock's not from around here 

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity found a rock that might have fallen from space. This photo shows the likely meteorite, known as "Ames Knob," on the surface of Mars on Jan. 12, 2017.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been a busy little bot of late. NASA released a photo from the rover showing shallow crevices in the Martian soil, perhaps formed from ancient mud cracks, indicating the presence of water. Curiosity also recently spotted a rock on the Red Planet's surface that likely fell from space. The gray, iron-nickel meteorite, dubbed Ames Knob, looks distinctly different from the typical red-hued Martian rocks. It is not the first meteorite that Curiosity has identified on the Martian surface. If the rock hit the planet long ago, scientists could use the meteorite to learn something about the ancient Martian surface. [Full Story: Weird Mars Rock Spied by Curiosity Rover Is Probably a Meteorite]

Ice spikes spotted on Pluto

Scientists think they've found evidence of naturally forming, spiked columns of ice and snow called "penitentes" on Pluto's surface. On Earth, these features can grow to be several feet high; they form at high altitudes where ice can transform directly into vapor. If Pluto has these features, it's likely that they also exist on other icy worlds in the solar system. [Full Story: Prickly Pluto Could Reveal Ice Spikes Are Common on Other Worlds]

The cost of a perfect solar storm

If a perfect solar storm were to hit the United States and knock out major power grids, it could create an economic loss of $42 billion per day, according to a new study. Solar storms are ejections of charged particles from the sun, and space experts have warned federal agencies of these storms' potentially devastating impacts on power grids and satellite communications. [Solar Storm Blackout Could Cost the US $42 Billion Per Day]

A photogenic spacewalk

European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet snapped a series of awesome space selfies during his first spacewalk, on Jan. 13, 2017

Credit: ESA/NASA

First-time astronaut and Frenchman Thomas Pesquet, who is currently living on the International Space Station, recently completed a 6-hour spacewalk. Pesquet is proving to be quite the space photographer; he snapped several photos while he was outside the station, including some spectacular self-portraits. [Full Story: Astronaut's First Spacewalk Photos Are Out of This World!]

Space traffic jams

Experts on spaceflight and space-based technologies say the federal government needs to act now to address the growing issue of space traffic. As more and more countries and private companies launch objects into orbit, the problem of space traffic grows larger, and experts fear governments aren't adapting quickly enough. [Full Story: Many Questions, Few Answers When it Comes to Space Traffic Management, Experts Say]

Mirror, mirror

The Giant Magellan Telescope will peer deep into the cosmos using the largest single-piece mirrors ever made. Each mirror takes years to complete, and even microscopic errors could sabotage the entire instrument. [Full Story: Making the Giant Magellan Telescope's Massive, Incredibly Precise Mirrors]

Waiting to boldly go …

The much-anticipated new television show that will take place in the "Star Trek" universe seems to have been delayed again. "Star Trek: Discovery" was initially scheduled to debut this month, but that date was pushed to May. Now, network executives say the debut date is "flexible," and that production is set to begin before February. [Full Story: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Delayed, Classic Character Re-Cast]

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THE ABDUCTION HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

While the idea of alien life touching down on Earth has been around since the earliest of civilizations, no one had really been addressing any occurrences in our lifetime until the abduction of Barney and Betty Hill.

On September 19th,1961 while driving up Route 3 towards Portsmouth, NH from a Niagara Fall vacation, Betty had noticed something in the sky. It appeared to be a falling star, only its trajectory was abnormal and seemed to be getting bigger and brighter as they kept driving.

Since it moved so erratically, Betty’s curiosity grew to the point she urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look. They stopped just south of Twin Mountain. Here Betty observed the flying craft, through binoculars, and noticed flashing multi-colored lights as it traveled across the face of the moon.

When Barney first observed the craft, he came to the reasoning that it was just a commercial airliner. This conclusion changed however once the object changed course and descended, accelerating towards him without turning around. With the realization that no plane could maneuver in such a way, he quickly returned to the car and drove toward Franconia Notch, a narrow mountainous stretch of the road.

Driving slowly through the isolated road of Franconia Notch, the Hills observed the object as it came even closer. They watched as it passed over a restaurant, a signal tower on top of Cannon Mountain, and even near the Old Man of the Mountain.

Betty had stated that compared to the mountain profile, it was at least one and a half times its length, which was 40 feet (12 m) long. She also stated that it seemed to be rotating. The Hills kept watching the ever changing movements of the craft as it bounced through the night sky.

Just south of Indian Head, Barney had to stop in the middle of the highway as the object instantly descended toward their vehicle. As the enormous, inaudible craft hovered over the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, Barney grabbed the binoculars and pistol he kept in the car and headed towards the object by foot. Looking through the binoculars, Barney saw 8 to 11 humanoid figures who seemed to looking back at him from the windows of the spacecraft.

As if all at once, all but one figure moved towards a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front section of the craft. While the others went to the panel, the one stationary figure stayed looking at Barney and conveyed a message telling him to “stay where he was and keep looking.”

At this point, batwing-like fins with red lights began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The spacecraft, still silent, approached Barney with an estimated distance of 50–80 feet (15–24 m) overhead and 300 feet (91 m) away from him.

Looking through the binoculars, Barney saw 8 to 11 humanoid figures who seemed to looking back at him from the windows of the spacecraft. As if all at once, all but one figure moved towards a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front section of the craft. While the others went to the panel, the one stationary figure stayed looking at Barney and conveyed a message telling him to “stay where he was and keep looking.”

At this point, batwing-like fins with red lights began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The spacecraft, still silent, approached Barney with an estimated distance of 50–80 feet (15–24 m) overhead and 300 feet (91 m) away from him.

At this point, batwing-like fins with red lights began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The spacecraft, still silent, approached Barney with an estimated distance of 50–80 feet (15–24 m) overhead and 300 feet (91 m) away from him.

Ripping the binoculars from his face, Barney ran back to the car. As he rushed into the car he told Betty, with frantic hysterity, “They’re going to capture us!” At that same moment he saw the object shift its location to directly above their vehicle. With great urgency, Barney drove away post haste, alerting Betty to keep an eye on the object.

This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies. From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled.

The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies. From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds.

When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

With great urgency, Barney drove away post haste, alerting Betty to keep an eye on the object. This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies.

From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds.

When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

At that same moment he saw the object shift its location to directly above their vehicle. With great urgency, Barney drove away post haste, alerting Betty to keep an eye on the object.

This is where the Hills would finally hear the craft make its first sounds. They recalled hearing a rhythmic series of beeping, buzzing sounds which seemed to bounce off the trunk causing the whole vehicle to vibrate and send a tingling sensation through the Hills’ bodies.

From this point, the Hills remember going through an altered state of consciousness that left their minds dulled. The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

The couple were returned to consciousness with a second series of melodic beeping, buzzing sounds. When coming to, they found that they had traveled somewhere around 35 miles (56 km) south. Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

Their recollection of their trek down this road was vague and muted. One thing that stuck out was an unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and observing what appeared to be a fiery orb in the road.

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TRUMP TO NASA: 'FORGET MARS. I WANT YOU TO FIND ALIENS! GO TO JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA.'

During the presidential campaign, neither of the two candidates made space exploration or the American space exploration NASA a primary part of their agenda, and no questions were put to them on the topic during the presidential debates.

TRUMP ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS FOR NASA: SPACE EXPLORATION AND MINING

Reporters working specifically in the field of space said that when they directed questions towards the two candidates that Hillary Clinton showed herself to be a keen supporter of NASA and was very knowledge on the topic. Donald Trump, on the other hand, was described as giving vague and perfunctory answers. However, now Trump has been declared the President-elect, he has come out with a more detailed plan for NASA’s activities for his time in office, and his agenda promises to be the most ambitious in recent decades.

Trump has expressed his desire for NASA to move from a primarily Earth-monitoring agency to one that is more dedicated to space exploration. He has said that he would like NASA to be capable of exploring the farthest reaches of the solar system by the end of the century. 

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“I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low Earth orbit activity… Instead we will refocus its mission on space exploration.”

He has also spelled out specific plans for mining valuable minerals from the asteroid belt, visiting Europa (one of Jupiter’s moons which are believed to be a likely habitat for extra-terrestrial life) and perhaps even discovering planets close to our solar system which is home to alien life forms.

Robert Walker, a Republican congressman who sat on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee in the 1990s, is believed to have been instrumental in drawing up Trump’s plans for NASA. In public statements, he has focused more on the kind of technology the Trump administration hope that NASA will be able to create. He said;

“If you’re looking at technology that looks for the solar system, you are then likely to move toward plasma rockets, toward nuclear-powered rockets, certainly toward solar sails.”

Trump’s ambitious program for American space exploration has been compared to the goals set by President Kennedy in 1961 when he expressed a desire for the United States to overtake the Soviet Union in the space race.

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

If the words of Jim Bridenstine, who has been shortlisted to take over as the head of the space agency, are anything to go by then this patriotic line of thought is also prevalent in Trump’s plans for NASA.

“The United States of America is the only nation that can protect space for the free world and for responsible entities, and preserves space for generations to come, ”

said Bridenstine,

“America must forever be the preeminent spacefaring nation.”

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NEVER HEARD OF THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY? GET READY TO HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN

If there's one place that is still full of wonder, containing many different mysteries, it's probably the bottom of the ocean.

The deep, dark depths are a final frontier of sorts, and there is still much to see down there.

As an example of what's potentially waiting for us thousands of leagues under the sea, I'd like to introduce you to the so-called Baltic Sea Anomaly...

THE BALTIC SEA ANOMALY

The Baltic Sea Anomaly is an unidentified structure that was discovered via sonar and radar by a Swedish diving team back in 2011. 

The Swedish-based "Ocean X Team" was looking for a shipwreck somewhere between Sweden and Finland when they found the anomaly.

AN ANCIENT CRASHED UFO?

Since its discovery, theories about exactly what it is and where it came from have run the gamut. Most of the extreme opinions are based around the idea that what we're seeing is actually an ancient crashed UFO.

Conspiracy theorists postulate that the UFO must have crashed sometime during the Ice Age, though they aren't certain why it's there. 

Sadly there is an extreme lack of evidence to support these claims. Rock samples of the structure collected by the Swedish diving team found nothing anomalous about the structure. 

This has led many reputable authorities to brand the Baltic Anomaly a hoax. But that still hasn't stopped the conspiracy theory community from making videos like this about the anomaly. 

I really want one of these "mysteries" to turn out to be a real alien one day, but I'm patient. I won't sacrifice logic and critical thinking just because I want something bad enough ( via viralnova.com ).

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