Epic Cassini Saturn Mission Begins 'Grand Finale' This Month

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's veteran Cassini mission will officially kick off its farewell tour of the Saturn system on April 22 with a final close encounter of the ringed planet's largest moon, Titan. Five months later, on Sept. 15, Cassini will spectacularly burn up in Saturn's crushing atmosphere.

But before that happens, Cassini will dive through a 1,200-mile (1,930 kilometers) gap between the planet and its innermost ring to carry out science that is only possible now that the mission is running out of fuel.

"What a spectacular end to a spectacular mission," Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., said via video link at a special news conference held here today (April 4) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). [Cassini's 'Grand Finale' at Saturn: NASA's Plan in Pictures]

The "Grand Finale" will begin when Titan's gravity hurls the spacecraft close to Saturn's atmosphere, ending the probe's series of ring-grazing orbits and causing Cassini to dive through a gap in the rings.

Over the next 22 orbits between the planet and the innermost ring, Cassini will embark on a completely different phase of discovery. The spacecraft will carry out scientific measurements of the apparently empty environment between the planet's upper-atmosphere gases and the innermost edge of Saturn's D-ring.

"The Grand Finale is a brand-new mission," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL. "We're going to a place that we've never been before … and I think some of the biggest discoveries may come from these final orbits."

Artist’s illustration showing NASA’s Cassini spacecraft above Saturn's northern hemisphere prior to one of the probe’s 22 “Grand Finale” dives.

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This unique trajectory will allow Cassini to make incredibly detailed maps of Saturn's magnetic and gravitational fields, helping scientists understand what structures lie beneath the planet's atmosphere and, potentially, revealing the mechanisms behind Saturn's mysterious spin. This is also the best opportunity yet to get a good look at the mysterious hexagon etched into the clouds around Saturn's north pole, mission team members said.

Since arriving in Saturn orbit in 2004, Cassini has steered clear of the planet's icy ring material, opting for a more distant (and safer) orbit where the gas giant's family of moons could be studied and Saturn could be observed from afar. But now that the mission is in its final months, more risks can be taken to carry out observations that scientists would have only dreamed of earlier in the mission.

During the daring ring dives, Cassini will be closer to the planet than ever before. The probe will use its mass spectrometer to "taste" the chemistry of the tenuous gases on the outermost edge of Saturn's atmosphere and return the most detailed observations ever obtained of Saturn's high-altitude clouds and ring material. [Latest Saturn Photos by Cassini]

Mission team members are taking pains to minimize the dangers associated with this privileged view.

"We don't know exactly where that D-ring ends … so, to be on the safe side, we want to protect the spacecraft's instrumentation from these particles," Spilker said. After all, Cassini will be on a "ballistic trajectory," traveling at a speed of 76,000 mph (122,000 km/h).

"It's going to be kind of risky," Green said. "The ring material actually falls into Saturn, and it won't take much to stop our spacecraft at the velocity it is flying."

This artist’s illustration shows NASA’s Cassini probe plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017. The spacecraft will work to keep its antenna pointed at Earth while it sends its final data, including the composition of Saturn's upper atmosphere.

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Although models of Saturn's rings suggest the inner gap will be mainly empty, mission scientists said they assume some small particles will hit Cassini. So, as the spacecraft makes its ring-plane crossings, it will be oriented in such a way to maximize the shielding of delicate instrumentation behind Cassini's high-gain antenna.

"We expect a lot of impacts, but it will be like going through smoke … we believe the D-ring extends into Saturn," Cassini program manager Earl Maize, also of JPL, told Space.com. He added that mission team members are confident that Cassini will encounter only the smallest particles in the ring gap, and the probability of losing the spacecraft to an impact with something bigger is "less than 1 percent."

Cassini's Grand Finale is occurring this year because the spacecraft has been so active and so prolific, Maize added.   

"Back in 2010, we decided that we'd use every last kilogram of propellant to explore the Saturn system as thoroughly as we could," he said. "We'll end up with no gas in the tank, but at the same time, this is a very serious constraint. Ultimately, Cassini's discoveries (caused) its demise."

But why crash Cassini into Saturn? NASA decided to incinerate the probe to ensure that it doesn't careen into, and potentially contaminate, Titan or the fellow Saturn moon Enceladus, both of which may be capable of supporting life. (Cassini was sterilized before its October 1997 launch, but some microbes from Earth may still survive aboard the probe, agency officials have said.)

The $3.2 billion Cassini-Huygens mission — a joint effort of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency — has made a number of mind-blowing discoveries during its time in the Saturn system.

For example, Cassini spotted liquid-hydrocarbon seas on Titan, making the moon the only place beyond Earth known to harbor bodies of stable liquid on its surface. (And the mission's piggyback lander, called Huygens, touched down on Titan in January 2005, becoming the first probe ever to land on a body in the outer solar system.)

Cassini also discovered Enceladus' amazing water plumes, which in turn helped reveal that the satellite hosts an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell. And the probe has imaged Saturn's diverse family of moons in detail that was not possible before.

In addition, the mission has studied the dynamics of Saturn's rings extensively, revealing the intricate relationships among planet, rings and moons. Saturn's unique environment has acted like a natural laboratory, demonstrating how moons are formed and destroyed — findings that can be scaled up to better understand how planets formed around the sun and, perhaps, around other stars, scientists have said. In short, the data gathered by the spacecraft will keep researchers busy for decades to come, scientists said.

Cassini has been a decades-long odyssey for the scientists involved, and the probe's 3-minute final dive into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15 will be a bittersweet moment, the researchers said.

"I think that once the signal is lost, it would mean the heartbeat of Cassini is gone," said Spilker. "I think there will be a tremendous cheer and applause for the completion of an absolutely incredible mission. Hugs, tears — the Kleenex box will be passed around — but we will rejoice at being part of such a wonderful mission."

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UFO enthusiast mysteriously vanishes leaving behind a den filled with secret codes, 14 encrypted books and a statue of 16th Century philosopher who predicted aliens' existence 

• Bruno Borges, 24, disappeared from his home in Rio Branco in the west of Brazil
• He has spent the past month working on a special alien project, his sister said
• Psychology student locked himself in his room for hours on end on the project
• He covered his walls in code and produced 14 encrypted manuscripts on space 

By Gareth Davies For Mailonline

A UFO enthusiast who mysteriously vanished last week left behind a den plastered wall-to-wall with Illuminati codes and symbols. 

Bruno Borges, 24, disappeared from his home in Rio Branco in the west of Brazil having spent the past month working on what is being described as a secret project. 

In his furniture-free bedroom, police found a £2,000 statue of 16th-century philosopher Giordano Bruno who predicted alien life, 14 encrypted books and signs associated with the Illuminati spread across the floor.

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Bruno Borges, 24, poses with picture of popular fictional martial from the 1982 movie E.T.

Bruno Borges, pictured left, has not been seen since March 27 and left behind an eerie den where he had a £2,000 statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno who predicted alien life

The student's bedroom was left as a shrine to alien life with codes written on the wall 

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He has not been seen since March 27, and his father told local press he was last seen in a t-shirt and a pair of shorts and would have had no money nor documents.

Deputy Fabrizzio Sobreira, coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Office (DIC), who is leading the investigations, confirmed to the newspaper Acre TV all possibilities are being considered amid speculation he was abducted by the aliens he obsesses over.

His father, local businessman Athos Borges, told Globo: 'We've tried to call him on his cell phone, but he's off, he's never gone before, he did not take anything and the last time we saw him he was leaving home.'

Student disappears leaving behind a room full of obscure artifacts

Walls in Bruno Borges' den are covered in code and 14 books were found with a different Roman numeral on the cover of each one

Before disappearing, Borges wrote masses of codes on his walls and in 14 different books

The psychology student went missing shortly after his parents returned from a month-long trip, during which he stayed at home with his sister furiously beavering away at his project. 

When his parents left, his bedroom was said to be normal, but 25 days later they were covered in coded writing and symbols as well as 14 secret manuscripts, each with a different Roman numeral on the cover.

His sister, Gabriella, said he would lock himself in the den for hours on end and told Gaucho newspaper: 'We were very worried. Now we think he's okay. He has a project, which is the publication of these 14 books. I think he had to do it that way.'  

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UFO Seen Over Newcastle, Great Britain On Oct 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting:  October 2016

Location of sighting:  Newcastle, Great Britain

Source: MUFON #82983

This UFO was seen this week over Great Britain and there has been a mass of sightings this month from that country. This is a nice photo of the UFO. I enlarged it and you can see the original and the altered color above. 

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Eyewitness states: 

I recorded a fleet of orb lights, day time footage. Looking East from Gateshead. One flying at speed over my house. Hanging in the sky was a small silver line. The fleet were stretched out for a distance. I went looking and not long after found these on the 13th and 14th of October 2016. One taking off from next to my own house. The view is taken from a hill over looking Leam Lane estate. 

The videos are of it one day taking off to the left and the next taking off from the right but landing in the same place as the day before. It lands next to or in one of two crafts hanging over the houses in the distance. On the second day zoomed in, spheres can be seen being ejected from the craft on the left. There were no sightings reported even though this was taken place very close to houses. The last two images are of one of them flying past and zoomed in. They fly at speed and change shape and colour. It's unknown what they are. They fly over the trees, in them and in the grass. 

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Cigar-shaped UFO recorded near the Sun 30-Mar-2017

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This day in UFO history: Westall ’66 – Melbourne High School UFO Sighting

Five decades later, individuals who saw the UFOs and a perfect circle of flattened grass left behind still convinced they saw something out of this world.

Student Joy Clarke said she ran from class and saw three unidentified flying objects in the sky. Several students had taken pictures inside the circle of flattened grass that the UFO allegedly left behind, including Joy, a year eight student that time.

Amateur investigator Shane Ryan said the Westall ’66 incident had plagued the minds of the witnesses. Ryan stated that it is unfortunate for those people who come forward and talk about their UFO-related experiences because many would not listen or believe them even for the fact that we are living in an odd society where there’s interest in mysteries of life and UFOs.

Ryan said that this is an important case to look into because it happened in broad daylight with several witnesses.

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Aliens are ‘ROBOTS who have overthrown masters’ Incredible claim by QUEEN’S astronomer

ALIENS are likely to be electronic beings which have overthrown their masters, claims the Queen’s personal astronomer.

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“My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us”

Lord Martin Rees

It would “extremely unlikely” to find alien beings who are similar to humans, the 74-year-old said.

He described “organic intelligence” as a “thin sliver” between the primordial stages of life and the dominant era of machines.

Celebrity scientist Stephen Hawking previously warned we should hope aliens do not come to Earth, while also warning the development of AI could be the “worth thing” for humanity.

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“My guess is that if we do detect an alien intelligence, it will be nothing like us. It will be some sort of electronic entity,” he said during an interview at Trinity College.

Lord Rees added: “In other words, the period of time occupied by organic intelligence is just a thin sliver between early life and the long era of the machines.

“Because such civilisations would develop at different rates, it’s extremely unlikely that we will find intelligent life at the same stage of development as us.”

Lord Rees said: “More likely, life will still be either far simpler, or an already fully electronic intelligence.”

NASA astronauts claimed “aliens are watching us” revealed Daily Star Online.

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Aliens On Mars And Moons: Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks We’re Getting Closer

‘Aliens are watching us’ NASA astronauts make SHOCK claims about extra-terrestrials

ALIENS exist and are in contact with humans, according to four former NASA astronauts.

By Simon Green 

Bombshell claims of extra-terrestrial lifeforms existing often come from so-called truth-seekers or UFO hunters.

But when they stem from people who have actually been to space, their accounts take on more validity.

Here Daily Star Online looks at four of the most remarkable claims from NASA astronauts.

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Edgar Mitchell

Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours walking on the moon, as a Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971.

When he left the space agency, he publicly expressed his opinion that “aliens have been observing us and have been here for some time”.

He claimed the US government regularly covered up alien sightings, going back to the infamous 1947 Roswell incident – where many claim a “flying disc” crashed into the New Mexico town and an alien body was recovered.

“The reason for the denial is they didn’t know if they [the aliens] were hostile and they didn’t want the Soviets to know so they devised to lie about it and cover it up,” he said in an NBC interview in 1996.

Gordon Cooper

Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr – better known as Gordon Cooper – was one of the first people to travel in space, as part of NASA’s Project Mercury between 1958-1963.

He also strongly believed in the existence of aliens – after experiencing them first hand.

In 1951 – while he was flying for the US Air Force – he witnessed a vast amount of UFOs flying at extremely high altitudes.

The experience continued with him after his time as an astronaut and he became so adamant in their existence that he addressed a United Nations panel in 1985.

“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth,” he told them.

Deke Slayton

Like Cooper, Deke Slayton was aboard the first human spaceflight program of the United States – Project Mercury.

He later served as NASA’s Director of Flight Crew Operations but it was an encounter in 1951 that stuck long in his memory.

While testing out a military plane over Minnesota, he saw what he thought was a “flying saucer”.

“It looked like a saucer sitting at a 45-degree angle,” he said of the incident.

“I didn’t have any cameras otherwise I would have shot some pictures.

“At that time – for whatever reason – it just took off climbing and just accelerated and disappeared.”

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Mysterious radio signals ARE coming from outer space and scientists are baffled

Experts can’t unravel the alien signals they’ve been receiving for almost a decade

BY JEFF PARSONS

Teams of astronomers have been searching for the origin of strange radio signals for almost a decade now.

Known as FRBs (fast radio bursts) these tiny fragments of energy have been picked up by radio telescopes. They contain as much energy as the sun pumps out in 10,000 years and are able to travel huge distances - but their origin remains a mystery.

So far, over 20 bursts have been detected. Last year, astronomers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) published research that pinned down one set of FRBs from a galaxy six billion light years away .

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But that isn’t always the case as single-dish radio telescopes can receive signals from all over the place - including from here on Earth. In fact, one case in the late 90s believed it was receiving an alien transmission when the energy was actually coming from a nearby microwave oven.

But new research accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, seems to reaffirm the extraterrestrial nature of three new sets of FSBs. It can’t be said for certain that they are coming from aliens, what’s for sure is that they aren’t from this planet.

They were discovered using the Molonglo telescope in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The telescope collects both a huge amount of data (over 1,000 TB a day) and is configured so as not to receive anything from within our atmosphere.

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After combing through reams of data, a team of researchers found the three new sets of FSBs that matched up with previous signals.

"Figuring out where the bursts come from is the key to understanding what makes them. Only one burst has been linked to a specific galaxy," said lead researcher Manisha Caleb.

The team will now work on refining their findings to try and pinpoint exactly where these new bursts came from.

While scholars haven’t ruled out the possibility of signals from an alien civilisation as the cause of the bursts, it seems unlikely. A huge amount of energy would need to be produced to send the bursts across the void of space.

A more likely cause of the FSBs could be the result of a collision between two small stars.

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Peculiar X-Ray Burst Has Astronomers Stumped

Astronomers spotted a peculiar burst of bright X-rays in a distant area of the universe, and they're not quite sure where it came from. 

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected the outburst, called CDF-S XT1, in a region known as the Chandra Deep Field South in October 2014. Images from the telescope showed that the flash of X-rays became 1,000 times brighter over a few hours before fading dramatically in about a day, according to a statement from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 

"Ever since discovering this source, we've been struggling to understand its origin," Franz Bauer, a researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, said in the statement. "It's like we have a jigsaw puzzle but we don't have all of the pieces." Bauer is the first author on a new study probing the source. [The X-Ray Universe Revealed in Chandra Images]

While astronomers have yet to determine the exact source of the mysterious event, archived data from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes shows that the event likely occurred in a faint, small galaxy about 10.7 billion light-years from Earth, according to the statement. 

The new study suggests that the X-rays may be the result of a gamma-ray burst — a powerful but brief explosion triggered by the collapse of a massive star or the collision of two neutron stars — or a white dwarf star being devoured by a medium-size black hole. 

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected a mysterious flash in a distant region of the sky known as the Chandra Deep Field South.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Universidad Católica de Chile/F. Bauer et al.

However, "none of these ideas fits the data perfectly," study co-author Ezequiel Treister, also of the Pontifical Catholic University, said in the statement. "But then again, we've rarely, if ever, seen any of the proposed possibilities in actual data, so we don't understand them well at all."

Using archived data from the Chandra telescope, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and NASA's Swift satellite, the astronomers hope to uncover other examples of this mysterious event and possibly image the same phenomenon from other objects in future observations. 

"We may have observed a completely new type of cataclysmic event," study co-author Kevin Schawinski, a professor of astrophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, said in the statement. "Whatever it is, a lot more observations are needed to work out what we're seeing."

Their findings will be published in the June 2017 issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and they're currently available on ArXiv.org.

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Ten UFOs reported in Simcoe County, survey shows

Across the country, there were 1,131 UFO sightings in 2016. That's a drop from the 1,267 reported the previous year.

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Police Investigating Source of Unexplained ‘Booms’ in Hartland Vermont

Lisa Paterson was watching television when she heard a succession of “booms” late Wednesday night. The second one was so loud it shook her house.

The incident prompted her to call Vermont State Police, and she soon learned that she wasn’t the only Hartland resident to report the noises, which several people said sounded like gunshots and an even louder explosion.

“I have horses, so I was worried about them breaking out,” said Paterson, who lives along Route 12 north.

Other than that, she wasn’t too frightened, she said, but she certainly was curious about where the noises came from and what they were.

Amy Richardson of Richardson’s Family Farm recalled hearing one “low-pitched boom,” something akin to fireworks, while walking her dogs near her home on Hartland Hill around 10:45 p.m. She said the sky appeared as if it briefly lit up.

“It definitely startled me,” she said.

The explosion, which state police said occurred between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., prompted several people to take to Hartland’s Listserv, including Paterson and Richardson’s husband, Scott. While Paterson questioned whether others had information about the incident, some posed possible answers.

“Hard landing by extraterrestrials?” joked one resident.

Another even came up with a map of his neighborhood to try to track the reports of the noise and shock wave patterns.

Vermont State Police Trooper Chris Blais launched an investigation after receiving “multiple calls” about a “loud explosion followed by gunfire,” he said in a news release issued on Friday.

Police said they believe the noise came from the area of Hartland Hill to Brownsville Road, and is the result of someone on a private gun range using exploding targets, also known as Tannerite, the release said.

Police aren’t sure who is responsible, and said anyone with information about the incident is urged to call Vermont State Police.

Based on information contained in the release, the person responsible could face a noise disturbance violation.

Hartland Constable James Dow said other charges are possible, including if the person didn’t have a permit to set off explosives.

Any adult can buy an exploding target, but once the solution is mixed, it is considered an explosive device, Dow said.

In Vermont, residents using explosives, including fireworks, must have a permit.

Dow aided in the investigation and is still asking questions. As for who is responsible in the small town, he said, a few “fingers have been pointed to a couple different people.”

Residents he has interviewed said they have heard similar noises in the past. He said he wasn’t sure if the recent “boom” was louder than previous instances, but said he thinks the person responsible mixed a “very large amount” of solution to make the loud explosion or explosions people heard on Wednesday night.

Any explosive device can be dangerous, he said, but these targets are designed as an activity for people who do a lot of target shooting, Dow said.

“It breaks up the monotony of just shooting at a paper target,” he said. Perhaps the person shouldn’t have been shooting that late at night, though, he said.

Hartland Town Administrator Bob Stacey said the incident is the talk of the town.

“It is a big mystery,” Stacey said. “It is all over the place.”

Jordan Cuddemi
Valley News

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UFO enthusiast vanishes without trace – leaving room of ‘coded writings’

Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk

A UFO fan has mysteriously vanished in Brazil – leaving behind a locked room covered in coded writings and strange pictures of extraterrestrials.

Naturally, the internet is convinced that Bruno Borges has been abducted by aliens – or nobbled by the Men in Black – after he vanished without telling his family.

A video taken inside Borges’ room shows notebooks covered in cryptic writings – and symbols seemingly associated with the occult, such as pentagrams.

Relatives said that he could not reveal what he was working on but claimed that he was writing a series of books which would ‘change humanity in a good way.’

Father Athors Borges said that the family had not yet received concrete information about what has happened.

He said, ‘We’ve tried to call him on his cell phone, but it’s off.

‘He’s never gone before. He did not take anything and the last time we saw him he was leaving home.’

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Mysterious Energy Signals From Space: Are Aliens Trying To Contact Earth?

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.” 
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

Scientists have apparently confirmed that there are some mysterious energy signals that are coming from space, which might be indicative of the aliens trying to contact Earth. The astronomers are puzzled by the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, which were first detected 10 years ago. After researching about the signals, the scientists claim that these  are actually coming from the outer world, or space.

Mysterious Energy Signals or FRBs – Fast Radio Bursts

The fast radio bursts or FRBs are the radio signals appearing randomly and temporarily, which makes it all the more difficult to study them and track them. But, what is mysterious about the whole thing is, no one knows what could produce such a short and sharp signal burst.

Some researchers speculate that these signals are nothing but the stars colliding to artificially create messages, while some have a more bizarre explanation that indicates these signals are nothing but alien transmissions. Professor Matthew Bailes, from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, also claimed this, in a research.

Molonglo Radio Telescope

The researchers form the Australian National University have apparently made use of Molonglo radio telescope near Canberra  and detected three FRBs. The Molonglo telescopes have an enormous focal length. In 2013, the scientists realised this fact about this massive telescope and its architecture that can be used to pin point FRs. It also has a huge collecting area of 193,750sq ft (18,000 sq m) and a large field of view that is about eight square degrees on the sky. Moreover, this advanced telescope produced an enormous 1000 TB data every day, compared to which, the web pages on wikipedia utilise just 5.87 terabytes of storage.

Dr Chris Flynn from Swinburne University of Technology claimed that the Conventional single dish radio telescopes face difficulty in establishing that the transmissions originate beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.

A new window is now getting opened with the apparent re-engineering efforts. Professor Anne Green of the University of Sydney was apparently excited about the fact that the University of Sydney’s Molonglo telescope, is making useful and important scientific discoveries in partnership with Swinburne’s expertise in supercomputing.

What Did The Research Establish?

In order to hunt down the FRBs, the researchers developed software, which was capable of sifting through the vast information. Apparently, with the use of this software, the scientists were able to track down the likely locations of three FRBs. The data drawn and studied from this telescope concluded that all the three FRBs belong to the outer space, however, only one could be localised to an individual galaxy.

A PhD student at Australian National University, Manish Caleb, who designed the new software, claimed that the key to understand what makes the bursts is to find out where these bursts came from. Till now allegedly only one burst is lined to a galaxy, however, the researchers are looking forward to tracking down more, using the Molonglo telescope, according to a research that was published in the Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society.

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Stephen Bassett: Shocking New Intel and Strategies for Disclosure

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Er zullen ongetwijfeld vele verschillende buitenaardse rassen zijn, net zoals er soorten mensen zijn. 

Echter, niet al die rassen zijn even aardig zoals ondervonden door de Schotse boswachter Robert Taylor. 

Eén van de meest bizarre verhalen ooit voor wat betreft ontmoetingen met vreemde buitenaardse schepen/wezens deed zich voor in Schotland in 1979. 

Het betreft het verhaal van de toen 61-jarige Robert Taylor, een boswachter die werkzaam was in de Dechmont bossen bij de plaats Livingston in het Schotse West Lothian. 

Op 9 november 1979 ging Robert Taylor samen met zijn hond op pad om in de bossen aan het werk te gaan, toen hij opeens iets opmerkelijks waarnam. 

Pal voor zich zag hij een vreemd object dat enigszins boven de grond scheen te zweven. Het hing totaal stil en er was ook geen geluid te horen. 

Het had een grijze kleur en het ene moment scheen het wat feller van kleur te zijn dan op het andere waardoor Taylor dacht dat het misschien ook wel onzichtbaar zou kunnen worden. 

Het object was niet al te groot en had een doorsnede van ongeveer acht meter en was naar schatting een meter of drie hoog. Het had ook een koepel en het leek daardoor ook enigszins op een hoed met een rand. 

Op het moment dat Taylor naar het object keek, maakten er zich twee ronde bollen los van het object/schip. Uit de bollen staken een zestal “poten” of uitsteeksels. Ze leken een beetje op de zeemijnen zoals je die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het water kon zien drijven. Deze bollen maakten wel geluid toen ze zich over de grond voortbewogen. Taylor rook een sterke, misselijkmakende geur en verloor daarna het bewustzijn. 

Omdat dit alles gebeurde in een tijd dat men niet met smartphones op zak rondliep, zijn er geen foto’s beschikbaar, alleen afbeeldingen gemaakt door artiesten op basis van wat Robert Taylor vertelde. 

Hier volgen er enkele:

Toen hij weer bij bewustzijn kwam, waren de bollen weg, maar zijn hond was nog steeds bij hem. De hond was in paniek, liep rond en blafte luid. Taylor probeerde hem te kalmeren, maar merkte dat hij niet kon praten. Hij voelde zich heel erg zwak en toen hij probeerde op te staan, lukte dit niet. Hij kroop een tijdje op handen en voeten totdat hij weer overeind kon staan. 

Uiteindelijk slaagde hij erin om terug te komen bij zijn auto en probeerde via de boordradio contact op te nemen met het kantoor, maar hij kon nog steeds niet praten. Toen hij probeerde terug te rijden, kwam hij vast te zitten in de modder, waardoor hij uiteindelijk het hele stuk van bijna twee kilometer terugliep naar huis waar hij rond twaalf uur aan kwam. 

De hele gebeurtenis had ongeveer een uur in beslag genomen en uiteindelijk kreeg Taylor ook weer zijn stem terug. Een tijdlang na de gebeurtenis voelde hij zich ziek en zwak en bleef hij die afgrijselijke geur ruiken. 

Toen zijn vrouw hem zag, schrok ze, want hij zat onder de modder en zijn broek was gescheurd. Hij begon haar het verhaal te vertellen, maar zij dacht dat hij misschien op zijn hoofd was gevallen en dat hij de dokter en de politie moest bellen. 

In plaats daarvan nam hij contact op met zijn baas Malcolm Drummond die onmiddellijk langskwam en het hele verhaal aanhoorde. 

Uiteindelijk werd Taylor toch onderzocht door de dokter die inderdaad een verwonding aan zijn been constateerde waar de broek was gescheurd en een wond bij zijn kin. 

De politie werd gewaarschuwd en toen men gezamenlijk terugging naar de plek waar het was gebeurd, waren er inderdaad sporen te zien op de grond.

De politie heeft een uitgebreid onderzoek ingesteld, niet omdat ze het verhaal van Taylor zo interessant vonden, maar omdat ze dat volgens de wet verplicht zijn als er sprake is van lichamelijk letsel. Er werden geen bijzondere sporen op zijn kleren ontdekt en navraag bij de luchtmacht leerde dat er op die dag in die omgeving niets vloog en ook op de radarschermen was niets waargenomen. 

De politie verklaarde wel het verhaal van Taylor heel serieus te nemen omdat ze hem kenden als een serieuze betrouwbare man en niet als iemand die praatjes loopt te verkopen. 

 

Taylor had geen geschiedenis van mentale problemen of andere zaken die konden wijzen op een geestelijke afwijking waardoor hij dit bij elkaar gefantaseerd zou kunnen hebben. 

Alhoewel in de loop der jaren wel is geprobeerd om het verhaal van Taylor onderuit te halen, is dit nooit gelukt. 

Reconstructie laat zien dat Taylor ongeveer 20 minuten lang buiten bewustzijn moet zijn geweest en niemand weet wat er in die tussentijd is gebeurd. Is hij ontvoerd en meegenomen door het schip? 

Taylor zelf heeft tot aan zijn dood in 2007 altijd hetzelfde verhaal verteld. Zijn verwondingen waren echt, de sporen in de grond waren echt en Robert Taylor was een nuchtere Schot, geen fantast. 

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