ROSWELL UFO CASE UPDATE - DEPUTY SHERIFF: 'THEY WERE HAULING A BIG CREATURE'

“They were hauling a big creature” claims a Deputy Sheriff who was there during the most remarkable UFO crash in the history. Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus says in a new testimony he saw a crashed flying saucer and extraterrestrials who looked like the ones we know see on Television - the Grey aliens.

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The weirdest Swansea UFO sightings that defy explanation

The incidents and others will be discussed by a Swansea UFO Network at its summer conference in the city

BY GERAINT THOMAS

UFOs will be on the horizon at a conference in Swansea

The truth could be out there in Swansea on Saturday.

Swansea UFO Network (SUFON) is holding it’s summer Conference on Saturday at the New Lodge, Alexandra Road, in Gorseinon, with an invitation to come along and hear about some local mysteries.

There will be three visiting speakers, David Cayton, David Hodrien and Colin Woolford, all of whom are well known in the UFO field, and who will be speaking on a variety of subjects, from UFOs seen over Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, cases involving UFOs and the RAF, how the subject and personal experiences has influenced notable names in the music industry, and the controversial alien autopsy film.

Tickets for the conference, which runs from 11am to 5pm, are £10 each and available on the door.

Emlyn Williams, a spokesman for SUFON, said there would be plenty of local sightings to discuss.

He said: “This year sees the 40th anniversary of one of the most famous UFO flaps in Britain, that coined the Welsh Triangle, and SUFON organised a conference last February at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire , site of one of the best known cases during that flap when a group of school children saw a landed craft just outside the school playground.”

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Here are some of the unexplained UFO cases in Swansea:

The Night of the Triangles:

“One case which is being looked at by SUFON is the one which occurred on the evening of January 19, 1983, when dozens of witnesses in the Swansea and Port Talbot area (over 60 recorded so far), saw huge black triangular-shaped craft, some the size of jumbo jets, some the size of a family car, hovering silently just over roof-tops, two of which moved slowly and silently over Swansea Bay, and one possibly causing a power failure in Bishopston.”

“We call it The Night of the Triangles and we are tracking down many of the witnesses, and filming interviews which have been put on SUFON’s YouTube channel. Two witnesses were CID inspectors making a house call in the Trallwn area of Swansea who saw a huge craft ‘about the size of a football pitch’ moving over the valley and heading towards the coast.”

The refinery incident:

“Another sighting that evening, from a family at home in Skewen , was of a gigantic triangle - which moved from Kilvey Hill to Llandarcy in an instant, and which then hovered over the BP oil refinery. The size was truly huge, covering much of the refinery!”

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The vanishing cigar:

“Another large and very strange case was of a massive black cigar-shaped object which hovered silently over the newly-built Singleton Hospital in Swansea, on a November evening in 1965, causing the lights on all the floors to flash on and off. A green line appeared in the middle of the object, which spread right around it, and the whole thing just disappeared in an instant in front of witnesses’ eyes.”

Mr Williams added: “It is safe to say that there have been and still are, very strange things going on in our skies.”

Anyone who can’t make it but has a sighting they wish to share is invited to get in touch with SUFON.

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“Anyone with experiences of their own, please get in touch, identities will be kept confidential if requested. Call 07954 806402 or 07399990985, or email swanseaufonet@yahoo.com. SUFON also has a Facebook page - Swansea UFO Network.”

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The Top 5 Possible UFO Sightings Over Connecticut

 By Ethan Carey 

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Do you think there are otherworldly beings among us? Have they perhaps penetrated our atmosphere simply to check us out?

I recently searched youtube for videos of UFO sightings over Connecticut and found dozens, but not one of them made me a believer. I confess that I’ve never seen or had an encounter with a UFO or any type of alien being. I’ve never been beamed up by a spaceship, where I was poked and prodded or had my prostate checked, and then dropped off in an empty field in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

Let’s take a look at five YouTube videos that claim they witnessed a UFO over Connecticut. This first video was taken in New Milford on October 6, 2011:

After viewing this video, I suspect that the individual filming this was holding an expensive kaleidoscope in front of the camera lens or got his hands on some Maui Waui weed, which is known to cause the user to see colors.

This next video was taken on December 29, 2014 in Old Saybrook during daylight hours. You will notice that the two dudes in the car describing this UFO are talking about a cloud that is in the shape of a UFO. Can you say, “wake and bake”?

This next UFO video was shot at night over New Britain in the month of August of 2012. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of what they saw, but the conversation between these two guys proves they’ve mastered the placement of the F-bomb in a sentence.

Video number 3 was taken in February of 2014 in Danbury. You will see a wobbling white light that might just be an alien spacecraft, but I really don’t think so. I’ve read somewhere that drinking a case of Natty Ice on an empty stomach is the catalyst for making a so-called spaceship video.

This next supposed UFO video was shot in June of 2016, and is the most realistic of the five because it shows a crowd of water lovers at a Connecticut beach gawking at what they suspect is the real deal. Who’s to say on this one?

Why would beings from another galaxy or solar system waste their time putting on a show for a bunch of weekend beach-goers? I suspect it was someone with an expensive state of the art drone attempting to scare the shit out of as many people as possible.

I’m curious to know your thoughts on these possible UFO sightings. Have you ever seen an unidentified flying object? Were you sober or trashed when you saw this flying saucer? Please comment at your earliest convenience. Thank you, or in Klingon, “qatlho!”

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BY IAN O'NEILL

Artist's concept of a swarm of comets surrounding a star. The comet swarm was once one of the leading explanations behind the unusual dimming of Tabby's Star, but astronomers haven't turned up any corroborating evidence of such a swarm yet.

 IMAGE COURTESY NASA/JPL-CALTECH

Tabby's Star is arguably the most mysterious – and controversial – star in our galaxy.

Observed by NASA's Kepler space telescope, the star shot to fame when citizen scientists studying the mission's data noticed the star dim and flicker dramatically between 2011 and 2013. Hypotheses about this weird behavior abound, but not a single one seems to fully explain what's going on. The lack of an obvious answer has fueled speculation that an advanced alien civilization is building a "megastructure" around the star that we call Tabby's Star.

Now, the star has mysteriously dipped in brightness again, raising hopes that the world's astronomers have caught the star in the act and that a clear explanation of the star's true nature may be coming soon.

Kepler's Mysterious Star

Kepler's mission is to search for extrasolar planets – or "exoplanets" – that orbit other stars, and it does this by detecting the very slight dimming of stars as exoplanets pass in front (events known as "transits"). Thousands of alien worlds have been detected during this profound mission, revealing the incredible bounty of planets that exist in our galaxy. In fact, there aren't enough scientists to properly analyze the huge quantities of data that the mission is producing. Enter citizen scientists.

The Planet Hunters crowdsourcing project makes Kepler observations available to hundreds of thousands of participants and significant exoplanet discoveries are being made.

For example, during Kepler's primary mission, one of the targets was KIC 8462852, an average F-type main-sequence star located 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. But the Planet Hunters found this star to be very special; it became clear that the brightness variations that KIC 846285 was exhibiting were not your run-of-the-mill exoplanet transit signals – this was an entirely different beast.

The so-called "light-curve" of the star (basically the intensity of starlight that Kepler was detecting over time) was a mess. From 2011 to 2013, there were extreme dips and periods of interference, suggesting that there were many objects in orbit around the star. And some of these objects had to be very large to explain how much starlight they were blocking from view. One dip dimmed the star by an incredible 22 percent. Considering the most massive gas giant exoplanets will dim a star's brightness by a meager 1 percent, this hinted at the extreme nature of the object(s) in orbit about the star.

A paper detailing these results was made available on the arXiv pre-print service in October 2015 (and later accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society). The star was nicknamed "Tabby's Star" (or "Boyajian's Star") after astronomer Tabetha S. Boyajian who led the research.

To explain this strange transit signal, astronomers assumed there must be a vast cloud of dust around the star. But this didn't make a whole lot of sense; KIC 8462852 isn't a young star. Dusty rings of debris are usually found around very young stars that are in the process of creating planets.

Artist's concept of a young star with material coalescing around it. Such a cloud of material could conceivably account for a star's dimming, but Tabby's star doesn't exactly fit the profile as it's not a young star.

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Researchers then investigated the possibility that the dust might be caused by a chance planetary collision. A collision of this nature, however, would produce a specific heat signature, generating an excess of infrared radiation – but no such signature was discernible by follow-up observations.

What if a huge "swarm" of comets was gravitationally knocked into orbit about KIC 8462852 by a passing star? Might that be enough to cause sufficient dimming? Although this is one of the leading hypotheses that might explain this mystery, other observations of the star have failed to find corroborative evidence that such a swarm is even there.

Lacking an obvious answer, astronomers have been thinking a little more out of the box in hopes of explaining the KIC 8462852 light-curve. After the original Kepler result was announced, Boyajian hinted that "other scenarios" were being investigated and, in a now infamous interviewwith The Atlantic on Oct. 15, 2015, Penn State astronomer Jason Wright went into some detail about what one of these "other scenarios" could be.

"Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build," Wright said. Before this interview, Tabby's Star was a scientific curiosity. Now, Tabby's Star is a media sensation and is nicknamed the "Alien Megastructure Star."

Although it is more likely that KIC 8462852's weirdness likely has a natural explanation that has so far been overlooked by the astronomical community and aliens is the least likely explanation, this hypothesis doesn't seem to be going away.

An artist's impression of a collision between a planet and a proto-planet. Astronomers suggested that a smash-up like this could cause the dimming of Tabby's star.

NASA/JPL-CALTECH

Dyson Spheres

But what kind of alien civilization could build something so big that it blots out the light from an entire star? And why would they want to do such a thing?

In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev created the hypothetical "Kardashev scale" that describes the advancement of a civilization as their energy needs increase from a cosmic perspective.

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Zes planeten rondom TRAPPIST-1 hebben een aardachtige samenstelling

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NEW CIA DOCUMENT REVEALS CARL JUNG ACCUSED THE AIR FORCE OF WITHHOLDING INFORMATION ON UFOS

When a number of UFOs violated Washington airspace in 1952, the entire country went on alert and the news spread nationwide. Shortly after the incident, President Harry Truman was forced to hold a press conference to address the event. After that conference, as well as the big UFO wave proceeding the atomic bomb, the subject was engulfed in secrecy.

Similar to the recent leaks revealing the extent of the NSA surveillance programs, the UFO subject went into the category of unacknowledged and waived Special Access Programs. According to a 1997 U.S. Senate report, these programs are “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”

Former head of the CIA Roscoe Hilenkoetter put it best in 1960 when he told the nation that “behind the scenes, high ranking air force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” (source)

Today, it’s a different story. A number of governments and government agencies, as well as thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, have all released previously classified files confirming the existence of UFOs. To compliment these, hundreds (if not thousands) of high-ranking whistleblowers have also shared their stories.

The topic is currently leaving the realm of the fringe and entering into the mainstream at a rapid pace. Just as there was evidence for UFOs, there is also evidence that some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.

This is all becoming normalized, and more and more people are starting to open their mind to the possibility, and evidence, that the government (and those who puppet it) is withholding information about intelligent extraterrestrial visitation to our planet.

Royal Canadian Air Force Causes UFO Scare Over Lake Ontario

 Brett Tingley

Social media and local news outlets throughout upstate New York were swamped with reports of strange lights over Lake Ontario on the evening of May 23rd. Just around dusk, a formation of eerie floating lights appeared over the Canadian side of the lake, prompting curiosity from hundreds of local residents.

Many social media users speculated the lights could be drones.

Eyewitness Kate Caven told local Buffalo news station WIVB that residents throughout the Lake Ontario region were perplexed about the source of the lights, which seemed to hover in the air above the lake:

Some people were concerned maybe they were distress signals, but we couldn’t see any boats. And then some people mentioned maybe a meteor shower, but again they weren’t really moving. So that’s pretty much what most people were saying other than UFOs or aliens. I joked around with my friend Matt who was with me, if they were coming to take us, I was ready, that that wasn’t a bad way to go out if I could see an alien.

It sure wouldn’t be, Karen. Shortly after the reports came in, however, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) claimed responsibility for the sighting. According to an RCAF spokesperson, the lights were training flares dropped by a Hercules Model 8 CCC-130H aircraft in the 424th squadron out of 8 wing Trenton, Ontario, who were conducting a search and rescue exercise in the area.

Smoke trails can be seen trailing behind each descending flare.

However, there are some alleged inconsistencies in the RCAF’s story. The RCAF spokesperson’s statement claims the flares were dropped around 9:30 p.m., yet some social media commenters noted that they observed the flares hours earlier. Other commenters noted that the lights appeared to move up and down in the air above the lake. Of course, the mind sometimes sees what it wants to see, and at such a distance, it could be difficult to judge movement.

After the RCAF claimed similar exercises are routine, some residents wondered why flares aren’t a more common sight.

Meanwhile, according to a few sources, the U.S. Coast Guard reportedly initially ruled out basic flares as the source of the phenomenon. However, a quick comparison with images of artillery flares indeed shows a clear resemblance to the Lake Ontario lights. While a government UFO cover-up makes for great headlines, this case is likely exactly what the RCAF says it was.

Artillery illumination rounds are commonly used in military operations.

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The Next Great Aircraft - Triangle UFOs?

A MUFON field investigators and witnesses we are exposed to pssoble military aircraft, sometimes secret aircraft not yet declssified. Recently Florida MUFON went through a UFO Flap involving large triangle craft gliding silantly over the Greater Tampa Bay area. Here are just a few of the collection of witness testimonies. 

Case 60636

I was at home and went outside around 10:30pm to make a call and as always, I look up at the sky. I caught something out of the corner of my eye and turned to face it. I thought it was an aircraft at first since Im airline crew.

As, I continued to study the aircraft, I realized it wasnt making any sound, had no lights. It appeared to by gliding about 500 feet up and was reflecting the orange glow of the street lights. 

I became anxious and excited as I watched the object disappear behind the trees. I wanted to see more.

Case 60634

"I live in a condo on the first floor overlooking a small lake. I usually sit on my screened-in porch every night to watch planes. I live fairly close to two airports and I've enjoyed watching planes since I was a child. The sighting

of this object actually took me by surprise a little because there was no sound. If I hadn't been watching for planes I never would have seen it. When I saw it my immediate reaction was UFO because it was like nothing I had ever seen before. The whole sighting lasted no more than about 4 seconds. There were no running lights, no sound and the shape unlike any plane. It was very large, a boomerang-type shape but with more rounded edges, (I think 5) very white but dim lights on the underside which seemed to illuminate the craft. Without the lights I would not have been able to see it because it was the same color as the night sky and was very camouflaged, almost transparent-looking. It made no sound at all and looked like it was gliding more than flying through the air. It flew from left to right heading in a southeasterly direction, moving parallel to my porch. I lost sight of it when it went behind the trees on our property. For a while I remained on the porch looking for it, hoping it would come back. It did cross my mind at one point that perhaps it was an experimental aircraft headed towards MacDill Air Force Base which is in the direction it was flying. It certainly seemed to have stealth-like technology and almost appeared as if it was cloaked. The longer I stayed on my porch watching the skies the more apprehensive I became and decided to come in the house. My heart was pounding, I was shaking and it took me a while to calm myself down."

Both of these cases were considered Identified flying Objects with the possibility of being the B2 steaalth bombers on apprach to MicDill Air Force Base. This is certainly a possibility but as the years have go by we have recieved numerus reports of these strange, very large "Boomarang" stype craft. Witnesses often never get a very close look at one but when they do, it really is hard to catigorize as a B2 and the flight characterisitics often go way beyond that of the known capabilities of the B2.  

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NASA breekt zich het hoofd over mysterieuze kuil in 'Zwitserse kaas' op Mars - HLN.be

Door: Joeri Vlemings 

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STERRENKUNDE NASA doopte het terrein op Mars het "Zwitserse kaas-gebied". Het landschap op de recente foto hierboven van de 'Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' - al elf jaar aan de slag op de rode planeet - vertoont inderdaad een zekere gelijkenis met de gaten in een kaas. Maar wat vooral opvalt, is de merkwaardige veel grotere en diepere kuil in de bodem van de rode planeet. Wetenschappers krabben zich in de haren: wat is dit?

Het 'Zwitserse kaas-gebied' is gelokaliseerd in de zuidelijke hemisfeer van Mars. Het bevroren kooldioxideterrein telt verscheidene ondiepe putten, 'kaasgaten' veroorzaakt door sublimatie die bepaalde stukken droogijs gasvormig maakt. Heel Mars bulkt van de kraters en depressies, onder meer door meer dan een half miljoen meteorietinslagen en door vulkaanuitbarstingen. Maar dit gat gaat veel dieper, dwars door het ijs en het stof heen. 

Wetenschappers vragen zich af of die onverklaarbare put het gevolg is van een zware inslag op Mars dan wel of de bodem er is ingezakt met een bijna perfecte cirkel als resultaat. De diameter van de kuil wordt geschat op enkele honderden meters.

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AMAZING! PROOF OF 'ALIEN LIFE' REVEALED AS SAMPLES FROM ISS SURFACE!

The search for extraterrestrial lifeforms goes ever so forward as science gives long leaps of progress, enabling humanity to explore the far reaches of the cosmos.

One remarkable discovery regarding alien lifeforms was made recently as microbial life from cosmic dust, and comet debris was found scattered on the surface of the International Space Stations (ISS).

The astonishing claims are set to rock the world of space science and have been hailed as one, if not the “most significant scientific development of the century”.  

Samples taken from the surface of the ISS windows are thought to contain living creatures related to plankton or algae, Russian scientists have confirmed in the past few days.

We are closer than ever to acknowledge the existence of life outside our planet.

This could also prove that life on Earth could have evolved from organisms that came from the far reaches of the universe. Watch the following video to know more!  

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/814639/aliens-exist-scientists-breakthrough-ISS-samples-space

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NEW STRANGE LIGHTS OVER POPOCATEPETL VOLCANO, 2017

Volcanoes have been a favorite site for alien hunters over the years. Now a strange series of lights above the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico have got conspiracy theorists excited once again. The sightings, they say, suggest aliens are studying Earth's geothermal activity so that they can understand how it works.

The active Popocatepetl Volcano is located 60 km southeast of the Mexican capital, Ciudad de Mexico; it is situated on the borders of the Mexican states of Morelos, Puebla, and Mexico, is located about 60 km southeast of Mexico City.  

Were the volcanoes portals for extraterrestrial bases? This question haunts most ufologists since it is even common to see UFOs coming in and out of their mouths. The most recent sighting occurred on the volcano Popocatepetl located in Mexico.

The volcano is a constant target of this type of phenomenon, and there are hundreds of images to confirm this. The most famous were what was filmed by the television network Televisa, where a UFO of kilometer proportions was recorded entering the active volcano.  

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NASA's 'Mars batmobile' revealed: Radical concept has a detachable lab to look for life on the red planet and can reach 70mph

• Radical concept has been unveiled by NASA at the at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
• Could be the inspiration for future rovers for the first manned missions to the red planet
• Electric vehicle has six wheels and is made entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium
• Designed to accommodate four astronauts, it has its own detachable laboratory

By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com

At first glance, it looks like the Batmobile.

But in fact, this radical vehicle was designed to scour Mars in search for alien life.

The radical concept has been unveiled by NASA at the at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and could be the inspiration for future rovers for the first manned missions to the red planet. 

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The full-sized Nasa Mars rover has been in development since late 2016, and it looks a lot like the Batmobile.

The angular concept vehicle has six wheels, is made entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium, and is solar-powered.

It was designed to accommodate four astronauts and has its own detachable laboratory. 

'While this exact rover is not expected to operate on Mars, one or more of its elements could make its way into a rover astronauts will drive on the Red Planet.' NASA says. 

The builders of the scientifically-themed Mars rover concept vehicle, Parker Brothers Concepts of Port Canaveral, Florida, incorporated input into its design from NASA subject matter experts.  

It rover operates on an electric motor, powered by solar panels and a 700-volt battery.

The rover separates in the middle with the front area designed for scouting and equipped with a radio and navigation provided by the Global Positioning System. 

The back section serves as a laboratory which can disconnect for autonomous research. 

Following several weeks on display at Kennedy's visitor complex, the Mars rover concept vehicle will be displayed at several locations. 

From July through August, it will be displayed at several locations during a tour along the East Coast.

The Mars rover concept vehicle will then return to the visitor complex to be part of the new Astronaut Training Experience attraction opening in the fall of this year.

According to Rebecca Shireman, assistant manager of public relations for the Kennedy visitor complex, the 'Summer of Mars' program will provide a survey of NASA's studies of the Red Planet.

'It's an all-encompassing effort to review the history of our efforts to explore Mars and look ahead to what is being planned,' she said. 

'We hope this will encourage young people to want to learn more about being a part of the effort to go to Mars.' 

Its six wheels are 50 inches (1.3m) tall, 30 inches (75cm) wide, and are specially designed with air ducts to let the coarse red sands of Mars slip through, Business Insider reports.

The 28 feet (8.5m) long, 13 feet (4m) wide, and 11 feet (3.4m) tall vehicle has not been officially weighed, but its developers estimate it reaches 5,000 pounds (2,250kg).   

The rover looks similar to the Batmobile from Batman Begins

Marc Parker, a designer and builder of the new rover, told Business Insider that the buggy is a six-wheeled, all-electric vehicle that was created 'with every intention' of overcoming rocky obstacles on Mars.

He said that the rover could hit top speeds of 60-70 miles per hour (95-110kph), but would not disclose its cost.

'What we actually came up with was a dual-purpose vehicle. It actually separates in the middle,' he said.

'The rear section is a full lab, the front area is a cockpit for going out and doing scouting.

'The lab section can actually disconnect ... and be left on its own to do autonomous research.

The rover separates in the middle with the front area designed for scouting and equipped with a radio and navigation provided by the Global Positioning System.

The rover was designed to accommodate four astronauts to explore the surface of Mars and acts as a portable laboratory. Its six wheels are 50 inches (1.3m) tall, 30 inches (75cm) wide, and are specially designed with ducts to let the coarse red sands of Mars slip through

'That way the scout vehicle can go out to do its thing without the fuel consumption and extra weight, then come back later.' 

Unfortunately, the sci-fi concept will never touch down on the red planet.

Nasa is taking it on a cross-country tour of the US for the agency's upcoming 'Summer of Mars' event, Mr Parker said.

The educational programme is designed to inspire the public about space exploration.

Mr Parker and his brother Shanon started work on the rover in November after Nasa approached them with the idea.

Their company, Parker Brothers Concepts, normally builds 'outlandish' vehicles for movie and TV productions.

But Nasa did not fund the rover, Mr Parker said, which instead relied on financing from a private company involved in the project.

'We're also filming for a reality television series that's going to be coming out about this build,' Mr Parker said.

It took the Parker brothers around five months to construct the vehicle from late November 2016 through to early April 2017.

The back section serves as a laboratory which can disconnect for autonomous research.

The builders of the scientifically-themed Mars rover concept vehicle, Parker Brothers Concepts of Port Canaveral, Florida, incorporated input into its design from NASA subject matter experts.

The small team consisted of the company's two owners plus a few of their employees, as well as a number of suppliers they deal with.

'Me and the guys, we averaged about 80 to 100 hours a week, each,' Mr Parker said.

'We worked 10-, 12-, 14-hour days, seven days a week since late last year.

'If I thought about how many hours we put into this thing, I'd probably cry. It's way too many.' 

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Expert: We’ll Find Alien Life in the Next 10 to 15 Years, but It Won’t Be Intelligent

by Kristin Houser

The Search for Life

From highly trained scientists toiling away at research institutes to amateur enthusiasts gazing upward from their backyards, humanity boasts no shortage of people looking for life beyond Earth. Add to that the massive size of the universe — estimates range in the trillions of galaxies — and probability dictates that we should have already encountered another species by now.

And yet, we still have no evidence that we aren’t alone in the universe.

However, according to astronomy researcher Chris Impey, this hunt for life beyond Earth may soon yield results. In an interview with Futurism, he revealed that he believes that we are less than two decades away from finding extraterrestrial life…but it may not be the kind of life we were hoping for: “I put my money on detecting microbial life in 10 to 15 years, but not at all detecting intelligent life.”

Hide and Seek on a Cosmic Level

While Impey is skeptical that intelligent life is within our sights, he does have a couple of suggestions as to where we should focus our search for extraterrestrial lifeforms, intelligent or not. The first is our own backyard, or, more accurately, our own solar system.

While Impey tells Futurism he doesn’t rule out the possibility that life still exists on Mars, he says that those lifeforms are likely below the surface and are, therefore, much harder to detect. As such, he asserts that we have a better chance of finding evidence of life that used to exist on the Red Planet: “If we actually get Mars rocks back here to Earth from a place that we think could have been habitable in the past, then we might find evidence of prior life.”

Other bodies in our solar system could potentially host life as well, according to Impey, including the water world Europa (one of Jupiter’s several moons). He thinks future missions targeting the satellite could yield helpful—if not entirely conclusive—results, asserting that they should at least give us “some better idea if that ocean could have life in it.”

Of course, our solar system is just one very small corner of a very massive universe, so we’d be remiss if we didn’t look beyond it for signs of life. To narrow down the scope of our search, Impey suggests targeting the many exo-Earths we’ve already uncovered. Instead of focusing on the planets’ surfaces, though, we should research their atmospheres.

In the next few years, we’ll be able to use the James Web Space Telescope and other detection devices to look for biomarkers such as oxygen and methane in the atmospheres of these Earth-like planets, says Impey. “This biomarker experiment…could find evidence of microbial life indirectly,” he explains. The research should help us pinpoint the planets that are “the closest to Earth as possible, not in distance, but in character,” he adds, and since Earth is the only place we know life exists, finding the most Earth-like planets is our best bet for finding life.

Any Life Is Better Than No Life

Even if Impey is right, and humanity is still decades away from finding intelligent alien life, the discovery of microbial life on Mars, Europa, or one of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve identified would still be a huge development. It would mean Earth isn’t unique, that something else living is out there.

We could use the knowledge we glean from studying this microbial life to narrow down our hunt for other, more complex organisms. By providing valuable insights into how other living beings are able to survive on worlds far different from our own, this microbial life could help in our quest to become a multi-planetary species. Even the discovery of past microbial life would be helpful, as it could serve as something of a cautionary tale, providing us with the opportunity to learn and ensure we don’t meet the same fate.

As Impey notes, thanks to dramatic advances in technology, we’ve never been better equipped to discover life beyond Earth than we are right now: “Every new SETI experiment done now is about as good as the sum of all previous SETI experiments put together.”

However, even if all of the currently planned experiments and missions came up short, Impey doesn’t envision humanity giving up the hunt for extraterrestrial life any time soon: “The first SETI experiment was in 1959, so obviously it has been going on for over half a century without any success. The people who do it don’t seem put off by failure.”

This interview has been slightly edited for clarity and brevity.

References: CalTech, Chris Impey, Space.com

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IETS MEER DUIDELIJK IN HET RAADSEL VAN DE KLEINE WITTE VLIEGENDE BOLLEN ? ( VIDEO )

Niet alleen in ons land, maar overal ter wereld zien mensen kleine witte bollen door de lucht vliegen. 

Formeel zijn het UFO’s, maar tot nu toe heeft nog niemand echt nog een antwoord op wat voor dingen dat nu eigenlijk zijn. 

Misschien komt het omdat het zomer is en er meer blauwe luchten zijn, maar de laatste weken is er een soort permanente stroom van waarnemingen overal ter wereld van vliegende ronde witte bollen ook wel orbs genoemd. 

Zoals de volgende in Iran die wij al eerder lieten zien. 

 

Maar, ook in Nederland komen deze voor, zoals onlangs in Heerde: 

 

Zo zijn er talloze opnames te vinden van overal ter wereld, maar nog nooit was er iemand in geslaagd om deze bollen in wat meer detail vast te leggen. 

Maar, daar is nu verandering in gekomen door iemand in Turkije en wel uit Antalya. 

Hij is er in geslaagd om een dergelijke witte bol te filmen, maar ook om deze dichterbij te halen zodat we wat meer informatie krijgen. 

En dichterbij ziet zo’n witte bol er als volgt uit:

Dan wordt duidelijk dat het wel degelijk om een solide object gaat wat voor het grootste deel schijnt te bestaan uit een soort groot licht. 

Vooral het onderste gedeelte van het object verandert nog wel eens van kleur zoals te zien op het volgende plaatje waarbij het onderste deel er nu roodachtig uit ziet.

Het object zonder in te zoomen, ziet er zo uit:

Hier volgen de bewegende beelden zoals ze enkele dagen geleden zijn opgenomen. 

 

Wanneer we wat rondkijken op het Youtubekanaal van deze man, dan zien we dat hij meerdere keren dit soort objecten heeft weten vast te leggen. Niet alleen in Antalya, maar ook enkele keren in Istanboel. 

De eerste keer dat hij een dergelijke opname maakte, was in december 2013 en die zag er zo uit: 

 

De video’s hebben alle kenmerken van een echte opname, maar helemaal zeker weet je het niet. Bovendien kunnen we ook het commentaar van de man wat hij af en toe in de video geeft, niet verstaan. 

Maar, als we er vanuit gaan dat deze opname echt is, dan is het toch wel heel bijzonder dat hij ze zo kan filmen en ook dat hij dat inmiddels meerdere keren heeft kunnen doen. 

Het blijkt keer op keer dat sommige mensen altijd UFO’s zien en andere mensen nooit.

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Blackout: Strange Phenomena That Occurs During Solar Eclipses

 Micah Hanks

This August 21, 2017, a rare total eclipse of the sun will be visible across much of the United States. Already being dubbed as “The Great American Total Solar Eclipse,” it is expected to be seen across the country in a line crossing roughly between Oregon and South Carolina, as the sun disappears behind the moon, resulting in a sudden drop in temperature and the temporary onset of twilight.

Throughout history, a variety of mythological interpretations existed about what caused solar eclipses. For instance, in ancient China, it was often professed that a massive dragon had eaten the sun; hence why the ancient Chinese word for eclipse– chih–also means “to eat.”

Eclipse photographed by the crew of Apollo 12.

Apart from traditional beliefs about eclipses, there are a number of different unusual phenomena that have been observed during eclipses as well. For instance, the so-called “eclipse shadow-band anomalies” that occur as the sun passes behind the moon have been recorded by astronomers over the years. Researcher J.L. Codona described them thusly in a 1991 article in Sky and Telescope:

“[The bands resemble] mysterious gray ripples are sometimes seen flitting over the ground within a minute or two of totality. The bands are initially faint and jumbled; but as totality approaches, they become more organized, their spacing decreases to a few centimeters, and their visibility improves. After totality ends the bands can reappear and become progressively fainter and more disorganized until they disappear. Shadow bands seem to move perpendicularly to their length, but this is only an illusion. It stems from a lack of features that allow the eye to track motion along the length of the bands.” 

It was suggested by Codona that this particular anomaly may likely result from a “twinkling effect” resulting from the appearance of the solar crescent that appears very thinly just prior to, and immediately after, the total coverage of the sun by the passing moon. Codona said the focal source of the light anomaly was likely atmospheric “turbulence” as little as a few hundred feet above ground.

Another unique phenomenon associated with eclipses is the “Allais effect“, in which minor changes in the behavior of a Foucault pendulum occur as the sun passes behind the moon. In 1954, economist Maurice Allais was experimenting with pendulums over the course of a 30-day period, during which he observed and recorded their movements.

Allais at work with his pendulums.

During this time, an eclipse of the sun occurred, under which conditions Allais noticed that the movement of the pendulum appeared to quicken; although the effect was very minor, it was nonetheless noticeable, and has allegedly been reproduced several times over the years, despite there being controversy over what, precisely, causes the so-called Allais effect.

Going back to ancient times, on at least one occasion in history an eclipse was even believed to have brought an end to a war. In his Histories, Herodotus wrote of a prediction made by Greek philosopher Thales, who lived between 624-547 BCE, that a solar eclipse would occur on the date of May 28, 585 BC.

According to Herodotus, “day was all of sudden changed into night. This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it took place. The Medes and the Lydians when they observed the change, ceased fighting, and were alike anxious to have terms of peace agreed on.”

Though the celestial event brought an end to the conflict between the Lydians and the Medes, it is well known that the ancient Greeks studied solar eclipses and other celestial phenomenon, and were adept at predicting them.

Obviously, while people in the ancient world were fascinated–and often frightened–by solar solar eclipses, these rare celestial phenomena are still very intriguing to us today, and even manage to boast a few unanswered questions. For more information about the upcoming 2017 solar eclipse, and where it can be seen, check out Space.com’s full rundown about it here.

 TAGS: Allais Effect, Herodotus, solar eclipse

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