Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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Any mention of the mysterious locale that is Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England inevitably conjures up strange and surreal images of the famous UFO landing within the forest in the latter part of December 1980 – a startling event witnessed by numerous United States Air Force personnel stationed at a nearby military base: Royal Air Force Bentwaters. The bizarre affair has been the subject of a considerable number of books, numerous televisions shows, several investigations by military and governmental bodies, and unrelenting debate. Reports of strange lights, of small alien-like creatures seen deep within the heart of the woods, and of high-level cover-ups and sinister conspiracies, are all key ingredients of the case that – for many – has become known as the “British Roswell.”
Almost forty years on, the events in question continue to provoke intense debate and controversy, with some believing that extraterrestrials really did land on British soil on that fateful night. Others hold the view that everything can be attributed to mistaken identity (of a lighthouse, no less…). Others prefer the theory that a dark and dubious military experiment, and subsequent mishap, may have been to blame for all of the fuss. Whatever the truth of the affair, the debate continues to rage. And, doubtless, it will continue to rage for many more years to come.
Rendlesham Forest covers an area that is around 1,500 hectares in size and can be found in Suffolk’s coastal belt known as the Sandlings. It is comprised of large, coniferous trees, as well as heath land and wet land areas; and is home to the badger, the fox, the red deer, the roe deer and the fallow deer. According to some people, however, Rendlesham Forest is home to far stranger things, too.
In his authoritative book Explore Phantom Black Dogs, Bob Trubshaw recorded that: “The folklore of phantom black dogs is known throughout the British Isles. From the Black Shuck of East Anglia to the Mauthe Dhoog of the Isle of Man there are tales of huge spectral hounds ‘darker than the night sky’ with eyes ‘glowing red as burning coal.’ The phantom black dog of British and Irish folklore, which often forewarns of death, is part of a world-wide belief that dogs are sensitive to spirits and the approach of death, and keep watch over the dead and dying. North European and Scandinavian myths dating back to the Iron Age depict dogs as corpse eaters and the guardians of the roads to hell. Medieval folklore includes a variety of ‘Devil dogs’ and spectral hounds.”
Although the image that the phantom black dog creates is one of a deadly and devilish beast that prowled the villages and towns of old England centuries ago, it is a little known fact outside of students of the phenomenon that occasional sightings of such creatures continue to surface to this very day – and from deep within Rendlesham Forest, no less. On a cold winter’s afternoon in 1983, for example, the soon-to-be-married Paul and Jane Jennings were blissfully strolling through the woods of Rendlesham when they were terrified by the sudden manifestation in front of them of what Jane would describe succinctly as “a big black dog.” She elaborated that the pair had been walking along a pathway when, on rounding a bend, they came face to face with the phantom beast – something that prompted Jane to intriguingly add: “It was almost like it was waiting for us.”
Reportedly, the beast’s head was clearly canine in appearance, albeit much larger than that of any normal dog. Yet, somewhat curiously, its body seemed to exhibit characteristics that were distinctly feline-like in nature. For a brief and tense moment girlfriend and boyfriend stared at the creature, which, they recalled, seemed to have an eerily mournful expression upon its face. Far more shocking, however, was what happened next. Suddenly, the beast began to flicker on and off for four or five times, then finally vanished, literally, before the Jennings’ eyes amid an overwhelming smell that reminded the pair of burning metal. Not surprisingly, the terrified couple fled for the safety of their car and quickly left the area.
Rendlesham Forest, as well as the Suffolk locales of West Wratting and Balsham, is reportedly home to an even more diabolical beast than the phantom black dog. It is a creature that has come to be known locally as the Shug-Monkey. Described as being a bizarre combination of giant dog and large ape, the creature is said to strike deep terror into the hearts of those souls unfortunate enough to cross its path – which is something that the late Sam Holland attested to. Shortly after New Year’s Day in 1956, Holland was walking through the woods with his spaniel dog, Harry, when he was horrified to see a bizarre-looking creature come looming out of the trees some forty feet in front of him. It walked upon four huge, muscular legs – “like a lion’s” – and its thick fur coat was both black and glossy. Incredibly, said Holland, the animal was easily ten feet in length; and so could not be considered anything even remotely resembling a domestic animal, or a known wild beast of the British Isles.
Holland recalled thinking for a moment that perhaps the animal was an exotic big cat that had escaped from a zoo or private estate; that is until it turned in his direction and he was finally able to see its terrible face. Likening it to that of a sliver-back gorilla, Holland said that the monstrous creature possessed a huge neck, widely flaring nostrils, and immense, powerful-looking jaws. For a moment or two, the animal looked intently at Holland and his whimpering little dog; then, seemingly losing interest, continued on its way and into the depths of the surrounding undergrowth. Holland would later explain that the creature looked like a strange combination of ape, dog, lion and rhinoceros. Needless to say, the British Isles is not home to any such animal that even remotely resembles the beast that Sam Holland says he stumbled upon. Yet he is adamant that his description of the monstrous entity and his recollections of the day in question are utterly accurate. Holland believed that whatever it was that he had the misfortune to run into half a century ago, it was unquestionably paranormal rather than physical in origin. But from where, precisely, he had no idea.
Rendlesham has also been the site of several intriguing encounters with what have become known as “Alien Big Cats”- or ABC’s. The infamous beast of Bodmin is perhaps more well-known than its Suffolk-based cousins; however, the reports that have surfaced from in and around Rendlesham Forest are certainly no less provocative in nature. One of the earliest, credible cases on record is that of Jimmy Freeman, whose close encounter with a big cat occurred while driving past Rendlesham Forest late one night in the mid-1970s. While the precise date has been lost to the inevitable fog of time, the details are as fresh in the mind of Freeman today as they were on the night the incident occurred.
Given the fact that the encounter had occurred around 11.15 to 11.30 on what was a dark, cloudy and slightly misty night, Freeman was driving slowly and had his lights on full-beam as he negotiated the dark and winding roads. As a result, when something large and shadowy charged across the road in front of him, Freeman could not fail to see the creature for what it was. Long, sleek and utterly black in color, Freeman is in no doubt that for a split second or two he had a brief sighting of a huge cat. Today, he says firmly: “If I live to be a hundred, I will tell the same: Rendlesham Forest has big cats.”
On an eerily similar path, in October 2003, it was reported that a woman named June Fooks, of Eyck, near Woodbridge – which is on the doorstep of Rendlesham Forest – had seen “a black feline” in her garden that was “bigger than her pet Labrador.” She recalled: “It all happened in a matter of seconds, but I got a really good look at it. The sun was setting, and it was shining right on it. It had a really shiny coat and a big tail. It saw me and then slinked off into the hedge.” Interestingly, it transpired that a neighbor of June Fooks – Anne Downing – had seen a similar creature in Rendlesham Forest around eighteen months previously. She explained: “I was coming along a pathway with my daughter and saw this black animal in the distance. It was almost in a pouncing position and, when we got too near, it simply fled into the bush.”
It is ironic that those who are skeptical of the Rendlesham Forest UFO case of December 1980 suggest that the airmen who were involved merely mistook the illumination from the nearby Orford Lighthouse for something more exotic. Why? Well, Orford itself is a veritable hotbed of weirdness and wild creatures. Consider, for example, the following account of Ralph of Coggershall. Recorded in the year 1200 in Chronicon Anglicanum, it describes the remarkable capture in the area of a wild-man-of-the-woods-style creature:
“In the time of King Henry II, when Bartholomew de Glanville was in charge of the castle at Orford, it happened that some fishermen fishing in the sea there caught in their nets a Wildman. He was naked and was like a man in all his members, covered with hair and with a long shaggy beard. He eagerly ate whatever was brought to him, but if it was raw he pressed it between his hands until all the juice was expelled. He would no talk, even when tortured and hung up by his feet, Brought into church, he showed no sign of reverence or belief. He sought his bed at sunset and always remained there until sunrise. He was allowed to go into the sea, strongly guarded with three lines of nets, but he dived under the nets and came up again and again. Eventually he came back of his own free will. But later on he escaped and was never seen again.”
As all of the above demonstrates, while Rendlesham Forest is most associated with the UFO-themed events of December 1980, when you look closer you see that the forest has been a hotbed of weirdness for not just years or decades, but for centuries. One of John Keel’s “window areas,” perhaps.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (which is looking more and more like a good idea lately, actually), you’ve likely heard or read about the recent disclosure of a U.S. government-funded program to study anomalous or otherwise unidentified flying objects. Whether or not the news is groundbreaking evidence of a UFO cover-up is up for debate, but it certainly reveals that there are many people in world governments (or at least funded by them) who do take the study of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously. Are these merely the pet projects of some of the more curious politicians and their well-connected corporate cronies, or does this news reflect a widespread global belief in intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?
After you learn the truth about Santa Claus, what else is there to believe in?
According to new worldwide data, the majority of humankind does indeed believe in extraterrestrial life in some form. International market research firm Glocalities recently conducted the largest study of its kind in which individuals from twenty-four countries were asked about their beliefs concerning alien life. 61% of people in the survey reported that they believe there is some form of life out there in the cosmos, while 47% said they believe in intelligent alien life specifically. Another 25% reported believing that life on Earth came from elsewhere in the universe, and only 17% reported ruling out the possibility of alien life altogether. Silly non-believers. Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Mexican, and Romanian citizens were found to be the most likely to believe in intelligent alien civilizations, while Dutch, Indonesian and Turkish citizens were found to be the least likely. Mexico, the United States, China, India, and Australia had some of the highest percentages of belief in any alien life, intelligent or otherwise
A heat map showing national percentages of citizens who believe in aliens worldwide.
According to Martijn Lampert, Research Director at Glocalities, these beliefs stem from recent advances in exoplanet discoveries and are reflected in the popularity of modern science fiction:
The high score on the belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life and the typical values profile of believers in intelligent alien civilizations partly explains the immense popularity of space opera movies such as Star Wars. The fascination with the mysteries of the universe offers mankind a never ending story to research, develop and experience.
Lampert says he believes that the high number of people who believe shows that a future discovery of alien life will cause the majority of humankind to “become more and more engaged in the debate about the future of humanity and the place of planet Earth in the universe.” That sentiment is echoed by another recent study which found that most individuals would gladly welcome extraterrestrial visitors as opposed to being terrified of or repulsed by them. I don’t know about you, though, but I’m investing in pitchforks and torches. Humans are a scared and predictable lot. Those first alien visitors better bring some serious defenses.
Footage of incredible fast cigar-shaped UFO flying over farm animals in Rigby, Idaho
A weird cigar-shaped object has been caught on camera by a visitor to farm animals in Rigby, Idaho.
Visitor farm animals’ who has reported the sighting to the Mutual UFO Network, case 88945, states: Well my story is pretty simple but very interesting. On July 9, 2017 we went to see our farm animals. They are in a different location than our home. I decided to film this event. Anyways, the time I was filming, I didn't see or notice anything weird.
It wasn't until a week or so later when I replayed the movie and discovered an object going incredibly fast. I thought it might be a glare or some sort of issue with my phone camera. My phone was basically 100% new at the time, so I realized that wasn't an issue.
The object was moving so fast, I barely even noticed it in the movie playback. My eye seemed to catch it. It lasted for a brief second and vanished.
I managed to stop the video and made a GIF image of it in slow motion.
When I zoom in on it, I can see what appear to be antennas. This object was going far too fast to be man-made, but slow enough to be caught on camera.
When I seen this object, I mainly was surprised that I caught a UFO on camera. I do have the original video clip.
Multiple residents reported an amalgamation of lights was hovering in the night sky on Monday. The congregation of lights took several different forms, according to Phoenix resident Mat Siltala.
"When I first saw (the lights), they were V-shaped," Siltala said. "By the time I grabbed my camera and started shooting, it was more of a hook or candy-cane shape."
Siltala's long-exposure photograph showed the lights on an upwards trajectory, which brought him to believe the lights were not something out of this world.
"They were moving super slow and kept going higher and higher, which led me to think they were balloons holding lights or lanterns with lights," he said.
Others who snapped pictures of the nighttime event had no idea what to call it.
EJ Helzer said the lights displayed an erratic behavior.
"Honestly it's hard to say exactly what they were, but they were higher than a commercial airline that was flying by last night," he said.
Helzer, a Queen Creek resident, described the movement of the lights as "fluid."
This cluster of lights made a brief appearance in the Arizona night sky on Dec.18, 2017
(Photo: EJ Helzer/Special to The Republic)
"Some got very bright, dimmed down to nothing and then came back bright as can be," he said.
Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration said he didn't receive any reports of unusual activity over Valley skies Monday night.
Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport didn't report any calls or reports of strange happenings in the area, according to Communications Director Ryan Smith.
"We didn't give any clearance for drones, and if someone is launching something into the sky, they typically let us know," Smith said.
Lindsey Pappas, spokeswoman for Intel, a California-based technology company with two branches in Arizona, said the company had no drones in the sky on Monday night, as suspected by several posters on Reddit.
This isn't Arizona's first encounter with unexplained, airborne anomalies. The "Phoenix Lights" of 1997 is still a topic of conversation anytime someone sees something out of the ordinary in the sky.
Whether alien-craft, lanterns or meteorites, unidentified lights will always add fuel to the conversation that we are not alone in the universe.
The sighting in Queen Creek, combined with the revelations recently delivered by former Navy Pilot David Fravor, have to be exciting for those who want to believe that the truth is out there.
Have you seen unidentified lights in the sky? Send your photos and videos to Robert.Gundran@azcentral.com
Advanced alien probes could be watching our every move, warns former MoD UFO investigator
Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence's UFO project, believes hyper-intelligent ETs may have already clocked our backwards little planet, and they could be watching our every move
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By George Harrison
MANKIND has long had an obsession with looking out for aliens... but what if they find us first?
Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence's UFO project, believes hyper-intelligent ETs may have already clocked our backwards little planet - and they could be watching our every move.µ
Former MoD man Nick Pope believes that aliens may already be observing our species
The UFO buff spoke to the Sun Online after alien hunters got all worked up about Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped asteroid that some scientists thought could be an alien spaceship.
Because of its unusual shape, researchers even scanned the 400-metre asteroid for alien tech.
And although the scans didn't flag any signs of life, Nick thinks we can't rule out the idea that our planet is being watched by more advanced beings.
He said: "While nothing has been found yet, there's another intriguing possibility: If this ship is an alien probe, it's possible that our scans will awake the intelligence inside."
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A long, thin asteroid, shown here as an artist's impression, has caused excitement among alien hunters
Some argue that this intelligence could take the form of either biological life or hyper-advanced AI, sent from deep space to keep an eye on our primitive world.
Nick added: "Simply put, any alien ship searching for life may go into a dormant mode until it gets close to an inhabited planet.
"But what's fascinating about this theory is just how many astronomers and other scientists are taking the idea seriously.
"It's a sign of how accepting we are these days about the likelihood of finding alien life"
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Even the Pentagon has been looking into the possibilities of finding alien life
Nick says the recent news about the Pentagon's UFO search is huge, proving governments are taking the idea of extraterrestrial life more seriously than they often let on.
He said: "It's an extraordinary revelation, not least because it directly contradicts the many specific denials that the US government has issued previously when asked about this subject and their involvement in it."
"The take-home message here is that there's probably something out there, but we don't know what it is."
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Scientists have now scanned the suspicious asteroid, finding no signs of alien tech onboard
At the same time, Oumuamua has been causing so much hype among UFO hunters because of its odd shape, which is far smaller than most asteroids.
Nick argues that asteroids such as Oumuamua could serve as alien probes or ships in disguise, taking a very different look to the traditional disc-shaped craft we've seen in sci-fi films such as District 9.
He said: "Because there's no air in space, an alien spaceship wouldn't need to be designed in the same way that our aircraft have to be.
"Rather than building an interstellar spacecraft from scratch, it makes perfect sense to take an asteroid and then build your ship around it, or hollow it out and build inside it, for the protection you'd derive from being surrounded by so much rock."
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Films like District 9 depict a disc-shaped craft, but a ship's shape wouldn't actually matter in the vacuum of space
What could alien tech look like?
Nick Pope argues that alien tech may be so advanced that we mistake it for magic.
He predicts that the possibilities include:
Faster-than-light travel
Ways of controlling the weather
Invisibility
Teleportation
Anti-gravity technology
Medical tech to make them live forever
Artificial intelligence
The ability to download human consciousness into a machine or into the internet
Planet-destroying weapons
This means that probes could be disguised among the comets we regularly see shooting through the solar system, making it possible that our species could have been watched from the very beginning.
And - given the age of the galaxy - earlier alien civilisations could have had a multi-billion-year head start to evolve technology so advanced we'd think it was magic.
Nick said: "This is one reason why humanity probably wouldn't survive an alien invasion.
"Any aliens that find us (as opposed to us finding them) probably have technology way in advance of anything we have."
KOBAL COLLECTION
Aliens that find us first will probably have devastating technological powers, like in The War of the Worlds
We've been bringing you all the news about the search for ET.
Recently, we shared the news that the Pentagon had secretly funded a £16 million investigation into the existence of UFOs and aliens.
Dragonfly, which will use a “drone-like rotorcraft” — sort of a space helicopter that parachutes down to the surface — to study the prebiotic chemistry and potential habitability of various locations on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
CAESAR, “a mission to return a sample from the nucleus of a comet,” in the words of NASA.
Both will receive $4 million to work on their idea, and in 2019, NASA will choose one to build. The winning project could get up to $1 billion in funding from NASA and will launch sometime in the mid 2020s.
Dragonfly concept art
Why the Dragonfly Mission Could Be Big ForAstrobiology
Between the two finalists, the Dragonfly mission could be particularly big for astrobiologists. NASA describes it as “a drone-like rotorcraft that would explore the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites on Saturn’s moon Titan,” which, yes, means it would be looking for signs of life. The lead investigator is Elizabeth Turtle from the Johns Hopkins University Applied PhysicsLaboratory (APL).
The plan is for Dragonfly to “hop” hundreds of kilometers from a particular spot on Titan, once a day every Titan day, which is equivalent to once every 16 Earth days. Hypothetically, Dragonfly would do this for about two years, taking various measurements along the moon’s surface.
“Titan is an ocean world, and the only moon in our Solar System with a dense atmosphere, which supports an Earth-like hydrological cycle of methane clouds, rain, and liquid flowing across the surface to fill lakes and seas,” the Dragonfly researchers write on their site about the mission. “The abundant complex organic material accessible on Titan’s surface makes it an ideal destination to study the conditions necessary for the habitability of an extraterrestrial environment and the kinds of chemical interactions that occurred before life developed on Earth.”
Some Hope For Enceladus
It’s also worth noting that one of the two concepts chosen to “receive technology development funds” is Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH), which seems to focus on finding biosignatures on Saturn’s strangest moon. According to a press release from NASA, the mission seeks to “develop cost-effective techniques that limit spacecraft contamination and thereby enable life detection measurements on cost-capped missions.” As we know from NASA’s Cassini mission, Enceladus and its subterranean ocean seem to have all the right ingredients to harbor life.
No matter what these projects find, one thing’s for sure: They already have a better shot at finding signs of life than politicians.
You've read that, now watch this: "A New Language Was Made for Aliens in 'Arrival"
Since the Pentagon confirmed the existence of a top-secret UFO-hunting program, internet denizens have been trying to piece together the puzzle of this cheap X-Files reboot, starring Harry Reid and Robert Bigelow, apparently.
In a follow-up to the big story, theNew York Timespublished a first-hand account oftwo Navy airmenwho claim to have seen a rapidly accelerating, flying object they couldn’t explain, one night back in 2004 while flying Navy F/A-18F fighter jets near San Diego.
“It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Commander David Fravor told the Times of what he thought was a flying object in the sky. Some of what they saw has been published in a video that the Pentagon’s UFO search division studied for research, or, whatever.
But an astronomer tells Inverse what the airman more likely saw that night:
“Typically, the explanation is that the thing they are looking at is much closer or much farther than they thought, or is a reflection of some kind,” Jonathan McDowell, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells Inverse.
McDowell makes clear that he hasn’t reviewed the case, though, but says this is what many “UFO sightings” turn out to be. Just a mere reflection.
Jonathan McDowell: History says the "UFO" two Navy airman saw was probably a mere reflection of something else.
It’d also help experts understand what happened if the Pentagon declassified more information about the AATIP, or Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The few details made public obviously don’t reveal any aliens. But what’s arguably more disturbing is they show how former Democratic Senator from Nevada Harry Reid was able to get $22 million in taxpayer money to give to his billionaire friend Robert Bigelow — a true believer in aliens — and his aerospace company. The money was for “research,” which included interviewing people who claimed to have had encounters with extraterrestrial objects.
For context, Bigelow has publicly claimed that aliens have visited us, because, sure.
“Internal reviews of classified data may not have the right mix of people for this,” McDowell explains. “Better to open all the data and let skeptics bash away.”
Robert Bigelow on '60 Minutes'
Researchers at the SETI Institute in California and METI International are both working toward contacting extraterrestrial life in different ways. If the government wants to find aliens so badly, they should just pay astronomers and astrobiologists. The concept isn’t rocket science.
You've read that, now watch this: "Arrival Language"
Technology of the Gods: Ancient Flying Machines of India, the powerful Vimana
One of my favorite subjects in history are the countless accounts we find of Gods flying around in mighty vehicles.
Accounts of beings, coming down from the heavens in what are described as powerful technological machines, that produce fear-inducing sound, while making the ground shake like a million Earthquake and spitting fire are descriptions that many of us would attribute to rocket or space shuttle launches and/or landings.
To us, this is nothing unusual, as we live in a modern-era where rocketry is a well-known subject.
Every once in a while, we witness a new launch taking place, and we see how mighty spaceships take off from Earth, “spitting fire, producing fear-inducing sounds, making the ground tremble.” We know that these machines are not the vehicle of the Gods, they are just some of the many vehicles created by mankind.
However, if we were to travel back in time 2,000 or 3,000 years and witness the same thing, how would we react?
Imagine yourself seeing a reusable rocket land for the first time ever 3,000 years ago. What would you say? What would you do?
Image witnessing, for the first time ever, a MASSIVE machine, spitting fire, producing smoke and terrible noise, while making the ground beneath your feet shake. Would you not say it must be the Gods? Because until that moment, you’ve never seen anything like that. You were unaware of technology beyond sticks and stones. Such an event must have been life-changing for anyone witnessing it.
Were the ancient vimana really powerful ancient alien spaceships?
Well curiously, similar accounts can be found all across the planet where ancient civilizations witnessed how the Gods came down from heaven, riding ‘dragons’ which spit fire and smoke or mighty chariots, that could sail across the sky.
Thousands of years ago, people faced forces beyond their control and understanding: hence, mankind produced a mythology based different gods.
In ancient times, it was universally accepted that human civilization was a gift from the gods.
Whether you look in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, Scandinavia, Great Britain, India, China, Africa, America or elsewhere, most ancient cultures believed that the gods brought them the necessary technology to develop as a civilization. They brought them agriculture, writing, medicine – everything worth having.
When the monotheistic religions became dominant, the gods became one God, but the same social rhythm continued.
The mythology of the Eskimos says that the first tribes were brought north by “gods” who flew them onboard machines with bronze wings.
The oldest sagas of the Native Americans mention a Thunderbird that introduced fire and fruit to them.
What if ancient civilizations misinterpreted alien visitors as ‘Gods’?
The Mayan legend, the Popol Vuh, tells us that the “gods” were able to recognize everything; the universe, the four cardinal points of the compass, and even the round shape of the Earth.
So, does it not make you wonder what were the Eskimos talking about when they were referring to metal birds?
Why do the Indians mention a Thunderbird?
How were the ancestors of the ancient Maya able to deduce that the Earth was round?
When we mention the ancient Vimana, we come across a topic that has been widely spread across the internet.
The word Vimana is Sanskrit and has multiple meanings. Nowadays, the word is usually translated to ancient aircraft. The word “Vimana” originates from the Sanskrit words Vi-Mana, ‘Vi’ meaning ‘Bird’ and ‘Mana’ meaning ‘like’. The interpretation will be ‘like bird’.
The mechanical birds of ancient history
If we look at the Ramayana, a Vedic epic dating back to the 4th / 5th century BC, we will find one passage that describes a Vimana as a “chariot that resembles the sun, and how this aerial chariot had the ability to travel anywhere at will, it resembles a cloud of light in the sky…“
Vimanas… ancient flying machines of the gods?
Image by B. Petry
This was the pushpaka, the vimana of Ravana, who is the hero of the great Hindu epic The Ramayana, which describes the pushpaka as follows:
The Pushpaka chariot that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent chariot going everywhere at will …. that chariot resembling a bright cloud in the sky … and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent chariot at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.
The Vimanas are also described in the Mahabharata, another ancient text. In this case, measurements are given for one of the Vimanas. It is described as having twelve cubits in circumference with four strong wheels that are approximately 20 to 25 feet in circumference; about seven feet in diameter.
According to many ancient texts, these Vimanas were used to transport the gods through the heavens.
These flying machines, according to Erich Von Daniken, sailed at high altitudes with the help of mercury (mercury vortex engine). The Vimanas could cover great distances and could travel forward, up and down.
They were enviable and maneuverable space vehicles.
The predecessors of the flying vimanas of the Sanskrit epics are the flying chariots employed by various gods in the Vedas: The Sun (see Sun chariot) and Indra and several other Vedic deities are transported by flying wheeled chariots pulled by animals, usually horses.
In the Mahabharata, we find: “Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara we find details about Vimana: “Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backward. With the help of the machines, human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”
Technology of the Gods: Ancient Flying Machines of India, the powerful Vimana
One of my favorite subjects in history are the countless accounts we find of Gods flying around in mighty vehicles.
Accounts of beings, coming down from the heavens in what are described as powerful technological machines, that produce fear-inducing sound, while making the ground shake like a million Earthquake and spitting fire are descriptions that many of us would attribute to rocket or space shuttle launches and/or landings.
To us, this is nothing unusual, as we live in a modern-era where rocketry is a well-known subject.
Every once in a while, we witness a new launch taking place, and we see how mighty spaceships take off from Earth, “spitting fire, producing fear-inducing sounds, making the ground tremble.” We know that these machines are not the vehicle of the Gods, they are just some of the many vehicles created by mankind.
However, if we were to travel back in time 2,000 or 3,000 years and witness the same thing, how would we react?
Imagine yourself seeing a reusable rocket land for the first time ever 3,000 years ago. What would you say? What would you do?
Image witnessing, for the first time ever, a MASSIVE machine, spitting fire, producing smoke and terrible noise, while making the ground beneath your feet shake. Would you not say it must be the Gods? Because until that moment, you’ve never seen anything like that. You were unaware of technology beyond sticks and stones. Such an event must have been life-changing for anyone witnessing it.
Were the ancient vimana really powerful ancient alien spaceships?
Well curiously, similar accounts can be found all across the planet where ancient civilizations witnessed how the Gods came down from heaven, riding ‘dragons’ which spit fire and smoke or mighty chariots, that could sail across the sky.
Thousands of years ago, people faced forces beyond their control and understanding: hence, mankind produced a mythology based different gods.
In ancient times, it was universally accepted that human civilization was a gift from the gods.
Whether you look in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, Scandinavia, Great Britain, India, China, Africa, America or elsewhere, most ancient cultures believed that the gods brought them the necessary technology to develop as a civilization. They brought them agriculture, writing, medicine – everything worth having.
When the monotheistic religions became dominant, the gods became one God, but the same social rhythm continued.
The mythology of the Eskimos says that the first tribes were brought north by “gods” who flew them onboard machines with bronze wings.
The oldest sagas of the Native Americans mention a Thunderbird that introduced fire and fruit to them.
What if ancient civilizations misinterpreted alien visitors as ‘Gods’?
The Mayan legend, the Popol Vuh, tells us that the “gods” were able to recognize everything; the universe, the four cardinal points of the compass, and even the round shape of the Earth.
So, does it not make you wonder what were the Eskimos talking about when they were referring to metal birds?
Why do the Indians mention a Thunderbird?
How were the ancestors of the ancient Maya able to deduce that the Earth was round?
When we mention the ancient Vimana, we come across a topic that has been widely spread across the internet.
The word Vimana is Sanskrit and has multiple meanings. Nowadays, the word is usually translated to ancient aircraft. The word “Vimana” originates from the Sanskrit words Vi-Mana, ‘Vi’ meaning ‘Bird’ and ‘Mana’ meaning ‘like’. The interpretation will be ‘like bird’.
The mechanical birds of ancient history
If we look at the Ramayana, a Vedic epic dating back to the 4th / 5th century BC, we will find one passage that describes a Vimana as a “chariot that resembles the sun, and how this aerial chariot had the ability to travel anywhere at will, it resembles a cloud of light in the sky…“
Vimanas… ancient flying machines of the gods?
Image by B. Petry
This was the pushpaka, the vimana of Ravana, who is the hero of the great Hindu epic The Ramayana, which describes the pushpaka as follows:
The Pushpaka chariot that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent chariot going everywhere at will …. that chariot resembling a bright cloud in the sky … and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent chariot at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.
The Vimanas are also described in the Mahabharata, another ancient text. In this case, measurements are given for one of the Vimanas. It is described as having twelve cubits in circumference with four strong wheels that are approximately 20 to 25 feet in circumference; about seven feet in diameter.
According to many ancient texts, these Vimanas were used to transport the gods through the heavens.
These flying machines, according to Erich Von Daniken, sailed at high altitudes with the help of mercury (mercury vortex engine). The Vimanas could cover great distances and could travel forward, up and down.
They were enviable and maneuverable space vehicles.
The predecessors of the flying vimanas of the Sanskrit epics are the flying chariots employed by various gods in the Vedas: The Sun (see Sun chariot) and Indra and several other Vedic deities are transported by flying wheeled chariots pulled by animals, usually horses.
In the Mahabharata, we find: “Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.”
In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara we find details about Vimana: “Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backward. With the help of the machines, human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.”
The Hunt For Alien life Continues: NASA to search dwarf planet Ceres for alien life
Rejoice, NASA’s Dawn mission is set to search the alien world for traces of life, as mission scientists say they will bring the spacecraft closer to the surface of the planet than ever before.
Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest astronomical object in the asteroid belt, a region of our solar system that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; Its diameter of approximately 945 km makes it the thirteenth largest known object in the solar system.
It is also the only dwarf planet whose trajectory is completely within the orbit of Neptune.
However, it is also a distant place in our solar system where life, alien life, may exist.
Ceres became well-known for its mysterious “Bright Spot,” an area on the surface of the dwarf planet that created confusion among experts who were initially unable to explain the strange phenomenon.
Alien hunters said the bright spot looked like ‘city lights’ as seen from space.
The bright spots on Ceres.
Image Credit: NASA
However, NASA’s Dawn mission has taught us that Ceres has more than 300 patches of bright material scattered across its surface.
NASA seems to be fascinated with Ceres, and according to astronomers, this strange dwarf planet may be the perfect place to search for alien life.
NASA’s Dawn mission has shown that Ceres may be much more habitable than what scientists though previously. Now, the US space agency plans to analyze Ceres in detail, and will do so by sending its Dawn spacecraft closer than ever to its mysterious surface.
NASA’s Dawn mission as supposed to come to an end nearly three years ago, however, to the surprise of scientists, the spaceship is still functional and can further help NASA in their search for alien life.
Speaking about the dwarf planet, Lynnae Quick, a planetary geologist at the Smithsonian Institution said: “We believe these bright spots are signs that Ceres once had a global ocean and we are very excited about that.”
Another view of the Bright Spots on Ceres.
Image Credit: NASA
“We believe that what happened at Ceres in the past may be similar to what might be happening today, although on a larger scale in some of the active icy moons in the outer solar system,” Quick said, making reference to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which scientists believe are some of the most promising candidates for extraterrestrial life within our solar system.
Therefore, mission scientists at Dawn have given the spacecraft a new mission: sneak up on the surface of Ceres, just to better observe the alien landscape.
“We’re going to be using an elliptical orbit to dive closer to the surface than we have before, down to 30 kilometers altitude,” said Carol Raymond, one of the NASA scientists and mission members of the Dawn mission.
Despite the fact that this is exciting news, Raymond said that it is difficult to say at this time precisely how long this new mission will last, since the team is not sure how much fuel Dawn has left or how quickly it will run out with the maneuvers that the spacecraft is set to perform, in order to get closer to Ceres.
However, the spacecraft will probably start approaching the dwarf planet this spring and will most likely spend three or four months exploring the alien world.
Even though scientists hope to find traces of alien life on Ceres, if they don’t, the Dawn spacecraft will try and answer some incredibly intriguing questions about the dwarf planet and origins of our solar system.
In particular, scientists want to use the time to study the chemistry of the surface and better understand the magnetism and volcanism of the dwarf planet.
Maybe, along the way, they’ll find traces of alien life, on a distant ‘frozen world,’ with a surface area of 2,800,000 km².
The Hunt For Alien life Continues: NASA to search dwarf planet Ceres for alien life
Rejoice, NASA’s Dawn mission is set to search the alien world for traces of life, as mission scientists say they will bring the spacecraft closer to the surface of the planet than ever before.
Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest astronomical object in the asteroid belt, a region of our solar system that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; Its diameter of approximately 945 km makes it the thirteenth largest known object in the solar system.
It is also the only dwarf planet whose trajectory is completely within the orbit of Neptune.
However, it is also a distant place in our solar system where life, alien life, may exist.
Ceres became well-known for its mysterious “Bright Spot,” an area on the surface of the dwarf planet that created confusion among experts who were initially unable to explain the strange phenomenon.
Alien hunters said the bright spot looked like ‘city lights’ as seen from space.
The bright spots on Ceres.
Image Credit: NASA
However, NASA’s Dawn mission has taught us that Ceres has more than 300 patches of bright material scattered across its surface.
NASA seems to be fascinated with Ceres, and according to astronomers, this strange dwarf planet may be the perfect place to search for alien life.
NASA’s Dawn mission has shown that Ceres may be much more habitable than what scientists though previously. Now, the US space agency plans to analyze Ceres in detail, and will do so by sending its Dawn spacecraft closer than ever to its mysterious surface.
NASA’s Dawn mission as supposed to come to an end nearly three years ago, however, to the surprise of scientists, the spaceship is still functional and can further help NASA in their search for alien life.
Speaking about the dwarf planet, Lynnae Quick, a planetary geologist at the Smithsonian Institution said: “We believe these bright spots are signs that Ceres once had a global ocean and we are very excited about that.”
Another view of the Bright Spots on Ceres.
Image Credit: NASA
“We believe that what happened at Ceres in the past may be similar to what might be happening today, although on a larger scale in some of the active icy moons in the outer solar system,” Quick said, making reference to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which scientists believe are some of the most promising candidates for extraterrestrial life within our solar system.
Therefore, mission scientists at Dawn have given the spacecraft a new mission: sneak up on the surface of Ceres, just to better observe the alien landscape.
“We’re going to be using an elliptical orbit to dive closer to the surface than we have before, down to 30 kilometers altitude,” said Carol Raymond, one of the NASA scientists and mission members of the Dawn mission.
Despite the fact that this is exciting news, Raymond said that it is difficult to say at this time precisely how long this new mission will last, since the team is not sure how much fuel Dawn has left or how quickly it will run out with the maneuvers that the spacecraft is set to perform, in order to get closer to Ceres.
However, the spacecraft will probably start approaching the dwarf planet this spring and will most likely spend three or four months exploring the alien world.
Even though scientists hope to find traces of alien life on Ceres, if they don’t, the Dawn spacecraft will try and answer some incredibly intriguing questions about the dwarf planet and origins of our solar system.
In particular, scientists want to use the time to study the chemistry of the surface and better understand the magnetism and volcanism of the dwarf planet.
Maybe, along the way, they’ll find traces of alien life, on a distant ‘frozen world,’ with a surface area of 2,800,000 km².
Former Pentagon official, head of secret UFO research program says ‘we may not be alone’
The era of UFO disclosure has started a long time ago.
For years have former astronauts, military and government officials spoken out about alien life, and the existence of UFO’s.
Oe of the best quotes regarding UFO’s comes from George Carlin, who wrote:
“To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed and, by the way, unexplained sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.”
Image credit: Shutterstock
Mr. Carlin probably explained the UFO phenomena unlike anyone else. And the best part, its point on.
Edgar Mitchell, a former astronaut, and NASA membersaid; I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.
Recently, the New York Times published an interview where the crew of two fighter-bombers F-18 Hornet of the United States Navy recounted a strange chapter that occurred in 2004. As they were on a routine training mission, they were ordered to intercept a UFO. According to the pilots, the UFO had a whitish appearance reminiscent of foam or boiling water; furthermore, it accelerated like nothing I’ve seen.”
Interestingly, similar descriptions of flying saucers can be found all around us if we have time to look for them. Donald Slayton, former Mercury astronaut recounts his encounter:
“I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna’ fly that high.” As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me — and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden, the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45-degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”
Some astronauts, former astronauts, even testified under oath when speaking about aliens;
“I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.”
– Major Gordon Cooper, astronaut, testifying under oath to the United Nations.
As you can see, plenty of evidence to support the theory that UFOs are real has been presented throughout the years.
The latest ‘disclosure’ comes from the man who was in charge of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis Elizondo, which investigated reports of clashes with unidentified aircraft.
While working with the AATIP, Elizondo claims that some reports contain details of aircraft that allegedly displayed out of this world capabilities in terms of both speed and maneuvering.
This is why, based on numerous reports he read on encounters with the flying craft, Mr. Elizondo has sad that ‘we may not be alone‘.
In an interview with CNN, Mr. Elizondo joined a long list of people who have come forward speaking about alien life.
“My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone. These aircraft – we’ll call them aircraft – are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of. Things that don’t have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological.”
A former commanding officer of a U.S. Navy squadron claims to have seen a flying object about the size of his F/A-18 fighter plane that resembled a white Tic Tac.
David Fravor said he saw the object after a break in a routine training mission off the California coast on November 14, 2004.
The former officer claimed the unidentified 40-foot-long wingless object moved rapidly, unlike anything he had ever seen in the air, and he has not forgotten it since.
"I can tell you, I think it was not from this world," Fravor said in an interview with ABC News. "I'm not crazy, haven't been drinking. After 18 years of flying, I've seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close."
Former Navy pilot David Fravor's account of his close encounter with a UFO came out last week after the Pentagon acknowledged for the first time the existence of a program dedicated to studying unidentified flying objects.
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The ex-Navy pilot explained that he was on a training flight mission around 13 years ago when the incident occurred.
Controllers on one of the Navy ships on the water below reported objects that were dropping out of the sky from 80,000 feet and going "straight back up," Fravor told ABC. “So we’re thinking, OK, this is going to be interesting.”
An object then appeared on the radar as another aviator spotted the unusual flying object. “I was like, ‘Dude, do you see that?’” Fravor recalled.
“We look down, we see a white disturbance in the water, like something's under the surface, and the waves are breaking over, but we see next to it, and it's flying around, and it's this little white Tic Tac, and it's moving around—left, right, forward, back. The radar immediately starts getting jammed, and all of a sudden it takes off," he continued.
Fravor also said the planes flew lower to investigate the object. That was when the object started to mirror their movements before quickly disappearing, he added.
"As we start to cut across, it rapidly accelerates, climbs past our altitude and disappears," Fravor said. "When it started to near us, as we started to descend towards it coming up, it was flying in the elongated way, so it's a Tic Tac, with the roundish end going in the forward direction. I don't know what it is. I don't know what I saw. I just know it was really impressive, really fast, and I would like to fly it."
Adding to the bizarre experience, Fravor claimed the disturbance in the water also vanished with the object.
"I have never seen anything in my life, in my history of flying, that has the performance, the acceleration,” Fravor said. “Keep in mind, this thing had no wings.”
Fravor’s story emerged just days after The New York Times reported the existence of a program by the Defense Department dedicated to studying unidentified flying objects. Funding for the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program began in 2007, and the Pentagon said it closed it in 2012, acknowledging the program for the first time publicly.
Fravor told ABC that there was no logical rationale for what he experienced that day. “I don’t know if it was alien life, but I will say that in an infinite universe with multiple galaxies that we know of, if we’re the only planet with life, then it’s a pretty lonely universe.”
He added, "You know, you see a lot of interesting things. But to show up on something that's a 40-foot-long white Tic Tac with no wings that can move, really, in any random direction that it wants and go from hovering over the ocean to mirroring us to accelerating to the point where it just disappears—like, poof, then it was gone.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Fravor said he is certain about one thing: "It was a real object, it exists, and I saw it." Asked what he believes it was, he responded that it was "something not from the Earth."
No big planets at Alpha Centauri, but maybe small ones
“Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it’s our first stop outside our solar system. There are almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.”
Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein via YaleNews.
Yale astronomers said on December 18, 2017 that they have taken a fresh look at the nearby Alpha Centauri star systemand found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets there. The study was led by astronomer Debra Fischerand graduate student Lily Zhao, who believe there may be small, Earth-like planets in Alpha Centauri that’ve been overlooked so far. At the same time, their study ruled out the existence of a number of larger planets in the system that had popped up in previous models. The new study is published in the peer-reviewed Astronomical Journal.
Fischer, who has been involved in the search for exoplanets for decades, since long before the
first ones were discovered in the 1990s, pointed out that the the most common types of planets appear to be small planets:
Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There are almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.
Alpha Centauri system is the star system nearest to our sun. It’s located about 4.2 light-years (24.9 trillion miles) away. It has three stars: Centauri A, Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri. Last year, astronomers found an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. This planet is the closest possible abode for an extraterrestrial civilization.
The new findings are based on data coming in from a new wave of more advanced spectrographic instruments at observatories located in Chile: CHIRON, a spectrograph built by Fischer’s team; HARPS, built by a team from Geneva; and UVES, part of the Very Large Telescope Array. Fischer said:
The precision of our instruments hasn’t been good enough, until now.
These astronomers statement explained:
The researchers set up a grid system for the Alpha Centauri system and asked, based on the spectrographic analysis, ‘If there was a small, rocky planet in the habitable zone, would we have been able to detect it?’ Often, the answer came back: ‘No.’
Zhao, the study’s first author, determined that for Alpha Centauri A, there might still be orbiting planets that are smaller than 50 Earth masses. For Alpha Centauri B there might be orbiting planets than are smaller than 8 Earth masses; for Proxima Centauri, there might be orbiting planets that are less than one-half of Earth’s mass.
In addition, the study eliminated the possibility of a number of larger planets. Zhao said this takes away the possibility of Jupiter-sized planets causing asteroids that might hit or change the orbits of smaller, Earth-like planets.
The astronomers hope the new information provided by their study will help other astronomers prioritize their efforts to detect additional planets in the Alpha Centauri system.
Bottom line: Astronomers have found new ways to narrow the search for habitable planets in the star system next door, Alpha Centauri. They say there are no big planets in the system, but they expect some small ones.
Scientist reveals photos and evidence confirming the existence of aliens before dying
During immemorial times, human beings have been wondering if we are alone in the universe. In recent years, certain evidence is emerging that seems to demonstrate that the existence of extraterrestrial life is closer than we think. On October 5, a team of British scientists led by Professor Milton Wainwright of the University of Sheffield, England, publicly released an amazing photograph showing an organism of extraterrestrial origin
But this type of discovery has also given way to endless conspiracy theories, which point directly to the main governments of our planet to hide evidence, and even to be cooperating with advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.
And when everything seemed to be part of the imagination of some conspiranoics and ufologists, now the scientific community is again marked by public opinion, this time by the surprising statements of an aerospace scientist before his death. Boyd Bushman, who passed away on August 7, 2014, recorded a video of just over 30 minutes where he showed evidence that UFOs and aliens exist, in addition to claiming that he has even had conversations with them.
Definitive evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth
Boyd Bushman was born in Globe, Arizona, in 1936 and died on August 7, 2014 in Tucson, Arizona. Bushman was considered one of the great engineers of Lockheed Martin, a multinational company of the aerospace industry. I dedicate over forty years to aerospace research, awarded by paras paras, in addition to working for Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics or Texas Instruments. According to his biography, Bushman was manager of several aerospace and scientific programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company from 1986 to 2000, where he remained a consultant after retiring.
But it is not because of his impressive career as a scientist that he has made news again in the mainstream media around the world. Bushman died on August 7, but shortly before his death, he offered an incredible interview that was published on YouTube earlier this month and that already has more than a million and a half visits.
discovered in space, becoming the ultimate test that all life on Earth, including humans, is of extraterrestrial origin.
In the video, Bushman claims that one of his top-secret jobs was “reverse engineering , ” technology of extraterrestrial origin for the use of the United States military. But for those who think it is an impressive revelation, Bushman goes further with his statements. It also shows photographs of extraterrestrial beings, who in some cases have died inside the highly classified military base Area 51, also known as Dreamland, located in the Nevada desert some 85 kilometers north of Las Vegas.
“The only reason I believe in everything they told me is because my people got me pictures for thirty years,” Bushman explains in the video. “They are not just photographs, but I did them assignments being an important engineer and they got me really close photos. For example, a UFO ready to take off , taken up close. What they told me is that the UFO is made of three elements and none is metal. It turns out that these things get up and fly using anti-gravity systems. ”
According to the digital version of the Daily News, Bushman describes the aliens as between 1.20 and 1.50 meters tall and with elongated fingers , webbed feet and come from a planet known as “Quintumnia” , from which only take about 45 years in traveling to Earth. The engineer even gave them a mission: to photograph the planets that were on their way from their trip to Earth.
Alien scientist
Bushman also gives details of the extraterrestrial trips and his current mission in the land, which use UFOs of about 11 meters in diameter, while about 18 extraterrestrials continue to work in top secret facilities in the United States. He also said that 230-year-old aliens working in Area 51 can communicate with humans through telepathy , using our own voice.
“They are beings between 1.20 and 1.50 meters high. The American Army has one, or two, in Area 51 and they are close to 230 years of age, ” Bushman continues. “Their eyes are different from ours, the nose is different but they have five fingers in each hand, two eyes … What surprised me is that I asked how they communicated … and they told me: let’s say you have a question in your mind, then you go in a room with them and suddenly you find that the answer is given to you with your own voice. They are able to use your own voice with telepathy, to speak to you. ”
Apart from these revelations, Bushman also gives more specific details on how the extraterrestrial races that operate on Earth are organized, on the spiritual realm, extraterrestrial objects in Area 51, the demolition of UFO or dead extraterrestrial ships .
But shortly after the video of Bushman became a viral phenomenon, some people began to publish images of an extraterrestrial being very similar to the one shown by Bushman in the video, although it can be said that he is not the same. But the conspiracy theorists have reacted quickly, suggesting that the United States government put into circulation a doll very similar to the real extraterrestrial beings with the sole purpose of discrediting the statements of one of the most brilliant minds of aerospace engineering.
Is Bushman revealing the most important secret in the history of mankind? Is it a man who has lost his mental faculties? Or do they want to prepare us for the imminent extraterrestrial revelation?
Next, Boyd Bushman’s confession about the existence of extraterrestrial beings before his death:
Scientist reveals photos and evidence confirming the existence of aliens before dying
During immemorial times, human beings have been wondering if we are alone in the universe. In recent years, certain evidence is emerging that seems to demonstrate that the existence of extraterrestrial life is closer than we think. On October 5, a team of British scientists led by Professor Milton Wainwright of the University of Sheffield, England, publicly released an amazing photograph showing an organism of extraterrestrial origin
But this type of discovery has also given way to endless conspiracy theories, which point directly to the main governments of our planet to hide evidence, and even to be cooperating with advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.
And when everything seemed to be part of the imagination of some conspiranoics and ufologists, now the scientific community is again marked by public opinion, this time by the surprising statements of an aerospace scientist before his death. Boyd Bushman, who passed away on August 7, 2014, recorded a video of just over 30 minutes where he showed evidence that UFOs and aliens exist, in addition to claiming that he has even had conversations with them.
Definitive evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth
Boyd Bushman was born in Globe, Arizona, in 1936 and died on August 7, 2014 in Tucson, Arizona. Bushman was considered one of the great engineers of Lockheed Martin, a multinational company of the aerospace industry. I dedicate over forty years to aerospace research, awarded by paras paras, in addition to working for Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics or Texas Instruments. According to his biography, Bushman was manager of several aerospace and scientific programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company from 1986 to 2000, where he remained a consultant after retiring.
But it is not because of his impressive career as a scientist that he has made news again in the mainstream media around the world. Bushman died on August 7, but shortly before his death, he offered an incredible interview that was published on YouTube earlier this month and that already has more than a million and a half visits.
discovered in space, becoming the ultimate test that all life on Earth, including humans, is of extraterrestrial origin.
In the video, Bushman claims that one of his top-secret jobs was “reverse engineering , ” technology of extraterrestrial origin for the use of the United States military. But for those who think it is an impressive revelation, Bushman goes further with his statements. It also shows photographs of extraterrestrial beings, who in some cases have died inside the highly classified military base Area 51, also known as Dreamland, located in the Nevada desert some 85 kilometers north of Las Vegas.
“The only reason I believe in everything they told me is because my people got me pictures for thirty years,” Bushman explains in the video. “They are not just photographs, but I did them assignments being an important engineer and they got me really close photos. For example, a UFO ready to take off , taken up close. What they told me is that the UFO is made of three elements and none is metal. It turns out that these things get up and fly using anti-gravity systems. ”
According to the digital version of the Daily News, Bushman describes the aliens as between 1.20 and 1.50 meters tall and with elongated fingers , webbed feet and come from a planet known as “Quintumnia” , from which only take about 45 years in traveling to Earth. The engineer even gave them a mission: to photograph the planets that were on their way from their trip to Earth.
Alien scientist
Bushman also gives details of the extraterrestrial trips and his current mission in the land, which use UFOs of about 11 meters in diameter, while about 18 extraterrestrials continue to work in top secret facilities in the United States. He also said that 230-year-old aliens working in Area 51 can communicate with humans through telepathy , using our own voice.
“They are beings between 1.20 and 1.50 meters high. The American Army has one, or two, in Area 51 and they are close to 230 years of age, ” Bushman continues. “Their eyes are different from ours, the nose is different but they have five fingers in each hand, two eyes … What surprised me is that I asked how they communicated … and they told me: let’s say you have a question in your mind, then you go in a room with them and suddenly you find that the answer is given to you with your own voice. They are able to use your own voice with telepathy, to speak to you. ”
Apart from these revelations, Bushman also gives more specific details on how the extraterrestrial races that operate on Earth are organized, on the spiritual realm, extraterrestrial objects in Area 51, the demolition of UFO or dead extraterrestrial ships .
But shortly after the video of Bushman became a viral phenomenon, some people began to publish images of an extraterrestrial being very similar to the one shown by Bushman in the video, although it can be said that he is not the same. But the conspiracy theorists have reacted quickly, suggesting that the United States government put into circulation a doll very similar to the real extraterrestrial beings with the sole purpose of discrediting the statements of one of the most brilliant minds of aerospace engineering.
Is Bushman revealing the most important secret in the history of mankind? Is it a man who has lost his mental faculties? Or do they want to prepare us for the imminent extraterrestrial revelation?
Next, Boyd Bushman’s confession about the existence of extraterrestrial beings before his death:
Scientist reveals photos and evidence confirming the existence of aliens before dying
During immemorial times, human beings have been wondering if we are alone in the universe. In recent years, certain evidence is emerging that seems to demonstrate that the existence of extraterrestrial life is closer than we think. On October 5, a team of British scientists led by Professor Milton Wainwright of the University of Sheffield, England, publicly released an amazing photograph showing an organism of extraterrestrial origin
But this type of discovery has also given way to endless conspiracy theories, which point directly to the main governments of our planet to hide evidence, and even to be cooperating with advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.
And when everything seemed to be part of the imagination of some conspiranoics and ufologists, now the scientific community is again marked by public opinion, this time by the surprising statements of an aerospace scientist before his death. Boyd Bushman, who passed away on August 7, 2014, recorded a video of just over 30 minutes where he showed evidence that UFOs and aliens exist, in addition to claiming that he has even had conversations with them.
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Boyd Bushman was born in Globe, Arizona, in 1936 and died on August 7, 2014 in Tucson, Arizona. Bushman was considered one of the great engineers of Lockheed Martin, a multinational company of the aerospace industry. I dedicate over forty years to aerospace research, awarded by paras paras, in addition to working for Hughes Aircraft, General Dynamics or Texas Instruments. According to his biography, Bushman was manager of several aerospace and scientific programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company from 1986 to 2000, where he remained a consultant after retiring.
But it is not because of his impressive career as a scientist that he has made news again in the mainstream media around the world. Bushman died on August 7, but shortly before his death, he offered an incredible interview that was published on YouTube earlier this month and that already has more than a million and a half visits.
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In the video, Bushman claims that one of his top-secret jobs was “reverse engineering , ” technology of extraterrestrial origin for the use of the United States military. But for those who think it is an impressive revelation, Bushman goes further with his statements. It also shows photographs of extraterrestrial beings, who in some cases have died inside the highly classified military base Area 51, also known as Dreamland, located in the Nevada desert some 85 kilometers north of Las Vegas.
“The only reason I believe in everything they told me is because my people got me pictures for thirty years,” Bushman explains in the video. “They are not just photographs, but I did them assignments being an important engineer and they got me really close photos. For example, a UFO ready to take off , taken up close. What they told me is that the UFO is made of three elements and none is metal. It turns out that these things get up and fly using anti-gravity systems. ”
According to the digital version of the Daily News, Bushman describes the aliens as between 1.20 and 1.50 meters tall and with elongated fingers , webbed feet and come from a planet known as “Quintumnia” , from which only take about 45 years in traveling to Earth. The engineer even gave them a mission: to photograph the planets that were on their way from their trip to Earth.
Alien scientist
Bushman also gives details of the extraterrestrial trips and his current mission in the land, which use UFOs of about 11 meters in diameter, while about 18 extraterrestrials continue to work in top secret facilities in the United States. He also said that 230-year-old aliens working in Area 51 can communicate with humans through telepathy , using our own voice.
“They are beings between 1.20 and 1.50 meters high. The American Army has one, or two, in Area 51 and they are close to 230 years of age, ” Bushman continues. “Their eyes are different from ours, the nose is different but they have five fingers in each hand, two eyes … What surprised me is that I asked how they communicated … and they told me: let’s say you have a question in your mind, then you go in a room with them and suddenly you find that the answer is given to you with your own voice. They are able to use your own voice with telepathy, to speak to you. ”
Apart from these revelations, Bushman also gives more specific details on how the extraterrestrial races that operate on Earth are organized, on the spiritual realm, extraterrestrial objects in Area 51, the demolition of UFO or dead extraterrestrial ships .
But shortly after the video of Bushman became a viral phenomenon, some people began to publish images of an extraterrestrial being very similar to the one shown by Bushman in the video, although it can be said that he is not the same. But the conspiracy theorists have reacted quickly, suggesting that the United States government put into circulation a doll very similar to the real extraterrestrial beings with the sole purpose of discrediting the statements of one of the most brilliant minds of aerospace engineering.
Is Bushman revealing the most important secret in the history of mankind? Is it a man who has lost his mental faculties? Or do they want to prepare us for the imminent extraterrestrial revelation?
Next, Boyd Bushman’s confession about the existence of extraterrestrial beings before his death:
ICY INTERIOR The solar system’s first interstellar visitor might be a comet rather than an asteroid. The object, seen in this artist's representation, may have an icy heart surrounded by an insulating crust, researchers suggest.
GEMINI OBSERVATORY/AURA/NSF IMAGE BY JOY POLLARD
An itinerant interstellar asteroid may actually be a comet in disguise.
In general, comets are icy and asteroids are rocky. Ice gives comets their characteristic tails: As a comet passes near the sun, the heat warms the ice, causing it to sublimate, releasing gas and dust. Because no tail appeared despite ‘Oumuamua’s passage by the sun, the mysterious visitor was dubbed an asteroid — a surprising conclusion since the vast majority of objects ejected from star systems are expected to be icy.
“Everybody's been assuming that this is just a lump of rock,” says astronomer Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. “This may not be the case.” So ‘Oumuamua might not be as odd as originally thought.
Fitzsimmons and colleagues used the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain to capture the object’s spectrum — its light sliced up according to wavelength. “It’s an impressive piece of work,” says astronomer Olivier Hainaut of the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, who was not involved with the research. “It was a very faint object and to observe such a faint moving target is horribly difficult.”
The object’s spectrum revealed a reddish hue with no signs of ice. But ‘Oumuamua could have an exterior crust — about half a meter thick or thicker — which hid the ice and insulated it from the sun’s heat, the researchers calculated. “You could have a lot of ice in this thing and really not know it,” says astronomer Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland in College Park, who was not involved with the research. Such a crust could have formed as energetic particles known as cosmic rays bombarded the object over its lifetime, creating an ice-free surface rich in organic compounds. ‘Oumuamua’s spectrum is similar to those of other objects in the solar system suspected of concealing such icy interiors.
Studies of ‘Oumuamua continue — with some researchers looking for evidence of even more surprising hypotheses. Using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, scientists with the Breakthrough Listen project are searching for signatures of artificial origin — that is, aliens — on the off chance that the object might be an interstellar spacecraft. Sorry, X-Files fans: So far no such signals have been detected.
BABY FACE Saturn’s rings (shown in an image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on August 12, 2017) are relatively young, a few hundred million years old at most, astronomers say.
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NEW ORLEANS — Saturn’s iconic rings are a recent addition. Final data from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew between the planet and the rings this year before plunging into the gas giant’s atmosphere, show the rings are around a few hundred million years old and less massive than previously thought.
Those findings suggest the rings are probably the remnants of at least one moon, rather than ancient remains of the stuff that formed the planet. The results were presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on December 12 and 13.
For decades, scientists puzzled over the age and origins of Saturn’s rings (SN: 11/12/16, p. 10). If the rings had formed with Saturn some 4 billion years ago, a constant bombardment of debris from the more distant solar system should make the icy bands appear darker than they do. But scientists thought the rings were too heavy to have formed relatively recently, when there was less material available than in the solar system’s youth for Saturn to pull into the rings.
Cassini’s final orbits may have settled the issue. In the lead-up to the end of its mission in September, Cassini
Irish astronomer believes we will find alien life within five years
Eamonn Ansbro has been looking to communicate with extraterrestrial life from his research grade four telescope observatory for 17 years
By Trevor Quinn
Eamonn Ansbro at his observatory in Kingsland, Boy
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An Irish astronomer believes efforts to make contact with aliens will prove successful within five years – and his team of scientists could make the breakthrough.
Eamonn Ansbro has been looking to communicate with extraterrestrial life from his research grade four telescope observatory for 17 years.
The married man works with five other full-time and part-time scientists attempting to solve the mysteries of the Universe.
His modern observatory, based in a traditional country cottage near Boyle, Co Roscommon, boasts the largest telescope in Ireland.
He said: “I’m convinced there’ll be communication [with another civilization] within our lifetime. I’d say within five years.
“We worked out the statistics on this based on the research we’ve been doing and based on many factors and we reckon we can do it within five years. We have all the gear, we have the right people and we’re operating 24/7.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we get the first signal, we are optimistic.
“We wouldn’t have spent 12 years in developing all of this [otherwise]. It’s not a casual situation.
“I’ve spent 27 years at this, so I do know a little bit about it.”
Eamonn Ansbro at his observatory in Kingsland, Boyle
Asked about why he is confident a breakthrough is close, Eamonn replied: “First of all, the number of planets that have been discovered now and that’s been scaled up within the whole galaxy.
“Number two, we use technology with different radiation which takes in the whole galaxy, where with radio it doesn’t. Radio actually diminishes over distance.
“In our case it doesn’t diminish at all with longitudinal waves [faster than light communications]. So we can actually take in the whole galaxy.
“We’re confident there are civilizations out there that will pick up on even our signal. And that would be instantaneous.
“Now we obviously have to tune into the specific frequencies.”
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Eamonn is by no means alone in searching for alien life and said his project has much in common with the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Institute’s €85million project Breakthrough Listen.
It is looking at the million closest stars to Earth.
Eamonn said: “They are optimistic they’ll get a signal, but their’s would be in the radio area where ours would be in the longitudinal waves.
“I mean when you take it that out of the 520 billion planets in our own galaxy, nevermind the millions and millions of other galaxies and we’re the only ones?
“We’re way out on the edge of the galaxy and look how arrogant we are.
“There needs to be a big wake-up call. And I think the wake-up call will happen when the first signal comes through.”
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