Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
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!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
Zondag 18 februari 2018
USO – WHAT ARE UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERGED OBJECTS? UNDER-WATERS UFOS?
USO – WHAT ARE UNIDENTIFIED SUBMERGED OBJECTS? UNDER-WATERS UFOS?
USO | If the vast majority of people think that are probably the flying machines with which our planet is visited by the beings of the Cosmos, few are the ones who have heard of the mysterious objects that cross the under-waters of the lakes and oceans, just like the similar devices that fly in the sky.
Does it prefer some UFOs to travel under the water? Or are we dealing with a new category of mysterious objects? Two questions that modern science does not get to find answers …
Those who pass through the depths
Incorporated in the oblivion of more well-known phenomena in the field, such as Area 51, the Voronezh episode, or 1-4 grade encounters, the case of Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO, in specific language) raises a series of new questions, sensitively different from those accompany the classic (already …) theme of UFOs.
According to the reputed UFO scientist, Dr. Timothy Good, strange objects that travel through the Earth’s waters bring into question one of the most disturbing theories about visitors from other worlds.
People, being self-proclaimed the most intelligent and powerful species on Earth, find it difficult to accept the possibility of being visited at a certain moment by far superior beings from other planets.
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Jules Verne’s famous scientific romance “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” opens with an unidentified submerged object moving at great speed terrorizing the sea lanes and many speculating that the strange object was a sea monster attacking passenger and cargo ships.
What can we do in front of creatures from other worlds moving through water as easily as their fellow creatures roam the heavens in flying ships? What are they looking for on Terra? What do they want from us? Why is it moving through lakes and oceans? Some immense stretches of water have mysterious properties that allow them to be true interdimensional crossing gates? We do not know yet.
People’s knowledge of this captivating subchapter is (yet) summed up to simple assumptions along with a review of the most important cases recorded in the ever-increasing volume of UFO phenomenology.
We find it surprising that the accounts of USO are hundreds of years old, just like many more famous UFOs. It seems that people have mentioned in their writings and chronicles metallic objects, most often bright or provided with headlamp-like devices that cut off ocean waters at high speed.
They often sank into the depths, disappearing without a trace from the amazed eyes of the seafarers, sometimes they suddenly poured out of the waters to fly to the heavens.
Reciprocation was sometimes valid, some eyewitnesses from previous centuries retelling in documents preserved today about UFO-like devices that sink subtly, preferring as submarine transport, which hid them from the eyes of people’s astonishment.
According to some reports, the USOs that stood on the glaciers of the poles were melting ice as they moved to the surface, leaving behind them true free channels in the ice caps. Did they perform so well because of the heat emanating from the engines or the fogging layer of friction, as the crews of Soviet ships overlying the Arctic and Antarctica were saying?
Instead, the crews of fishing vessels that were witnesses to USOs in industrial fishing fleets declared that strange objects are responsible for the disappearance of fish in the area, and experts have depleted the variants of such a situation where visitors from other worlds ” they stole the fish, the creatures of the sea were frightened by running away from swimming underwater or fish and other animals were leaving the polluted waters after the object passed.
Some of the extraterrestrial enthusiasts go so far as to say that visitors from other planets have ecological inclinations, warning the fish banks not to come close to the Homo sapiens sapiens species …
“Several underwater files” …
Probably the most credible USO incident occurred on September 4, 1971, when four members of the National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica flew from a bimetal Cote Lake near the Arenal volcano.
The team of researchers wanted to map and photograph the entire area that at that time was still unexplored. For this purpose, the expedition has a special camera attached to the bottom of the plane.
The camera was large format and triggered automatically every 20 seconds to take a new photo of the lake and its surroundings. At the end of the research mission, when specialists developed the photo, they noticed a bizarre presence, which at first seemed to be a 36-meter diameter metal discarded when it was just entering the deep waters of the lake.
Artist Interpretation of a USO
The object whose details were accurately captured by the camera did not appear on any other instant of the movie. Subsequent studies at Kodak headquarters in the United States have shown, without stamping, that there is no flaw of refraction, chromatic aberration or another defect in photography, the specialists declaring the photo to be purely authentic …
Lake Cote is a very deep one, and there are many accounts of locals who frequently saw flying objects entering or coming out of their water at high speed. The day after the incident involving the 4 National Geographic members at 9 am, two fishermen on a lake boat heard a metallic noise nearby.
When they turned their heads in the direction of the sound, they saw a metallic submarine object equipped with 3 turrets. Shortly without noise, the giant machine came out of the water and headed for the mountains to the north of the lake.
On the night of November 6, 1973, there was another meeting with a USO, this time near the eastern coast of the United States. The fishermen of Pascagoula, Mississippi, were direct witnesses, as did the Coast Guard.
In total, 9 witnesses saw a circular-elliptical metal object, about 6 meters long and have a golden light at the top. The object moves without noise over the water at a height of 1-2 meters.
As soon as people spotted him and began shouting and shaking, the object sank into the water, as if hiding from people. The Coast Guard made a detailed report and contacted the closest US base Navy in the area.
To the surprise of everyone, the American Navy radars have identified a metallic object of 6 meters in the same area.
There is, however, a place on Earth that can easily be called the capital of USO phenomena, and in no other area of the world, there is a place where the frequency of strange objects in the depths is so great. It’s Puerto Rico, a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea.
Puerto Rico is located in the corner of the famous Bermuda Triangle, famous for the number of unexplained displacements of boats, ships, planes, and helicopters. A large number of USO incidents have been reported around the El Yunque Jungle Mountains and Jungles.
Bermuda Triangle
Here, the USO UFO phenomenon has become so commonplace that locals have become accustomed to them as daily incidents. So did the American Marines who were assigned to missions in the area.
“VERY MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN UFOS RIDING WITH WATER, ONCE I SAW A BEAUTIFUL ONE. AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS A BOAT, IT LOOKED BLACK UNDERNEATH, AND IN THE UPPER PART, IT HAD MANY RED AND BLUE LIGHTS. “AS SOON AS HE NOTICED ME, HE SANK, DISAPPEARING INTO THE SEA,” SAYS JOSE ORLANDO GOLIS, AN OFFICIAL OF THE PUERTO RICAN GOVERNMENT STATIONED IN EL YUNQUE.
Felix Rivera is a professional diver who owns his own recreational or industrial diving company near the American Naval Air Station, one of the American bases on the island. Felix confirmed that many USO witnesses are soldiers and US military personnel at the base.
“NAVY SEALS, THE ELITE TROOPS OF THE AMERICAN NAVY ARE OFTEN TRAINED HERE, MANY OF THEM HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT ENCOUNTERS WITH SUCH STRANGE OBJECTS. SOME SAY MYSTERIOUS APPLIANCES ARE OFTEN APPROACHING THEIR TRAINING BOATS. BUT WHEN AMERICANS GET TOO CLOSE TO THEM OR PULL IN THEIR DIRECTION, OBJECTS SINK AND DISAPPEAR AT AN IMPOSSIBLE SPEED FOR ANY MAN-MADE MACHINE, “HE ADDS.
North of Puerto Rico is an area called the San Juan Strait, a place feared today by American authorities who are alarmed by a large number of military and private aircraft that have disappeared and continue to disappear regularly in this place.
A place that would rightly deserve the fame created around the Bermuda Triangle. Even more interesting is what happens in the depths of the San Juan Strait, where the researchers discovered a deep submarine fault over 9,000 meters.
Here is, in fact, the deepest point in the Atlantic, the underwater pressure is so great that life is normally impossible, and any man-made submarine would be crushed by the immense pressure of water.
The reports of the navy and US aviation report about a circular-shaped metallic ship that often appears above the water, stationing for an indefinite period of time before sinking without a trace into the blue of the Atlantic.
What does the Russian Navy hide?
Russia (including the former Soviet space) hides a range of USO phenomena, highly documented and studied by a number of prestigious specialists.
Recently, the leaders of the Russian Center for Studies of the UFO Phenomenon have accepted to publish only a small part of the information considered by the Kremlin to be “capable of provoking panic among the population.”
The “safe” dossier was handed to researchers Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, the two researchers announcing that they will write a book on the basis of the data that will treat all USO case history in Russia’s history.
One of the most spectacular cases is that a Soviet warship spotted an unidentified object moving through the Pacific Ocean through its submarine detection equipment.
What Are Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO)?
The ship’s commanders thought they had discovered an American submarine on an espionage mission. The strange object stood deep, the Russian officers launching radio calls in which they were tending to surrender. The shock of everyone came when the object decided to leave the Soviet ship.
It disappeared astonishingly fast, radars calculating that the submarine ship was moving at a speed of about 450 km / h at a depth of 5,000 meters … while the maximum speed of the most efficient submarine built with the current technologies, does not exceed 65 km / h at a maximum depth of 50 meters …
The first case of USOs studied by the Soviets refers to the Odessa incident, when several officers and soldiers from the Sevastopol Naval Base have observed and identified a USO that left the Black Sea in August 1950 in the immediate the approach of a Soviet military cruiser.
Since then, according to data recently sent by Russian authorities, over 300 USO cases have been counted, which makes it right to ask ourselves what information is hidden in the Russian Navy databases?
A 'fleet of UFOs' flying below a jet has been captured in a video by a passenger in Taiwan. The footage, claimed to have captured a few years back, is creating a buzz on the internet now.
The video, reportedly shot by the passenger over Taiwan and it shows, eight strange luminous orbs moving below a plane at a slow pace. Later, the footage was sent to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates and maintains a global database of UFO sightings, for further clarification.
"I have witnessed eight to ten UFOs flying. I was on the airplane of Eva Airlines from Vancouver, Canada, to Taipei, Taiwan BR0009," the passenger, whose name has been kept secret, was quoted as saying by Express.
"Thirty minutes before, I saw a bright light flying underneath. The third video I have is 38 seconds. About eight UFOs are flying under the plane. I used slow motion to film the video until they asked me to shut down my camera due to landing policy," the witness added.
Many other people also claimed to have seen the fleet of the strange objects. The footage of the UFOs was shot in October 2014, but it went viral only recently on the newsbreakapp and various UFO and conspiracy theory-related websites shared it.
However, UFO enthusiasts and debunkers couldn't come up with a logical explanation regarding the sighting. The debunkers have claimed that the objects spotted were neither UFOs nor aliens.
"Nature and human activities provide a numerous variety of explanations, most of which these investigators (who posted the video) never even thought of," former space shuttle engineer and a UFO sighting debunker James Oberg was quoted as saying by Express.
Some viewers also agreed with Oberg's view on the MUFON YouTube channel.
"Those are reflections. MUFON please filter your sightings so we can keep the real sightings from the ones we can explain," one of the viewers commented.
"Looks like they fly over mountains and these bright spots are reflections of small lakes. I remember this by flying over the Alps in France and Switzerland," another netizen stated.
Artificial skull elongation has been practiced by a strangely high number of cultures in practically every corner of the world, from Western Europe and the Americas to the Far East and Africa.
But why would people bind their baby’s heads to give themselves a pear-shaped skull? Well, for one 600-year-old civilization in South America, it was probably to show you were a VIP.
A new study, published in the journal Current Anthropology, has taken a look at elongated skulls of the Collagua people who lived in the Colca Valley in south-eastern Peru around 1100 to 1450 CE.
Through measuring carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of the bones, the researchers showed that the Collagua women with elongated distended heads ate a more varied diet, indicating that they were perhaps more privileged. These remains of these women also appeared to have fewer signs of physical violence against them, once against suggesting that they were from a higher echelon of society.
The Collagua were persistently under the threat from the Inca Empire around this time. For the women to be proudly displaying your privilege with strange skulls might have also have been particularly prominent during times of social strives and war, as it acted like a symbol of their collective identity, just like a nation proudly waving a flag.
The study also made clear that more and more skulls were being elongated, even among the lower classes, as the pressure from the Inca Empire grew. Perhaps they were looking for a sense of belonging during a time of strife?
“In times of crisis and social upheaval, the creation of new kinds of collective identity can strengthen or undermine political reintegration,” the study author, Matthew Velasco of Cornell University, notes.
“It may have promoted cohesion among local elites and facilitated cooperation at higher levels of inclusiveness to coordinate agropastoral exchange, manage irrigation, or mobilize against outside forces, including (but not limited to) the encroaching Inka state.”
Artificial cranial deformations usually involve tightly binding a baby’s squishy head with bandages or clamping it into between wooden planks in order to distort its growth. This is just one insight into one culture’s use of elongated skulls, so it doesn’t necessarily represent all instances of it. After all, it occurred in countless different groups throughout history.
Nevertheless, the majority of archaeologists believe that this practice often had something to do with social status and the sense of belonging to a group. Sorry, there's still no word on the alien connection yet!
CLOSE ENCOUNTER - Secret police audio files prove men who claim they were abducted by ‘alien creatures’ with lobster-like claws were telling the TRUTH, researcher claims
Brit ufologist Philip Mantle has republished a book on what he calls one of the "most unique close encounters on record" - the Pascagoula sighting
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
SECRET police audio files reveal that the two men behind one of the craziest "alien encounters" ever recorded were telling the truth, a UFO researcher has claimed.
The bizarre Pascagoula incident involved two fishermen who claimed to have been captured by three alien creatures with lobster-like claws and taken into a UFO - before being released.
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Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, pictured, were left traumatised by the 1973 encounter
Audio recorded by the sheriff's department when the men reported the incident, obtained by Sun Online, show the men were highly distressed by the alleged incident - and never strayed from their story - even when cops left them alone and secretly taped them.
The audio files prove the two men were telling the truth, according to Brit ufologist Philip Mantle, who has republished a book about the incident, which he calls one of the "most unique close encounters on record."
The incident took place in October 1973, when keen fishermen Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, were on the banks of the Pascagoula River, in the US state of Mississippi, and heard a whizzing sound overhead.
They claim that an oval shaped "craft", some 8ft across, suddenly appeared near them and seemed to levitate about 2ft above the ground.
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A sketch of the creatures which allegedly "abducted" by Calvin and Charles
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The creatures had carrot-like noses and ears, according to the pair
A door opened and three creatures - who were "humanoid" in shape and about 5ft tall - emerged and seized the men, "floating" them into the UFO, they later told police.
Both men reported being paralysed and numb - while Calvin claimed that he had fainted due to fright.
The men said the creatures had lobster-like claws at the e4
ds of their arms, "carrot-like" growths for their nose and ears, and only one leg and their heads also appeared connected directly to their shoulders, with no discernible neck.
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We reported on the bizarre Pascagoula 'alien abduction' in 1973
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A sketch of the UFO which the men claim they were taken onboard by the "alien creatures"
The creatures' skin was described as pale in colour, wrinkled, with no eyes and slits for mouths.
On the ship, Charles claimed that he was examined by what looked like a large football-shaped mechanical eye, about 6 to 8 inches in diameter, that seemed to scan his body.
Calvin claimed that he could not recall what had happened to him inside the craft, although later, during hypnotic regression he offered some hazy details.
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A model of one of the 'humanoid creatures' seen by the fishermen
The men said they were released after about 15-20 minutes and the creatures levitated them, with Hickson's feet dragging along the ground, back to their original positions on the river bank. The terrified men claimed to have sat in a car for about 45 minutes, trying to calm themselves before they tried to report the sighting to officials at Keesler Air Force Base, but were told to go to police.
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Ufologist Philip Mantle says the incident is the most unique close encounter ever recorded
At about 10:30pm, the pair arrived at the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi, where they gave a report of what happened and were questioned by officers.
After around 30 minutes of questioning, Sheriff Fred Diamond decided to leave the men alone in a room that was rigged with a hidden microphone - to try and find out if they were lying or not.
He assumed that if they were lying it would become immediately apparent when the two spoke privately but instead, they continued to act incredibly distressed - and never straying from their fantastic tale.
This so-called "secret tape" had been held on file at the Jackson County Sheriff's department since 1973.
Partial transcript of conversation between Calvin and Charlie recorded by Jackson County Sheriff's Department
CALVIN: " I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy." CHARLES: " I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep." CALVIN: " I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy." CHARLES: " Well, Calvin, when they brought you out-when they brought me out of that thing, goddamn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out. "My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake. "They didn't do me that way." CALVIN: " I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life." CHARLES: " I've never seen nothing like that before in my life. You can't make people believe." CALVIN: " I don't want to keep sitting here. I want to see a doctor." CHARLES: " They better wake up and start believing ... they better start believing." CALVIN: "You see how that damn door come right up?" CHARLES: " I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know." CALVIN: " It just laid up and just like that those sons of b*tches -just like that they come out." CHARLES: " I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it." CALVIN: " I paralysed right then. I couldn't move." CHARLES: " They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me." CALVIN: " You know yourself I don't drink. CHARLES: " I know that, son. When I get to the house I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sitting around for. I gotta go tell Blanche... what we waiting for?" CALVIN (panicky): " I gotta go to the house. I'm getting sick. I gotta get out of here." [Charlie leaves the room] CALVIN: " It's hard to believe . . . Oh God, it's awful... I know there's a God up there..."
Seeing that the police were skeptical of their story, Charles and Calvin even insisted that they take lie detector tests to prove their honesty.
Within days, Pascagoula was the centre of an international news story, with reporters swarming the town.
Tiring of the publicity, Charles and Calvin moved to Jones County, Mississippi, about 150 miles north of Pascagoula, where Calvin was eventually admitted to hospital for what was described as "an emotional breakdown."
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The men were interrogated by police and military personnel after the incident
While Calvin avoided public attention, Charles appeared on Dick Cavett's TV talk show in January 1974, and spoke at occasional UFO conferences.
He also co-wrote a book about the event with William Mendez titled " UFO Contact at Pascagoula", which is now being republished by Philip Mantle.
Charles died in September 9, 2011, at age 80, but never backed away from his alien abduction story despite ridicule.
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Philip Mantle has republished a fascinating book on the incident
Philip, a former director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, said: "Unfortunately this unique close encounter has fallen by the wayside and has been largely forgotten to many UFO researchers.
"It was with that in mind that in late 2017 I reached out to Calvin Parker and I re-published the book on this fascinating event.
"I have also been asked by a colleague who works in the film and TV industry to consider a movie based on the experience of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker.
"Irrespective of that there is no doubt that this is one of the most unique close encounters on record."
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UFO Contact at Pascagoula was originally written by Charles Hickson and has now been republished by Philip Mantle
Philip also points to how the hard-to-believe story has been corroborated by others in recent years.
In 2001, retired navy chief petty officer Mike Cataldo revealed that he observed an unusual UFO - an object like a large tambourine with small flashing lights - at dusk on the same date in 1973.
Philip, of Pontefract, West Yorks, also received an email from a man called Evan last year claiming to have seen a UFO on his parent's nearby farm about an hour before the Pascagoula "abduction".
Roughly half a century ago, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake conducted Project Ozma, the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Since that time, scientists have conducted multiple surveys in the hopes of find indications of “technosignatures” – i.e. evidence of technologically-advanced life (such as radio communications).
To put it plainly, if humanity were to receive a message from an extra-terrestrial civilization right now, it would be the single-greatest event in the history of civilization. But according to a new study, such a message could also pose a serious risk to humanity. Drawing on multiple possibilities that have been explored in detail, they consider how humanity could shield itself from malicious spam and viruses.
Frank Drake writing his famous equation on a white board.
Credit: SETI.org
To be fair, the notion that an extra-terrestrial civilization could pose a threat to humanity is not just a well-worn science fiction trope. For decades, scientists have treated it as a distinct possibility and considered whether or not the risks outweigh the possible benefits. As a result, some theorists have suggested that humans should not engage in SETI at all, or that we should take measures to hide our planet.
As Professor Learned told Universe Today via email, there has never been a consensus among SETI researchers about whether or not ETI would be benevolent:
“There is no compelling reason at all to assume benevolence (for example that ETI are wise and kind due to their ancient civilization’s experience). I find much more compelling the analogy to what we know from our history… Is there any society anywhere which has had a good experience after meeting up with a technologically advanced invader? Of course it would go either way, but I think often of the movie Alien… a credible notion it seems to me.”
In addition, assuming that an alien message could pose a threat to humanity makes practical sense. Given the sheer size of the Universe and the limitations imposed by Special Relativity (i.e. no known means of FTL), it would always be cheaper and easier to send a malicious message to eradicate a civilization compared to an invasion fleet. As a result, Hippke and Learned advise that SETI signals be vetted and/or “decontaminated” beforehand.
The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico was the site of NASA’s High Resolution Microwave Survey, a search for extraterrestrial radio messages.
Credit: US NSF
In terms of how a SETI signal could constitute a threat, the researchers outline a number of possibilities. Beyond the likelihood that a message could convey misinformation designed to cause a panic or self-destructive behavior, there is also the possibility that it could contain viruses or other embedded technical issues (i.e. the format could cause our computers to crash).
Article 6 of this declaration states the following:
“The discovery should be confirmed and monitored and any data bearing on the evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence should be recorded and stored permanently to the greatest extent feasible and practicable, in a form that will make it available for further analysis and interpretation. These recordings should be made available to the international institutions listed above and to members of the scientific community for further objective analysis and interpretation.”
Voyager included a golden record with images and sounds of Earthly life recorded on it… just in case.
Credit: NASA
As such, a message that is confirmed to have originated from an ETI would most likely be made available to the entire scientific community before it could be deemed to be threatening in nature. Even if there was only one recipient, and they attempted to keep the message under strict lock and key, it’s a safe bet that other parties would find a way to access it before long.
The question naturally arises then, what can be done? One possibility that Hippke and Learned suggest is to take a analog approach to interpreting these messages, which they illustrate using the 2017 SETI Decrypt Challengeas an example. This challenge, which was issued by René Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, consisted of a sequence of about two million binary digits and related information being posted to social media.
In addition to being a fascinating exercise that gave the public a taste of what SETI research means, the challenge also sough to address some central questions when it came to communicating with an ETI. Foremost among these was whether or not humanity would be bale to understand a message from an alien civilization, and how we might be able to make a message comprehensible (if we sent one first). As they state:
“As an example, the message from the “SETI Decrypt Challenge” (Heller 2017) was a stream of 1,902,341 bits, which is the product of prime numbers. Like the Arecibo message (Staff At The National Astronomy Ionosphere Center 1975) and Evpatoria’s “Cosmic Calls” (Shuch 2011), the bits represent the X/Y black/white pixel map of an image. When this is understood, further analysis could be done off-line by printing on paper. Any harm would then come from the meaning of the message, and not from embedded viruses or other technical issues.”
The Wow! signal represented as “6EQUJ5”.
Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO
However, where messages are made up of complex codes or even a self-contained AI, the need for sophisticated computers may be unavoidable. In this case, the authors explore another popular recommendation, which is the use on quarantined machines to conduct the analysis – i.e. a message prison. Unfortunately, they also acknowledge that no prison would be 100% effective and containment could eventually fail.
“This scenario resembles the Oracle-AI, or AI box, of an isolated computer system where a possibly dangerous AI is ‘imprisoned’ with only minimalist communication channels,” they write. “Current research indicates that even well-designed boxes are useless, and a sufficiently intelligent AI will be able to persuade or trick its human keepers into releasing it.”
In the end, it appears that the only real solution is to maintain a vigilant attitude and ensure that any messages we send are as benign as possible. As Hippke summarized: “I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that a message will be positive, but you can not be sure. Would you take a 1% chance of death for a 99% chance of a cure for all diseases? One learning from our paper is how to design own message, in case we decide to send any: Keep it simple, don’t send computer code.”
Basically, when it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the rules of internet safety may apply. If we begin to receive messages, we shouldn’t trust those that come with big attachments and send any suspicious looking ones to our spam folder. Oh, and if a sender is promising the cure for all known diseases, or claims to be the deposed monarch of Andromeda in need of some cash, we should just hit delete!
Een eeuwenoude “verloren” Mexicaanse stad, gebouwd door rivalen van de Azteken, heeft even veel gebouwen als Manhattan. Er konden maar liefst 100.000 mensen wonen. Dat heeft nieuw onderzoek aangetoond.
Het bestaan van de stad Angamuco werd voor het eerst ontdekt in 2007. Toen waren archeologen van plan om het gebied op de traditionele manier te onderzoeken. Ze beseften echter al snel dat ze minstens tien jaar nodig zouden hebben om het gebied volledig in kaart te brengen.
Daarom beslisten ze gebruik te maken van het zogenaamde Lidar-systeem, een technologie die de afstand tot het oppervlak bepaalt aan de hand van laserpulsen. Vanuit een vliegtuig kon het hele gebied op die manier onderzocht worden.
Onderzoekers zijn er nu in geslaagd een 3D-kaart te maken van de “verloren” stad, die zich nabij de Mexicaanse stad Morelia bevindt.
“100.000 inwoners”
Voor het eerst is de enorme grootte van het uitgestrekte stedelijke centrum van Angamuco, dat zijn hoogtepunt bereikte in de zestiende eeuw, duidelijk geworden. Gebouwen, wegen en monumenten zoals piramides en tempels bedekten een gebied van ruim 25 km².
“Het is fantastisch om te denken dat deze gigantische stad in die tijd bestond in het hartje van Mexico zonder dat iemand er nu iets vanaf wist”, zegt archeoloog Chris Fisher.
Volgens Fisher, die deel uitmaakte van het onderzoek, konden er maar liefst 100.000 mensen wonen. “In het gigantische centrum leefden heel veel mensen”, klinkt het. “Er stonden meer dan 40.000 gebouwen. Dat is ongeveer zoveel als in Manhattan.”
PENTAGON UFO: Shock footage of USAF jets outfoxed by UFO that vanished from radar emerges
F 15 FIGHTER pilots were unable to intercept a mystery UFO which was seen on radar flying at incredible speeds before vanishing. The unexplained incident happened on the evening of October 25 over the Pacific northwest in northern California.
The white object was first spotted on radar before there were a series of eyewitness accounts from commercial pilots flying north over Oregon.
Express.co.uk reported on the incident at the time, after it apparently became invisible to radar and US Air Force (USAF) F-15 fighter jets were unsuccessfully scrambled to intercept it.
Now, video and audio recordings of the radar operators, who remain baffled by what they saw, after been released under the Freedom of Information Act.
They were obtained by Thedrive.com which said: "We present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the USAF.
"These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident."
The object was first detected on radar blasting across Northern California at high speed, at around 4.30pm local time, before taking a sharp north turn and merging with commercial air craft when it disappeared from radar.
Witnesses were left questioning where the jet may have come from and what it was doing.
Sightings continued over hundreds of miles for about half an hour.
The same description of a white aircraft at around 37,000 feet, that was too far away to tell its type or any markings, kept coming back.
When the F-15s are scrambled about 27 minutes into the video, radar contact has been lost.
FAA
FAA radar operatives had no idea what the craft was or where it went.
Wow that's weird - it should be classified as potentially significant.
FAA official
As they appear on radar climbing out of Portland an air traffic controller says they still "have nothing on him," and it must be "in a kind of stealth mode or something”.
North American Aerospace Defence Command confirmed it had been asked by the Federal Aviation Administration to help track the unidentified aircraft flying at heights regularly used by commercial aircraft – 35,000ft and 40,000ft – on October 25.
No flight plan had been submitted for the unidentified craft and no identification transponder was active.
The craft was not transmitting collision avoidance signals. The F-15C Eagle interceptors have some of the most advanced combat search and tracking radars in the world.
The incident left people wondering what the object could have been.
In recordings of calls made after the incident, one operator is heard to say there was "definitely something out there".
Another says it "executed an abrupt maneuver and took off northbound."
While a third is heard to say: "I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb."
The pilot of a Southwest 4712 says he has never seen "an incident like it in nearly 30 years of flying jets”.
He said: “If it was like a Lear (private jet) type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear.
This was a white airplane and it was big. "And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were... It was a larger aircraft yeah."
One FAA Quality Assurance Group official is heard to say “wow that's weird" and it should be classified as "potentially significant".
She said: "It is a weird enough thing that there is not a set procedure... It's not often we hear about an unknown guy up at that altitude."
Military officials have been unable to identify the plane’s origin or even destination, after it vanished and they were not able top trace it.
Oregon borders Nevada, which is home to the mysterious and top-secret Area 51 US Air Force base where tests are conducted on new experimental craft.
Conspiracy theorists believe Area 51 holds the remains of crashed UFOs and even dead aliens.
In a debate on Reddit, some users speculated the object could be an alien UFO.
One posted: "A literal UFO." Another said: "I live in Eugene and I see UFOs all the time. "Whether it be day or night. I could tell some interesting stories to say the least.
"Eugene seems to be a hot bed of activity... Keep your eyes on the sky."
A third added: "Central Oregon here. I could say the same thing about the things we see over here.
Definitely weird." A fourth Reddit user, who claimed to have been a pilot in the air at the time, said: “Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.”
He described how airliners had been asked to help track an unknown white-coloured aircraft visually for up to 30 minutes as air traffic control radar was having difficulty getting a fix.
While it was in sight of various airliner crews, it was apparently never close enough for its type to be identified.
The alleged pilot added: “The last aeroplane to see it had to descend into Portland and lost sight of it.
"The fighters were scrambled out of Portland but flew around for a while and did not find it. “And that’s that.”
The event has similarities to US Navy pilot footage which emerged late last year of the 2004 Nimitz UFO incident.
An object that UFO investigators have said "defied physics" was caught on radar camera and seen by many witnesses.
The case was investigated by the Pentagon's top secret Advanced Aerial Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which ran from 2007 to 2012. Details of the £16 million project only emerged in December when its former head Luis Elizondo resigned to work on a new UFO research project.
Sceptics argue that because something cannot be identified, it does not mean it is being flown by aliens.
NASA gaat mysterieuze Indiase rotsschilderingen onderzoeken. Laten ze UFO’s en aliens zien?
Na de ontdekking van een aantal rotsschilderingen in India hebben lokale autoriteiten de hulp ingeroepen van de NASA. De tekeningen lijken namelijk buitenaards leven te tonen, meldt de Britse Daily Star.
In onderstaand filmpje vertelt de commentaarstem hoe de kunstwerken zijn ontdekt. De rotsschilderingen zijn gevonden in Charama en laten mogelijk UFO’s en aliens zien.
Volgens de lokale archeoloog JR Bhagat is het onduidelijk wat er precies te zien is.
Wapens
“De ontdekking suggereert dat mensen in de prehistorie mogelijk wezens van andere planeten hebben gezien of zich andere wezens hebben ingebeeld,” zei hij.
Hij voegde toe dat verder onderzoek nodig is. “Charama beschikt momenteel niet over een expert die meer duidelijkheid kan geven,” zei hij.
Bhagat zei verder dat sommige figuren op de rotstekeningen wapens bij zich lijken te dragen.
Ruimtepakken
“De schilderingen zijn gemaakt met behulp van natuurlijke verfstoffen die in de loop der tijd nauwelijks zijn vervaagd,” zei hij.
De vreemde figuren houden wapenachtige voorwerpen vast en lijken geen neus en mond te hebben, aldus Bhagat.
“Op sommige afbeeldingen dragen ze zelfs ruimtepakken,” zei hij.
Overal
De video is gepubliceerd door YouTube-kanaal The Lost History Channel en is in enkele dagen tijd al zo’n 100.000 keer bekeken.
“Het bewijs is overal, we moeten onze ogen openen,” reageerde iemand.
Iemand anders zei: “We hoeven geen aliens te vinden, ze bevinden zich al onder ons.”
Noah de ‘tijdreiziger’ onthult in deze Australische radioshow geheimen over het jaar 2030
‘Tijdreiziger’ Noah, die uit het jaar 2030 claimt te komen, heeft gezegd dat de kleindochter van Martin Luther King Jr. in de toekomst president van de VS zal worden.
De man haalde het nieuws nadat hij een leugendetectortest had doorstaan. Hij beweerde onder meer dat Donald Trump zal worden herkozen en dat kunstmatige intelligentie een belangrijke rol in de samenleving zal spelen.
Noah claimde tijdens de uitzending onder meer dat een vrouw genaamd Ilana Remikee familie is van Martin Luther King Jr. en op 21-jarige leeftijd president van de VS zal worden.
De man zei op zender KIIS 1065: “Ze is de kleindochter van Martin Luther King Jr.”
Hij beweerde ook verjongingsmiddelen te gebruiken zodat hij tijdens zijn tijdreizen niet veroudert. “Ik moest pillen nemen om ervoor te zorgen dat ik niet ouder zou worden terwijl ik door de tijd reisde,” zei hij.
Aliens
De man zei verder dat het in de toekomst mogelijk is om designerbaby’s te maken, maar dat dat heel erg duur is.
Volgens Noah leven mensen in de toekomst op Mars om er wetenschappelijk onderzoek te doen en kunnen we contact maken met aliens.
Hij zei dat hij in een enorme koepel werd geplaatst voordat hij naar 2018 reisde. Vervolgens ging er een elektrische schok door hem heen en ‘voordat hij het wist had hij het jaar 2030 verlaten’.
Het is al jaren onrustig rondom de Yellowstone supervulkaan in Amerika. Regelmatig duiken er berichten op dat een uitbarsting van deze gigant misschien niet zo ver weg is.
Ook nu is er weer een groep seismologen die waarschuwen dat de Yellowstone supervulkaan “onder druk” staat, waarmee uiteraard dan weer de vrees toeneemt dat er een uitbarsting zal volgen.
De experts werden gealarmeerd doordat er een subtiele vervorming waarneembaar was in de rotsachtige bodem onder het aardoppervlak. Volgens onderzoekers treedt dat op wanneer er een verandering plaatsvindt in de hoeveelheid druk in de magmakamer van de supervulkaan. De seismologen zullen verdere ontwikkelingen nauwkeurig in het oog houden.
De wetenschappers van UNAVCO, een consortium van diverse universiteiten, zeggen dat het druksignaal sterker is dan men zou verwachten als de aardkorst onder de vulkaan solide zou zijn.
Dit alles betekent dan weer dat er lava stroomt, waardoor deze druk wordt opgebouwd. Ongeveer op 5 kilometer onder de grond bevinden zich bepaalde zones waar een soort half gesmolten rots voor komt. Ze gebruiken de term half gesmolten rots omdat deze zich vormen in wat men noemt "pockets" tussen de gewone rots. Kleine ruimtes tussen de gewone rots die vloeibaar aan het worden zijn.
En dan komt natuurlijk weer het normale verhaal dat niemand zich zorgen hoeft te maken en zo meer. Dat schijnt de standaard uitdrukking te zijn voor alle vreemde en ongewone dingen die op aarde plaatsvinden. Geen zorgen, business as usual.
In de volgende video bespreekt Joe Joseph van de Daily Sheeple bovenstaand verhaal en ook hij zegt dat we in een periode leven waar opeens heel veel dingen samen schijnen te komen die erop wijzen dat we ons in een vreemde periode bevinden. En dus, hoe betrouwbaar zijn die inschattingen van die wetenschappers dat we ons geen zorgen hoeven maken?
Niet alleen zouden bij een uitbarsting van deze supervulkaan onmiddellijk bijna 100.000 mensen omkomen, maar zou ook twee derde van Noord Amerika onbewoonbaar worden door een soort nucleaire winter die zal optreden omdat de zon bijna volkomen verduisterd zal zijn.
Iets dat dan natuurlijk niet alleen beperkt zal blijven tot Noord Amerika, maar ook bij ons de nodige gevolgen zal hebben.
Wanneer je zou kijken naar het weer de afgelopen tijd op diverse plaatsen, dan ben je geneigd te denken dat die nucleaire winter al is begonnen. Record hoeveelheden sneeuw en dito lage temperaturen worden op diverse plaatsen gemeten en verstoren het dagelijks leven.
Datzelfde Noord Amerika heeft te maken met één van de strengste winters in haar geschiedenis en nu de temperaturen iets hoger worden, veroorzaakt het smeltende sneeuw en ijs rampzalige overstromingen in het midden en noordwesten van het land.
Een beetje hetzelfde verhaal voor China, Taiwan en Japan, waar men ook te maken het met record hoeveelheden sneeuw. We schreven al eerder over de typische kenmerken van een naderende mini ijstijd vanwege de sneeuw in gebieden als Marokko, Israël en Saoedi Arabië.
Daar bovenop hebben we ook bij ons te maken gehad met orkaan-achtige stormen, die niet alleen hier huis hielden, maar eigenlijk over de hele wereld.
En in het kader van het Yellowstone verhaal is het natuurlijk ook zorgwekkend dat de zogenaamde Ring of Fire steeds meer tot leven schijnt te komen en vulkaanuitbarstingen eigenlijk dagelijkse kost worden.
En niemand in mainstream-land legt enig verband tussen al de heftige aardveranderingen die overal optreden en dat dat voortekenen (kunnen) zijn. Men blijft gewoon kijken naar iedere gebeurtenis afzonderlijk en men blijft het volk in slaap sussen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETWetenschappers op zoek naar buitenaards leven hebben flinke last van de bitcoin en andere virtuele munten. Om signalen uit het heelal op te vangen en te onderzoeken, hebben ze sterke computerchips nodig. Maar die zijn niet meer te krijgen: ze worden opgekocht door mensen die virtueel geld willen ‘minen’. Dat zeggen de onderzoekers tegen de BBC.
“We willen de allernieuwste GPU-processoren gebruiken. En we kunnen ze niet meer krijgen. Dat belemmert onze zoektocht naar buitenaards leven, om antwoord te krijgen op de vraag of we alleen zijn. Dit is een nieuw probleem, het speelt pas bij bestellingen van de afgelopen maanden”, zegt wetenschapper Dan Werthimer, grondlegger van het project SETI@home. SETI is een afkorting voor Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (zoektocht naar buitenaardse intelligentie).
Werthimer legt uit waar de processoren voor nodig zijn: “We willen zo veel mogelijk frequenties bekijken, omdat we niet weten hoe ‘aliens’ hun boodschap sturen. Daar is veel rekenkracht voor nodig.” Op sommige plekken draaien honderd aan elkaar gekoppelde GPU’s tegelijk. GPU’s zijn in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor gamers, maar als ze aan elkaar gekoppeld worden, kunnen ze veel gegevens achter elkaar verwerken. Dat gebeurt bij wetenschappelijk onderzoek, maar ook bij het verwerken van virtuele munten zoals de bitcoin. Daarvoor moeten complexe wiskundige formules worden opgelost. Dat oplossen wordt minen of delven genoemd. Wie de oplossing vindt, krijgt als beloning 12,5 bitcoins. Bij de huidige koers is de waarde meer dan 90.000 euro. Elke tien minuten wordt zo’n bedrag uitgekeerd.
New Shocking Evidence Points to a Pole Shift - Signs of Sharp Increase in Natural Disasters
Is a reversal of the earth’s magnetic poles taking place? Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, sink holes, strange noises from the sea and skies, booms and rattles, etc. New shocking evidence points to a pole shift which, if it happens fast, will cause chaos around the world.
A sudden shift would throw the earth’s balance out so significantly it could trigger lethal earthquakes, tsunami on a scale we can hardly imagine capable of washing right across the United States and every other major landmass, volcanic eruptions so large and widespread that the resulting ash clouds and gases could blanket the sun’s rays and trigger a new sudden ice-age.
Pole shifts cause a major increase in the movement of the tectonic plates, the giant lines of opposing cracks in the earth’s crust which push and grind against each other until they periodically release like a balled fist in a closed palm flicking upwards.
There are now signs amongst the sharp increase in natural disasters and other strange, apparently unrelated incidents which point towards a possible reversal.
It is widely-recognized that magnetic north, that point at the top of the globe which compasses and devices which depend on magnetic navigation rely, is shifting increasingly quickly towards Russia from its current position above Greenland and nearer to Canada. It has moved 400 km in the last decade and is accelerating.
For centuries, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — a colossal, swirling storm in the planet’s atmosphere — has hogged the attention of astronomers. But it’s time for the latte-styled planet to step aside and let Neptune show off its massive and putrid gas storms.
A team of astronomers have been tracking a storm potentially made of hydrogen sulfide gas in Neptune’s atmosphere. This smelly tempest was, at one point, as big as the Atlantic Ocean and made up of a gas that we humans release after a meal at Chipotle. This would essentially make it an ocean-spanning fart.
The once-massive cyclone slowly fizzled out instead of creating a spectacular outburst of cloud activity as hypothesized in pervious observations.
“It looks like we’re capturing the demise of this dark vortex, and it’s different from what well-known studies led us to expect,” said Michael H. Wong, the lead author of the study published on February 15, in a statement. “Their dynamical simulations said that anticyclones under Neptune’s wind shear would probably drift toward the equator. We thought that once the vortex got too close to the equator, it would break up and perhaps create a spectacular outburst of cloud activity.”
The team followed the death of this storm by using images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which first spotted it in 2015. The last time the spacecraft was able to capture storms on Neptune was in the mid-1990s, but they vanished without a trace. So the team intently watched this windstorm in order to finally try to understand the weather patterns found on the planet.
This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over two years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period.
The team of researchers was able to gather all of this information from Hubble alone. The probe is the only source of data astronomers have to study Neptune’s weather patterns, making it an incredibly valuable asset.
The NASA spacecraft can take pictures of galaxies millions of light years away and spot gigantic flatulence storms in our solar system. Not bad for a telescope that was launched into space in 1990.
Voor het eerst een stervende storm gefotografeerd op Neptunus
Vivian Lammerse
De storm woedt al bijna 2,5 jaar, maar zijn einde is nabij.
Ongeveer 4,5 miljard kilometer verderop, op de verste bekende grote planeet in ons zonnestelsel, woedt een onheilspellende, donkere storm. Deze donkere vlek op de planeet Neptunus was ooit groot genoeg om zich over een gebied van Boston tot Portugal uit te strekken. Maar uit een nieuwe foto van ruimtetelescoop Hubble blijkt dat de storm nu langzaam gaat liggen.
Op deze afbeelding is de ondergang van de gigantische donkere storm op de planeet Neptunus te zien. Afbeelding: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley)
Tegengestelde richting De storm wervelt precies de andere kant op dan de draairichting van de planeet. In zijn rotatie wroet hij materiaal uit de diepste krochten van de planeet los. Hoe de wervelstorm er precies uit ziet weten de onderzoekers niet. Het zou kunnen dat het materiaal in de donkere vlek waterstofsulfide is, met de doordringende geur van rotte eieren. “De deeltjes zelf zijn sterk reflecterend; ze zijn net iets donkerder dan de deeltjes uit de omringende atmosfeer,” legt onderzoeker Joshua Tellefson uit. Daarnaast is het ook onzeker hoe de wervelingen worden gevormd en hoe snel ze roteren. “Wat we wel weten is dat ze waarschijnlijk voortkomen uit een botsing tussen een oostwaartse en westelijke wind,” zegt onderzoeker Agustín Sánchez-Lavega.
Stormen op Neptunus spelen graag verstoppetje en verdwijnen net zo plotseling als dat ze komen. De eerste storm op de ijsreus werd waargenomen door ruimtevaartuig Voyager 2, aan het einde van de jaren tachtig. Sindsdien heeft alleen Hubble het vermogen gehad om de wervelstormen waar te nemen. In het midden van de jaren negentig ontdekte Hubble twee donkere stormen op Neptunus maar raakte ze al vrij snel weer uit het oog. De meest recente storm nam Hubble waar in 2015.
Jaren Hoewel stormen op de planeet Jupiter voor zeker honderden jaren zichtbaar zijn, duren de wervelingen op Neptunus slechts enkele jaren. Maar dit is de eerste keer dat onderzoekers een stervende storm op de ijsreus op beeld vastleggen. Opvallend is dat de donkere vortex zich anders gedraagt dan wetenschappers voorheen dachten. Zo werd er voorspeld dat de storm waarschijnlijk naar de evenaar van Neptunus zou afdrijven. “Wanneer de storm te dicht bij de evenaar zou komen, zou deze opbreken en misschien wel een spectaculaire uitbarsting van wolken vormen,” zegt onderzoeker Michael H. Wong. Maar in plaats van naar de evenaar toe te draaien, buigt de storm af naar de zuidpool. Een grote explosie blijft daarmee uit.
Stormen op Neptunus zijn niet gemakkelijk waar te nemen. Zo zijn veel telescopen niet krachtig genoeg om de donkere vlek te kunnen spotten. Alleen telescoop Hubble heeft vrij zicht op de planeet. Voorlopig kan dus alleen Hubble ons meer vertellen over de fascinerende neptunische stormen die over de ijsreus razen.:
Is ‘alien UFO’ seen near Area 51 a firing range used to test top-secret weapons?
Jasper Hamill
Alien hunters may be disappointed by the latest theory about mystery structure
(Photo: Google Maps)
The merest mention of a strange sighting at a secret military test base is enough to set internet conspiracy theorists aquiver.
Now UFO hunters are struggling to explain why a strange structure shaped like an ‘alien UFO’ has been built outside a naval research facility about 500 miles away from the mysterious Area 51.
Since we first revealed the location of a weird object spotted on Google Maps, readers have been getting in touch to give their own theories about the structure.
It’s been suggested that the spaceship-shaped construction is merely a cess-pit or fish farm.
Some alien hunters believe it’s a message to the stars, whilst others claim it’s a prop destined to be used in a fake extraterrestrial invasion – which is certainly an imaginative explanation.
The weird structure was spotted some 500 miles from Area 51
(Photo: Google Maps)
Now we’ve received the most compelling theory about the structure: it’s an artificial lake used to test weapons.
This theory is backed up by the fact there appear to be loads of tanks dotted around the desert nearby, as well as rusty-looking aeroplanes.
Several boats can be seen near the mystery object itself. Seeing as you don’t generally find boats in the desert, it’s a fair bet they are being used for more than just fishing trips.
However, we have been unable to find a similar structure at other American military bases using Google Maps satellite images.
Test ranges tend to look fairly strange, as you can see in the pictures below, with some looking as if they are crop circle-style messages to aliens.
But if you see a weird structure near a military base, it’s reasonable to expect it’s being used to help devise new and improved ways of blowing things up.
Pinecastle Impact Range, in Florida
(Photo: Google Maps)
White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico, site of the first atomic bomb tests
(Photo: Google Maps)
Delamere Air Weapons Range in Australia
(Photo: Google Maps)
‘It’s a Navy target range lake,’ a reader wrote.
‘They float targets in it and then make them go away. Take off the tin foil hats, stop gargling vinegar and step away from the conspiracy theories.
‘The long structure jutting into the water is a ramp, there is a boat alongside and it’s on a bombing and testing range owned by the US Navy.
‘Process of elimination.’ Do you agree with this theory?
You can see historical pictures of the site here, which hint at the timeline of its construction.
Get in touch with jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk if you have any more information.
Pictures show construction of object shaped like ‘alien UFO’ near Area 51
Jasper Hamill
This strange object sparked wild debate about its origins
(Photo: Google Maps)
The sighting of a bizarre ‘object’ near Area 51 sent UFO hunters into a frenzy this week.
Now we can shed new light on the history of the site where a strange shape resembling an ‘alien ship’ was spotted on Google Maps.
Historical images of the site show that the mysterious structure has been under construction for several years.
Using Google Maps, we found that the site was little more than a patch of empty desert in 2005, although what looks like the outline of a building or small channels of water are visible.
Satellite imagery shows that two shapes were then built in the ground, one of which appears to be either filled with water or covered with tarpaulin.
This is the earliest satellite image of the site we have been able to find
(Photo: Google Maps)
Some building activity appears to be taking place in 2007
(Photo: Google Maps)
The structure has taken shape by 2010, along with its twin
(Photo: Google Maps)
Sand can be seen in the centre of one of the structures, suggesting it is an indentation in the ground
(Photo: Google Maps)
In 2013, the satellite images appear to show two large holes in the ground with central islands
(Photo: Google Maps)
Here’s how the site looked in 2017, which was the most recent satellite image available
(Photo: Google Maps)
Only the most hardcore UFO hunters actually believed the ‘object’ was an alien craft, but there’s every chance it’s been used to test out secret new weapons.
It was first spotted by the YouTube channel SecureTeam10, which said it was found in Area 51 – a world famous base linked to countless numbers of alien conspiracies.
The strange structure is actually located near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, which is used to test weapons and is located about 500 miles from Area 51.
Recent images show that the area is dotted with tanks, boats and even aeroplanes. Boats were also seen right next to the object, further suggesting it’s a body of water rather than a building.
Could the strange structure have been built to test out scary new weapons? Sadly, we’ll probably never know because if the military is involved, then there’s bound to be something top secret going on.
It could also have a rather unglamorous explanation. It’s been suggested the ‘object is a fish farm or even a boring old cesspit.
The object was spotted about 500 miles from Area 51
(Photo: Google Maps)
This photo was taken nearby and appears to show tanks
(Photo: Google Maps)
A close-up of one of the ‘tanks’
(Photo: Google Maps)
One reader got in touch to offer this suggestion: ‘It looks to me to be a lagoon, possibly for water storage. It seems to have started as a larger rectangular shape then changed to two round ones with a pointed side extension.
‘The excavations can clearly be seen and the black area looks like a lining material. The boat shows up in later shots, they needed access for some reason. Could it be a fish farm?’
We also revealed the existence of a creepy ‘death circle’ near the naval base.
Last November, The War Zone posted an exclusive story detailing a bizarre incident involving an unidentified aircraft that transited the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the early evening of October 25th, 2017. What started as a radar target moving at very high speed over Northern California turned into a series of eyewitness accounts made by nearby airline pilots traveling northward over Oregon. Even F-15 fighters were launched to intercept the mysterious intruder that quickly became invisible to radar.
Now, through the Freedom of Information Act, we present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF. These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident.
For proper context, make sure to first read our original post linked heredetailing the event, how our report came to be in the first place, as well as the rare confirmations as to its authenticity from both the FAA and the USAF. Below is also a short explainer video that will give you a basic overview of the incident.
Fast forward three months later, and now we have so much more evidence that adds incredible depth and color to our original report and the limited radio recordings we originally had to go off of. Via our Freedom of Information Act Request we received hours of audio, all with unique elements that add to this story. What we have done is packaged that audio, as well as the radar data provided, into four separate videos. We will highlight some of the big takeaways from each video in our piece, but we cannot stress enough how interesting and eye opening this audio is to listen to in full, so we highly recommend you do so by watching each video in its entirety.
The first video includes audio from the initial spotting of the object as it ripped its way across Northern California at high speed, before it took a turn north and merged with nearby air traffic and disappeared from radar. Once again, beyond becoming invisible to radar, this aircraft had no transponder broadcasting nor did it ever communicate verbally with air traffic controllers. The audio in the video goes on to be sync'd in real-time with radar data obtained via our FOIA request.
Oakland Center Sector 31 first detected the target around 4:30pm PST. Below is a chart showing where Oakland Center's high altitude sectors are situated around Northern California. Sector 31 spans roughly from Sacramento up towards Redding, before its northern edge, which is near the border with Oregon, terminates and Seattle Center's airspace begins. To the east, the airspace sits along the California-Nevada border. This makes sense as the craft was eventually tracked by airline pilots as it made its way up over Crater Lake and towards the Willamette Valley.
In the audio the Oakland Center controller notes that it is near his boundary, so it seems the aircraft's first appearance officially occurred near the border of Oakland Center Sector 31 and Seattle Center Sector 13 or 14. The target was moving "very fast at 37,000" feet when it was first detected.
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Seattle Center high altitude sector chart.
The "intruder" quickly dropped off radar and that's when the visual sightings made by airline crews began. They continued for roughly half an hour and over hundreds of miles. The exchanges between nearby pilots and air traffic control regarding the unidentified aircraft were constant in the audio, with the same description coming back time and again—that of a white aircraft cruising at around 37,000 feet that is too far away to tell the type or if it has markings of any kind on it.
At roughly 27:30 into the video we get our first indication that the F-15s out of PDX are about to scramble, with the air traffic controller noting this while talking to another FAA controller, during which the controller also reiterates that there has still been no radar contact with the aircraft. The controller also repeatedly asks aircrews nearby to check their Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) for the aircraft, which all come back negative.
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
F-15s of the 142nd Fighter Wing taxi out for departure from their nest at PDX.
The F-15s first appear on radar as they climb out of Portland to the south at time index 33:33 as "Rock" flight—a common callsign used for the alert F-15s stationed at PDX. Alaska 439 asks for an update on the unidentified aircraft and the controller notes they still have nothing on him, saying colloquially thatit must be in a kind of "stealth mode or something." It's also interesting that the F-15s first went south when it seems as if the object would have been north of PDX by the time they finally launched.
This second video is just the radar data in its raw form. It starts before the sync'd recording begins above so we thought we would post it in full so our readers can take a closer look if they want.
Next we move into some very interesting recordings of FAA phone calls that occurred as all of this was taking place. We edited out dead space in the audio between phone calls and bleeped the names of those who named themselves. Aside from that, the audio is unedited by us, although we cannot be certain if parts were redacted by the FAA or not. There were a few strange areas where conversations went mute and it's not clear if this was edited or just an anomaly. The primary person talking in most of these calls is the Operations Manager In Charge for Seattle Center at the time that the incident took place.
The first call is to Oakland Center, and it occurs early on after the initial radar detection and as pilots began spotting the craft visually. He also mentions that "air defense" is looking for the target now too (on radar), so it shows how early the military was involved in the encounter.
You will notice that the term "DEN" is referred to repeatedly in these recordings. That is the Domestic Events Network, a sort of hotline system that is used to bridge the FAA with federal authorities, namely the military, during a number of circumstances which you can read about here. You will also hear the term "WADS" and the nickname/callsign "Bigfoot." This refers to the Western Air Defense sector of NORAD that monitors the airspace over a huge swath of territory in the United States and Canada. Based out of McChord AFB in Washington, WADS scrambles the fighters when needed and works to direct them to their targets of interest during domestic air sovereignty missions, among other responsibilities.
When the Manager In Charge is asked if he was asking for military assistance by another FAA controller, the tape goes blank. The same inquiry is heard moments later, and it goes silent again before another call begins. Although it really doesn't have much impact on the greater mystery, who asked for the F-15s to scramble and when, comes up in the next video in an exchange between the same manager and an FAA official.
In the final set of calls in the video we hear controllers talking about how the Air Force wants to set up an air patrol over Battle Ground, Washington, which is a dozen miles directly north of PDX. We know the F-15s headed south initially, so it isn't clear if this call came after they initially headed in that direction or before they were even airborne and the plan changed later on for some reason. Once again "Rock" refers to the callsign of the alert fighters.
Finally, we get to our last and most interesting of our evidence videos. It contains the calls made after the incident occurred. Seattle Center's Manager In Charge of Operations tries to figure out what happened exactly. In doing so he talks once again with Seattle Center and the trio of airline pilots that spotted the craft visually and has some very interesting conversations with the FAA's Air Traffic Organization Security office and the agency's Safety and Quality Assurance Group.
First we hear about the big question as to who "requested" the scramble, as according to the call, it has to come from FAA headquarters. The manager floats the idea, in retrospect, of having the airliners keep a visual on the craft instead of allowing them to descending into PDX, at least until the F-15s show up, but the FAA official swats that down as they didn't know what the aircraft was, "if they are equipped with anything" or its intentions. She reiterates that getting the military involved was a good idea but that it should have come from FAA headquarters over the DEN. The manager reminds her again that he doesn't know who requested military assistance and that Oakland Center told him to call WADS initially.
Next we hear from Oakland Center again, at first discussing who ordered the scramble, but then the conversation goes into talking about what actually happened. Both agree that there was "definitely something out there" with the Oakland Center controller saying the aircraft first appeared going southbound at high speed before executing an abrupt maneuver and then "took off northbound." Even figuring out how to report the encounter seems totally foreign to both higher ranking controllers, with one stating "I have a feeling someone is going to go through this with a fine-tooth comb."
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An F-15C from the 142nd Fighter Wing blasts out of PDX just after sunset. http://www.thedrive.com/
Then we get into the pilot interviews over the phone, with the manager's intention being for each crew to write up a report detailing
their individual perspective of the incident. During the call with United 612 there are some odd dropped moments, but the pilot describes the encounter, stating that he was too far away to make out the type. The next call, with Alaska Airlines 525, also doesn't reveal much as the crew says they never were able to see it, but the crew of Skywest 3478 did, although he didn't have much to add.
The call with the pilot of Southwest 4712 was by far the most interesting. He immediately notes how strange the encounter was and how he has never seen an incident like it in nearly 30 years of flying jets. The pilot noted, "if it was like a Lear (private jet) type airframe I probably would not have seen it this clear. This was a white airplane and it was big. And it was moving at a clip too, because we were keeping pace with it, it was probably moving faster than we were... It was a larger aircraft yeah." He also said they watched the object from Northern California all the way to their descent into Portland.
TYLER ROGOWAY/AUTHOR
A 737 about to land on runway 28L at Portland International.
The manager's final call, was with the FAA's Quality Assurance Group, who is taken by surprise by the details surrounding the event, and especially with the fact that nobody still knew what the aircraft was or where it ended up. "Wow that's weird" is the operative quote by the FAA official, which is insightful to say the least as these people deal with unique incidents that occur in American airspace on a daily basis. The manager agreed with the sentiment and noted that it wasn't some small aircraft and it was moving fast, outpacing a 737 cruising nearby. The official also says that the incident should be classified as "potentially significant" on reporting documents. She even said that this was "a weird enough thing that there is not a set procedure... It's not often we hear about an unknown guy up at that altitude."
Collectively these materials give us incredible insight not only into this incident, but also into how such an event is actually handled in real-time by those who are responsible for the safety of those in the air and those on ground below. What they don't offer is any sort of an explanation for what happened on that fall evening. But really, the fact that all those involved, from air traffic controllers, to Air Force radar operators, to airline pilots, and even special FAA officials tasked with responding to all types of out of the ordinary incidents that occur in the sky on a daily basis seem just as puzzled with this event as we are makes the story all that much more intriguing.
Above all else, this new evidence underscores just how rare these events actually are, especially ones that include multiple sightings, the use of multiple sensors, the involvement of various agencies including the military, and some of the most capable air-to-air fighters in the world. And after recent reports unmasking how the Pentagon remains highly interested in encounters just like this one, it holds even more weight than it did three months ago.
We will continue to investigate this bizarre incident and we will keep you updated as to what else we discover.
A solar storm is forecast to hit Earth on Feb. 15, 2018.
(Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams)
A solar storm is forecast to hit Earth early Thursday after the Sun unleashed a powerful solar flare — a burst of high-energy radiation — Sunday night.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Satellite captured a solar flare on the Sun releasing a coronal mass ejection (CME) around 8:25 p.m. ET Sunday.
“[CMEs] are huge explosions of magnetic field and plasma from the Sun’s corona,” the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) explained in a post online. “When CMEs impact the Earth’s magnetosphere, they are responsible for geomagnetic storms and enhanced aurora.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA) issued a G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm watch for Thursday.
Here’s what you need to know about solar storms — and how they can impact the Earth — before one hits the planet on Thursday.
What is a solar flare?
Magnetic storms on the surface of the Sun can cause what is known as “solar flares.”
“A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots,” according to NASA. “Flares are our solar system’s largest explosive events.”
Why are we under a G1 Watch the next two days? Because of this solar storm seen here in this GIF. The Sun unleashed a long duration C class flare that also produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) towards Earth. Send all of your Aurora reports to @TweetAurora#CitizenScience
If the storm is strong enough it will cause a CME, which is what happened in this case.
“The strongest flares are almost always correlated with coronal mass ejections,” NASA points out.
How do solar storms impact Earth?
There are a variety of things that could potentially happen.
The storm could increase the brightness and visibility of auroras, also known as the Southern or Northern Lights. ”Aurora may be visible at high latitudes, i.e., northern tier of the U.S. such as northern Michigan and Maine,” the NOAA said in an alert Wednesday.
Regions may notice weak power grid fluctuations, though that’s unlikely to happen in this “minor” storm.
Minor damage Earth-orbiting satellites,”especially those in high, geosynchronous orbits” could occur, NASA says.
High frequency radio waves could be “degraded,” NASA adds.
A NASA study warns solar storms could confuse the internal compasses of marine mammals, causing an increase in strandings on beaches.
“Geomagnetic storms are more disruptive now than in the past because of our greater dependence on technical systems that can be affected by electric currents and energetic particles high in the Earth’s magnetosphere,” NASA explains.
Should we be worried?
Not really. This particular storm is catergorized as minor, but that doesn't mean it can't impact the Earth.
Solar storms are actually pretty common. On average, solar activity increases every 11 years, NASA scientists say, and there's an uptick in solar flares during these cycles.
Fortunately, Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field keep us well-protected.
“Some people worry that a gigantic ‘killer solar flare’ could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible,” NASA explained in a 2013 article online. "Even at their worst, the sun's flares are not physically capable of destroying Earth."
For years, people have lived through solar storms without harm.
"In general, the physical danger is low and controllable," CNET reported, citing the NOAA, after a solar storm struck Earth in March 2012. "The biological hazard inherent in solar and geomagnetic storms comes from the exposure to radiation, which is mainly a concern for astronauts and people flying at high altitudes."
The "explosive heat" from solar flares can’t directly hit our planet, but the flares can, however, cause plenty of disruptions (like the ones listed above).
As many students of Ufology will be aware, the last couple of decades or so have seen a rise in reports of one particular type of UFO. It has become known as the Flying Triangle. The FTs are triangular in shape and very often black in color, hence the name, of course! They often emit a low humming noise, and have a trio of lights on their underside. They usually have rounded corners too, rather than sharply angled edges. And, in some ways, they are not unlike the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (otherwise known as the Stealth Bomber) in design. This has, quite naturally, given rise to the possibility that the FTs are next-generation Stealth planes, rather than true UFOs. It’s not an unreasonable assumption. But there’s a problem with that scenario: the FTs are actually not new, or even recent, at all.
While digging through a whole host of formerly classified files on UFOs at the National Archives at Kew, England in 1996, I came across a one-page report dated 28 March 1965 that, I confess, I almost overlooked. On closer inspection, however, I realized that it was potentially one of the most important UFO-related documents that I had ever come across. According to the MoD paperwork, on the night in question a witness saw at approximately 9.30 p.m. over moor-land near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England: “Nine or ten objects – in close triangular formation each about 100ft long – orange illumination below – each triangular in shape with rounded corners, making low humming noise.”
Interestingly, as noted in the first paragraph of this article, the “rounded corners” and “low humming noise” are precisely what many witnesses to Flying Triangle-style UFO encounters are reporting today – in a world-wide capacity, no less.
Recognizing the significance of this, I made a photocopy of the document and set about locating the witness, who is named in the files, I should stress. This did not prove to be a difficult task. I introduced myself and explained that I had located at the National Archives a copy of the original report that dealt with his sighting all those years ago. It is fair to say that the man was shocked, to say the least, to find that details of his long-gone encounter had been kept on file by the MoD for more than thirty years.
“Yes, I did send in a report all those years ago, but I didn’t think they would have kept it all this time,” he told me, with astonishment in his voice. As he explained, on 28 March 1965 at approximately 9.30 p.m., he had been driving through the North Yorkshire moors. On approaching the village of Skeeby, near Richmond, however, the engine of his car began to splutter and die.
“It was a 1951 Ford,” he states, adding with some humor, “and it was a good car but a bit unpredictable at times. I didn’t want to break down on the moor because it was icy cold and the nights were still dark. I got out of the car to have a look at the engine and that’s when I saw this light.”
He continued: “At first, because it was so dark, I wondered if it might be a weather balloon. But then I had a good look at it over the hedge and realized how big it was and how low down it was. It was about one hundred feet from end-to-end, about one hundred feet above the moors and shaped like a huge triangle and white, milky-white in colour.
“It kept coming towards me and then stopped about two hundred yards from me over the moors. It hovered for a while – nothing came out of it, but there was a light below it that just pulsated like a light bulb. There could have been quite a few lights on it but from a distance the light just looked like a glow. Then without a warning, it just took off at a speed that isn’t recognised. Good gracious, I thought, it must be a UFO!
“As it shot up, not vertically but at an angle, it joined a group of others that were identical and that were in a triangular or V-formation. The others were very, very high; a whole fleet of them. They all then headed south, I think, at a tremendous speed and disappeared over the horizon. I saw the main one for no more than a couple of minutes,” he recalls, “but after they had gone I was still stood by the moor watching this fleet disappear. I waited in case something else exciting happened, but of course it didn’t.”
Curiously, shortly after the encounter, and after having reported the incident to the Ministry of Defence at Whitehall, the witness began to notice “awful red marks on my skin which were like a stretch mark, but they were like a deep salmon red and they kept coming and going. But I didn’t have them before.”
The most bizarre angle of the entire episode was still to come, however, as the man now graphically illustrates: “For about eighteen months after the sighting, I would get strange telephone calls from people. These would be every two or three months. They just phoned out of the blue but didn’t introduce themselves. They just said they were from some bureau or other. They didn’t mention the name of the bureau but kept mentioning ‘sightings’ and asked whether I had seen anything else strange. Had any men come to interview me?”
The witness was never visited by anyone with regard to his Flying Triangle encounter, nor did the MoD ever offer an explanation as to what it was that he saw on that fateful night in March 1965. He was, however, unnerved by those mysterious telephone calls – primarily because aside from informing the MoD of what had occurred, he made no other report (either official or unofficial) with anyone and kept the details to himself: “The only report I ever made was the one I sent to the MoD. It was so exciting that I had to tell someone.”
This important testimony raises a number of vital questions. Why was someone so determined to find out if the witness had received any strange visits with regard to his encounter? Why the interest in knowing if he had had any other unusual encounters of a UFO nature? And most important of all: who was his mysterious caller?
Finally, if as some researchers contend, the Flying Triangles are a relatively modern day creation of the military, how is that an entire squadron of them – right down to the triangular shape, the underside-illumination, and the low humming sound – could have been seen flying over England almost 50 years ago?.
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Triángulos Voladores en 1965 ( SPANISH )
Nick Redfern
Como muchos estudiantes de la ufología saben, en el último par de décadas , se ha visto un aumento en los informes de un tipo particular de Ovni que llegó a ser conocido como el Triángulo negro volador . El FTS es de forma triangular y muy a menudo de color negro, de ahí el nombre, ¡ por supuesto! . Emiten un grave / bajo ruido / zumbido y tienen un trío de luces en su parte inferior. Por lo general, tienen esquinas redondeadas también, en lugar de bordes muy angulados. Y, de alguna manera, no son diferentes de la Grumman B-2 Spirit Northrop en el diseño. Esto, como es natural, ha dado lugar a la posibilidad de que los FTS sean aviones de sigilo de última generación, más que verdaderos ovnis. Es una suposición razonable.Pero hay un problema con ese escenario: los FTS en realidad no son nuevos o de aparición reciente, en absoluto.
Revisando toda una serie de archivos anteriormente clasificados sobre OVNIs en los Archivos Nacionales de Kew , Inglaterra, en 1996, me encontré con un informe de una página del 28 de marzo 1965 que, lo confieso, casi he pasado por alto. En una inspección más cercana, sin embargo, me di cuenta de que era potencialmente uno de los documentos más importantes relacionados de ovnis que jamás había encontrado. De acuerdo con los documentos del Ministerio de Defensa, en la noche en cuestión , un testigo vio aproximadamente a las 21:30 hs , cerca de Richmond, North Yorkshire, Inglaterra, lo siguiente: "Nueve o diez objetos - en estrecha formación triangular, cada uno de aproximadamente 100 pies de largo - con iluminación naranja abajo - siendo todos ellos de forma triangular con esquinas redondeadas y que hacía un leve zumbido ".
Curiosamente, como se ha señalado en el primer párrafo de este artículo: las "esquinas redondeadas" y " el zumbido" ... es precisamente lo que muchos testigos de encuentros OVNI con éste tipo Triángulo están informando hoy en día , nada menos.
Reconociendo la importancia de esto, hice una fotocopia del documento y me dispuse a localizar al testigo, que lleva el nombre de los archivos... he de destacar que no resultó sencillo . Me presenté y le expliqué que había localizado en el Archivo Nacional una copia del informe original que se ocupa de su avistamiento de hace tantos años. Es justo decir que el hombre se sorprendió, por decir lo menos, al saber que los detalles de su encuentro, se habían mantenido en los archivos del Ministerio de Defensa por más de treinta años.
"Sí, yo envié en un informe hace tantos años... Pero no imaginé que lo hubieran mantenido todo este tiempo ", me dijo, con asombro en su voz. Según explicó, el 28 de marzo de 1965, aproximadamente a las 21:30hs, había estado conduciendo a través de North Yorkshire Moors. Al acercarme a Skeeby , cerca de Richmond, el motor de su coche comenzó a fallar. "Era un Ford 1951 ", afirmó y añadió con humor "... Era un buen coche, pero un poco impredecible a veces. Salí del coche para echar un vistazo a el motor y ahí fue cuando vi esta luz".
Y continuó: "Al principio,como estaba muy oscuro, me preguntaba si podría ser un globo meteorológico. Pero luego de un buen vistazo por encima del seto me di cuenta de lo grande que era y de que volaba muy bajo. Era de unos cien metros de extremo a extremo, a unos cien metros por encima de los páramos y con forma de un gran triángulo de color blanco lechoso .
"Siguió avanzando hacia mí y se detuvo a unos doscientos metros de mí a través de los páramos. Voló por un tiempo,no salió nada de él, pero había una luz debajo que sólo palpitaba como una bombilla. Podría haber habido un buen número de luces encendidas, pero desde la distancia la luz sólo se veía como un resplandor. Entonces, sin una advertencia despegó a una velocidad que no se reconoce. ¡Dios mío, pensé, debe ser un OVNI!...
"A medida que se disparó, pero no verticalmente en un ángulo, se unió a un grupo que eran idénticos y que estaban en una formación de V o triangular. Los otros estaban muy, muy alto, toda una flota de ellos. Todos ellos se dirigieron hacia el sur, creo, a una velocidad tremenda y desaparecieron por el horizonte. Vi a la principal por no más de un par de minutos ", recuerda," luego , después todavía estaba de pie junto al páramo y vi desaparecer esta flota. Esperé en caso de que algo más emocionante pasara, pero por supuesto que nada más sucedió ".
Curiosamente, poco después del encuentro, y después de haber informado de los hechos al Ministerio de Defensa en Whitehall, la testigo comenzó a notar "marcas rojas horribles en mi piel, que eran como una estría, pero eran como un salmón rojo profundo que yo no tenía antes ".
El ángulo más extraño de todo el episodio estaba por llegar, sin embargo, como el hombre ahora ilustra gráficamente: "Desde hace unos dieciocho meses después de la observación, recibí llamadas telefónicas extrañas cada dos o tres meses. Ellos sólo dijeron que eran de alguna oficina u otro. No mencionaron el nombre de la oficina y preguntaron si no había visto nada extraño. "
El testigo nunca recibió la visita de cualquier persona con respecto a su encuentro con el Triángulo volador , ni el Ministerio de Defensa ofreció una explicación de qué fue lo que vio en esa fatídica noche de marzo de 1965. Estaba, sin embargo, nervioso por las llamadas telefónicas misteriosas , principalmente porque aparte de informar al Ministerio de Defensa de lo que había ocurrido, no hizo ningún otro informe (ya sea oficial o no oficial) con nadie y guardó los detalles para sí mismo: "El único informe que he hecho fue el que se envió al Ministerio de Defensa. Fue tan emocionante que se lo tuve que decir a alguien ".
Este importante testimonio suscita una serie de cuestiones vitales. ¿Por qué alguien estaba tan decidido a averiguar si el testigo había recibido visitas de extraños con respecto a su encuentro? ¿Por qué el interés en saber si había tenido otros encuentros inusuales de carácter OVNI?... Y lo más importante de todo: ¿quién era la misteriosa persona que llamaba?.
Por último, si como algunos investigadores sostienen, los Triángulos Voladores son una creación relativamente moderna de las fuerzas armadas, ¿Cómo es que un escuadrón entero de ellos, de forma triangular, con la parte inferior iluminada y el sonido de grave zumbido,pudo haberse visto volar sobre Inglaterra hace casi 50 años?...
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