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.
Dinsdag 10 april 2018
One Scarce Element May Be Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life
One Scarce Element May Be Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life
It’s spring in the Northern Hemisphere, which means anyone with a lawn will soon be spreading fertilizer all over their grass to make it grow long enough and green enough so they can walk on it barefoot for a few days before it turns brown from the drought and excessive heat. According to a new study, that stuff you’re spreading – or at least one element in it — may show aliens in other solar systems evidence that there’s life on Earth. Conversely, the fact that we can’t see it on planets orbiting other stars means they may not have life at all. That element is the ‘P’ in the NPK balance listed on the bag of fertilizer – phosphorus.
In a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool last week, astronomers Jane Greaves and Phil Cigan of Cardiff University, described what happened when they recently aimed the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located just 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation. The data, which they’ve only begun to process, showed that it contained what would be considered an average amount of phosphorous for the Milky Way – which surprisingly isn’t much. For comparison, Cassiopeia A – a supernova remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia – was found in 2013 to contain 100 times more phosphorous that the Milky Way average. Because it’s such an new and challenging process, these are the only two supernovae analyzed for phosphorus so far
Crab Nebula
Greaves and Cigan were studying supernova explosions because that is the source of phosphorus in the universe and phosphorus is one of the six chemical elements which all life on Earth depends on. (Can you guess the rest?) In an interview with phys.org, Greaves explains why the low level in the galaxy is a concern to astronomers looking for alien life.
“The route to carrying phosphorus into new-born planets looks rather precarious. We already think that only a few phosphorus-bearing minerals that came to the Earth—probably in meteorites—were reactive enough to get involved in making proto-biomolecules. If phosphorus is sourced from supernovae, and then travels across space in meteoritic rocks, I’m wondering if a young planet could find itself lacking in reactive phosphorus because of where it was born? That is, it started off near the wrong kind of supernova? In that case, life might really struggle to get started out of phosphorus-poor chemistry, on another world otherwise similar to our own.”
(Have you guesses the other five elements? Here’s a hint: Sponch.)
Greaves speculates that Cassiopeia A created more phosphorus because it was a bigger star (duh). It means that life forming on a planet may depend less on its location in a warm “Goldilocks zone” near its own star and more on its proximity to a massive supernovae explosion. That also means the search for life on other planets should focus on the amount of phosphorus detected, along with the other five elements for life – Sulfur, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen. Thrown in P for phosphorous and their chemical symbols spell SPONCH – a good name for the first alien we find on a phosphorus-laden planet.
Based on the sparsity of phosphorus in the galaxy, will we find life? Should we forget about our lawns and start fertilizing outer space?
Beams of light coming from the skies in Texas and Phoenix
On April 6, 2018 an unknown beam of light coming from the sky near Rockwall, Texas and it is almost impossible but two days later on April 8 another beam of light coming from the sky in Phoenix.
As with the Texas beam also the Phoenix beam has not the specific characteristics of a sun ray, it is clearly something different and it is hard to explain from where these beams come from.
Here is a very interesting discovery on Mars of many structures with clear signs of intelligence construction. These are ruins of an alien civilization. Had they been found on Earth, people would have no qualms about it. However this is Mars, and since knowing that alien life existed so close to Earth would really shake up the entire world. This is why NASA doesn't want the world to know about it. NASA wants to keep it secret to see if they could find any alien technology that could be useful to America. Imagine finding a broken computer on Mars...and bringing it back, only to discover the computer has an alien version of artificial intelligence in it. NASA downloads the program and integrates it into todays modern tech, using it to control the world.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'pa sses lie detector test about his encounter with alien life, UFO Sightings News.
Awesome news! Buzz has passed his lie detector test. This means he never made up the story, its all true. The story of how he had seen UFOs on the opposite side of a moon crater is all true! Very cool and glad to hear he had no fear to take such a test. Just wish we had a video of the full test. Scott C. Waring
News states: 'There was something out there': Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin 'passes lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life' during the historic 1969 mission to the moon. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has reportedly passed a lie detector test after recalling his encounter with alien life during the historic 1969 mission to the moon. Aldrin, 88, was a part of the test that also analyzed interviews from astronauts Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.
However, a video has emerged which appears to show the cause of the blue glow.
Train causes 'UFO light'
It is not yet clear why there was a blue light coming from the train.
This CCTV video, posted on Facebook by Shelley Ifill, captures a train moving at speed at 9.15pm on Wednesday with a blue light shining from the roof towards the sky.
It's not yet known exactly where the video was shot.
Train 'UFO' video
The real reason behind the 'blue glow' revealed
Rail companies have been contacted to establish which train was carrying the powerful beam, and why.
Phosphorus is an essential element for life — but that there was enough of it for life to start on Earth might just have been a matter of luck, new findings suggest.
According to new observations of the Crab Nebula — the leftovers from an exploding star first seen by Chinese astronomers in 1054 — presented on April 5 at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool, England, the abundance and distribution of phosphorus in the Milky Way galaxy may be more random than scientists previously thought. As such, some places in the galaxy may not have enough phosphorus to support life, even if they are home to otherwise hospitable exoplanets, the researchers said. [Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures]
Most of the universe's phosphorus was created during the last gasps of dying massive stars or during a supernova — when such a star exhausts its fuel and explodes. Phosphorus is difficult to observe, and only in 2013 did astronomers make the first measurements of the element in a stellar explosion, in the wispy remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A. Surprisingly, they found up to 100 times more phosphorus than what's observed in the rest of the Milky Way.
But that might have been an outlier. Recently, astronomers Jane Greaves and Phil Cigan of Cardiff University in the U.K. pointed the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands toward the Crab Nebula, located about 6,500 light-years away. Preliminary data, analyzed just two weeks ago, shows an amount of phosphorus more similar to the values found in the interstellar gas and dust of the Milky Way — a pittance compared with the abundance in Cassiopeia A. (The findings have not yet been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.)
"It's not a guaranteed thing to have phosphorus abundant everywhere, ripe for the picking," Cigan told Live Science. "It seems to look like luck plays a bigger role in this."
Some of that luck may come down to size. The star that created Cassiopeia A is roughly twice as massive as the one that made the Crab Nebula. A more massive star could have generated different reactions that produce more phosphorus, the researchers said.
If the production of phosphorus varies widely across the galaxy, so might the likelihood of life on other planets. Even if a planet had every other condition required for habitability, it might still be bereft of life because it formed where there was a dearth of phosphorus, the researchers said.
But the observations are still preliminary; the astronomers were only able to measure parts of the nebula before clouds and a snowstorm spoiled the rest of their observing run. Still, Cigan said, the data they do have show significantly less phosphorus in the Crab Nebula than in Cassiopeia A.
The researchers have applied to use the Herschel Telescope to study the rest of the nebula. Future analysis will also include comparisons with computer models, Cigan said.
Ultimately, astronomers will need to measure phosphorus in other supernova remnants across the cosmos, Cigan said. "We really want to look at how it's spreading out from supernova remnants and falling back into the interstellar medium — that's the key."
A space war “is going to happen”, and the Pentagon is not ready to face it, warn several US experts and politicians.
As if we didn’t have enough problems here on Earth; Overpopulation, Diseases, Wars, Famine, etc., it seems that we need to be worried about a potential war in space.
An article published in Politiconotes that Russia and China are “far ahead” of the United States when it comes to space militarization and in the development of means capable of destroying or rendering inoperative the satellites on which the US Army depends: from gathering intelligence to guiding precision bombs, missiles, and drones.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is trying to catch up after years of underinvestment, injecting “billions of dollars” to bolster its defenses against antisatellite weapons, train troops and refine means to retaliate in a new form of combat that until now has only been present in Hollywood movies.
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“We are now approaching a point where ‘Star Wars’ is not just a movie,” said Steve Isakowitz, CEO of The Aerospace Corp., a government-funded think tank that serves as the military’s leading adviser on space.
According to Isakowitz, the U.S. can no longer afford to take its dominance for granted.
“That supremacy in space has enabled us to have the world’s greatest war-fighting capability … whether it is our soldiers on the field, our drones that fly overhead, our bombers that travel around the world, intelligence we collect,” he told POLITICO. “More and more every day, literally, we become more dependent on it.
“And our adversaries know that,” he added in an interview.
Unsurprisingly, US President Donald Trump recently called for the creation of a “space force”: a separate military branch responsible for guaranteeing US supremacy in space (a role now played mainly by the Air Force).
Likewise, Trump’s new National Security Strategy designated space as “vital interest” for the first time, and ordered the Armed Forces to consider space as “a priority domain,” Politico explains.
But that may not be enough.
Congressman Mike Rogers, who chairs the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, predicts that war in space will “happen,” and that “it’s just a matter of whether it happens in the next two years or in the next five or six years.“
In this sense, Rogers is worried about whether the US Air Force is paying enough attention to space.
“They always say, ‘We got this, we’re planning for this in the future,’” Rogers said. “But when you ask them to prioritize space this year, they say they can’t. People have to remember when it comes to fighting a war, our eyes and ears are in space. We can’t let adversaries take our eyes and ears out.”
Other specialists urge the Trump Administration to think more carefully about its military space policy. Thus, Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security at Naval War College, doubts that space can be treated like any other battle zone.
“You can not control all the space all the time,” he says, explaining that “simply the physics of space is different than the others.”
On the other hand, Cassandra Steer, acting executive director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, warns that “an armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players,” including “Neutral States.”
The former American astronaut and the second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin has passed a lie detector test for claims that he saw Aliens on his trip to the moon.
Along with Buzz, three other astronauts, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper, also underwent the test and the results were positive.
In an interview for the Science Channel in 2005, astronaut Buzz Aldrin said the crew of the famous Apollo 11 mission saw a UFO on its way to the Moon.
Later, Aldrin would say that his words were taken out of context, even though his story was supported by Dr. David Baker, principal scientist of Apollo 11.
However, over the years Aldrin has also made other strange statements which seem to indicate that he knows more about the extraterrestrial presence in space than he would like to share.
Buzz Aldrin deploys a seismometer in the Sea of Tranquility.
Credit: NASA
Even in 2014, the famous NASA astronaut clarified what he saw had seen in a series of questions on Reddit.
While speaking about his ‘alien encounter‘ Aldrin said;
“On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world – it was either the rocket we had separated from or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.”
“So in the close vicinity, moving away, were 4 panels. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels. Which one? I don’t know. So technically, the definition could be ‘unidentified’. We well understood exactly what that was. And when we returned, we debriefed and explained exactly what we had observed. And I felt that this had been distributed to the outside world, the outside audience, and apparently, it wasn’t, and so many years later, I had the time in an interview to disclose these observations, on another country’s television network.”
“And the UFO people in the United States were very, very angry with me, that I had not given them the information. It was not an alien.”
“Although there were many theories about it, none of the crew of Apollo 11 could find a logical and rational explanation for the strange phenomenon.”
Apparently, the Apollo crew quickly concluded that what they had seen on route to the moon was sunlight reflecting off an adapter panel – one of four ‘hatches’ that enclosed the Lunar Module and were jettisoned once that stage of the rocket detached.
“It was not an alien. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence. That’s what Carl Sagan said,” Aldrin concluded in a Reddit AMA in 2014.
But now, new information reveals that Aldrin has passed the lie detector test on his encounter with a UFO during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
The investigation has also analyzed astronauts Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses with the American flag on the surface of the moon in July 1969.
Image Credit: NASA
The experts confirmed that their results show that they were “completely convinced” that they had encountered extraterrestrial life during their trip to the Moon.
According to reports, the ‘Institute of BioAcousticBiology in Ohio’ analyzed the voice of the astronauts proving that when speaking of alien life and strange encounters on the moon, the astronauts were not lying.
Speaking to controversial news outlet ‘The Daily Star’—known for publishing bizarre UFO stories— the ‘Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Ohio’ explained that the recordings show that Aldrin was ‘completely convinced’ of the truth of his story.
Aldrin has claimed that he saw ‘something out there that was close enough to be observed, sort of L-shaped,’ on his journey to the moon – although he has since dialed back on the idea it was aliens, reports Metro.
However, Buzz wasn’t the only one to have allegedly spoken the truth about encountering aliens. Another astronaut, Edgar Mitchell – the sixth man to walk on the moon – also claimed to have witnessed aliens on his trip to the moon, and his voice, just as Aldrin’s, reveals he is also ‘telling the truth,’ the Institute has claimed.
However, as noted by experts, we have still no idea what the he Institute of BioAcoustic Biology is basing this on – as the company makes some rather outlandish claims for its technology.
The Institute says, ‘As a bridge between ancient ideas of sound healing and the futuristic, Star Trek, protocols that the institute provides, it is now possible to reverse diseases and traumas previously thought to be incurable, to reveal the secrets of our true nature, to enhance our lives, to predict what may be our fate through the frequencies of our voice.’
However, Science Alert has taken a swing at the tests, the results and the company itself saying that that’s not even remotely science.
Scient alert explains that while Bioacousticsis a legitimate branch of science, in this case, however, the institute’s line of study bears the hallmarks of pseudoscience.
The Southwestern United States is home to countless ancient figurines, depicting beings with elongated heads, halos, antennas, almond-shaped eyes, and even what some interpret as beings in astronaut-like space suits. These figurines were created around 4,000 years ago.
Holy Ghost panel in the Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon.
In the southwestern United States, mainly in the state of Utah, there is a great concentration of places where thousands of years ago, early inhabitants depicted strange beings with elongated heads, massive height, and helmet-like objects, as well as a number of depictions of what many authors have identified as cosmic maps.
The enigmatic figures date back 1,500 and 4,000 years ago, although some could be older, while others figurines could have been created as recently as one thousand years ago.
But it doesn’t matter whether they were created four thousand years ago, or two thousand years ago, what matters is the message that the ancients tried conveying.
One of the greatest enigmas that experts have tried solving is the meaning of the figures painted on countless rocks in Utah.
Are these mysterious representations the result of ancient man’s ingenuity? Imagination? Are these figures depictions of ancient abstract art? Or is it possible, as some authors suggest, that these mysterious beings were the so-called sky people?
The most famous of all panels is located in the Horseshoe Canyon, formerly known as Barrier Canyon, west of the Verde River in the state of Utah.
The rock art at horseshoe canyon is known as Barrier Canyon Style(BCS) rock art.
The Great Gallery is a spectacular ancient art panel of more than 60 meters in length by about 5 of height in which are represented some 20 anthropomorphic images of natural size, the largest of which exceeds 2 meters in height.
The so-called great gallery is divided into two differentiated areas, so that the most separated representations, on the left, are known as the Panel of the Holy Spirit, due to the presence of an unusual-looking figure that some identity with a spirit and others with some shamanic ritual.
The Holy Ghost panel of the Great Gallery has been dated to between 400 A.D. and 1100 A.D. by dating two rockfall events of which one exposed the rock face the panel was made and the second damaging part of the panel
This gallery offers the largest and best-preserved collections of Barrier Canyon Style rock art in the United States.
This panel has been dated by optically stimulated luminescence between 400 and 1100 AD.
According to experts, the pictograms of the Great Gallery were made using ocher-red color to represent more than 80 figures, whose meaning remains a profound enigma.
The creation and dating of the figurines is also a problematic issue for experts because the pigments used by the ancients lacks organic material and cannot be analyzed by radiocarbon dating.
The rock art of the great gallery is believed to have been the product of the Desert Archaic culture, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers predating the Fremont and Ancestral Puebloans.
Meet ‘Die Glocke’, The Mysterious Nazi Anti Gravity Machine
Die Glocke (The Bell) was a supposed Nazi Wunderwaffe, or wonder weapon.
It was described by Polish journalist and writer Igor Witkowski in Prawda or Wunderwaffe (2000), later popularized by military journalist and writer Nick Cook, as well as by Joseph P. Farrell and other authors who associate it with Nazi occultism antigravity and free energy research.
Witkowski came across details about Die Glocke in after obtaining access, through a contact in the Polish intelligence service, to the transcripts of the interrogation of an SS officer, Jakob Sporrenberg.
In them, the German narrated the details of an experiment carried out in a hidden base called Der Riese, which was in the Owl Mountains, near the Wenceslaus mine, in the Sudetes (near the Czech border).
The device, shrouded in mystery, has also been described by many authors as a possible Nazi time traveling machine.
According to Patrick Kiger’s article published in the National Geographic magazine, Die Glocke has become a popular topic of speculation, with a fandom around this and other so-called Nazi Wunderwaffen.
The Bell was presented as a magical, occult weapon, based on a technology that goes far beyond anything mankind was capable of producing.
However, the possibility that there was a hidden device completely revolutionary for its time and very rare, if possible, is something that has excited the imagination of many writers.
Some of them like Jan Van Helsing, Norbert-Jürgen Ratthofer and Vladimir Terziski did not have issues when mixing reality and fiction in a mixture that included mystical weapons, the Nazi esotericism, secret societies, and UFOs, a phenomenon that began spreading quickly in the fifties.
So, what the heck is the bell?
An illustration of the Bell.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
The Bell or Die Glocke was a supposed experiment carried out by scientists from Nazi Germany who worked for the SS in a facility known as Der Riese (The Giant, in German), near the Wenceslaus mine close to the Czech border.
The Bell is described as a device “made of a hard and heavy metal”, with an approximate diameter of 2.7 m and a height between 3.7 m and 4.6 m, having a shape similar to that of a large bell.
According to Cook’s interview with Witkowski, this device contained two counter-rotating cylinders that would be “filled with a substance similar to mercury, violet in color”.
This metallic liquid was codenamed “Xerum 525” and was “stored in a tall, thin thermos, one meter high and encapsulated in lead.”
It is said that the experiments used additional substances, mentioned as Leichtmetall (light metal, in German), “including thorium and beryllium peroxides.”
Witkowski describes that when The Bell was activated, it had a range of 150 m to 200 m.
The Polish journalist explained that the goal of Die Glocke was to generate antigravity propulsion – that’s why it was tightened to the ground by means of thick chains.
Witkowski explains that when the device was activated it could cause deadly effects on living beings that were within a radius of 150 to 200 meters : freezing of the blood in the circulatory system, decomposition of the organic tissues…
This illustrates purported top secret Nazi scientific technological device knows as “the Bell” (Die Glocke). For illustration variety of sources and described features are combined.
Moreover, five of the seven members of the research team – led by physicist Walther Gerlach – perished during the tests, although it was not clear how.
Witkowski tells in his book that a French scientist named Elie Cartan had already taken important steps in that field of antigravity after the First World War, although the antigravity that generated by his alleged machine was too weak to have a practical application. Die Glocke may have been based on the technology introduced by Cartan.
Based on certain external evidence, Witkowski claims that the ruins of a concrete structure – nicknamed “The Henge” – in the vicinity of the Wenceslas mine (50 ° 37’43 ” N 16 ° 29’40 “E), about 3.1 km southeast of the main Sokolec Complex of the underground works of the Riese Project, could have served as a testing platform for an experiment on” antigravity propulsion “generated with The Bell.
However, the abandoned structure has also been interpreted as the remains of a conventional industrial cooling tower.
Whether the Bell may or may not have existed remains one of the best hidden Nazi secrets.
However, we do know that ‘Der Riese’ really existed and consisted of underground facilities that began to be built from 1943 from Książ Castle, with tunnels, railways, telephone lines, etc.
The labor force employed was about thirteen thousand prisoners, mostly transferred from Auschwitz, and according to the testimony of Albert Speer, the architect of the regime, the budget for the works amounted to one hundred and fifty million marks.
Featured image credit: Die Glocke / Discovery Channe
UFO SIIGHTING: A menacing mass was spotted above the island of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
The ominous dark mass appeared in the sky above the remote island of West Nusa Tenggara - sparking screams of terror from those below.
The glowing circular object resembled a UFO slowly descending from space, said onlookers.
A teacher at the school where it was filmed said children were "screaming hysterically" when it emerged - close to top holiday hotspot destination Bali.
He said: "This happened at about 2.35pm, when suddenly the students who were busy playing in the school yard, spontaneously screamed hysterically seeing unusual sights, I heard the children's voices, then came out to see and immediately recorded the phenomenon using my cell phone.
"I still don't know what it is. It could be some kind of rainbow. But people were very scared."
The teacher said that none of the people who saw the incident or anyone who has viewed the video have been able to identify the incident in the sky.
He said it was not the sun being obscured by clouds because the shape was too near and too large to be the sun.
However, the sighting could be a form of "fire rainbow" or circumhorizontal arc caused by different clouds interacting with crystals of water trapped in the atmosphere, according to experts.
Tropical temperatures in the region can also cause sudden movements of clouds and changes in atmospheric pressure, resulting in bizarre scenes.
Meanwhile a space boffin told the Daily Star online that “we are being watched” by aliens.
The conspiracy theorist, called Graham, said: “Sightings all over the world are increasing at a dramatic rate.
“We are being watched and observed like a large planet sized scale lab experiment, I am of the opinion that the other races visiting our planet are not hostile.
“After all, with the technology they must employ to travel vast distances etc, I’m sure they could wipe us out in the blink of an eye.”
CONSPIRACY DEPOT
ALARMING: These two scary blobs were seen on the ISS feed
His claims come after images emerged of “seven UFOs” on the International Space Station feed. (will add pics from yesterday's story)
Graham added: “Eventually, they will make themselves known.
“There is a theory that a timescale has been firmly set and agreed by world leaders and the ET's and I think the time for disclosure will be within the next 15 years.
Stonehenge’s Giant Stones Were In Place Long Before Humans Existed
A paper published in the journal British Archaeology provides evidence that two of the largest and most significant blocks of stone at Stonehenge may have already been in ‘position’ millions of years before people arrived to Stonehenge.
One of the most mysterious ancient sites on the surface of the planet is Stonehenge. Located in near Amesbury, in the county of Wiltshire, England, about fifteen kilometers north of Salisbury, this ancient megalithic site has remained shrouded in mystery for decades.
Stonehenge is composed of large blocks of metamorphic rocks distributed in four concentric circles.
The exterior of Stonehenge is thirty meters in diameter and is formed by large rectangular stones of sandstone that, initially, were crowned by lintels, also made of stone.
Inside this outer row is another circle of smaller blocks of bluish sandstone.
Image Credit: Shutterstock.
This encloses a structure with a horseshoe shape built with sandstone stones of the same color.
In its interior remains a slab of micaceous sandstone known as the Altar.
And while officially, the ancient site was built between 3000 BC to 2000 BC, a new study claims the ancient site may have existed long before humans lived on Earth.
What Stonehenge is, and why and how these massive stones were ‘transported’ to where they stand today remains a profound mystery.
However, an archaeologist believes he may have found an answer that could help unravel Stonehenge’s mystery.
As noted by the Times, Mike Pitts, a British scientist who specializes in British pre-history, claims to have discovered evidence that two of the largest and most significant blocks of stone at Stonehenge may have already been there millions of years before people arrived.
The expert explains that the accidental alignment with the sunrise and sunset of the longest and shortest days of the year made ancient people—around 3,000BC—construct the site we see today.
Mr. Pitts also happens to be one of the few who have actually performed excavations on the site.
In a study published in the journal British Archaeology, Mr. Pitts describes uncovering a pit, around six meters (20 feet) in diameter, besides the heel stone in 1979. The Freelancer archaeologist explains that Stonehenge’s heel stone is 75 meters (250 feet) from the center of the stone circle, weighs around 60 tons and has not been shaped or dressed, unlike the other sarsens.
As explained by Mr. Pitts, the hole, rather than being a socket dug for a missing standing stone, was once home to huge heel stone.
In an interview with the Times, Mr. Pitt explains:
“The assumption used to be that all the sarsens at Stonehenge had come from the Marlborough Downs more than 20 miles away. The idea has since been growing that some may be local and the heel stone came out of that big pit.”
“If you are going to move something that big you would dress it before you transport it, to get rid of some of the bulk. That fact alone suggests it has not been moved very far. It makes sense that the heel stone has always been more or less where it is now, half-buried.”
As explained by the archaeological site’s website, Stonehenge was erected in four main stages:
The first Stonehenge was a large earthwork or Henge, containing a ditch, bank, and the Aubrey holes, all probably constructed approximately 3100 BC. The Aubrey holes are round pits in the chalk, about one meter wide and deep, with steep sides and flat bottoms. They form a circle about 284 feet in diameter. Excavations have unveiled cremated human bones in some of the chalk filling, but the holes themselves were probably made, not for the purpose of graves, but as part of the religious ceremony. Shortly after this stage Stonehenge was abandoned, left untouched for more than 1000 years.
The second and most dramatic stage of the construction of Stonehenge started sometime around 2150 BC. Around 82 bluestones from the Preseli mountains, in south-west Wales were somehow transported to the site. It is believed these stones, some weighing 4 tons each were dragged on rollers and sledges to the headwaters on Milford Haven and then loaded onto rafts. They were carried by water along the south coast of Wales and up the rivers Avon and Frome, before being dragged overland again to near Warminster in Wiltshire. The final stage of the journey was mainly by water, down the river Wylye to Salisbury, then the Salisbury Avon to West Amesbury.
This astonishing journey covers nearly 240 miles. Once at the site, these stones were set up in the center to form an incomplete double circle. ( During the same period the original entrance of the circular earthwork was widened and a pair of Heel Stones were erected. Also, the nearer part of the Avenue was built, aligned with the midsummer sunrise.)
The third stage of Stonehenge, about 2000 BC, saw the arrival of the Sarsen stones, which were almost certainly brought from the Marlborough Downs near Avebury, in north Wiltshire, about 25 miles north of Stonehenge. The largest of the Sarsen stones transported to Stonehenge weigh 50 tons and transportation by water would have been impossible, the stones could only have been moved using sledges and ropes. Modern calculations show that it would have taken 500 men using leather ropes to pull one stone, with an extra 100 men needed to lay the huge rollers in front of the sledge.
These were arranged in an outer circle with a continuous run of lintels. Inside the circle, five trilithons were placed in a horseshoe arrangement, whose remains we can still see today.
The final stage took place soon after 1500 BC when the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle that we see today. The original number of stones in the bluestone circle was probably around 60, these have long since been removed or broken up. Some remain only as stumps below ground level.
An intriguing piece of footage out of North Carolina has paranormal enthusiasts buzzing as some suspect that it could show a veritable UFO mothership.
Purportedly filmed in the town of Columbus just a few days ago, the video was subsequently submitted to MUFON and eventually found its way online where it has captured the imagination and attention of UFO researchers.
The admittedly-nondescript footage shows a set of lights hovering in the sky with two in the center being particularly bright and two pairs of lights fanning out on each side from the middle.
The configuration suggest some kind of triangular shape, although this is largely speculation since the video is so hard to discern.
Fortunately the unnamed witness behind the camera also made sure to film the moon a few times during the sighting to provide something to compare with the objects as far as their size and height.
The fact that the video is not particularly fantastic almost works in its favor when it comes to the veracity of the footage, since it would seem to rule out a hoax of some kind.
And, for his part, the man who saw the anomaly sounds genuinely mystified by what he is watching unfold in the sky above him.
As to what it may have been, aside from the always-popular alien hypothesis, some have speculated that it is a secret government test craft.
Aside from those two options, the prosaic explanation to be offered up by skeptics that would perhaps best fit this scene is that the lights are simply lanterns that were sent soaring up into the sky and spotted by the unwitting witness.
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Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?
By Meredith Fore, Live Science Contributor
What is dark matter? No one really knows, but one possibility is that it is made up of miniature black holes from the Big Bang.
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Dark matter, the mysterious extra mass in the universe that emits no light yet exerts a gravitational pull, may actually be made up of primordial black holes that originated with the Big Bang.
And these mini black holes can thank the Higgs boson for their birth — at least according to a new theory.
This theory, described March 23 in the journal Physical Review Letters, posits that these primeval black holes were created from instabilities in the field that gives rise to the Higgs boson, the mysterious "God" particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
"In principle, the explanation may count for all the dark matter," in the form of primordial black holes, said study co-author Antonio Riotto, a physicist at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland.
However, not everyone is convinced, with some physicists saying that these primordial black holes are unlikely to explain all the dark matter found in the universe.
Mini black holes
The Higgs boson arises as a ripple in the so-called Higgs field, which permeates the universe and gives particles their mass. When the Higgs boson was discovered, it was found to be about 126 times heavier than the proton, lighter than many physicists expected. After doing some calculations, physicists realized this mass implied the Higgs field might not be in its most stable state. [Infographic: Will the Real Higgs Please Stand Up?]
What's more, the Higgs' mass implied that during the inflation of the early universe, when matter raced outward immediately after the Big Bang, the unstable Higgs field experienced quantum fluctuations, where there were different densities of matter in different parts of the field.
According to the new study, these fluctuations made small pockets of space where the density of mass was so high it collapsed into a black hole.
These small mini black holes would have masses around 22 trillion pounds (10 trillion kilograms) — or about the mass of Mount Everest.
The theory is appealing on many levels: Dark matter does not emit detectable light; neither do black holes. And primordial black holes, if they exist, could be physical evidence that the Higgs field is not at its lowest possible energy, and is instead in a quasi-stable state. The new theory can also explain dark matter without requiring any new physics beyond the Standard Model, which describes the behavior of tiny subatomic particles. [6 Implications of Finding a Higgs Boson Particle]
However, if these primordial black holes do exist, how would physicists find them? Would they look the same today as they did when they were born, almost 14 billion years ago?
Over time, the black holes would have attracted and gobbled up more and more mass, Riotto told Live Science.
But there may be another force at work, siphoning mass from these black holes: Hawking radiation. Stephen Hawking theorized that due to quantum effects, black holes emit particles and energy. Over time, Hawking radiation may cause them to completely evaporate; the smaller they are, the quicker they disappear. These emissions are so quiet and faint that they have never been detected, although most scientists believe they exist. Between acquiring more mass over time and losing it through Hawking radiation over the course of 14 billion years, today's remnants of primordial black holes could be either tiny or enormous.
Controversial idea
The idea that black holes existing today could make up all of the dark matter in the universe is relatively controversial. Physicists have ruled out black holes with low mass, because not enough of them have been detected to explain all the extra mass in the universe. However, physicists haven't ruled out medium-sized black holes. For instance, in February 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced it had detected two merging black holes that were 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun. Primordial black holes in that mass range have not been ruled out, making some researchers hopeful.
But some physicists doubt these celestial objects could explain much of the dark matter in the universe.
"Given what we know today, it's fairly unlikely that primordial black holes are all the dark matter," Simeon Bird, a black- hole physicist at the University of California Riverside, told Live Science, "But there's no reason they couldn't be 1 to 10 percent of it, as this model suggests. The easiest way to show it to be true would be to detect a primordial black hole."
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, currently under construction in Chile, would be ideal for searching for these ancient black holes, Bird added.
Marc Kamionkowski, a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University, who has authored papers in defense of black holes as dark matter, was similarly circumspect.
"My confidence in the idea that black holes make up the dark matter has been shaken a bit the past year," he said, because LIGO hasn’t found enough signatures of black hole mergers to justify the theory, "but I still find the scenario intriguing. This new paper, which provides an early-universe mechanism to produce such black holes, is therefore very interesting."
Primordial black holes are still hypothetical, until we detect black holes with masses below that of our sun, and the Higgs field explanation of their creation proposed by these researchers can’t be proven without them.
Not everyone believes, as these researchers do, that primordial black holes and dark matter could be one and the same. But as Kamionkowski told Science in 2017:
"It’s a nutty idea, but every idea of what dark matter might be is a nutty idea."
Russia's Robot FEDOR to Be the First to Fly to Space on Board New Spacecraft
by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik)
Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research - FEDOR
The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned by 2021.
It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state-of-the-art manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation), Yevgeny Dudorov, technical director of the Russian robot manufacturing company Android technology, told Sputnik.
"It will be the next version of FEDOR which will be created on the basis of technology that has already been developed ... It will most likely get a different name," Dudorov said. At the same time, he did not rule out that the new robot may be called "FEDOR-2" or "Test Engineer."
Dudorov explained that during the flight, the robot will be tasked with collecting data so that the developers can then assess the possibility of controlling the spaceship with its help both in the autonomous and the copying mode.
The Federatsiya was designed by Russian Space Corporation Energia to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit and the moon. The spacecraft is capable of staying in the autonomous flight mode for up to 30 days and up to a year as part of a space station system.
The first Federatsiya spacecraft, which will be 80 percent made of composite materials, is due to be commissioned before the end of 2021.
Daytime UFO filmed over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 8-Apr-2018
Here’s one new footage of a bright object flying across the sky above Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was filmed on 8th April 2018.
Witness report:
I saw one orb so I filmed. When I edited I found two more. I was coming back from a dog walk heading north up Franford ave in Philadelphia when I saw an orb in the sky in what I believe is NW direction. I have been looking at the sky a lot since my first sighting so it was exciting to see another potentially, so I filmed an object fly towards the clouds and then I lost it behind clouds and then buildings. I still wondered if maybe it was a baloon or bird but I very muxh doubted it. I went back to check my footage and had trouble seeing what I saw so I played with the contrast and sharpened it and saw two more!
Régulièrement, les caméras de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) filment des objets volants non identifiés, alias ovnis. Satellites, débris ou étages de lanceurs, quand ce ne sont pas de simples reflets dans les vitres : ces images font le bonheur des ufologues. Ici, on voit un objet allant dans le même sens que l'ISS, un peu plus bas et (logiquement) un peu plus rapide. Rêvons un peu.
Non, l'espace n'est pas rigoureusement vide. Juste au-dessus de l'atmosphère, il est même assez fréquenté, surtout par des objets créés de main d'Homme. Ce peut être des satellites ou des débris spatiaux mais aussi des étages de lanceurs en train de retomber dans l'atmosphère. Ces apparitions plus ou moins fugaces sont aussi, parfois, des phénomènes lumineux dans la haute atmosphère et il est arrivé qu'il ne s'agisse que de reflets sur un hublot ou dans l'optique de la caméra.
Qu'importe. Chaque évènement de ce genre fait le bonheur des amateurs de l'étude des ovnis, qui y voient facilement la preuve de l'existence de vaisseaux extraterrestres patrouillant dans le secteur. Mieux, la molle réaction de la Nasa, qui est le plus souvent « bon eh bien c'est un débris, comme d'habitude ; on va tâcher de voir ce que c'est, comme d'habitude », conforte les convictions de ces passionnés, qui pensent fréquemment que l'agence spatiale dissimule des preuves de tourisme d'extraterrestres. La Nasa est même régulièrement accusée de couper le flux vidéo au moment crucial.
Débris, satellite, ombre ou Surfeur d'argent
L'exercice d'identification est tout de même amusant, voire intéressant. Ici, on voit un objet, de dimension inconnue, filant à peu près dans la même direction que l'ISS et un peu plus rapidement. Il ne peut donc s'agir d'un avion. Sa distance est impossible à déterminer mais l'objet évolue au-dessus de la couverture nuageuse. Celui-ci est clairement en orbite, sur une altitude plus faible que celle de l'ISS. Sa vitesse plus élevée est donc logique. En effet, plus l'orbite est éloignée de la Terreplus la vitesse de satellisation est faible : elle est d'environ 8 km/s au niveau de l'ISS et de 1 km/s à la distance de la Lune (laquelle, bonne connaisseuse des lois de Newton, a d'ailleurs adopté cette vitesse).
Il reste en lice trois hypothèses :
un satellite en orbite très basse ;
un débris ;
l'ombre d'un satellite (l'éclairage des nuages indique que la lumière solaire vient d'en haut à droite, ce qui exclut qu'il s'agisse de l'ombre de l'ISS elle-même).
Une quatrième hypothèse, bien sûr, est qu'un vaisseau spatial d'exploration venu d'une autre planète soit en train d'étudier la météorologie terrestre, qui serait encore mystérieuse pour les concepteurs de cet engin. Une cinquième est celle, tout simplement, du passage de Norrin Radd, le Surfeur d'argent, profitant des vagues atmosphériques au-dessus d'une formation cyclonique...
It took scientists a while before they realized the enormity of their discovery. Aside from the temple itself, archaeologists have also discovered a trove of artifacts, including statues, coins, and pottery.
Image Credits: Egypt Ministry of Antiquities.
The discovery was made in Egypt’s Western Desert, some 348 miles west of Cairo and 200 miles south of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Siwa Oasis. As archaeologist Sarah Parcak explained, it’s not every day that you find this kind of temple.
“What’s amazing is you don’t tend to hear every day of new temples found in Egypt,” space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, who isn’t involved in the dig, told Elaina Zachos at National Geographic. “It’s going to shed more light on the history of Siwa Oasis.”
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Some 2,200 years ago, Egypt already had a rich history, but was in a state of decline. Ramesses III, widely considered the last “great” pharaoh from the New Kingdom, who ruled between 1279–1213 BC, was struggling with dwindling finances and wars with the Sea People, who invaded Egypt by land and sea.
Image Credits: Egypt Ministry of Antiquities.
The historical timeline of the oasis isn’t clear, but it seems that it has been inhabited for at least 12,000 years. However, it’s been one of the most isolated Egyptian settlements, deep in the desert — but not isolated from the influence of other cultures. The newly found temple dates from between 200 BCE and 300 CE, a period when Egypt was under Hellenistic and then Roman rule, thus explaining the nature of the temple. During this period, the influence of Ancient Greek and Roman people was felt in all layers of Egyptian life, including architecture, but not many buildings remain from that time, making this finding extra special.
Within the temple, archaeologists have uncovered a sculpture of a man’s head and two limestone lion statues, as well as impressive pottery and lots of coins. The total extent of the temple is not yet known, and the temple hasn’t been dated, but archaeologists believe that the it may offer valuable information about the Greco-Roman period in Egypt.
“I’m hopeful that this excavation team is going to uncover the settlements or the houses of the priests,” Parcak says.
Interestingly, the oasis is most known as the location where the Greek king Alexander the Great consulted the oracle of Ammon. Unfortunately, history didn’t record what Alexander asked and what the oracle answered.
The archaeological dig is still a work in progress, and researchers expect more findings in the future. Ayman Ashmawi, the head of the ministry’s Ancient Egyptian Antiquities department, says several other digs are planned for this year.
NASADe eerste ruimteselfie ooit werd in 1966 genomen door Buzz Aldrin, de tweede man op de maan.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETOp 20 juli 1969 zette Buzz Aldrin als tweede man ooit enkele stappen op de maan, maar dat is niet het enige waar de astronaut bekend om staat. Hij beweerde later immers in een interview dat hij en zijn collega’s op weg naar de maan een UFO hadden gezien. En volgens een organisatie uit Ohio meent de man dat ook oprecht: hij zou met vlag en wimpel geslaagd zijn voor een leugendetectortest.
De intussen 88-jarige Aldrin maakte gewag van een vreemd object toen hij op weg was naar de maan tijdens de missie van Apollo 11. “Er was daarbuiten iets dat dicht genoeg was dat we het konden observeren. Het had de vorm van een L”, klonk het. Volgens de Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany (Ohio) mogen we zijn getuigenis ook niet zomaar van tafel vegen, want de man zou dat echt geloven. Hij en zijn collega’s Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell en Gordon Cooper zouden deelgenomen hebben aan een onderzoek en zouden ‘onder strikt opgevolgde wetenschappelijke omstandigheden’ geslaagd zijn voor een leugendetectortest.
De beweringen van het Instituut worden nu in heel wat media gepubliceerd, maar er duiken meteen ook heel wat kritische stemmen op. Zo wordt er op de website van de instelling met geen woord gerept over het onderzoek in kwestie, en is het helemaal niet duidelijk of de mannen wel hebben deelgenomen aan een test. Het zou bijvoorbeeld evengoed kunnen dat BioAcoustic Biology oude interviews met Aldrin geanalyseerd heeft, toen de man voor het eerst vertelde over de UFO op weg naar de maan.
APBuzz Aldrin in 2017.
Geen alien
Aldrin twijfelt trouwens zelf sterk aan het feit dat hij in 1969 een ander ruimteschip zag. Drie jaar geleden maakte hij dat duidelijk tijdens een vraag- en antwoordgesprek op sociaalnetwerksite Reddit. “In Apollo 11 zag ik een licht uit het raam van ons ruimteschip, en dat licht leek ons te volgen. Er waren heel wat mogelijke verklaringen voor dit fenomeen, en achteraf bekeken ben ik ervan overtuigd dat het de reflectie van de zon op een van de panelen was. Maar omdat we niet helemaal zeker zijn wat het is, kan je in principe spreken van een ‘unidentified object’.”
De man heeft ook al laten weten dat zijn uitspraken destijds uit hun context werden getrokken in de media. “Ik zag toen geen alien, al geloof ik best dat er buitenaards leven kan bestaan in onze melkweg. En er zijn miljoenen andere melkwegstelsels buiten het onze. Het is dus erg waarschijnlijk dat er ergens anders nog leven is. Maar ik denk dat die honderden lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn.”
ReutersBuzz Aldrin was de tweede man op de maan in 1969.
Het leek in niets op een vliegtuig. Oud-bommenwerperpiloot vertelt over UFO die hij zag boven Arizona
Een voormalige bommenwerperpiloot, die momenteel voor vliegmaatschappij American Airlines werkt, heeft zich uitgesproken over zijn recente UFO-waarneming boven de woestijn van Arizona.
Blenus Green en zijn copiloot vlogen in februari boven Arizona toen ze van de luchtverkeersleiding te horen kregen dat er in de buurt een vliegend object was gezien dat niet op de radar verscheen.
Kort daarop zag Green een object, zo blijkt uit een geluidsopname van het gesprek met de luchtverkeersleiders.
Zeer fel
“Het vloog over ons heen,” zei Green. “Ik weet niet wat het was, maar het bevond zich 600 tot 900 meter boven ons. Het vloog recht over ons heen.”
Green werd onlangs door een lokale tv-zender geïnterviewd over zijn ervaring. “Ik keek uit het raam en daar was het,” zei hij.
De piloot zei dat het object ‘zeer fel was, maar niet zo fel dat je er niet naar kon kijken’. Het leek in niets op een vliegtuig, voegde hij toe.
Gefascineerd
Het object was met name fel op plekken die geen zonlicht reflecteerden. “Normaal gesproken is het juist andersom,” merkte hij op.
“Het was zo fel dat je de vorm niet kon onderscheiden,” zei hij.
Green, die 20 jaar ervaring heeft als piloot, zei dat hij niet bang was, maar vooral geïnteresseerd. “Ik was erg gefascineerd,” zei hij. “Ik probeerde vast te stellen wat het was omdat het zo ongewoon was.”
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One Scarce Element May Be Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life
