NASA To Hold Press Conference On Near-Earth Object Preparedness

NASA is gearing up to host a media teleconference about National Near-Earth Object Preparedness.

NASA had revealed they are gearing up to host a media teleconference on June 20 at 1 pm EDT that will relate the objectives of a report regarding the plans of the United States for preparing for near-Earth objects. The report gives details about plans about how NASA plans to deal with any NEOs that might prove a hazard to Earth.

No Near-Earth Objects Reported In Vicinity of Earth

At the moment there are no near-Earth objects that NASA knows about that might be considered a risk. An object is considered a risk if that object has a high risk of making an impact with Earth. According to the NASA. gov website, the report is essential in addressing what has been a nationwide response to possible risks of impact by NEOs in the future.

The report has the name of the “National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan, ” which is straight and to the point. The report reveals actions that might help the coordination of the federal government along with preparing for near-Earth objects in the next decade, essentially addressing any potential hazards that a near-Earth object might bring with it.

Audio of the teleconference will stream live at: www.nasa.gov/...

NASA Released Names of Speakers during the Teleconference

In a press statement released by NASA, they listed those taking part in the media teleconference as:

• Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington – Lindley Johnson;
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington – Aaron Miles;
• National Response Coordination Branch, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington – Leviticus Lewis.

NASA also stated that the teleconference is going to be live-streamed and anyone wishing to put any questions to the speakers can do so by using the #askNASA hashtag on social media.

Near-Earth Objects Have Passed by in the Past but Were Not a Threat

In the past near-Earth objects have come relatively close to Earth, but have passed by without incident or being considered a threat. More recently, a small space rock did make an impact over Southern Africa, with it being picked up by the Catalina Sky Survey, which is funded by NASA. The course of the small rock was followed, however, NASA said that it was only 2 meters so it was not a risk to Earth, it disintegrated.

In April, an asteroid between 157 to 360 feet passed by Earth at about 119,400 miles distance. NASA said that the object was about half the distance between Earth and the Moon. The asteroid was only discovered one day before its close encounter with Earth. The asteroid was bigger than the one that exploded over Russia in 1908.

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On Jupiter, lightning flashes from storms swirling at the poles

The planet’s heat distribution explains why lightning doesn’t strike near the equator

BY  LEAH ROSENBAUM 

IN A FLASH  Unlike Earth lightning, which is most concentrated at the equator, Jupiter’s strikes at its poles, as shown in this artist’s rendition.

SWRI, JPL-CALTECH/NASA, JUNOCAM

When Voyager 1 revealed lightning on Jupiter in 1979, something about the flashes didn’t make sense. From a distance, it seemed like the radio waves from the massive planet’s lightning bolts didn’t reach the high frequency emitted by lightning on Earth. 

Scientists just discovered something very special about Jupiter’s lightning

But the Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting much closer to Jupiter’s surface for the last two years, has helped solve the mystery. The radio waves emitted by the planet’s lightning are, in fact, in a similar frequency range as our lightning at home, mission scientists report in the June 6 Nature. Astronomers couldn’t detect anything but the lower frequencies, called “whistlers,” until now.

And while solving that mystery, the researchers discovered another twist: Jupiter’s lightning may have a similar frequency as Earth’s, but it is focused at the planet’s poles instead of nearer to the equator, as on Earth.

“Jupiter continues to surprise us,” says Shannon Brown, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the new study. Brown says the difference in location of the lightning strikes has to do with how the two planets distribute heat. Earth receives most of its heat from the sun, and that heat is focused around the equator. Jupiter, much farther from the sun, creates most of its heat internally, leading to different convection patterns that drive lightning to the poles (SN: 3/31/18, p. 10).

Juno had been scheduled to take a mission-ending plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere in July, but on June 6 the mission was extended for another three years — plenty of time to catch more great lightning shows(SN: 6/24/17, p. 14).

Citations

• S. Brown et al. Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles. Nature. Vol 588, June 6, 2018, p. 87-90. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0156-5.

Further Reading

• C. Crockett. 4 surprising things we just learned about Jupiter. Science News. Vol.193, March 31, 2018, p. 10.
• A. Yeager. Juno spacecraft reveals a more complex Jupiter. Science News. Vol. 191, June 24, 2017, p. 14.
• C. Crockett. The 43-year history of journeys to Jupiter, in one graph. Science News. Vol. 189, June 25, 2016, p. 32.
• C. Crockett. Earth has nothing on this exoplanet’s lightning storms. Science News Online. May 13, 2016.

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To combat an expanding universe, aliens could hoard stars

Advanced civilizations might be wise to stock up on energy sources before they’re out of reach

BY  EMILY CONOVER 

STAR CATCHER  To prepare for an eventual energy shortage caused by the accelerating expansion of the universe, an ultrapowerful alien civilization could gather stars and capture their energy using hypothetical structures known as Dyson spheres, illustrated above.

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Survivalists prep for disaster by stocking up on emergency food rations. Aliens, on the other hand, might hoard stars.

To offset a future cosmic energy shortage caused by the accelerating expansion of the universe, a super-advanced civilization could pluck stars from other galaxies and bring them home, theoretical astrophysicist Dan Hooper proposes June 13 at arXiv.org.

It’s a far-out idea, tackling a dilemma in a future so distant that human beings can hardly fathom it: 100 billion years from now, each neighborhood of the universe will be marooned as if on a cosmic island, with resources from the rest of the universe inaccessible. “We’ll be in this very dark, lonely place where we won’t be able to see other galaxies,” says theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. That isolation is thanks to a mysterious “dark energy” that is causing the universe to expand faster and faster (SN: 4/7/01, p. 218).

Advanced societies might be able to harness the energy of stars by surrounding them with giant, hypothetical structures called Dyson spheres (SN: 4/24/10, p. 22). But the expansion will eventually make it impossible to reach stars outside the civilization’s home turf. Aliens that possess such technology might want to maximize energy reserves by sending spaceships to retrieve stars before the cosmic isolation sets in. Each star’s energy could be captured with a Dyson sphere, and that energy would then be used to propel the star homeward.  

The study doesn’t specify exactly how a civilization might move a star, or what it would do with the energy once captured. It’s hard to speculate about beings so powerful that these extreme feats would be possible, says Hooper, of Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. “It’d be like asking a caveman to figure out how my automobile works.”

The effort would do best to focus on stars that aren’t too big or too small, Hooper calculates. Big stars live fast and die young, so during the tens of billions of years needed to transport the stars home, they would fizzle out. The least massive stars, on the other hand, wouldn’t emit enough energy to fuel their own propulsion; they wouldn’t be able to outpace the universe’s expansion.

We have no evidence that such an advanced civilization exists (SN Online: 1/3/18). But if aliens are harvesting stars, says Hooper, “this would not be a subtle activity.” Scientists might be able to spot signs of the stars being propelled across the universe. A dearth of certain types of stars in particular cosmic neighborhoods would also be a tip-off.

Theoretical astrophysicist Avi Loeb of Harvard University suggests, however, that it wouldn’t be necessary to collect stars because “nature did it for us.” Large clusters of galaxies are already richly populated with stars. Plus, because the clusters are bound together by gravity, they would remain intact as the universe expands. So rather than improving their home galaxy by collecting stars, a civilization could simply move to greener pastures. “You just need to hop from one to another,” Loeb says. (Never mind the fact that interstellar travel still evades us mere humans.)

Mack, likewise, notes that uprooting to a galaxy cluster might be easier for a civilization, but “maybe they have really strong sentimental attachments to their home galaxy.”

Either way, E.T. won’t be able to stave off the end forever. Eventually, in about 100 trillion years, stars will stop shining altogether. Gathering stars would be a way to accomplish as much as possible, Mack says, “before all the stars die out and the universe is cold and dark and empty.”

Citations

• D. Hooper. Life versus dark energy: How an advanced civilization could resist the accelerating expansion of the universe. arXiv:1806.05203. Posted June 13, 2018.

Further Reading

• L. Grossman. We probably won’t hear from aliens. But by the time we do, they’ll be dead. Science News. Vol. 193, April 14, 2018, p. 9.
• L. Grossman. Aliens ruled out for why Tabby’s star flickers. Science News Online. January 3, 2018.
• T. Siegfried. Humans have pondered aliens since medieval times. Science News. Vol. 189, April 30, 2016, p. 24.
• C. Crockett. New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets. Science News. Vol. 189, April 30, 2016, p. 32.
• R. Cowen. A Dark Force in the Universe. Science News. Vol. 159, April 7, 2001, p. 218.
• E. Quill. Can you hear me now? Science News. Vol. 177, April 24, 2010, p. 22.

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This Is NASA's New Plan to Detect and Destroy Asteroids Before They Hit Earth

Mars’ huge dust storm is not a “global” storm

 BY ALEXANDRU MICU

The dust storm battering Opportunity is now a global storm, NASA reports.

Curiosity approaching Mars in December 2012.

Image credits NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Mars hasn’t been enjoying the fairest weather as of late. A massive dust storm has engulfed Perserverence Valley, pinning NASA’s Opportunity rover in place; all the dust is blocking out sunlight, preventing the bot from recharging its batteries — so much so that ground control fears it might freeze out, as its dwindling power supply can’t feed the rover’s inbuilt heaters.

According to NASA, the weather is only getting worse. The dust storm has grown in size and is inching in even on the Curiosity rover, half a Mars away from the beleaguered Opportunity. The storm has officially become a “planet-encircling” or “global” dust event.

Colossal Dust Storm on Mars Now Completely Covers Red Planet

Mars Stormborn

NASA reports that dust is rapidly and steadily settling down on Curiosity. The quantity of dust settling on the rover has more than doubled over the weekend, they note. The storm’s light-blocking factor, or “tau”, has grown to over 8.0 above Gale Crater (where Curiosity is currently rovering about) — the highest value the bot has ever recorded during its mission. For context, Opportunity is experiencing 11 tau, a value high enough to prevent its instruments from making any accurate measurements.

However, NASA is confident Curiosity will remain unaffected by the grime. Unlike its cousin, it draws power from a nuclear reactor, so the lack of light isn’t really a big issue. Curiosity’s cameras are having a hard time, however, as the lack of light means it has to use long exposure times. NASA is having it point its cameras down at the ground after each use to reduce the amount of dust blowing at its lenses.

However, there’s a silver lining. Because Curiosity can keep functioning in the storm, NASA hopes to use the rover to understand the phenomenon better. One of the main questions they want to answer is why some Martian dust storms remain small and stall before a week has passed, while others grow and grow and last for months.

“We don’t have any good idea,” said Scott D. Guzewich, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, leading Curiosity’s dust storm investigation.

Together with the craft in orbit around Mars, Curiosity will collect data on the storm to help patch up our understanding.

This animation, pieced together from pictures taken by Curiosity’s Mast Camera, shows the weather darkening over Mars. The rover is currently standing inside Gale Crater, and peeking its camera over its rim. The photos were taken over a few weeks, with the first one snapped before the storm appeared.
Image credits NASA.

The images above were taken roughly 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) away from the storm. The haze is about six to eight times thicker than what’s usual for this time of the Martian year, NASA estimates.

Dust storms on Mars are actually quite commonplace. Surprising for a dusty planet, I know. They’re especially frequent in the southern hemisphere during both spring and summer months (Mars’, not the ones on Earth). These are the months during which Mars is closest to the Sun, and the temperature imbalances in the atmosphere generate winds that mobilize dust grains (this dust is about as fine as talcum powder). Carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) embedded in the planet’s polar ice caps also evaporates during these months, making the atmosphere extra-thick — this increased pressure helps suspend dust in the air. Dust clouds have been spotted up to 60 kilometers (40 miles) high.

However, Martian dust storms don’t usually cause a ruckus. They tend to hang out in a confined area and dissipate within a week. By contrast, the current storm is bigger than North America and Russia combined, according to Guzewich. It’s even more impressive when you consider the size of Mars relative to Earth:

Mars (diameter 6790 kilometers) is only slightly more than half the size of Earth (diameter 12750 kilometers). The image shows the true relative size between the two planets.
Image credits Viking Orbiter Views of Mars, NASA SP-441, p. 14.

The size difference is one of the elements that allows Martian dust storms to grow to such immense sizes. Earth’s gravitational pull is almost double that of Mars, which helps settle the dust. Vegetation also binds the soil, preventing particles from getting airborne, and rain washes whatever gets in the atmosphere back down.

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Loch Ness Monster - The Surgeon's Photo

The hot and sunny location of the encounter was in the region of where the mouth of the River Foyers and Loch Ness come together, and the time was around noon. It can be said that Gray was the perfect person to see the creature, as the company he worked for had its premises within walking distance of where the encounter occurred – which was a near-sheer bluff, with a height of about fifty feet. It overlooked the loch and was dominated by dense woods.

According to Gray, after attending a Sunday morning mass, he went for a walk – as he did every Sunday. It was a bright and sunny day, said Gray, and the loch was glistening. Suddenly, something broke the surface of Loch Ness. And it was of large proportions. Very large proportions. As luck would have it, Gray had a camera with him and managed to get a shot of the animal as it not just surfaced, but as it seemed to float almost completely on top of the water. An utterly amazed Gray stood staring at the odd spectacle until the animal submerged, amid a thrashing of its tail.

River Foyers heading to Loch Ness

Hugh Gray’s picture is, admittedly, an odd one. As a result, it has been interpreted in varying ways – sometimes wildlyinterpreted. For the skeptics, the most obvious popular answer is that the photo is an innocent, unintended double-exposure of a portion of the loch and of a dog swimming towards the camera and holding a stick in its mouth, horizontally. It’s also a theory that has been endorsed by the mainstream media – unfortunately without any real, meaningful, critical analysis. There are, however, very good reasons why it can be said that the photo clearly is not a double exposure and does not show a faithful hound returning a stick to its master.

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Yes, one can see what looks like the face of a dog, facing the camera – if one chooses to do so. This is, however, undeniably a case of nothing more than pareidolia. It is a recognized phenomenon that occurs when the human eye attempts to interpret random imagery in the context of something familiar and recognizable. Examples might include seeing faces in clouds, or the visage of Elvis in a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The Gray photo, however, is not one which has pareidolia and a swimming, playing dog at its heart. What it does have at its heart is a creature that is clearly large, curiously floating atop the water, and which lacks the long neck that so many witnesses have reported. It is, you may surmise, the oddly missing extended neck that provokes so much controversy. So, if Hugh Gray’s photo doesn’t show a dog, then what does it show? Let’s take a look.

To the left of the photo is an oddly positioned, but thick-looking, tail. That there is a degree of haziness present in the photo suggests the tail may have been thrashing violently at the time the picture was taken (which Gray suggested); something which caused water to spray into the air and make the image appear slightly out of focus and misty. Plus, it is slightly over-exposed, which only adds to the limited clarity issues. Nevertheless, we also see a fairly thick body that clearly shows a pair of small appendages on its right side. The obvious and logical presumption being that two identical appendages are on the left side too, although admittedly we cannot be one hundred percent sure, of that since the photo only shows one view of the animal.

The most important part of the photo is its extreme right-hand side. There is very little doubt that what is captured on celluloid, and for all to see, is the face of a Nessie. It very much resembles the head of a turtle, and has a distinct beak-like appearance. One can even make out what looks like a small eye and an open mouth that seems to show evidence of a tongue. Possibly most important of all, the shadow of the head can clearly be seen below it, and reflecting off the rippling waters of the loch. Then there is the matter of how high the animal is. It’s practically completely out of the water.

Loch Ness Monster authority Roland Watson has noticed and commented on this curious aspect of the Gray photo. He has suggested the monsters of Loch Ness may possess a form of in-built, internal buoyancy – something which would allow the creatures to float on the surface in the very odd fashion as described by Gray.

Ted Holiday was a dedicated seeker of Nessie who started out as a believer that the Nessies are flesh and blood animals, but who, in the early 1970s, radically changed his views. Before his mind swung over to the dark and supernatural side, Holiday was a champion of the theory that Hugh Gray had filmed a living, breathing of unknown origins and identity. He also concluded that the monster captured by Gray was somewhere between twenty and thirty feet in length.

The Hugh Gray photo continues to provoke controversy in monster-hunting circles.

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Study finds reason behind the formation of strange Martian rock

A strange rocky formation on the Red Planet had puzzled scientists for decades. Scientists, uncertain about the origin of this mysterious hilly landscape better known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF), regarded it as some extraterrestrial activity. However, according to a new study performed by a group of researchers, the MFF that extends up to three thousand one hundred miles across the planet’s equator, was formed some millions of years ago due to a volcanic event on the Martian surface.

The initial discovery of this peculiar rock formation, the MFF, dates back to the 1960s. The imagery of the MFF was first captured by the Mariner spacecraft of NASA. However, until now the different analysis performed in connection with the MFF failed to give any positive knowledge to the scientists about its origin.

The MFF’s scale is reportedly huge estimating near about 1/5^th of the size of the entire United States. As per the study, the MFF comprises of sedimentary deposits, which are almost hundred times larger in comparison to the biggest volcanic deposit witnessed on the Earth.

Planetary scientist Lujendra Ojha, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement, “This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale but also in terms of the solar system because we do not know of any other deposit that is like this.”

As a part of the study, the researchers analyzed a series of data received from different Mars orbiter spacecraft for estimating the density of the Medusae Fossae Formation. According to the study, the researchers noted the MFF as a “relatively porous unit” and theorized its evolution was the result of “explosive volcanic eruptions.”

Ojha explained, “The eruptions that created the deposit could have spewed massive amounts of climate-altering gases into Mars’s atmosphere and ejected enough water to cover Mars in a global ocean more than 9 centimeters (4 inches) thick.”

The findings of this new study were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. As expected by the scientists, the inferences of this study would help them in further understanding of the Red Planet’s geology and also could yield clearer response to whether the Mars colonization could be possible.

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NASA: Here's the big plan to protect the planet from 'near-Earth objects'

Ashley May

 

This image provided by NOAA/NASA on May 31 shows the Earth’s western hemisphere. NASA recently unveiled a new plan to protect Earth from asteroids.

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"Near-Earth objects" are hurtling toward and NASA has a plan to make sure they don't land in your lawn. 

No, we're not talking UFOs. Near-Earth objects are comets (cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust the size of a small town) and asteroids (basically, space rocks smaller than planets) that pass within 28 miles of Earth’s orbit.

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Wednesday, NASA and the White House unveiled a "preparedness strategy and action plan" outlining five ways government agencies must keep them away: enhance detection and tracking, improve modeling and prediction, develop technologies for deflection, increase international cooperation, and strengthen impact emergency procedures. These changes involve a host of government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and are meant to happen over the next 10 years, according to the document.

The plan offers short and long-term goals but doesn't offer specifics on how the goals will be achieved. Also, no additional funding was set aside for the plan; officials said the measures can be implemented using existing resources.

Asteroid pieces — more than 100 tons — bombard the Earth daily, a past NASA report notes, but most disintegrate before hitting the surface of our planet.

"NASA and partners have identified 95 percent of asteroids large enough to cause global catastrophe and none will pose a threat in this century," Aaron Miles, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said, Fox News reports. 

While it's rare for an asteroid to cause serious damage, it has happened. In 2013, a house-sized meteor (a part of an asteroid) injured more than 1,600 people in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

In 2016, NASA established a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to identify these objects and address possible hazards. 

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Mystery of ‘UFO formation’ on Mars SOLVED – scientists claim

A BAFFLING formation on the surface of Mars – which sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy – has finally been solved, experts have revealed.

By Anders Anglesey

The odd eight-mile by the Medusae Fossae Formation was seen as proof of alien life according to ufologists. 

YouTuber Scott C. Waring, of channel UFOvni2012, previously claimed the formation was a crashed spaceship.

In 2016, he said of the NASA photographs: “If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO, which is approximately 190 miles wide, impacted the surface at a low angle ending up half buried in the Martian solid. 

But, experts revealed in the Journal of Geophysical Research revealed the formation was something more natural.

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BIZARRE: The formation sparked fierce debate online

Images from the European Space Agency showed a different view of the strange shapes, which were then updated by researchers. 

According to scientists the features are ancient volcanos that were once active on the Red Planet’s surface. 

They claim they were formed when high winds carved strange shapes into the rocks. 

Keen stargazers may be able to get a better view of the Martian surface over the next six weeks, it was revealed. 

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MISSION: NASA is currently trying to find out more about the Red Planet

“If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO impacted the surface”

Scott Waring

That is because Mars will be at its closest point to Earth since 2003 throughout June and July. 

On July 31, when Mars will be at its brightest, it will be 57.6million kilometres away from Earth, according to The Weather Channel.

That means it will be visible to the naked eye.

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'It's a government secret weapon' Bizarre 'Prometheus UFO' spotted before DISSAPPEARING

BIZARRE footage has emerged proving global governments run secret projects that could be the plot to a sci-fi film, according to wild claims online.

By Callum Hoare 

The video shows a UFO racing through the skies of France, as the camera struggles to keep up.

From the clip it does not appear to be any known aircraft from militaries around the world, with a U-shape body. 

It was uploaded to YouTube channel ZealotinAll Black3, where the page speculated the vehicle disappeared following the recording. 

It has since gained popularity among conspiracy theorists online, including one well-known channel secureteam10.

YOUTUBE

BIZARRE: Could it be something straight out a sci-fi movie?

“Looks like something straight out a Sci-Fi movie”

YouTube viewer

Tyler Glockner, who runs the channel, speculated it was "something straight out of Star Wars". 

And his video has racked up more than 350,000 hits since, where viewers were quick to add their own spin on it.

One comment read: "This object is the exact shape of the alien craft rendered in the movie Prometheus."

Another added: "Looks like something straight out a Sci-Fi movie."

And a third claimed: "It's the government's new secret weapon. 

"They are experimenting on us for future use on war."

It's not the first time alien life has apparently been spotted. though. 

There were similar scenes in Texas over the weekend when one man saw something strangeleaving a military base. 

And before that, another UFO was spotted near Area 51.

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Glowing condom-like UFO appears in the skies of New Zealand; Spectators stunned

As the eyewitness zoomed in the condom-shaped UFO, she felt pain on her head which suggests that the aliens might be using an energy weapon

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If you hate to go to museums because you feel the eyes are following you around the room (I know it’s not just me), you may not want to visit Turin, Italy, and look at the image on the most famous shroud in history. A new study suggests that the image, believed by many to be that of Jesus, shows indications that the body was moving when it was transferred to the cloth. Was it the eyes? Are you sufficiently spooked?

New study: Christ figure moving in Shroud of Turin

The video (see it here) is from the International Institute for Advanced Studies of Space Representation Sciences in Palermo, Italy. Produced in 2008, it doesn’t seem to have generated much interest at that time, but a copy floating around the Internet recently has renewed interest in it, especially with the three-dimensional life-size representation of the “Man of the Shroud” revealed earlier this year. The institute was founded by Giuseppe Maria Catalano, who describes himself has an engineer, scientist, author, artist and scholar in the field of Space Representation Sciences. In this case, ”space” refers to the geometric rather than the outer kind. In a similar way to the 3-D representation, Catalano seems to have used his “science of representation” and an old technique called photogrammetry to recreate what may have been happening if and when the image was created from a human body.

Full length negatives of the Shroud of Turin

What did he find?

“The anatomic shape of the right hand in this position reveals a strong effort during traction of the ring around the thumb. It proves a conscious movement made by a quite fit man. The anatomic shape of the right hand in the other position, the one well known for centuries, proves the remarkable distance of the body from the Shroud plane. Like photo grams laid one upon the other, the linen shows not only these two extremes but also the intermediate positions of the hand. Finally the left hand, the left foot and the calecon belt are also surveyed each one in distinct positions, following and close, caused by regular bodily movements. For a few seconds a geometrically definite radiation, shed by the body, passing through objects, printed on the Shroud the images of a quite fit body in a conscious movement.”

In other words, Catalano claims that his science of representation shows evidence that both hands and one of the feet moved while the image was created. Was this a sign of the Resurrection or an involuntary movement by a recently deceased corpse? That’s open for discussion, arguments and possibly religious wars.

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In a review of the video in The American Conservative, Rob Dreher points out that the new hand position described resembles that of the 6th century Byzantine icon known as The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, which is a gesture of blessing. A hand positioned to give a blessing on what could have been Jesus rising from the dead are two dots easily connected by those who want to believe that this is the actual burial should.

The Christ Pantocrator of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai icon

Or not. Why did the shroud capture so little movement? Why not something more obvious or expressive, like an arm sweeping it away? What if the shroud is a 13th century fake as many experts believe? Is this a sign that the fakers were putting in subtle details to really fool the masses at the Masses?

The Shroud of Turin is one of the most studied pieces of cloth in history and yet it’s still a mystery. Does this video prove anything? Does it disprove anything? Would you believe it more if it said the eyes moved?

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As a follow-up to my article “The Many and Varied Balloons of Roswell,” I thought I would share with you another example of how and why the UFO phenomenon was – in the late 1940s – so tied to the matter of top secret balloon-based programs. It was primarily because, in many cases, they were one and the same! Today’s example has for many years been perceived as a ufological classic, but which also falls under the “secret balloon” category. It occurred just half a year after Roswell. It’s the strange and ultimately tragic affair of Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas P. Mantell, who, many UFO believers accept, lost his life chasing a UFO on the afternoon of January 7, 1948. He did not. Mantell died chasing a balloon.

Mystery Object Causing UFO Sightings Caught on Video

Matters began when personnel at Godman Army Air Field, Kentucky, caught sight of something in the sky they perceived as very strange: a large and extremely reflective object that appeared to be circular in design. No one could identify it. It was, then, hardly surprising that talk of flying saucers was quickly all-encompassing.

Fortunately, or so it seemed at the time, a squadron of four P51Mustang aircraft was heading towards Godman Army Airfield – a squadron under the command of Captain Mantell. One of the pilots was low on fuel, another one expressed concerns about pursuing the object due to his lack of an oxygen-mask, and a third was ordered to shadow to the ground the pilot who had worries about losing consciousness due to oxygen deprivation. That just left Captain Mantell to pursue the object.

At a height of around 15,000 feet, Mantell called into the base and said that he could see the “UFO” quite clearly. He pushed his plane further through the skies, ultimately reaching a height of approximately 25,000 feet. Then, nothing. Apart, that is, from death for the captain: having reached such an altitude without oxygen, Mantell passed out and his plane plummeted to the ground. For many in Ufology, the case is a UFO classic. No, it’s not. It’s a classic mistake.

Unbeknownst to many within the military, at the time of Mantell’s encounter, the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research had developed, and deployed, massive balloons into the skies of the United States. It was all part of a program called Project Skyhook. For the most part, the balloons captured meteorological data. That did not take away the fact, however, that the existence of the balloons was a well-kept secret. These monster-sized balloons were highly reflective, just as was the object that Mantell encountered. On the subject of Mantell, it’s very important to note that he did not have a need-to-know clearance about the work of Project Skyhook.

Staff at the Air Force’s UFO program, Project Sign, were told of Skyhook, however. This was something which placed Project Sign staff in a very awkward position. They had no desire to tell the world that Mantell had possibly been blown out of the skies by aliens, particularly so because he wasn’t. But, due to the highly classified nature of Project Skyhook, they could hardly reveal the truth without also compromising the Navy’s project. So, Sign staff offered unlikely suggestions that didn’t really convince anyone, such as that perhaps Mantell, in a confused and low-on-oxygen state, was mistakenly chasing the planet Venus. UFO researchers, history has shown, suspected that the military was engaged in a cover-up. Well, yes, it was. But, they weren’t hiding a UFO. They were hiding a highly classified balloon.

I bring the Mantell case to your attention for one particular reason. Not because it has a link to Roswell, but because it demonstrates that in terms of national security and secret military programs, in the early years of the Cold War massive balloons, flying saucers, and UFOs very often crossed paths in odd ways that many might think almost unimaginable. In the Roswell case, the truth was hidden behind a barrier of tales of UFOs, weather-balloons and Project Mogul balloons. In the Mantell case, the military couldn’t reveal what they really knew, because doing so would have opened up a large can of worms about the balloon-based Project Skyhook.

Indeed, and as Dr. David Clarke – the author of, among others, How UFOs Conquered the World – noted in 2015, with regard to Project Skyhook and Mantell: “In 2004 a former member of the project’s staff, Duke Gildenberg, revealed the Office of Naval Research had monitored press reports of flying saucer sightings to track the movements of their balloons. The Mantell incident was an early indication of the problems – and solutions – that mass belief in UFOs could provide for intelligence agencies.”

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FAA Acknowledges 2018 UFO Encounter Over New York

The last year has been an eventful one as far as UFO disclosure is concerned. Between the Pentagon owning up to running a high-level research program concerned with anomalous aerial phenomena and things far stranger and the declassified footage of Navy vessels being stalked for days by unidentified flying Tic Tacs, it’s becoming clear that world governments likely do in fact know more about the mysteries overhead than they typically let on. In this seemingly newfound spirit of disclosure, the FAA has acknowledged yet another incident in which pilots reported seeing strange, unknown objects in the skies.

Earlier this year, the FAA released recordings of a 2017 incident over Arizona in which the pilots of two separate aircraft spotted an anomalous, unresponsive object flying at high altitudes. This latest incident took place earlier this year on May 26 over Huntington, Long Island and was once again reported by Tyler Rogoway at aviation blog The War Zone. Rogoway confirmed the incident with an FAA spokesperson, but was told a Freedom of Information Act request would be needed for the FAA to release the official report.

Luckily, audio of the incident was recorded by air traffic control blog LiveATC.com. According to the audio, the pilot of a single-engine Piper Saratoga was en route to Old Bridge Airport in New Jersey when it spotted a strange object directly in front of his plane at around 12:59 p.m. local time. Both were flying at close to 6,000 feet.

The pilot immediately called air traffic controllers and stated “I have an object in front of me, I don’t know what it is.” Air traffic controllers immediately thought it could be a drone, but the pilot responded that it appeared much bigger and had lights on it. Naturally, air traffic controllers assumed the object to be a drone, but found nothing on their radar, prompting the pilot to respond “I know I’m not delusional.”

Neither is everyone else who knows there’s more going on above our heads than the proverbial they are letting on. Do these recently-released recordings merely show that our skies are becoming crowded with drones or unknown spy aircraft flown by adversarial nations, or might these finally be conclusive evidence of the unknown? It’ll take a lot more FOIA requests before the truth comes to light.

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Rare Green Glowing UFO Caught Above Ottawa

The latest images sent in recently show some very unique sky phenomena seen in the skies around the world.

One photographer captured a very strange glowing greenish object in the sky above Ottawa that looks like a TR3B craft but as far as we know, a TR3B craft does not emit such a green glow, so the object could be a UFO too.

Beside the UFO, the footage show images of unusual ring cloud formations and bizarre colored clouds which indicate the presence of toxins in the atmosphere.

It is amazing what barium, strontium, aluminum and lithium in the sky will do...

  

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