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.
In my recent article,”U.K. Government UFO Research: The Real Picture,” I shared the story of how the U.K.’s police – specifically Special Branch – secretly opened, in the 1950s, a surveillance file on George King, the founder of the Aetherius Society. But who, exactly, was George King? Well, that’s the subject of today’s article. George King was born in Wellington, Shropshire, England in 1919 to parents George and Mary, and went on to become one of the most well-known of all the Contactees of the 1950s and 1960s. Even from a very young age, King was surrounded by distinct high-strangeness. His mother and grandmother both claimed to be psychics; and, in his book You Too Can Heal, King related how, at the age of eleven, and while his mother was seriously ill and confined to bed, he headed deep into the heart of nearby woods, where he prayed intently for her speedy recovery. As he did so, King said, an “angelic being” manifested before him in the ancient woodland, instructing him to return home, as his mother was now fully cured. After excitedly racing home and learning that she was indeed restored to full health, a realization came to King that his life was not at all like that of the other kids in the neighborhood.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, King – a “conscientious objector” who refused to fight for his country against Hitler’s hordes – took a position in London with the National Fire Service, ultimately becoming a section-leader. By the time the hostilities were at a close – in 1945 – King was in his mid-twenties, and had begun to develop a deep interest in yoga, alternative therapies, and new-age-style belief systems. This radical change in the mindset of King came to the fore on a Saturday morning in May 1954, when, while doing nothing stranger than washing the dishes in his Maida Vale, London apartment, he heard a loud, disembodied voice cry out: “Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament!”
Allegedly, in the days, weeks and months that followed, said King, he became the recipient of countless channeled messages: from a “great Yogi adept” who materialized in his apartment and warned him of “the unfeeling march of science into the realms of the atom.” Further messages came from a highly spiritual, Venusian being named Aetherius, who bestowed a wealth of words of wisdom upon a shocked, yet profoundly elevated, King. Indeed, so elevated and changed by the cosmic experiences was King that he quickly quit his job as a taxi-driver, and established the Aetherius Society, believing that space-aliens held “the key to the salvation both of the planet as a whole and of every individual on Earth.”
On July 23, 1958, King, somewhat outrageously, claimed a close encounter with none other than Jesus Christ atop Holdstone Down – a 330 meter-high hill above the village of Combe Martin, in the English county of Devonshire. So the story went, thirteen days earlier, King received a channeled message from Aetherius, who advised him to travel to Combe Martin where he would receive instructions from an “adept from Mars.” Seeing nothing strange in this at all, King dutifully did as he was told. Sure enough, upon taking his position on Holdstone Down he could see a “blue sphere” hovering over the waters of the Bristol Channel; after which Jesus – dressed in a flowing and glowing robe, and sporting a wand – manifested in the skies above.
The researchers Dr. David Clarke and Andy Roberts say: “Waves of energy passed between the entity and King who was plunged into a religious rapture before ‘Jesus’ stepped into a beam of light and vanished. King realized that Holdstone Down was now charged, a spiritual power battery whose energies were inexhaustible.” It seems King’s own energies were inexhaustible, too: one year later, he founded an American branch of the Aetherius Society – in Los Angeles, where King ultimately moved to live permanently, and where he continued to spread the words of wisdom bestowed upon him by the various other-worldly entities with whom he claimed to have communed.
Clarke and Roberts add: “The Aetherius Society were never a huge organization, indeed their numbers rarely totaled more than one thousand members worldwide…The Aetherius Societywas not for everyone but, for those seekers who wanted or needed a spiritual dimension to their saucer beliefs, they provided a philosophy, structure and network of sincere like-minded souls.”
George King suffered a heart-attack in 1986, underwent a multiple heart bypass in 1992, and died in Santa Barbara on July 12, 1997. The Aetherius Societycontinues to thrive.
Two Arm UFO Seen Over Cedarhurst, New York On Aug 29, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 29, 2018
Location of sighting: Cedarhurst, New York, USA
Source: MUFON #94490
Here is a unique sighting from New York. A craft that has several long thick arms floated over the city. The eyewitness caught only several seconds of footage before it moved past them, but it was enough to get some good screenshots. I added light to one photo (above only) and left the originals below. We can see in the screenshots that the object has an unrecognizable shape and design. Its like nothing I have ever seen before. I do love when a UFO is reported with a shape that I have never seen before...it really challenges the imagination. If seeing is believing, then this is it.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
It was very odd looking, moving very smoothly. At first I thought it was a helicopter carrying something, I had to stop and get a closer look. It was almost floating.
Black Disk Caught By Tourist Over Argentina Mountains, Aug 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Aug 25, 2018 Location of sighting: El Hornocal Jujuy, Argentina Source: MUFON #94500 This UFO was caught by accident when a woman was having her picture taken and later noticed the black disk in the background. The UFO is moving horizontal to the mountains and looks like its moving very fast since it does have a slight blur to it. The blur could also be due to the crafts alien propulsion system causing a distortion around the craft. The disk may have come from an underground base nearby. Often aliens chose to make bases 4-6 miles under volcanos and steep mountains where humans are less likely to travel. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I identified a strange object in a picture I took on my vacations, it is not a picture defect.
Will Mars Rover Opportunity Survive Monster Dust Storm? It's Still Too Soon to Tell
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover took this self-portrait in March 2014, shortly after wind had cleaned accumulated dust off its solar panels. Opportunity has been silent since June 10, 2018, forced into a sort of hibernation by a powerful dust storm.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
NASA's Opportunity rover has been quiet for 80 days now on the Martian surface, but that doesn't mean the plucky robot is dead.
Indeed, mission team members say it's still too soon to draw any conclusions about the fate of Opportunity, which has been sidelined by a monster Martian dust storm since June 10.
"We simply don't know what's going to happen," mission scientific principal investigator Steve Squyres, a professor of physical sciences at Cornell University in New York, told Space.com. "There's only one way to find out, and that's to listen." [Mars Dust Storm 2018: How It Grew & What It Means for Opportunity]
Opportunity goes silent
The golf-cart-size Opportunity touched down on Mars in late January 2004, three weeks after its twin, Spirit, landed in a different part of the Red Planet.
The two solar-powered rovers embarked on three-month missions to hunt for signs of past water activity. Both found lots of such evidence in relatively short order and then continued exploring, rolling through the red dirt for years after their warranties expired.
Spirit finally gave up the ghost in 2010 after getting bogged down in a Martian sand trap, but Opportunity has remained remarkably healthy and resilient over the years. No vehicle, robotic or crewed, has ever traveled farther on the surface of another world than Opportunity, whose odometer currently reads 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers).
In late May of this year, however, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a dust storm swirling near Opportunity's locale, the rim of the 14-mile-wide (22 km) Endeavour Crater. The storm intensified over the ensuing days, throwing so much dust into the Martian atmosphere that Opportunity couldn't harvest enough sunlight to recharge its batteries.
The rover fell silent on June 10, apparently putting itself in a sort of hibernation mode. And the storm kept growing; by June 20, it had become a global maelstrom, encircling the entire planet.
The danger to Opportunity is very real. The rover cannot operate its onboard heaters in its current state, so Opportunity could freeze to death if the ambient temperature drops low enough.
"If things get too cold, they can break," Squyres said, citing soldering joints and other key pieces of internal hardware as examples.
How cold is too cold? Nobody knows. During pre-launch tests, both Spirit and Opportunity survived extended exposure to temperatures as low as minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 55 degrees Celsius). But Opportunity has endured about 5,000 taxing day-night thermal cycles on the Red Planet over the past 14.5 years, so it's unclear how resilient its internal components are today.
"At what temperature do they break now? We don't know," Squyres said.
Somewhat paradoxically, the dust storm mitigates this problem a bit. All of that airborne dust prevents a lot of sunlight from reaching the surface during the day, but it also traps infrared radiation (heat) at night. The result is cooler days but warmer-than-usual nights — and supercold nights are the biggest concern for Opportunity. (In case you were wondering: NASA's other active Mars rover, Curiosity, is nuclear-powered and is therefore largely unbothered by the dust storm.)
The dust is clearing
The storm began abating last month, and the skies are continuing to clear, Squyres said. However, it'll probably take an extended period of relatively sunny weather — not just a single good day — to rouse Opportunity, if the rover is indeed still alive.
Squyres said he's not sure if that good-weather threshold has yet been cleared.
"But with the storm well into its decay phase, we have now reached the point where it really makes sense to start listening closely," he said.
The team is doing just that, scouring all the communications from NASA Mars-exploring robots for any peep from Opportunity. Mission team members are also pinging the rover regularly during scheduled "wake-up times," then listening for a response, NASA officials have said.
If Opportunity does pull through, the rover almost certainly won't get back to business as usual right away. The six-wheeled robot has been through quite an ordeal, Squyres stressed; it'll therefore probably take a few weeks to bring Opportunity out of whatever "fault mode" it has fallen into and assess its health and capabilities.
But again: It's premature to speculate about such things right now, with Opportunity's fate so up in the air.
"It's either going to be a miraculous recovery, or an honorable death," Squyres said.
Incredible NASA Photos Show Jupiter's Marbled Atmosphere
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer
Four images of Jupiter taken over a 15-minute period in July 2018 show off the complicated dynamics of the atmosphere in the planet's northern hemisphere.
A stunning series of photographs captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft highlights the complicated dynamics of Jupiter's atmosphere.
The images, taken July 16 between 12:54 a.m. and 1:11 a.m. EDT (0454 and 0511 GMT) by the JunoCam camera on board NASA's Juno spacecraft, show the atmospheric features in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, NASA officials said in a statement when releasing the image yesterday (Aug. 27).
Those features include an anticyclone storm marked by a white oval, most easily seen in the second image; a storm nicknamed the Little Red Spot, visible at the bottom of the second and third images; and an orange stripe called the North North Temperate Belt, visible in the last two images.
The images were captured during Juno's 14th close skim over Jupiter's surface, when the spacecraft came as close as 3,900 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the planet's clouds. JunoCam is controlled by the public, and members of the public process the raw photographs from the camera and turn them into stunning images like these.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and has been studying the gas giant planet since July 2016. The spacecraft is due to remain at work for almost three more years, which means scientists can keep watching these atmospheric features as they change over time.
The Anunnaki Creation Story: Humanity's Biggest Secret
I found this presentation really very palatable and quite easy to understand and ingest.
The information in here is maligned and played down by some/many, but although Sitchin's work has been questioned by certain types, a good argument for its validity is made in this video by saying (paraphrasing):
“Look, A, B, and C are all verifiably attributed to this civilization with zero doubt or controversy…yet somehow D isn’t? Come on. Let’s look at D and see what it says and what’s really going on here.”
Adding to the mystery has been claims that all the monuments of Giza in the African nation were perfectly aligned with certain constellations.
Many have argued for decades that ancestors in Egypt were physically unable to build the incredible Pyramids of Giza.
They suggest that advanced lifeforms from space passed on their knowledge or created the monuments before civilisations emerged.
One conspiracy website outerworlds.com dedicates a whole section to the argument that "aliens built the pyramids”, reports Express.co.uk.
DAILY MYSTERIES
IMPOSSIBLE: Theorists claim it would have been impossible for humans to build the Pyramids
DAILY MYSTERIES
MYSTERY: Some believe intelligent lifeforms were responsible for the Pyramids of Giza
The theory then says because two diagonal lines extend from the pyramids on either side of the Nile River delta, the early Egyptians could not have known this when building them.
It says: "How could the Egyptians possibly have built their pyramid facing the exact magnetic North Pole without even having a compass?
"Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, came along and using their compasses, they landed on earth and found the actual magnetic north and south poles.
“Then they built the pyramids."
“Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, built the pyramids.”
Outerworlds.com
But theorists claim the Pyramids were just one of a number of incredible structures built thousands of years ago when it would not have been possible with technology of the age.
The potential alien buildings include Stonehenge in Wiltshire which boasts stones weighing as much as 50 tonnes, and a 1,000-year-old interlocking stone fortress outside the Inca capital of Cusco in Peru.
In the same South American country, the 800 long and straight Nasca Lines which feature 300 geometric shapes and 70 figures of animals are another creation of wonder linked to ancients ETs.
And some claim aliens were also responsible for the 900 human stone figures on Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean, which date back more than 1,000 years.
In Perth, in het westen van Australië, is gisterenavond een vuurbal waargenomen in de lucht. Inwoners van de stad konden het natuurfenomeen vastleggen op video. De vuurbal was zichtbaar rond 19.40 uur ’s avonds. Een vuurbal ontstaat wanneer een brokstuk(je) uit de ruimte in de atmosfeer belandt en verbrandt.
Being called “The Bermuda Triangle of ____” is never a good thing … just ask the people who have disappeared the Bridgewater Triangle (Massachusetts), the Bennington Triangle Glastenbury), the Dragon’s Triangle (Japan), the Michigan Triangle (you can figure this one out yourself) and the Matlock Triangle (Derbyshire Dales). These other triangles are on land or in the ocean, but none are on ice. That unique distinction belongs to Piteraq Alley, the Bermuda Triangle of Greenland, and this mysterious area is in the news because researchers announced they have found a lost World War II P-38 from the infamous Lost Squadron under over 300 feet (91 meters) of ice in the Piteraq Alley.
Credit for the discovery goes to businessman Jim Salazar and Ken McBride from the non-profit Arctic Hotpoint Solutions and Fallen American MIA Repatriation Foundation (FAMIARF), who have spent a number of years searching for planes and crew remains lost in the area, especially the Lost Squadron – a group of two B-17 bombers and six P-38 fighters flying from the U.S. to Britain in July 1942 as part of Operation Bolero, delivering planes, pilots, equipment and supplies for the war. The path they followed was known at the time as the Snowball Route – a string of secret bases from Maine to Newfoundland to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland. Greenland was a crucial stop – it was the only reliable source of cryolite, a mineral used to produce aluminum for the planes.
“It’s Greenland’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ … the weather there shifts in a matter of minutes. As a pilot, you can clearly understand why there were so many difficulties in that area.”
By “difficulties,” Salazar means that the Lost Squadron planes weren’t the only ones lost in Piteraq Alley. While the indigenous Intuits didn’t know about airplanes or Bermuda, they did know about the dangers of the Alley – Piteraq means “that which attacks you” and is their word for Greenland’s severe snowstorms that can appear in just minutes. Despite searches, a piteraq likely covered the downed planes quickly and nothing was found until 1992, when the first P-38 from the group was discovered, recovered and restored. Salazar himself has been leading searches since 2011, but it wasn’t until July 2018 that one of his drones using ground-penetrating radar found evidence of something unusual in the ice. They then used a thermal probe to melt through the ice to a depth of 300 feet, where they found red i5606 Hydraulic fluid from the P-38. As Live Science reports, further investigations identified it as P-38 “Echo,” piloted by Army Air Corps Lt. Col. Robert Wilson. (Pictures of the drone and the expedition can be seen here.)
That’s as much as Salazar’s team can do for now … it’s Greenland and winter is already blowing through. Next summer, he plans to dig and melt through the ice to recover the P-38 and any remains, then return it to the U.S. for possible restoration. He will also be looking for two other victims of the Greenland Triangle – a C-53 cargo plane (a converted DC-3 civilian aircraft) which crashed in late 1942 and a U.S. Coast Guard Duck aircraft which crashed in a futile attempt to rescue the survivors.
Are there any other victims of the Greenland Triangle? It appears planes have avoided the area due to the severity and unexpectedness of piteraqs. Also, piteraqs are a low-altitude weather phenomenon. These high-density katabatic winds start on Greenland’s icecaps and are pulled by gravity down the slopes like ground-hugging hurricanes. The Danish Meteorological Institute has measured speeds from 50 to 80 m/s (180-288 km/h; 111-178 mph). On February 6, 1970, the community of Tasiilaq was hit by the worst documented piteraq ever in Greenland, with winds estimated at 90 m/s or over 200 miles per hour. Since then, the Danish Meteorological Institute has been issuing piteraq warnings.
Piteraq Alley has definitely earned its title as Greenland’s Bermuda Triangle. While not as mysterious, it’s unquestionably as deadly and worth avoiding in the air or on the ground.
Russia’s undeniable and outrageous meddling in things that are none of their business has a significant bearing on the UFO issue of yesteryear. With that in mind, I thought it would be timely to bring to your attention a few intriguing and eye-opening issues. Firstly, the pro-Russia stance of a certain famous UFO Contactee. That man was George Adamski. He was arguably the most famous and controversial of all the Contactees: he claimed multiple encounters with human-like aliens from other worlds, including Venus, no less (yeah, right…). The facts concerning the Russian issue are contained in Adamski’s FBI file, which is in the public domain, thanks to the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. An FBI document of May 28, 1952 reveals that the FBI had a credible source who, back in 1950, had shared with them certain data on Adamski. The file states:
“On September 5, 1950, [source] advised the San Diego Office that he first met Adamski about three months ago at the café which is named the Palomar Gardens Café, owned and operated by Adamski, at the road junction, five miles East of Rincon, California, at a point where the highway branches off leading to Mount Palomar Observatory. [Source] advised that Adamski has four or five women working in the café and according to [source] business does not warrant the employment of four or five persons. [Source] stated that on August 20, 1950, the occasion of his last visit to Adamski’s café, he [source] and a [deleted] of San Diego, became involved in a lengthy conversation with Adamski during which Adamski told them at great length of his findings of flying saucers and so forth. He told them of a space ship which he said he saw between the earth and the moon, which he estimated to be approximately three miles in length, which was flying so fast that he had to take about eighty photographs before he could get three of them to turn out.”
The story continues: “At this time, Adamski showed [source] and [deleted] a number of photographs which he has taken of what he purports to be flying saucers. [Source] commented that one of these photographs was published in the ‘San Diego Union’ under the caption of ‘What is it?’ Adamski stated he had first submitted this particular photograph to the Navy but when it appeared they were not interested, he, Adamski, released it for publication in the ‘San Diego Union.’
“According to [source] Adamski stated that the Federal Communications Commission, under the direction of the ‘Military Government’ of the United States, has established communication with the people from other worlds, and has learned that they are so much more advanced than the inhabitants of this earth that they have deciphered the languages used here. Adamski stated that in this interplanetary communication, the Federal Communications Commission asked the inhabitants of the other planet concerning the type of government they had there and the reply indicated that it was very different from the democracy of the United States. Adamski stated that his answer was kept secret by the United States Government, but he added, ‘If you ask me they probably have a Communist form of government and our American government wouldn’t release that kind of thing, naturally. That is a thing of the future – more advanced.’”
This is, of course, all highly controversial. And, it’s very easy to understand why the FBI should have taken such a deep interest in Adamski’s opinions on extraterrestrials and communism. Let’s not forget that at the time – the very early 1950s – Joseph Stalin still ruled ruthlessly over the Soviet Union. I suspect that if Adamski had actually visited Russia in that period, he would have headed back to the United States in rapid-time. And without a look back. The FBI file continues: “Adamski, during this conversation, made the prediction that Russia will dominate the world and we will then have an era of peace for 1,000 years. He stated that Russia already has the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb and that the great earthquake, which was reported behind the Iron Curtain recently, was actually a hydrogen bomb explosion being tried out by the Russians. Adamski states this ‘earthquake’ broke seismograph machines and he added that no normal earthquake can do that.”
There was even more, too: “Adamski stated that within the next twelve months, San Diego will be bombed. Adamski stated that it does not make any difference if the United States has more atom bombs than Russia inasmuch as Russia needs only ten atom bombs to cripple the United States by placing these simultaneously on such spots as Chicago and other vital centers of this country. Adamski further stated the United States today is in the same state of deterioration as was the Roman Empire prior to its collapse and it will fall just as the Roman Empire did. He stated the Government in this country is a corrupt form of government and capitalists are enslaving the labor.”
The FBI also recorded the following: “[Source] advised that when Adamski left the group for a brief period, one of the women working in the café came over and entered into the conversation. She stated that some of our servicemen who stopped there to have drinks during World War II and subsequent thereto, told ‘Professor’ Adamski of the atrocities which they were forced to commit, murdering women and children on orders of their superior officers. [Deleted] exhibited a great deal of animosity against the United States, stating the United States committed more atrocities during World War II than did the Japanese but since the Japanese were the ones who lost the war, they were the ones who were tried as war criminals.”
The source had more to say, as the FBI papers demonstrate: “This woman added that a friend of hers who recently returned from Russia stated he was very pleased with everything he found there. He stated to her that the people in Russia received seven tickets per month for the opera and cinema. These tickets are free, being issued by the government. The woman added ‘The people there (in Russia) don’t have to be worrying about where their next meal is coming from. Everything is fine in Russia and in the United States we have to fight for everything we get.'”
There was this, too, from the FBI: “[Source] advised that Adamski returned to continue his conversation stating that the United States will soon be in the same condition that Europe was in during the last war. He added that ‘It is a good idea to be quiet now. Right now if you talk in favor of Communism you will be spotted as a Communist and if you talk against Communism you will be spotted by the Communist, so it’s best to just shut up.’ Adamski stated to [source] that ‘The United States hasn’t a chance to win the war. Russia will take over the United States.'” This was all deeply inflammatory. It’s no surprise, at all, that the FBI made Adamski a person of interest.
Now, let’s focus on the matter of potential Russian meddling and the UFO Contactee movement – way back in the 1950s, no less. Truman Bethurum was someone who, in the early-to-mid 1950s, claimed flirty, close encounters with a beautiful alien space-babe named Aura Rhanes. Most people, very understandably, dismissed Bethurum’s tales as fantasies run wild. After all, at the time, his second marriage was on the rocks. It’s intriguing, however, to note the following words from Bethurum:
“Two or three fellows who had sons in Korea and who read a lot in the newspapers about the Communist underground in this country, were convinced in their own minds that I was, if making contact with anyone at all, making it with enemy agents[italics mine]. They even went so far as to tell me belligerently that they intended to get guns and follow me nights, and if they caught up me having intercourse with any people from planes, airships of any kind, they’d blast me and those people too.” Was Aura Rhanes a figment of Bethurum’s imagination? Could she have been an alien? Or, might she have been one of those “enemy agents” to which Bethurum referred? Just maybe, a Russian enemy agent seeking to manipulate the UFO scene?
Now, let’s take a look at the words of the late Jim Moseley, who, for years, ran the Saucer Smear newsletter. Moseley said of his time spent in 1950s-era Ufology: “…I had fallen under the influence of Charles Samwick, a retired army intelligence officer. Both a saucer fiend and very concerned about Communist subversion. Samwick was active in New York City-area saucering circles. Quite sincere and most convincing, he told me…‘the Communist Party has planted an agent in every civilian saucer club in the United States [italics mine].’”
Interestingly, in the June-July, 1955 issue of his other newsletter, Saucer News, Moseley stated: “…Let us give some very serious consideration to the many alleged space men being called to the public’s attention – all of whom invariably tell us of the dangers of war and the exploitation of atomic energy. No one desires peace any more sincerely than we do, but let us remember too that it is part of the Communist ‘peace line’ to frighten the American people into ceasing our atomic experiments. It is quite possible that some of these ‘space men’ are unwittingly playing into the hands of the Communists.” Or, maybe, the “space men” were communists: Russiancommunists. Moseley also offered this: “Could it be that Orthon[one of George Adamski’s alleged, extremely-human-looking alien visitors] was a Communist agent [italics mine], maybe from the Red Planet – or at least the Kremlin – rather than Venus?”
Orfeo Angelucci was another of the early UFO Contactees. Although he never gained the level of popularity that George Adamski achieved, he certainly left his mark on Ufology. His books included The Secret of the Saucers and Son of the Sun. Angelucci made an intriguing statement in the early years of his time as a Contactee. He revealed that on one occasion, and while on a “tour of the East,” he met with what he described as a “subversive element.” That same subversive element attempted to “convert me to Communism” and – more significantly – to “slant my talks along the Party Line [italics mine].”
Whoever these meddling communists were, Angelucci made his position very clear: “Communism is the negation of all that is honest and good in the world and in humanity. They would enslave the human mind. Their obstructiveness is willful and planned. We must eventually meet this murderous element at Armageddon; when it will be victory for one side or the other. Good will triumph, or evil! Every entity in the world and the adjoining planes is now aligned definitely upon one side or the other. No matter what the outcome of the conflict, the positive element of good will ultimately attain a greater life and progression; whereas the negative will meet death, destruction and a new beginning in a more hostile environment. As you have made your choice, so be it!’”
Was there a concerted, meddling effort on the part of the Soviets, back in the early 1950s, to use the UFO Contactee issue as a means to promote communism and the Russian way of life? Was George Adamski’s clear admiration for communism provoked by him having been influenced by the very same people that approached Orfeo Angelucci? Maybe Truman Bethurum too? And, maybe even to create hysteria and fear in the United States? Don’t bet against it. Take, for example, the matter of the CIA’s Robertson Panel, which, in part, addressed the matter of UFOs and how the phenomenon could potentially be manipulated for sinister purposes. In the very same time-frame that the Contactee movement was at its height, the panel’s members feared that Russian interference might have an adverse effect on U.S. national security. On this matter, I will leave you with the words of the Robertson Panel and their thoughts on the matter of UFOs, the then-Soviet threat, and possible Russian manipulation:
“…although evidence of any direct threat from these [UFO] sightings was wholly lacking, related dangers might well exist resulting from:
A. Misidentification of actual enemy artifacts by defense personnel.
B. Overloading of emergency reporting channels with ‘false’ information [italics mine].
C. Subjectivity of public to mass hysteria and greater vulnerability to possible enemy psychological warfare [italics mine].”
'Sporen van eerder universum ontdekt in de kosmische achtergrondstraling'
Vivian Lammerse
Ons universum is mogelijk niet het eerste. En ook niet het laatste.
Onderzoekers denken bewijs te hebben gevonden van een vorig universum. Dat wil zeggen; de overblijfselen van zwarte gaten uit een ander universum. Het onderzoek borduurt voort op het kosmologische model dat kortweg CCC wordt genoemd (dat staat voor Conformal cyclic cosmology). Volgens dit – niet onomstreden – model volgen verschillende universums elkaar op.
Hawking-punten Het bewijs komt in de vorm van Hawking-punten, vernoemd naar Stephen Hawking. Hij theoretiseerde dat zwarte gaten straling zouden uitzenden, die bekend staat als Hawking-straling. Volgens de onderzoekers zou deze straling overspringen van het ene universum naar het andere. En ze denken nu, na een analyse van onze nachtelijke hemel, 30 van deze punten gevonden te hebben in de kosmische achtergrondstraling.
Zwart gat Even een stapje terug. In het centrum van onze Melkweg bevindt zich een superzwaar zwart gat. Over ongeveer 4 miljard jaar zal onze Melkweg botsen met Andromeda, onze dichtstbijzijnde buur. Tijdens die gebeurtenis zal het grotere superzware zwarte gat van dit sterrenstelsel samensmelten met het onze. Als deze zwarte gaten om elkaar heen draaien en samenvloeien, wordt er een enorme energiepuls afgegeven. In de daaropvolgende periode botsen andere sterrenstelsels tegen het onze, waardoor er een enorm zwart gat overblijft, omringd door een uitgestorven stofwolk. Maar dit is niet het einde…
“WAT WE BEWEREN TE ZIEN IS HET LAATSTE OVERBLIJFSEL NADAT EEN ZWART GAT IN EEN VORIG UNIVERSUM IS VERDAMPT”
Overblijfselen Ons universum breidt zich uit en terwijl het afkoelt, zullen de zwarte gaten gaan branden. Hoewel deze gloed buitengewoon zwak is, valt deze wel voor enige tijd aan de nachtelijke hemel te aanschouwen. Dit zijn de Hawking-punten, die vanuit een volgend universum gezien kunnen worden. En waarvan de onderzoekers dus denken er een aantal ontmaskerd te hebben. “Wat we beweren te zien is het laatste overblijfsel nadat een zwart gat in een vorig universum is verdampt,” verklaart co-auteur Roger Penrose.
Of deze theorie juist is, valt nog te bezien. Want op dit moment moet het echte bewijs van deze Hawking-straling, of Hawking-punten nog aangetoond worden. Er is dus nog veel werk te verrichten voordat iemand het definitieve bestaan van een vorig universum hard kan maken.
A future mission to Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, could send a probe through the ice to explore what’s thought to be an ocean beneath. (NASA / JPL Illustration)
Instead of cave dwellers gathered around a campfire, roasting mastodon meat, imagine an octopus tribe floating around a hydrothermal vent at the seafloor, boiling lobsters.
That’s the scenario sketched out by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Germany’s Technical Institute Berlin who’s also an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and Washington State University.
Earth’s oceans provide an example in the form of cephalopods. Octopuses and squid are thought to have evolved strictly in the oceans, in contrast to dolphins and whales, which spent part of their evolutionary history on land. Octopuses are also arguably tool users, based on what they can do with coconut shells.
Under the right conditions, could such water-dwelling creatures develop technology on an alien water world? That may be more challenging than it was for our forebears, Schulze-Makuch says.
“Fire can’t exist underwater, and fire is thought to have been essential for humans to develop technology,” Schulze-Makuch notes. However, there’s one potential avenue that he and co-author William Bains explore in their book, “The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds.”
“Perhaps smart ocean creatures could use thermal vents on an alien planet’s seafloor to supply concentrated heat energy,” Schulze-Makuch says. “Such energy wouldn’t be as portable or controllable as fire, but the underwater civilization could farm fish without fire, or perhaps use other resources to make tools and technology. As an example, long strands of kelp could be ideal for making rope.”
The prospect of finding life on water worlds isn’t merely a matter for science-fiction speculation: Astrobiologists suspect that hydrothermal activity could support life within the hidden oceans of Europa and Enceladus, ice-covered moons that orbit Jupiter and Saturn.
Credit: Photo: Georg Oleschinski/Rendering: Thomas van de Kamp
Fossilized fly pupae are about as exciting to look at as a handful of dingy, stale Rice Krispies. But despite their humdrum appearance, fossil pupae can hold fascinating secrets inside; in some cases, they preserve deadly examples of insect parasitism.
Scientists recently investigated hundreds of fossil pupae — the inactive life stage between larva and adult — dating to the Paleogene period (about 65 million to 23 million years ago). They found unexpected stowaways inside: four new wasp species.
The wasps reproduced by parasitism, with females laying their eggs inside the bodies of pupating flies. Then, as the wasp larvae grew, they used the flies as a convenient, all-you-can-eat buffet. In most cases, the flies were entirely consumed, and the wasps died and became fossilized while still inside the flies' chrysalis shells. [The 10 Most Diabolical and Disgusting Parasites]
The researchers discovered the wasps by peering into pupae with X-ray scans, then reconstructing what they found inside with 3D computer modeling. They named the most common wasp Xenomorphia resurrecta— the first part of its name alludes to the terrifying, parasitic Xenomorphin the "Alien" sci-fi movies, while the second part of its name refers to the extinct species' "resurrection" through digital imaging, the scientists reported in a new study.
Many species of parasitic wasps are around today, targeting caterpillars, fly maggots, spiders and ladybugs as living meals for their ravenous young. One enterprising wasp species — named Euderus set, after the Egyptian god of evil and chaos — chooses targets that are in its own family, parasitizing other species of parasitic wasps.
But fossil evidence of parasitism in ancient wasps is exceptionally rare. Previously, the only example came from a single mineralized fly pupa from a site in Quercy, a region in southwestern France, dating to about 40 million to 30 million years ago, the researchers wrote.
Mineralized fly pupae held parasitic wasps inside them for more than 30 million years.
Credit: Georg Oleschinski
For the new study, the scientists examined 1,510 pupae, also from the Quercy site in France. They found 55 pupae that showed signs of being parasitized, and 52 pupae preserved the bodies of adult wasps. It's possible that the tough exoskeleton of adults was more resistant to decay than the softer tissues of their earlier developmental stages; this could explain why adult wasps were more abundant in the fossils, according to the study.
In addition to X. resurrecta, the scientists found more wasp species inside the fly pupae: Xenomorphia handschini, Coptera anka and Palaeortona quercyensis. Digital reconstruction of the fossilized wasps' delicate bodies pointed to subtle differences that defined the wasps as different species, and even hinted at the ecological niches they may have filled; the head and body shapes of C. anka and P. quercyensis suggested that they would have been better adapted to life on the ground than their Xenomorph-named cousins, the study authors reported.
The findings were published online today (Aug. 28) in the journal Nature Communications.
Now, a team of German scientists has decided to make the connection between insects and aliens legit by naming newly discovered parasitic wasp species after the Xenomorphs from the sci-fi horror movie Alien.
In the movie, a baby chestburstercrawls out of actor John Hurt's torso in an explosion of blood and guts. The surviving movie characters realize to their horror that humans make perfect hosts for aliens to lay their eggs.
A new study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, shows that in the real world, parasitic wasps have been using similarly creepy tactics for millions of years.
Parasitic wasps make hosts of other insects just like the the Aliens, laying eggs inside or on top of other insects.
As the young wasps grow, they eat the hosts' bodies from the inside out, and often burst through their hosts' abdomens, just like the chestbursters in Alien.
For the study, scientists from Germany examined 1,510 fossilized fly pupae in total from the Paleogene period found in France.
Fossil evidence for insect host–parasitoid interactions is considered extremely rare, so ideas about parasite evolution has been considered assumptive, until now.
Using synchrotron X-ray imaging, the scientists discovered four new parasitic wasps hiding inside 55 mineralized fossils of fly larvae dating back 30 million to 40 million-years-old.
"It's the first time we definitely have proof of a developing parasitoid wasp inside its host in the fossil record," Thomas van de Kamp, an entomologist from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and lead author, told the New York Times on Tuesday.
The German team, who identified the specimens of the newly discovered wasp species, have officially named two of the species Xenomorphia resurrecta and Xenomorphia handschini.
In the spirit of Aliens, maybe it's time to nuke these wasps from space.
A spider's erection, and other cool things trapped in amber
Lasting forever
In many ways, amber is nature's historian. As a tree resin, it starts as a sticky flowing substance that often traps flora and fauna in its path. Then, as volatile compounds in the resin evaporate and other chemical changes take place, it becomes fossilized, preserving its contents for millions of years.
Not only is amber prized by jewelry makers, it's also valued by scientists, who can peer into it to look back at the past in a very real way.
Perhaps one of the most striking examples of amber's ability to freeze time is this specimen of a harvestman spider, also known as a daddy long legs. This particular critter was about to have sex, as evidenced by its erect penis, which is normally hidden inside the body in its less excited state.
The spider is estimated to be about 99 million years old, which certainly adds new meaning to lasting forever. The spider's discovery was reported in The Science of Nature journal in January 2016.
"This is the first record of a male copulatory organ of this nature preserved in amber and is of special importance due to the age of the deposit," reads the paper on the find.
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Noah’s Ark was a PYRAMID and he may have been a Pharaoh, Dead Sea Scrolls findings reveal
More than 50 years ago, a shepherd found seven scrolls in the Qumran Caves in the Judean desert of the West Bank near to the Dead Sea.
The findings formed a larger manuscript which have been come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The papers contain Biblical and non-Biblical stories and have offered scientists a glimpse into the past and shed new light on Abrahamic religions.
The latest discovery, which was found by scientists who scanned a piece of the Dead Sea Scrolls using different wavelengths of light at 28 times higher resolution than standard scans, revealed that Noah’s Ark was pyramid-shaped.
The Qumran Cave, where some of the scrolls were found
Experts had been unable to read a word following the Hebrew phrase “the ark’s tallness” on the scrolls, but thanks to the high-tech scan, they have now discovered that the word is ‘ne’esefet’.
The translation of ne’esefet from Hebrew to English means “gathered”, which Dr Alexey Yuditsky from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says means that the ark’s ribs were gathered at the top to form a shape of a pyramid.
and the discovery is actually backed up by previous findings.
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The scrolls revealed Noah's Ark was pyramid-shaped
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This discovery has led some to believe Noah was actually a pharaoh
Dr Yuditsky says the Septuagint, which is a Greek translation of the Bible which dates back to the third century BC, also describes the ark’s shape as a pyramid, while medieval authors such as Maimonides also suggested the same.
This discovery has led some to believe Noah, who escaped from ancient Egypt, was actually a pharaoh, as pyramids were a sign of high standing in the North African empire at the time.
Blogger Jesse Waugh writes on his website: “Many 'alternative' historians now believe that Moses was Akhenaten, who escaped to Amarna with his people and his Queen Nefertiti, and where he set up a new society dedicated to the veneration of the monotheistic sun-god Aten.
“Is the Old Testament actually the story of the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt?”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Ryan is the author of Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon and is also a contributing writer to the anthology, UFOs: Reframing the Debate. He is the creator and host of the Somewhere in the Skies Podcast on the Entertainment One Podcast Network and is a frequent contributor to the Rogue Planet news site. Speaking on the UFO topic, he has been featured on ABC News, Fox News, The Science Channel, and is a regular on The Travel Channel’s hit television series, Mysteries at the Museum.
In this episode, Ryan and Alejandro discuss their recent visit to Pasadena for the AlienCon, and other recent events in UFO research. The landscape has changed greatly since the New York Times came out with their article regarding the secret Pentagon UFO study. UFOs are taken more seriously. However, not everyone in the UFO Community is excited about it. Why not? Ryan lends his insight into why this may be and his thoughts regarding other recent UFO news, including a picture he took of Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Duchovny that is going viral!
During a lightning storm strange spherical object shoots out of the clouds
We may wonder whether it was a UFO or some sort of ball lightning or something that is connected to the UFO/Lightning phenomenon, a phenomenon that is assumed that UFOs are using the electromagnetic energy from lightning storms.
Police in Argentina Claim They Have Taken the First Photograph of a Real Alien
If anyone can be trusted to give an accurate description of something, it would be the police, right. Well, police officers in Argentina have claimed that they have taken a photograph of a real-life alien.
While many people have claimed in the past to capture photos of aliens, the images have been blurred, with the supposed alien away in the distance or mostly hidden. This time around, it is different as the photograph came from an official body that is trusted, the Argentinian police force.
Photograph of Alien Has Shocked People
The image had shocked many people, both believers, along with disbelievers when it made its way around conspiracy websites after it was revealed on Facebook, according to Alien-ufo-sightings. com.
Reports attached to the photograph suggest that police officer in Argentina were called out to investigate a disturbance after someone reported strange behaviour occurring in the region of Parque Mitre in Corrientes.
When police responded to the call out, they came across what could only be described as a humanoid-like being. Quick to act the police officers managed to take out their mobile phone to capture a photograph of the creature among the trees.
Some Disbelievers Have De-Bunked the Photograph
As always, there are disbelievers with them saying that the photograph has apparently been edited. Some people say it is a modified version of the alien that was in the movie starring Mel Gibson, Signs or it came from the alien horror movie, Ovni.
Others believe that the photograph taken by the police officers is the best evidence so far that aliens are on Earth. Terry Larch spoke out on the Freaklore website is saying, “In the country of Argentina, one of the most magnificent alien photos ever taken has been recently captured.
“The photograph is incredible and may be the best evidence of aliens living among us yet.”
He went on to report that the local police had attended the scene in Argentina on September 13, 2017, when teenagers in the region reported they had seen an alien in woodland and reported the sighting to the police. He said the teenagers had reported seeing a strange creature lurking around. A group of officers then arrived at the scene. The police found the teenagers, who were said to be in a state of panic, where they found an alien being among the trees.
The police walked slowly over to the being among the trees and at that point realized that it was not a human being. Larch said, “It appeared to be a rather traditional looking extraterrestrial, typically seen in movies or drawings.”
The Alien Creature Disappeared into the River
Reports from the police officers said the creature had fled when they approached too closely. The creature went into the Parana River where they lost sight of it. Larch did say that this is the first time someone has captured the photograph of an alien so closely along with being in such clarity, so it does raise suspicions.
Larch said, “Clearly while glancing at the photograph, the shape and size of the alien is rather remarkable to see. It has the oval head shape and almond dark shaped eyes. Its hands appear to have only three fingers protruding outward. “From the distance of where the photograph was taken, it appears to be fairly tall in height as well.”
The Alien Photograph Has Caused a Stir among Believers
The photograph of the alien was first published on the Facebook page of radio station LT7AM 900 from Argentina. It was then published on conspiracy websites along with Diarioprimeralinea.com.ar. The website said they did not know if the photograph was a fake or the real deal.
Malcolm Robinson who attended the Paraforce Paranormal UK convention recently showed the image. Robinson was giving a lecture about real aliens coming to Earth along with showing photographs and this one was among them.
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Alien caught in #Corrientes#Argentina? That pic is a frame from Spanish horror movie OVNI
ALIEN HOAX: UFO researcher Malcolm Robinson revealed the image in the UK at Paraforce today.
Paranormal researcher Malcolm Robinson revealed the image to the UK at the Paraforce paranormal convention in Witham, Essex, on Sunday.
It was during a lecture he gave on pictures that could potentially be real aliens visiting Earth, and he said it was the latest one to emerge.
He said he did not know if it was real or a hoax, but argued aliens are visting Earth, and it was worth looking into further.
Mr Robinson said: "I do believe we are being visited by these creatures. The evidence for me is absolutely overwhelming.
"Just because something looks and sounds ridiculous, it does not mean to say it is."
One debunker with the user name Newdawnrising commented of the image: "Fake. Image taken and reversed from the movie "Signs".
"The face is the only change.
"The exact body positioning only flipped to face exact opposite.
"CGI. Debunked you're welcome."
Scott Brando, who debunks hoax videos through his website ufoofinterest.org, said the image was in fact just a still from a Spanish alien horror movie.
With a video showing the footage that includes the alien lurking behind the same tree, he tweeted: "Alien caught in #Corrientes #Argentina? That pic is a frame from Spanish horror movie OVNI."
He told Express.co.uk: "This is a fake story I debunked. Most likely a fake story created by a blog."
Robinson said it was one of the latest to be revealed. He admitted that he did not know if the picture had been edited or not, but did say that aliens are real and they do visit Earth. Robinson said the authenticity of the photograph should be looked into further.
He concluded by saying, “I do believe we are being visited by these creatures. The evidence for me is overwhelming. “Just because something looks and sounds ridiculous, it does not mean to say it is.”
Scott Brando debunks hoax videos along with photos. He said that he thought the image had been edited with the alien taken from a Spanish horror movie about aliens. He pointed to a video showing footage of an alien between trees. He went on to say most probably it was a photo from a fake story on a blog.
Snel instappen allemaal, we hebben haast. Ons reisdoel vliegt met een onvoorstelbaar hoge snelheid bij ons vandaan, ongeveer 26 kilometer per seconde.
Om het raadselachtige langgerekte hemellichaam in te halen, vergen we het uiterste van de motoren van ons ruimteschip. Het gaat om de eerste interstellaire bezoeker die we ooit konden waarnemen. Een telescoop op Hawaï fotografeerde hem bijna een jaar geleden voor het eerst. Al snel bleek dat het geen planetoïde in ons eigen zonnestelsel is, maar een kosmische binnendringer. Het hemellichaam kreeg de Hawaïaanse naam ’Oumuamua.
We volgen natuurlijk niet hetzelfde traject dat ’Oumuamua aflegt. Dat voerde in het najaar van 2017 op zeer kleine afstand langs de zon. We kiezen een andere route die de baan van ’Oumuamua kruist.
Onze boordtelescoop heeft het hemellichaam inmiddels in beeld. Het is inderdaad extreem langgerekt, met de vorm van een overmaatse komkommer. Dat leidden aardse wetenschappers al af uit de helderheidsvariaties. Je ziet ook duidelijk dat de stenige sigaar op een vreemde, buitelende manier ronddraait.
Landen is er natuurlijk niet bij. ’Oumuamua is hooguit een paar honderd meter lang. In onze telescoop kunnen we duidelijk zien dat het oppervlak extreem donker is, met een enigszins rode tint. Dat is het gevolg van langdurige blootstelling aan kosmische straling.
Ja, op aarde suggereerden sommige fantasierijke lieden wel dat ’Oumuamua in werkelijkheid een ruimteschip is van een andere intelligente beschaving, maar daarvan is niets te zien: geen raketmotoren, geen ramen, geen symbolen. Ook onze gevoelige radioantennes vangen geen enkel teken van leven op.
Maar wacht, er is toch iets merkwaardigs aan de hand. ’Oumuamua lijkt zich niet op de voorspelde positie te bevinden. Hij is al op veel grotere afstand van de zon aangekomen dan de oorspronkelijke baanberekeningen voorspelden. Hoe is dat mogelijk?
Alles wijst erop dat ’Oumuamua iets minder sterk door de zwaartekracht van de zon wordt afgeremd dan je zou verwachten. Anders gezegd: het hemellichaam is een tikje aan het versnellen, alsof het toch een kleine raketmotor aan boord heeft.
Onze navigator berekent een nieuwe onderscheppingskoers, anders valt de geplande scheervlucht in het water. Ondertussen breekt onder de bemanning een verhitte discussie los. Is het dan toch een buitenaards ruimteschip? Proberen de aliens zich aan pottenkijkers te onttrekken?
Terwijl we de ruimtekomkommer aan de dagzijde op kleine afstand passeren – wat een schitterend uitzicht levert dat op! – horen we plotseling zacht getik dat al snel overgaat in een soort mitrailleurvuur van scherpe knalletjes. Ons ruimteschip wordt bekogeld en gezandstraald door een bombardement van stof- en gruisdeeltjes.
Heeft ’Oumuamua het vuur op ons geopend?
Nee, onder invloed van de zonnewarmte is toch wat ondergronds ijs verdampt, waardoor stofkorrels en kleine kiezeltjes van het oppervlak losraakten. De wegstromende waterdamp voeren die mee in de richting van de zon, alsof er sprake is van de vervuilde uitlaatgassen van een raketmotor.
Het effect is hetzelfde: een kleine versnelling van het hemellichaam in de tegenovergestelde richting. Dat raketeffect namen astronomen eerder waar bij kometen. ’Oumuamua is geen dode, uitgebluste planetoïde, maar toch een ijsrijke komeet.
Kijk, daar tuimelt hij weg, de uitgestrekte ruimte buiten ons zonnestelsel in. Vaarwel, ’Oumuamua. Wij keren terug naar de aarde. Het heelal heeft nog veel meer voor ons in petto.
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