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There was a cluster of orb UFOs spotted near Milwaukee, Wisconsin today 12/16/2018. These UFOs were spotted at around 6:15pm. A freak thunderstorm occurred during the same time as the UFOs were seen flying through the skies in the Milwaukee Suburbs.

What is an Orb UFO?

UFOlogists use different terms to describe UFOs. One of the more common terms is “orb” shaped UFOs. People often ask what an orb UFO is. How are they different from sphere shaped UFOs?

Orb UFOs Seem to Have No Mass

Both Orb UFOs and sphere shaped UFOs can be round or ball shaped. They can both look like balls of light at times. The main thing that separates the two types of UFOs is that orb UFOs don’t seem to have any mass. Instead of looking like a physical object that light appears to be coming from, these UFOs seem to be made out of light.

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How Can A UFO be Made out of Light?

It is really hard for us humans to understand how an object can seem to exist but not exist at the same time. Don’t feel bad if you have a hard time understanding this concept. Even the smartest physicists can’t understand how advanced some alien technology is. The best explanation of how these UFOs exist is that they are probably from another dimension that we humans can’t fully see. It is possible that these aliens can move between different dimensions as easily as we can drive down the road in our cars.

The “Orb” Could be a Cloaking Device

Another possibility about what makes orb UFOs appear the way that they do is that the aliens are using some kind of cloaking device. Mind manipulation is a common way that aliens use to keep humans from seeing them. It is impossible to know if they do this with a mechanical deviceor if they just use some form of advanced alien telepathy. Either way, what looks like an orb UFO to us may in fact be something completely different. You can’t trust your eyes when dealing with aliens.

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Orb UFOs Near Milwaukee

The group of orb UFOs that appeared near Milwaukee today were accompanied by a freak lightning storm. Lightning often accompanies UFO sightings. These UFOs appeared to come out of nowhere. The witness said that the UFOs didn’t seem to fly in from any direction but came out of nothing. He was sitting on his back porch relaxing when lightning started flashing and then the UFOs appeared. The UFOs flew around the sky for what he estimates was three minutes. They seemed like they changed in size. The UFOs ranged in size from small cars to multiple football fields. The UFOs would also vanish and return across the sky. They didn’t make any sound that the man could hear. After a few minutes of flying around the sky the UFOs and the sudden lighting storm disappeared instantly.

UFOs are No Joke!

People visit our website an other websites like ours often thinking that they are some kind of a joke. Aliens visiting Earth is no joke! People in power want you to believe that UFOlogy is a joke. They want you to stay in the dark. We have devoted our lives to getting to the truth of these matters. UFOlogist don’t live in big houses and drive nice cars. We spend our lives being the butt of jokes and not taken seriously. Most of us have had our own authentic alien experiences which drove us to study this field. Having an alien experience will change anyone’s life forever.

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Erosion has erased most of Earth’s impact craters. Here are the survivors

A recent discovery in Greenland may bring the known list to 191

BY EMILY DEMARCO 

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BIG BLOW  South Africa’s Vredefort crater, which formed an estimated 2 billion years ago, is the largest known crater on Earth.

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When it comes to impact craters, Earth is the pauper of the solar system.

Even with a recent, still-to-be-confirmed crater discovery under Greenland’s ice, there are fewer than 200 known impact craters on the planet. Mars, for comparison, has hundreds of thousands.

Produced by falling space rocks, most impact craters on Earth have been wiped away over time by wind, rain, shifting ice and the crawl of tectonic plates. Here are the 190 confirmed survivors, as recorded in the Earth Impact Database, maintained by the University of New Brunswick in Canada — plus the newcomer in Greenland.

Identifying and studying such features could give scientists clues about the history of Earth, including the evolution of life itself. Researchers have tried to link various craters to the five known mass extinctions, for example. But only the space rock that created Chicxulub, hidden under Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, is widely accepted as causing a major die-off. That space rock left a crater 150 kilometers wide and may have done in the dinosaurs and many other creatures about 66 million years ago (SN: 2/4/17, p. 16).

Popigai, in Siberia, which measures about 90 kilometers from rim to rim, might be connected to a smaller die-off of mostly marine creatures about 34 million years ago. But that’s far from settled.

Chicxulub and Popigai are the largest craters dating to the last 100 million years. But the roughly 160-kilometer-wide Vredefort crater in South Africa edges out Chicxulub as the largest known ever. Estimates put Vredefort’s origin around 2 billion years ago, making it the oldest known impact crater too.

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Time tested

The circles below show the rough sizes,and ages of Earth’s 190 confirmed impact craters, as recorded in the Earth Impact Database, plus a newly discovered crater in Greenland. All crater diameters are estimates from rim to rim.

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It’s too early to put a precise date on the 31-kilometer-wide crater recently found in Greenland. Scientists think it probably formed from 11,700 to 2.6 million years ago, but narrowing down that estimate could be tricky. Like many of Earth’s impact craters, the Greenland crater is not exposed at the surface; it’s buried under nearly a kilometer of ice. Try drilling through that to get a good sample.

More impact craters may yet be found. A study in 2015 estimated that as many as 350 craters between 0.25 and 6 kilometers in diameter remain undiscovered on Earth (SN: 7/25/15, p. 5).

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Atlas of impact

This map shows the locations of Earth’s known impact craters along with a newly discovered, but yet to be confirmed crater, in Greenland.

Citations

• University of New Brunswick. Earth Impact Database.

Further Reading

• C. Gramling. A massive crater hides beneath Greenland’s ice. Science News Online, November 14, 2018.
• T. Sumner. Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you. Science News. Vol. 191, May 13, 2017, p. 12.
• T. Sumner. Devastation detectives try to solve dinosaur disappearance. Science News. Vol. 191, February 4, 2017, p. 16.
• T. Sumner. Most of Earth’s impact craters await discovery. Science News. Vol. 188, July 25, 2015, p. 5.
• E. Wayman. Impact craters may have been a toasty home for early life. Science News. Vol. 183, April 6, 2013, p. 9.

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Hangar 18, The Story behind Extraterrestrial connection with the Mormons

Throughout the mission of launching the satellite, 3 astronauts get in touch with a UFO. The dish collides with him but it disappears right after an explosion. It lands south west of the United States. This is where he is grabbed and moved by the federal government to a concealed air base, the Hangar 18.”

We found that, after the crash, the UFO made the controlled landing in the Illinois desert. There the US Army grabbed it. They soon moved the actual ship to Hangar 18, Onboard, researchers make a number of surprising breakthroughs:

• The actual alien fliers, although lifeless, are not bodily damaged and also have a nearly human physical appearance.
• A human female is additionally on board within stasis. Once the doctors take her away, the lady wakes up terrified.
• In the ship’s files, researchers find glyphs much like all those used by historic civilizations on our planet. Scientists also find extensive oxygenous surveillance pictures of Earth’s vegetation, military bases as well as cities.

Before all of this information gets the chance to submerge, federal government officials transport the remote-controlled aircraft to Hangar 18. Nevertheless, with no knowledge of the actual government’s attack squad, a number of NASA’s researchers, along with Bancroft, are in the alien craft while the suspension explodes. The actual ship happens to be invincible.

Deciphering ancient jet pilots and a brand new religion

The actual detailed description of Hangar 18 along with the aliens is fascinating. These identical facts would show up 3 years later within a “secret” statement from the Military pilot shown to the actual UFO author and reporter Linda Moulton Howe. On April 9th, 1983, during a conference at Kirtland Air Force Base in Mexico, Doty, Unique Investigations Police officer introduced Howe with a record whose cover stated:

“INFORMATIVE FILE FOR THE PRESIDENT WITHIN THE ISSUE ASSOCIATED WITH UNIDENTIFIED AIR VEHICLES”

Doty informed Howe he would see the document in the request associated with his managers. However, this individual emphasized he was unacceptable to take the actual document along with him and also to take information of any sort.

Most impressive to Howe was a passage that said the actual aliens had altered DNA into a type of developing primates to generate Homo sapiens. Howe was astonished: “We’re referring to Jesus Christ, ” he explained to Doty, who mentioned absolutely nothing in response. However who, he says, appeared deeply unpleasant.

The actual Mormon Reference to the Hangar 18

Sun Classic Photos has recognized as a company operate by Mormons. Many of the authors, producers as well as studio owners were likewise Mormons, such as Robert Starling, as well as Charles Sellier. The greatest credits for the studio were ‘The Bermuda Triangle’ as well as ‘Hangar 18’. It seems sensible that a movie studio managed by Mormons shows a desire for UFOs. Mormon cosmology retains that the Planet is not distinctive. However just one of the many lived on planets, every created by our God for the purpose of generating immortality as well as everlasting life. Mormon frontrunners have trained that the residents of these planets are nearly identical in character to people, just as the actual alien creatures in Hangar 18 are incredibly human.

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Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' with Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe

I also developed a 3D computer model of this hypothetical universe to see if it could also explain the physical nature of dark matter. Dark matter was introduced to explain the fact that galaxies are spinning much faster than our models predict. This implies that some additional invisible matter must be present to prevent them from spinning themselves apart.

My model shows that the surrounding repulsive force from dark fluid can also hold a galaxy together. The gravity from the positive mass galaxy attracts negative masses from all directions, and as the negative mass fluid comes nearer to the galaxy it in turn exerts a stronger repulsive force onto the galaxy that allows it to spin at higher speeds without flying apart. It therefore appears that a simple minus sign may solve one of the longest standing problems in physics.

Is the universe really this weird?

One may argue that this sounds a little far fetched. But while negative masses are bizarre, they are considerably less strange than you may immediately think. For starters, these effects may only seem peculiar and unfamiliar to us, as we reside in a region dominated by positive mass.

Whether physically real or not, negative masses already have a theoretical role in a vast number of areas. Air bubbles in water can be modelled as having a negative mass. Recent laboratory research has also generated particles that behave exactly as they would if they had negative mass.

And physicists are already comfortable with the concept of negative energy density. According to quantum mechanics, empty space is made up of a field of fluctuating background energy that can be negative in places — giving rise to waves and virtual particles that pop into and out of existence. This can even create a tiny force that can be measured in the lab.

The new study could help solve many problems in modern physics. String theory, which is our best hope for unifying the physics of the quantum world with Einstein's theory of the cosmos, is currently seen as being incompatible with observational evidence. However, string theory does suggest that the energy in empty space must be negative, which corroborates the theoretical expectations for a negative mass dark fluid.

Moreover, the team behind the groundbreaking discovery of an accelerating universe surprisingly detected evidence for a negative mass cosmology, but took the reasonable precaution of interpreting these controversial findings as "unphysical."

The theory could also solve the problem of measuring the universe's expansion. This is explained by the Hubble-Lemaître Law, the observation that more distant galaxies are moving away at a faster rate. The relationship between the speed and the distance of a galaxy is set by the "Hubble constant," but measurements of it have continued to vary. This has led to a crisis in cosmology. Fortunately, a negative mass cosmology mathematically predicts that the Hubble "constant" should vary over time. Clearly, there is evidence that this weird and unconventional new theory deserves our scientific attention.

Where to go from here

The creator of the field of cosmology, Albert Einstein, did — along with other scientists including Stephen Hawking — consider negative masses. In fact, in 1918 Einstein even wrote that his theory of general relativity may have to be modified to include them.

Despite these efforts, a negative mass cosmology could be wrong. The theory seems to provide answers to so many currently open questions that scientists will — quite rightly — be rather suspicious. However, it is often the out-of-the-box ideas that provide answers to longstanding problems. The strong accumulating evidence has now grown to the point that we must consider this unusual possibility.

The largest telescope to ever be built — the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) — will measure the distribution of galaxies throughout the history of the universe. I'm planning to use the SKA to compare its observations to theoretical predictions for both a negative mass cosmology and the standard one — helping to ultimately prove whether negative masses exist in our reality.

The Square Kilometre Array may provide answers.

Credit: SKA Project Development Office and Swinburne Astronomy Productions, CC BY-SA

What is clear is that this new theory generates a wealth of new questions. So as with all scientific discoveries, the adventure does not end here. In fact, the quest to understand the true nature of this beautiful, unified, and — perhaps polarised — universe has only just begun.

Jamie Farnes, Research Associate & Astrophysicist based at Oxford's e-Research Centre, University of Oxford

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NASA Research Reveals Saturn is Losing Its Rings at “Worst-Case-Scenario” Rate

New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.

“We estimate that this ‘ring rain’ drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn’s rings in half an hour,” said James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years, but add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn’s equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live. This is relatively short, compared to Saturn’s age of over 4 billion years.” O’Donoghue is lead author of a study on Saturn’s ring rain appearing in Icarus December 17.

Scientists have long wondered if Saturn was formed with the rings or if the planet acquired them later in life. The new research favors the latter scenario, indicating that they are unlikely to be older than 100 million years, as it would take that long for the C-ring to become what it is today assuming it was once as dense as the B-ring. “We are lucky to be around to see Saturn’s ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime. However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today!” O’Donoghue added.

Various theories have been proposed for the ring’s origin. If the planet got them later in life, the rings could have formed when small, icy moons in orbit around Saturn collided, perhaps because their orbits were perturbed by a gravitational tug from a passing asteroid or comet.

The first hints that ring rain existed came from Voyager observations of seemingly unrelated phenomena: peculiar variations in Saturn’s electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere), density variations in Saturn’s rings, and a trio of narrow dark bands encircling the planet at northern mid-latitudes. These dark bands appeared in images of Saturn’s hazy upper atmosphere (stratosphere) made by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission in 1981.

In 1986, Jack Connerney of NASA Goddard published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that linked those narrow dark bands to the shape of Saturn’s enormous magnetic field, proposing that electrically charged ice particles from Saturn’s rings were flowing down invisible magnetic field lines, dumping water in Saturn’s upper atmosphere where these lines emerged from the planet. The influx of water from the rings, appearing at specific latitudes, washed away the stratospheric haze, making it appear dark in reflected light, producing the narrow dark bands captured in the Voyager images.

Saturn’s rings are mostly chunks of water ice ranging in size from microscopic dust grains to boulders several yards (meters) across. Ring particles are caught in a balancing act between the pull of Saturn’s gravity, which wants to draw them back into the planet, and their orbital velocity, which wants to fling them outward into space. Tiny particles can get electrically charged by ultraviolet light from the Sun or by plasma clouds emanating from micrometeoroid bombardment of the rings. When this happens, the particles can feel the pull of Saturn’s magnetic field, which curves inward toward the planet at Saturn’s rings. In some parts of the rings, once charged, the balance of forces on these tiny particles changes dramatically, and Saturn’s gravity pulls them in along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere.

Once there, the icy ring particles vaporize and the water can react chemically with Saturn’s ionosphere. One outcome from these reactions is an increase in the lifespan of electrically charged particles called H3+ ions, which are made up of three protons and two electrons. When energized by sunlight, the H3+ ions glow in infrared light, which was observed by O’Donoghue’s team using special instruments attached to the Keck telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Their observations revealed glowing bands in Saturn’s northern and southern hemispheres where the magnetic field lines that intersect the ring plane enter the planet. They analyzed the light to determine the amount of rain from the ring and its effects on Saturn’s ionosphere. They found that the amount of rain matches remarkably well with the astonishingly high values derived more than three decades earlier by Connerney and colleagues, with one region in the south receiving most of it. 

The team also discovered a glowing band at a higher latitude in the southern hemisphere. This is where Saturn’s magnetic field intersects the orbit of Enceladus, a geologically active moon that is shooting geysers of water ice into space, indicating that some of those particles are raining onto Saturn as well. “That wasn’t a complete surprise,” said Connerney. “We identified Enceladus and the E-ring as a copious source of water as well, based on another narrow dark band in that old Voyager image.” The geysers, first observed by Cassini instruments in 2005, are thought to be coming from an ocean of liquid water beneath the frozen surface of the tiny moon. Its geologic activity and water ocean make Enceladus one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life.

The team would like to see how the ring rain changes with the seasons on Saturn. As the planet progresses in its 29.4-year orbit, the rings are exposed to the Sun to varying degrees. Since ultraviolet light from the Sun charges the ice grains and makes them respond to Saturn’s magnetic field, varying exposure to sunlight should change the quantity of ring rain.

The research was funded by NASA and the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard, administered by the Universities Space Research Association. The W.M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and NASA, and the data in the form of its files are available from the Keck archive. The authors wish to recognize the significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Mauna Kea has within the indigenous Hawaiian community; they are fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.

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Saturnus verliest zijn ringen: “Elk half uur een olympisch zwembad aan water eruit” - HLN.be

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De ringen van Saturnus bestaan uit waterijs, stof en stenen. De zwaartekracht van de planeet trekt aan ze, maar tegelijk draaien ze met zo’n hoge snelheid rond dat ze er aan weten te ontkomen. Dat evenwicht wordt echter soms verstoord. 

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Ringenregen

Dan valt een deel naar Saturnus, een fenomeen dat ‘ringenregen’ wordt genoemd. “We schatten dat er elk half uur een olympisch zwembad aan water uit de ringen wordt gehaald”, zeggen de onderzoekers.

De Voyager-sondes hadden rond 1980 al ontdekt dat het ijs regent bij Saturnus. De sonde Cassini heeft vorig jaar ook onderzoek gedaan tijdens zijn laatste duikvluchten, voordat hij zelf werd verzwolgen door Saturnus.

De ringen zijn volgens de onderzoekers ongeveer 100 miljoen jaar oud. Dat zou betekenen dat ze nu ongeveer halverwege hun bestaan zijn. Mogelijk zijn het de resten van uiteengevallen manen. 

Saturnus is niet de enige planeet met ringen. Ook Jupiter, Uranus en Neptunus hebben een dunne band van stenen en stof om zich heen draaien.

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Forget horsepower, Stonehenge was built with COW-power: Cattle that lived 8,000 years ago were used as 'animal engines' to lug around heavy objects for Neolithic people

• Stonehenge's bluestones originate from Wales and ended up in Wiltshire
• It has long been a mystery as to how they completed this 160 mile journey  
• Archaeologists have found wear patterns on the feet of bovines from 6,000 BC 
• This is 2,000 years before cattle was previously thought to be used as 'engines' 

By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE 

Stonehenge may have been built with the assistance of cows who helped carry the enormous rocks across the British Isles. 

It could help explain how the fabled bluestones managed to complete the journey from Wales to Wiltshire, where Stonehenge still sits today. 

Previous research has claimed the movement of glaciers deposited the huge slabs of rock 160 miles away from their original location. 

New research has found evidence of cattle being used by humans to pull and carry heavy loads for 8,000 years. 

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Archaeologists at University College London discovered that the bones in the feet of Neolithic cattle demonstrated distinctive wear patterns, indicative of exploitation as 'animal engines' (pictured)

Archaeologists at University College London discovered that the bones in the feet of Neolithic cattle demonstrated distinctive wear patterns, indicative of exploitation as 'animal engines'. 

Neolithic cattle in the Balkans were therefore being used for our purposes two millennia earlier than previously thought. 

It is believed that the use of bovines stemmed from a need to create settlements from felled wood and move it to different locations. 

The use of the animals during this period of neolithic history opens up the possibility they were used to transport Stonehenge's rocks, which was erected at around 5,000 BC.

Research has revealed that cattle were being used for traction – to pull loads – from the earliest Neolithic habitation sites in the Balkans. 

Stonehenge may have been built with the assistance of cows who carried the enormous rocks. It could help explain how the fabled bluestones managed to complete the journey from Wales to Wiltshire, where Stonehenge still sits today (Stock)

'Our repeated identification of the exploitation of cattle for pulling heavy loads calls into question the current scope of the analysis and interpretation of the use of animals in prehistoric Europe.' 

Experts say that if these practices can be found to have been used elsewhere it will have major ramifications on our understanding of animal use in the Neolithic.

Dr Gaastra writes: 'A firm understanding of the nature of early traction evidence in prehistoric Europe has significant implications for our knowledge of both management practices and the nature of labour and movement in prehistoric societies'   

HOW WAS STONEHENGE BUILT?

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The mystery of how the ancients travelled 160 miles across the British Isles from Wales to Wiltshire with the extremely heavy stones that we now know as Stonehenge may have finally been solved. Cattle were used as “animal engines” to help the Neolithic people carry around large objects. And while it is known that cattle were used as “engines”, this new information brings the dates back 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Earlier research indicated that the movement of glaciers brought the huge rocks to their current location, but now it seems as though it was actually cows that helped the ancients make the long journey. For approximately 8,000 years, cattle were used to carry heavy loads and this was proven by the discovery of foot bones in ancient cattle.

Archaeologists from the University College London found that the foot bones from Neolithic cattle from the Balkans showed specific wear patterns that could only come from being used as “animal engines”. The cattle were used to haul wood to help create settlements; therefore, it’s very possible that they were also used to carry Stonehenge’s large rocks – which weighed several tons each – to the location where the monument resides to this very day.

• Click here to see pictures of the distinct wear patterns in the cattle foot bones.

Dr. Jane Gaastra, who is the lead author in a study published in Antiquity about this discovery, said, “We have been able to provide the first conclusive evidence that farmers were using cattle for ‘traction’ almost 2,000 years earlier than the previous consensus date. There has only been one other foot sample from the Neolithic period found in Syria but this was inconclusive. The part of the Balkans where we found the bones was heavy forested in the Neolithic period, so chopping trees to create settlements would have required a lot of man power. Cattle would therefore have been a vital asset helping to transport items such as timber for housing.”

The study, which was conducted in the central and western Balkans, indicated that the earliest farmers from Europe used cattle for dairy and meat, but also as a type of power engine. And this happened two thousand years earlier than what they had initially thought.

Dr. Marc Vander Linden, who is the co-author of the study, said, “Until now it has generally been considered that traction only emerged by the 5^th and 4^th millennium BC, parallel to the introduction of the plough and the wheel, but our study demonstrates that this is not the case. We reveal that when the wheel and the plough became available farmers were already experienced in using cattle for traction, and this could have facilitated the spread of these innovations.”

Researchers studied twelve cattle foot bone samples that came from males and females from eleven Neolithic sites in the central and western Balkans between the years 6,000 and 4,500 BC. They also plan to conduct more studies across Europe in order to determine whether this form of traction happened only in a few Neolithic groups or if it was a popular practice across the continent.

Stonehenge is an incredible and mysterious site, and now that new information has been discovered suggesting that cows helped in the process of constructing the monument, that makes it even more fascinating.

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Seriously: what is causing all of the mysterious booms heard and felt throughout the nation lately? Residents of Chicago and surrounding suburbs are wondering that this week as a series of unexplained and otherwise mysterious noises have been perplexing and worrying residents. On Tuesday, December 11, the northwest Chicago suburb of Elgin was awakened by a series of mysterious booms in the early morning hours. The noises were so loud that windows and walls shook, according to some homeowners. The city of Elgin is investigating the noise, but has yet to produce an explanation.

A few nights later on December 13, residents of Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood began hearing a “mysterious hum in the air.” The sound is described by some residents as a subtle hum, while others say it sounds more high-pitched like an alarm sound or siren. The sound is made even more curious by the fact that only some residents hear it, while others are oblivious to the anomalous noise.

Another mysterious boom was reported just south of Chicago in Paxton, Illinois this week, so loud it could be heard 30 miles away. Paxton Mayor Bill Ingold says he thinks the sound was a sonic boom, while other residents think it might have been a meteorite impact. “Others think it was some kind of creaking noise,” Paxton adds.

Meanwhile, Ford County Board member Tom McQuinn described the sound as “the loudest-hitting thunderbolt I ever heard” despite there being not a single cloud in the sky. A few residents reported hearing several smaller explosion-like sounds before a much larger one. No anomalous fires or craters have been reported as in the case of other mystery booms which turned out to be the work or burgeoning bomb makers. Curiously, some residents reported seeing a green streak in the sky at the same time.

Could any or all of these sounds be connected? Are meteorite impacts getting more frequent, or could these booms be man-made? That is, as more nations test hypersonic aircraft and weapons, might there be activity overhead we don’t know about? Could some unknown phenomenon or event be behind these unexplained booms? Any guess is as good as any at this point.

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Is this hillside hiding the world's oldest pyramid? Ancient structure in Indonesia could be up to 20,000 years old

• Geologist claims the site in West Java could be 9,000 to 20,000 years old
• Dr Danny Hilman says man-made hillside hides a pyramid structure
• Tests have established parts of the structure date to 7,000 BC
• Could re-write pre-history, but other experts claim excavation is flawed

By SARAH GRIFFITHS FOR MAILONLINE

Egypt’s oldest pyramid was built almost 5,000 years ago but a similar structure hidden beneath rubble could be up to four times older.

If true, the claim could rewrite prehistory and shed light on an obscure yet powerful and advanced ancient civilisation.

Geologist Dr Danny Hilman believes that a site in West Java is revered because it hides an ancient temple built between 9,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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A geologist claims that the world's oldest pyramid is hidden under rubble (pictured) in West Java, which if true, could re-write pre-history in the region and shed light on a powerful and advanced ancient civilisation

The Megalithic site of Gunung Padang was discovered in 1914 and is the largest site of its kind in Indonesia. 

It is nestled among volcanoes, banana palms and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level some 75 miles (120km) south of Jakarta.

Chunks of volcanic rubble jut out up from the stepped hillside, which is considered sacred by the Sundanese people who live locally.

Geologist Dr Danny Hilman believes the site is culturally important is because it is an ancient pyramid which was built between 9,000 and 20,000 years ago.

He suggests that it may have been built for worship or astronomy. 

The megalithic site of Gunung Padang (pictured) was discovered in 1914 and is the largest site of its kind in Indonesia. It's nestled among volcanoes banana and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level

Chunks of volcanic rubble stick up from the stepped hillside (pictured), which is considered sacred by the Sundanese people who live locally. Geologist Dr Danny Hilman thinks the reason the site is so revered is that it is an ancient pyramid which was built between 9,000 and 20,000 years ago

THE WORLD’S OLDEST PYRAMIDS 

If the structure in West Java is revealed to be a 20,000-year-old pyramid, it will be the oldest on Earth.

In 1996, archaeologists discovered pyramids on the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil that sate to around 3,000 BC, making them a few hundred years older than Egypt's oldest pyramid.

But both civilisations built them for religious reasons.

The Brazilian pyramids are made from shells and were probably built in phases over decades or even centuries, The Independent reported. 

For years, experts thought the pyramids were simply piles of domestic rubbish.

Egypt’s oldest known pyramid is the step pyramid of Djoser, which was built in around 2,700 BC.

It was built by a master builder called Imhotep for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser and is composed of six steps.

the ancient structure was rocked by a pyramid in 1992, leaving it unstable with a large hole in its domed roof, but restoration is underway.

If this is true, prehistoric people would have had to manoeuvre chunks of volcanic rock onto terraces built on the mountainside and stack them on top of each other to create a pyramid – a considerable feat of ancient engineering.

Dr Hilman, a senior geologist at Indonesia’s Centre for Geotechnical Research, says that proof of the structure’s organisation lies underground.

His excavations have been backed by the Indonesian government, which recently decreed that the upper part of Gunung Padang is 'the largest megalithic structure in south-east Asia,' The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

President Yudhoyono dubbed the dig a ‘task of history…of important value to humanity.' and it has yielded some ancient artefacts.

Dr Hilman said: ‘People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong.’

He believes such a pyramid would be proof of an advanced ancient civilisation in Java and said that the majority of the stepped site is man-made, perhaps built by generations over a matter of centuries.

The geologist is now working to establish the authenticity of the site. 

Some rocks were originally stuck together with a form of ancient glue and have been carbon dated to be around 7,000 BC. 

Dr Hilman said that the ruins hide walls and rooms with steps and terraces below, which are evidence of a complex building. 

Dr Hilman said: ‘People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong.’ Some rocks were originally stuck together with a form of ancient glue and have been carbon dated to be around 7,000 BC. The site is thought to have been built for worship or astronomy

The site (marked on the map) is nestled among volcanoes, banana palms and tea plantations, at 2,903 ft (885 metres) above sea level some 75 miles (120km) south of Jakarta, and south east of Sukabumi City (marked)

The terraces are bordered by retaining walls of stone that can be accessed by 400 steps rising around 311 ft (95 metres).

The structure is covered with massive rectangular stones of volcanic origin.

It has been subjected to multiple geoelectric surveys, where ground penetrating radar and samples have been used.

From this, he believes the terraced hill is 328 ft (100 metres) thick and is made up of a number of layers.

He said that so far man-made structures have been detected 49 ft (15 metres) underground. 

Experts dated rock between nine and 13 ft (three and four metres) below the surface as 6,500 years old and 12,500 years old below the surface.

However, Dr Hilman’s controversial findings are disputed and 34 Indonesian archaeologists and geologists have submitted a petition criticising the projects’ methods and motives.

They say that the excavation threatens the preservation of the site as it is and are annoyed at the prospect of involving civilian archaeologists in the excavation.

Volcanologist Sutikno Bronto believes that the structure isn’t a pyramid at all, but the neck of an old volcano and that the stones surveyed have been weathered by nature instead of being cut by humans.

Another anonymous expert is sceptical that such an ancient civilisation could have been advanced enough to build a pyramid so many thousands of years ago, when tools recovered from a nearby cave, dating to 7,000 BC were very primitive.

The terraces are bordered by retaining walls of stone (pictured) that can be accessed by 400 steps rising around 311 ft (95 metres). They date to at least 5,000 BC

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(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)

Here, scattered across a vast hilltop in the West Java province of Indonesia, lay the remnants of a massive complex of rocky structures and monuments – an archaeological wonder since described as the largest megalithic site in all of Southeastern Asia.

But those early settlers couldn't have guessed the greatest wonder of all might lay hidden, buried deep in the ground below their feet.

(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)

In controversial new research presented at the AGU 2018 Fall Meeting in Washington, DC last week, a team of Indonesian scientists presented data to make their case that Gunung Padang is in fact the site of the world's oldest known pyramid-like structure.

Their research, which has been conducted over the course of several years, suggests that Gunung Padang is not the hill we think it is – but is actually a layered series of ancient structures with foundations dating back some 10,000 years (or even older).

"Our studies proves that the structure does not cover just the top but also wrap around the slopes covering about 15 hectares area at least," the authors write in the abstract for their new poster.

"The structures are not only superficial but rooted into greater depth."

Using a combination of surveying methods – including ground penetration radar (GPR), seismic tomography, and archaeological excavations – the team says Gunung Padang is not just an artificial structure, but a series of several layers built over consecutive prehistoric periods.

The topmost, megalithic layer made up of rock columns, walls, paths, and spaces, sits above a second layer some 1-3 metres below the surface.

(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)

The researchers suggest this second layer has previously been misinterpreted as natural rock formation, but is actually another arrangement of columnar rocks organised in a matrix structure.

Below this, a third layer of arranged rocks - containing large underground cavities or chambers - extends as far as 15 metres deep, and this sits upon the lowest (fourth) layer, made of 'lava tongue' basalt rock, somehow modified or carved by human hands.

According to the researchers, preliminary radiocarbon dating suggests the first layer could be up to approximately 3,500 old years old, the second layer somewhere around 8,000 years old, and the third layer in the vicinity of 9,500 to 28,000 years old.

As for the purpose of these ancient, vast structures, the researchers – led by geophysicist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences – suggest the ancient pyramid could have had a religious basis.

"It's a unique temple," Natawidjaja told Live Science.

For now, that's speculation, but if the researchers' other claims about the structures turn out to be right, it's a major finding that could challenge notions of what prehistoric societies were capable of.

'It's huge,'' Natawidjaja told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2013. ''People think the prehistoric age was primitive, but this monument proves that wrong.''

(Danny Hilman Natawidjaja)

Still, not everybody is convinced. Natawidjaja's research has been the subject of much controversy in Indonesia and elsewhere, with a large number of archaeologists and skeptics criticising the team's methods and findings.

The latest research presentations – which, for now, remain non-peer-reviewed – will probably add fuel to the fire, but they also give the world a closer glimpse at what could be one of the world's most ancient and mysterious structures.

As for what that structure really is, only time will tell.

The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC last week.

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Wetenschappers ontdekken verste object ooit in ons zonnestelsel: de rozige dwergplaneet ‘Farout’ - HLN.be

Bron: CNN, Die Welt

De Amerikanen Scott Sheppard en Chad Trujillo hebben de ontdekking gisteren bekendgemaakt. Veel is er over het nieuwe hemellichaam met officiële benaming ‘2018 VG18’ nog niet geweten behalve dan dat de dwergplaneet eerder roze lijkt (wat op een oppervlakte van ijs zou kunnen wijzen) en een doorsnede van ongeveer 500 km heeft.

Duizend jaar

Farout doet er ongeveer duizend jaar over om een keer rond de zon te draaien. De afstand van de zon naar de dwergplaneet komt overeen met 120 keer de afstand van de zon naar de Aarde. Het zal nog jaren duren vooraleer sterrenkundigen de precieze vorm van zijn omloopbaan zullen kunnen vaststellen omdat hij zich erg traag verplaatst.

Al jaren zijn wetenschappers op zoek naar een negende planeet die zich aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel zou bevinden. Het is in dat kader dat uiteindelijk ‘Farout’ werd ontdekt. Astronomen vermoeden namelijk dat de objecten aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel - die trouwens allemaal in een grillige baan cirkelen - onder invloed staan van een groter hemellichaam. Maar die zogenoemde ‘Planeet X’ is nog steeds niet gevonden. 

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Marslander Insight stuurt nieuwe foto’s

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Spectacular, colorful tomb of ancient Egyptian high priest revealed (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

The newly-discovered tomb at the Saqqara necropolis, 30 kilometers south of Cairo.

© AFP / Khaled Desouki

The tomb at the Saqqara necropolis is in good condition and its walls are lined with images depicting the tomb owner, a high priest, and his family, according to Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Khalid Al Anani.

Numerous colorful statues have also been found at the site, which dates back to the reign of King Neferirkare of the Fifth Dynasty, and archaeologists hope to find the sarcophagus of the high priest himself. Neferirkare was in power around the 25th century BC.

© AFP / Khaled Desouki

Excavations continue at the site, with archaeologists cleaning and restoring their finds as they continue deeper into the cemetery.

The discovery is “one of a kind in the last decades,” according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.

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The tomb's entrance

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OPNIEUW AANVARING TUSSEN VLIEGTUIG EN UFO ( VIDEO )

Steeds vaker zien we vliegtuigen die uiteindelijk wel landen, maar met een forse beschadiging aan de neus van het toestel. 

Zo ook een Boeing 737 van Aeromexico die met een enorme deuk in de neus landde op het vliegveld van Tijuana.

Op 13 december was een Boeing 737-800 van Aeromexico bezig met de nadering van het vliegveld van Tijuana toen de bemanning een forse dreun hoorden. Zij hadden geen flauw benul wat dat geweest zou kunnen zijn, maar aangezien alles nog normaal functioneerde hebben ze de landing doorgezet en het vliegtuig veilig aan de grond gekregen.

Na de landing bleek sprake van een fikse deuk in de neus van het toestel.

Alhoewel niemand weet wat er tegen het vliegtuig botste en de schade veroorzaakte, wordt er eigenlijk automatisch vanuit gegaan dat het een drone geweest is. 

Met de fenomenale stijging van het aantal drones neemt natuurlijk ook de kans toe dat er ééntje een keer een vliegtuig raakt en zeker als het vliegtuig zich op een lagere hoogte bevindt: 

Echter, het is helemaal niet zeker dat het Aeromexico toestel is geraakt door een drone. Het zou, voor zover ons bekend, de eerste keer in de geschiedenis zijn dat een drone dergelijke significante schade veroorzaakt. 

Er zijn maar heel weinig voorvallen waarbij echt een passagierstoestel en een drone betrokkenzijn en de keren dat dit gebeurt is de schade heel erg beperkt gebleven en zeker niet zo ernstig als bij het toestel hierboven.

Het zou uiteraard ook een ufo geweest kunnen zijn die tegen het toestel is gebotst, zeker als dat gebeurt in een land als Mexico, waar ongeveer net zoveel ufo's rondvliegen als dat er auto's rond rijden. En binnen Mexico is Tijunana ook nog eens een plaats die regelmatig in het nieuws komt vanwege de vele vreemde lichten die daar in de lucht worden waargenomen.

Een ander argument waarom hier sprake geweest zou kunnen zijn van een ufo is dat er meerdere van dit soort schades zijn voorgevallen, maar alleen op grote hoogte. Op een hoogte waar geen drones vliegen, maar waar de betreffende vliegtuigen er na de landing net zo uit zien als hierboven.

Daarom hierna een deel uit een eerder artikel waarin wordt ingegaan op de risico's voor het vliegverkeer van ufo's en een aantal praktijkvoorbeelden van aanvaringen tussen vliegtuigen en ufo's.

Er doen zich een aantal vreemde verschijnselen voor en één daarvan is dat er in het mainstream nieuws steeds vaker op wordt gehamerd dat we UFO’s nu toch echt een keer serieus moeten gaan nemen.

Zoals bijvoorbeeld in de volgende uitzending van Fox News, waar de Engelsman en ufoloog bij uitstek, Nick Pope, te gast is om te praten over het steeds groter wordende gevaar dat UFO’s opleveren voor de burgerluchtvaart. 

In de uitzending wordt uiteraard ingespeeld op de eerdere vrijgave van ufobeelden en wordt enkele keren herhaald dat we, al was het alleen maar voor de veiligheid van het vliegverkeer, nu toch echt UFO’s serieus moeten gaan nemen. 

Dit alles lijkt weer een beetje op het verdere hersenspoelen van de bevolking richting het in de nabije toekomst bekend maken van de geheime ruimtevloot. 

En toch, er gebeuren regelmatig vreemde dingen met vliegtuigen. 

Zoals afgelopen week toen een An-24 van Polar Airlines tijdens een vlucht boven het Russische Siberië volgens de officiële berichten letterlijk in zwaar weer terechtkwam. 

Wat dat dan precies geweest zou zijn is niet duidelijk, maar wel dat dit vliegtuig met iets in aanraking is geweest tijdens de vlucht. 

Het zag er als volgt uit na de landing.

Volgens Polar Airlines was het geen blikseminslag en zij suggereren dat het misschien hagel geweest zou kunnen zijn. Echter, er wordt nogal geheimzinnig gedaan en men zegt niet dat het toestel in een zware hagelbui terecht is gekomen, dus wie weet hebben we hier wel een aanvaring met een UFO. 

Dit is niet de eerste keer dat vliegtuigen aan de grond komen met dit soort schade. Wij hebben hier al vaker over geschreven en hier volgt een deel uit een eerder artikel waar wellicht ook sprake is van een botsing tussen een UFO en een vliegtuig: 

Volgens de onderstaande video uit Zuid Amerika gaat het wel degelijk af en toe mis. 

Zo vertellen ze het verhaal van wat er gebeurde op 15 mei 2015 met een Boeing 777 van Aeromexico. 

Dit toestel vertrok die dag om half acht ’s avonds voor een vlucht naar Madrid in Spanje. Ongeveer anderhalf uur na vertrek besloot de bemanning onverwacht een noodlanding te maken in Cancun omdat ze zeiden dat er storingen optraden in het elektrische systeem. 

Na de landing in Cancun nam een passagier een foto van het toestel dat er toen zo uit zag:

Volgens de onderstaande video heeft dit vliegtuig een botsing gehad met een onbekend vliegend object; een UFO dus. 

De officiële versie van het verhaal is dat ze al direct na vertrek een blikseminslag hadden waardoor de schade ontstond en er eveneens problemen waren met het elektrische systeem. 

De botsing van de 777 met een onbekend object lijkt veel op die die een vliegtuig van Air China twee jaar geleden had en waar wij toen het volgende over schreven: 

De vlucht was in de vroege ochtend van 4 juni vertrokken van Chengdu naar Guangzhou. Het vertrek van de Boeing 757 verliep zonder problemen. Twintig minuten na take-off, terwijl ze zich op een hoogte bevinden van 26.000 voet, krijgt de verkeersleiding een noodoproep van het toestel en wordt besloten een noodlanding te maken in Shunagliu. 

Deze verliep zonder problemen en er werd de passagiers meegedeeld dat een en ander het gevolg was van een technisch mankement. Echter, direct na het incident had één van de passagiers de tegenwoordigheid van geest om enkele foto’s te maken.

De officiële verklaring kwam al vrij snel daarna: het was een vogel geweest. Als we dan kijken naar de grootte van de toegebrachte schade, dan moet het wel een enorme vogel zijn geweest. Een die bovendien iets van een soort verfstrepen heeft achtergelaten.

Een vogelaanvaring bij deze vlucht is uitgesloten omdat én het vliegtuig daarvoor te hoog vloog én omdat er geen sporen zijn gevonden op het vliegtuig zoals bloedspetters of veren. 

Er zijn nog talloze verhalen over bijna botsingen tussen vliegtuigen en UFO’s. Hebben we hier daarom toch te maken met buitenaardsen die niet goed uitkijken met hun snelle UFO’s of is er een andere verklaring?

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