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!
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Woensdag 24 juni 2020
Latest crop circles
Latest crop circles
These two crop circles formation were found in United Kingdom on 21st June 2020.
Ackling Dyke near Sixpenny Handley, Dorset
Berwick Bassett Clump near Winterbourne Monkton in Wiltshire.
Ancient Aliens – Destination Chile History Channel, Season 15 Episode 3 8th February 2020
Researchers investigate about the Atacama Humanoid geoglyph and its possibility to be of an alien race. More evidence is derived by looking at the evidence of 2014 Chilean UFO case and Chilean government admitting it to be UFO.
This day in UFO history:The Famous Kenneth Arnold Sighting that Resulted in the Popularity of the term “Flying Saucer”
Kenneth Arnold
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been in existence for millennia with depictions in ancient civilizations through art and literature from the Greeks and Romans to the Sumerians and Egyptians.
The modern era of UFOs started around the time rockets and advanced aircraft were often flying in a secretive way. Perhaps coincidence or paranoia. In any event, the UFO sighting of civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947 has gained a lot of attention and raised many eyebrows.
While flying his small aircraft, Arnold claimed to have spotted nine blue, glowing objects flying incredibly at an estimated 1,700 mph in a V formation near Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947.
Arnold’s UFO sighting took place two years after WWII and the first year of the Cold War. He first thought the mysterious objects to be some new military aircraft, but the military confirmed there were no tests carried out near Mount Rainier that day. Arnold described the UFOs’ motion similar to a saucer being skipped across the water. Then the media coined the now-famous phrase “flying saucer.”
Other reports of a group of 9 UFOs soon cropped up across the region, including sightings by the crew of a commercial flight in Idaho and a prospector on Mount Adams. No credible explanation for the sightings from the government, which claimed that Arnold was hallucinating or had seen a mirage. However, UFO mania had set in, and a few weeks later, the famous Roswell sighting would continue the obsession.
Egyptian Power Plant of Giza… The Construction and Function of the Great Pyramid
Were power tools used to build the great pyramids? The great pyramid of Giza was built with the precision of a machine, and Christopher Dunn explains that it therefore must have the function of a machine. Combining his extensive background as a master craftsman in high-level aerospace manufacturing with his years of research on the Giza plateau, he brings forward new insights into the construction and function of the great pyramid.
What comes to light is the nature of the tools used to carve and move stones, something that could only have been done with massive power tools. But where did the power come from?
A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena.
Secret Advanced Ancient Egyptian Science, so Inexplicable it Is Beyond Our Capabilities Today
The great temples and monuments of ancient Egypt continue to fascinate and … As the civilization advanced, so did their knowledge and skill until, by the time of the … amount of effort required in building the monuments one finds in Egypt today. … Verner, M. The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt’s Great …
Egyptians are the people inhabiting the country of Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, a small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west. This unique geography has been the basis of the development of Egyptian society since antiquity.
Secret Advanced Ancient Egyptian Science, So Inexplicable It is Beyond Our Capabilities Today
Hundreds Of White Spheres Over California,VIDEO, June 18, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 18, 2020
Location of sighting: Benicia, California, USA
Source: MUFON
Watch as this family panics trying to get the mother to come out of the house to see the UFO fleet above. They were so scared that they shook while holding the camera and only caught the fleet in about 30% of the video. Thats what makes me know its real. Its a real authentic reaction to such an event. Awesome video, but to see them well, please pause the video at parts. I made some close ups in the video so please make it full screen when you watch.
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Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
White orbs seen high in the sky from backyard. Approximately 3 or so at first appearance , three objects looked like they were dropped from the sky and coming toward earth, meanwhile noticed the 100 or so orbs farther up in the sky. Orbs stayed in random, stationary pattern then most of the group floated East, while apx six orbs remained hovering In groups of two. Through binoculars it appeared that an elongated object was hanging down from the center, bottom of the closer orbs but still to far away to see definition. First segments of video clip show Orbs as white dots in the sky. Stop video to view orbs more definitively.
Glowing Disk Hovers Over Tree Stump Lighting It Up, Hunter Cam Footage, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 19, 2020
Location of sighting: St Ludger, California, USA
Source: MUFON #109651
This UFO was captured on a hunters camera in California last month. The camera shows a tree stump with a block of salt and some other food on it. To the upper right sites a glowing object thats seems to be disk shaped. The disk has a light shining down from it onto the tree stump. It almost looks like a scene from a classic alien movie doest it? The classic disk design is wider on the edges and has a hump on its upper and lower center areas. The UFO appears to be 1.5 meters across. This is absolute proof that aliens and UFOs are highly interested in everything on Earth, not just humans.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
It’s a photo taken with a hunter camera. The camera takes 3 shots in burst in 3 seconds. There was only one object on the one in the middle, the photos before and after had nothing special. It would be better to you to email me, not phone, because I don't speak english.
These multiple bright UFOs were caught on tape in the daytime sky above Benicia in California on 19th June 2020.
Witness report:
White orbs in clear blue sky. White orbs seen high in the sky from backyard. Approximately 3 or so at first appearance , three objects looked like they were dropped from the sky and coming toward earth, meanwhile noticed the 100 or so orbs farther up in the sky. Orbs stayed in random, stationary pattern then most of the group floated East, while apx six orbs remained hovering In groups of two. Through binoculars it appeared that an elongated object was hanging down from the center, bottom of the closer orbs but still to far away to see definition. First segments of video clip show Orbs as white dots in the sky. Stop video to view orbs more definitively.
Ancient Aliens – The Relics of Roswel History Channel, Season 15 Episode 2 1st February 2020
Recent evidence of kimbler UFO metal about the evidence of famous Roswell crash in New Mexico in 1947 and alien bodies discovered. The researchers put an link with quasi crystal found in Russia.
Ancient Aliens – The Mystery of Nan Madol History Channel, Season 15 Episode 1 25th January 2020
Researchers investigate about the mysterious man made islets in Micronesia. The island is supposed to have been made by strange visitors using levitation technology.
“For the dinosaurs, the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened … because it put more hazardous debris into the upper atmosphere and scattered it everywhere, the very thing that led to a nuclear winter.”
Artist’s concept of the fiery meteor that struck Earth 66 million years ago, bringing the age of dinosaurs to an end.
New computer simulations by an international team of researchers suggest the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, struck Earth at the “deadliest possible” angle. That is, these researchers say, it struck at an angle of about 60 degrees, thereby maximizing the amount of climate-changing gases thrust into the upper atmosphere. Such a strike would have unleashed billions of tons of sulphur into the air, blocking the sun, and triggering a nuclear winter that killed the dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth at the time.
All of this is according to a study published May 26, 2020 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications,
The – from Imperial College London, the University of Freiburg, and the University of Texas at Austin – examined the shape and subsurface structure of the Chicxulub meteorite crater in what’s now Mexico. Afterwards, they used that geophysical data to create computer models of the event. Their computer simulations helped them diagnose the impact angle and direction of the incoming meteor. They said in a statement that the new models are:
… the first ever fully 3D simulations to reproduce the whole event, from the initial impact to the moment the final crater.
Gareth Collins, of Imperial College London is the new work’s lead author. Collins said:
For the dinosaurs, the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened. The asteroid strike unleashed an incredible amount of climate-changing gases into the atmosphere, triggering a chain of events that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This was likely worsened by the fact that it struck at one of the deadliest possible angles.
Our simulations provide compelling evidence that the asteroid struck at a steep angle, perhaps 60 degrees above the horizon, and approached its target from the north-east. We know that this was among the worst-case scenarios for the lethality on impact, because it put more hazardous debris into the upper atmosphere and scattered it everywhere – the very thing that led to a nuclear winter.
Gravity map showing asymmetries in the Chicxulub crater reflect the asteroid’s impact angle. Read more about this map.
The upper layers of earth around the Chicxulub crater contain high amounts of water as well as porous carbonate and evaporite rocks. When heated and disturbed by the impact, these rocks would have decomposed, says the study, flinging vast amounts of carbon dioxide, sulphur and water vapor into the atmosphere. According to the research:
The sulphur would have been particularly hazardous as it rapidly forms aerosols – tiny particles that would have blocked the sun’s rays, halting photosynthesis in plants and rapidly cooling the climate. This eventually contributed to the mass extinction event that killed 75 per cent of life on Earth.
It turns out that an impact angle of about 60 degrees is ideal for hurling as much vapour into the air as possible, Collins told New Scientist. If the asteroid ha came in from straight overhead, he said, the asteroid would have smashed up more rock but not sent as much into the atmosphere, and if it was more of a glancing blow, less rock would have been vaporized.
The analysis by these researchers was also informed by recent results from drilling into the 125 mile (200 km) wide crater, which brought up rocks containing evidence of the extreme forces generated by the impact. Read about how the scientists conducted the study here.
Bottom line:A new study suggests that the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximized the amount of climate-changing gases thrust into the upper atmosphere.
MARS 2020: NASA WILL FLY A HELICOPTER ACROSS THE MARTIAN SURFACE
This week marks the 30-day milestone until the launch window of July 20-August 11, 2020 opens for NASA's Perseverance rover and its journey to Mars.
For nearly 20 years, NASA has been sending out robotic rovers to the Red Planet where they roamed the dusty surface on their own for years.
However, the latest addition to the rover family will have a tiny companion by its side, or rather hovering above it.
NASA is testing out its ability to fly a helicopter on another planet with the upcoming mission to Mars as the Ingenuity helicopter hitches a ride along with the rover to the Red Planet. Ingenuity will be strapped up to the Perseverance rover's belly for the ride, covered by a shield to protect it during landing.
Once the duo has landed on Mars in February, 2021, the shield covering will drop and Ingenuity will separate from its robotic companion.
After it detaches itself from the rover, Ingenuity will fly solo in a series of test flights. The pair will be apart by at least 160 feet before they each start doing their own thing, although Perseverance will still keep a watchful eye on its sidekick as it records the helicopter's first attempts at flight using its onboard cameras.
The Ingenuity helicopter will test out NASA's ability to fly a helicopter on another world.NASA
"The thing that has me the most excited as the NASA administrator is getting ready to watch a helicopter fly on another world," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said during a press conference that previewed the mission on June 17. "That's something that's never been done before in human history, and here we are."
Over the course of 30 Martian days (a day on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than it is on Earth), a team of NASA engineers on the ground will test out Ingenuity's ability to fly. But they're going to take things slow.
For its first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet off the ground and hover in the air for around 20 to 30 seconds. Although brief, those first seconds of flight will be considered a major milestone as the first powered flight in the thin Martian atmosphere, much different than our own world. Mars' atmosphere is less than one percent the density of Earth's atmosphere.
After proving it can fly, the Ingenuity helicopter will attempt more flights, each one with further distance and a higher altitude than the one before it.
"Getting it to Mars, getting it safely off the vehicle, we're going to learn a lot," Matt Wallace, deputy project manager for the Mars 2020 mission, said during the press conference. "We are not looking for an extensive and ambitious return from this technology, we're looking to learn those first few things that we need to learn."
The helicopter could fly for up to 90 seconds, to distances of almost 980 feet at a time and about 10 to 15 feet above the ground.
Ingenuity weighs about four pounds on Earth, and will weigh 1.5 pounds on Mars. It is powered through solar panels, that charge up its lithium-ion batteries for one 90-second flight per Martian day.
The Perseverance rover will join Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars back in August, 2012, and is still roaming the Red Planet to this day.
NASA previously sent two other rovers to Mars, Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on the Red Planet in January, 2004. Spirit ended its mission in 2010 — way past its planned 90-day expedition on the planet — while Opportunity tragically lost contact with Earth in 2018 after a massive dust storm swept over Mars.
The goal of the Perseverance mission will be to look for clues of ancient life on Mars, and understand the history of the planet that scientists believed was once a wet, habitable world.
The mission will also test out conditions for possible human exploration of Mars by trialing a method of producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, characterizing environmental conditions such as water and dust on Mars, and looking for resources.
PLANETS WITH OCEANS OF LAVA MAY HAVE GIVEN US METEORITES
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Scientists have been perplexed by the origins of chondrules — the tiny, mysterious spheres found in many of the meteorites that have crashed into Earth. But now, they’ve got a new hypothesis for where they came from, and it may be the most brutal space theory so far.
As the idea goes, tiny proto-planets covered in oceans of lava — yes, lava planets, as seen in science fiction everywhere from Star Wars to Star Trek to Star Fox — may have incinerated asteroids as they flew by, melting then flash-freezing bubbles (the chondrules) into them in the process, according to The New York Times. If it’s true, then it means that probing these chondrules could give scientists a rare glimpse into the hellish early days of our solar system.
No Good Answers
The research, presented this month at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting, is still imperfect — chondrules and the meteorites that contain them continue to elude an easy description.
But this new explanation checks many boxes, and it’s almost poetic that, as the NYT reports, it mirrors an early 19th-century description of chondrules as “droplets of fiery rain.”
Circling Back
Interestingly enough, the idea that meteors bubbled as they flew past lava oceans suggests that chondrules would be extremely rare — yet chondrule-packed chondrites make up 86 percent of the meteorites that hit Earth. And some of them even have chondrules that seem to have melted on two separate occasions, Rowan University researcher Harold Connolly, a critic of the theory, told the NYT.
“Chondrule formation is just a really thorny problem,” University of Manchester researcher Rhian Jones told the NYT. “So anytime somebody comes up with something completely different it’s very welcome, because we don’t have the answer.”
Although Pluto orbits the sun at an average distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers), some studies claim that the icy dwarf planet may havea liquid ocean under its surface. According to a new study, the accretion of new material during Pluto’s early geological history may have generated enough heat to sustain the formation of this ocean, which would go on to continuously freeze over billions of years.
Extensional faults (arrows) on the surface of Pluto may have been created by the freezing of a subsurface ocean. Credit: NASA/Alex Parker.
Pluto is so far away from the sun that it lies inside the Kuiper Belt, a group of rocks and ice left over from the formation of the solar system. It’s really no wonder that today the planet looks like a barren ball of ice and rock.
However, detailed images of Pluto’s surface taken during flybys by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed intriguing geological features that can tell us many things about the dwarf planet’s past.
According to Francis Nimmo, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, Pluto’s surface shows evidence of both ancient and modern extensions of its surface. This suggests that Pluto may have been ‘hot’ during its early days.
To understand why this matters, we have to make a brief tangent to talk about how water freezes. Most liquids shrink when they are cooled because molecules are moving slower, making them less able to overcome the attractive intermolecular forces that draw them closer together. When the freezing point is reached, the substance solidifies in a tightly packed crystalline matrix.
Water is an exception to this chemical behavior. Liquid water also contracts when cooled, but only until it is chilled to approximately 4 degrees Celsius. If you cool water past this threshold, it will actually expand slightly. Cool it further to its freezing point and the water will expand by about 9%.
So, water expands when it freezes and contracts when it melts — and this has important implications for Pluto’s history.
“If Pluto had a subsurface ocean shortly after it formed, that ocean would have been continuously freezing over solar system history. That would cause Pluto to be expanding and that would result in specific geologic features we can look for. In contrast, if Pluto started with a cold ice shell, that ice would have warmed and melted slowly from the heat of radioactive decay forming an ocean. That ocean would have been refreezing in more recent times as the heat from radioactive decay waned. This would lead to early compressional tectonics followed by later extension,” Carver Bierson, UCSC graduate student and co-author of the new study, told ZME Science.
If Pluto had a ‘cold start’, compression on its surface would have occurred early on, followed by more recent extensions. However, if it had a hot start, then extension would have occurred throughout Pluto’s history — and this seems to be the case, current observations suggest.
“When we look at the surface of Pluto we don’t see any clearly compressional features even on the oldest terrains. We do see many extensional features, most of which are recent. The oldest tectonic features we see look to be extensional, but are hard to interpret because they are so eroded. Taken together we think this favors Pluto’s ocean already being present very early in Pluto’s history,” Bierson added.
Pluto’s hot past
Where could all this energy have come from? Pluto is too far from the sun to be of consequential difference, which leaves us with only two main possible sources of energy.
One is the heat released through the decay of radioactive elements in the rock, the other is gravitational energy released during impact with asteroids and other cosmic bodies. Early in the solar system’s history, it was quite common for planets to be bombarded by asteroids and meteorites.
Calculations performed by the researchers suggest that if all of that gravitational energy was retained as heat, Pluto could have supported an initial liquid ocean.
In reality, however, we know that is simply not possible — some of that energy will escape into space.
“How Pluto was put together in the first place matters a lot for its thermal evolution,” Nimmo said in a press release. “If it builds up too slowly, the hot material at the surface radiates energy into space, but if it builds up fast enough the heat gets trapped inside.”
The researchers found that if Pluto formed over a period of less than 30,000 years, then it would have most certainly been hot. If it took a couple million years for accretion of proto-Pluto to take place, then a hot start would only be possible if a large impactor buried its energy deep beneath the surface.
“If Pluto’s ocean was there early on it raises another question, “What was the heat source to form that ocean?” Today Pluto sits in an extremely cold part of the solar system. Its surface temperature is about 45 Kelvin (-480 Fahrenheit). When Pluto was forming new material would have been coming in and impacting its surface. Each impact is like an explosion that will warm the nearby area. If Pluto formed slowly, the surface would cool between each impact and generally stay very cold. If however Pluto formed quickly you have impact on top of impact and the surface doesn’t have time to cool. We calculate that if Pluto formed in less than 30000 years the heat from these impacts could have been sufficient to lead to an early ocean,” Bierson said.
There are a lot of assumptions and ‘ifs’ in this study, but if the findings are confirmed, other large objects in the Kuiper belt likely started out hot, possibly harboring oceans billions of years ago.
What’s intriguing is that these oceans could persist to this day in the largest objects in the belt, such as the dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, shielded under a blanket of thick ice.
“Pluto is the first Kuiper Belt object we visited and what we found was amazing. There is no reason to think that Pluto’s neighbors (Eris, Makemake, Haumea) are any less interesting. From this work, we suggest that they also should have formed with oceans, but we don’t know if they would have completely refrozen over solar system history. Up to now, we haven’t been able to see those worlds as more than points of light in the night sky. This is hard because the Kuiper belt is very very far away. It took New Horizons 9 years from launch to Pluto and it was one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched. Still, I am optimistic that with new telescopes and maybe a future mission we can keep unlocking their secrets,” Bierson concluded.
In archeology, sometimes you can teach an old site new tricks, it seems. New research reports the discovery of at least 20 huge shafts forming a circle at Durrington Walls, the site of a stone-age village about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Stonehenge.
The position of the shafts in relation to Durrington Walls and the village of Durrington, UK. Image credits Vincent Gaffney et al., (2020), intarch.
The discovery of this major, buried monument could help us better understand how the iconic stone circle in England came to be, or what its purpose was.
Ancient digs
“The size of the shafts and circuit surrounding Durrington Walls is currently unique,” says Vince Gaffney, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford and corresponding author of the paper describing the findings.
“It demonstrates the significance of Durrington Walls Henge, the complexity of the monumental structures within the Stonehenge landscape, and the capacity and desire of Neolithic communities to record their cosmological belief systems in ways, and at a scale, that we had never previously anticipated.”
When the shafts were first found, the team assumed they were natural structures, formed by water flowing through the chalky subsurface. However, remote sensing and sampling quickly showed that this wasn’t the case, and that the shafts were built by human hands.
Researchers say the shafts appear to have been dug around 4,500 years ago. Exactly what their purpose was remains unclear, but the team suspects they served a religious purpose, for example acting as a boundary around a circular monument known as the Durrington Walls henge.
The shafts are, on average, 864 metres from Durrington Walls henge, forming a circle around 2 kilometers in diameter. They are over 10 meters (32 feet) in diameter and 5 meters (16 feet) deep. Although 20 have been discovered so far, there are likely more to be found at the site.
“When these pits were first noted it was thought they might be natural features—solution hollows in the chalk,” says Gaffney. But geophysical surveys carried out at the side showed “there was a pattern on a massive scale.”
Britain is a hotbed for archaeology. Stonehenge, built between 3000 B.C. and 1600 B.C., is iconic across much of the world and one of the country’s top tourist attractions, and a feat of engineering during its day — but it’s by no means the country’s only stone circle. These structures are thousands of years old and the reasons why they were built are still poorly understood It was likely a religious or spiritual place, or a means of keeping track of the seasons.
Among the more exciting implications of this finding is that it betrays a relatively advanced understanding of mathematics, without which the ancient builders couldn’t have produced a neat and organized circle on the scale seen here.
The paper “A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge” has been published in the journal Internet Archaeology.
Noctilucent cloud season has returned to Earth’s high latitudes. These “night-shining” clouds are beautiful … photos here.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Noctilucent – or night-shining – clouds just after midnight on June 16, 2020. Nature photographer Ruslan Merzlyakov in Limfjord, Denmark said these clouds were: ” … disturbed by the high-altitude turbulence.” Thank you, Ruslan!
Every year – from May through August in the Northern Hemisphere, and from November through February in the Southern Hemisphere – people at high latitudes report seeing noctilucent or night-shining clouds. We read at SpaceWeather.com this weekend that these beautiful clouds have now descended to their lowest latitude of the 2020 season so far: +44 degrees North in Bend, Oregon.
I woke up at 3:30 a.m. to a very bright sky shining through the shades. I got up to take a look and was surprised to find noctilucent clouds. I live in Bend Oregon and since living here (18 years) have seen this only two other times. Beautiful.
Noctilucent clouds typically descend even lower after the summer solstice, according to Tony Phillips of SpaceWeather.com. If you’re at a northerly latitude, now is a good time to watch for them!
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Menno van der Haven reported from Waddinxveen, The Netherlands on June 21, 2020: “Last night, the ‘evening view’ of noctilucent clouds in the northwest was quite small and weak. However, if you use a zoom lens and overexpose with a certain amount, you often see some pretty curls. One in particular resembled a corkscrew and also behaved like this …” Thank you, Meeno!
When the sun is below the ground horizon but visible from the high altitude of noctilucent clouds, sunlight illuminates these clouds, causing them to glow in the dark night sky.
Illustration via NASA.
What are noctilucent clouds? Noctilucent clouds form in the highest reaches of the atmosphere – the mesosphere – as much as 50 miles (80 km) above the Earth’s surface. They’re thought to be made of ice crystals that form on fine dust particles from meteors. They can only form when temperatures are incredibly low and when there’s water available to form ice crystals.
Why do these clouds – which require such cold temperatures – form in the summer? It’s because of the dynamics of the atmosphere. You actually get the coldest temperatures of the year near the poles in summer at that height in the mesosphere.
Here’s how it works: during summer, air close to the ground gets heated and rises. Since atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude, the rising air expands. When the air expands, it also cools down. This, along with other processes in the upper atmosphere, drives the air even higher causing it to cool even more. As a result, temperatures in the mesosphere can plunge to as low as -210 degrees Fahrenheit (-134 degrees Celsius).
In the Northern Hemisphere, the mesosphere often reaches these temperatures by mid-May, in most years.
Since the clouds are so sensitive to the atmospheric temperatures, they can act as a proxy for information about the wind circulation that causes these temperatures. First of all, they can tell scientists that the circulation exists, and also tell us something about the strength of the circulation.
How can I see noctilucent clouds? If you want to see the clouds, what steps should you take? Remember, you have to be at a relatively high latitude on Earth to see them: typically between about 45 degrees and 60 degrees north or south latitude, although the clouds can sometimes be seen at lower latitudes, particularly following the solstices.
For best results, look for these clouds from about May through August in the Northern Hemisphere, and from November through February in the Southern Hemisphere.
Noctilucent clouds are primarily visible when the sun is just below the horizon, say, from about 90 minutes to about two hours after sunset or before sunrise. At such times, when the sun is below the ground horizon but visible from the high altitude of noctilucent clouds, sunlight illuminates these clouds, causing them to glow in the dark night sky.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Marek Nikodem captured this image at 11:59 p.m. on June 16, 2020 near Szubin, Poland. He wrote: “The noctilucent clouds were visible all night, from dusk to dawn.”
Scientists studying these clouds have included those from NASA’s AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite. This satellite, launched in 2007, has observed noctilucent clouds using several onboard instruments to collect information such as temperature, atmospheric gases, ice crystal size and changes in the clouds, as well as the amount of meteoric space dust that enters the atmosphere. You can find out what they are learning here.
Noctilucent clouds can be seen from space, too. Astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS) took this photo on January 5, 2013, when ISS was over the Pacific Ocean south of French Polynesia. Below the brightly-lit noctilucent clouds, across the center of the image, the pale orange band is the stratosphere.
Bottom line: Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are seen during summer in Earth’s high-latitude regions. They form in the highest reaches of the atmosphere – the mesosphere – as much as 50 miles (80 km) above the surface.
It's not a bird. It's not a plane. And it's not an alien. (It's never an alien, from planet Krypton or otherwise.)
Still, the origin of a strange, balloon-like UFO that appeared in the sky over the city of Sendai, Japan, yesterday (June 17) around 7 a.m. local time, remains a mystery a full day after its sudden arrival. The object looked like a large white, unmanned balloon attached to two crossed propellers, according to news reports. The UFO lingered in the sky, largely motionless, for several hours before drifting over the Pacific Ocean, AFP reported.
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While a weather balloon seems like the obvious explanation (they are widely available for purchase), a spokesperson from the Sendai bureau of the Japan Meteorological Agency told AFP that "it's not ours." In his daily press briefing later that day, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga also denied any knowledge of the balloon's origin, according to AFP.
Suga also tried to pop any rumors that the balloony UFO was the dastardly instrument of a foreign government. Earlier on Wednesday, social media speculation about the object ran rampant, giving air to theories that the UFO was distributing North Korean propaganda or even spreading the novel coronavirus.
The evidence for either of these theories — much like the balloon itself — looks like a big, fat goose egg. For a truly head-scratching UFO mystery, grab a tinfoil hat and take a look at these eerie airborne videos recently declassified by the U.S. government.
FNNinterviewed people on the streets, one of whom said, “It looks like a balloon but it’s totally not moving.” A representative from the Sendai District Meteorological Observatory said the object was not theirs, so they were unable to provide any details.
Floating at more than 3,000m above the ground for hours, the airborne mystery seems to have a cross-like equipment and rotating propellers below it.
Besides Miyagi, the mysterious object was also spotted in various other regions such as Fukushima and Yamagata prefectures. According to the UFO Fureai Museum in Fukushima, “it is difficult to say that is a UFO” as it does not have the sudden acceleration iconic to UFOs.
The object is rather similar to a radiosonde, which is a battery-powered weather monitoring equipment brought into the atmosphere by a white weather ballon. However, the Japan Meteorological Agency has denied that it was something they had released into the sky for monitoring or research purposes.
Based on aviation law, in order to fly a balloon or the likes, one has to submit a request to the vicinity’s airport office. But it seems that no application was submitted for this “unidentified flying object”.
The mysterious balloon-like object has reportedly floated out over the Pacific Ocean, but it’s left a country baffled as its origin and function remains undetermined.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Archeologen hebben een brede cirkel van diepe schachten ontdekt rond een oude nederzetting in de buurt van Stonehenge. Volgens de onderzoekers gaat het om “de grootste prehistorische structuur die ooit gevonden werd in het Verenigd Koninkrijk” en opent de ontdekking wellicht een pad naar nieuwe inzichten rond de oorsprong en de betekenis van het mysterieuze, prehistorische monument in Engeland.
De stenen cirkel in Stonehenge, waarvan de betekenis ondanks decennia van onderzoek nog onbekend blijft voor wetenschappers, is een van de beroemdste bezienswaardigheden van Groot-Brittannië. Het is een trekpleister voor toeristen en mensen die op zoek zijn naar spirituele verbindingen met de natuur.
De nieuwe ontdekking, beschreven als “verbazingwekkend” en “een technisch meesterwerk” door het team van archeologen van meerdere universiteiten dat aan het project deelnam, toont een gigantische schachtengordel met een diameter van 2 kilometer rond de nederzetting Durrington Walls. Elke schacht heeft een diameter van 10 meter en een diepte van meer dan 5 meter. In totaal zijn er 20 schachten gevonden, maar ze zouden er volgens de onderzoekers meer dan 30 kunnen zijn.
RVLinks bovenaan Stonehenge. Centraal de nederzetting Durrington Walls, met daarrond de schachtengordel.
De archeologische vindplaats ligt ongeveer 3 kilometer ten noordoosten van Stonehenge op Salisbury Plain, en er zijn aanwijzingen dat de schachten dateren uit dezelfde periode, zo’n 4500 jaar geleden.
Volgens de onderzoekers zou de complexiteit van de constructie het eerste bewijs zijn dat de vroegste inwoners van het Verenigd Koninkrijk - voornamelijk landbouwers - een manier gevonden hadden om te tellen.
UFO fever started after World War II, when Kenneth Arnold claimed to spot nine high-speed flying objects near Mount Rainier Washington in 1947. This fever hasn’t seemed to calm down, even though academic interest in UFOs has pretty much been shut down since then.
UFO sightings have been on the rise since the 1980s.Sam Monfort
No, we haven’t suddenly become a sightseeing hotspot for intergalactic aliens. More likely, it has something to do with new technology that may be mistaken for UFOs or spread conspiracy theories about aliens. Next time you see some conspiracy theorist post a video about the latest UFO sighting, keep these three things in mind.
These flying objects can easily be mistaken from the distance as alien spacecrafts touching down into our atmosphere. Back in the day, UFO sightings often turned out to be objects like weather balloons, satellites, meteorites, planets, airplanes, and weather anomalies.
But now, enter the drone. These flying mechanical objects zipping through the air may even be deliberately created to look like UFOs, causing unsuspecting viewers to mistake them for out-of-the-world machines. In 2014, some drone enthusiasts even organized a night to strap LED lights to drones and fly them to prank the public and get them to think they’re UFOs.
2. If there are no pics, did it really happen?
Back then, if you claimed to see a UFO, unless you had an expensive camera, there was really no way of verifying whether you saw one or not. But now that people are equipped with smartphone cameras, pictures of UFO sightings can quickly go viral on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, or anywhere else on the internet. What’s more, people can edit their photos digitally to make the UFO look more like an alien spacecraft — leading to more “UFO sightings.”
3. The internet.
With the internet, it’s easier to figure out how to report sightings. Just type “report UFO sighting” and the NUFORC’s website will pop up. Even if you don’t officially report it, as said before, it’s easy for photos and videos of your “UFO sighting” to go viral. There are conspiracy blogs and websites all over the internet about UFOs and aliens, like this one.
What’s more, countries like the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Scandinavian nations report more UFOs. It doesn’t necessarily mean aliens are visiting those countries more — it probably just means people have more access to the internet. The same goes for countries that report less UFO sightings — likely meaning less widespread internet access.
Sam Monfort compared Internet access and UFO sightings per country.Sam Monfort
The U.S. is especially obsessed with reporting UFOs, as Americans report UFO sightings 300 times greater than any other nation. And when we’re feeling patriotic, we report even more UFOs. UFO sightings in the U.S. spike on, you guessed it, July 4. It’s probably just fireworks and strange lights, although conspiracy theorists will likely disagree.
What Divers Discovered Deep Beneath the Bermuda Ocean Completely Shocked Them
What Divers Discovered Deep Beneath The Bermuda Ocean Completely Shocked Them
There have been numerous mysterious objects that have been difficult to identfy, some seemingly buried for hundreds if not thousands of years that resemble a small flying saucer. Others have been discovered at the bottom of our oceans, such as a strange discovery in Bermuda that led to finding ancient structures. These strange building seemingly surround a large object with apedages which has of yet, not been identied.
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