Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
UFO encounters happen all over the world, to all types of people, and some of these are stranger than others. Our tale here revolves around a humble factory worker by the name of Bruno Facchini, in the town of Varese, of northern Italy, about 55 km north of Milan. He was known locally as a good, honest, hardworking man who never made trouble and was not prone to tall tales, yet on April 24, 1950 he would gain quite the tale to tell. On this evening there was a serious thunderstorm, and so when it passed he stepped outside during his shift at work to check for any damage that might have been caused by the storm. When he got outside the storm had mostly moved off to become flickers on the dark horizon and some low grumblings from the thunder, but while the storm was gone something altogether odder was in its place. And so would begin one of the strangest UFO cases in Italian history.
Bruno Facchini
He says that he saw there not too far away a strange flickering glow or sparkle, which he at first took to be a damaged power transformer, but as he drew closer to investigate it turned out to be altogether weirder. He approached to see a somewhat circular, glowing object with a flattened top that sparkled and looked like a “crushed ball,” and as he approached even nearer, he could see that the object was “squared by vertical and horizontal stripes, placed at regular intervals.” On the top of the outlandish object was a greenish glow, and even more bizarre was that there was a rectangular open on the bottom of the craft, and a ladder that seemed to have dropped down from it. Bathed in the eerie glow of the object were several small figures, as well as another at the top of the ladder, all of them wearing what looked like grey diving suits of some kind, complete with helmets, masks, and tubes. He says that the two beings outside seemed to have been engaged with welding something on the bottom of their ship.
Facchini Incident Artist’s Impression
At first, he had the impression that these were human pilots who had crashed and were in trouble, and he says of what happened:
Next to a power line pole I saw a huge, round shape. From the illuminated disc, a ladder came down. A door opened. I could see inside the UFO, because a light diffused inside, there was another ladder leading to a higher level of the craft; on the walls, there were bottles connected together in rows and between them I could notice that there were gauges and tubes. In the middle [of the shape] there was a small ladder, lightened by a green light. Almost immediately, I understood that the light came from some sort of lamp handled by a standing man who seemed to be engaged in welding. He wore something like a diving suit and a mask. Driven by curiosity, I went closer, and I saw two other people, with the same clothing, moving slowly around the craft – I guessed that their diving suit was heavy and slowed down their movements. The craft, lighted by the welding tool, cast metallic reflections back.
I offered to help, but the only answer I received were some guttural sounds that were not understandable. I wondered what their intentions were. I had the feeling they were inviting me aboard. Suddenly I heard an uproar, like the amplified buzz of a bee, or a huge power generator. I saw another ladder in the interior of the craft, and all around, tubes, cylinders, and gauges. I understood that this was not a plane, and I was seized by panic, I started to run away. I was not so close anymore when I turned my head back. I saw one of the men raise some sort of apparatus he carried at his side and beam a ray of light in my direction. I started to run again, but immediately, I felt as if I was cut in two parts by some cutting tool or by a jet of compressed air and I fell flat. I kept running, but at the same time I had the impression of being reached by a blunt force or to be more precise, by a powerful jet of compressed air, and I fell to the ground, more than right on the edge of one of the border stones that bounded the fields.
They seemed not to be interested in my anymore. I am convinced they only wanted to scare me and had no intention to do anything wrong to me. They were busy in removing the scaffold and withdrawing the ladder. Then the door closed. All the lights went out. And the buzzing sound continued. Suddenly the sound became louder. The craft took off, gained speed and disappeared.
He now knew that these were no human pilots, and he was filled with horror and panic, and when he looked back, he could see the strange beings board their ship, which then shot up into the sky with tremendous speed and that buzzing sound that sounded like an angry beehive. The whole ordeal left him shaken and confused, and the following morning he went to the police to tell his far-out story. The skeptical officers who went to the scene were surprised to find large patches of burnt ground, as well as strange indentations and what seemed to be circular footprints of some type. There were additionally found shards of a strange, green metallic substance, which would later be analyzed to find that they were a sort of heat-resistant, “anti-friction” material composed of 74% copper, 19% tin, traces of Silver, Aluminum and Magnesium, and other trace elements, as well as some sort of unidentified lubricant.
Making this all even odder than it already is, around a week after his bizarre encounter, Facchini says that he began to have certain unusual physical symptoms, which he connected with the incident. He claimed that his back had become bruised and turned a sickly yellow, precisely where the beam had hit him, and he also complained of mysterious headaches and bouts of dizziness and nausea. A visit to the doctor would also supposedly turn up a strange black mark where the beam had hit. When he had an interview about his experiences in 1981, he claimed that he was still suffering from lingering physical effects such as headaches and inexplicable hot flashes and fevers, as well as profound psychological trauma. He has never backed down from his story, but we are left to wonder what happened to him. Was any of this real at all, or is it a delusion? With no hard evidence and those metal shards having since disappeared we are left to speculate, and it remains a very strange case with no concrete answers.
Most people who have an interest in UFOs will know how the controversial Majestic 12 documents surfaced. December 11, 1984 was a date destined to become infamous in the field of Ufology. On that day, a man named Jaime Shandera, who was a television producer at the time, received in the mail a thick, manila envelope. It was postmarked Albuquerque, New Mexico and lacked a return address. At the time, Shandera was working closely with Bill Moore – a writer who had spent a lot of time trying to uncover the true story of the Roswell “UFO crash” of July 1947. Greg Bishop says in his 2005 book Project Beta: “two more envelopes were inside, each enclosed within the next like Russian dolls.” Bishop added: “From the third one, a 35mm roll of film rolled out of a black canister. When developed, the black-and-white film revealed two sequences of eight pictures each – pictures of something that would pass into history as the notorious ‘MJ-12 document’ or ‘Presidential Briefing Papers.'” Those papers appeared to be nothing less than decades-old, highly-classified papers on a Top Secret program of the U.S. government. Those same papers revolved around crashed saucers, dead aliens, autopsies of extraterrestrial creatures, and a secret agency/think-tank known as Majestic 12. For the next few years, Moore and Shandera dug deep into the Majestic 12 papers. And, in 1987, they went public with the papers. The controversy began. And, more than thirty years later, those documents are still talked about. But, here’s the most important question of all: what was it that led Shandera and Moore to receive that roll of film? To answer that important question, we have to go back a few years earlier. That’s when it all really started.
In September 1980 – while promoting his newly-published book (with Charles Berlitz) The Roswell Incident – Moore took part in a number of radio-based interviews around the United States. At the end of one such interview, a secretary told Moore there was someone on the line who wanted to speak privately with Moore. The voice at the other end belonged to a colonel who was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, which is located in Sarpy County, Nebraska. The man said to Moore: “We think you’re the only one we’ve heard that seems to know what he’s talking about.” The colonel desired a meeting. And soon, too. Moore scribbled down the colonel’s number, promising to get back in touch as soon as possible. The proactive colonel didn’t wait for Moore to reach him, however. Instead, he contacted Moore – for a second time. Once again, the man trotted out those same sixteen words: “We think you’re the only one we’ve heard that seems to know what he’s talking about.” By now, Moore was more than intrigued. A meeting was quickly arranged. The pair was to rendezvous in an Albuquerque restaurant, one which was on Moore’s journey home, for good food and – hopefully – enlightening conversation. The mysterious informant was described by Moore as being elderly and gaunt. Greg Bishop said the man had a “hint of an Eastern European accent.” From that day on, the wizened old man would become known to Moore as the “Falcon.”
Greg Bishop says that, “…[Moore’s] new acquaintance told [him] that he represented a group of intelligence agents in the U.S. Government who were tired of the secrecy surrounding the UFO subject and were eager to release more accurate information to the public. They wanted to do this through a reputable researcher. He would be given small bites of the story over time, and could do with it as he wished. Would Moore be interested in participating in such a program?” Yes, Moore was interested. Very much so. But, there was the matter of a certain unholy alliance that Moore knew he would have to enter into; like it or not. He knew that if he didn’t play the game, then his chance of getting to the heart of what Uncle Sam knew of UFOs and aliens – dead, alive or even both – would irreversibly slip out of his grip. So, Moore agreed to do whatever had to be done. Everything soon took off. In the early 1980s, Moore found himself periodically on the receiving end of instructions to travel to certain locations around the United States, where he would meet with anonymous, insider-type characters, including, yet again, the Falcon.
On each occasion, seemingly highly-classified material on UFOs was handed over to Moore – always in manila envelopes and in various, widespread places. Those locations included a motel-room in upstate New York, and a certain building in the heart of Los Angeles, California. On one occasion, in April 1983, a friend of Moore, Nic Magnuson, picked up a collection of documents for Moore at Seattle, Washington’s Sea-Tac International Airport. The handover was made by “a short, elderly, balding man” who gave to Magnuson a newspaper that contained hidden within its pages one of those priceless manila envelopes. The collective documentation referred to such enigmas as “Project Aquarius,” “MJ12 [an alternative term for Majestic 12],” “communications with aliens,” even to decisions taken by elite figures in the domain of intelligence-gathering to keep the White House firmly out of the ufological loop. A secret that was so astounding that not even the president of the United States could be told the truth? Possibly, yes.
For Moore there was very little doubt the papers amounted to absolute dynamite. If they were true, that is. That was the biggest issue of all: were they genuine? Or, was Moore being used by people in the intelligence community; manipulative characters who were trying to push Moore away from his significant Roswell research and further down a pathway filled with questionable document upon questionable document? The questions were valid ones. It would not be long at all before Jaime Shandera would receive the Majestic 12 documents that caused so much controversy – and for so many years.
Security Camera Catches Strange Lights Los Angeles, California Oct 5, 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 5, 2020
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA
Source: MUFON #111767
I went over this video carefully and noticed that at first it appears to be a drone with four lights...but as the lights divided into two sets...quickly realized I was wrong. The objects seem to move as one mostly, but then divide up as they leave. Very strange, very confusing and the size, shape, pattern of movement all point to small alien drones.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I put up Wyze cameras in the back porch in June and started to get many orbs flying around my back porch. I showed serval friends who are in paranormal and we have come to the conclusion that this could be gate way to inter-dimensional beings. I have been catching the orbs and objects on a weekly baes. I know infrared cameras catch things that the human eye can't see.
Two UFO Over Okinawa, Japan Cause Girl To Burst Into Tears! Oct 2020, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2020
Location of sighting: Okinawa, Japan
This is an interesting raw video of a little girl at home by herself and she is recording two glowing UFOs in the distance. She is speaking Chinese, which is one of the languages of Okinawa. Chinese, English and Japanese are dominate there. The little girl is sending texts on here photo or iPad while recording the UFOs. She says I see UFOs. They just know they are not airplanes. Those are UFOs. And she breaks into tears half way through the video. Perhaps movies or TV shows have put a bad picture in the girls head and her fears outweigh here curiosity. Nevertheless...she stays strong...and keeps recording as she sends vocal messages to someone. These do look like UFOs. I see no signs of them being aircraft.
White UFO Fleet Passes Over London Sept 19, 2020, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Sept 19, 2020
Location of sighting: London, UK
This eyewitness was very excited to capture his first ever UFO sighting in London. The eyewitness noticed many flying spheres glowing white passing in the sky above. One sphere passed over the rooftop of a building nearby. Absolutely fantastic raw video and 100% proof that aliens exist. Too big to be satellites and much too fast. No flashing lights and too slow to be planes. Wow, just incredible capture.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
I have been a sceptical believer in ufos or other life out there for quite some time now but this is the first I have ever seen with my own two eyes! It left me stunned and a little scared once I realised they were not lanterns and were moving together in a triangle/diamond formation. They were orange to the naked eye and did not flash or make sound that I could hear so it rules out planes and helicopters. I can not be in Too sure weather they were aliens or the government fooling with us but honestly you had to see it with you eyes to believe it, and if anyone has seen anything like this around the time I did please let me know.
Date of discovery: Oct 10, 2020, but occurred in Jan 29, 2018
Location of sighting: Stromboli, Sicily
Source: Stromboli Volcano Live cams and archives.
Guys, I really thought I was looking at this weeks live cam when I found this UFO exiting the mouth of the volcano. However I realized that I was in the old archives of the cam and the current cam is no longer working. But the UFO was so cool, I just had to make a video of it and share it with you.
The UFO is slightly blurry, as is the mountain surface itself. The UFO is not a bird, because a bird would be much closer and much more focused. This is far back. Its not a plane or helicopter because its size and location would put it in danger from the live volcano. The island was occupied by 500 people as of 2016, but current numbers are less due to its increased activity of the volcano. This is the perfect location for an entrance to an under ground base far below the ocean floor. The UFO itself is about 30-40 meters across. Thats huge. This may be the same underground base linked to the historical 3 decade alien contact case in Rocca Pia, Italy where locals said aliens came up from a city below the castle and chatted with them occasionally. They also said the alien base underground extended far out into the ocean floor area. I believe this Stromboli volcano alien base entrance is connected to the Rocca Pia alien base.
Skywatcher stunned by weird rotating spheres in the sky
Askywatcher in Glendora, California recorded a series of strange rotating spheres in the sky. At a certain moment when the orbs stopped, the orb on the left releases some entities.
My wife and I were cleaning the garage when I noticed a light on the foothills that kept getting super bright then disappear. I watched it for about 2 mins or so and went to grab my scope to set up.
I have seen several anomalies in the foothills since August 1st, so that why I purchased a scope. Anyways I set it up and for the first 4 mins or so was to get my scope lined up in the area I saw the light.
When I was able to see the light again under the scope and that's when I got excited and just tried to focus as much as I could on the object. I am 1.3 miles away from Punk out trail in Glendora and my house is right up against a busy road (that's why you hear cars passing by).
Once under my scope I noticed 2 orbs moving through the foothills moving to the left. That's when the 3rd orb appeared and it looked like a triangle formation rotating counter clockwise at it panned left.
When the objects stopped if you pay attention to the orb on the left some entities come out. In the video you see an entity fly out then go back. This happens on other occasion as well. When I zoomed in closer and focused as best as I could the right orb you can see something flickering on the top of it.
When I mention for my wife to call the Glendora PD to see if anything should be up there within that minute the object broke up into red, white and blue lights and looks like the shifted shape and panned left to disappear.
On October 9th I went to the forest rangers in the area to check and see if it is possible for OHV or other vehicle up there. They said it would be very difficult and that's when I showed them the video. They said there is no way for any vehicle to do what is on my video and they were just shocked.
Video starts with the original footage, zoomed in version starts at 5.26 minutes.
UFO Documentary Updates the Debate Through Recent Pentagon Disclosures
The fascination with UFOs is nothing new, but it has gained renewed interest and speculation. Enter “The Phenomenon,” a documentary featuring the former officials that put weight on the notion the government knows much more than it has shared to the public, and the truth is out there.
The most notable names include former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. The Pentagon released videos of UFOs in April, which involved Navy pilots reacting in awe at the objects’ speed.
When asked about the proof that has been kept classified, Reid responded that most of it hadn’t seen the light of day.
Reid has been talking about a Defense Department unit called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which devoted to looking into UFOs wherein existence hadn’t been acknowledged before the 2017 report in the New York Times.
The documentary director James Fox produced his first UFO documentary in the 1990s and, more recently, directed “I Know What I Saw.” Fox spent years going back and probing reported UFO events through the decades in several places worldwide, including an Australian UFO sighting in the 1960s and a Zimbabwe sighting in 1994.
“The Phenomenon” provides various examples of UFOs moving inexplicable ways and offers insight from notable UFO researchers, including Jacques Vallee, who gave inspiration for the Lacombe character in Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” It includes old interviews with the late astronaut Gordon Cooper, who shared his mysterious sighting in 1951 while flying fighters in Germany. It also features former President Gerald Ford, who expressed his desire for greater transparency regarding the issue while still a congressman.
That documentary and countless other films reflect how extraterrestrial or alien visitors’ prospect remains alternately thrilling and terrifying as invoked through the prism of science fiction. The unknowns still immensely outnumber what can be determined with any certainty, even after observing the skies for decades.
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SOMMIGE PLANETEN ZIJN VEEL GESCHIKTER VOOR LEVEN DAN DE ONZE
Vivian Lammerse
Maak kennis met de ‘superleefbare’ planeten!
Het klinkt misschien een beetje vreemd, maar onze aarde is niet de meest gunstige planeet voor leven. Er bestaan waarschijnlijk planeten waar de omstandigheden nóg beter zijn. In een nieuwe studie hebben onderzoekers twee dozijn exoplaneten ontmaskerd die mogelijk geschikter voor leven zijn dan de onze. En dit zijn de zogenaamde ‘superleefbare’ planeten.
Kopie van de aarde In de zoektocht naar buitenaards leven op andere planeten, zoeken onderzoekers vaak naar planeten met dezelfde kenmerken als de aarde. Maar de onderzoekers uit de huidige studie beweren dat we misschien helemaal niet moeten zoeken naar een tweelingzusje van onze planeet. “We moeten oppassen dat we niet vastlopen in onze zoektocht naar een tweede aarde,” zegt Schulze-Makuch. “We denken vaak dat wij op de beste planeet wonen. En het klopt inderdaad dat onze aarde over een groot aantal complexe en diverse levensvormen beschikt waarvan veel kunnen overleven in extreme omgevingen. Toch betekent dit niet gelijk dat we ook het beste van alles hebben.” Het betekent dat er mogelijk planeten bestaan waar de omstandigheden voor leven beter zijn dan op onze thuisplaneet. En in het onderzoek beschrijven astronomen de kenmerken van zo’n ‘superleefbare’ planeet. Zo zou deze bijvoorbeeld een stukje ouder, een beetje groter, iets warmer en mogelijk natter zijn dan de aarde. Bovendien zou leven ook makkelijker kunnen gedijen op planeten die rond langzamer veranderende sterren cirkelen met een langere levensduur dan onze zon.
Ster Hoewel de zon het centrum van ons zonnestelsel is, heeft hij een relatief korte levensduur van minder dan 10 miljard jaar. Omdat het bijna 4 miljard jaar heeft geduurd voordat er enige vorm van complex leven op aarde verscheen, zouden veel vergelijkbare sterren zonder brandstof kunnen komen te zitten voordat complex leven de kans krijgt om zich te ontwikkelen. Daarom bestudeerden de astronomen in hun studie ook andere sterren, waaronder K-dwergsterren (zie kader).
Meer over K-sterren Het is niet voor het eerst dat onderzoekers opperen dat er leven op planeten kan voorkomen die rond K-sterren cirkelen. Ook andere wetenschappers hebben datzelfde vermoeden. K-sterren (ook wel oranje dwergsterren genoemd) zijn niet te heet, niet te koel en vooral – in tegenstelling tot rode dwergen; de meest voorkomende sterren in het heelal – niet te gewelddadig. Daarnaast leven oranje dwergen erg lang; ze kunnen wel tussen de 20 miljard en 70 miljard jaar oud worden. Dankzij de lange levensduur is er dus voldoende tijd waarin eventueel leven zich zou kunnen ontwikkelen. Oranje dwergsterren hebben dus eigenlijk eigenschappen die tussen de zeldzamere, meer lichtgevende maar kortlevende G-sterren (sterren zoals onze zon) en rode dwergsterren in zitten.
De onderzoekers beweren dat K-sterren veelbelovende doelwitten zijn in de zoektocht naar superleefbare planeten. Dankzij de lange levensduur heeft een planeet die zich rondom een K-ster bevindt, voldoende tijd waarin eventueel complex leven zoals op aarde zich zou kunnen ontwikkelen. Een planeet moet echter ook niet te oud zijn, zodat zijn geothermische warmte is uitgeput en de beschermende aardmagnetische velden zijn verdwenen. Hoewel onze aarde ongeveer 4,5 miljard jaar oud is, veronderstellen de onderzoekers dat leven zich het beste kan ontwikkelen op een planeet die tussen de 5 miljard en 8 miljard jaar oud is.
Grootte en massa De grootte en de massa van een planeet zijn ook van belang. Een planeet die 10 procent groter is dan de aarde beschikt bijvoorbeeld over meer bewoonbaar land. En een planeet met een massa van ongeveer 1,5 keer die van de aarde heeft naar verwachting een langere inwendige warmteproductie door natuurlijk verval van radioactieve isotopen. Bovendien heeft zo’n planeet waarschijnlijk een sterkere zwaartekracht zodat de atmosfeer gedurende een langere periode behouden blijft.
Water Daarnaast is natuurlijk het voorkomen van water op een superleefbare planeet essentieel. Water is per slot van rekening de sleutel tot leven. De onderzoekers beweren dan ook dat een beetje meer ervan dan op aarde zou helpen, vooral in de vorm van wolken en vochtigheid. Ook een iets hogere temperatuur levert een belangrijke bijdrage. Zo stellen de onderzoekers dat een oppervlaktetemperatuur van ongeveer 5 graden Celsius hoger dan op aarde, samen met extra vocht, betere omstandigheden biedt voor leven om te gedijen. Een goed voorbeeld hiervan zijn tropische regenwouden. Hogere temperaturen en en een hogere luchtvochtigheid dragen hier immers bij aan een grotere biodiversiteit dan in koudere, droge gebieden.
Kandidaat-planeten Dankzij de studie weten we nu beter welke ‘ingrediënten’ samen een superleefbare planeet vormen. De onderzoekers besloten daarom ook meteen een aantal planeten op te sporen die aan de gestelde criteria voldoen. De onderzoekers ontdekten 24 veelbelovende planeten. Deze 24 kanshebbers zijn echter allemaal meer dan 100 lichtjaar van de aarde verwijderd. Bovendien voldoet geen aan alle opgesomde criteria, al beschikt één planeet over vier van de genoemde kenmerken.
Omdat de kandidaat-planeten zich allemaal op geruime afstand van de aarde bevinden, kunnen we er niet zo gemakkelijk een kijkje nemen om de omstandigheden van dichtbij te bekijken. Maar mogelijk zijn de 24 genoemde planeten wel interessant voor de aankomende James Webb-telescoop, de LUVIOR ruimtetelescoop en planetenjager PLATO. “Dankzij de volgende generatie ruimtetelescopen zullen we meer informatie kunnen verzamelen,” zegt Schulze-Makuch. We moeten dus nog even geduld hebben. Maar in ieder geval hebben we nu een aantal goede kandidaten ontmaskerd voor toekomstige onderzoek naar leven.
WIST JE DAT…
…onderzoekers al wel een aantal mogelijk leefbare planeten in het vizier hebben? Bijvoorbeeld de in 2015 rond de rode dwergster ontdekte planeet K2-18b. K2-18b bevindt zich in de leefbare zone, kent een gematigde temperatuur en als klap op de vuurpijl ontdekten onderzoekers vorig jaar september waterdamp in de atmosfeer van de superaarde. En dat leidt tot de opwindende veronderstelling dat deze planeet zomaar eens leven zou kunnen herbergen.
The secret file is said to contain incredible colour photographs of the infamous sighting in 1990, where two hitchhikers claim they saw a 100ft craft hovering over Calvine in Scotland
By Jamie Hawkins
Two hitchhikers captured this photo of an alleged UFO in Calvine in 1990
(Image: Cynon Valley Leader)
A secret dossier that details one of Britain's most famous UFO sightings is to be kept secret for another 50 years.
It apparently contains incredible colour photos taken in 1990 that allegedly show a 100ft craft hovering over Calvine in the Scottish Highlands.
Two hikers were walking in the area when suddenly they say they saw a diamond shaped aircraft over the landscape before speeding off into the distance.
The two hikers took pictures of the craft and immediately contacted journalists from the Scottish Daily Record Newspaper.
After viewing their photos, the journalists chose to share both pictures and negatives with the Ministry of Defence.
A 30-year rule meant the file was meant to be declassified in January next year, but the Ministry of Defence has now blocked its release for another 50 years, until 2072.
The UFO dossier cannot be released until 2072(Image: Getty Images)
UFO investigator Nick Pope helped colourise the famous image, and hit out at the MOD's decision to delay the dossier even further.
Another UFO hunter told The Sun : “This is all so frustrating. The Calvine Incident is one of the most intriguing of all the UFO mysteries from that period.
“Under the 30-year rule, the file should have been released on January 1 2021, but if the ministry get their way it won’t be released until January 1 2072 — an 82-year closure.
“By the time the world gets to see the file, the two witnesses will be dead. It is crazy. What are the authorities trying to hide?”
The sighting was one of Britain's most famous(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Gwrych Castle in Abergele, Wales is miles up the coast from Puffin Island, where well-known UFO hunter Russ Kellett believes a spaceship was found in the 1970s.
Mr Kellett believes the spaceship and alien visitors were covered up to avoid panic.
A source told the Daily Star: "The celebs will be braced for horrible trials and wet weather.
Gwrych Castle is supposedly haunted and parts of the building had fallen into disrepair(Image: Daily Post Wales)
"But they could get something far more terrifying – an alien invasion."
Locals of the area have previously claimed that the castle itself is haunted by the potential for an alien sighting will add a whole other dimension to procedings.
"If there are any extra-terrestrial visitors, it will certainly make for good telly," noted the source.
In 1988, a trio of joggers believe they sighted a flying saucer above the village of Dwygyfylchi in North Wales.
This was followed by three separate sightings of what appeared to be an alien spacecraft above Abergele, according to a retired police officer in 1998.
Does the Russian space program know something (or some things) that NASA doesn’t? If recent interviews with cosmonauts are any indication, that answer is a resounding “Da!” – especially if the subject is the existence of life on other planets. First, cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, at the time a crew member on the International Space Station, records five UFOs near the ISS and reports them on Twitter as nonchalantly as he might tweet a photo of his latest freeze-dried space meal. Next, Russian astrobiologists report the discovery of phosphine in the upper atmosphere of Venus – a strong indicator of the presence of life. This is followed by cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, in an interview discussing his preparation to becoming an ISS crew member, revealing that cosmonauts are trained on how to communicate with any space aliens they encounter.
And now, there’s this:
“Therefore, when the human being reaches Mars, then he will probably find some life, very similar to the Terran, but already more adapted to the conditions of Mars.”
Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev
In an interview with Sputnik News, Oleg Artemyev explained why he believes humans will encounter life forms on Mars similar to those on Terra (Earth). Artemyev is an experienced cosmonaut – he’s spent 356 days in space as a flight engineer on Expeditions 39 and 40 to the International Space Station (including three spacewalks) and was the Commander of Soyuz MS-08. While it doesn’t appear he himself has encountered aliens in space or on Earth, Artemyev is confident that his counterparts will when they get to Mars. What makes him so certain?
“I believe that in fact there is already life on Mars and that it is very likely that we have already introduced it. Since all those vehicles, rovers and stations that reached Mars – however much we have processed, cleaned or quarantined them – still so in some hidden place they brought with them the simplest microorganisms.”
Oleg Artemyev is a realist – there’s no way any spaceship, no matter how well they’re sanitized on Earth, can leave the planet without microbes in and on it. The Soviet Union/Russia has been flying by or orbiting Mars since the 1960, landing on it with probes since 1971. The United States as gone further and put rovers on the planet since the 1990s, spreading the microbes around. The ISS missions have proven that microbes and tardigrades (those cute ‘water bear’ micro-animals can survive and thrive outside of the station. All Artemyev is doing is connecting some obvious dots and drawing a conclusion … when humans set foot on Mars, they stand a good chance for finding creatures from Earth living and possibly thriving there, albeit not in the form they had when they left due to the vastly different conditions on the Red Planet.
Is Oleg Artemyev right … or at least on the right track? The best argument against his reverse-panspermia theory is that Mars’ environment and the trip there would be just too much to allow even a microbe to survive. That’s not much of an argument, considering the concern NASA, Roscosmos and other space programs have over cleaning their spacecrafts – especially after they return to Earth.
Here’s another question – if humans find the descendants of Earth life on Mars, will it be happy to see us? Beg us to take them home? Or will the message cartoonist Walt Kelly made famous in his Pogo comic strip reign true on Mars as it still does on Earth?
An Albuquerque, New Mexico physicist who died in 2003, Paul Bennewitz spent a significant amount of time digging into U.S. Air Force- and National Security Agency-based top secret projects which, from the late-seventies to the early-eighties, were housed at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Bennewitz wrongly believed those projects were connected to the activities of sinister extraterrestrials. The aliens soared across the skies above Kirtland AFB by star-filled, moonlit nights, demonstrating their extraterrestrial invulnerability and power, Bennewitz concluded. It’s hardly surprising that, for years, Bennewitz was put under deep surveillance by the U.S. military and a numbers of intelligence services. He was, as a consequence of his digging, bombarded by the murky world of officialdom with a mass of disinformation and faked UFO-driven stories in order to divert him from his research. It worked. In fact, and to Bennewitz’s eternal cost, it worked just too damned well. By the mid-eighties, he was heading for complete mental disintegration.
The intelligence community cared not a bit that Bennewitz thought their secret operations were UFO-related – precisely because the UFO connection was one of Bennewitz’s very own making. There was, however, deep concern on the part of the world of officialdom that by digging into classified activities at Kirtland in search of UFOs, Bennewitz just might inadvertently reveal – to the spies of the Soviet Union, in a worst-case scenario – information and technology that had to be kept secret at all costs, even if those costs included Bennewitz’s own sanity and health. Which, ultimately, they did. And, so, a grim and undeniably bizarre plan was put into place. U.S. agents learned the essential parts of Bennewitz’s theories from the man himself, by actually breaking into his home while he was out and checking his files and research notes.
Bennewitz’s beliefs were astounding and controversial: aliens were mutilating cattle as part of some weird genetic experiment. The E.T.s were abducting American citizens and implanting them with small devices for purposes disturbingly unknown. Those same aliens were living deep underground in a secure fortress below the Archuleta Mesa at Dulce, New Mexico. And everyone was soon going to be in deep and dire trouble as a direct result of the presence of this brewing, intergalactic threat. So, the intelligence community gave Bennewitz precisely what he was looking for: confirmation that his theories were all true, and more. It’s important to note, though, that this was all just a carefully-planned ruse to bombard Bennewitz with so much faked UFO data in the hope that it would steer him away from the classified military projects of a specifically non-UFO nature that he had uncovered. And, sure enough, it all worked very well. For the government. Far less so for Bennewitz.
When Bennewitz received conformation (albeit carefully controlled and utterly fabricated confirmation) that, yes, he had stumbled upon the horrible truth and that, yes, there really was an alien base deep below Dulce, the actions of the Intelligence community had the desired effect: Bennewitz became increasingly paranoid and unstable, and he began looking away from Kirtland (the hub of the down-to-earth secrets of the NSA and the Air Force that had to be kept) and harmlessly towards the vicinity of Dulce, where his actions, research, and theories could be carefully controlled and manipulated by the government. At this time American Intelligence brought Bill Moore into the secret scheme and asked him to keep them informed of how well – from their perspective – the disinformation operations against Bennewitz were working. They worked all too well. Bennewitz had a breakdown, required treatment, and from then on pretty much walked away from the world of UFOs, aliens, cattle mutilations and the rest of the controversy. The plot to destabilize Bennewitz achieved its goal.
Antarctica Bombshell! Melting Ice Reveals Undeniable 60ft Wide Disc Stuck in the Ground! "Ancient Craft?"
Melting Ice Reveals Undeniable 60ft Wide Disc Stuck in the Ground of Antarctica! “Ancient Craft?”
* This video is simply my opinion of this observation in Antarctica sent to me by a man named Chuck W. This is the way I interpret what I see here, if you don’t agree with my interpretation that is your choice.
This is the first time I have seen this area and do believe based off of my experience there is indeed a solid object here, not water. That is my opinion, thats all…you may go to the coordinates yourself and make your own assessment. I find this very fascinating. Thanks
Anunnaki Burial Site Discovered... It's Incredible, 285,000 Years Old!
You’re probably likely to ask yourself how anyone could possibly know the date of ancient ruins. Well, since carbon dating wasn’t going to work in this circumstance considering that the stone would obviously be much older than the site itself.
Researcher Michael Telliger had to use a different method of reading layers that take thousands of years to naturally form on the exposed rock. So where the rocks were placed together, no layer would form and that’s how they were able to come up with the number of 285,000. A site said to have association with the Anunnaki.
Michael Tellinger is a South African author, politician, explorer and founder of the Ubuntu Party which supports the supply of free resources across society. He has led a campaign against banks and central banks. He is also a promoter of pseudoarchaeology influenced by Zecharia Sitchin’s ideas of ancient astronauts. Wikipedia
I found an angelic UFO shooting past our sun this week. A solar explosion began on the right side of our sun and this alien craft also noticed it, because it shot straight for it at incredible speed. The craft must be feeding off of the solar matter in order to survive. Yes you heard me right, this object might be a living animal. Huge of course, but living and needs food. Yet it could also be a ship that is harvesting materials that are normally deep within the sun, but get shot out periodically. So many things right here in our own solar system happening involving other life forms. We need NASA to stop hiding the truth and start telling us the truth.
Black Disk Seen Near Military Radar Plane, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oct 9, 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 9, 2020
Location of sighting: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Source: MUFON #111757
A person caught a black disk on their phone this week when taking photos of a Awacs radar plane. The disk is huge and was moving very fast, because it was only in a single photo during a burst. This is 100% proof that aliens are interested in US military technology.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
was taking photos of an AWACS plane that was flying over my house Captured object in "live action photo: on my I Phone. The picture also has the 1.5 seconds before the actual photo was taken. However I don't know if this function is included when sharing the photo or if its just the still photo. I have 4 pictures the object is only in the first. When the live action photo is played on the IPhone the object is moving very very fast from East to West in the Northern sky.
Archeologists discover ancient Crystal Radio Transmitter inside unearthed stone turtle
Archeologists have unearthed some very strange things in an ancient Hindu temple called Sra Srang in Cambodia and this is ground breaking because it changes everything we know about ancient statues and temples.
This looks like just a stone turtle right? But when they when they tapped on this, its shell began cracking on top, and the crack developed into a nice little rectangle.
PraveenMohan got the footage of how archeologists slowly inserted a sharp blade into the crack, and then started to move the blade all around the crack, and made the crack bigger, and then they opened this stone statue like a container. Inside, is a large rectangular hole, which had a strange gel like substance, almost like wet silica gel.
PraveenMohan: You can see how archeologists are taking a small sample out of this, and are trying to figure out what it is. What is this gel? And why has this been safely placed into this stone container, and why was it buried in the temple premises?
Experts confirm that this is at least 1,000 years old, but it could be much older.
But archeologists have found something even more strange, they found another stone turtle, which was also buried in dirt. And they were able to open that also, it had a triangle shaped lid on its shell. And what they found inside is shocking. They found neatly polished crystal quartz stones.
And they found hundreds of neatly polished crystal quartz stones buried on site. I mean look, this is the original footage from the excavation site, the crystals fill up 2 plastic bags, and this is how they look after lying in the dirt and marsh for 1000 years, imagine how they would have looked when they were cut back then.
As soon as these were found, locals started to come in and pray in large numbers, because they felt a strange energy radiating from them. Cambodians are very spiritual people and they performed all sorts of rituals on these artifacts and crystals.
But is this just spiritual energy radiating from them, or is there science behind all this? I mean why did ancient builders cut hundreds of crystal quartz stones, polish them, and safeguard them?
Today, we use the same material in semiconductors for transistors, integrated circuits, the first radio communication devices we used were made purely using crystal quartz. Is it possible that the ancient builders were using some type of a radio communication device?
But inside the turtle container they also found something even more strange. They found thin bronze wires. Archeologists are baffled by this and they just dismiss it by saying these were just threads used for religious purposes. No Hindu or Buddhist ritual ever uses bronze threads, this is unheard of.
These are bronze wires and ancient builders were using it for some other reason. Bronze is not a metal, it is an alloy made of multiple metals like copper and tin, and ancient builders made them into thin wires. What else could possibly be the use of these bronze wires, other than some type of electric or electronic purpose?
Is it just a coincidence that they found crystal quartz and bronze wires side by side? Look at the crystal radio sets we used some decades ago, these were simple devices made with wires and crystal quartz. I mean the only thing missing is an antenna, and they could make a crystal radio device with these items and start receiving signals.
The archeologists also found strange very high quality metal objects which show almost no deterioration. In spite of being buried for such a long time, they had no trace of rust or decay. Is it possible that these high quality metal rods with three prongs sticking into the air, were used as antennas used for radio communication in ancient times?
The International Space Station is the largest man-made construction put into space and is said to be used by NASA for specialised scientific research, but with so many UFO sightings linked to the ISS from astronauts with decades of experience, is there another reason why this platform exists in the first place?
The Great Pyramid: New Theory on God Symbolism and the Hidden Chambers
e Great Pyramid: New Theory on God Symbolism and the Hidden Chambers
Architecture is language of form, of three dimensional images reflecting the function of a building and the time it was built. At best it demonstrates the builders’ beliefs regarding life and the world around them. One building never ceases to be an object of discussion: Khufu’s pyramid in Egypt.
Many Egyptologists believe the inside was subject to some rather remarkable plan changes. Of the three known chambers: The Subterranean Chamber, The Queen’s Chamber, and theKing’s Chamber , the first two are generally believed to have been abandoned during the building period.
However this article suggests that none of the chambers were abandoned and no change of plans were needed. I must emphasize that I am an architect, not an Egyptologist. My knowledge of ancient Egyptian history is limited. But I do think that understanding of form also matters.
I couldn’t believe that such a colossal building as the Cheops/Khufu pyramid was built in a way that made it subject to plan changes during construction . And suddenly the connection struck! I saw before me a drawing of the pyramid’s chambers and realized that there was a chamber in the ground, one was at the end of a horizontal corridor (in Danish we use a term literally meaning water-level for this) and one had air channels. Could it be as simple as a representation of the four elements?
The pyramid was built several thousand years prior to the Greek theories of the elements but the major gods of the area at the time of Cheops/Khufu were nature gods : the sun god Ra, the air god Shu, the earth god Geb, among others, and I was back on track…The chambers are all formed exactly as they were intended from the start.
Through the symbolism I deduced from the forms and positions of the known chambers, I believe that it is possible to comprehend the principal ideas of the pyramid’s layout. The chambers fit into a system based on the order of the major gods of the area in the 4th dynasty, around 2500 BC. Furthermore the details of the pyramid reveal that there must be another hitherto unknown chamber higher in the pyramid.
The chambers.
(Niels Bjerre Jørgensen)
The place, the priesthood, the gods
Annu is a city some 30 km (18.64 miles) northeast of the great pyramids at Giza. The Bible called it On and the Greeks Heliopolis - city of the Sun. Annu housed a temple and a priesthood which represented the nation’s most influential religion: sun worship.
In Khufu’s time their beliefs and gods were dominant – so these are relevant to the pyramid’s creation. The first five gods of the Heliopolitan creation myth are nature-gods, born in the following sequence:
ATUM who organized the chaotic waters and created the world. At some unknown point in time he merged with the sun god Ra into RA-ATUM
SHU God of Air. The first born child of Atum.
TEFNUT Goddess of Mist and Rain. With Shu she gave birth to the next two:
GEB God of Earth.
NUT Goddess of the starry sky and born last of these gods.
The chambers and elements of the gods.
(Niels Bjerre Jørgensen)
Gods and Chambers in the Pyramid
The three known chambers form obvious links to earth, water, and air, (GEB, TEFNUT and SHU) in their locations. GEB’s chamber’s deep in the ground. TEFNUT’s chamber’s at the end of a horizontal, or water level corridor with a sunken floor, and SHU’s chamber has open air shafts .
Examining the architecture closer expands the concept: there must be five chambers in total. The sun god Ra-Atum and Nut, goddess of the starry sky, also had chambers in their honor. Furthermore, it is possible to deduct their approximate locations from the pyramid’s many details.
Did ancient Egyptians have a belief comparable to the Greek theory? The Heliopolitan creation myth operates with gods who were personifications of what resembles the later Greek elements, but the Egyptians had five elements because it included the starry sky in a way resembling the ‘ether’ of the universe, which Plato is credited for inventing.
The creation myth had it (in almost correct order), and the pyramid’s chambers show it. Earth is the heaviest element and thus at the bottom, water upon it, the air above both, and the fire (sun) even higher. Even higher again: the starry sky.
You may object that water wasn’t Tefnut’s element. Her realm was water in the forms of mist and rain. But actually this makes her forms of water more interesting in a vertical ordering of the elements according to weight because rain is water falling from the air and mist is water rising from earth.
Also to be demonstrated in the interior, the Egyptians distinguished between the location of the fire element itself - the sun - high above the air, and the effect here on earth below the air in the form of burning, lighting, warming fire.
In the later Amarna period (18th dynasty), reliefs depict how the sun’s rays hand over the ankh sign of life to king Akhenaten and his family. We can even see how cut-off flowers seem to regain life in the sunlight. This form of fire is represented by the Great Gallery, which is not a proper chamber, but clearly more than a corridor.
Pharaoh Akhenaten (center) and his family worshiping the Aten, with characteristic rays seen emanating from the solar disk.
The Subterranean chamber measures roughly 8 by 16 meters (26.25 by 52.50 ft.), longest in the east-west direction. In the eastern half a square hole, turned 45 degrees, is dug deep into the bedrock and probably once reached ground water. From the southern wall a small square corridor proceeds a little southwards then ends . In the western half a considerable amount of bedrock is left, giving an unfinished impression.
Many believe that this chamber was originally intended as burial chamber but was abandoned during construction, thus the pile of bedrock. If, however, the chamber follows the order of the elements this is the earth chamber, Geb’s chamber. What better way to demonstrate this than by including bedrock?
A closer look reveals that this actually would have been the burial chamber, if Khufu was buried here at all. It was customary to bury the body in an underground chamber and have an offering chamber above it because it was the earth god Geb who received the body of the deceased. There is even a flat area 2 by 5 meters (6.56 by 16.40 ft.) where it would be possible to assemble a coffin or sarcophagus.
The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt c. 500 BC (c. 2000 years after Khufu). He wrote that he was told the king lay buried beneath the pyramid on an island in a water-filled chamber, into which the water came through a brick canal - an astonishingly precise description of how the chamber may have looked.
And if you look at the bedrock left in the chamber it’s an ‘island’ onto which the coffin was placed. The vertical shaft probably acted as a well to obtain water. A frame of wood, eventually tightened by clay, would restrain the water from running back. There even is a ledge it could rest on. With the right amount of water it would look as if the water flooded in from the canal in the southern wall, as demonstrated in the drawing below.
Some believe that Herodotus referred to the existence of another subterranean chamber and others say he was misinformed. But as you can see, it is not necessary to search for another chamber. You just have to place a wooden frame in the well and hoist some water up.
The proper name for the Queen’s chamber would be Tefnut’s chamber. Tefnut’s realm is water as the element between the elements earth and air, which is why her chamber is situated below the air god Shu’s chamber but above the earth god Geb’s chamber.
Danish architect Hubert Paulsen has shown that a hexagon can be inscribed onto the Queen’s chamber . When it is, the center of the hexagon will almost exactly be situated in 1/6 of the pyramid’s original altitude of 280 cubits. The hexagon was a known geometric figure to the ancient Egyptians.
In place of a hexagon, it’s also tempting to inscribe a six-pointed star (something that may not have been known at the time of the pyramid’s construction). This is useful to demonstrate my ideas. The symbol consists of two triangles. One pointing up, and the other pointing down suggesting that magic combines what is above with what is below, like the Tefnut element of water. Maybe they did not use this symbol, but it may also explain the reference to a hexagon in Tefnut’s chamber.
Drawings of the chamber with a hexagon or six-pointed star.
(Niels Bjerre Jørgensen)
A little before you enter the chamber the floor drops suddenly one cubit (one cubit measures 52.36 cm/20.61 inches). This is one of the facts that has led many to assume this is another unfinished chamber. But if the ‘missing’ layer of flooring is added to the drawing it doesn’t fit with the hexagon or the star. If instead 21 cm (8.27 inches) of water is added, it fits completely!
The Queen’s or Tefnut’s chamber with the famous niche.
There is a famous mysterious niche in the eastern wall which some say used to hold a statue. Others hoped it concealed an entrance to a hidden chamber and forced their way through the back wall. Nobody realized that the niche itself is the decoration.
You should look at it as negative space - as if it consists of five boxes on top of each other. This way it tells us there are five elements/gods and five chambers in the pyramid. Almost as a confirmation, the niche is placed so that the side wall of the second “box” aligns with the midline of the chamber, seen from east or west. It is also the pyramid’s midline.
To understand the meaning of the ‘boxes’ it’s necessary to look at the side of the second box, the middle element, which align with the pyramids midline.
( Niels Bjerre Jørgensen)
Here in the Queen’s chamber we find another inexplicable construction. The “air shafts” continue high above the chamber and may even have reached the outer surface; but they did not originally open into the chamber. This was done in 1832 by an archaeologist who deduced their existence from the air shafts in the King’s Chamber. The southern shaft, we know now from Gantenbrink’s robot exploration , is blocked high in the pyramid by a stone with remains of copper mounts.
Such copper mounts can hardly have had any other purpose than being for ropes, making the blocking stone a kind of removable cork. If the shafts were permanently closed during the building, they would most likely have used stones without copper mounts. I can imagine several reasons for having the shafts the way they were, but none that fits to theories of an abandoned chamber.
The shafts could be used to demonstrate how water penetrates rock. Their grooves are cut on top of the second layer of stones in the wall and water that was poured down the shafts would probably sieve between the second and third layers and run down the wall to the water on the floor. Or the Gantenbrink cork may have hindered the shaft from being filled with sand.
SHU’s Chamber – AIR (The King’s Chamber)
In this, the highest position of the known chambers, we find open air shafts. It must be SHU’s chamber. In the Book of the Dead , written on the wall of a later king’s pyramid (Pepi II from 6th dynasty), we find:
“O Great Company of the gods who dwell in Annu (Heliopolis), grant that Pepi Nefer-ka- Ra may flourish (literally ‘germinate’), and that his pyramid, his everlasting building, may flourish, even as the name of Temu [ATUM] , the chief of the nine gods, doth flourish. If the name of Shu, the lord of the upper shrine in Annu, flourisheth, then Pepi shall flourish, and his pyramid, his everlasting building, shall flourish! If the name of Tefnut, the lady of the lower shrine in Annu, flourisheth, the name of Pepi shall be established, and this his pyramid shall be established to all eternity! If the name of Seb [GEB] flourisheth at the “homage of the earth”, then the name of Pepi shall flourish, and this his pyramid shall flourish, and this his building shall flourish unto all eternity! If the name of Nut in the House of Shenth in Annu flourisheth, the name of Pepi shall flourish, and this his pyramid shall flourish, and this his building shall flourish unto all eternity!”
This almost contemporary sequence from the Old Kingdom seems to indicate that in Annu shrines for Shu and Tefnut were placed as ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ shrines. Maybe the sequence actually speaks of the Great pyramid and its chambers.
In a country stretching from Nubia to the Mediterranean Sea, it was a minor deviation to describe Khufu’s pyramid as if it actually lay in Annu, or just outside. As the theory of this article points out, the gods of Annu may also have been so closely connected with the pyramid, being a temple honoring them, that they were practically identified with each other. Mentioning Geb’s chamber as “the homage of the earth” is wonderfully poetic, when you remember the way it was staged.
To enter Shu’s chamber you have to pass through The Grand Gallery and the Ante chamber. First, we concentrate on the so-called “construction chambers” directly above the chamber. The generally accepted theory of why these strange layers of stones and in-between spaces were made claims they were made to reduce pressure on the chamber’s ceiling.
The King’s chamber with antechamber and “construction chambers” above it. From J. & M. Edgar: ‘The Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers.’
(Author provided)
But why not increase the space between the layers, if reducing weight was the issue? This is another “Well we cannot think of a better reason” - theory that should never have been accepted. The Queen’s chamber was built first, has no such weight relieving chambers, but still stands in spite of a much bigger pressure, being lower in the pyramid.
We are so accustomed to building for practical purposes that we often forget to consider other reasons. If we assume a symbolic meaning with these small chambers in honor of Shu they suddenly become a logical addition to Shu’s chamber.
There are five cavities, one for each god/element/chamber in the pyramid. Note that these small chambers are defined by having their ceilings made into flat levels. Emphasis on ceiling means linking the chamber in question to the lighter elements, or the gods themselves. Which is why these small chambers quite certainly are symbolic and meant to honor the gods .
The upper cavity has a pointed ceiling seen from east or west. The highest real chamber in the pyramid, belonging to Nut, was probably situated in the pyramid’s peak. Its walls - or its ceiling, if you like - consisted solely of the pyramid’s casing stones, maybe supported by a wooden structure. When an earthquake made the casing stones slide off, Nut’s chamber disappeared.
The three lower cavities have granite sides seen from east or west as well as granite floors and ceilings. So have the three known real chambers. It seems reasonable to connect these three lower cavities to the known chambers. Symbolically the hard granite may represent the physical world - the three elements we live in - earth, water, and air.
This theory of the possible construction method of the Khufu Pyramid is in the second part of this article here.
Top Image: The Pyramid of Cheops illuminated by the sun in backlight, with people entering inside to visit it. The area with the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt. Source: Alfredo /Adobe Stock
Scientists with the European Space Agency say that the Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of three more salty lakes below Mars’ south pole. The discovery comes two years after the first lake was detected in 2018.
At its surface, Mars is a cold, dry, desert world, where the only water appears to be in the form of vapor, ice or frost. But what about deeper down, below the surface, where temperatures are warmer? In 2018, the European Space Agency’s Mars Expressorbiterfound the first evidence for subsurface liquid water on Mars, below the planet’s south polar ice cap. It was an exciting discovery, a lake below the red Martian soil that could, possibly, support life. Now, additional data from Mars Express havw not only confirmed that lake, but found three more smaller lakes in close proximity to the first one, researchers haveannounced.
This newest peer-reviewed discovery was published in Nature Astronomy on September 28, 2020. As described in the abstract:
The detection of liquid water by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) at the base of the south polar layered deposits in Ultimi Scopuli has reinvigorated the debate about the origin and stability of liquid water under present-day Martian conditions. To establish the extent of subglacial water in this region, we acquired new data, achieving extended radar coverage over the study area. Here, we present and discuss the results obtained by a new method of analysis of the complete MARSIS dataset, based on signal processing procedures usually applied to terrestrial polar ice sheets. Our results strengthen the claim of the detection of a liquid water body at Ultimi Scopuli and indicate the presence of other wet areas nearby. We suggest that the waters are hypersaline perchlorate brines, known to form at Martian polar regions and thought to survive for an extended period of time on a geological scale at below-eutectictemperatures.
Subsurface water on Mars! This radar map from Mars Express shows 4 subsurface lakes – 1 big and 3 little, colored blue – beneath the red planet’s south pole. Scientists announced the large central lake in 2018. The 3 newly discovered, smaller lakes surround it.
Image via ESA/ Ars Technica Image via ESA/ Ars Technica.
Elena Pettinelli, a planetary scientist at the University of Rome and one of the paper’s lead co-authors, said in a statement:
We identified the same body of water, but we also found three other bodies of water around the main one. It’s a complex system.
The lake found in 2018 is about 18 miles (30 km) across, and the three new lakes around it are smaller, a few kilometers across each. Altogether these lakes cover an area of about 29,000 square miles (75,000 square km), or about 1/5 the size of Germany.
Since these lakes are deep below ground, how did the scientists detect them?
All four lakes were discovered by Mars Express, which used the MARSIS radar instrument. Just like on Earth, the radar can penetrate rock and ice to show what lies beneath the surface. One of Mars Express’s main tasks has been to search for subsurface ice deposits, which are plentiful on Mars.
Scientists have long thought that there may be subsurface lakes as well, similar to subsurface glacial lakes on Earth, such as Lake Vostok in Antarctica. Even if the temperature wasn’t warm enough, salts in the lakes could keep them liquid, like brines, and that is exactly what scientists think has been found. Pettinelli said:
From a thermal point of view, it has to be salty.
The first and largest lake was identified from 29 radar observations by Mars Express from 2012 to 2015. The new study revealing all four lakes was based on many more observations, 134 in all.
Radar image from Mars Express in 2018 showing the first detected largest lake beneath the south polar ice.
Image via ESA/ NASA/ JPL/ ASI/ Univ. Rome/ R. Orosei et al 2018.
The location of the subsurface lakes near the south polar ice cap.
Scientists are doubtful that there is enough heat below the surface to maintain the lakes in liquid form, so that would mean they must be salty. Could life exist in these lakes? It would depend on just how salty they actually are. On Earth, life can exist in lakes that have up to five times the amount of salt as sea water. But lakes with salt content approaching 20 times are pretty much lifeless. According to Priscu:
There’s not much active life in these briny pools in Antarctica. They’re just pickled. And that might be the case [on Mars].
Pettinelli is a bit more optimistic however, saying:
There may have been a lot of water on Mars. And if there was water, there was the possibility of life.
The new findings support the previous discovery, and the scientists involved seem confident of their conclusions, but there are still some other scientists who are not convinced yet. As Mike Sori, a planetary geophysicist at Purdue University, said:
If the bright material really is liquid water, I think it’s more likely to represent some sort of slush or sludge.
Jack Holt, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, expressed a similar view:
I do not think there are lakes. There is not enough heat flow to support a brine here, even under the ice cap.
Holt is on the science team for the Mars Shallow Radar sounder (SHARAD) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). SHARAD has also been studying Mars’s subsurface, primarily to look for ice deposits.
Elena Pettinelli at the University of Rome, one of the lead co-authors of the new study.
A definitive determination will require further observations. One possibility is the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission, which will reach Mars in February 2021. The mission consists of an orbiter, lander and rover, and the orbiter will be able to conduct radar observations of the Martian subsurface, similar to Mars Express.David Flannery at the Queensland University of Technology said:
Its capabilities are similar to MARSIS and SHARAD.
If the lakes really are liquid water, it’s possible that they are leftover pools from former seas or large lakes that used to exist on Mars’ surface. There is now abundant evidence, including from rovers such as Curiosity and Opportunity, that the Martian surface used to be dotted with numerous lakes, including salty ones. If there are subsurface lakes beneath the south pole (and north pole?), what about at lower latitudes and near the equator? It will be very interesting to see what additional observations reveal.
Bottom line:Scientists in Europe say that the Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of 3 more salty lakes below Mars’ south pole.
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