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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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.
Maandag 12 oktober 2020
The Majestic 12 Documents: Who Really was the Mysterious “Falcon”?
The Majestic 12 Documents: Who Really was the Mysterious “Falcon”?
Over the last few days I have written articles on the Majestic 12 documents, the Paul Bennewitz affair, Stan Friedman’s FBI file, and (briefly) the mysterious “Falcon,” someone “on the inside” and who may have been the primary source for the aforementioned Majestic 12 documents. All of the above people and subjects were inter-connected in various ways. But, who was the Falcon? Well, let’s have a look. In 1999, Gerald K. Haines – in his position as the historian of the National Reconnaissance Office – wrote a paper titled “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90.” It’s now in the public domain, thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. It can be read at the CIA’s website. Haines’ paper detailed the history of how, and why, the CIA became interested and involved in the phenomenon of UFOs. Although Haines covered a period of more than forty years, I will bring your attention to one particular section of his paper, which is focused on the 1970s-1980s. Haines wrote: “During the late 1970s and 1980s, the Agency continued its low-key interest in UFOs and UFO sightings. While most scientists now dismissed flying saucers reports as a quaint part of the 1950s and 1960s, some in the Agency and in the Intelligence Community shifted their interest to studying parapsychology and psychic phenomena associated with UFO sightings. CIA officials also looked at the UFO problem to determine what UFO sightings might tell them about Soviet progress in rockets and missiles and reviewed its counterintelligence aspects.”
The Soviets, then, were camouflaging their secret rocket tests by spreading false and fantastic tales of UFOs. Haines also noted something that is absolutely key to the story that this book tells and particularly so with regard to the Majestic 12 papers: “Agency analysts from the Life Science Division of OSI and OSWR officially devoted a small amount of their time to issues relating to UFOs. These included counterintelligence concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using U.S. citizens and UFO groups to obtain information on sensitive U.S. weapons development programs (such as the Stealth aircraft),the vulnerability of the U.S. air-defense network to penetration by foreign missiles mimicking UFOs, and evidence of Soviet advanced technology associated with UFO sightings[italics mine].”
What about those “U.S. citizens” that Haines referred to? Let us see. The 1970s and 1980s were the decades in which Paul Bennewitz was most active, at least in terms of his UFO research in and around Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was almost certainly one of those Americans who Haines was talking about and whose actions the CIA’s counterintelligence people were worried about. That the U.S. Air Force was very concerned by the possibility that Bennewitz was unknowingly being used by the Soviets, was reason enough alone to practically force-feed Bennewitz with almost unending, nightmarish horror stories of dangerous and deadly aliens under Dulce, New Mexico. And, then, have Bill Moore report back on the extent to which those same horror stories were destabilizing Bennewitz’s increasingly paranoid mind. All of this strongly suggests that Moore may have been as much a victim as Bennewitz was: both men may have been fed wholly bogus material. Interestingly, Haines actually references Shandera and Moore’s work on the Majestic 12 documents in the “Notes” section of his very own paper.
Another aspect on this particular part of the story: Maybe Moore was used, but not just by U.S. intelligence. It should be noted that, as Greg Bishop said, the Falcon had what was described as an eastern European accent. He may well not have been an American, which suggests the incredible theory that the Russians may have been running the program to learn all they could from Bennewitz. Or, maybe, there was more than one Falcon, which really serves to complicate matters. Based on private data provided to him by sources in the know, Greg Bishop has concluded that the Falcon was a man named Harry August Rositzke; he ran covert programs for the CIA, after cutting his teeth in the heart of the Second World War-era Office of Strategic Services. Rositzke, a Brooklyn native, was an expert on the matter of Soviet intelligence, the KGB, and Russia’s programs designed to destabilize the West with carefully crafted propaganda. Rositzke, who died in 2002 at the age of ninety-one, wrote a number of non-fiction books on the world of espionage, including The KGB: The Eyes of Russia and The CIA’s Secret Operations. Rositzke, it’s important to note, did not have a European accent. That revelation adds further weight to the possibility that there may have been competing Falcons; one, Rositzke, an American trying to protect U.S. government secrets. The other? An unknown European (or Russian) character posing as an American official, and using the same alias of the Falcon, and trying to further disrupt U.S. intelligence.
The final words go to Encyclopedia.com, who stated of Rositzke: “After he retired, Rositzke spent his time on his cattle farm and wrote books about spy activities between the United States and the Soviets, always maintaining that secret intelligence agents helped to stabilize political relations by providing America with much-needed information.”
I found a reptilian head on mars. The face is certainly unusual and even has a long tubular appendage coming out of its lower nose area. The mouth is open. Its ears are small, its eyes are small but its head is slightly elongated. The original color of the photos was fake red/brown, but I put it into natural color. The color of the face is unique. It has orange, blue and grey throughout it. This unique and strange reptilian face might explain the strange sculptures and civilization artifacts we have been finding on Mars. Such an unusual alien probably has a equally unique culture and way of life. One that we could never relate too. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Alien Structure On Moon Measures 118km Across! Google Moon Map! Oct 2020, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: Oct 11, 2020
Location of discovery: Earths moon, Drygalski crater edge
Source: Google Earth Moon map
Google Coordinates: 75°55'52.36"S 90° 4'6.03"W
I was looking over Google moon map which is easy to use. Just open Google Earth, then hit the button to switch to moon map. I found some highly unusual structures on the moon. The kind that NASA would never report about find for fear the public would learn about the existence of intelligent aliens so close to Earth.
Near Drygalski crater there is some smaller craters and I found some finger like structures in two long craters. The fingers were close to 7km long according to Google ruler. The length of the structures along the edge of Drygalski crater is 118km across! Now these are huge structures with absolutely smooth surfaces. More like a glass-like windows of structures for aliens to look out and see space. This is 100% proof that NASA hides alien evidence from the public.
Possible Directed Energy Weapon caught beaming at Tyndall Air Force Base Space Wing, Florida
If its us beaming out to ourselves, testing some sort of laser.. creating a hot spot for some reason at ground level.. then we can move on and let them deal with moving to different frequencies to prevent civilians seeing it.
If its not us beaming down causing a hot spot on ourselves, then we've got problems.
October 9, 2020 350am Central time - This video from Dutschsinse documents (real time) a directed energy weapon beam which has been caught on Weather Satellite beaming down directly at Tyndall Air Force Base (space force communications base), along the coast of Florida, creating a hot spot at the location receiving the beam as well.
A beam of energy shooting down next to our Space Communications Wing base resulting in a physical hot spot being detected.
A second beam was captured beaming down to the SW Louisiana Lake Charles Nexrad Radar station.
It would appear both beams reside in the shortwave Infrared spectrum, and are targeting in on our United States radar systems along the coast of the Gulf. Targeting first at the Nexrad along the coast of Louisiana, then a 2nd beam down at Tyndall AFB (the beam location showing an actual hot spot on thermal return via GOES 16.
You might be surprised to learn that interstellar space isn’t just vacuum. It’s full of gases, elements, and dust – very thinly spread, to be sure – but the building blocks of stars and planets.
In this infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, winds flowing out from a fast-moving star (Zeta Ophiuchi) are making ripples in the dust in interstellar space.
Interstellar space – the space between the stars – isn’t just empty space. There’s a lot of “stuff” out there, including hydrogen (70%) and helium (28%), formed in the Big Bang that set our universe into motion. The other 2% of “stuff” in interstellar space is heavier gases and dust, consisting of the other elements made inside stars and spewed into space by supernovae. The material in interstellar space is very spread out. It’s denser in some places than in others, but a typical density is about one atom per cubic centimeter. Still, even the most dense regions of interstellar space count as vacuum, compared with our earthly air.
Our sun controls the conditions around our solar system, but outside of that is interstellar space and all that it contains.
Astronomers call this space between the stars the interstellar medium.
Diagram of the solar system showing planets, heliopause, and interstellar space. The numbers shown are astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is the distance between the sun and the Earth.
Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.
Why is interstellar space important?
The interstellar medium is where stars are made. Without it, we wouldn’t exist. If there weren’t thick and thin spots that condensed into thicker patches that eventually became stars, the whole universe would just be a cloud of boring, cold, lifeless gas.
The thick parts of the interstellar medium are called molecular clouds – often referred to as stellar nurseries – the places where stars are born. The first stars didn’t have planets because there weren’t any materials in interstellar space beyond hydrogen and helium. But, over the billions of years of our universe’s history, that has changed.
It changed because stars themselves make increasingly more complex elements in their interiors. When the most massive stars grow old and die, they explode as supernovae, releasing their elements into interstellar space. Thus it has become possible for stars to form with planets and for at least one planet we know of, Earth, to harbor living things.
Given the contents of interstellar space, and process by which stars and planets are born, it seems highly likely that other planets have living things, too.
This intriguing view of spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944 was released to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. This image also shows a group of thick clouds of dust – known as the Thackeray globules – silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula.
Our solar system, and spacecraft, in interstellar space
The sun is our local star. It’s about 870,000 miles (1.4 million km) across, approximately 100 times wider in diameter than our planet Earth. It would take more than 965,000 Earths to fill up the volume of the sun. Earth is one of the smaller planets in our solar system.
A stream of charged particles emanates from the upper layers of the sun’s atmosphere; this stream of particles is known as the solar wind. The sun – and its solar wind – create a kind of cavity that envelopes our entire solar system, known as the heliosphere. The heliosphere is like a balloon, with our sun and planets inside the balloon. Outside the heliosphere is interstellar space.
Neptune, the farthest of our solar system’s major planets, is 30 times the distance from the sun as Earth. We call the distance from Earth to the sun an astronomical unit (AU), so Neptune is at a distance of 30 AU.
The edge of the heliosphere is four times as far, at about 120 AU.
The heliosphere is moving through the space of our Milky Way galaxy. As it moves, the part of the heliosphere that faces the center of our galaxy receives more pressure than the side that faces away, so the heliosphere is stretched out into a teardrop shape.
View larger. | Illustration of the positions of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft – the farthest spacecraft from Earth – now both outside of the heliosphere, in interstellar space. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in August 2012. Heading in a different direction, Voyager 2 crossed another part of the heliopause in November 2018. The Voyagers revealed that the size of the heliosphere changes. It seems to “breathe” in a way related to the level of the sun’s activity, getting bigger when the sun is active, and shrinking when it’s quiet.
Presumably, every star creates its own bubble around itself. At the edges of all these billions of “heliospheres,” stars leak particles and electromagnetic radiation into space, further feeding the interstellar medium.
Once you have traveled past the inner edge of the heliosphere, there is a region called the termination shock that is like white-water rapids in a stream.
Finally it smooths out and you enter the heliopause, an area where the internal pressure of the sun’s effect balances with the outside pressure of the interstellar medium. It is very still, where you finally enter interstellar space itself.
About that “vacuum” of space …
When we talk about space, we often think of vacuum where there is absolutely nothing for us to breathe. Earth’s atmosphere is quite thick at sea level. It extends well above the International Space Station (ISS), but it is so thin that after a few hundred kilometers, it’s almost as if it isn’t there. Earth’s atmosphere may finally end around 6,700 miles (10,800 km) above Earth’s surface, or higher, depending on whom you ask.
On Earth at sea level, a cubic centimeter of air has 30,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in it, or we could say 3 with 19 zeros after it, but for convenience, we write it as 3 times 10^19. So in a volume just a little bit smaller than a normal die, there is an unfathomable amount of molecules.
At Mount Everest’s peak there are is a bit more than 10^18 molecules in the same volume, and, at the altitude of ISS (~350 km or a little over 200 miles up), there are only 1 million (10^6) molecules per cubic centimeter – and the same for the thin atmosphere of the moon.
In comparison, interstellar space only has about 1 atom per cubic centimeter on average, although this number varies from 100,000 to as low as 0.01 depending on if you’re in a molecular cloud or in the space in between the clouds. Either way it’s about as close to an absolute vacuum as you can get (not counting intergalactic space where the number is even lower …).
The layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
Graphic via NOAA.
Bottom line: Interstellar space is the space between the stars in a galaxy. It’s not “empty,” but, overall, it’s as close to an absolute vacuum as you can get. Molecular clouds are places in interstellar space where the material is collected most densely. Within these clouds, new stars and planets are born.
In the Smoky Mountains, thousands of fireflies flash in unison. Researchers want to know how.
It’s a sight to behold: On June evenings in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains National Park, thousands of male fireflies all flash together in near-perfect harmony. These fireflies, also called lightning bugs, flash with a distinct rhythm: a few quick bursts of light followed by a several-second pause, then more bursts. In person, the display looks like a wave of light passing over the hillside.
A team of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder wanted to understand how relatively simple insects manage to coordinate such feats of synchronization.
Their new study, published September 23, 2020, in the peer-reviewedJournal of The Royal Society Interface suggests that, rather than flash according to some innate rhythm, the fireflies observe what their neighbors are doing, then adjust their behavior to match.
View larger. | Stacked photo of fireflies in Tennessee.
To date, scientists have struggled to explain how the fireflies’ synchronization works. University of Colorado researcher Raphaël Sarfati is lead author of the new study. Sarfati said in a statement:
Is it something hardwired in fireflies that makes them want to synchronize? Or is it something more context dependent, maybe based on their environment?
As study co-author Orit Peleg describes it, the firefly display is over almost as soon as it begins. Males belonging to the species Photinus carolinus only flash for about two weeks every June, and then just for a few hours a night. She said:
Studying them is a constant race against time.
Fireflies in the wild
For their research, the team drove to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee in June 2019. There, they set up two 360-degree cameras in a wooded area to map out the locations of the bugs flashing in their vicinity. The group also assembled a pop tent on site and introduced a few fireflies at a time to the isolated environment. Sarfati said:
It was, basically, like we were one of the fireflies in the swarm.
The researchers discovered that the fireflies don’t behave the same way when they’re alone as when they’re in a big group. For example, the team found that a single male firefly alone in the tent would flash without a good sense of rhythm, a few bursts here, a few bursts there. But with more fireflies in the tent, things began to change. Sarfati said:
When you start putting 20 fireflies together, that’s when you start observing what you see in the wild. You’ve got regular bursts of flashes, and they’re all synchronized.
That suggested to the researchers that the fireflies likely aren’t hardwired to flash with a particular pattern. Instead, their light displays seem to be more social. Bugs watch what their neighbors are doing and try to follow along.
The group’s findings, Peleg said, could help researchers learn more about a range of other synchronous behaviors in nature. She said:
This kind of synchrony occurs in many natural systems. The cells in our hearts all flex and contract at the same time. Neurons in our brains also synchronize.
The researchers noted that insect species that their glow to attract mates have found themselves competing for attention with human sources of light. Many species are on the decline around the world because there is more and more light pollution. Peleg said she doesn’t want to see the glow from these insects disappear:
There always was this last half an hour at night where we were tired and sitting in the forest, waiting for the fireflies to stop flashing. It was the most relaxing part of this work.
Bottom line: On summer evenings in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains, thousands of fireflies flash in unison. Researchers want to know how they do it.
UFO experts hit out when it emerged a dossier into Britain’s most significant sighting is to be kept secret for another 50 years.
The file is said to contain astonishing colour photographs of a 100ft craft hovering over the village of Calvine in the Scottish Highlands in 1990.
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A colourised image of the alleged UFO sighting in 1990
A 30-year rule meant it was due to be declassified on January 1 — but the Ministry of Defence has now blocked release until 2072 without explanation.
Photographs were taken by two Perthshire hikers who watched the “diamond-shaped metallic craft” for ten minutes before it shot up vertically out of sight.
They also claimed to see military jets fly a series of low-level passes.
Where the UFO was spotted in the Highlands in 1990
Evidence collected and held on to by officials included the hikers’ six colour snaps.
A redacted version of the file has been released, including just a blurred photocopied image.
UFO investigator Nick Pope helped colourise the image, seen above.
Last night, Mr Pope said: “Despite an extensive investigation, we never found a definitive explanation for what was seen at Calvine.”
A UFO hunter added: “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 redacted file also omitted the names and contact details of the hikers.
Those who believe the “truth is out there” slogan of TV show The X Files are furious that, without access to those who reported the sightings, it remains impossible to get the full story.
A complaint lodged under the Freedom of Information Act about the National Archives withholding the documents is now under investigation by the UK information watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
The National Archives refused to comment further. The MOD refused to comment at all.
Expert's view
By Nick Pope, ex-MOD UFO investigator
TESTS showed the photos hadn’t been faked. They showed a structured craft of unknown origin, unlike any conventional aircraft.
There was no fuselage, no wings, no tail, no engines and no markings of any sort.
Because the photos had been taken in daylight with the surrounding countryside visible, Ministry of Defence boffins could make some calculations about the mystery object’s size.
It turned out to be nearly 100 feet in diameter.
An enlargement of the photos revealed two military jets.
It wasn’t clear if they were escorting the UFO, trying to intercept it, or just there by coincidence.
UFOs are suspected to be carrying alien life on board
Truth-seekers spot 'UFO' being 'followed through sky' by mysterious orbs
A man claims to have captured footage of a UFO being chased by orbs in the skies above Japan and the clip was debated by believers on conspiracy theory YouTube channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0
Footage of an alleged "UFO" cruising through the skies near a volcano in Japan has sent conspiracy theorists wild, with some claiming it is being chased by smaller craft.
In the clip, recorded at Kagoshima City in Japan, a large bright object appears in the night sky above the urban area, with the silhouette of Sakurajima volcano behind.
As the shiny object zips from the right of the frame to the left, a group of smaller-looking lights that appear to be flying in a triangle formation appear and follow in its wake.
The footage was spotted by Chris M who sent it to the popular YouTube conspiracy theory channel The Hidden Underbelly 2.0 where it had since been viewed more than 1,000 times.
A bright object appears in the sky and is 'persued' by a cluster of other objects(Image: Hidden Underbelly 2.0 / YouTube)
In the caption, he explained: "These objects were seen by the viewers of this live stream that is set up to monitor the Sakurajima volcano."
Unsurprisingly, the clip drew an enthusiastic debate about whether the lights were UFOs or not.
"That's a fantastic capture, definitely one large one and then a smaller group following," commented one believer.
A second conspiracy theorist said: "Mother ship trying to fly away from her baby ships. In all seriousness though, it was very good footage".
"There's always UFO activity near volcanos, like the one in Mexico," wrote another fan.
A fourth viewer, speculating that it might be advanced technology, commented: "The concept that comes to mind when I see these clusters that change back to a singular light or appear to stutter is maybe they move at a frequency that is not native to our perception.
"Certainly wouldn't blow my mind If that were the case."
More cynical viewers claimed the footage was simply "drones" or perhaps a "reflection".
Some of the most sensational UFO accounts are those that revolve around these strange craft coming down to earth. The Dreamy Draw Recreation Area, in the U.S. state of Arizona, is a rugged desert park next to Piestewa Peak, formerly called Squaw Peak Mountain. The area is known for its quaint beauty, hiking and horseback riding trails, and opportunities for all manner of outdoor activities. Looking out over these vistas tales of UFOs and aliens might be the furthest thing from one’s mind, but if the local lore is to be believed this was the site of a very unusual case in which a UFO came crashing down to earth, complete with alien bodies and which according to some is still there somewhere.
The story begins in 1947, in fact not all that long after the more famous alleged UFO crash at Roswell. While the story has changed into slightly different variations over the years, the main lore has it that in October of that year, two men by the names of Silas Newton and “Dr. Gee” witnessed a strange object come thundering down to earth to crash near the mountain, and the curious pair went to investigate. They supposedly arrived to find strange wreckage and the area strewn with several bodies of four-and-a-half-foot tall humanoid creatures with oversized heads, all of them dead. The men purportedly then collected these bodies and stowed them in a meat freezer until they could figure out what to do with them and who to tell. Apparently, they wouldn’t have the chance to tell anyone, as the men were soon after visited by mysterious men in black suits, who whisked the bodies away and told the witnesses in no uncertain terms that they were not to say a word to anyone about what they had seen and found.
Dreamy Draw Recreational Area
After this, the story goes that the government moved into the area with U.S. Army personnel, and not only that, but the Army Corps of Engineers had then went about building the Dreamy Draw dam right over the remains of the fallen spacecraft. It is said that the place didn’t need a dam at all, and the only reason it was built at all was to cover up the evidence of the crash, at least according to the tale. The case is most well-known from the 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers, by Frank Scully, but there have been numerous people since then who have stepped forward with further information on the otherworldly events. One letter sent into Legends Magazine is from an anonymous sender who has a lot to say about the site, and the letter reads:
I have more to add on the crash at dreamy draw. I’ve been hiking there for years and have noticed the bizarre features at the water retention site – built by the U.S. Army corps, – the dam area – which is off limits to all, has an “excessive” amount of posted signs – threatening 5yrs/$10,000 fine every 50 ft, there is also electronic monitoring of the “vault” – which is more like a concrete “bunker”- from WWII, this pillbox is located at the low point inside the “fake” retention area. Firstly, I’ve never seen any water there, for its location is not where watershed from squaw-peak mtn could be trapped. Why is it there? Behind a huge iron door inside the bunker, [I believe] grants entry to inside the vault to monitor / keep secure what is entombed within the dam structure itself. There is a spillway on the outside of dam – you can’t get near it – but its fake, made to look functional. Most of all, I know how un-thorough the government has been with crash site clean-up, maybe they couldn’t get everything – just west of secure area, there’s a hill with a rocky out-cropping and underneath in the shady areas, mold is growing – abnormally diverse and thick, shouldn’t even be there, I’ve counted 5 types/colors, its bizarre – nowhere on that mountain/trails, have I seen moss/fungus so pronounced.
Closer looking around the outcrop, I noticed the rocks in places, looked more like metal than rocks, silverish – some kind of liquid had made contact and dripped down inside the crevices, I pulled some of the rocks from the fissures and found it more abundant as it had clotted up in places. It looked organic, but nothing you could identify it with, this stuff now dried up was obviously a liquid at one time, must have been like soup, thicker than water – in the way it pooled down in the cracks of rock. The dried-goo was opaque/pearl green and I noticed it had reacted different to various rock types, the soft sandstone shale it bonded with/ dried on top, the harder quartz looked like a corrosive had made contact and pitted/dissolved areas like acid, this didn’t make much sense
I selected some of the more “choice” examples and decided to hike back to the truck with them – cradled in my right forearm. I placed them on a floor matte in the truck-bed & drove home. Driving down the freeway I started rubbed my arm-not thinking about it like a tickle/itch, after doing this for some time I said to myself – “what is it” like a insect bite or something, realizing those rocks had rested there for approx 10 min hiking back, it was like cleaning your battery posts and making contact with the acid on your elbow or something- there was a welt there and so I washed it in the kitchen sink, but then decided to shower, it vanished quickly. A few days later, “the rocks”- disappeared from the side of my house, I later found my girlfriend had put them out in the yard as landscaping decor – adding they looked cool there, and liked the “weird colors”. I only go hiking on the weekends, but haven’t been in a few weeks – its been hot! I been to the out cropping 4 times and every time I return, I’ve noticed something more to add to the story.
What is going on here and is this person for real? There have also been reports of people in the area of the dam reporting strange phenomena such as sudden spells of dizziness or inexplicable panic attacks, as well as those who claim to hear an inexplicable humming in the area. One witness calling himself Trevor Freeman has said of his own experience with this to Weird Arizona:
So I went to check this place out after school. It’s Monday afternoon, hardly anybody is around. I’m pedaling around on my bike and I find the dam. It’s fenced off pretty well and there are LOTS of No Trespassing signs everywhere. Pretty high security for an earthen dam with no water behind it! I take some pictures, look around, and I see the outfall of the dam buried in the bushes. I ride around to the other side and hike down into the low area. There’s a large concrete box with a fence on 3 sides. As I am getting down towards the bottom, I hear this steady, low-pitched humming noise. I can’t figure out what it is! Is there really a UFO buried beneath this thing? As I glance around to see if anyone’s watching, a plane crosses the sky. The place is not TOO far from the airport, but it’s still close enough to hear jets taking off. That’s probably what I heard. The lesson is that you’ll never realize how much weird stuff is out there until you start looking!
It is all very intriguing, and the idea that a UFO crashed here and was covered up by a dam really stirs the imagination, but there are definitely cracks in the tale. One is that the supposed UFO crash doesn’t seem to have ever been covered by any actual news agency at the time. Everything we know about it comes from unverifiable accounts, secondhand reports, and rumors, as well as brief mentions in Scully’s book Beyond Flying Saucers, as well as Timothy Good’s 1987 book Above Top Secret, and little else. Also a rather glaring hole in the story is that it seems that the dam was actually not built until 1973, which seems to put to rest the allegations that it was made to cover up a 1947 UFO crash. UFO researcher and journalist Alejandro Rojas has dug into the case by visiting the area and poking around, and he has come away frustrated, saying:
What I sought to do is figure out what happened at Dreamy Draw… all I could find is there were rumors, there was a witness who claimed to have seen something happen either in Cave Creek or Paradise Valley or Dreamy Draw. Unfortunately, before I could speak to this witness directly he passed away.
Yet the conspiracy theories and reports remain, and there are even those who insist that the dam was not built in 1973, but rather much earlier, with the date of construction itself said to have been altered in order to aid the cover-up. The same goes for newspaper reports, with it being suggested that the same mysterious men in black who visited the original witnesses also went about silencing any news stories that might appear. It has also been pointed out that the whole Dreamy Draw Dam area is very locked up and plastered with no trespassing signs beyond what one would expect for a dam. Is there anything to this story, or is it merely a piece of UFO urban legend? We may never know for sure, and although this is most likely a tall tale, it has still managed to enter the lore of UFO crashes.
Multiple Russian media sources have released shocking reports and photographs of a huge butterfly the size of a bird found living and seemingly thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – one of the most dangerous and radioactive places on Earth. Should the brave souls attempting to move back to their homes near the failed reactor get some bigger nets?
How big is too big for a butterfly?
“A butterfly with a wingspan the size of small bird was spotted in the Chernobyl exclusion zone by employees of the region’s Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, who reported the encounter on the organization’s Facebook page.”
While thousands of people have died or been affected by the radiation released during and after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 1986, scientists monitoring the exclusion zone around the remains of the plant – a “zone of alienation” extending 30 km (19 mi) in all directions from the plant where maintenance workers can only stay for five hours a day – say it has become a radioactive nature preserve where flora and fauna have survived and in many cases thrived due to the lack of humans. One group that did not is insects. Virtually all invertebrates disappeared from the exclusion zone, causing some animals and birds to look for other food or move. That’s why the bird-sized butterfly spotted in the area recently had people both excited about its existence but concerned about its seemingly mutant size. (See the photos here — those in the image at the top are not the ones in Chernobyl.) Fortunately, entomologists jumped in quickly with an explanation.
“The office of the science department visited an unexpected guest – a rare butterfly Blue Ribbon (Catocala fraxini). He’s still called the blue order tape. The butterfly is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine (vulnerable species)
This insect is one of the largest representatives of butterflies living in Ukraine and in general in Europe. The length of his front wing can reach 45 mm and the wingspan in flight is up to 110 mm. Butterfly is nice in flight.
Blue tape – active at night, flies to the light. You can see the scientists ′′ on the light “. When the rain stops, the butterfly will be moved to its favorite tree – poplars.”
The Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve issued a statement on social media identifying the butterfly as known a blue underwing (Catocala fraxini). With wings extending to 4.33 inches in flight, blue underwings are often mistaken for birds in areas where they still live. A species whose territory once covered Europe, it is now nearly extinct in the UK and a threatened species in Ukraine.
Should those working in Chernobyl protect themselves from these huge butterflies?
Why, when other insect species stay away from the exclusion area, has this monster butterfly returned? While it may look like a normal blue underwing, the researchers don’t know if it has been negatively affected or even mutated by the radiation. Insects initially disappeared from around the 2011 Fukushima disaster area in Japan, but butterflies have since returned and show signs of abnormalities. In particular, pale grass blue butterflies are smaller, grow more slowly and have higher mortality rates than before. Occurring almost 30 years later and with much more free and open media reporting on it, more is known about the effects of that disaster than Chernobyl, which still suffers from government secrecy.
The scientists at Chernobyl and Fukushima say they’re studying the radiation damage on wildlife to better prepare for future disasters. That’s not comforting at all. While it may be exciting to them that a huge bird-sized butterfly can live in a radioactive area, there’s still plenty of dead canaries in this coal mine.
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.
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