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.
Zondag 23 mei 2021
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
UFO Sighted Over Canyon Lake, Texas ( May 21, 2021 )
UFO sighted over Canyon Lake, Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country, Texas on May 21, 2021
STATEMENT : Canyon Lake, Texas last night!!!
credit : Autumn Still
UFOs Sighted Over Mexico( May 22, 2021 )
UFOs Sighted Over Mexico on May 22, 2021
STATEMENT : Chequense esto que acabo de grabar TRANSLATE : Check this out I just recorded
credit : Javier KB ( VIDEO 1 & 2 )
VIDEO 3 : STATEMENT : En Mexicali : In Mexicali
credit : Santos Jr Hernandes
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UFO Sighted Over Curitiba, Brazil ( May 21, 2021 )
UFO scourge photographer at Curitiba Center and intrigue netizens
An unidentified flying Object was spotted by a photographer Tuesday afternoon (18) at the Curitiba Center. The video intrigued netizens and in just one day it was seen by more than 10 people. The blatant happened on Carlos de Carvalho Street.
′′ I saw the deal and filmed it, it wasn't fast. It accelerated afterwards ", said Caroline Hecke, who made the image that intrigues many people. ′′ I don't know if this was the case, but believing that we are not alone, I believe that ", the photographer said.
The video lasts approximately seven seconds, until the object comes out of the camera focus.
ORIGINAL :
Fotógrafa flagra suposto OVNI no Centro de Curitiba e intriga internautas Um Objeto Voador Não Identificado foi flagrado por uma fotógrafa na tarde de terça-feira (18) no Centro de Curitiba. O vídeo intrigou internautas e em apenas um dia já foi visto por mais de 10 mil pessoas. O flagrante aconteceu na Rua Carlos de Carvalho.
"Vi o negócio e filmei, não tava rápido. Acelerou depois", disse Caroline Hecke, que fez a imagem que intriga muitas pessoas. "Não sei se era o caso, mas acreditar que não estamos sozinhos, isso eu acredito", comentou a fotógrafa.
O vídeo dura aproximadamente sete segundos, até que o objeto sai do foco da câmera.
credit : Massa Ne
UFOs Sighted Over Charlestown, Rhode Island ( May 19, 2021 )
STATEMENT : Last night's planned CE5 ( Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind )
event : Charlestown, Rhode Island : May 19th, 2021 / 9:10 p.m. If you're in the Rhode Island area & have an open mind & attitude & would like to join me one night, feel free to send me a message Have a great night
credit : Shawn Carter
UFOs Sighted Over Augusta, Evans, Georgia ( May 14, 2021 )
STATEMENT : UFO’s SPOTTED IN The Augusta, Evans Ga. area Friday May 14, 2021 couple hours after sundown.
I was driving home through Evans, GA Friday Night May 14, 2021 when these lights caught my eye. I pulled over at the first safe area into an entrance of a neighborhood next to some kinda store and began taking video with my iPhone 11. After 3 minutes my arm began to tire and I stopped recording. Of course as soon as I stopped, less than 10 seconds later e lights disappeared. Anyone else notice this? I want to say is was drones but, some of the patterns looked too well coordinated. Possibly military or jokesters? Couldn’t find any evidence online or in newspapers of anyone else noticing. Anyone know anything?
NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover On Mars’ ‘Mount Sharp’
10 feet long and 9 feet wide NASA Curiosity has been exploring Martian surface since 2012 and stands out in footage captured by Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter, while cataloging the landscape of Mars, captured the Curiosity rover scaling the mountain Aeolis Mons also informally known as 'Mount Sharp'. The 10 feet long and nine feet wide Curiosity has been exploring the Martian surface since 2012 and stands out in footage captured by Reconnaissance Orbiter against the tanned rocks and dark brown sand. The nearly 30-second clip was uploaded on May 20 on Twitter by the Wonder of Science page where the Reconnaissance Orbiter zooms in on the Curiosity from a distance of 169 miles, as it rests on the Red planet’s soil.
In the visuals, one can see the Curiosity rover’s remote sensing mast which is the rover's “head" as it forages the Martian surface in the location nicknamed Woodland Bay. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a statement, “At the time this image was acquired, the rover was facing 65 degrees counterclockwise from the north, which would put the mast in about the right location to produce this bright spot.”
Curiosity exploring 'sulfate-bearing unit'
NASA’s Curiosity is spotted journeying approximately 3-mile (5-kilometer) on the mountain located inside of Gale Crater often called the "sulfate-bearing unit” as it is a region known to science as having a history of water. Curiosity has been exploring Mount Sharp to search for evidence of past life on Mars. Scientists at NASA believe that roughly three billion years ago when Mars lost most of its atmosphere, the running water diminished from the planet. Curiosity has been safely exploring Mars’ rocky terrain and has been transmitting data back at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
“Curiosity can't drive entirely without humans in the loop," Matt Gildner, lead rover driver at JPL had explained in a statement. ”But it does have the ability to make simple decisions along the way to avoid large rocks or risky terrain. It stops if it doesn't have enough information to complete a drive on its own.” Curiosity has also been exploring another mysterious feature on Mars composed of clay and the sulfate unit known as the "Greenheugh pediment” which determines the climate changes Curiosity's landing zone called the Gale Crater.
Anunnaki: “The story of the giant kings who want to hide us”
When Zecharia Sitchin made the theory of the Ancient Astronauts and the Anunnaki public, it created a great controversy. Beings that came to Earth and created the human race by crossing their DNA with Homo Erectus, but where does this theory come from?
Representation of the prediluvian gods.
The cuneiform texts found in the Sumerian ruins that speak of the Anunnaki have been a reliable source . Despite the fact that archaeologists and historians of the traditional line of history refuse to accept it .
However, the fact that these ancient texts are thousands of years prior to the Bible and bear such marked similarities, suggests that the religion was based on the stories of the Sumerian gods.
Anunnaki history: “pre-diluvian gods who came to the world”
One of the most important points in Sumerian history could be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the mention of Mount Hermon.
Located at the southern end of the mountain range between Syria and Lebanon. Its highest peak reaches up to 2,814 meters high.
The account says that Gilgamesh obtained all his knowledge of the prediluvian world until he reached Mount Hermon, the abode of the Anunnaki.
Interestingly, many ancient texts name Gilgamesh as a giant demi-god . According to the Sumerian king list, he was the fifth King of Uruk, between 2800 BC. C. or 2600 a. C.
It is worth mentioning that it was this King who managed to centralize power in the city of Uruk by defeating the kings of Kish . Fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh mention that his height was “11 cubits”, or 5.4 meters .
It is important to note that the stories of giants are found in all ancient scriptures , including biblical texts.
Mount Hermon, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Kings of the underworld?
Mount Hermon was a sacred place, where only kings could dwell . For that reason, the Anunnaki were described as “judges of the dead” who inhabited the underground realm and served as “spirits of the Earth.”
A very similar story can be found in the Book of Enoch, where God sends the Archangel Michael to banish all the angels who were related to women. Thus, they must last seventy generations living on Earth.
In the New Testament he also refers to this fact ; In the Second Epistle of Peter, you can read:
«God did not forgive the Angels who sinned, but, plunging them into the dark depths of Tartarus, gave them over to be guarded until the Judgment; (II Peter, 2,4) ».
It is worth mentioning that “Tartarus” is the deepest hell in Greek mythology . The prison of the Titans, who were also giants.
Like these, many other examples give us to understand that the mythological stories of the different times and cultures have a common origin ; the story of the Anunnaki.
According to all the information collected and studied to date on the cuneiform texts and other ancient texts, they reveal that the Anunnaki belong to the eastern tradition.
They are a group of demi-gods that were born from the interbreeding with divine beings and mortal women that happened on Mount Hermon.
These beings possess the knowledge of the world before a great flood and later, they are attributed functions in the underworld.
So, we can say that the Anunnaki is the equivalent to the Elohim or Nephilim of the most current accounts, who ruled the world at some point in history. In this way, it is impossible to deny the existence of these demi-gods who came to the world from heaven.
What has increasingly become evident ever since 2017 is that valid information is accumulating to a point where casual dismissal is no longer sensible.
It may be time to speak of something other than COVID, and what better subject than Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP). It appears the US defence establishment has figured that, since the world is in a state of mental disorientation anyway, it is the moment to inject another source of uncertainty so that everyone gets accustomed to an epoch-defining possibility with resignation.
UAPs used to be known as UFOs. But this description has achieved such a stigma over the past decades that it appears anyone with serious intent must avoid it, for fear of immediately being labelled a nutcase (present company included). So, we shall call them UAPs.
The thing is, along with the change in designation, there appears to be some change in the way the phenomenon is now being addressed, which is the reason why this article itself has been written.
In that section, the Senate Committee demands “a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as ‘anomalous aerial vehicles’), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified.” The report must be issued before end June 2021.
Why now? Any number of reasons have been suggested, apart from the one mentioned above – i.e. to take advantage of the psychological state of much of the world population to offer a bit of information that will leave them resigned rather than angry, disruptive or just in a state of panic.
Others include the possibility that (a) there is now simply too much credible evidence on UAPs to hide from the general public, (b) to protect civilian and military airborne assets and humans a process needs to be put in place to address the issue in public, (c) a real threat to national/global security is perceived, (d) it is just another budget expansion exercise by the US military hawks, etc.
What has increasingly become evident ever since 2017 is that valid information is accumulating to a point where casual dismissal is no longer sensible. Credible, highly-credentialled people are willing to stand up and state it in public, even at the risk of being labelled a loon. But it has taken a long time coming.
Consider that the main incident which is getting traction in the US today – the Tic-Tac encounter - happened on Nov. 14, 2004, nearly two decades ago. There were other similar incidents then, and since, but the Tic-Tac observation has gained particular validity because it was observed by four US Navy Pilots over a period of “about 5 minutes” – according to Commander Dave Fravor, who led the team that observed it.
Cmdr. Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, who was flying the second F-14 on that day, speak at some length in a 60 Minutes show on the subject. That has injected a high level of credibility to the whole discussion, both these officers are regarded as reliable people not given to flights of fancy.
The slightly reluctant, even conservative, approach by Cmdr. Dietrich in particular, where she says she “felt confused” when the Tic-Tac “disappeared”, while still cautioning against a “jump to conclusions” reinforces the sense that this is not something out of the collective imagination of two fighter pilots and the Weapons Systems Officers sitting behind them in their jets.
The Tic-Tac encounter’s authenticity is backed up by another US Navy pilot from the Nimitz. Chad Underwood, who refers to David Fravor as his “boss”, flew out after Fravor landed. Underwood recorded the actual video that has become famous now. He, in fact, was the one who first compared the flying object to a Tic-Tac.
Adding further weight to the reliability of the Tic-Tac sighting, Sean Cahill, US Navy Chief Master at Arms of USS Princeton (part of the Nimitz Battlegroup), gave an interview on CNN confirming the story. In that same interview, Christopher Mellon, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, can be seen reinforcing the claims of these and other encounter cases.
Back to the present. The thing is, today, we do not need to depend just on the words of the people mentioned so far. There is a large amount of electro-optical information (from the radar data of the Nimitz Battle Group & from the F-14 jets’ Forward Looking Infrared – FLIR – pods) to back up their descriptions.
The three videos released so far were declassified by the US Defense Department (Elizondo’s last successful bureaucratic manoeuvre before he resigned from AATIP). There have been statements from various parties hinting much more information will come out in the weeks ahead, from this and other sightings.
Note that up until now, there has been no mention of extra-terrestrials or aliens, or anything of that sort. This is partly because of the stigma attached to that sort of speculation.
It is also a realistic posture because in the US these phenomena are viewed primarily from a “security threat” perspective – from human adversaries on the surface of Earth – with Russia and China named most in all the links provided. Also note that the people referenced in this article are current or former US government or military officials.
What does all this mean?
Here is a prediction. The DNI’s report which will be tabled next month, is not likely to go beyond saying that there are things flying out there, and possibly active under the sea as well, that we are not able to identify. They will most probably not refer to them as being from outside our planet.
They will not need to. Additional information might well be released, speculating mainly on some unnamed earthly adversary that has on its own shifted into a completely new paradigm in terms of physics, propulsion, materials, communications and trans-medium transportation (surface, subsea and space).
If so, that country would also have successfully - and in total secrecy from the rest of the world - built various types of industries to support this capability. In the unlikely event that this is what has actually happened, the world will be transformed.
If that is not the case, the revelations to come next month would mean something entirely different. Disorienting as this may sound, it would mean there is a non-human (to the best of our knowledge) intelligence out there, or already here, that is actively observing planetary activity, at the very least.
Coming at this time, at the start of the third millennium, and on the back end (hopefully) of a devastating global pandemic, it could well set the tone for the rest of mankind’s existence.
Yes, it is that big a deal – whatever the answer to the origin of the UAPs are. What it means for human beings is quite something else and will need another article.
With thanks from the Belgian UFO hotline of Frederick Delaere. For recent Belgian observations and research, you can always visit his site https://ufomeldpunt.be/.
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MUFON CASE : 115571 Auburn Hills, Michigan ( May 20, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Wingless object in sky Long Description of Sighting Report
Wingless object flying in sky. No wings. No noise. No trail. Area north of Selfridge Air Force Base.
Date Submitted : 2021-05-20 Date of Event : 2021-05-19 / 6:30AM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.CF836A1771BC410A9E80BE807F877250.MOV
VIDEO 2 : MUFON CASE : 115542 Hong Kong
A semicircle white object keeps pathing with different speed. First thought It’s the moon u see in day time but it was moving pretty fast.
Long Description of Sighting Report
At local time 4:16pm in Mui Wo an Island in Hong Kong on a beach, looking over the sky ans saw this object pathing non stop with speed and shape changes. It paths for long more than 15-20mins.
Date Submitted: 2021-05-19 Date of Event : 2021-05-19 / 4:16PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILES :
UFO Sighted Over O'Hare International Airport, Chicago ( May 16, 2021 )
Amazing UFO sighting at O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago on May 16, 2021
For decades, his airspace has been the scene of stunning UFO catches. It's worth remembering that he started in 1943, being a Douglas C-54 aircraft that were used in World War II.
The airport entered service in 1949.
STATEMENT : We’re currently searching for more details surrounding this video. At this time, we’re unable to confirm the authenticity of this footage. However, at careful analysis, our assessment is this isn’t a fabricated CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) hoax.
Anyone with intel regarding this footage is encouraged to contact our team directly!
UFOs Sighted Over Ottawa, Canada ( April 20, 2021 )
STATEMENT :UFO CANADA 🇨🇦 UAF In Ottawa 2021
In a night walk alongside the Ottawa river we sighted this 5 Orbs flying vertically and then some of them took different directions another just disappeared a few metres up in the sky !
Reporter Asks Biden About UFOs, Biden Walks Off, May 21, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of interview: May 21, 2021
US President Biden asked for questions at the end of the news conference with the South Korean President. An American reporter raised his hand asking, "If you have one more minute for a question Mr President?" Biden replies, "If you don't ask me a mean one like you usually do." The reporter stands up and replies, "Its something interesting." Then he continues, "President Obama says there is footage and records of objects in the skies and he says we don't know exactly what they are. What do you think?"
Biden is taken aback by this...wrinkles form on his forehead and his eyes open widely in surprise. Even a large blood vein protrudes from his right side of his forehead which tells me this is not a subject he wants to talk about. Mr Biden takes a deep breath and answered, "I would ask him again, thank you." Then he makes a fast exit to avoid further questions about UFOs.
It's clear to me that President Biden knows about UFOs, but he has someone in his earpiece telling him to avoid the subject, that it's a matter of national security and cannot be talked about by the US President. This is why he made such a quick exit. Had he known nothing and he would have stayed at the podium and taken other questions from the world press. But he was scared...scared to reveal something that he was not suppose to reveal yet. This interview tells me Biden knows about UFOs and aliens and that knowledge is putting a weight on his conscious that clearly shows in his facial expression when asked.
Massive underwater structure 180 km off coast of Antarctica
A huge underwater structure 180 km of coast of Antarctica shows among other objects, huge walls.
Suppose, this enormous structure are the remains of a huge ancient settlement or base that is now submerged under water, then who built it thousands of years ago?
Remains of an ancient Sea Creature found on the ocean floor
Did a diver film a rare sea monster or the legendary Water Dragon at a depth of 835.5 meters?
Deborah Hatswell: I was contacted by a gentleman who works with Remote Operated Vehicle equipment for the gas and oil industry. This video was taken in 2017 in the Mediterranean during an investigation of the sea bed by professionals who work underwater in oceans all across the globe. The ROV picked up a strange set of bones on the sea bed. The bones seem to be that of a sea serpent or unknown creature.
They know whale bones and come across them from time to time. The dimensions of the skeleton on the video does not fit with the usual size for any sea life in the area. A whale has three blades on it’s spinal bones each spaced 120 degrees apart and this creature seems to have only two.
The Mediterranean sea does join the Atlantic ocean so this creature could have come here from that ocean?
The gentleman who contacted me stated “The bones could be very ancient because I have seen many clay amphora sticking out of the mud and they have been there for potentially 1000’s of years. The bones were about 30 meters long and very large and look more like they belong to a serpent of some kind”
The question about UFO literally chased president Biden away. This happened at a press conference this Friday while he was visited by South Korean President Moon Jae.
Caves “built by giants” in South America: A new perspective?
For a decade, one of the greatest mysteries that exist in South America has been a network of giant caves that science has not been able to explain; theories speak of great giants … however, now the scientific community could have found its “logical explanation.”
The huge caves are around 4 meters in diameter.
It is not the first time that strange caves have been talked about in South America. In 2010, Amilcar Adamy , the geologist at the Brazilian Geological Survey, began investigating the stories about a mysterious cavern in Rondonia, northwestern Brazil.
Adamy not only found the entrance to a grotto; He came across a network of giant caves that surprised him.
Caves made by giants?
These strange gigantic “burrows” had already been discovered in different countries of South America. Some were so huge and well built that many were connected through tunnels .
The caves, known to science as “paleoburrows,” are between 8,000 and 10,000 years old . None of the currently known geological processes can explain its formation.
The first find about these mysterious tunnels was in 1930 . It was crystal clear that the paleoburrows were an archaeological structure.
The locals told the experts that these caves had been excavated thousands of years ago by their giant ancestors .
The structure of the Rondonia cave is huge and continues to be the largest known in the entire Amazon. In fact, it is twice the size of the largest found in Brazil.
Currently around 1,500 paleoburrows have been found , only in southwestern Brazil. The smallest measure around 1.5 meters in diameter and the largest exceed 4 meters.
Despite the complexity of their constructions, and that the natives of these areas have legends that they were artificially built, the scientific community has found a “new explanation.”
The scientists explanation
Alleged claw marks found by scientists.
Researchers have found “a clue” that could give you a more credible version of the formation of the caves.
Grooves in the surface of eroded granite, basalt and sandstone, which were identified as “claw marks of a huge and very ancient creature .”
The grooves, for the most part, are shallow and parallel to each other. These marks are smooth, although some show irregular shapes produced by “broken claws.”
This explanation could be the piece necessary to solve the mystery. In addition, it would lead the investigation towards one of the most important questions of paleontology and the megafauna that existed on the planet.
In the Pleistocene period , from about 2.5 million years to about 11,700 years ago, where were the burrows of these colossal creatures?
According to the size of the structures and the supposed claw marks that they left on the walls, experts say that these are burrows of some animal of that megafauna.
Specifically, they believe they are the homes of giant ground sloths or giant armadillos.
According to this new research, there never was a geological process. There is no way that it generates long tunnels of circular or elliptical section that branch or rise and fall.
In addition, they are sure that the claw marks “eliminate” the possibility of human intervention .
It is, to say the least, strange that the scientific community has so drastically changed opinion about these caves. In addition, they are totally ignoring the legends of the natives of the areas. Could we be in the presence of another omission of ancient history?
US Navy’s’ Video With A UFO “Diving” Under The Water Has Been Published
Incredible footage of an unidentified flying object (UFO) rushing in front of a U.S. Navy battleship and then submerging underwater has been published.
The unbelievable video was posted by director Jeremy Corbell, who became famous for sharing footage of a pyramidal UFO captured by the USS Russell crew in July 2019. Corbell posted the video on his website extraordinarybeliefs.com.
Filmed by the USS Omaha Combat Information Center (CIC) on July 15, 2019, the video shows a black spherical object moving across the sky.
During the observation, the object moved at a speed of 46 miles per hour to 158 miles per hour.
The submarine was reportedly even sent to search for UFOs, but never found anything. According to Jeremy, the object remains unidentified.
This likely supports the theory that many of the UFOs encountered by the US Navy are versatile vehicles, meaning they function both in the air and under water.
“I can confirm that the video was captured by the US Navy and that the Task Force on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena has included it in its ongoing research,” said Pentagon spokesman Susan Gough.
Corbell believes that there is a UFO base under the water, through which unidentified vehicles pass in transit, arriving from other places.
To locate fast radio bursts, astronomers across the world have to search the skies for different electromagnetic signals.
CSIRO/Sam Moorfield
For the past decade, astronomers have been inching ever closer to answering a most puzzling question: What is the origin of the mysterious, high-energy radio signals that ping Earth and then, more often than not, vanish without a trace. All sorts of theories have been proposed to explain these fast radio bursts, or FRBs: aliens, because of course; exotic physics; extremely magnetized stars... there's a laundry list of potential explanations. (It's probably not aliens)
In November 2020, a suite of papers in the journal Nature announced the discovery of the first FRB emanating from our home galaxy. That detection implicated magnetars, an unusual type of dead star, as the cause of the millisecond bursts. However, the connection has yet to be definitively proven, and so astronomers keep on searching.
In a new paper, set to be published in the Astrophysical Journal and available as a preprint on arXiv, observations with NASA's workhorse Hubble Space Telescope have helped researchers to pinpoint the location of five FRBs to the spiral arms of distant galaxies. The team looked at eight FRBs, most of which were first detected in 2019 and 2020, but the locations of three of them remain enigmatic.
"This is the first high-resolution view of a population of FRBs," said Alexandra Mannings, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the paper's lead author.
NASA's Hubble was a critical component in the search. FRBs ping Earth-based detectors like the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, which allows them to be tracked to a region of the sky. Further imaging of the region might uncover a galaxy there, but they're only tiny points of light. When Hubble steps in, the resolution is increased enough to study the features of the galaxies.
"In this case, Hubble either confirmed the presence of spiral arms in these galaxies or uncovered spiral structure we had not been able to see before," said Wen-fai Fong, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University and co-author of the study.
The study helps to refine our understanding of these unusual, energetic outbursts and rule out some possible sources. The galaxies that many of the FRBs have been localized to are "massive, relatively young and still forming stars," according to Mannings, providing valuable context for FRB researchers. But the spiral arms of a galaxy don't typically house huge numbers of the youngest, brightest stars.
Fast radio bursts have been tracked to the spiral arms of distant galaxies.
NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Alexandra Mannings, Wen-fai Fong
Finding the FRBs there helps rule out two causes. They're likely not coming from explosive star deaths, which take place in the brightest regions of galaxies. Nor are they caused by neutron star mergers, which can take billions of years to occur and aren't commonly found in spiral arms.
The localizations don't rule out one of the leading theories of FRB production: magnetars. These stars throw off super powerful magnetic fields, and it's believed this can cause a radio flare to be thrown out into the universe. If you're listening, like many of Earth's ground-based telescopes are, those flares can be picked up. (See, it's probably not aliens...)
There's still a possibility that some of the FRBs detected on Earth are caused by something other than magnetars, but the evidence seems to be stacking up in their favor with each new study.
Not many FRBs have been traced back to their home galaxies. Some bursts have been known to repeat, which has helped Astro-Sherlocks get a lock on their location, while others just flare to life, leaving only a ghost of a signal and requiring a little extra detective work. It's unclear, at present, if all FRBs repeat or just some. "There are a lot of intricacies to explore once we have higher numbers," said Mannings.
"It's a really new, exciting field with limited observations," said Fong. "We're paving the way to learning more about this cosmic mystery."
As the number of FRBs discovered continues to rise, astronomers are beginning to understand them a little more. They're even helping us look at the universe in exciting new ways. In May 2020, astronomers in Australia used them to solve the universe's missing matter problem.
Space Mysteries: An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible.
Could the "missing stars" be a completely new phenomenon?
(Image credit: Tobias Roetsch)
Stars don't just vanish — or do they? For thousands of years, astronomers accepted the idea that the lights in the sky were fixed and unchanging. Even when it became clear that these lights were actually physical objects like the sun, one of the key assumptions for astrophysicists has been that they go through major changes very slowly, on timescales of millions or billions of years.
And when the most massive stars of all — which are many times heavier than the sun — do go through sudden and cataclysmic changes as they reach the ends of their lives, their passing is marked by the unmissable cosmic beacon of a supernova explosion, which shines for many months, and may even be visible across hundreds of millions of light-years.
But what if some stars suddenly just wink out of visibility? According to everything we know about stars, that should be impossible, but over the past few years, a group of astronomers has set out to see whether such impossible things do happen, comparing data across decades of observations.
"VASCO is the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project," said Beatriz Villarroel of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden. "We're actually interested in all kinds of vanishing objects, but ideally I'd like to find a star that's been steady and has been there in the sky for as long as we can remember and as long as we have data for, and one day it just vanishes. And you can point the biggest telescopes in the world at it and still see nothing there."
Since Villarroel and her colleagues began work on the project in 2017, they've attracted a lot of attention from scientists who see the potential in searching historic records: "We have astronomers from all kinds of different fields interested in the project — specialists in active galactic nuclei [the power source of intensely brilliant quasars in the distant universe], stellar physicists, and SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] scientists — everyone has their reasons for getting involved."
Massive stars can destroy themselves in supernovas, but these are hard to miss, outshining entire galaxies for several months and leaving behind superheated remnants. (Image credit: NASA, ESA)
Although our current understanding suggests that stars change only very slowly, and dramatic disappearances should leave traces behind, that's not to say that all stars shine steadily. In fact, the sky is packed full of variable stars that pulsate and change in brightness. Villarroel emphasizes that VASCO is about something different. "We know that there are variables, but their timescales tend to be a few years at most. We want to find something that goes from a completely steady star to just vanishing entirely — this hasn't been documented, and it's the kind of discovery that could lead to new physics."
Cataloging the sky
Recent years have seen the development of automated telescopes that can catalog the entire sky at a rate that previous generations of astronomers could only dream about. For instance, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Mount Palomar in California combines a state-of-the-art camera with the venerable Samuel Oschin Telescope.
Its ultra-wide field of view enables it to survey the entire Palomar sky over just three nights, scanning the plane of the Milky Way twice each night. This massively increases the likelihood of detecting the chance eruptions known as transients — bursts of light that can be caused by intense stellar flares on distant stars, but may also be associated with some of the most violent and rare events in the universe, such as mysterious gamma-ray bursts.
However, there's a big difference between looking for stars that appear, and those which disappear, as Villarroel highlights: "Projects like the ZTF work on very short timescales, but if you have a very rare event where something vanishes from the sky every 100 years then you really need a very long timescale to pick it up. In our case we want to find a star that has vanished — or actually appeared — using as large a time span as possible, combined with the best catalogs from older times.
We're using data from 70 years ago and comparing it to data from today to see how the sky might have changed." Perhaps ironically, the team's search for high-quality historical data led researchers back to Palomar and the Samuel Oschin Telescope, which in the 1950s produced the photographic plates for an all-sky survey that has since been scanned by the US Naval Observatory (USNO). For a modern counterpart they relied on data from the twin telescopes of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) at Hawaii's Haleakalā Observatory.
The USNO survey plates predate the Space Age, and exposures are long enough to distinguish asteroids as short trails against stars. (Image credit: ESO)
"All of these surveys are freely available, and everything has been digitized and is online," said Villarroel. "Our IT team at Uppsala University has developed a citizen science webpage where you can click and combine images at ml-blink.org. We have computer game developers who have looked at making the design more appealing, and we also have an AI in development.
There are several different ways of approaching the problem — whatever gives us data! The point is that people who are interested can go there to compare the images, and if they are very curious about some case they can leave a comment, and we'll get back to them and inform them about their candidate. But we have quite a lot of work ahead of us before we can follow up on everything."
Every object in the USNO catalog that is flagged as having no obvious counterpart in the Pan-STARRS data has to be examined and confirmed by the team. Researchers then look at the shape, brightness, and other characteristics to identify whether it is a defect on the photographic plates of the original survey.
"You can never guarantee it's not a plate defect," said Villarroel. "But you can do some tests in order to eliminate the most obvious things. Then you go to the deeper catalogs like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) or the new Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey to see if you can find any remains of the object on these, and depending on what you find that might give you different types of candidates."
The team also compares candidates with data from the European Space Agency's Gaia, which is currently busy gathering precision data for more than a billion stars in the Milky Way.
The VASCO researchers use data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory to double-check candidate "missing" stars. (Image credit: ESA)
Promising candidates
So far, the survey has delivered more than 800 apparently 'missing' stars, many of which still need to be processed and studied in depth. And while there's no perfect match for Villarroel's ideal object — a vanishing act by a long-lived, stable star —many of the candidates that have been spotted are still intriguing in their own right.
"We have found a number of short-lived transients that appear on one image, and then not again. Those account for most of what we've found so far, but there are other things we're not sure of what they are yet. We've studied some of these short-lived transients, and they don't seem to be M-dwarf flares [the huge outbursts caused by the tangled magnetic fields of faint red dwarf stars that may cause them to brighten by a factor of 100 or more], or any type of supernova. I think we can start excluding those options."
Other options that seem unlikely include variable stars and cataclysmic variables or novae — eruptions on the surface of white dwarf stars in binary systems. None of the sources sit close to a known variable, and the companion star in a nova system ought to be faintly visible on some of the modern surveys, even when the white dwarf isn't.
Ageing red giant stars can "disappear" as they shed their outer layers and evolve into white dwarfs, but the process takes hundreds of thousands of years and produces a distinctive planetary nebula. (Image credit: NASA, ESA)
"One possibility is that they could be some kind of optical afterglow from gamma-ray bursts or fast radio bursts," Villarroel said. The sources of these high-energy cosmic eruptions are still poorly understood, but one common prediction is that as their energy output dwindles, they should pass through a brief period of visibility.
"Such outbursts are predicted to have super-big amplitudes of about eight to ten magnitudes, but fade in just a few minutes, and don't seem to have any kind of visible counterpart when we look at the locations with big telescopes. Of course, with 800 candidates we still have a lot of work to do, and I think to be clear it's almost certainly a mixed bag of objects of different types," she said.
If those 800 candidates turn out to contain an ideal vanishing star, what could be the possible explanation?
One option might turn out to be a so-called "failed" supernova — a truly monstrous star with a core so massive that it collapses into a black hole and consumes the rest of the star from the inside out, cutting off the torrent of nuclear fusion that normally accompanies a supernova explosion and leaving no visible remnant behind.
Black holes can form at the center of stars in the Milky Way. (Image credit: Getty Images)
However, Villarroel thinks that the odds are stacked against this explanation — she calculates that such events should happen about once every three centuries in our galaxy, making it unlikely that the VASCO project would stumble upon one by chance.
At the moment it's hard to imagine other natural processes that might result in a star simply disappearing — and until a candidate emerges with features that can be studied, there's little point in speculating on possible new physics that might be involved in this cosmic vanishing act. However, that raises one other possibility that's inspired VASCO from the outset: The idea that apparently impossible astronomical events might give away the existence of advanced alien civilizations.
Potential future discoveries
The Pan-STARRS survey telescopes at Haleakalā Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui. (Image credit: Getty Images)
As increases in telescope size and sensitivity, coupled with computing power, have brought astronomy into its "big data" era, many SETI scientists have argued that we're more likely to detect the presence of aliens through the otherwise-inexplicable behaviors of stars and other objects than we are from radio signals deliberately or accidentally beamed in our direction by alien life.
The theory is that if civilizations become sufficiently advanced, at least some of them are likely to develop the technology required for stellar engineering, which would alter the appearance of stars in otherwise-inexplicable ways. A classic example of this is the "Dyson sphere" — a halo of orbiting power plants that would be the most efficient way of extracting energy from a star.
A really advanced alien civilization could cause stars to disappear in a number of ways — perhaps blocking out their light by surrounding them with Dyson spheres. (Image credit: Alamy)
Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke stated in his Third Law that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". If no natural cause for a stellar disappearance could be found, then the influence of intelligent extraterrestrials would certainly seem a more likely explanation than the supernatural.
"With regard to SETI, there are several different ways of thinking about it," Villarroel said. "Dyson spheres and other structures, beacons that are turned on and off, or point in our direction for a certain time, or maybe there are ways for a civilization to actually get rid of stars that are getting in the way."
Even the red transients that the team has identified so far could have a possible artificial cause: "Of course, the first hypotheses we go for are natural ones — and we don't have any reason to exclude those yet — but if I was in my extraterrestrial speculation mode, I guess a laser beam could also produce a red transient of this type."
One extraordinary possibility is that the disappearing "stars" are actually huge starships moving through space, in which case they might not be missing, but moving. (Image credit: Getty Images)
While Villarroel hints at exciting discoveries that have already emerged from the data and await formal publication, in the meantime the VASCO project continues. Many of the candidates identified so far still await proper confirmation and analysis, and only a quarter of the sky has actually been checked so far. Further progress will hopefully be accelerated by more volunteer citizen scientists and new automation methods currently being developed in collaboration with the Spanish Virtual Observatory.
"We don't know of any processes where a star would just vanish, except for this hypothetical failed supernova," Villarroel reflects. "Therefore vanishing stars become interesting because we haven't observed such things in nature. The main principle was to look for things we would think of as being impossible."
They can survive temperatures close to absolute zero. They can withstand heat beyond the boiling point of water. They can shrug off the vacuum of space and doses of radiation that would be lethal to humans. Now, researchers have subjected tardigrades, microscopic creatures affectionately known as water bears, to impacts as fast as a flying bullet. And the animals survive them, too—but only up to a point. The test places new limits on their ability to survive impacts in space—and potentially seed life on other planets.
Meet a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. A few thousand of them (dehydrated) were sent to the moon on the Beresheet spacecraft, which crashed on April 22, 2019. They’re cute … right?
Image via Eye of Science/Science Source/ScienceNews.
The research was inspired by a 2019 Israeli mission called Beresheet, which attempted to land on the Moon. The probe infamously included tardigrades on board that mission managers had not disclosed to the public, and the lander crashed with its passengers in tow, raising concerns about contamination. “I was very curious,” says Alejandra Traspas, a Ph.D. student at Queen Mary University of London who led the study. “I wanted to know if they were alive.”
Traspas and her supervisor, Mark Burchell, a planetary scientist at the University of Kent, wanted to find out whether tardigrades could survive such an impact—and they wanted to conduct their experiment ethically. So after feeding about 20 tardigrades moss and mineral water, they put them into hibernation, a so-called “tun” state in which their metabolism decreases to 0.1% of their normal activity, by freezing them for 48 hours.
They then placed two to four at a time in a hollow nylon bullet and fired them at increasing speeds using a two-stage light gas gun, a tool in physics experiments that can achieve muzzle velocities far higher than any conventional gun. When shooting the bullets into a sand target several meters away, the researchers found the creatures could survive impacts up to about 900 meters per second (or about 3000 kilometers per hour), and momentary shock pressures up to a limit of 1.14 gigapascals (GPa), they report this month in Astrobiology. “Above [those speeds], they just mush,” Traspas says.
The results suggest the tardigrades on Beresheet were unlikely to survive. Although the lander is thought to have crashed at a few hundred meters per second, the shock pressure its metal frame generated hitting the surface would have been “well above” 1.14 GPa, Traspas says. “We can confirm they didn’t survive.”
The research also places new limits on a theory known as panspermia, which suggests some forms of life could move between worlds, as stowaways on meteorites kicked up after an asteroid strikes a planet or moon. Eventually, the meteorite could impact another planet—along with its living cargo.
The impact site of the Beresheet spacecraft in the Sea of Serenity region of the moon, as seen on April 22, 2019. The lunar library onboard contained various samples of DNA from Earth, including dehydrated tardigrades.
Image via NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/Wired.
Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist at the University of Edinburgh who was not involved in the study, says the research shows how unlikely panspermia is. “What this paper is showing is that complex multicellular animals cannot be easily transferred,” he says. “In other words, Earth is a biogeographical island with respect to animals. They’re trapped, like a flightless bird on an island.”
Traspas, however, says it shows panspermia “is hard,” but not impossible. Meteorite impacts on Earth typically arrive at speeds of more than 11 kilometers per second. On Mars, they collide at least at 8 kilometers per second. These speeds are well above the threshold for tardigrades to survive. However, some parts of a meteorite impacting Earth or Mars would experience lower shock pressures that a tardigrade could live through, Traspas says.
Objects strike the Moon at still lower speeds. When impacts on Earth send bits of rock and debris hurtling toward the Moon, about 40% of that material could travel at speeds low enough for any tardigrades to survive, Traspas and Burchell say, theoretically allowing them to jump from our planet to the Moon. A similar passage, they add, could take place from Mars to its moon, Phobos. And other life might have an even better chance of surviving; compared with water bears, some microbes can survive even faster impacts of up to 5000 meters per second, according to previous research.
The new experiment also has implications for our ability to detect life on icy moons in the outer Solar System. Saturn’s moon Enceladus, for example, ejects plumes of water into space from a subsurface ocean that could support life, as might Jupiter’s moon Europa. If the findings of the new study apply to potential life trapped in the plumes, a spacecraft orbiting Enceladus—at relatively low speeds of hundreds of meters per second—might sample and detect existing life without killing it.
No such orbiting mission is currently planned for Enceladus or Europa—upcoming NASA and European flyby missions will swoosh by the latter at high speeds of several kilometers per second. But perhaps one day far in the future an orbiter might be in the cards, with an ability to detect life at gentler speeds. “If you collect it and it died on impact, how do you know whether it’s been dead for millions of years?” asks Anna Butterworth, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied plume impacts on spacecraft. “If you collect microscopic life and it’s moving around, you can say it’s alive.”
MUFON CASE : 115540 Herndon, Virginia ( May 19, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS :Saw multiple glowing objects Long Description of Sighting Report :
Saw multiple glowing objects, made no sound and moved slowly above/near my neighborhood then disappeared in Virginia
Date Submitted : 2021-05-19 Date of Event : 2021-04-02 / 8:15PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : Zvideo.mp4
VIDEO 2 : MUFON CASE : 115527 Kingston, Canada Possible UFO spotted descending & landing in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Long Description of Sighting Report
I looked out the window and saw what I thought was a bright star. It caught my eye because it was so bright& also it appeared to be blue/green. I thought it was perhaps a star being affected by gases in outer space, until it dramatically dropped from a spot directly above it, from in the middle where there’s a clearing in the clouds to where it’s positioned when the video starts. I grabbed my cell and started filming. As it landed, it also flashed a red and an organgey-red, along with white and the blue/green colour.
Date Submitted : 2021-05-18 Date of Event :2021-05-17 / 9:30PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.A876B65AB11A4246A22DE3D7A1318F47.MOV
Triangle UFO During Sunset Over Tennessee. Photos, May 18, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 18, 2021
Location of sighting: Mursfreeburo, Tennessee, USA
Source: MUFON #115575
This report is just in today. A person saw a triangle shaped cloud over the Tennessee area and took this photo. Triangle shaped clouds should be impossible in nature, and yet, here it is in front of us. What I mean is the shape of the object is that of an equilateral triangle...having not just two, but all three sides and angles equal. This is an alien UFO disguised as a cloud so that it wont frighten the humans that notice it. Aliens are studying humans...and the study would be spoiled if the humans knew they were being watched. Absolute proof that triangle craft are visiting earth and flying low enough to be easily seen with the naked eye.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
My boyfriend saw this triangular shaped ‘cloud’ silently appear and hover over him, turned some, then it disappeared. I only included one photo as they’re not mine. But he has 6 others taken during the sighting. I’ve added his email to the report and he fully supports and is aware of this report and wouldn’t mind an email asking about it further. We just discussed it.
Wingless Object Over Auburn Hills, Michigan May 19, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 19, 2021
Location of sighting: Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
Source: MUFON
Watching this video just leaves me in awe at how close some UFOs come to the public. This tictac UFO had no wings, no sound and made no trail, but as we know from US gov videos of UFOs...UFOs do make trails when they want too. This UFO shows a UFO over Michigan and I believe it came from an under water alien base that sits in the depths of Lake Michigan itself. The lake is known for its massive depth and mysteries that surround it, military planes disappearing from radar never to be found. Lake Michigan...its home to an alien base.
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