France UFO videos from 9 November Multiple videos from different angle, including one sudden vanish. Still unexplained.

This strange cigar-shaped bright UFO was filmed by at least three different witnesses in the skies near the Mediterranean coast in the places like Andorra, Narbonne, Perpignan Montpellier, Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots and even Sète. This happened on 9th November 2021.

What do you think this is?

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Multiple metallic UFOs over Aurora, Colorado | Daytime UFO sighting 10-Nov-2021

This interesting footage of some kind of metallic UFOs flying over Aurora, Colorado was filmed on 10th November 2021. Interesting fact: In 1897 there was an alleged UFO crash in Aurora, CO: 

• https://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2019/07/ufo-crash-in-texas-aurora-1897.html

Witness report: 

Some notes for the viewer. This was taken yesterday, starting at 2:37pm. I live in SE Aurora, close to Buckley AFB, and there is also a landfill a couple of miles from my home, yesterday was an extremely windy day. I thought at first these were silver Mylar balloons, but there must have been hundreds of them. They appeared to be orbs, metallic, reflective and very bright. They moved in the general direction of the wind, but within clusters they would
Move every which direction, and seemed to go invisible for brief moments.

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UFO fireballs flying over Philadelphia, PA 25-Jul-2021

These bright orbs were filmed flying across the night sky above Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city on 25th July 2021.

Witness report: 

Orange lights like fireballs were in the sky, first were three in form of triangle then another one behind them, next group were vista versa

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Propionamide Detected in Space for First Time

Propionamide (C₂H₅CONH₂), a complex alkyl amide with twelve atoms, is the largest peptide-like molecule detected in space, according to a new study led by Dr. Juan Li from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

“Proteins, as the building blocks of living cells, are an essential component of living systems on Earth,” Dr. Li and his colleagues from China, Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Ukraine wrote in their paper.

“Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond, -NHCO-.”

“Due to the high molecular weight and extremely low gas-phase abundance, detection of proteins in the interstellar medium at the current stage of development of observation facilities looks like a formidable task.”

“Therefore, molecules with peptide-like bonds are of particular interest for our understanding of possible routes of protein formation in space.”

In their study, the astronomers focused on the giant molecular cloud complex Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2).

“Sgr B2 is the massive star-forming region located close to the Galactic center,” they wrote.

“It has been found to be one of the best hunting grounds for complex organic molecules in the interstellar medium.”

“Many prebiotic molecules have been detected in this source, such as the branched molecule i-C₃H₇CN and the chiral molecule CH₃CHCH₂O.”

“Sgr B2 contains two main sites of star formation, Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(M), both of which host several dense, compact, hot cores.”

They analyzed spectra of Sgr B2 obtained with the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) 30-m telescope on Pica Veleta, Spain.

They also used the archival interferometric data from the ReMoCA (Re-exploring Molecular Complexity with ALMA) survey.

“Our results provide strong evidence for warm, compact propionamide with high abundance in the hot cores of the Sgr B2 cloud complex,” the researchers wrote.

“From a chemical perspective, the presence of propionamide is not surprising.”

“As a substituted acetamide and the third member of the amide chemical family, propionamide is likely to have formation mechanisms that are similar to or associated with those of the two smaller amides: formamide and acetamide.”

“This detection suggests that large peptide-like molecules can form and survive during star-forming process and may form more complex molecules in the interstellar medium.”

A paper on the findings will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

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• Juan Li et al. 2021. Propionamide (C₂H₅CONH₂): The largest peptide-like molecule in space. ApJ, in press; arXiv: 2108.05001

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MYSTERIEUZE RUIMTESTEEN LICHT OP IN DE NABIJHEID VAN DE ZON - EN ONDERZOEKERS DENKEN NU TE WETEN WAAROM

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Bronmateriaal:

• "Fizzing Sodium Could Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity" - NASA
• Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA / JPL-Caltech / IPAC

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BREUK ONTDEKT IN ÉÉN VAN DE ARMEN VAN ONZE MELKWEG

Vivian Lammerse

Het gaat om een groepje jonge sterren en gaswolken die, vergelijkbaar met een splinter in een houten plank, uit één van de spiraalarmen steken.

Wetenschappers hebben een tot voor kort onbekend kenmerk van onze Melkweg ontdekt. In één van de spiraalarmen blijkt namelijk een heuse breuk te zitten; een uitsteeksel bestaande uit een groepje jonge sterren en stervormende gaswolken. Een bijzondere ontdekking. Want het is voor het eerst dat onderzoekers een grote structuur ontdekken die zo’n andere kant op wijst dan de arm zelf.

De Melkweg
Astronomen krijgen inmiddels een steeds beter beeld van onze eigen Melkweg; het sterrenstelsel van gemiddelde grootte, waarin het zonnestelsel met de aarde zich bevindt. We hebben daarom wel een idee van de grootte en de vorm van de armen. Maar veel is ook nog onbekend. Dat komt omdat we de volledige structuur van ons eigen sterrenstelsel niet zien omdat de aarde erin zit. Vanuit de positie van de aarde is het nou eenmaal heel moeilijk om de grootschalige structuur van de Melkweg heel precies te bestuderen.

Sagittariusarm
Om meer over ons eigen Melkwegstelsel te ontraadselen, tuurden astronomen in een nieuwe studie door de ondertussen gestorven Spitzer-telescoop naar een nabijgelegen deel van de Sagittariusarm; een van de vier grote spiraalarmen van het Melkwegstelsel. Ze zochten naar pasgeboren sterren, genesteld in de gas- en stofwolken (nevels genaamd) waar ze zich vormen. Spitzer detecteerde infrarood licht dat door dergelijke dicht bepakte wolken kan dringen, terwijl zichtbaar licht wordt tegengehouden.

Meer over ruimtetelescoop Spitzer
Ruimtetelescoop Spitzer werd op 25 augustus 2003 gelanceerd. Zo’n drie maanden later kon Spitzer zijn werkzaamheden daadwerkelijk beginnen. Oorspronkelijk was het de bedoeling dat de ruimtetelescoop zo’n 2,5 jaar mee zou gaan, maar heeft uiteindelijk zestien jaar meegedraaid. In januari 2020 zette onderzoekers een punt achter de missie.Tijdens zijn zestienjarig bestaan heeft Spitzer heel wat werkzaamheden verricht. Zo heeft hij bijvoorbeeld ontzettend veel mooie foto’s gemaakt van verre sterrenstelsels en nabije nevels. Het licht van sommige van hen heeft miljarden jaren gereisd om ons te bereiken, waardoor wetenschappers objecten konden zien zoals die lang, lang geleden bestonden. Bovendien heeft de ruimtetelescoop een aantal bijzondere ontdekkingen op zijn naam staan. Zo was het bijvoorbeeld Spitzer die de grootste ring rondom Saturnus ontdekte. Ook ontdekte de telescoop als eerste licht dat afkomstig was van een planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel en – misschien wel één van de meest verbluffende ontdekkingen – dat er niet drie, maar zeven rotsachtige planeten ter grootte van de aarde rond de kleine, zwakke ster TRAPPIST-1 cirkelen.

Van jonge sterren en nevels wordt gedacht dat ze nauw aansluiten bij de vorm van de armen waar ze zich in bevinden. Maar niet in de Sagittariusarm. De onderzoekers ontdekten namelijk een lang en dun uitsteeksel bestaande uit jonge sterren die duidelijk een andere kant op wijzen. De gehele structuur is maar liefst 3000 lichtjaar lang.

Hellingshoek
“Een belangrijke eigenschap van spiraalarmen is hoe strak ze zich rond een sterrenstelsel winden,” legt onderzoeker Michael Kuhn uit. “Een cirkel heeft een hellingshoek van 0 graden. Naarmate de spiraalarm meer open staat (dus losser zit, red.), wordt de hellingshoek groter. De meeste modellen van de Melkweg suggereren dat de Sagittariusarm een hellingshoek heeft van ongeveer 12 graden. Maar de structuur die we hebben onderzocht, wijkt af met een hoek van bijna 60 graden.”

De breuk in de Sagittariusarm.

Afbeelding: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Niet de enige
Overigens is de Sagittariusarm niet de enige met een vergroeiing. Vergelijkbare uitsteeksels worden vaak aangetroffen bij andere spiraalstelsels. Decennialang hebben onderzoekers zich dan ook afgevraagd of de spiraalarmen van onze Melkweg ook bezaaid zijn met uitpuilende delen. En dat blijkt nu inderdaad het geval. “Met de nieuwe gedetailleerde driedimensionale kaart, kunnen we zien dat deze regio behoorlijk complex is,” aldus Kuhn. Bovendien blijkt het nieuw ontdekte uitsteeksel vier bekende nevels te herbergen, namelijk de Adelaarsnevel, de Omeganevel, de Trifidnevel en de Lagunenevel.

De Adelaarsnevel, de Omeganevel, de Trifidnevel en de Lagunenevel, vastgelegd door NASA’s Spitzer-ruimtetelescoop. Deze nevels maken deel uit van een uitsteeksel in de Sagittariusarm.

Astronomen begrijpen nog niet helemaal wat de oorzaak is van de vorming van spiraalarmen in sterrenstelsels zoals het onze. Hoewel we de volledige structuur van de Melkweg niet kunnen zien, is het vermogen om de beweging van individuele sterren te meten – zoals met behulp van de Gaia-missie – heel nuttig om daar meer over te weten te komen. “Uiteindelijk herinnert dit ons eraan dat er nog veel onzeker is over de grootschalige structuur van de Melkweg,” aldus onderzoeker Robert Benjamin. “We moeten naar meer details kijken om het grotere plaatje te begrijpen. Het uitsteeksel is een klein stukje van de Melkweg. Maar het zou ons iets belangrijks kunnen vertellen over de Melkweg als geheel.”

Bronmateriaal:

• "Astronomers Find a ‘Break’ in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms" - NASA
• Afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Unearthing San Antonio's reported UFO sightings with an ex-military expert

Camille Sauers

The U.S. government has begun taking UFOs more seriously recently, even though they are probably not real. Probably, right?

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Skeptics may believe extra-terrestrial life is found only in cinematic forums, but when it comes to understanding UFOs, there are real-life experts keeping their eyes towards the skies, including here in San Antonio. Since 1969, clusters of people across the country, united by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), have devoted their time to debunking and confirming reported UFO sightings.

While the organization tends to fly under the radar, I became aware of the unique group while attending San Antonio's first annual "UFO Festival" at the Wonderland of the Americas mall in August. While I didn't oblige the festive create-your-own tinfoil hat station at the time, it was admittedly interesting to hear some alien insights. 

Ken Jordan, state director of the Texas division of MUFON and head of the San Antonio chapter, was happy to oblige. Jordan is among the local experts who have studied evidence of UFOs whizzing through San Antonio airspace. 

Alien in a car at Baker, San Bernardino County, California, USA

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"In the last 20 years, we've had 311 reports specifically out of San Antonio, and a little bit over 8,000 in the state of Texas," Jordan tells me, while combing through a meticulous MUFON database. "About 90 percent of what we investigate is mundane, or can be explained as natural or man-made incidents, but the rest we can't explain."

The most frequently deceptive objects are things like Chinese lanterns, drones, and inflatable LED balloons. Natural planetary phenomenon and tricks of the eye can also lead some to dial MUFON in a panic. 

But not everything is so readily dismissed. 

"Out of the 10 percent that we can't explain, I would say half of those would be what we think of as a UFO," says Jordan.

From U.S. Army to MUFON

A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S Army and a lifelong San Antonian, Jordan believes these UFOs represent advanced extra-terrestrial life. He didn't always feel this way though.

"I was very skeptical about the whole thing. I didn't really know what the deal was about UFOs. I wasn't totally sold," says Jordan. Still, through his faith, he says, he's always been open to the notion that human beings aren't alone in the universe. 

After retiring from the military in 2006, Jordan returned for several years to work on building future combat systems. During a project in California's Napa Valley, a group of service members were gathered after hours at a wine tasting when the topic of UFOs came up. After one man had a bit too much to drink, he shared some classified information that piqued Jordan's interest. Jordan says some of the group thought the man was a loon, but what he said stuck with him.

Not too long after, he received an email from MUFON, inviting him to a meeting. Curious, he soon found himself at a local Denny's to listen in on a chapter meeting. 

"I just wanted to come and check it out. I didn't know if they were serious researchers are just a bunch of nuts," says Jordan.

After one meeting, he deemed the group to be legitimate and has been steadily involved in the pursuit of the "UFO question" since 2013. Officially, he retired from active-duty  military in 2014. 

Local case of interest

There are currently around 50 MUFON members researching UFO reports made here in San Antonio, and around 280 members in all of Texas. The research methodology typically includes thorough review, with trained members examining things like weather patterns occurring at the time of a given sighting and cross-referencing descriptions with previous reports, local police stations, and the Federal Aviation Administration. If necessary, the team will also consult with Gregory Cisko, MUFON's amateur astronomer.

Reports are typically called in from a variety of sources, from your garden variety alien watchers to regular people who choose to remain anonymous. Sometimes, according to Jordan, they'll even get calls from military personnel. Mufon's most recent verifiable case based in San Antonio happened just a few days ago on October 29, 2021.

According to MUFON files, a couple driving to get coffee near I-10 and DeZevala Road around 2 p.m. witnessed and recorded what appears to be a saucer-like object fading in and out from view. After examining the report, MUFON closed the case by assigning the object the rare true UFO designation. 

In Texas, MUFON describes a variety of UFO phenotypes that have been observed, with shapes ranging from saucer and Tic Tac to triangle and donut. 

Since former military personnel disclosed the possibility of UFOs in 2017, Jordan believes the general public has begun to open up to the idea. Earlier this year, the U.S. government officially confirmed unidentified aerial phenomena, which spurred even more interest. Previously popular on the fringes, UFOs have officially touched down as a popular topic of conversation. 

Whether these aerial objects in MUFON's "unknown" bucket are intelligent extraterrestrial life, products of terrestrial military technology or something else entirely has not been officially or publicly identified and disclosed by officials. We may never know the answers to these questions.

For those interested in exploring UFOs more, Jordan shares some sage words of advice: "Start researching and reading the articles that are out there, but the one thing I would always caution anybody on is whatever you read, whatever you hear, check your source."

Written By Camille Sauers

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NASA waarschuwt: asteroïde even groot als Eiffeltoren komt (in december) op aarde af

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“I have in my possession official US government documentation that describes the exact same vehicle that we now call the Tic Tac [seen by the Nimitz pilots in 2004] being described in the early 1950s and early 1960s and performing in ways that, frankly, can outperform anything we have in our inventory. For some country to have developed hypersonic technology, instantaneous acceleration and basically transmedial travel in the early 1950s is absolutely preposterous.”

If he did nothing else, Luis Elizondo – the former head of the Department of Defense’s ‘Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP)’ – would still go down in history as being instrumental in revealing UFO/UAP encounters that military pilots and Navy ship crews witnessed, recorded and reported … only to have them covered up for years until they were exposed by The New York Times. Those so-called ‘Tic Tac’ UFOs were new to the public … but not to the government, according to an interview Elizondo gave to GQ magazine. In it, he claims these transmedial (both aerial and underwater) vehicles have been known to the government and the military since the 1950s. Elizondo then states the obvious – if these crafts belong to a foreign country, it’s the greatest security failure since 9/11.

Luis Elizondo

“You know, Lue, it’s really bizarre. It felt like I was there for only five minutes, but when I looked at my watch 30 minutes went by, but I only used five minutes’ worth of fuel. How is that possible?”

Elizondo then talks about radiation burns, brain malfunctions and time-space warps pilots have told him about after UAP encounters … conditions that could only have been caused by getting too close to the UAP or its weapons. He claims this is not hearsay – he’s seen evidence like a 23-minute video of an encounter or another that was 50 feet away from the cockpit. However, what’s truly shocking is his accounts of the capabilities of the Tic Tac as reported by trained military pilots with onboard equipment that can help “identify an aircraft silhouette at 20 miles away – an SU-22, a European Tornado, a Harrier or even an F-16 – and literally within a split moment’s notice be able to identify friend or foe and shoot it down” – yet they can’t identify the Tic Tacs that he says both pilots and ship captains have told him they’ve encounter in “fleets” and “swarms.”

“I think it’s just as likely as something that is interdimensional. I also think it’s possible that it’s something that has been on Earth for a very long time.”

If it’s not ours or an Earthly theirs, Elizondo speculates that the Tic Tacs may not be from space but from another dimension. He believes “They are absolutely intelligently controlled by something” and suspects “they have things inside them”” … things being beings of some sort. When asked what sci-fi crafts they might resemble, he referred to “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

“I just recently saw it for the first time and I was shocked at some of the performance characteristics and how they depicted the UAPs, because that is exactly how they’ve been described in some, up until recently, very classified US documents.

The description of how they do right-angle turns at very fast velocity, the illumination, the shapes of some of these craft. [Steven] Spielberg definitely had somebody on the inside that was giving him information, for sure. I mean there’s a lot of that movie that, if you know what you’re looking at, is very, very close to real life.”

Whoa! If you haven’t seen the movie, now would be a good time … so you know what to look for. Elizondo avoided answering a number of questions about his own personal experiences and about the existence of crashed spacecrafts. He confirmed that “I know, as a matter of fact, three presidents have been briefed at some point, but I’m not going to disclose who they were and what was discussed.”

There are many who believe Luis Elizondo and wonder why some powers that be – ours, theirs or alien – haven’t silenced him There are those who don’t believe him and would be happy to have him silenced. In the relatively short time he’s been in the public eye – not just the UFO/UAP Public but the general public – Elizondo probably has done more to either expose or at least generate interest in UFOs than any other person in recent history.

If you take away nothing else from Luis Elizondo’s interview with GQ (available in its entirety here), listen to him and watch “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Then watch a video of the Tic Tacs. Then go to a quiet place and think.

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The first continents on our planet began forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously estimated. These first continents, which are called cratons, rose up from the ocean sometime between 3.3 and 3.2 billion years ago. Previous studies claimed that this event occurred about 2.5 billion years ago.

Scientists came up with this new timeline based on sedimentary rocks at the Singhbhum Craton in the eastern part of India that date back over 3 billion years. These rocks would have only been created when land came up through the oceans’ surface. In fact, they believe that large whole cratons – and not small portions of land – came up from the oceans even though Earth didn’t have “modern-style plate tectonics” that could have helped them emerge.

In an interview with Live Science, Priyadarshi Chowdhury, who is a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment in Melbourne, Australia, went into further details, “When we joined all the sedimentary pockets together, we found that all of them kind of formed simultaneously” in a beach-like or river environment, adding that the craton would have been exposed to water and air at the exact same time.

The team then used a laser to analyze small crystals named zircons that contain uranium. Since uranium decays into lead over a specific time frame, the researchers were able to determine that the craton emerged from the ocean between 3.3 and 3.2 billion years ago.

Their next task was to find out what caused the Singhbhum Craton to emerge from the water, so they analyzed the chemical composition of igneous rocks from the craton (these are rocks that are created by hot magma crystallizing) that are located not far beneath the sedimentary rocks. They found that hot plumes of magma were present underneath the crust between 3.5 and 3.2 billion years ago that caused some parts of the craton to become much thicker and had numerous buoyant, lightweight materials such as quartz and sicilia. That’s when the craton emerged from the water.

Since several other cratons, including the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa and Pilbara Craton in Australia, have sedimentary rock that date back to around the same time as the Singhbhum Craton in India, they might have also fully emerged from the water during that period.

While this is a very important discovery, several questions still remain, like how long these cratons remained above the water and how many of them were visible at the same time. The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) where it can be read in full.

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How do you know if a shapeshifting Reptilian has been in your house while you were out? Footprints might be a good hint … especially if they’re 10 inches (25 cm) long and have odd abnormal toes. The fact that the footprints seem to appear and disappear would be another clue … especially if the doors were locked, the windows barred, and no one was inside the residence. Welcome to the twilight zone of Adrián Escalante, a resident of Caracas, Venezuela, who seems to have had a close encounter with a Reptilian.

“Reptilians among us?: A strange footprint appears in a house in Caracas.” (Google translation)

Hector Escalante, a well-known South American UFO researcher and journalist, revealed the account told to him by Adrián Escalante on Instagram. The incident took place on November 6, 2021, in a house in the center of Caracas. Adrián Escalante told him the prints (images here) were found on the second floor – an unusual place that would have led one to look for prints on the stairs, at the door, near a window and outside. Hector Escalante is a thorough investigator and checked all of those places … and found no other prints. The only two prints in the house were the 10-inch ones made of dark mud that had already dried by the time he saw them. Did this creature arrive while it was raining?

“It hadn’t rained, therefore, it was impossible for someone to have stepped on the swamp on the street and left those marks.”

Venezuela has had its share of Chupacabra sightings, but Hector Escalante doesn’t seem to think that’s what made these prints. The country has a bigfoot-like creature called the Mono Grande but these don’t look like humanoid or primate prints. The closest cryptid might be the giant caiman, which is said to resemble a regular 16-foot caiman but grows up to three times as large and is capable of crushing boats and swallowing humans whole. A beast of that size would have left a path of destruction in a house, so that gets ruled out too.

Not a caiman?

“A practical joke, large animal, interdimensional entities of a reptilian nature? You decide. “

Hector Escalante throws “interdimensional entities of a reptilian nature” into the realm of possibilities … because there’s nothing else to blame other than a hoax. Could a Reptilian have entered the house of Adrián Escalante? If so … why? Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and has had major political problems for years. Could the Reptilians be causing them?

Unfortunately, that’s all the data provided by Hector Escalante on the mysterious reptile-like footprints found in Caracas. If it was a hoax, it was impressively executed. If it was a Reptilian … let’s hope Hector keeps an eye on the situation and keeps us informed.

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More than 1,200 Mesolithic tools that were used by people up to 10,000 years ago unearthed along Aberdeenshire river

• The worked flint tools included blades, scrapers and even part of a mace-head

• Local archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside collected them during 'fieldwalks'

• And they are conducting an archaeological dig at the Milton of Crathes this week

• The trenches they did will look for flints and investigate a possible settlement

By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE

More than 1,200 Mesolithic worked stone tools dating back to around 6,000–10,000 years ago have been found alongside the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

The flints — which include blades, scrapers and waste material — were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13–17 March this year.

The tools, the experts explained, would have been used by some of the earliest communities in the area to kill, butcher and prepare animals for food and materials.

One group member, a student from nearby University of Aberdeen, also found part of a Neolithic-age, egg-shaped mace head during the 'fieldwalking' exercise.

Building on these finds, the group will be conducting a 'test pitting' — digging a series of small trenches — at the Milton of Crathes from November 11–14.

Alongside hunting for more flints, the archaeologists will also be investigating features seen in aerial survey maps that may represent the remains of a settlement.

The group will also be joined by geologists who will probe the ground of the river terrace to look for evidence of former flooding and past environmental conditions.

More than 1,200 Mesolithic worked stone tools dating back to around 6,000–10,000 years ago (some of which are pictured) have been found alongside the River Dee in Aberdeenshire

The flints — which include blades, scrapers and waste material — were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13–17 March this year. Pictured: an example of so-called 'flint scatter' that the volunteers have found along the course of the River Dee

The tools, the experts explained, would have been used by some of the earliest communities in the area to kill, butcher and prepare animals for food and materials. One group member, a student from nearby University of Aberdeen, also found part of a Neolithic-age, egg-shaped mace head during the 'fieldwalking' exercise

Every flint found by the group is meticulously bagged and tagged with a GPS provenance, analysed by a specialist and the information collated into a database, making the Dee one of Scotland's most extensively studied rivers for flint deposits. Pictured: a map showing the finds from the group's fieldwalks back in March 2021. The different icons reflect the flint types

Mesolithic Deeside chair and archaeologist Alison Cameron told the MailOnline that the long and varied nature of the River Dee would have provided the inhabitants of the region 6,000–10,000 with everything that they needed to live. Pictured: a flint from the River Dee

Mesolithic Deeside chair and archaeologist Alison Cameron told the MailOnline that the long and varied nature of the River Dee would have provided the inhabitants of the region 6,000–10,000 with everything that they needed to live.

This, she explained, is why so much so-called 'flint scatter' can be found today in the fields along the river banks, showing where people made and used stone tools.

Every flint found by the group is meticulously bagged and tagged with a GPS provenance, sent off for analysis by a specialist and the information collated into a database, making the Dee one of Scotland's most extensively studied rivers for flint deposits.

Coinciding with the dig this week, Mesolithic expert Caroline Wickham-Jones and her fellow group members have compiled a dossier on their discoveries to date, which will be published in Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports.

The group — which was launched in 2017 and has some 50 members — is funded in part by the Aberdeenshire Council and the King George V Wind Turbine Trust.

Interested members of the public are welcome to volunteer in this week's excavations at the Milton of Crathes — such as by helping the dig itself and sorting the finds — or to simply visit to see what the group has uncovered.

'If visiting the site may be very muddy so wear sensible shoes or wellies!', said Alison Cameron.

'The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,' said archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, formerly of the University of Aberdeen.

'Fieldwalking is fun but was obviously impacted by lockdown and they have worked hard to keep group members enthused.'

Aberdeenshire regional archaeologist Bruce Mann agreed, adding: 'The volunteers of Mesolithic Deeside have contributed so much to our understanding of early prehistory in this part of the world through their fieldwalking.'

Coinciding with the dig this week, Mesolithic expert Caroline Wickham-Jones and her fellow group members have compiled a dossier on their discoveries to date, which will be published in Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports. Pictured: a flint found by the group in March

The group — which was launched in 2017 and has some 50 members — is funded in part by the Aberdeenshire Council and the King George V Wind Turbine Trust. Pictured: a Mesolithic Deeside volunteer admires a flint found during a fieldwalking exercise

'I started fieldwalking with Mesolithic Deeside in 2018 and am now totally hooked,' said Mesolithic Deeside volunteer Roslyn Hay. 'The thrill of finding something that has been hidden in the soil, knowing that you are the first person to hold it since it was dropped thousands of years ago. You feel a connection with that person way back in prehistory. Pictured: two of the flints that the group found in fieldwalks back in March

'I started fieldwalking with Mesolithic Deeside in 2018 and am now totally hooked,' said Mesolithic Deeside volunteer Roslyn Hay.

'I've learned so much and made so many new friends, with the added benefit of plenty of exercise and fresh air. We walk, we talk (a lot), and find wonderful things.

'The thrill of finding something that has been hidden in the soil, knowing that you are the first person to hold it since it was dropped thousands of years ago. You feel a connection with that person way back in prehistory. 

'My most memorable find was a large blade. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it! It was confirmed as most probably from the Late Upper Palaeolithic. 

'Finds from this period, which predates the Mesolithic, are rare in Scotland, so this was a very exciting find for the group.' 

'When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project,' said Mesolithic Deeside co-secretary and founding member Sheila Duthie. The group's efforts, she added, are 'without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside — it’s a blast!' Pictured: some of the group's finds

'When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project,' said Mesolithic Deeside co-secretary and founding member Sheila Duthie.

The group's efforts, she added, are 'without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside — it’s a blast!'

'My ideal pastime is footerin in flat fields with fine folk finding flints, fair or foul!' she exuberantly concluded.

More information on the upcoming test pitting can be found on the Mesolithic Deeside Facebook page.

'The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,' said archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, formerly of the University of Aberdeen. Pictured: a Mesolithic Deeside volunteer with one of the group's flint finds back in March

Building on these finds, the group will be conducting a 'test pitting' — digging a series of small trenches — at the Milton of Crathes from November 11–14. Alongside hunting for more flints, the archaeologists will also be investigating features seen in aerial survey maps that may represent the remains of a settlement

Interested members of the public are welcome to volunteer in this week's (November 11–14) excavations at the Milton of Crathes— such as by helping the dig itself and sorting the finds — or to simply visit to see what the group has uncovered. 'If visiting the site may be very muddy so wear sensible shoes or wellies!', said Alison Cameron. Pictured: the dig site

HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE DURING THE MESOLITHIC PERIOD?

The Mesolithic period, also called Middle Stone Age, is an ancient time period (8000 BC to AD 2700) that took place between the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age) with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) with its polished stone tools.

The Mesolithic period's material culture is characterized by greater innovation than the Paleolithic.

Among the new types of chipped stone tools were microliths: very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft in order to produce a serrated edge. Polished stone was another innovation that arose in some Mesolithic groups.  

Northern European Mesolithic people (called Maglemosian's), who flourished at about 6000 BC, left behind traces of primitive huts with bark-covered floors and adzes for working wood.

At Starr Carr in Yorkshire, there are signs that four or five huts existed there, with a population of around 25 people. There is evidence that these sites may only have been occupied on a seasonal basis.

An artist's impression of tribes fishing during the Mesolithic period

Aracheologists have also found smaller flint tools from this group. These were mounted as points or barbs for arrows and harpoons and were also used in other composite tools. 

They used adzes and chisels made of antler or bone, as well as needles and pins, fish-hooks, harpoons and fish spears with several prongs. Some larger tools made of ground stone, such as club heads, have also been found.

Wooden structures have also been found and have remained well-preserved due to the preservative qualities of bogs. Some of the structures discovered include ax handles, paddles and a dugout canoe, and fishnets were made using bark fibre. 

Deer were hunted as well as fish and waterfowl, and some varieties of marsh plants may have been used.

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More than 1,200 ancient Mesolithic stone tools have been found along the River Dee in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by archaeologists and volunteers during a “field walk”. These flints, which included scrapers, waste material, blades, and a portion of an egg-shaped mace head, would have been used by ancient humans who lived along the river between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago.  It is believed that the tools were used to kill animals and prepare the food as well as to make raw animal hide into clothes.

Sheila Duthie, who is the co-secretary at the archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside, talked about her decades-long discoveries of ancient tools, “When I started finding flints over 20 years ago, I could never have imagined contributing to such a massive project which is without doubt broadening our understanding of prehistoric human activity on Deeside.”

In an interview with MailOnline, Alison Cameron, who is the chair of the Mesolithic Deeside and an archaeologist, stated that the individuals who would have lived next to the River Dee between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago would have had everything they needed in order to survive thanks to the nature during that time. This was why so much “flint scatter” has already been discovered in the fields next to the river banks as the individuals would have made and used the stone tools there.

Since every tool found at the site has been collected and sent for analysis where the information gathered will then be put into a database, River Dee is one of the most substantial studies ever conducted on flint deposits found near a river in all of Scotland. “The work of Mesolithic Deeside has made a real contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric communities who lived along the Dee,” noted archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones.

Further excavations will be conducted in the coming days at the Milton of Crathes (this includes digging numerous small trenches), so perhaps they’ll discover even more items and/or other significant findings. Additionally, the archaeologists will look at specific features that were noticed during aerial survey maps of the site that may indicate the remains of an ancient settlement. Geologists will be in the area to investigate the ground of the river terrace in order to find out if there was ever an ancient flood as well as to look at what types of environmental conditions were present during the time that the individuals lived there.

Pictures of some of the tools can be seen here.

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Watch Live: SpaceX, NASA are ‘go’ for third operational astronaut launch

With less than three hours to go before liftoff, SpaceX and NASA remain on track – with the vehicle, crew, and weather conditions all in great shape – for Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon’s third operational astronaut launch.

Originally scheduled for late October, a minor crew health issue, a small hardware qualification delay, and – primarily – a variety of good and bad weather conditions ultimately pushed Crew-3 into the second week of November. As a result, SpaceX and NASA chose to return Dragon and four Crew-2 astronauts to Earth before launching Crew-3, and that process was flawlessly completed on the evening of November 8th. During Dragon’s fourth crewed reentry descent and landing, though, one of the spacecraft’s four main parachutes ran into a minor but well-understood issue.

Designed to safely splash down with one parachute out, the safety of the Crew-2 astronauts was never in question but the apparent parachute issue was easily visible to anyone watching NASA and SpaceX’s live coverage. In reality, the behavior observed had been seen – and even intentionally created – many times before in the dozens upon dozens of Dragon parachute tests SpaceX completed to qualify the system for human spaceflight. Specifically, one or more of Dragon’s four huge chutes occasionally lags behind and takes longer to fully inflate. In the case of Crew-2, the problem chute behaved exactly as expected based on that testing and ultimately wasn’t a problem at all, properly inflating to slow Dragon to the exact desired descent speed well before splashdown.

Nevertheless, out of an abundance of caution, virtually everyone familiar with NASA and the Commercial Crew Program expected the agency to closely examine the behavior and make absolutely sure that all is well. Indeed, in a prelaunch briefing late last night, SpaceX VP Bill Gerstenmaier confirmed as much, revealing that the company rapidly completed reviews of Crew-2 and Crew-3 parachute build data and even airlifted the problem chute – recovered from the Atlantic – back to Florida facilities. Less than 24 hours after that parachute was in Earth orbit, SpaceX managed to dry it out and complete thorough inspections – all with NASA officials in the loop – to confirm that the chute itself was healthy (undamaged, no missed design/build errors, etc).

Crew Dragon C210 and Falcon 9 B1067: Crew-3’s rides to space.

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Ultimately, in an impressive display of professionalism and expertise, SpaceX and NASA were able to verify in a matter of hours that Crew-2’s reentry, descent, and landing was fully nominal and posed no problem for Crew-3’s launch just two days later.

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Underground Bases And Cloning Centers

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• Many celebrities, entertainers, athletes, musicians, models, writers, producers, actors, all kinds of people from various industries are silently brought to the cloning centers for “pay-to-play sessions.”

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PEOPLE HYPNOTIZED & ABDUCTED BY ALIENS IN RUSSIA | CAUGHT ON CCTV POLICE CAR CAMERA

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• Russian Police Was Called To Are Where People Stop the Cars And Get Outside Kind Like Hypnotized Without Any kind Of Response Looking To The Sky As Soon as The Police Came The Officer Tell Them To Get Out Of The Front Of The Object Hovering in The Sky, When the Police Officer Was Forced To Get Near The People To Try To Make Them React The Officer Aswhell Get’s Hypnotized And The People And Him Are Abducted To Never More Been Seen Again…. This Is Not The First And It Is Not Going To Be The Last It Happens… Insane Police Car CCTV Video Footage Abduction In Russia… Welcome to the “THE SOULS BASE”

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Dark Object Over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct 20, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 20, 2021

Location of sighting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Source:  MUFON

 

They eyewitness was recording in his backyard in New Mexico when suddenly a dark obelisk objects moves over his home. The object was thick and looked to be two meters tall by 1/3 meter wide. The bottom had a small tail to it, which could be part of the craft or it could be indications it is a deflated balloon. But we cannot just to that conclusion yet. When UFOs fly low, they use techniques...strategies to appear as something else. The object really doesn't look deflated and it has no string hanging from its tail. This UFO does rotate a little as its moving...which makes it appear as if it were noticing the human below, but then rotating back and continuing on its way. Odd one, but...UFOs are far from normal. 

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During a lightning storm seen on the ISS live feed November 8, 2021 something strange happened. 

It looks like a massive rectangular shaped object becomes visible after getting struck by a lightning strike. 

Could it be that the UFO was waiting for the right moment to connect to a lightning strike? It is said that UFOs use lightning strikes as an energy source.

  

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Glowing Cigar Shaped UFO Sighted Over Various Area Of Occitania, Southern France. November 9, 2021

Intriguing luminous phenomenon in the sky this Tuesday, November 9. This strange light activity is said to have been observed near the Mediterranean coast.

Testimonies have been pouring in since the observation by several people of a particularly strange luminous phenomenon in the sky, Tuesday, November 9. 2021. Several inhabitants of departments close to the Mediterranean observed and filmed this intriguing activity.

Thanks to Yann Fenn, Muriel J'Riviere & William for their outstanding footage...

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Quel est cet objet céleste de couleur orange qui se déplace depuis la nuit de mardi à mercredi et qui a de nouveau été observé la nuit dernière, autour de Montpellier ? Des témoins ont été intrigués d’assister à ce ballet nocturne lumineux depuis Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots ou encore Sète.

C’est le site Météo Gard-Hérault géré par Loïc Spadafora depuis le nord de Nîmes qui diffuse depuis mercredi des vidéos inédites, qui ne font qu’épaissir le mystère. Même le météorologue gardois se perd en conjectures, avouant avoir rarement vu un tel objet céleste en dehors de météorites et d’étoiles filantes.

Les commentaires vont bon train, avec cette interrogation : s’agit-il d’un OVNI ? Dans une des vidéos, on entend une famille s’interroger : « C’est quoi ce truc ? ». Nombreux sont les internautes curieux qui l’assurent, ce n’est pas un avion de ligne. Alors, vous aussi vous avez été intrigué ? En analysant les vidéos, avez-vous une idée de ce que peut être cet objet, parfois en forme de boule, parfois en forme de petit cigare ? Ce jeudi, le mystère perdure.

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Une vidéo publiée sur les réseaux sociaux montre un phénomène lumineux dans le ciel particulièrement intriguant ce mardi 9 novembre. Cette activité lumineuse étrange aurait été observée près du littoral méditerranéen.

Une phénomène observé dans plusieurs département du sud de la France.

Un rectangle lumineux, plusieurs vidéos

On peut observer une forme lumineuse rectangulaire divaguer dans la nuit noire. Selon nos confrères météorologues, l'événement aurait été observé depuis Montpellier, Cournonterral, Palavas-les-Flots ou encore Sète. Des signalements auraient même été rapportés depuis l'Andorre, Narbonne et Perpignan. 

Drone, satellite, lasers... Sur les réseaux sociaux, les internautes développent des théories pour expliquer le phénomène.

Un Ovni déjà identifié à Montpellier en septembre

Le mercredi 15 septembre, une activité lumineuse étrange avait aussi défrayé la chronique. Lors d'une soirée orageuse, des lumières ont été observées dans le ciel de Montpellier. Il s'agissait là d'éclairages provenant de projecteurs près de la Halle Tropisme rapportent nos confrères de France 3. 

En revanche, l'anomalie observée par plusieurs dizaines de personnes ce mardi 9 novembre est difficilement explicable. Un nouveau dossier qui ne devrait pas manquer d'intéresser les experts du Geipan, un service du Cnes à Toulouse chargé des phénomènes spatiaux non identifiés.

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