Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
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Woensdag 7 september 2022
Suspicious cube-shaped cloud hovering in the sky over England
Suspicious cube-shaped cloud hovering in the sky over England
A footage out of England shows what appears to be a perfectly cube-shaped cloud hovering in the sky.
The rare sky phenomenon was captured earlier this week by Megan Coombs during a visit to a National Trust site in Surrey with the appropriately spooky name 'Devil's Punch Bowl.'
Megan said that "there is something mega suspicious" about the box-like cloud in the sky that seems to have one of its sides illuminated by the sun, reports CoasttoCoast.
It is not the first time square or rectangular clouds have been observed. It looks like these clouds are formed as a result of geoengineering/weather modification.
This UFO sighting was filmed over Hamilton in New Zealand ion 18th March 2022 but it was just recently submitted to MUFON.
Witness report:
While my partner and I were in our lounge watching a UFO documentary, my partner had some sort of sudden inclination to look out the window, perhaps as a result of the doco we were watching. She saw glowing lights tracing a path across the sky. Initially we only saw 3, but then 2 more started catching up to the first 3 from beyond the horizon to the southwest. The 5 amber glowing lights seemed to speed up and slow down as they traced a path across the sky. Perhaps with the exact time info off the video, you will be able to more easily confirm the air traffic from that date and time. We live in a city where it is common for hot air balloons to fly at night as part of a local festival, which had concluded around that time, but they do not fly as high as what we saw, the colouring of the light seemed too bright, large and consistently visible to be the occasional flame of a hot air balloon. I could also find no report or event listing of any flying at night. Hot air balloons do not have the flight control capabilities we saw: The lights seemed to speed up and slow down in relationship to eachother to move as a group, as well as at least one of them changing its flight direction to circle back for the others. From visual comparisons I first thought it might have been starlink satellites, but these seemed too low, the wrong colour, and too oddly spaced. Also starlink satellites would not stop or reverse course in the sky I presume. I got my cellphone and filmed the lights for 4 minutes exactly, and stopped filming as they started to fade once they had flown over us. It looked as though they became obscured by cloud cover that was impossible for us to see against the night sky, as they seemed to just disappear of their own accord. After that we went inside to try and find out whether we could explain what we saw through conventional means, but did not manage to, regardless we presumed that we had simply seen something with a mundane explanation and mostly moved on and forgot about it. The more time goes on the more I keep coming back to the fact that I never managed to successfully explain what it was. This is not the first time my partner has suddenly felt compelled to look out a window and immediately sees an amber light moving strangely in the sky. Last time she did so in the early hours of the morning and woke up suddenly, instantly knowing specifically that there was a “UFO” in the sky for her to look at, but that night for whatever reason we both didn’t feel compelled to get a phone and film it.
Supermassive black hole 12 billion Times more Enormous than our Sun Discovered
Astrophysicists have found an out-of-place supermassive black hole -- 12 billion times more enormous than the sun -- that mysteriously formed when the cosmos was less than 900 million years old.
Such behemoths are usually found in the more modern cosmos, which seemingly offers more feeding material. Black holes are areas of space so condensed with matter that not even photons of light can discharge their gravitational fists. They are sensed as they pull and eat neighbouring stars and dust, making a cosmic zoo of noticeable phenomenon, such gas jets and rapidly spinning accretion disks.
“Before this finding the most enormous black hole identified within 1 billion years after the Big Bang was about 5 billion solar mass, less than half the mass of the new discovery,” Bram Venemans, research staff researcher with Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, wrote in an email to Discovery News. The finding, reported in this week’s Nature, offers a serious challenge to theories about how black holes grew in the early cosmos.
Researchers previously expected young black holes started off with between 100 and 100,000 times the mass of the sun and matured from there by consuming in intergalactic matter and/or merging with other black holes.
It may need either very extraordinary ways to grow the black hole within a very short time, or the presence of a huge seed black hole when the first generation of stars and galaxies formed,” lead scientist Xue-Bing Wu, with China’s Peking University in Beijing, said in an email to Discovery News.
Neither clarification fits with present theories. “A very stimulating feature of this work is that the outcomes hint that in the early cosmos the supermassive black holes and their host galaxies did not co-evolve,” said astrophysicist Akos Bogdan, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who was not involved in the study. It is improbable the black hole’s parent galaxy would be as big as what calculations based on existing theories would conclude. “This would propose that -- at least in this case -- the black hole is developing faster than the galaxy, questioning the often expected co-evolution of galaxies and their central black holes through cosmic time,” added Venemans. The newly discovered black hole exists in in an enormously bright quasar that existed when the cosmos was about 857 million years old – about 6% of the cosmos’s current 13.8-billion-year age.
“We can comparatively easily sense this object because it is brighter than others at the same distance,” Wu said. Observations with numerous ground- and space-based telescopes carry on, as well as a search for any comparable giant siblings.
“These objects are so far away from us so most of them look (very) faint even if their inherent brightness is large,” Wu said.
Planet Nine may be responsible for tilting the Sun
How our possible rogue planet may be messing with our solar system
Earlier this year an announcement raised a tantalizing possibility: a ninth planet lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system. The announcement turned the astronomy and planetary science world upside down.
Caltech astronomer Michael Brown and theoretical astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin found evidence for a possible 10 Earth mass planet that may be tilting long-orbiting dwarf planets on their sides and shepherding them into clusters far past the orbit of Neptune in highly eccentric orbits. In the last several months, more and more papers have been published about the possible planet and how it might prove an explanation for other strange things happening in our solar system.
At a press conference held this afternoon, at the AAS Division of Planetary Sciences annual meeting in Pasadena Ca, another announcement was made about Planet Nine’s effects on the spin-axis tilt of our Sun. This time, the paper titled Solar Obliquity Induced by Planet Nine is lead by Caltech graduate student Elizabeth Bailey, with Brown and Batygin as co-authors.
We’ve known that the Sun is tilted for about 200 years, but scientists have never known why. Only the catch here is, the Sun isn’t actually tilted at all. We are. To explain this oddity and what’s happening to our solar system we spoke with co-author and theoretical astrophysicist, Konstantin Batygin.
Astronomy Magazine: What’s happening with the alignment in our solar system?
Konstantin Batygin: When planetary systems form, they form from very flat discs. The motion that everything in our entire planetary system forms in a very proto planetary flat disc is one of the basic principles of planetary formation theory. The planetary orbits themselves are fully consistent- If you look at how inclined the planets are with respect to each other they are only inclined by no more than one degree so the planets of the solar system are remarkably flat.
AM: What about the Sun?
KB: The Sun’s rotation was measured for the first time in 1850 and something that was recognized right away as that its spin axis, its north pole, is tilted with respect to the rest of the planets by 6 degrees. So even though 6 degrees isn’t much, it is a big number compared to the mutual planet-planet misalignments. So the Sun is basically an outlier within the solar system. This is a long-standing issue and one that is recognized but people don’t really talk much about it. Everything in the solar system rotates roughly on the same plane except for the most massive object, the Sun which is kind of a big deal.
Hypothetical Planet 9, and 9 related eTNOs
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AM: Why is there this misalignment between the Sun and the orbits of the planets?
KB: We asked ourselves, “what obliquity, what misalignment would Planet Nine induce in the solar system?” because it must induce some. We know that Planet Nine’s orbit in inclined. As a result, when Planet Nine torques the rest of the solar system, the two sort of act as two precessing tops. Planet Nine being in its own plane induced a precession on the remainder of the solar system as if the plane of the solar system was a flat top on the surface of a table.
AM: So Planet Nine’s gravitational influence is forcing the solar system to wobble?
KB: If you imagine that the Sun and the planets were co-planar, meaning they were locked into the same plane 4 billion years ago, and allow the clock to run forward in the presence of Planet Nine, then 4 billion years later the Sun would have been apparently tilted by exactly it’s current obliquity, or 6 degrees. But what’s actually going on is that the Sun is staying put in its fixed reference frame and it’s the planetary orbits that are being tilted by Planet Nine. So Planet Nine has tilted the entire disk of the solar system by 6 degrees and because we live on that disc … to us it looks like the Sun is tilted, but it’s actually the other way around.
AM: How could Planet Nine have that much influence on our entire solar system when it’s so far out?
KB: Here’s why: Planet Nine is only 10 Earth masses as compared to Jupiter’s 300 Earth masses, but its orbit is huge. So it’s an argument that is basically like an asymmetrical see-saw or a dolly. Planet Nine has a really long orbit so it can assert quite a bit of torque on the inner planets without having to apply so much force. Planet Nine has as much angular momentum as the entire solar system combined, because it’s orbit is so big.
AM: Have there been other theories about how this tilt may have happened before your theory of Planet Nine?
KB: I actually had theorized this in 2012 and wrote about it and the theory was almost exactly the same, except for it wasn’t Planet Nine doing the torqueing but a companion star. I theorized that a young star was bound to the Sun, and tilting the entire proto-planetary disc from which planets form. It’s believed that most stars are born binary but most of them lose their companions by the time they come out of the birth cluster.
AM: Does this help us better understand planet formation or solar system formation?
KB: It does help us understand planet formation because planet formation theory dictates that all things must start out co-planar, in the same plane. The fact that the Sun is tilted with respect to the rest of the solar system is almost a violation of that very fundamental principle, so understanding what’s going on there is important. But there’s also a second component to why this calculation is interesting. We very quickly realized that Planet Nine must do something, it must tilt the solar system by some angle and we thought to ourselves what if this angle was really big? What if the Sun was tilted by 40 degrees in our calculations? That would actually be evidence against Planet Nine, instead we got this beautiful agreement of the theory.
AM: Has this new data helped with your search for Planet Nine?
KB: What we’ve found is that the direction into which the Sun is tilted by Planet Nine is intimately related to the orbit of Planet Nine itself. This is more or less a consistency check, it doesn’t help us or really provide too much new information but it gives us more confidence that we are actually barking up the right tree
Although the Webb telescope’s first image of an exoplanet looks like a pixelated light bulb, it actually demonstrates the observatory’s infrared prowess. The star symbol marks the exoplanet HIP 65426 b’s star, which Webb has blocked from the image.
Credit: Aarynn Carter, the ERS 1386 team
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first picture of a planet beyond the Solar System — opening a window to understanding other worlds and underscoring the telescope’s immense capabilities.
The image is of a planet called HIP 65426 b, an object similar to Jupiter, but younger and hotter, that lies 107 parsecs from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is the first exoplanet image ever taken at deep infrared wavelengths, which allow astronomers to study the full range of a planet’s brightness and what it is made of.
“It gives us wavelengths we’ve never seen planets at before,” says Beth Biller, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and a member of the discovery team. The image was reported in a paper on the arXiv preprint server on 31 August1; the report has not been peer reviewed.
The finding confirms how powerful Webb will be for studying exoplanets. Launched in December as a collaboration between NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, the telescope began doing science in June, using its 6.5-metre-wide primary mirror to observe the Universe from a spot around 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. The fact that it was able to take such a sharp picture of HIP 65426 b suggests that it will be able to photograph even smaller planets, the size of Saturn or even Neptune, orbiting other stars. That would drastically improve scientific understanding of far-away planetary systems.
The Webb telescope imaged HIP 65426 b at multiple infrared wavelengths (from left to right: 3.00, 4.44, 11.4 and 15.5 micrometres).
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA, A. Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team and A. Pagan (STScI)
Astronomers know of more than 5,000 exoplanets, but they have taken pictures of only around 20. Imaging exoplanets directly is difficult, because they are often lost in the glare of the star around which they orbit.
But observing them at infrared wavelengths, as Webb does, helps to boost the contrast between star and planet. “You’re in the regime where planets are brightest and stars are dimmest,” says Aarynn Carter, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and lead author of the preprint.
‘Baby Jupiter’
Carter and his colleagues chose to study HIP 65426 b after other astronomers discovered it in 20172 using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. In July this year, Carter’s team used instruments on Webb to physically block the light from HIP 65426 b’s star, allowing the planet to pop into view. HIP 65426 b orbits its star at roughly twice the distance that Pluto orbits the Sun.
Unlocking the additional infrared wavelengths allowed the astronomers to better understand how much energy the planet’s atmosphere radiates. That, in turn, allowed them to use models of stellar evolution to pin down its mass to 7 times, and its radius to 1.45 times, that of Jupiter.
HIP 65426 b is probably around 14 million years old, making it “a baby Jupiter”, Biller says. It’s “like Jupiter, but right after it formed”. Our Solar System is around 4.5 billion years old.
Future studies will probably probe how HIP 65426 b formed and evolved over time. Meanwhile, other astronomers are planning to use Webb to study many other exoplanets, especially big ones that lie relatively far from their host star and can thus be imaged directly.
Such work complements other ways in which Webb can observe exoplanets, such as analysing the starlight passing through a planet’s atmosphere to see what chemical compounds the atmosphere contains. Astronomers can’t use that technique on HIP 65426 b, because it lies too far away from its star. But Carter’s team is applying spectral analysis to a different planet, which is substantially larger than Jupiter and is known as VHS 1256 b. It lies 22 parsecs away from Earth in the constellation Corvus.
The findings of that analysis were reported on arXiv on 1 September3, and include signs of silicate grains — essentially, hot sand — in the atmosphere of VHS 1256 b. “That’s a hugely exciting result,” Carter says. It is the first time that sandy grains have been spotted in the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System.
Such sand clouds can form when temperatures on the planet are hot enough to vaporize rock-forming minerals.
Even Short Flights to Space Cause Cell Mutations That Could Lead to Cancer and Heart Disease
Spaceflight can be dangerous – and not just because astronauts are strapped to an ongoing massive explosion for their ascent into orbit. Its long-term effects on the human body are starting to come more clearly into focus, and so far, none of the answers have been good. Now a new study from Mount Sinai Medical Hospital has found that, even on relatively short duration spaceflights, astronauts suffer potentially damaging DNS mutations.
The study, published in the August edition of Nature Communications Biology, was conducted on 14 astronauts that flew on shuttle flights from 1998 to 2001. These astronauts, the overwhelming majority of whom were men, with an average age of 42, had their blood drawn before their shuttle flights and then again right after. Scientists have used these blood samples for the last twenty years, and this new study utilizes them and the dramatically improved DNA sequencing technology that the previous two decades have brought us.
What the researchers found in these old blood samples are known as somatic mutations in the hematopoietic system, where blood cells are formed. Somatic mutations are mutations that happen to a person during their life, but don’t affect their egg or sperm cells, meaning they won’t be passed on to the next generation. In this particular instance, the mutations they found were associated with a disorder called clonal hematopoiesis (CH), where more blood cells come from one specific clone.
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That isn’t necessarily cause for immediate alarm – in fact, CH doesn’t usually have symptoms associated with it. However, it indicates an increased risk factor for cardiovascular disease and blood cancer. And the somatic mutations the researchers found in the astronaut’s DNA were similar to those caused by ultraviolet radiation or specific chemicals.
Even more concerning, the most frequently changed gene was one responsible for producing a tumor-suppressing protein and is commonly associated with acute myeloid leukemia. However, even this change was below a standard threshold that doctors use to actually diagnose someone with CH.
However, these astronauts were only in space for an average of 12 days. Longer missions, such as those to Mars or even a permanent based on the Moon, could lead to much more damaging effects that have yet to be studied. There have already been plenty of studies of Mark and Scott Kelly, two twin astronauts who acted as a controlled pair to study microgravity and spaceflight’s effects on the human body. The effects do not appear to be good.
NASA video discussing the health limits of radiation. Credit – NASA Video YouTube Channel
And the CH gene change wasn’t the only problem found in the shuttle astronauts either. There was a surprisingly high amount of mitochondrial DNA floating in their bloodstreams, which can lead to inflammation problems. All of these issues point to the difficulty of the human body in dealing with spaceflight. None so far are red flags, but they certainly seem worth keeping an eye on while we restart our human exploration of the solar system.
Graphical depiction of the undergoing changes that astronauts suffer from when traveling in space. Credit – Communications Biology / Mount Sinai Health System
Sometimes, space probes that have long since ceased sending back data can still usher in new discoveries. That was the case recently when scientists used data from Rosetta, a probe that eventually crashed into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2016, to understand what changes occur on a comet’s surface as it continues its spin around the Sun.
Published in the August 26 edition of The Planetary Science Journal, the paper from researchers at Cornell was inspired by the need to find a safe landing area for a future potential sample return mission. The idea wasn’t just to find a specific place on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko but to better understand how the geological processes of a comet’s orbit around the Sun affect its surface.
There was plenty of data to look at. Rosetta spent over two years orbiting the comet and even sent a lander, Philae, down to it. It circled 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko while the comet reached its perihelion – the part of its orbit nearest the Sun and the one most active periods of its orbit geologically.
UT discusses the Rosetta mission.
The increased temperatures on the comet’s surface in late 2015 caused significant shifts in 16 different flat regions on the surface that Rosetta was watching. Sublimation is the process by which the ice that usually blankets the comet’s body is changed directly into a gas by the heat from the Sun. The changes to the region also included the erosion of some of the edges of the depressions on the surface and other material settling back down onto it.
Changes like this would make it difficult for any landing craft to find a stable site using remote sensing methodologies. Philae itself ran into trouble when it bounced off the comet’s surface and ended up in a strange orientation that made the rest of its mission difficult. Such are the hazards of landing on a body where the gravity is 1/10000 what it is on Earth.
Even those challenges aren’t enough to stop scientists from exploring them, though. Many believe that comets are what seeded Earth with the necessary chemicals for life, including water. They were formed during the solar system’s birth and haven’t changed much since then, so they provide a unique look into how the solar system was before the formation of planets.
UT discussion of why it’s hard to land on a comet.
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko might even expect another visitor, as it is one of the most easily accessed comets. Its orbital period of 6.45 years means it runs the full gamut of environments that comets experience in a relatively short time. And it is already one of the best observed, with both Philae and Rosetta sending back hundreds of pictures of it.
Whether or not we ever return to it is still up in the air, but we will undoubtedly be back to visit more comets. A better understanding of how their surfaces form and what that means for landing on them will undoubtedly prove useful in the long run.
Live: UFO comes close to ISS astronauts during spacewalk
During a recent spacewalk Russian cosmonauts Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev exit the ISS to continue outfitting the European robotic arm on the station's Nauka laboratory when suddenly an unknown object comes into view next to the service module solar battery.
The MCC (control center) who monitors the spacewalk through a live cam noticed the object upon the operator ask Oleg Artemyev to see and describe the object but Oleg said that she did not understand what the operator was asking her, so he ordered Oleg to continue to work on the European robotic arm.
It seems impossible that the astronaut did not see the UFO, but it could be that the astronaut not wanted to talk about the UFO which came very close the ISS since they are not allowed to talk about UFO encounters in space.
Remarkably, the camera continues to track the object until it disappears from view, proving that this is not space debris, but an extraordinary object under intelligent control, unknown to the space agencies.
The UFO incident (and conversation) can be seen from 7.22.55 to 7.27.55 minutes in the following live video. (Click CC video for English translation).
Strange cylindrical objects falling out of a massive dark cloud
With the sun active and the climate changing the temperatures, we will be seeing many weather events that will be hard to understand or explain.
As the world changes and shows us new things...Watch with an open mind. Cylinder shaped tubes of maybe ice are falling from the sky and it's not raining, but could be large hail? This week we have some freak accidents with large hail hitting people...this can kill you.
Could these objects be part of a weather modification (geoengineering) program? Like cloud seeding which is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud.
Whether these cylindrical objects (Ice or... something else?) are the result of cloud seeding or not, it definitely looks manufactured and I've never seen this before.
The video shows many cylindrical objects falling from the sky and 'Bruce sees all' simply wanted to share it with you. Every object has another object following it and all of them all the same shape.
Secret diplomatic mission to underwater cities in Atlantic ocean
JP, who currently serves with the US Army as a quartermaster and chemical repairer, was recently taken on a covert mission to an underwater city off the Florida coast in the Bermuda triangle region.
He said that he witnessed tall human looking beings that inhabited the city which was protected by a giant underwater dome. He said that there were two other domed cities adjacent to the one he visited.
He also said that he was there with a small contingent of soldiers to protect a civilian negotiator who met with leaders of the underwater city to conduct negotiations.
In this Exopolitics Today interview, JP discusses his mission, the people involved, and what he witnessed at the bottom of the ocean in the Bermuda triangle region.
Large UFO Hovering Over Powerline's In Tacoma Washington!(UFO SIGHTING)
UFO hovering over powerline's in Tacoma Washington.
Video source MUFON Case # 124399
Airline Pilot Sees Foofighter over Wilmington, North Carolina Aug 12, 2022, UFO Sighting News.
Eyewitness states: Who: I am an airline pilot with a major airline in the United States. I am a former military pilot. When: August 12, 2022, over a 35 minute period from approximately 0055-0130 ET (0455-0530 UTC). Where:At the first sighting we were approximately over the city of Wilmington, NC. At last sighting we were approximately over Richmond, VA. We were traveling almost due north and the objects were directly in front of us. It was impossible to tell exactly where the objects were; in the 35+ minutes we were watching them they never seemed to get closer. Narrative:
We took off from St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands for a 4-hour flight to Washington Dulles airport. We departed at 2202 ET and landed at 0148 ET. At roughly 0055 ET I began seeing slow pulses of light in the sky directly in front of us (to our north). The pulses would last usually 8-10 seconds each and had gaps of darkness lasting anywhere from 10 seconds to over a minute. They were slowly moving from left to right. The pulses would be gradual (start very dim and grow into a bright light about the brightness of Venus, and then fade away). As an airline pilot, I am positive I was not seeing other airliners. Very few civilian aircraft can fly above 41,000 feet, and the objects were about 10 degrees above the horizon from our perspective. I was not able to tell the distance of the object from our aircraft, but in the 35+ minutes we watched, they never seemed to get any closer even though we covered about 250 nautical miles in that time. For this reason I believe they were in either the upper atmosphere or in space. After a few minutes of watching, the Captain (who until this point had been very quiet) asked me if I was seeing the lights. I said yes and we started discussing what they could be. I started filming and taking photos at this point. We began seeing 2 lights at a time, often at different altitudes, but always moving generally from left to right when the pulse was at its peak. At one point we watched 2 lights flying in “formation”, almost side by side. When I looked very carefully, I could see the lights even after the pulse faded, but it was very dim and would sometimes fade away completely. When the pulse was dim they lights seemed to be traveling to the left. For a brief time we saw 3 objects at one time. At no point did we see a strobe light or navigation lights on the objects. The best way to describe what we saw is 2-3 aircraft circling in left hand turns with their landing lights on, which means that they were only clearly visible when the lights were facing towards us. Because we were flying towards Washington DC we discussed the possibility it was fighter aircraft flying circles over the city due to a security threat. This was clearly not the case however, because we were 300+ miles from DC when we spotted them, and they never seemed to get closer as we neared the city. They also were far higher in elevation than modern fighters can fly, and there would be no reason to have their landing lights on in that phase of flight. Additionally, fighter aircraft have their landing lights mounted within their landing gear which would have been retracted, and therefore could not have been visible. As a former fighter/attack pilot I am extremely familiar with capabilities of modern aircraft, have trained in CAP (protecting locations from aerial threats) and I am 100% we were not seeing military aircraft or flares. I have spent a lot of time wondering if they could have been a train of Starlink satellites, and the light pulses were sunlight reflecting off the satellites. I don’t think this is the case, for the following reasons. We spotted them in the middle of the night; 5 hours after sunset, when it is less likely to spot satellites. We also saw the pulses an estimated 80+ times, and we only stopped seeing them due to us descending into the clouds. From looking online, starlink trains are typically 40-60 satellites. The sighting also lasted 35+ minutes, which is far longer than a satellite train. I believe it was the same 2-3 objects the entire time, and they were flying in circles. Lastly, the objects appeared to be flying in circles, which is not characteristic of satellites.
This is my first sighting. I have 4 videos and several photos. Unfortunately, they were taken from my iphone, at night. You can see the pulses, but the relative motion is difficult to make out. In one video I filmed my displays, which shows my altitude, and location.
UAP passing slowly west to east
I have filmed these objects passing slowly on a few occasions. Always going west to east. Footage taken 20 th may 2021 .
This daytime UFO was seen and filmed in the sky above Shakopee, a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota on 3rd September 2022.
Witness report:
This was yesterday 09/03/2022 at 5:46PM in Shakopee MN. Near several airports and Mystic Lake Casino with its multiple spotlights. It might have been past Rice Lake. I didn’t see any plane pulling it and it was out of view to the naked eye, my video hasn’t compressed anything. That’s all I could get with HD 60 fps at x6 zoom on my iPhone 11 Pro Max.
This daytime UFO was seen and filmed in the sky above Shakopee, a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota on 3rd September 2022.
Witness report:
This was yesterday 09/03/2022 at 5:46PM in Shakopee MN. Near several airports and Mystic Lake Casino with its multiple spotlights. It might have been past Rice Lake. I didn’t see any plane pulling it and it was out of view to the naked eye, my video hasn’t compressed anything. That’s all I could get with HD 60 fps at x6 zoom on my iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Even Short Flights to Space Cause Cell Mutations That Could Lead to Cancer and Heart Disease
Spaceflight can be dangerous – and not just because astronauts are strapped to an ongoing massive explosion for their ascent into orbit. Its long-term effects on the human body are starting to come more clearly into focus, and so far, none of the answers have been good. Now a new study from Mount Sinai Medical Hospital has found that, even on relatively short duration spaceflights, astronauts suffer potentially damaging DNS mutations.
The study, published in the August edition of Nature Communications Biology, was conducted on 14 astronauts that flew on shuttle flights from 1998 to 2001. These astronauts, the overwhelming majority of whom were men, with an average age of 42, had their blood drawn before their shuttle flights and then again right after. Scientists have used these blood samples for the last twenty years, and this new study utilizes them and the dramatically improved DNA sequencing technology that the previous two decades have brought us.
What the researchers found in these old blood samples are known as somatic mutations in the hematopoietic system, where blood cells are formed. Somatic mutations are mutations that happen to a person during their life, but don’t affect their egg or sperm cells, meaning they won’t be passed on to the next generation. In this particular instance, the mutations they found were associated with a disorder called clonal hematopoiesis (CH), where more blood cells come from one specific clone.
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That isn’t necessarily cause for immediate alarm – in fact, CH doesn’t usually have symptoms associated with it. However, it indicates an increased risk factor for cardiovascular disease and blood cancer. And the somatic mutations the researchers found in the astronaut’s DNA were similar to those caused by ultraviolet radiation or specific chemicals.
Even more concerning, the most frequently changed gene was one responsible for producing a tumor-suppressing protein and is commonly associated with acute myeloid leukemia. However, even this change was below a standard threshold that doctors use to actually diagnose someone with CH.
However, these astronauts were only in space for an average of 12 days. Longer missions, such as those to Mars or even a permanent based on the Moon, could lead to much more damaging effects that have yet to be studied. There have already been plenty of studies of Mark and Scott Kelly, two twin astronauts who acted as a controlled pair to study microgravity and spaceflight’s effects on the human body. The effects do not appear to be good.
NASA video discussing the health limits of radiation. Credit – NASA Video YouTube Channel
And the CH gene change wasn’t the only problem found in the shuttle astronauts either. There was a surprisingly high amount of mitochondrial DNA floating in their bloodstreams, which can lead to inflammation problems. All of these issues point to the difficulty of the human body in dealing with spaceflight. None so far are red flags, but they certainly seem worth keeping an eye on while we restart our human exploration of the solar system.
Graphical depiction of the undergoing changes that astronauts suffer from when traveling in space. Credit – Communications Biology / Mount Sinai Health System
A UFO sighting took place during the current tropical cyclone season over the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The object was spotted in the sky by a local resident named Juanito Juan.
Juan says he was taking photos of some ominous, oncoming storm clouds when he spotted a metallic, disc-shaped UFO in the sky.
Looking like the prototypical flying saucer, Juan snapped several photos of the object which appear to show some of its movement in the sky.
“This photo was taken today 8/17/22 in the rural area of Tamaulipas by a person who calls himself Juanito Juan, during the afternoon of this day and when he wanted to take some photos of the storm clouds, he noticed this object and took this sequence.
Chinese Astronauts Successfully Grow Rice in Space
Rice is one of the world’s staple crops. It is regularly eaten by more than half the world’s population. And now, it’s been grown in microgravity, on board the newly launched Chinese Wentian space laboratory.
Wentian launched in July and joined up with the Tianhe module of China’s new space station. Its original complement of eight experiments included one that attempted to grow rice in microgravity.
Rice typically grows to 3-4 ft over four months, and the stalks on Wentian have not been able to complete their entire maturation cycle since the experiment started in July. However, they seem to be on track compared to their Earth-bound counterparts.
Rice growing on the space Tiangong space station. Credit – CGTN
There were actually two types of rice launched as part of the experiment. A tall shoot variety reached almost 30 centimeters in the first month of growth, and a dwarf variety reached around 5 cm. Both of these growth amounts are on par for these particular rice varieties on Earth.
Rice isn’t the only thing in the experiment, though. Scientists added Arabidopsis thaliana. It’s a common flowering plant typically used to study genetic mutations, which can be especially helpful when carrying out an experiment in space.
Rice and mutation studies both have a long history in spaceflight. The Apollo 11 astronauts ate freeze-dried chicken and rice during their journey to the moon. And any space-based farming effort will surely include rice. So this is a step in the right direction.
Arabidopsis thaliana growing on the Tiangong space station. Credit – Chinese Academy of Sciences
This also isn’t the first time China has sent rice into space. Some hitched a ride on the Chang’e 5 in November of 2020 on its ride around the moon. Other crops have ridden with other Chinese spacecraft as well. These studies focused on improving the yield of these crops, as rice that is expected to the radiation environment of space have higher yields once planted back on Earth. This burgeoning industry has seen more than 200 types of crops modified in this way, and experiments are continuing.
This isn’t the first time rice has been successfully grown in space. A team of students from Indonesia tested the effects of growing rice in microgravity on the ISS back in 2016.
For now, the experiment continues apace, and the scientists running it hope to get seeds that they can bring back to Earth to study if there were any significant differences having been grown in microgravity. Assuming there isn’t, these experiments could point to a bright future in space for one of the world’s most important crops.
Mysterious concentric rings of light caught by James Webb Space Telescope
Scientist Judy Schmidt: Nope, I don't know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I'm sure we'll find out more later.
The Universe, truly, is full of wonders, and the James Webb Space Telescope has just given us our best views of one of them yet.
The object in question is a star around 5,600 light-years away, and Webb's infrared eye has picked out an extraordinary detail: it's surrounded by what appear to be concentric rings of light radiating outward.
While Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes are not 'real', those concentric rings are – and there's a wonderful and fascinating explanation for them.
The star is actually a binary pair of rare stars in the constellation of Cygnus, and their interactions produce precise periodic eruptions of dust that are expanding out in shells into the space around the pair over time.
These shells of dust are glowing in infrared, which has allowed an instrument as sensitive as Webb's MIRI to resolve them in exquisite detail.
The star is what is known as a colliding wind binary, consisting of an extremely rare Wolf-Rayet star, called WR 140, and a hot, massive O-type star companion – another rare object.
Wolf-Rayet stars are very hot, very luminous, and very old; at the end of their main-sequence lifespan. They are significantly depleted in hydrogen, rich in nitrogen or carbon, and losing mass at a very high rate.
O-type stars are among the most massive stars known, also very hot and bright; because they are so massive, their lifespans are incredibly brief.
3 orange rotating UFOS make explosion with triangle in middle then more orange lights appear – New Mexico
This strange UFO event happened over Carlsbad in New Mexico on 29th August 2022.
Witness report:
In the dessert (SW) out by Carlsbad, NM at 10:21 PM on 8/29/2022 a storm with abnormally thick clouds suddenly started to form with a lot of cool wind and very bright flashes of lightning that seemed to only light up the top half of the storm clouds with no visible bolts of lightning or sound/thunder. A large hovering and blinking light (about the size of an airplane light but seemed to “twinkle” yellow and white) appeared to the left of the storm clouds (video 1 shows this) with smaller and random half second lights blinking randomly around the sky moving from E-W. Suddenly the blinking light appeared to move much closer as it went from a tiny blinking light to 3 very large orange balls of light that were spinning (horizontally) from E-W ( Video 2 and 3) and gaining speed at an incredible rate, then they seemed to create an explosion of energy that created a tube like cloud structure (vertically) with “corkscrew” like appearance on the outside with an upside down triangular shape in the center. A very faint white ball of light seemed to shoot out of the cloud tunnel and go to the right (in less than half a second) where suddenly more large orange balls of light start to randomly appear one by one in a vertical stacking pattern 1, 2, 3, 4. There was no sound created from any of this. This all happened in about 90 seconds. When the videos are slowed down you can see multiple tiny silver reflections ( they appear as a tiny twinkle in regular speed) from small flat top crafts that are zipping through the sky, there is another craft that appears for .5-1 ( second that looks to be almost egg/ball shaped but large light in the center top and it has a small ball it seems to be controlling hovering below it. There appears to be multiple different craft in the sky at one time and they all seem to be “working together”. This was recorded from 2 different angles on the 8/29/22, and the orange balls of light that rotate and also seem to stack randomly have been seen in the same spot almost every night since. Locals in Hobbs,NM are reporting seeing this same activity for at least 2 months now.
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