Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
09-01-2015
Thoughts On ETs By Albert Einstein In A Newly Released Digital Papers
Thoughts On ETs By Albert Einstein In A Newly Released Digital Papers
Early in December 2014, Albert Einstein’s digital papers were released and many were excited to know about any mention of space travel from the great man’s work. While Einstein died two years earlier than the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the theory about rocket flight had existed for many decades by that time. Many people were theorizing about it, including Hermann Oberth, a physicist from Germany.
The first digital release, however, only covers the life of Einstein up to 1923, when Oberth only started to write about spaceflight. So, while searching for the terms space travel or rocket, nothing can be found in the digital papers. Perhaps, in the later volumes these terms would come out.
However, there is still an interesting item from January 1920 wherein the professor said that earth is not the only planet that supports life because it is not singular in any other respect. He added that if intelligent life exists somewhere in the universe, it’s not right to assume that these ETs would contact mankind by wireless radio. He said that light rays, would be the first method attempted because they can be controlled much more easily.
Einstein thought of what we have known today as radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) may sound surprising because most searches until today primarily rely on radio signal. But it is also important to note that in 1920, Einstein lacked information. Radio searchers are preferred for SETI because radio waves penetrate more easily in pervasive dust in space, which can block shorter-wavelength light from reaching Earth. Astronomers did not have full understanding yet about the nature of interstellar dust in 1920.
Still, Optical SETI searchers by teams from many places, including teams at Harvard, favored light beams even though it is harder to search for light beams that would have to be aimed exactly in planet Earth’s direction, as compared to radio signals that scattered in space.
Einstein’s digital papers also mention about Mars saying that it’s a pity humans don’t live on Mars and just observed nastic antics of man by telescope.
Heeft Curiosity gefossiliseerde levensvormen gevonden op Mars?
Heeft Curiosity gefossiliseerde levensvormen gevonden op Mars?
The landscape surrounding Curiosity when the rover began to explore Yellowknife Bay in December 2012.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Een geobioloog heeft mogelijk gefossiliseerde levensvormen gevonden op Mars. Het gaat om sedimentaire structuren die erg doen denken aan structuren die op aarde worden gevormd door microben.
Dit zijn nieuwe aanwijzingen dat er ooit leven was op Mars, hoewel het geen direct bewijs is voor het bestaan ervan. In een studie die is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Astrobiology houdt Nora Noffke van de Amerikaanse Old Dominion University NASA-foto’s van sedimentaire structuren op het Marsoppervlak tegen het licht.
De structuren zijn waargenomen op foto’s van het 3,7 miljard jaar oude Gillespie Lake in de Gale-krater. De foto’s zijn op 17 december 2012 gemaakt door Marsverkenner Curiosity. Noffke analyseerde de foto’s en vergeleek ze met foto’s van sedimentaire structuren in Portsmouth Island in de Verenigde Staten, Carbla Point in Australië en Mellum in Duitsland.
Tijdens de analyse zag Noffke, die al meer dan 20 jaar onderzoek doet naar sedimentair gesteente, opvallende gelijkenissen tussen de morfologische structuren in Gillespie Lake en gesteente op aarde. Ze zegt dat haar ontdekking nog geen bewijs is voor leven op Mars. “Het enige wat ik kan zeggen is: dit is mijn hypothese en hier is al het bewijs dat ik heb verzameld,” schreef ze.
Overlay of sketch on photograph of Gillespie Lake to assist in the identification of the structures on the rock bed surface.
Noffke (2105)/ASTROBIOLOGY
Er is een mogelijkheid dat de sedimentaire structuren op Mars niet zijn gemaakt door microben, maar dan zouden de waargenomen overeenkomsten ‘wel heel erg toevallig’ zijn, zei ze.
Planeetwetenschapper Chris McKay van het Ames Research Center van NASA sprak lovende woorden over het werk van Noffke. “Het is de meest zorgvuldige analyse binnen dit onderzoeksterrein die ik tot nu toe heb gezien,” zei hij.
What is a star seed? Better yet, who is a starseed? If you trace the origins of human lineage, you end up with a plethora of questions. For example, if we were to believe the bible’s origins of mankind and assume that we came from Adam and Eve, then that assumption wouldn’t explain the genetic differences in our population. Continuing with the bible story, we are led to believe that Noah and his family were the only survivors of the Great Flood, which means we are allegedly all descendents of Noah and his family. Are we to assume that Noah brought aboard two of every ethnicity as well? That’s highly unlikely.
Let’s examine the other possibilities.
Zecharia Sitchin believes our DNA was geneticallymanipulated, which remains a possibility, but why would the Anunnaki create various ethnicities instead of one slave race?
That leads us to another, more feasible, possibility. We were seeded here from various star nations. In this premise, genetic and ethnic diversity is explained. It also covers the differences in our bloodtypes, such as Rh negative, Rh positive, A, B, AB and O blood types. Perhaps some star nations have people with predominantly red hair and freckles while others have dark skinned inhabitants? Maybe some, such as the Pleiadians, have blonde hair and blue eyes?
It’s also possible that Sitchin’s premise is correct, while other star nations ALSO seeded the planet with their genetic offspring.
Perhaps we would look at ourselves differently if we saw a planet inhabited by various star nations versus segregating ourselves from one another through patriotism, nationality and prejudice?
Is it possible that our planet is one gigantic galactic experiment to see how various star nations would get along with one another?
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Gregg Prescott, M.S. is the founder and editor of In5D and BodyMindSoulSpirit. He hosts a weekly spiritual show on In5D Radio and promotes spiritual, metaphysical and esoteric conferences in the United States through In5dEvents. Gregg is currently working in collaboration with Michelle Walling, CHLC, in opening a holisticwalk-in clinic called Alternative Holistic Healthcare (AHH) in Sarasota, FL with subsequent subsidiaries around the world based upon this model.
The witnesses watched one object disappear into the horizon, and then suddenly noticed another object nearby. Pictured: Northern Durham, NC, area. (Credit: Google)
Two North Carolina witnesses at Durham reported watching what appeared to be multiple triangle-shaped UFOs hovering and drifting in the area over a one hour and 25-minute period beginning about 9:20 p.m. on January 7, 2015, according to testimony in Case 62491 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The two were driving to a gas station in northern Durham when the first object was observed.
“My girlfriend and I witnessed an extremely bright hovering object, amber in color,” the reporting witness stated. “We decided to drive around to get a better view of it over the treetops and witnessed what looked like a triangular light pattern – one very large, very bright amber light in the nose and a smaller flashing light on each wingtip and center which stayed illuminated but strobed brighter in order from left to right.”
The object moved in the opposite direction of their car.
“Because it was so far away we could not make out any structure. The large light was unlike anything we had seen in the sky before in terms of its size and brightness.”
Witness illustration of the object they saw beginning at 9:20 p.m. on January 7, 2015. (Credit: MUFON)
But once the object was out of view they continued to the gas station. On the way back to the house they encountered the object again, hovering close to its original position.
“It was much closer and we turned into a neighborhood to get a good look. The object was very close. I would compare it to watching a plane in take-off pass overhead in terms of its distance. As we pulled into the neighborhood it stopped hovering and began moving – drifting might be a more fitting verb – across the sky towards us.”
They parked their car and got out as the object passed directly overhead.
“As it did we both witnessed the solid black outline of an equilateral diamond – a small white running light in the center and at each tip with an oversized, amber-colored, seemingly directional (forward to forward-down) light at its nose and a significantly dimmer light on its tail. The three lights from wingtip to wingtip constantly strobed in a right-to-left direction as it moved away from us.”
The object was silent as it passed over and disappeared behind the tree line.
“We jumped back into our car to try and get a better angle to continue watching it, but as we circled the woods which it had passed over it was nowhere in sight – until we happened to catch the faint strobe of the object now a great distance away.”
They moved to another location to continue to watch the object.
“We drove to my girlfriend’s parent’s house and watched this object glide back and forth across the sky at a great distance – like a commercial plane at altitude – for over an hour. At one point her mother came outside to watch it pass at about 45-degrees above the horizon, close enough to make out the triangular front of the object.”
The witness described the object’s movement.
“We kept noticing that it seemed to pass in a straight line until we could not see it anymore and then begin its trajectory again from where it started – but we never saw it fly back. We assumed that we simply missed its return path. Finally we watched one disappear, not behind trees, but simply into the distance and made sure to watch for its return. It never flew back.”
The witnesses described the object as having a solid black outline of an equilateral diamond – a small white running light in the center and at each tip with an oversized, amber-colored, seemingly directional (forward to forward-down) light at its nose and a significantly dimmer light on its tail. (Credit: Google)
But suddenly the object was once again close and over their left shoulders.
“We were in disbelief that it could have 1) flown back to this position with such speed and; 2) have done so without us noticing. We tracked the object as it passed about 60-degrees above the horizon when suddenly we noticed a second, identical object flying towards us from a great distance. We continued watching these two objects pass back across the sky.”
The total sighting lasted from 9:20 to 10:45 p.m.
“At 10:45 p.m. I finally came inside and out of the frigid cold to write this report.”
Durham is the county seat of Durham County, NC, population 245,475.
Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
YouTube channel ParaPulseTV hit the streets to ask people if they’ve seen a UFO in their lifetime, or know someone that has. According to their statistics, 10-14% of the population has seen something strange in the sky.
Hiya folks, thanks for tuning in to ParaPulseTV. I’m Mike your host and the purpose of the channel is to promote open social discussion about the ufo phenomenon and other paranormal subjects. Even if you’re a devoted skeptic, there are a lot people reporting things that if proven true would reshape our very existence and so have no business being ignored by the rest of mankind. Besides that we’ve got somewhere between 10-14% of people in all walks of life, pilots and ex-military included, swearing to us that they’ve seen a ufo, often performing impossible or highly strange maneuvers in their reports. So either there’s a genuine medical issue here that’s affecting a sizable chunk of society, or there’s more to the story.
DIAMOND SHAPED UFO SPOTTED OVER VENTURA CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 20, 2014 …….. VENTURA CALIFORNIA
Shape: Diamond
Duration: 10 minutes
I was hiking down from Grant Park on the road that goes down towards City Hall, and I noticed a black craft flying basically above highway 33 at an altitude of about 3000 to 4000 feet (rough estimate). The craft looked like a hexagon (6 corners), though due to the distance, it was a bit hard to know if that was its exact shape. It was black in color. At times, it would turn sideways, and it was clear that it was flat as a board. It did not have an exhaust, but during the sighting, there appeared to be a whitish, halo effect around it, but only during part of the sighting. It went slowly over westwards towards the ocean and then turned in southerly direction and then slowly continued in a somewhat easterly direction thereafter. During the time that I saw it, it basically made a large “c” type of a travel pattern. Most interestingly, it seemed at the end to simply rise up through the clouds (though it did not increase it elevation for the first 8-9 minutes of the sighting). There were two other people who were also doing the same hike, and came and started to talk with me about the thing that we were looking at in the sky. They were as confounded as me. We all witnessed this sighing, and I have a video of about 3 minutes long that I took on my smart phone.
NASA spots massive outburst from our very own black hole
NASA spots massive outburst from our very own black hole
Its root cause still undetermined, a huge X-ray flare from the Milky Way's center has made NASA scientists sit up and take notice.
The X-ray flare from Sagittarius A* is the largest ever observed coming from the supermassive black hole.
NASA/CXC/Stanford/I.Zhuravleva et al.
As you might know, the Milky Way Galaxy, in which we are all floating, has a black hole with a mass 4.5 million times bigger than that of our sun at its very center. So, when NASA says a documented occurrence in that vast pit of darkness "raises questions about the behavior of this giant black hole and its surrounding environment," I get a little nervous.
Fortunately, the observation they're talking about is little cause for alarm. What happened is that back in September of 2013, the Chandra X-Ray space observatory recorded an X-ray flare from the center of the Milky Way's black hole (a vortex known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*) that was 400 times brighter than the energy usually emitted from the area. You can see the flare in the image above. NASA is presenting this documentation at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, slated in Seattle this week.
What caused the outburst from the usually quiet region of our galaxy? NASA has two theories.
First is that an asteroid wandered too close to the black hole and got ripped apart by the hole's extreme gravitational force. Before the asteroid crossed over the hole's event horizon (or point of no return), the debris it produced got superheated and released the X-rays.
"If an asteroid was torn apart, it would go around the black hole for a couple of hours -- like water circling an open drain -- before falling in," said researcher Fred Baganoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a statement. "That's just how long we saw the brightest X-ray flare last, so that is an intriguing clue for us to consider."
The second theory about the burst is that the lines of magnetic energy contained in the gas flowing into Sgr A* got tangled and released the X-rays. NASA says that the pattern observed is similar to those found in such types of flares observed from our sun.
But mostly, the space agency really isn't quite sure what caused the outburst.
"The bottom line is the jury is still out on what's causing these giant flares from Sgr A*," said researcher Gabriele Ponti of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. "Such rare and extreme events give us a unique chance to use a mere trickle of infalling matter to understand the physics of one of the most bizarre objects in our galaxy."
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UFOs: As The British UFO Research Association Celebrates Half A Century, Here Are 10 Reasons To Believe In Aliens (PICTURES)
UFOs: As The British UFO Research Association Celebrates Half A Century, Here Are 10 Reasons To Believe In Aliens (PICTURES)
This weekend Britain’s oldest UFO group turns 50.
With thousands of files that pre-date Ministry of Defence records, (indeed its oldest files go back to the Victorian era) The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) celebrates half a century with a two-day conference in London.
A regular contributor to magazines, TV and radio shows, the group is currently supporting an investigation into Sweden's Ghost Rockets phenomena.
Since 1946, around 2,000 UFOs have been seen in the skies above Sweden, with a number reportedly crashing into lakes.
The head of UK Air Traffic Control admits the skies above Britain are visited by one UFO a month
In August a team set out in an ambitious attempt to find one of the objects, the results of which will be revealed exclusively by speaker Clas Svahn at the conference.
Chairman Matt Lyons explains: “We are non-cultist and are not lead by belief systems, not advocating an extra-terrestrial polarised view, nor are we at the highly sceptical end of the spectrum.
“One of the few groups to run an accredited training course, our team of researchers and investigators are led by witness testimony and not the personal or group beliefs."
We want to believe. And here are ten reasons why.
1. July saw the 65th anniversary of the now infamous Roswell incident. The military initially revealed a flying disk had been captured, but changed their story overnight, claiming the craft was actually a weather balloon. Rumours abound to this day that the occupants of the craft were captured and the military engaged in a cover-up.
“It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the word ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.”
Former American President Dwight D Eisenhower 'had three secret meetings with aliens'
5. Whether or not you believe the stories of people who say they’ve been spirited out of their cars on lonely country roads or drawn into alien crafts while they’ve been sleeping, these tales are told by enough people to make us think carefully about the phenomenon.
Photographer Steven Hirsch’s project Little Sticky Legs sees images of alien abductees and their own drawings of their experiences.
6. Crop circles continue to dazzle and baffle us. The mystery appeared to be solved when several high-profile cases revealed that the designs were the work of artists and mischief-makers with barrels, planks of wood and a plenty of spare time. Yet not all could be explained.
In recent years crop circle artists have pushed the boundaries of ingenuity, boasting ever-more complex patterns and shapes. Some crop circle designs now feature up to 2,000 shapes, while analysis by mathematicians shown that they can be built on deep patterns and structures that are otherwise invisible to the eye.
While spoilsports, sorry scientists claim to have cracked the case once more, suggesting artists are now relying on the Global Positioning System, lasers and even microwaves to create their patterns, we’re holding onto the hope that aliens are just really, really creative.
A Wiltshire crop circle
7. Former American President Dwight D Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens from another planet, a former US government consultant has claimed.
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High-Tech Airships Could Be NASA's Next Challenge
High-Tech Airships Could Be NASA's Next Challenge
By Kelly Dickerson, Staff Writer
This artist's conception of a high-altitude airship is one of many possible models that could come from an airship design challenge. CREDIT: Mike Hughes (Eagre Interactive)/Keck Institute for Space Studies
One of NASA's new citizen science endeavors could involve high-tech, record-breaking airships designed to aid scientific research projects.
NASA has proposed a challenge that calls for airship designs that can fly higher and longer than existing airships. At the moment, no airship — blimp-like devices — can maintain an altitude of 65,000 feet (20 kilometers) for more than 8 hours. Weather balloons can soar to that height, but the balloons are difficult to control and vulnerable to winds.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California think airships could aid them in research on astronomy and climate change and even be more capable than weather balloons. An airship could carry telescopes into the stratosphere to observe stars and other celestial bodies. Right now for example scientists are working on an airship that could survey the skies of Venus. Airships could also provide valuable insight into weather patterns.[10 Most Amazing Flying Machines Ever]
"You would be able to follow weather patterns, even get above a hurricane," Jason Rhodes, an astrophysicist at JPL who is leading the proposed challenge, said in a statement. "A satellite can't do that because its orbit can't be changed."
The proposed challenge would include two tiers. The first tier would call for designs for an airship that can lift 44 pounds (20 kilograms) and hover at 65,000 ft. for at least 20 hours. The second tier designs would need to be a little more complex. Those airships would have to support 440 lbs (200 kg) at the same height but for at least 200 hours.
Familiar blimps that hover around sports games are just one example of an airship. By definition an airship must be lighter than air and able to navigate through the air under its own power. NASA officials say there could be between $2 million and $3 million in prize money available for the competition.
While studies have shown that there is significant interest in using airships for scientific experiments, airships could also have important industry applications. Telecommunication companies could use them to deliver wireless access to remote areas. Military personnel could use them for surveillance operations and missile defense warning.
The proposed 20-20-20 Airship Challenge would become part of NASA's Centennial Challenges program that offers prizes to citizen-designed tech that solves research problems that are of interest to NASA. NASA will first gauge public interest in the airship competition before officially launching it.
One of eight new planets spied in distant solar systems has usurped the title of "most Earth-like alien world", astronomers have said.
All eight were picked out by Nasa's Kepler space telescope, taking its tally of such "exoplanets" past 1,000.
But only three sit safely within the "habitable zone" of their host star - and one in particular is rocky, like Earth, as well as only slightly warmer.
The three potentially habitable planets join Kepler's"hall of fame", which now boasts eight fascinating planetary prospects.
And researchers say the most Earth-like of the new arrivals, known as Kepler 438b, is probably even more similar to our home than Kepler 186f - which previously looked to be our most likely twin.
At 12% larger than Earth, the new claimant is bigger than 186f but it is closer to our temperature, probably receiving just 40% more heat from its sun than we do from ours.
So if we could stand on the surface of 438b it may well be warmer than here, according to Dr Doug Caldwell from the Seti (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California.
"And it's around a cooler [red dwarf] star... so your sky would look redder than ours does to us," Dr Caldwell said.
With the three new arrivals, Kepler's 'hall of fame' expands to eight small, habitable-zone exoplanets
That first-person encounter, however, is unlikely - both because the planet is 475 light-years away and because we still have essentially no idea what it's made of.
Images from the Kepler telescope, which trails behind the Earth and peers far into the distance as we orbit our own sun, are used to identify far-off planets by observing "transits".
This refers to the dimming of a star's light when a planet passes in front of it.
A large team of researchers then uses additional data from Earth-bound telescopes to further explore these unfamiliar solar systems.
They try to calculate how big the planets are, and how closely they orbit their host stars.
Not everything that causes such a dimming eventually turns out to be a planet, however.
At the same time as the eight confirmed new exoplanets were announced by a 26-strong team spanning Nasa and multiple US institutions, the Kepler mission's own scientists released another tranche of more than 500 "candidate" planets.
"With further observation, some of these candidates may turn out not to be planets," said Kepler science officer, Fergal Mullally.
"Or as we understand their properties better, they may move around in, or even outside, the habitable zone."
'Star Trek' scenario
Even once scientists have anointed a candidate as a confirmed exoplanet, the question of whether or not it is "Earth-like" is a fraught one, with fuzzy boundaries.
The size of the habitable, or "Goldilocks" zone, where a planet is far enough from its sun to hold water but not so distant that it freezes, depends on how confident scientists want to be with their guess-work.
According to Dr Cardwell, just three of the eight new exoplanets can be confidently placed in that zone - and only two of those are probably rocky like the Earth.
More detailed description is very difficult.
An artist's view of Kepler 186f, which experts say has now been pipped as "most Earth-like" known exoplanet
"From the Kepler measurements and the other measurements we made, we don't know if these planets have oceans with fish and continents with trees," Dr Caldwell told BBC News.
"All we know is their size and the energy they're receiving from their star.
"So we can say: Well, they're of a size that they're likely to be rocky, and the energy they're getting is comparable to what the Earth is getting.
"As we fill in these gaps in our solar system that we don't have, we learn more about what it means to be Earth-like, in some sense."
Speaking at a related event at the conference, Prof Debra Fischer from Yale University said she remembered a time before the first exoplanet was discovered, more than two decades ago.
"I remember astronomers before that point being very worried," she said.
"We really had to step back and say: Maybe the Star Trek picture is wrong. That filled me with despair."
Prof Fischer said that sensitive telescopes like Kepler had ushered in an era of "amazing and impressive work".
"We're talking about a planet - and we can only see its star with a powerful telescope.
"And we can draw graphs and sketch its composition and have serious scientific discussions. This is incredible."
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Daily 2 Cents: Glowing UFO 'Taking Off' -- Revere / Adams Time Capsule Opened -- Unusual Metal Recovered from Ancient Greek Shipwreck
Daily 2 Cents: Glowing UFO 'Taking Off' -- Revere / Adams Time Capsule Opened -- Unusual Metal Recovered from Ancient Greek Shipwreck
Glowing UFO 'Taking Off'
This glowing light was seen 'taking off' from a mountain in Mexico.
First thoughts were that it might be a helicopter, or perhaps even a large drone but both of those seem a little odd considering it is quite literally, a ball of light.
Time Capsule Placed By Paul Revere And Samuel Adams Opened
BOSTON (AP)— Early residents of Boston valued a robust press as much as their history and currency if the contents of a time capsule dating back to the years just after the Revolutionary War are any guide.
When conservators at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston gingerly removed items from the box Tuesday, they found five tightly folded newspapers, a medal depicting George Washington, a silver plaque, two dozen coins, including one dating to 1655, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
While some of the coins appeared corroded, other items were in good condition and fingerprints could be seen on the silver plaque.
The capsule was embedded in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts Statehouse when construction began in 1795. It was placed there by Revolutionary era luminaries including Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, governor of Massachusetts at the time.
The contents were shifted to what was believed to be a copper box in 1855 and placed back into the foundation of Statehouse. The box remained there until it was rediscovered last year during an ongoing water filtration project at the building. The box was actually brass, according to conservators.
The oldest coin in the box was a 1652 "Pine Tree Schilling," made at a time when the colony didn't have royal authority to create its own currency. Pine trees were a valuable commodity at the time. The trees were used as ship masts.
Michael Comeau, executive director of the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum, said he has seen the coins offered for as much at $75,000, although given the context of this particular coin and the association with Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, the value would likely be much higher.
The newspapers were folded in such a way that the names of the publications weren't always visible, but one might have been a copy of the Boston Evening Traveller — a newspaper operation that was eventually absorbed into the current Boston Herald.
A portion of one of the papers that was visible showed a listing of the arrivals of whalers from various ports to Boston. Conservators didn't try to unfold the papers.
Pam Hatchfield, the head of objects conservation for the museum, removed each item using a slew of tools including her grandfather's dental tool. Hatchfield said the paper in the box was in "amazingly good condition."
Massachusetts state Secretary William Galvin said he expects the items will be on display at the museum for a period of time, but that eventually they will again be returned to the foundation to be discovered by a future generation of Bay State residents.
Galvin said he didn't know if modern items might be added to the foundation.
Comeau said the objects in the box are a bridge back in time.
Unusual Metal Recovered from Ancient Greek Shipwreck
GELA, SICILY—Thirty-nine ingots of cast metal have been recovered from a ship that sank 2,600 years ago off the southern coast of Sicily. “The wreck dates to the first half of the sixth century. It was found about 1,000 feet from Gela’s coast at a depth of ten feet,” Sicily’s superintendent of the Sea Office told Discovery News. The metal is being called orichalcum, a legendary metal that the fourth-century B.C. Greek philosopher Plato attributed to the mythical island of Atlantis. “Nothing similar has ever been found. We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects,” Tusa added. Analysis of the metal shows that it is an alloy made of copper, zinc, and small percentages of nickel, lead, and iron. The ingots were most likely destined for workshops in Gela. “It will provide us with precious information on Sicily’s most ancient economic history,” Tusa said of the shipwreck’s precious cargo. - Archaeology
In an unthinkable homicide case, a Florida teen and her younger sister have been charged in the shooting death of their older brother.
"Anytime you come on scene with something this horrific, where you have juveniles or children involved, it's pretty unsettling, even to seasoned law enforcement and deputies," Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter said at a Tuesday press conference.
The siblings, identified as Misty "Ariel" Renee Kornegay, 15, and Nicole Kornegay, 11, both face charges of premeditated murder. The girl's parents, Keith Kornegay, 37 and Misty Kornegay, 33, are facing charges of child neglect, police said.
According to Columbia County Sheriff's spokesman Murray Smith, the investigation into the case began Monday night. Police in White Springs, a small town 70 miles northwest of Jacksonville, learned that the girls had run away from home and were spotted at a nearby Dollar General store.
When approached by police, the sisters "informed [an officer] of a shooting at their residence," Smith said.
Sheriff's office deputies were dispatched to the Kornegay's White Springs home, whereupon they found the body of the girl's 16-year-old brother, Damien Kornegay, sprawled out on the living room floor. He had been shot one time and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
"Based on the preliminary investigation, it is believed that earlier in the evening the 15-year-old sister of the deceased retrieved a handgun from their parents' bedroom and used it to shoot her brother," said Smith.
Nicole Kornegay's role in the shooting remains unclear. Smith would only say that she "assisted her 15-year-old sister" in the commission of the crime.
The Huffington Post normally does not identify minors charged in connection with a crime, but both girls have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been released by the sheriff's office.
Bayoubuzz.com reported Ariel Kornegay told police that her brother beat her up the day of the shooting. Authorities have yet to officially comment on a possible motive.
According to News4jax.com, police had been called to the Kornegay residence in 2010, in regard to a report of "inappropriate behavior" that had allegedly involved Damien and Ariel Kornegay. Details of that alleged incident remain unclear and no charges were filed, the news station reported.
Keith and Misty Kornegay's 3-year-old child, who was found alone in the home upon the discovery of Damien's body, has been placed in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
The children's parents were reportedly out of town at the time of the shooting. The neglect charges were filed against them for "failing to properly supervise the children," Smith said.
Ariel and Nicole Kornegay are being held without bond in the Columbia County Detention Facility. Both girls are expected to make their first court appearance sometime Wednesday.
"This is a very unusual event for us here in the community -- very tragic," Sheriff Hunter said. - THP
Witness said: Incredible saucer-shape UFO recorded over my house last day. The grayish object seemed to be very large, with strange lights on it. I noticed a headlight on the front of the object. It was certainly spying the area. The UFO was also slowly descending, before disappearing behind a near cloud.
Type ➫ Metallic object Scale ➫ At least car-sized Duration ➫ 1 minute Color(s) ➫ Grey Light(s) ➫ Yes Speed ➫ Slow (approx. 5-10 km/h Filmed with ➫ Canon 700D + 50mm F/1.8
Video footage of a cloaked plane recored above San Diego on 3rd January 2015
Video footage of a cloaked plane recored above San Diego on 3rd January 2015
New amazing video footage of a strange cloaked plane recorded while recording chemtrails over San Diego on 3rd January 2015.
Witness said: As I was making a how to clip for filming the sun I swung over to film chemplanes and caught a strange plane. It almost looks cloaked. I also show what you need to film the sun with your camera – just some cheap solar filter paper.
Het nieuwe jaar begint weer met oranje bollen ( Video )
Ondanks dat de laatste jaren het aantal waarnemingen van oranje bollen in de lucht spectaculair is toegenomen, is er nog steeds geen harde verklaring voor.
Het heeft er alle schijn van dat dit soort waarnemingen ook in het nieuwe jaar in aantallen verder zullen toenemen, totdat….
Totdat het raadsel eindelijk wordt opgelost.
Broeksterwoude
Net na 12 uur s,nachts, om 00:15 tot 00:40 uur, 1 januari 2015 zag ik drie keer, een voor een een kleine oranje lichtbol vliegen in een rechte lijn.
Ze kwamen vanuit het zuiden. Het siervuurwerk was nog in volle gang. De objecten die ik gezien heb, waren duidelijk geen vuurpijlen. Want vuurwerk brandt niet constant.
De kleine ufo's maakten geen geluid. Het zien van deze ufo's maakten me blij!
De lezer heeft helaas geen opnames kunnen maken, maar het lijkt heel veel op een gebeurtenis die op exact dezelfde datum en tijd plaatsvond aan de andere kant van de wereld en wel in de buurt van Tokyo.
Ook daar enkele prachtige oranje bollen die zich door het luchtruim begeven.
Enkele dagen daarvoor doet zich ongeveer hetzelfde voor in de provincieGroningen:
Zaterdagavond, 27-12-2014, iets na 9 uur 's avonds stapte ik de achterdeur uit van de woning van mijn vriendin in Zuidlaren om iets uit het schuurtje te halen.
Vrijwel onmiddelijk zag ik een oranje/gele bol in de lucht, iets linksonder de gordel van Orion. (Oostelijke richting) Het hing daar minutenlang en was zeer helder oranje/geel verlicht. Gezien de tijd van het jaar dacht ik eerst aan siervuurwerk, maar na het een aantal minuten te hebben geobserveerd leek me dit niet logisch. Het hing doodstil terwijl het best hard waaide. Een Thaise wensballon leek me ook uitgesloten, die bewegen met de windrichting mee.
Omdat ik het koud kreeg ging ik snel even naar binnen om mijn jas te pakken. Dit duurde maar een paar seconden. Toen ik weer achter het huis stond was de bol verdwenen. Ik heb zoiets nooit eerder gezien en kan er geen logische verklaring voor bedenken.
En niet alleen in het uiterste noorden van het land, maar ook in het uiterste zuiden.
Kerkrade
Op eerste kerstdag rond half 10 zag ik vanuit mijn flat een oranje bol mijn kant opgaan en ik bleef ze volgen en ging over mijn flat heen dus ik gauw naar andere kant van mijn flat vanuit mijn slaapkamer en keek hoe de oranje bol zijn weg vervolgd maar opeens zet de bol zijn landing in en duidelijk schuin naar beneden naar het berenbos in en verdween toen dus ik heb tijdje gewacht maar niks meer gezien en zoals ik toen al zei in vorige verklaring zie ik ze vaker geen idee waarom. ik had geen erg in om foto,s te maken.
En dan ook weer aan de totaal andere kant van de wereld zoals de volgende opname laat zien die op oudejaarsdag is gemaakt boven Iquique in Chili.
Omdat 2015 alle kenmerken in zich heeft om een spectaculair jaar te worden, zal het wellicht ook het jaar worden waarin eindelijk dit "geheim" zal worden ontrafeld.
Noot: Namens de redactie bedanken we alle mensen die de moeite nemen hun waarnemingen met ons te delen.
VIDEO: Reddingsteams spotten 'vreemde wezens' bij Popocatépetl-vulkaan
VIDEO: Reddingsteams spotten ‘vreemde wezens’ bij Popocatépetl-vulkaan.
Bij de actieve Popocatépetl-vulkaan in Mexico zijn al vaak UFO’s waargenomen. Bergreddingsteams zeggen nu getuige te zijn geweest van vreemde wezens die met hoge snelheid tegen de berg opliepen.
De Popocatépetl, die zich in de staat Puebla bevindt, is met 5426 meter hoogte de op één na hoogste berg van Mexico. Eind 2012 gingen beelden rond van een sigaarvormige UFO die in de vulkaan leek te vliegen.
Tijdens een recente uitzending van het Mexicaanse tv-programma Tercer Milenio zei bergbeklimmer Guillermo Vidales dat bergreddingsteams op een hoogte van 4000 meter humanoïde wezens met een lengte van 2 tot 2,5 meter hebben gezien.
De wezens, die meerdere keren zijn gespot, waren slank en bruin van kleur en hadden geen uitrusting bij zich. Volgens Vidales waren ze buitengewoon snel en behendig. “We zagen één van deze individuen in vijf tot 10 minuten een stuk van een gletsjer beklimmen waar wij minimaal drie uur over doen,” zei hij. Vidales voegde toe dat op de berg grote voetafdrukken zijn gevonden die niet zijn gemaakt door mensen.
Het Mexicaanse rampenbestrijdingscentrum liet weten dat de vulkaan met Oud en Nieuw in minder dan 24 uur tijd liefst 28 keer is uitgebarsten.
Legendarisch metaal Atlantis gevonden in scheepswrak
Legendarisch metaal Atlantis gevonden in scheepswrak
Voor de kust van Sicilië is de legendarische metaallegering orichalcum gevonden. De legering, die is aangetroffen in een 2600 jaar oud scheepswrak, werd naar verluidt door de oude Grieken ontdekt in Atlantis.
Het schip is vermoedelijk in een storm terechtgekomen en zonk vlak bij de havenstad Gela. “Het wrak dateert van de eerste helft van de zesde eeuw voor Christus,” zei Sebastiano Tusa. “Het lag op een diepte van meer dan drie meter.”
“Er is nog nooit zoiets gevonden,” ging hij verder. “We kenden orichalcum alleen van oude geschriften en enkele ornamenten.” Orichalcum werd lange tijd gezien als een mysterieuze metaallegering. Volgens de oude Grieken is het ontdekt door Kadmos, een figuur uit de Griekse mythologie. In de 4e eeuw voor Christus verwees Plato in zijn dialoog Critias naar orichalcum.
Plato schreef dat orichalcum werd gewonnen op het mythische eiland Atlantis en gebruikt werd om de muren, zuilen en vloeren van de tempel van Poseidon te versieren. In het scheepswrak zijn 39 lingots gevonden die voor 75-80 procent uit koper, voor 15-20 procent uit zink en een voor een klein percentage uit nikkel, lood en ijzer bestaan.
De gepensioneerde hoogleraar Enrico Mattievich gelooft echter dat orichalcum werd vervaardigd door de Chavin-cultuur in Peru. In zijn boek ‘Journey to the Mythological Inferno’ schrijft hij dat de oude Grieken Amerika hebben ontdekt en in Peru een metaallegering hadden gevonden die bestond uit negen procent koper, 76 procent goud en 15 procent zilver.
Aliens living among humans on Earth has been a conspiracy that many believe for a long time. These aliens supposedly mix themselves with humans to carefully observe our daily lives. Valiant Thorr in the 50s is one of the favorite examples of it.
Thorr allegedly came from planet Venus and got a job at the Pentagon. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon reportedly met him claiming he can give ideas to help US people live much better lives. While his extraterrestrial origin is up for debate, the man’s name existed.
Phil Schneider, Area 51 engineer, claims he met Val. He described Val as a being with a thinking capacity that would be completely off the scale if measured. He estimated Val’s IQ to be approximately 1200. He also said that Val can speak 100 languages fluently, including alien languages.
However, another man claimed that he knows aliens never share their technology until mankind stop polluting planet Earth. In 2013, Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer stated in an interview with Russian TV that humans have a long history of UFOs and since the creation of the atomic bomb, there has been a lot more activity.
He explained that aliens are very concerned about the use of the atomic bomb again because the activity on Earth also affects the entire cosmos. Hellyer has said that at least four known extraterrestrial species have been visiting Earth for the hundreds of decades.
Hellyer’s credibility is very much impressive. He was the Defence Minister during the Cold War. He combined the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy into the Canadian Forces. He is also the member of the Privy Council, the longest serving current member, ahead of Prince Phillip.
UFO Invisible To The Naked Eye But Viewable In Cam Screen
UFO Invisible To The Naked Eye But Viewable In Cam Screen
Saturn-like UFO was caught on the camera of a Colorado witness at Fairplay. Interestingly, the UFO was invisible to the naked eye, according to the MUFON report, Case 62246. The activity happened around 1:30 pm on 14th of December 2014 along Highway 285 while the reporting witness and his girlfriend were driving.
Amazed with the beautiful scenery of surrounding area, she decided to snap some photos, the reporting witness said. All of a sudden, she saw an object on the camera’s screen and then began to find it without using the phone.
She asked her fiancée if he could see anything. She later realized that the object could only be seen through the camera screen on the phone. The woman then took two pictures very quickly.
Neither of them did see anything only with their naked eyes, but in the photo it seems as if the mysterious object was moving very fast. The two witnesses were going approximately 65 mph, and the photos were shot only a few seconds apart, yet the unknown aerial object seems to have travelled drastically.
According to the reporting witness, they can’t identify it and are hoping that someone else can give them an idea. Fairplay has 679 population, the most populous municipality in Park County, Colorado.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
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