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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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
13-01-2015
UFO sighting above Buckeye, Arizona on 8th January 2015
UFO sighting above Buckeye, Arizona on 8th January 2015
Interesting video footage of two bright UFO lights recorded above Buckeye, Arizona on 8th January 2015.
Witness said: When driving east on the 1-10 freeway around 8:10pm on 1/8/15 I witnessed 3 bright orange orbs hovering over the mountains behind buckeye toward I-8 freeway the 3 orbs moved toward each other the back into position then disappeared. Moments later 2 bright Orbs appeared in the same spot and I was able to pull my vehicle over and record this footage from my cell phone. I went all the way home which is twenty minutes away got my girlfriend to return to the spot and on my back they disappeared. That means they were there for more than 30 minutes so there defiantly not flares. Sorry for the horrible footage the orbs are allot bigger in real life. So i take back every bad thing i said about all the crappy ufo videos out there cell phones suck for this kind of thing!
Source:Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. It is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, where ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture. This was established around the 6th century BC in a town called Nabataea. The tombs are up high in the mountain and to be reached by stairs. One entombed there was believed to be Malchus II who died in 70 AD. It would appear that the Nabateaens had arrived and utilized a sophisticated town that was built in the 6th century BC.
The city has an amazingly sophisticated water system with clay pipes and hundreds of underground cisterns.
There are stone obelisks and “block gods” around the entire area in niches all over including this one with three “block gods.”
This block god (above) has a crescent that pre-dates Islam.
Source: In early Nabataean history, the Nabataeans had gods with Arabic names. Some of these were: (1) Al Qaum – the warrior god who guards the caravans, (2) Al Kutbay – the god of learning, commerce, writing, and divination (3) Allat – the goddess of spring and fertility (4) Al Uzza – the powerful and (5) Manawat – the god of destiny or fate. It is interesting to note that American Native Cultures like Incas, Aztecs and Mayans had similar gods of different industries, as well as the Norse, and the Greeks, whom some researchers think the Nabataeans got their concepts from, though we still do not know who these people were. Stone gods: In the Greco-Roman world as well as the Parthian East, people have always accorded the gods with human form. Those of us who studied Greek mythology in school should know a little of how human the gods seemed to be. The Nabataeans on the other hand represented their gods in the form of stelae. These stelae could take the form of rocks set upon end, blocks, or shapes carved into a stone wall, or elaborately carved square djin blocks set up at the entrance to their cities.
(tall doorway, hmm?)
The City was aligned with the sun.
Source: Built between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, Mada’in Saleh is an architectural marvel and a testimony to the skill and craftsmanship of the Nabataean who, 2,000 years ago, carved more than 131 tombs into solid rock, complete with decoration, inscriptions, and water wells. The enigmatic Nabataeans were originally a nomadic tribe, but about 2,500 years ago, Nabataean settlements began to flourish. As well as their agricultural activities, they developed political systems, arts, engineering, stonemasonry, and demonstrated astonishing hydraulic expertise, including the construction of wells, cisterns, and aqueducts. These innovations stored water for prolonged periods of drought, and enabled them to prosper. They expanded their trading routes, creating more than 2,000 sites in total in the areas that today are Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Archaeologists still try to unravel the history of the Nabataeans, which in large remains unknown.
Is it just me, or does it seem rather ridiculous that as early as 6th Century BC a group of nomads suddenly built a city in the mountain, carved into rock, of exquisite craftsmanship, cisterns, clay pipes for carrying water and more – yet had no past experience in any of this as nomads? It sounds to me like these folks moved into a city that had been evacuated or brought in as potential slaves who eventually took it over.
ELK ALIEN ABDUCTION WITNESS BY MANY IN WASHINGTON FEBURARY 25, 1999 …….. FOREST OF WASHINGTON STATE
On Thursday, February 25, 1999, at just a few minutes before noon, three forestry workers, who were planting seedling trees in the mountains of Washington State, witnessed a small, disc-shaped object slowly drift over a nearby ridge to their south, and descend into the valley to the north of their position. The object descended silently with what seemed to the witnesses a purposeful manner, exhibiting a slight “wobble” to its flight. The three workers at first thought the object was some kind of parachute that was drifting and descending, but they quickly realized that their initial impression was not correct. Hence, they shouted to their eleven coworkers nearby, who were working on the north-facing hillside, and all fourteen members of the work crew watched the object for an estimated 3-5 minutes. Within seconds of their first observation of the object, the witnesses became aware that the object was travelling generally in the direction of a herd of elk that they had been watching all morning. They continued to watch as the object proceeded toward the herd until it succeeded in getting quite close to the animals. The animals apparently remained unaware of the object’s presence until it was within a very short distance of the herd. Suddenly, the animals bolted, most of the them running up the slope to their east. However, one adult animal was seen by the witnesses to separate itself from the herd and run or trot to generally to the north, perhaps along a logging road The witnesses report that at this point, the object quickly moved directly above the lone elk and seemed to lift it off the ground, although no visible means of support of the animal was evident to the observers. The witnesses added that shortly after lifting the elk off the ground, the object seemed to begin to “wobble” to a more pronounced degree than it had exhibited earlier. In addition, as the object appeared to increase its altitude, the elk, which was suspended upright below the disc, rotated slowly beneath it and appeared to be getting closer to the ventral surface of the disc. They also commented that the object seemed to increase in size slightly after it had picked up the animal. With the elk suspended below it, the object began to ascend slowly up a clear-cut slope to the east. However, the witnesses watched it apparently brush the tops of nearby trees to the east, at which point it reversed its course and proceeded to the west. It executed a 360-degree turn to the left and may have gained some slight altitude in the process, the witnesses thought. After the object had completed its turn and was once again proceeding in a generally easterly direction, it began ascending very quickly at what seemed to the witnesses to be a rather steep angle. It continued to ascend, and simply disappeared from sight of the witnesses. The witnesses stated that once the object had started to ascend and had climbed to an altitude above their vantage point, they no longer could see the animal suspended below the craft. Their presumption was that the animal had somehow been taken into the craft, although the witnesses could discern no “door,” or any kind of aperture through which the animal might have been conveyed into the craft. The witnesses also stated that following the incident, the herd of elk remained in the same general area, although remained more closely huddled to one another than had been the case earlier in the morning. The workers added that they, too, had remained closer to one another until their departure from the area at the end of the work day.
Finally, decades after the United States Air Force closed their official investigations into the UFO phenomenon, the files are online in their entirety for free.
Project Blue Book is regarded as the third UFO investigation project by the USAF. The first was Project Sign, which began in 1947, then Grudge, which ran from 1949 to 1951, and the final project, Blue Book, ran from 1951 to 1969. The files surrounding the investigation of the sightings are all included in the Project Blue Book files. That is, unless, as some suggest, there are secret investigations that the public still does not have access to.
The United States National Archives Building in Washington D.C. (Credit: The United States National Archives)
Either way, although these files have all been declassified, since the close of Project Blue Book, it has taken a trip to the National Archives to get full access to them. Some websites have put up portions of the files, and one website, Fold3, finally posted all of them a few years ago. However, visitors could just view them and had to pay a membership fee to download them.
Now researchers and UFO enthusiasts, including myself, can save some money. The files have been placed online by John Greenewald who runs a website called The Black Vault. Greenewald has been submitting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests since he was a teenager to get the government to share what it knows about UFOs and other clandestine matters.
He has posted these files online, and over the years has amassed the largest online repository of such materials. He has over one million pages hosted there. Now that he has finally finished the daunting task of making the Blue Book files available, he know has over 130,000 more.
The staff of Project Blue Book. Sitting in the center is Hector Quintanilla, the last chief officer of Project Blue Book.
I interviewed Greenewald to ask him some of his thoughts about posting the Blue Book files.
Why did you decide to post the files?
Greenewald: Plain and simple, they are UFOlogical history. There are a few sources for these records out there, some of which are incomplete, while others are harder to navigate or are not geared towards the actual researcher. So, I wanted to compile these in a straight forward, easily searchable database, and that in itself is unlike what is out there and makes this new site powered by The Black Vault a bit unique.
Why do you think these files are important after all of these years?
Greenewald: Project Blue Book (along with Sign and Grudge) holds a special place in UFO history. Whether or not it TRULY investigated UFO sightings in the sense we wanted it to, it doesn’t matter. It is a project that lasted for over 20 years, and they investigated thousands of cases. Sure, many of them they claimed were all explanatory, but you still have a few gems that remain a mystery. But further, you can use this data to compare and contrast to what it is today and start drawing conclusions, or rather, maybe pose new questions that investigators haven’t thought of yet.
For years, this data sat on microfilm in the National Archives. Now with the power of the internet, they were brought online, but in ways that were not easily used, incomplete, or plain and simple, didn’t get the exposure it deserved. I hope this new resource changes that, spotlights this era in UFO history, and offers a research point that those in the coming years of UFO investigation can learn from, utilize, and reference.
Why have they not been available online for free until now?
Greenewald: To convert and archive 130,000 pages is no easy task. There are some sites that tried to create the archive… but really didn’t gear it towards the researcher or the investigator. Some charge for the information (if it’s even complete), others make it hard to download or read, and others are just incomplete.
I tried with this new site to ensure that everyone could use it and learn from it. When I started The Black Vault when I was 15 years old, I was stunned by the lack of information on the internet. Now, nearly 2 decades later, many sites have caught on and archiving the data – but they want to charge you for it. Almost 20 years later, and roughly 1.5 million pages that are given away for free, I am happy to say I have kept the promise I made to myself to never charge anyone to learn.
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I know for myself, and for other researchers and journalists, the posting of these files will make it much easier to explore some of the hidden gems in the files. There are hundreds of files that the USAF regarded as genuine “unknowns.” The exact number is somewhat murky.
The USAF claims that Blue Book included 12,618 sightings reports, 701 of which remained “unidentified.” This would account for about 5.5% of the files. However, official lists of these “unidentified” cases only include 560 or so cases. Other researchers have gone through the files and found there are actually more like 14,000 cases, with about 1600 “unknowns.”
The National Archive’s page on UFOs. (Credit: Archives.gov)
As the debate over how many USAF UFO investigation cases were truly never explained continues, due to Greenewald’s work, the citizen researcher now has the ability to peruse the files without having to travel or subscribe to a membership.
You can find the Project Blue Book cases all at this link at TheBlackVault.com.
BI Answers: How many planets in the universe have intelligent alien life?
More important than finding life on another planet would be communicating with those life forms. Do aliens engage in practices like philosophy, religion, mathematics, medicine, and war? The only way to truly find out is to communicate with them.
Until the 1960s, however, no one had even thought about how many intelligent civilization might be out there. It took the innovative mind of Frank Drake, an astronomer and early pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial life, to find a way to answer this question. His simple, yet comprehensive, equation that he developed in 1961 is named the Drake Equation in his honor.
The Drake Equation is intended to help clarify the kinds of things we would need to know to figure out how many intelligent civilizations like ours exist in our galaxy. It estimates the number of intelligent civilizations that we could detect or communicate with in our galaxy based on seven parameters.
Drake's equation looks like this: N=R*fpneflfifcL. That's a big pile of symbols, but when you break it down into individual components, it's more clear and comprehensible:
R*: How fast stars form in our galaxy.
fp: The percentage of stars that have planets.
ne: The number of earthlike planets around each star that has planets.
fl: The percentage of earthlike planets that develop life.
fi: The percentage of planets with life that develop intelligent life.
fc: The percentage of intelligent species that go on to create technology that could be detected by an outside civilization like ours. One example of this is radio signals.
L: The average number of years the advanced civilizations release detectable signals.
When you multiply the first three numbers (R*fpne) together, you get the rate at which earthlike planets are formed in our galaxy. The next three components (flfifc) tell us how likely it is that an advanced civilization like humans would evolve on an earthlike planet.
Raphael Perrino on FlickrDr. Frank Drake speaking at a gala celebration, honoring the life and work of Dr. Jill Tarter
Multiply those values with the length of time that advanced civilizations communicate and voila: you have calculated the overall number of civilizations around us today.
Unfortunately, exact values for each of these components, especially the last four that involve life and intelligent civilizations, are not known. We can only make logical guesstimates.
While planet detection projects like the Kepler space telescope have given us a better understanding of the number of planets in our galaxy, we know very little about the origins of life and the evolution of intelligent life, since we only have a single example. And this plague of not knowing is a big problem when it comes to using the Drake Equation.
This is because putting different values into the equation can lead to dramatically different results.
If we consider "optimistic" values, in which it's fairly common for life to arise and somewhat similar to those used by Drake and his associates at the conference where the equation was first described, we would expect a huge number of civilizations in our galaxy.
The total number of civilizations that we calculate relies very heavily on our assumptions. Our optimistic estimates suggest a fairly crowded galaxy, with around 140,000 species like us living in the Milky Way. Turn the inputs down a couple orders of magnitude, as we do in our pessimistic assumptions, and life is so rare that only around 1% of galaxies like our own will be likely to host even one complex civilization.
The rate of star formation in our galaxy, at about seven per year, was estimated as a result of a NASA and ESA study based on data from the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite. The other values are based on either pessimistic or optimistic assumptions about life in the universe.
The Kepler mission and other planet searches have made it pretty clear that planets themselves are common in our galaxy. There are even 47 exoplanets that have been dubbed potentially habitable due to their similarity to Earth.
Furthermore, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics just announced that Kepler had found eight new planets that were similar in size to Earth and were orbiting in a region where the planets' temperatures would allow them to harbor liquid water — a key ingredient for life on Earth and potentially other planets, too.
And Kepler only looks at a small portion of our galaxy:
The biggest differences between being alone in our galaxy and a busy network of alien neighbors come from the values we know the least about: the likelihood of life evolving on a planet, the likelihood of intelligent life, the likelihood of intelligent life developing advanced technology, like radio broadcasts and telescopes, that make communication possible, and the average lifespan of technological civilizations.
NASA/Ames/JPL-CaltechArtist's rendering of Kepler-10c, one of the "Super-Earth" planets discovered by the Kepler mission
Nailing down some of these values is a hot area of research. Another group of scientists recently announced that they have found a way to determine if planets in other solar systems are rocky, like Earth, or gaseous, like Jupiter.
"To find a truly Earth-like world, we should focus on planets less than 1.6 times the size of Earth, because those are the rocky worlds," said Courtney Dressing of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in a statement. Dressing is lead author of a paper detailing her team's results that has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
While most of the specific values in the Drake Equation remain unknown to us, Frank Drake's goal back in 1961 was to clarify what we should be looking for. As we continue looking deeper into the cosmos, and more closely at our sun's neighborhood, Drake's elegant and simple summary of the factors that determine how common life is in the Universe continues to be a useful guide in our search for another Earth and another intelligent civilization.
This post is part of a continuing series that answers all of your "why" questions related to science. Have your own question? Email science@businessinsider.com with the subject line "Q&A"; tweet your question to @BI_Science; or post to our Facebook page.
Mijn echtgenote is bezig in de keuken , het is open weer ,krijgt plotseling door het venster naar buiten kijkend de streeppatronen in het zicht zoals weergegeven in bijkomende foto´s . Ze verwittigt me al zeggend dat ze dit zeer abnormaal vindt en het niet kan verklaren als de strepen achterlaten door vliegtuigen op grote hoogte . De strepen staan immers loodrecht op mekaar en zoveel op zo een korte tijd vindt ze ook niet juist.De strepen verwijden zich tergend langzaam en lossen niet op zoals de vliegtuiguitlaatgassen. Ikzelf vond ze ook vreemd genoeg om ze te fotograferen. Na verloop van een paar uur was de hemel compleet dicht en van de heldere lucht niets meer te bespeuren.
Om de zaak noch mysterieuzer te maken werd in het avond nieuws meedegedeeld dt de spoedafdelingen van de ziekenhuizen overstelpt werden met personen met ademhalingsproblemen! Toeval?
De literatuur in de VS staat vol van dergelijke gevallen na optreden van Chemtrails!
Het is daar een ware Hetze over het besproeien van bewoonde gebieden door onbekenden
De luchtmacht ontkent in alle toonaarde en de ware daders hulden zich in absoluut stilzwijgen
Ik meen dit te moeten melden zeker omdat we er allen vast van overtuigd zijn dat dit bij ons niet gebeurt
Groeten
Jan
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NASA confirms UFO on Mars
NASA confirms UFO on Mars
Confirmed Unknown object in the sky of Mars, NASA statement...
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Grote cirkel gespot op Antarctica: is dit een meteorietinslag? - HLN.be
Grote cirkel gespot op Antarctica: is dit een meteorietinslag? - HLN.be
WetenschapWetenschappers zijn op de Zuidpool op een 2 kilometer brede cirkel gestoten. Mogelijk gaat het om een krater van een meteoriet, die in 2004 op Antarctica landde.
De cirkelvormige structuur bevindt zich dichtbij de Belgische Prinses Elisabethbasis op Antarctica en werd ontdekt door Duitse onderzoekers die momenteel in de basis verblijven. De wetenschappers waren bezig met een geologisch onderzoek vanuit de lucht, toen ze de cirkel zagen op het Koning Boudewijn-ijsplateau.
De onderzoekers doken in de wetenschappelijke literatuur over het continent. Twee studies doen vermoeden dat de cirkel het gevolg is van een meteorietinslag in 2004. Amerikaanse en Canadese wetenschappers concludeerden op basis van opnames van infrasoon geluid dat er dat jaar een vrij groot object naar beneden moet zijn gekomen. Australische onderzoekers vonden in dezelfde periode hoog in de atmosfeer een spoor van stof, dat wellicht veroorzaakt werd door een meteoor.
Verder onderzoek moet nu meer duidelijkheid brengen. De Duitse wetenschappers hebben na de ontdekking nog meer foto's en video's gemaakt en plannen binnenkort ook een onderzoek op het terrein.
Stories about Black Eyed Kids began to appear in 1988, starting with journalist Brian Bethel reporting of a meeting with two unusually confident and eloquent children who attempted to talk him into giving them a ride in his car. In his story Brethel said that he almost opened the door and let the children in until he noticed that their eyes were completely black, with no iris or pupil. As he says, as soon as children realized he sees something odd, they became angry and insistent, and he drove away quickly. In his posting he implies that this children may have been using some mind control method to induce him to open the door.
Since this post, there have been other reports of similar experiences in other parts of the country. These accounts are similar to Bethel’s in that they generally involve the children’s request for the person to let them inside their car or house, frequently using an excuse such as “I need to get home to my mother,” or something that implies the child is in need.
If we are to trow away at least 70% of the stories found online about these approaches and take that 30% are some of the truth how can we explain it? There are lot of people who would for their own entertainment or write a story of this kind just to make fun of people who are into paranormal stuff. If we are to look logically into these stories about meetings with these children, we get to learn that all of them were asking to be let in, saying that they can’t get in until they are invited. It seems like, all of the people who are reporting about this unusual encounter, have never let the child or children in because of the fear. There for we don’t know what happens if you invite this kind of a child into your home or car. Going down the logical path, you all know that contact lenses of these kind can be found easily, this is not a mission impossible. But, still, stay logic with me, why would a child do something like this? For a laugh? Still this doesn’t sound right to me.
The most bizarre contradiction to the story is the fact that Black Eyed Kids are said to give off a frightening vibe. Those that meet them claim to feel threatened, panicked and even disoriented. Some believe that this could be a result of their black eyes, maybe some sort of hypnotic suggestion used as an attempt to convince the person to let them inside their house or vehicle.
Their persistence to be invited in is a scary one. We must remember that the idea of an evil presence needing some sort of invitation before entering a house (or even a human being) is a longstanding belief in many religions. Choosing a form of a child is a clever one. Because, people would rather say yes to a needy child coming up in the middle of the night on the doorstep than to a man or women.
What these children could be? Vampires, human/alien hybrids, lost souls, demons in disguise? None of these are something you can point a finger on it. Can this be a hoax? Did we get any conclusion? Sadly, no, but we’ll look into this and if you had an encounter with these children let as know…
Heeft NASA het bewijs van leven op Mars gevonden? - HLN.be
Heeft NASA het bewijs van leven op Mars gevonden? - HLN.be
Bron: Huffington Post/Belga
De wetenschap heeft zopas een belangrijke stap gezet in de zoektocht naar leven op andere planeten. Ruimterobot Curiosity, eigendom van NASA, heeft een piek in de uitstoot van methaan op Mars gemeten, wat wijst op de aanwezigheid van levende organismen. Ook werd voor het eerst definitief bewijs van organische moleculen gevonden.
Dat er op Mars een kleine hoeveelheid methaan aanwezig is, was al bekend. Het ging echter over zo'n kleine gehaltes dat dat niet echt als een aanwijzing voor leven werd beschouwd. De wetenschappers van NASA die zich met Curiosity bezighouden meldden vandaag echter dat de dure robot - goed voor zo'n 2,5 miljard dollar - een piek kon opmeten.
De wetenschappers hebben geen enkel idee waar het methaan vandaan komt, maar het zou wel eens kunnen wijzen op het bestaan van levende organismen op de rode planeet. De meest logische verklaring voor de aanwezigheid van methaan is immers dat het werd aangemaakt door bacteriën.
Olievelden of koeien Op onze planeet komt CH4 in de natuur voor in samenhang met aardolie. Het wordt ook aangemaakt door bacteriën in de voormagen van runderen. Het idee dat er olievelden of koeien op Mars voorkomen, lijkt evenwel vergezocht.
De wetenschappers baseren zich voor hun vaststelling dat methaan op regelmatige basis op de Rode Planeet wordt uitgestoten, op meer dan twintig maanden van informatieverwerking. Curiosity stelde het methaan vast in de krater van Gale, waar de jeep in augustus 2012 plaats vatte.
Chemicaliën De NASA meldde ook dat Curiosity verschillende Martiaanse chemicaliën heeft ontdekt in het poeder dat de robot uitboorde uit de Cumberland-rots. Het gaat om de eerste definitieve ontdekking van organische elementen in het Marsoppervlak. Het is wel niet duidelijk of die organismen zich op Mars zelf hebben gevormd of er gekomen zijn door een meteorietinslag.
Organische moleculen zijn geen bewijs van leven op Mars. Maar ze zijn op aarde wel de bouwstenen van alle leven en hun aanwezigheid wordt dan ook algemeen beschouwd als een absolute voorwaarde voor leven op Mars.
Leven op MarsErg spectaculair ziet deze foto er niet uit - meer dan een rots met wat stof erop is niet te zien. Maar na een grondige studie van deze en andere foto's van het oppervlak van Mars beweert een geobiologe nu dat deze kenmerken slechts van één bron kunnen komen: microben. Bewijs dat er ooit leven was op Mars, is dit niet. Maar het is in ieder geval een intrigerende hypothese, die heel wat wetenschappers in de ban houdt.
Nora Noffke van de Old Dominion University in Virginia bestudeerde foto's die de Marsjeep Curiosity nam van de rotsformatie in Yellowknife Bay, waar zich ooit Gillespie Lake moet bevonden hebben. Vanuit de veronderstelling dat hier vroeger water was, ging Noffke op zoek naar sporen van afzettingsgesteenten die ontstaan door microbieel leven.
Eencellige organismen, of microben, kunnen een biofilm vormen. Dat is een verzameling van microben die aan een oppervlak blijft kleven door het slijm dat ze produceren. Noffke noemt het een 'microbieel matje'.
De geologische lagen die op die manier ontstaan, komen op de aarde in diverse omgevingen voor: in lagunes, wadden, meren en op de oevers van rivieren. Miljarden jaren geleden raakten deze bacteriën verstrikt in ondiepe wateren. Hun fossiele overblijfselen zijn vandaag nog steeds identificeerbaar.
Indien Mars ooit microbieel leven in een vroeg stadium huisvestte, zag dat er wellicht net zo uit als microben in een vroeg stadium op aarde, zo redeneerde Noffke. In een paper in het vakblad Astrobiology analyseert ze meer dan tien foto's die Curiosity maakte van het Marsoppervlak in Gillespie Lake, een opgedroogde meerbedding die ongeveer 3,7 miljard jaar geleden met water gevuld was. De biologe vergeleek de sedimenten met 3,48 miljard jaar oude microbenafzettingen die ze zelf ontdekt heeft in Australië - en vond treffende gelijkenissen. Kenmerken die overeenkwamen, waren geologische overblijfselen als scheuren, schilfers, putten en bogen.
"Grote bijdrage"
Noffke geeft toe dat dit geen bewijs is voor leven op Mars, en zegt dat het mogelijk is dat de structuren van het Marsoppervlak ontstaan zijn door niet-biologische factoren, zoals winden of neervallende kiezels. Maar, zo stelt ze, gezien de vele gelijkenissen zou dat een buitengewone toevalstreffer zijn.
Collega's zijn lovend over haar onderzoek. "Het feit dat ze op deze structuren gewezen heeft, is een grote bijdrage voor de wetenschap", zegt geomicrobiologe Penelope Boston aan Astrobiology Magazine. "Samen met recente verslagen van methaan op Mars, voegen haar bevindingen een intrigerend stukje toe aan de puzzel."
In May of 2013 the Paradigm Research Group held a five day hearing at the National Press Club in Washington DC just blocks from the White House. Six former members of Congress heard over thirty hours of testimony from over forty witnesses on the issue of Extraterrestrial Related Phenomena. This included military personal who witnessed America’s Minute Men Missiles disabled while glowing red balls floated just outside the gates, government officials such as former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer, and Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell to name just a few.
It is now time to call for the actual Congress of the United States to hear the testimony of these witness and many more we have ready and willing to testify when granted Congressional Immunity. The “Disclosure Petition VII – Congressional Hearings” is now up on the White House website and ready for signatures.
If 100,000 signatures are obtained by February 6, the President will be required to respond and the petition will remain on the White House website for the remainder of the President’s term in office.
Any citizen from any nation can register and sign here: wh.gov/igRrq
The more signatures, the more media attention!
Disclosure is in the hands of We The People!
Video: Stephen Bassett is a leading advocate for ending the 60-year, government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is a political activist, lobbyist, commentator, columnist and conference producer. He is the founder of the Paradigm Research Group, the Executive Director of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC), the creator of the Paradigm Clock and the executive producer of the X-Conference. Since 1996 Bassett has assisted many organizations and initiatives making the case for 1) an end to the government’s truth embargo, and 2) open congressional hearings to take the testimony of former military and agency employees witness to extraterrestrial-related events and evidence. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television talk shows and in numerous documentaries delivering the message to millions of people of the likelihood and implications of “Disclosure” – the formal acknowledgement of the ET presence by the governments of the world.
Video: Chief Legal Council Daniel Sheehan on the Nature of Government Secrecy.
Video: Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer: Aliens could share more technology with us…
Did Curiosity photograph microbial remains on Mars?
Did Curiosity photograph microbial remains on Mars?
(Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)
A scientist believes that formations in Martian rocks may have been created by microorganisms.
Dr. Nora Noffke, a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Virginia, studied images photographed by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. These particular photos were taken as Curiosity made its way through a dry lakebed in Yellowknife Bay. She noticed several similarities between Martian sedimentary structures and and microbial structures on Earth, leading her to believe that the structures might be evidence of ancient extraterrestrial life.
“In one image, I saw something that looked very familiar,” Noffke explains to Astrobiology Magazine. “So I took a closer look, meaning I spent several weeks investigating certain images centimeter by centimeter, drawing sketches, and comparing them to data from terrestrial structures. And I’ve worked on these for 20 years, so I knew what to look for.”
Comparison between structures on Mars and a modern microbial mat on Earth. (Credit: Nora Noffke/Astrobiology)
Based on her decades of experience, Noffke thinks there is a really good possibility that these Martian sedimentary structures are consistent with biological origin. But Curiosity mission project scientist Ashwin Vasavada disagrees. “We really didn’t see anything that can’t be explained by natural processes of transporting that sand in water, and the nature of the rocks suggested that it was just a fluvial sandstone,” Vesavada explains to Space.com.
Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Astrobiology Magazine points out that, “although Noffke makes a tantalizing case for possible signs of ancient life on Mars, her report is not a definitive proof that these structures were shaped by biology. Getting such confirmation would involve returning rock samples to Earth and conducting additional microscopic analyses, a mission that isn’t scheduled anytime in the near future.”
And Noffke agrees. “All I can say is, here’s my hypothesis and here’s all the evidence that I have,” she states. But she firmly believes that “this evidence is a lot.”
The paper detailing Nofke’s research was published in the journal Astrobiology.
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UFO over Popocatepetl Volcano what are monitoring and guarding, January 2015, UFO Sighting News.
UFO over Popocatepetl Volcano what are monitoring and guarding, January 2015, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Jan 1, 2015
Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Huejotzingo,Puebla, Mexico
Eyewitness states:
The UFO was recorded above the crater of the volcano Popocatepetl. This recording was done on January 1, 2015, and a witness, my niece Natally. Near the volcano were some moving objects or at least above the crater. I was walking in Huejotzingo and could not miss the opportunity to see the volcano lagoon. This is video is phenomenal, really. Location Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico, January 1, 2015.
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Amazing UFO sighting over Charleroi Belgium on 2nd January 2015
Amazing UFO sighting over Charleroi Belgium on 2nd January 2015
An amazing phenomenon occurred in the sky over Huancavelica in Peru on January 10, 2015.
The footage shows a bright colorful object which energy flows in a spherical core in all directions. Two distinct rays are projected in opposite directions just as a neutron star or pulsar.
Is something burning up in the atmosphere are does this phenomenon suggest that it is a UFO in a high-energy state, or as UFOVNI suggest this UFO-like object became visible due to a “Pauli Effect”.
The Pauli effect is a term referring to the apparently mysterious, anecdotal failure of technical equipment.
Other possibilities:
It is a pyrotechnical object.
Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound.
Pyrotechnics include not only the manufacture of fireworks and flares but items such as safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and fasteners.
It is a Plasmoid object.
A plasmoid is a coherent structure of plasma and magnetic fields. Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as ball lightning, magnetic bubbles in the magnetosphere and objects in cometary tails.
The energy jets from this object can be explained by the plasmoid phenomenon (plasma-magnetic entity). This phenomenon can fully explain the mechanisms that trigger and suppress jet formation. As a high-density energy storage phenomenon, the plasmoid would produce well-collimated jets after a time as determined by the process of particle collisions.
Below the interesting video of this strange and unexplained phenomenon.
A high resolution NASA photo taken by the crew of spacecraft Gemini 12 shows two glowing objects in the background.
Streetcap1 who discovered the two objects: “Is it possible that these brightly colored objects came to observe man’s attempts to conquer space travel? Or are they secret satellites”?
“But in the days there were not many satellites launched c.1966 (From 1957 to 1966 just only 16 satellites).”
“Either way they are a long way off and I would presume quite large.”
The photo link is under the video – be aware it is a large download depending on your broadband speed.
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