This Prehistoric Underground Temple Hides The Unexplained Mystery Of Elongated Skulls

April 15, 2015 - The only known prehistoric underground temple worldwide is located in Malta. Dating back to 5.000 B.C, “Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni” or simply “Hypogeum”, from the Greek word hypo (under) and gaia (mother earth) is an underground construction, which consists of interconnecting chambers in three levels. 

Hypogeum, carved into 2.000 tons of stone, was discovered in 1902 by construction workers while working on the foundations of a building. The first excavator of this underground construction was Fr Emmanuel Magri. 

He worked there between 1904 and 1906, but his notes were lost after his death in Tunisia. Magri was succeeded by Sir Themistocles Zammit until 1911. Archaeologists believe Hypogeum was used until 2500 B.C.

Although its original purpose is unknown, they are sure that it was used as a burial place. Further excavation of Hypogeum revealed the first and oldest level, which consists of a large hollow with burial chambers on its sides. Its main entrance used to be on the surface.

A doorway leads to the second level, filled with impressive carved stones in different shapes, pentagons and floral patterns in red ochre. 

The deepest level consists of the “Main Room” and other rooms: the “Decorated room”(a richly decorated chamber), the “Snake Pit”(used for either keeping snakes or collecting alms), the “Holy of Holies”, and the “Oracle Room”. Researchers have made extensive studies on the acoustic properties of the last chamber. 

Any sound made in this room is heard all throughout Hypogeum and can affect human emotions. But there is a lot more in this superb prehistoric structure.

When it was discovered, more than 7.000 skeletons were found in the chambers near the entrance. The photos of Dr Anton Mifsud and his colleague Dr Charles Savona Ventura testify their existence. 

Further examination of the skulls showed that, due to peculiar abnormalities, they were elongated, and one lacked the Fossa median.

There was also found a small statue of a sleeping goddess, with a snake inscription on it.


Research suggests that these skulls belonged to people with a natural genetic tendency for elongated skulls. 

Until 1985, a number of these strange, lengthened skulls were exposed in the Archaeological Museum in Valletta. Today, there are only 7 skulls. The rest of them have disappeared, along with the 7.000 from Hypogeum and haven’t been recovered since then. Hypogeum first opened to visitors in 1908. 

Since then, hundreds of people keep visiting it every year. Although only small groups of visitors are allowed in it, in order to maintain temperature and humidity at required levels, booking a Hypogeum tour and seeing the past through the eyes of our ancestors looks like an overwhelming experience. 

This place is full of inexplicable mysteries that remain unsolved, which makes it even more fascinating and attractive to the visitors.


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16-04-2015 om 00:38 geschreven door peter  

The Forbidden History Of Ancient China: Aryan Mummies And Hundreds Of Pyramids

• April 15, 2015 - [Hitler regarded individuals who were 6ft. 6in. and taller as being closest genetic relatives of the original proto-Aryan tribes from central Asia from which the Caucasian people and civilizations are said to have descended.
  
  Recent discoveries of hundreds of ancient mummies in Asia are forcing a re-examination of old Chinese books that describe as being of great height, with deep-set blue eyes, long noses, full beards, and red or blonde hair.
  
  The discoveries of the giant 4,000-year-old “Beauty of Loulan” and (six-foot, six-inch) “Charchan Man” support the legends about these mythical ancient Aryans.] 
  
  After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin thousands of years before East Asian people arrived.
  
  The research, which the Chinese government has appeared to have delayed making public out of concerns of fueling Uighur Muslim separatism in its western-most Xinjiang region, is based on a cache of ancient dried-out corpses that have been found around the Tarim Basin in recent decades.
  
  
  
  

“It is unfortunate that the issue has been so politicized because it has created a lot of difficulties,” Victor Mair, a specialist in the ancient corpses and co-author of “Mummies of the Tarim Basin”, told AFP. “It would be better for everyone to approach this from a purely scientific and historical perspective.”

The discoveries in the 1980s of the undisturbed 4,000-year-old “Beauty of Loulan” and the younger 3,000-year-old body of the “Charchan Man” are legendary in world archaeological circles for the fine state of their preservation and for the wealth of knowledge they bring to modern research.

In historic and scientific circles the discoveries along the ancient Silk Road were on a par with finding the Egyptian mummies. But China’s concern over its rule in restive Xinjiang has widely been perceived as impeding faster research into them and greater publicity of the findings.

The ancient corpses, which avoided natural decomposition due to the dry atmosphere and alkaline soils in the Tarim Basin, have not only given scientists a look into their physical biologies, but their clothes, tools and burial rituals have given historians a glimpse into life in the Bronze Age. 

Researchers who have played a pivotal role in bringing the discoveries to Western scholars in the 1990s have worked tirelessly to get Chinese approval to take samples out of China for definitive genetic testing.



One expedition in recent years succeeded in collecting 52 samples with the aide of Chinese researchers, but later Mair’s hosts had a change of heart and only let five of them out of the country.

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  “I spent six months in Sweden last year doing nothing but genetic research,” Mair said from his home in the US where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  “My research has shown that in the second millennium BC, the oldest mummies, like the Loulan Beauty, were the earliest settlers in the Tarim Basin. From the evidence available, we have found that during the first 1,000 years after the Loulan Beauty, the only settlers in the Tarim Basin were Caucasoid.”

East Asian peoples only began showing up in the eastern portions of the Tarim Basin about 3,000 years ago, Mair said, while the Uighur peoples arrived after the collapse of the Orkon Uighur Kingdom, largely based in modern day Mongolia, around the year 842.

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  “Modern DNA and ancient DNA show that Uighurs, Kazaks, Krygyzs, the peoples of Central Asia are all mixed Caucasian and East Asian. The modern and ancient DNA tell the same story,” he said.

Mair hopes to publish his new findings in the coming months.

China has only allowed the genetic studies in the last few years, with a 2004 study carried out by Jilin University also finding that the mummies’ DNA had Europoid genes, further proving that the earliest settlers of Western China were not East Asians.

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16-04-2015 om 00:22 geschreven door peter  

Klassieke UFO vertoont  zich aan toeristen bij piramide ( update  + video)  

Voor UFO-waarnemingen is Mexico het land bij uitstek.

Een prachtige opname is boven water is gekomen van een UFO die zich vertoont aan toeristen bij de Piramide van de Zon.


Update: 14 april 2015

Nadat we het originele artikel hieronder hadden geplaatst, kregen wij van een aantal lezers de opmerking dat de door professor Ana Luisa Cid gemaakte opname van een UFO bij de Mexicaanse piramide in Teotihuacan niet echt zou zijn.

Naar aanleiding van het feit dat wanneer je de UFO op de afbeelding vergroot, het lijkt alsof deze er later in geplakt zou zijn.

Echter, mevrouw Cid blijft vasthouden aan het verhaal dat deze UFO wel degelijk echt is en heeft nu een video gepubliceerd (helaas in het Spaans) waarin ze verder op dit verhaal in gaat en ook spreekt met een tweetal werknemers die zo ongeveer iedere dag op die plek vertoeven:

Alberto Galicia Hernandez:

Wat wij in de verte hebben gezien zijn zwarte dingen wanneer de zon ondergaat, zo rond zes uur. Terwijl de zon wegzakt, zien we dit ongeïdentificeerde object bewegen en toen ik mijn kameraden riep om te komen kijken, was het weg. ’s Nachts tijdens een patrouille heb ik lichten zien bewegen boven de top van de piramide. Maar deze lichten schenen snel rond te draaien. Dit waren gele lichten, meer zoals van een auto. Maar, wel fel genoeg om pijn te doen aan de ogen.

Er worden hier meer vreemde dingen gezien. Deze lichten waar ik het over had, duurden ongeveer drie minuten. Toen opeens, in letterlijk een oogwenk, waren ze verdwenen. De lichten die ik gezien heb, hebben de vorm van een driehoek.

Andrés Alfaro Aguilar:

In dit gebied hebben wij een kleine zilveren schijf gezien, zo rond het midden van de dag. Het reflecteerde zonlicht en ging vanuit stilstand heel snel een bepaalde richting op. Het was in de buurt van de piramide van de Zon.

Er is daar een plek waar heel veel zonne-energie is geconcentreerd. Er bevindt zich daar een kleine staaf waar alle energie van de zon in is geconcentreerd. Vroeger was deze staaf afgedekt met mica, maar nu is hij vervangen door een zilveren. Het enige wat je moet doen is je vinger erop plaatsen en wanneer je dat doet, dan voel je je ontspannen. Je moet je vinger er ongeveer vijf minuten op laten.

Al met al wordt niet duidelijk uit de verhalen van mevrouw Cid of er meerdere getuigen zijn die dag die de door haar gepubliceerde UFO hebben gezien, 8 maart 2015.

Gezien de kwaliteit van de foto blijft die waarneming twijfelachtig, hoewel de verhalen van de andere getuigen wel degelijk aangeven dat er zich regelmatig UFO’s vertonen bij de Mexicaanse piramides.



Bron: Inexplicata

Origineel artikel: 21 maart 2015

We kennen daar de ontelbare waarnemingen bij de grote vulkanen zoals de Popocatépetl, maar ook de UFO die met onvoorstelbare snelheid een wolk binnenvliegt en daar niet meer uit komt aan de andere kant. Een absoluut bewijs dat we hier te maken hebben met dimensieportalen. 

In dat land is de UFO onderzoekster Ana Luisa Cid actief. In Mexico en ook ver daarbuiten is ze een bekende verschijning op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Ze heeft haar opwachting gemaakt in tal van televisieprogramma’s, waaronder een documentaire van History Channel. 

Zelf heeft ze ook de nodige waarnemingen gehad en op 8 maart jongstleden,vond er een bijzonder voorval plaats met betrekking tot Ana Luisa Cid. 

Op die dag bracht ze een bezoek aan de archeologische vindplaats van Teotihuacan in de staat Mexico. Ze maakte daar een hele serie foto’s en dan in het bijzonder van de Piramide van de Zon.

Piramides hebben alles te maken met energie zoals wij enkele dagen geleden beschreven in een artikel over de fotonengordel. Ana Luisa vertelt hoe er bij de Piramide van de Zon een steen is met een gat en wanneer mensen die aanraken ze zich als het ware weer opgeladen voelen met energie. 

Terwijl zij daar bezig is met het maken van foto’s, te midden van toeristen, komt het volgende tevoorschijn. 

Een werkelijk prachtige foto met daarop de toeristen op de piramide en een UFO die zich vertoont: 

De foto is in alle opzichten klassiek want niet alleen zijn er talloze getuigen, maar ook de UFO zelf heeft de klassieke retrovorm zoals de meeste mensen zich “vliegende schotels” voorstellen. 

Er is voor ons dan ook geen enkele twijfel dat er zich in Mexico één of meerdere buitenaardse bases bevinden. Het land heeft de piramides en andere heilige gebouwen uit de tijd dat er veel meer contact was met buitenaardsen, de vulkanen die door UFO’s veelvuldig worden bezocht en het barst er letterlijk van de UFO-waarnemingen. 

Helaas zie je daar bij ons in het acht uur journaal helemaal niets van terug.

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15-04-2015 om 23:58 geschreven door peter  

Video – U.S. Presidents and UFOs

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A Young Steven Spielberg Meets the President (Reagan) Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO On June 27, 1982, a year after Reagan entered the White House, Ronald Reagan made one of his most famous alien remarks when he hosted Steven Spielberg in the White House. Spielberg was at the White House to present a private screening of his soon to be released movie called “ET: The Extraterrestrial.”

Bush Says UFO Promise Still On Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Therefore, when Cheney arrived in Roswell a few months later, many thought it was a sign of positive things to come. Cheney, to the disappointment of many UFO watchers, simply made his speech with no mention of E.T.s or anything remotely close, and flew on to Wyoming. Disclosure didn’t come, but the UFO hopefuls still remained optimistic.

Carter White House Denied UFO Info Disclosure Project (Mar 2002) A former Defense Intelligence Agency official, a senior Stanford Research Institute policy analyst and famed constitutional attorney Daniel Sheehan have all confirmed that President Carter’s attempts to obtain UFO information was thwarted by illegal actions by rogue military and intelligence entities.

Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting With Extraterrestrials: The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact? Michael E. Salla, PhD, Exopolitics.org, Revised Febuary 12, 2004 This paper explores the evidence that the First Contact meeting had occurred with extraterrestrials with a distinctive ‘Nordic’ appearance, the likelihood of an agreement having been spurned with this ‘Nordic race’, the start of a series of meetings that led to a treaty eventually being signed with a different extraterrestrial race dubbed the ‘Greys’, and the motivations of the different extraterrestrial races involved in these treaty discussions. The paper will further examine why these events were kept secret for so long, the significance of the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s meeting with extraterrestrials, and whether an official disclosure announcement is likely in the near R

Extraterrestrial Politics in the Clinton White House (1993-2001) and the Laurance Rockefeller Initiative Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Records from the Clinton Office of Science and Technology Policy related to UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence and the Laurance Rockefeller Initiative. This paper is an attempt to provide an overview of what is contained in the collection, as well as provide a bit of background of what was going on related to UFOs in the Clinton White House outside of these documents which only with The Office of Science and Technology Policy, which is only one arm of the White House.

Former White House chief of staff supports openness of info about Area 51 October 23, 2002, Las Vegas Review Journal The federal government should conduct a review of what information could be made public about the top-secret Area 51 air base in Nevada, former White House chief of staff John Podesta said Tuesday. R

How Presidents Have handled The Topic Of UFOs Robert Barrow, Argosy UFO, Winter 1977-78 (Grant Cameron) Two men voiced their concern over the existence of UFOs before assuming the highest elective office in this country: Former President Gerald R. Ford and President Jimmy Carter.

Ike and the Alien Ambassadors (Eisenhower) Peter Carlson, The Washington Post, February 19, 2004 Fifty years ago tomorrow — on Feb. 20, 1954 — President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Palm Springs, Calif., to make a secret nocturnal trip to a nearby Air Force base to meet two extraterrestrial aliens. Or maybe not. Maybe Ike just went to the dentist. There’s some dispute about this.

Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Prize, and Extraterrestrials Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO The most recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, former President Jimmy Carter, has long been interested in the peaceful co-existence of humans on this planet. If historic records are any indication, however, it appears that the former President has long held a similar interest in peaceful relations with extraterrestrials who might be visiting this planet, since his sighting of a strange unidentified object in Leary, Georgia in 1969.

Jimmy Carter’s UFO Close Encounter Buck Wolf, ABCNEWS.com When a President Says He’s Seen a UFO, You Really Have to Wonder if the Truth Is Out There. President Carter filed two formal reports when he was governor of Georgia describing his observation of an unidentified flying object to organizations that collect and promote UFO sightings as unexplained phenomena.

Media Control and the Presidents Interest in Ufology Dennis Balthaser, 10/18/01 The general public has a hard time accepting the statements I make from time to time, that the news media is controlled to some degree by the government, and that the President of the United States is not totally informed about the UFO situation.

President Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and Donald Menzel : The Congressional Research Service UFO Studies for President Jimmy Carter Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Shortly after President Carter came to power in January 1977, Daniel Sheehan, then General Counsel to the United States Jesuit National Headquarters – National Office of Social Ministry in Washington, D.C., was reportedly approached by Marcia S. Smith, Director of the Library of Congress’s Science and Technology Division of the Congressional Research Service.from 1984-1985. Sheehan reported that he was asked by Smith “to participate in a highly classified major evaluation of the UFO phenomena, and extraterrestrial intelligence.”

President Eisenhower Meets the Aliens? William L. Moore, Gazette, Hollywood, California, March 29, 1989 The story about Eisenhower’s February 1954 trip to Palm Springs for a winter holiday, and his subsequent late Saturday night disappearance, has fueled rumors that Eisenhower traveled to nearby Edwards Air Force Base to meet with aliens. One of the best recounting of this rumor was done by William Moore a prominent California researcher who traveled to the Eisenhower Library to do research and actually interviewed the wife of one of the key witnesses to the story.

President George Bush (Sr.) and UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Of all the Presidents that have been faced with the UFO problem, George Bush seemed, on the surface, to be the best qualified President to have been given the secret. He spent a year as Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the entire United States Intelligence Community for President Ford. Then as DCI, he was in charge of giving intelligence briefings to Jimmy Carter during his transition to the Presidency in 1976.

President George W. Bush and UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO The second strong indicator that Bush was not open to UFO disclosure came from the experience of John E.L. Tenney, the co-founder of M.A.I.N, or the Michigan Anomalous Information Network. His efforts to get campaigner George Bush to talk about UFOs met with the same failure that Peter Robbins had experienced.

President Gerald Ford and UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Prior to becoming President Gerald Ford was a Representative representing Michigan in the U.S. Senate, and also Minority Leader in the Senate. In 1966 Michigan experienced hundreds of UFO sighting. The reports of weird dancing light produced quite a furor.

President Harry S. Truman and UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO President Harry Truman is the first President to have to deal with the UFO phenomena publicly. There may have been sightings and/or UFO crashes before Truman, but nothing that had to be dealt with publicly. More importantly, Truman was the first President who had to deal with the public relations problems that go along with the UFO phenomena.

President Jimmy Carter and UFO’s Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO President Jimmy Carter has often been referred-to as the “UFO President” due to the fact that he publicly claimed to have had a UFO sighting prior to becoming president. Moreover, he was the only president on record to actually file a UFO sighting report related to his sighting. Thirdly, on at least one occasion while campaigning for president, Carter declared that, if elected, he would “make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists.”

President Jimmy Carter’s Actual UFO Sighting Report Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Many internet sites display a UFO sighting report related to President Carter’s 1969 UFO sightings. The NICAP report, however, is only a retyped version of the original report which was filed with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Below you will find the original handwritten report made by the Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter in 1973, along with the letter written to him by Hayden Hewes, the Director of IUFOB at the time, asking for the report. This copy was found at the Carter presidential library in Atlanta.

President John F. Kennedy and the UFOs: Was JFK silenced for knowing too much? Jim Marrs, 06/08/2000 President John F. Kennedy may have had more than the usual knowledge about UFOs, according to several credible sources. R

President John F. Kennedy and UFO’s Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO As with many other U.S. presidents, there was a report that Kennedy had sighted a UFO. The event occurred in 1963, while boating off Hyannisport on Cape Cod. The object was “disc-shaped, about 60 feet in diameter, with a grey top, and shiny bottom.” It hovered above the water for 40 seconds, emitting a low pitched humming sound. Then it flew straight up in the air and was gone. Kennedy swore those present to keep the incident secret.

President Reagan saw UFO, often spoke of a world united because of alien invasion UFO Universe, 1998 Supermarket tabloids, that strange breed of sensationalistic American journalism, have been talking for most of the decade about Ronald Reagan’s fascination with things like astrology and space aliens. Little attention was paid to the matter … after all, the stuff was printed in the tabloids and nobody sane is supposed to believe in them. Yet truth is becoming stranger than fiction in the case of Ronald Wilson Reagan and some of his more curious remarks.

President Richard Nixon and UFO’s Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Even though the Nixon Presidency was short and rocky, a number of UFO stories and related space developments did take place. Nixon, for example, was the President who was able to take credit for an achievement dreamed of and initiated by President Kennedy. He presided over the landing of the first men on the moon in July 1969. Nixon described the Apollo 11 mission as the “greatest week in the history of the world since Creation,” a statement that brought criticism from his close friend Billy Graham.

President Ronald Reagan and UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO A question remains, however, as to how much of the UFO secret was given to Reagan the President. Reagan like the many Presidents before him had tens of thousands of issues being dealt with below him in the government. Only the most critical items were brought to the Oval office for his attention.

President’s Talk UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO The President of the United States of America is considered by many to be the most powerful man in the world. If that very powerful President is in change of the UFO cover-up, then that relationship is the key relationship to study in determining what is going on. If the President is not the head of the UFO cover-up, cut out of the loop by some Machiavellian group bypassing the constitution, then that is the key story to investigate. In short, the President’s relationship to the UFO situation is the key to understanding what happened, and how to end the cover-up. Rockefeller Tells Clinton to Tell All About UFOs (press report) New York Daily News, August 24th, 1995 President Clinton is being pressured to reopen supersecret government files on the world’s most baffling UFO incident. The man who wants the secrecy ended is billionaire philanthropist Laurance S. Rockerfeller, a personal friend of the president.

Ronald Reagan’s legacy goes well beyond this world Billy Cox, FloridayToday.com – 6/10/2004 Tons of newsprint and airtime dedicated to Ronald Reagan’s legacy this week, but — surprise — not word one about curiosity over unidentified flying objects. It’ll be the same way when Jimmy Carter dies.

Searching for the Truth: Media Control and the Presidents Interest in Ufology Dennis Balthaser, Oct 18, 2001 When doing radio or TV interviews and lectures, I am frequently questioned about the cover-up of the Roswell Incident and other related topics. The general public has a hard time accepting the statements I make from time to time, that the news media is controlled to some degree by the government, and that the President of the United States is not totally informed about the UFO situation.

The Role of the Presidency in the Politics of Disclosure: Part III – The Case for and against Gore Stephen Bassett, Paradigm Clock The public is fairly fed up with ludicrously expensive, winning-is-everything politics. Gore has embraced both adjectives with a passion. As a result, his willingness to touch the UFO/ET problem on moral/ethical grounds, knowing it will damage him politically and hurt his party, is most certainly in doubt.

The Role of the President in the Politics of Disclosure – Part II: The case for and against George W. Bush Stephen Bassett Let’s get one thing straight right up front. The politics of UFOs, how the presence of extraterrestrial beings in our world, now, is going to affect you, your government, and every other person on the planet, is not only bipartisan, it’s transcendent.

The Role of the President in the Politics of Disclosure: Part I: The Decline of the Executive Stephen Bassett One of the most important political trends in the second half of the 20th Century is the weakening of the American presidency – important because of its role in the intricate, constitutionally structured checks and balance system mentioned in the first column in this series.

The Shocking Truth: Ronald Reagan’s Obsession With An Alien Invasion A. Hovni, UFO Universe, September 1988 This is an article on Ronald Reagan’s reputed UFO encounter, and how that encounter may serve to explain his continued interest in UFOlogy and EBEs.

The White House Role in Crashed UFO Retrievals Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO – 1st UFO Crash Retrieval Conference, Las Vegas, Nov. 2003 The following are some of the stories that look at what the president might have known about the subject of crashed saucers. These few examples I have chosen, are the result of attempts to track down rumored stories, and investigate them with interviews and material from the various presidential libraries.

Vice-President Dick Cheney and UFOs Grant Cameron, Presidential UFO Because of Dick Cheney’s high White House positions in past Ford and Bush Sr. administrations, the appearance of Cheney’s name on the George W. Bush Presidential ticket, led many ufologists to feel that Cheney might represent an attempt by the government to make a disclosure on UFOs.

White House Briefed on UFOs
Sarah McClendon, White House Correspondent, McClendon News Service, March 30, 1998
(This article is written by Sarah McClendon, the nation’s longest-serving White House Correspondent, who passed away on 9 January 2003.) Unidentified Flying Objects, a term given for many years to unexplained sightings of craft in the skies over every state in the Union, are actual visitors from other worlds, believe a community of scientists and technicians employed by government.

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15-04-2015 om 23:51 geschreven door peter  

Amazing UFO video: Triangle formation near a plane over Atlanta, Georgia

Check out this UFO video of a triangular-shaped formation of orb hovering near a plane. This was recently filmed by a an airline passanger over Atlanta in Georgia.

What do you think about this sighting? Real or a CGI? Please leave your comment below!

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15-04-2015 om 23:39 geschreven door peter  

Interesting footage of a two UFOs in the sky above Buenos Aires, Argentina 13-Apr-2015

New footage of a two bright unidentified flying objects flying across the night sky above Buenos Aires in Argentina. This happened on Monday, 13th April 2015.

Witness report: Parallel formation of double UFO over Argentina ” 19; 25 RA: 6.56 Dec: -15.32 Where is opened the mysterious gleam of two UFOs, which were recognized to watch the team in infrared mode, so we next the Sirius Star “, an interesting record was achieved where both Lenticular of undoubted orbital attitude they moved towards the “North” but very interesting was observing traveling alongside each other (No, one after another as in most cases equally strange is inferring UFO Unidentified orbital elements), quickly Satelites lists( Heaven Above.com ) without any matches were compared, in these time zone offset guideline. The only next satellite but still far from this double orbiting (very unusual) was located in the deepest listings, and those invisible to the human eye, treatment of a Sat Cosmos Rocket 1736 19:30 that ought to have its passage to the North (only North on the schedule) with a magnitude “4.7 Ordinary ” almost on the stars of Alnilam, Alnitaka (the Three Marias) guideline orbital movement “very distant to double phenomenon orbital reported here, real UFO ? They are left here the first pictures and details of this eventual report.

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15-04-2015 om 23:37 geschreven door peter  

15-04-2015 om 00:00 geschreven door peter  

Ufos Over La Paz, Boliva

(Before It's News)

Residents of the city of La Paz were startled by the presence of some strange lights At 19:30 hours on Sunday (04.12.15). For over half an hour, thousands of residents looked skyward to see some strange lights (not those of an airplane) that captured the public's attention. These are unidentified flying objects.

 

The mystery and astonishment arose due to the fact that a first light appeared, lasted some five minutes, and then mysteriously vanished. It reappeared within a minutes, maintaining its intensity. Astonishment grew with the manifestation of two more lights that escorted the first.

 

Half an hour after bewildering the public, these lights vanished from the skies of La Paz.

 

“We were heading home when we noticed a strange light dominating the city's skies. At first it was only one, then it vanished, and it made us think of an airplane. But then it reappeared, and we found it strange because it stayed there for some 20 minutes and two more lights appeared after that,” said citizens to the media.

 

 

Johana [no surname given] noted that these were UFOS because the movement in the skies was odd, not related to an airplane and much less an artificial source of light. “It appeared and disappeared. It's very odd. They were UFOs,” she affirmed.

 

 

A family returning from a trip around 19:30 hours along the southern end of the city of La Paz witnessed a fixed light in the sky. They thought it was an airplane, but seeing that it was motionless, and would disappear and reappear, they took out the cameras to record the scene and found – to their amazement – that two more lights were moving around the first. They contacted the press to establish the existence of the events and also alerted some neighbors.

 

Website: lavoz.com.bo

 

[Translation (c) 2015, S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO and Julio González, Realidad OVNI - http://inexplicata.blogspot.ca/

 

14-04-2015 om 23:26 geschreven door peter  

14-04-2015 om 23:22 geschreven door peter  

Mystery of Ceres' bright spots grows

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (shown here) has fewer large craters than researchers expected.

Not all of the puzzling bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are alike. The closest-yet images of the gleams, taken from 45,000 kilometres away, show that at least two of the spots look different from one another when seen in infrared wavelengths.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spied many of the bright spots years ago, but the observations from NASA's Dawn spacecraft — which began looping around Ceres on 6 March — are the first taken at close range. The images were released on 13 April in Vienna at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union.

Nature Special: Pluto and Ceres

Scientists say that the bright spots might be related to ice exposed at the bottom of impact craters or some type of active geological features. The areas glimmer tantalizingly in a new full-colour map of Ceres that was obtained in February, but not released until the conference. The map uses false colours to tease out subtle differences on the otherwise dark surface of Ceres.

“This is the first idea of what the surface looks like,” said Martin Hoffmann, a Dawn scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.

The Dawn spacecraft's view of the bright regions is sharpening as it gets closer to Ceres. The new infrared images reveal differences between spot 1, near Ceres's equator, and a pair of bright spots collectively known as spot 5. Some scientists have speculated that the latter could be an icy plume.

Spot 1 seems darker than its surroundings in images from Dawn's infrared spectrometer, said Federico Tosi, a Dawn scientist at the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome. This suggests that the area is cooler than the rest of the dwarf planet's surface, supporting the theory that the spot is made of ice.

But for some reason, spot 5 — the brightest feature seen on Ceres — does not show up in the infrared images. “One possibility is that we still don’t have enough resolution to see it in the proper way,” said Tosi.

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Infrared images suggest that Spot 1 (top row), an area on Ceres, is made of ice. But the pair of bright gleams known as Spot 5 were invisible to an infrared camera (bottom right).

Dawn has also shown that some parts of Ceres are pockmarked by impact craters, while other regions seem smooth. So far, there seem to be fewer large craters on Ceres than expected, says the mission's principal investigator, Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles.

At nearly 1,000 kilometres across, Ceres is the biggest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. Researchers expect that a close look at the surface of Ceres will reveal clues about the formation of protoplanets in the early Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago. Even at this distance, the images show complex craters and long, deep-curving features that hint at a violent past, Hoffmann said.

Dawn has been travelling towards Ceres since its 2007 launch, with a side visit to the asteroid Vesta in 2011. The spacecraft was technically captured by Ceres’s gravity on 6 March, but has taken weeks to approach the dwarf planet. (Scientists were forced to adopt a longer, more-leisurely trajectory to Ceres in September, after an errant cosmic ray hit the spacecraft and temporarily knocked it out of commission.)

Dawn produced another set of images on 10 April, but only a small fraction of Ceres’s surface was illuminated at the time and mission scientists have not yet released the pictures. The spacecraft will begin detailed science investigations on 23 April, after it settles into permanent orbit around Ceres.

Journal name: Nature

DOI: doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17313

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• Dawn spacecraft finds signs of water on Vesta

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14-04-2015 om 22:39 geschreven door peter  

Sur la piste du chaînon manquant du cosmos

Des chercheurs pensent avoir découvert des "bébés amas" de galaxies capables d'éclairer l'étrange relation entre matière ordinaire et matière noire.

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14-04-2015 om 22:24 geschreven door peter  

Curiosity Rover Finds EVIDENCE Of LIQUID WATER On Mars 

April 14, 2015 - Cold, desolate conditions on Mars make it difficult to support liquid water, but thanks to some natural anti-freeze, a thin briny film may be forming in the soil near the equator at night. Although, the liquid evaporates just after sunrise. The findings, based on data from the Curiosity rover and published in Nature Geoscience this week, suggest that an active exchange of water is happening between the atmosphere and the surface of Mars—but the conditions are too cold for the possibility of microbes. 

While traversing Gale Crater near the Mars equator, Curiosity has been taking round-the-clock, year-round measurements with its Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (pictured above). Now, a large international team led by Javier Martín-Torres from Luleå University of Technology has analyzed a full Martian year’s worth of data on atmospheric humidity and temperature. And while they can’t detect the liquid brines directly, “what we see are the conditions for the formation of brines on the surface,” Martin-Torres tells BBC. 

Perchlorate is a type of salt that lowers the freezing temperature of water; it also pulls water molecules from the atmosphere to form a corrosive liquid brine. "These perchlorate salts have a property called deliquescence,” Martin-Torres adds. “They take the water vapor from the atmosphere and absorb it to produce the brines." According to these new measurements, liquid brines could be forming in the uppermost soils of the crater during the Martian night, and then they’d evaporate as the ground and air begin to warm up after sunrise. Here’s a schematic of this hypothetical day-and-night water cycle:



Relative humidity depends on the temperature of the air and the amount of water vapor in it, and Curiosity’s measurements have ranged from 5 percent during summer afternoons to 100 percent in the nighttime during fall and winter. Pores in the soil interact with air just above the ground, and when the relative humidity gets above a certain level, the salts absorb enough water molecules to become dissolved in liquid. The subsurface water content estimated using Curiosity data is consistent with the existence of water molecules absorbed by perchlorates in soils.

Perchlorate has previously been identified in Martian soil, and it’s already been proposed as a mechanism for transient liquid brines, but at higher latitudes—where colder temps and more water vapor can lead to higher humidity more often. "Gale Crater is one of the least likely places on Mars to have conditions for brines to form, compared to sites at higher latitudes or with more shading,” study co-author Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, Tucson, says in a JPL release. “So if brines can exist there, that strengthens the case they could form and persist even longer at many other locations.”

However, the researchers found that the ground temperature in Gale Crater is too low to support terrestrial microorganisms and life as we know it.

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS (top), Martín-Torres and Zorzano (middle)

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14-04-2015 om 22:12 geschreven door peter  

La vie sur Terre vient-elle de l'espace ?

DR

Personne n'a oublié les expériences historiques de Stanley Miller à Chicago en 1953 qui avait réussi à recréer en laboratoire les conditions de la "soupe primitive", qui existait sur Terre au moment de l'apparition de la vie, et qui avait montré que ces conditions étaient propices à la formation des acides aminés qui constituent les "briques" de base du vivant. Depuis cette date qui coïncidait d'ailleurs avec la découverte de la structure de l'ADN par Watson et Crick, la communauté scientifique n'a cessé de s'interroger sur la question fascinante de l'origine et de la nature de la vie.

La semaine dernière, une équipe franco-allemande regroupant des chercheurs de l'Institut de chimie de Nice (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis/CNRS) et de l'Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (CNRS/Université Paris-Sud) a publié une étude qui montre, dans une remarquable expérience, que les premières molécules constituant les "briques" de la vie peuvent se former spontanément dans les comètes. Après avoir fabriqué une comète artificielle dans les conditions extrêmes qui règnent dans l'espace (-200°C et sous vide), les chercheurs ont regroupé sur un fragment de fluorure de magnésium (MgF2), des composés présents dans le vide interstellaire (eau, ammoniac (NH3) et méthanol (CH3OH)). Ils ont ensuite irradié cette "soupe" à l'aide d'un rayonnement ultraviolet.
Deux semaines plus tard, la matière organique interstellaire ainsi obtenue a été analysée par les chercheurs (l'équipe d'Uwe Meierhenrich et de Cornelia Meinert) en utilisant un chromatographe multidimensionnel en phase gaz, une technologie de pointe dix fois plus sensible que les systèmes de détection traditionnels. Alors que, jusqu'à présent, seuls trois acides aminés avaient été mis en évidence dans ce type d'expérience, ils ont pu identifier vingt-six acides aminés, les éléments qui constituent les protéines, dans la comète artificielle.

Mais surtout, ils ont aussi découvert pour la première fois six acides diaminés, des molécules formées de deux groupes amines (-NH2), au lieu d'un seul pour les acides aminés classiques. Parmi ces molécules figure la N-(2-Aminoethyl) glycine qui est peut-être le composant majeur des premières molécules d'ADN terrestre : les molécules d'acide peptidique nucléique (APN). Ces résultats confirment donc de manière éclatante que les premières "briques" moléculaires nécessaires à l'apparition de la vie ont bien pu se former dans les comètes et dans le vide interstellaire et "ensemencer" la Terre à l'occasion des chutes permanentes de météorites et de comètes. Ces résultats passionnants justifient largement la pertinence de la mission spatiale européenne « Rosetta » qui vise à faire atterrir en 2015 une sonde sur la comète Tchourioumov-Guerassimenko pour étudier la composition de son noyau.

Cette très belle découverte vient après plusieurs autres qui avaient déjà considérablement élargi et transformé notre approche de la vie. Début 2000, des chercheurs australiens avaient notamment découvert, dans le grès du fond des océans, des organismes vivants d'une taille extraordinairement petite, comprise entre 20 et 150 nanomètres (cf. "Y-a-t-il une vie dans le nanomonde ?").

Fin 1999, une autre découverte réalisée par l'astronome Sun Kwok, de l'Université de Calgary, au Canada avait révélé, en mesurant le spectre de nombreuses étoiles à des stades de développement avancés que celles-ci synthétisaient des quantités importantes de molécules organiques en quelques milliers d'années seulement. Ces molécules organiques qui constituent la base des sucres et des acides aminés étaient ensuite expulsées vers l'espace interstellaire et pouvaient alors entrer dans le processus de constitution de nouvelles planètes, provoquant ou favorisant l'apparition de la vie.

Il faut rappeler que l'idée même de la "soupe primitive" est très ancienne et que le grand Darwin l'avait déjà imaginée dès 1871. Dans les années 1920, deux biologistes, le Britannique John Haldane et le Russe Alexandre Oparine eurent également l'idée, indépendamment l'un de l'autre, que l'atmosphère primitive de la Terre avait pu favoriser l'apparition de molécules organiques qui se seraient ensuite complexifiées jusqu'à produire l'émergence des premiers être vivants monocellulaires. Mais à l'époque, ces chercheurs ne purent étayer leurs hypothèses par l'expérimentation. C'est cette étape décisive qui fut magistralement franchie en 1953 par Stanley Miller, sous la direction d'Harold Urey (Prix Nobel de chimie 1934), qui avait construit un modèle d'atmosphère primitive basé sur le carbone et le méthane.

D'autres expériences réalisées en partenariat par le laboratoire d'Astrochimie du Ames Research Center de la NASA et le Département de Biochimie de l'Université de Santa Cruz Californie ont également montré que la formation des constituants primordiaux de la vie avait pu se dérouler dans les conditions hostiles de l'espace. Cette équipe de recherche menée par Louis Allamandola du Centre Ames avait réussi à provoquer la formation de composés biochimiques particuliers se présentant sous la forme de petites bulles similaires à des membranes cellulaires et permettant des échanges avec l'extérieur. Ces résultats montraient donc que la vie avait très bien pu naître dans l'espace avant d'être apportée sur Terre par une météorite ou un astéroïde.

En 2004, la sonde américaine Stardust était parvenue à collecter des poussières de comète en passant à proximité de la comète Wild 2. Ces poussières avaient été ramenées sur Terre en 2006 et les scientifiques de la NASA eurent la surprise d'y trouver de la glycine, le plus simple des acides aminés. Après trois ans d'analyses et de vérifications, les chercheurs purent démontrer que cette glycine était bien d'origine extraterrestre et ne provenait pas d'une contamination humaine.

En 2007, une équipe internationale d'astrobiologistes a montré, en reproduisant, en laboratoire, les conditions d'impact d'un astéroïde, la possibilité d'un transfert de vie entre Mars et la Terre. En 2010, avec le télescope infrarouge de la Nasa installé sur le M'auna Kea, à Hawaï, une autre équipe américaine avait détecté de la glace d'eau et des composés organiques (briques élémentaires de la vie) sur l'astéroïde 24 Themis. Cette découverte avait alors conforté l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'eau des océans, ainsi que les molécules nécessaires à l'apparition de la vie, proviendraient d'astéroïdes.

En mars 2011, une équipe de chercheurs de la Nasa dirigée par Richard Hoover a découvert sur trois météorites des traces de bactéries fossilisées autochtones dont la structure montre qu'elle ne peuvent pas provenir d'une contamination par des micro-organismes terrestres et qui viendraient donc bien de l'espace. Toujours en 2011, une autre équipe de la NASA, après avoir analysé neuf météorites tombées notamment en antarctique, ont identifié de l'adénine, et la guanine, qui sont des composants de l'ADN.

On voit donc que depuis une dizaine d'années l'accumulation des observations et des expérimentations valide, d'une part, l'hypothèse que la vie est infiniment plus résistante et adaptable qu'on ne l'imaginait et, d'autre part, que l'apparition de la vie sur terre pourrait avoir été provoquée par des micro-organismes extra-terrestres amenés sur notre planète par des comètes et par l'apport d'eau extraterrestre contenue dans les astéroïdes.

En outre, début 2012, une équipe de recherche française a estimé pour la première fois le nombre de planètes existant dans notre galaxie à 240 milliards ! Sur l'ensemble de ces planètes, plus d'un milliard de planètes pourraient être semblables à la Terre et présenteraient des conditions physico-chimiques qui rendraient possible l'apparition et le développement de la vie, selon une autre étude réalisée en 2002 par des astronomes britanniques de l'Open University.

On voit donc, à la lumière de toutes ces avancées et observations scientifiques, que ces deux hypothèses en entraînent une troisième encore plus vertigineuse : la vie, loin d'être un phénomène tout à fait exceptionnel, liée à un extraordinaire concours de circonstances dont la terre aurait été le théâtre, pourrait être, au moins sous ses formes les plus rudimentaires, relativement répandue dans l'univers, surtout si l'on prend en compte le nombre gigantesque de planètes dans le Cosmos. La mise en service de la prochaine génération d'outils d'observations et d'analyses astronomiques et cosmologiques et la poursuite des voyages d'exploration spatiale dans notre système solaire permettront peut-être dans les décennies à venir de découvrir ou observer indirectement des traces de vie extraterrestres.

L'un des grands défis scientifiques et théoriques de ce siècle sera donc de savoir si la vie, même sous des formes très étranges, est bien présente ailleurs que sur terre (il n'est d'ailleurs toujours pas exclu qu'elle existe dans le sous-sol martien ou dans les profondeurs liquides d'Europe, l'un des satellites de Jupiter) ou si nous devons nous résoudre finalement à accepter l'idée qu'elle n'est apparue sur notre planète qu'à la suite d'une succession de circonstances si exceptionnelles et improbables qu'elles n'ont aucune chance de s'être reproduites ailleurs dans l'Univers.

Auteur

René TREGOUËT, sénateur honoraire, fondateur du Groupe de Prospective du Sénat / RT Flash

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14-04-2015 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Nears Historic July 14 Encounter with Pluto

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Artist's concept of the New Horizons spacecraft as it approaches Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. Credit: (JHUAPL/SwRI)

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons.

"Scientific literature is filled with papers on the characteristics of Pluto and its moons from ground based and Earth orbiting space observations, but we've never studied Pluto up close and personal," said John Grunsfeld, astronaut, and associate administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's Headquarters in Washington.  "In an unprecedented flyby this July, our knowledge of what the Pluto systems is really like will expand exponentially and I have no doubt there will be exciting discoveries."

The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away - more than nine years and three billion miles - than any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Its flyby of Pluto and its system of at least five moons on July 14 will complete the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system. This mission also opens the door to an entirely new "third" zone of mysterious small planets and planetary building blocks in the Kuiper Belt, a large area with numerous objects beyond Neptune's orbit.

The flyby caps a five-decade-long era of reconnaissance that began with Venus and Mars in the early 1960s, and continued through first looks at Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s and Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s.
Reaching this third zone of our solar system - beyond the inner, rocky planets and outer gas giants - has been a space science priority for years. In the early 2000s the National Academy of Sciences ranked the exploration of the Kuiper Belt - and particularly Pluto and its largest moon, Charon - as its top priority planetary mission for the coming decade.
New Horizons - a compact, lightweight, powerfully equipped probe packing the most advanced suite of cameras and spectrometers ever sent on a first reconnaissance mission - is NASA's answer to that call.

"This is pure exploration; we're going to turn points of light into a planet and a system of moons before your eyes!" said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. "New Horizons is flying to Pluto - the biggest, brightest and most complex of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. This 21st century encounter is going to be an exploration bonanza unparalleled in anticipation since the storied missions of Voyager in the 1980s."

Pluto, the largest known body in the Kuiper Belt, offers a nitrogen atmosphere, complex seasons, distinct surface markings, an ice-rock interior that may harbor an ocean, and at least five moons. Among these moons, the largest - Charon - may itself sport an atmosphere or an interior ocean, and possibly even evidence of recent surface activity.
"There's no doubt, Charon is a rising star in terms of scientific interest, and we can't wait to reveal it in detail in July," said Leslie Young, deputy project scientist at SwRI.

Pluto's smaller moons also are likely to present scientific opportunities. When New Horizons was started in 2001, it was a mission to just Pluto and Charon, before the four smaller moons were discovered.

The spacecraft's suite of seven science instruments - which includes cameras, spectrometers, and plasma and dust detectors - will map the geology of Pluto and Charon and map their surface compositions and temperatures; examine Pluto's atmosphere, and search for an atmosphere around Charon; study Pluto's smaller satellites; and look for rings and additional satellites around Pluto.

Currently, even with New Horizons closer to Pluto than the Earth is to the Sun, the Pluto system resembles little more than bright dots in the distance. But teams operating the spacecraft are using these views to refine their knowledge of Pluto's location, and skillfully navigate New Horizons toward a precise target point 7,750 miles (12,500 kilometers) from Pluto's surface. That targeting is critical, since the computer commands that will orient the spacecraft and point its science instruments are based on knowing the exact time and location that New Horizons passes Pluto.

"Our team has worked hard to get to this point, and we know we have just one shot to make this work," said Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, which built and operates the spacecraft. "We've plotted out each step of the Pluto encounter, practiced it over and over, and we're excited the 'real deal' is finally here."

The spacecraft's work doesn't end with the July flyby. Because it gets one shot at its target, New Horizons is designed to gather as much data as it can, as quickly as it can, taking about 100 times as much data on close approach as it can send home before flying away. And although the spacecraft will send select, high-priority datasets home in the days just before and after close approach, the mission will continue returning the data stored in onboard memory for a full 16 months.
"New Horizons is one of the great explorations of our time," said New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver at APL. "There's so much we don't know, not just about Pluto, but other worlds like it. We're not rewriting textbooks with this historic mission - we'll be writing them from scratch."

APL manages the New Horizons mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Alan Stern of SwRI is the principal investigator. SwRI leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons

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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu

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14-04-2015 om 22:00 geschreven door peter  

A history of human space travel: Here's what we've achieved since the first trip into space

14-04-2015 om 21:55 geschreven door peter  

NASA Releases Out-Of-This-World GoPro Footage From Astronauts POV

April 14, 2015 - A NASA astronaut has filmed his out-of-this-world perspective with a GoPro during two spacewalks known as extravehicular activities (EVAs). The videos were taken on February 25 and March 1 of this year.

The footage provides a view that few of us will ever get to see, which is exactly the reason U.S. astronaut Terry Virts filmed the video while he and fellow astronaut Barry Wilmore performed essential maintenance on the International Space Station.

The first of these spacewalks (EVA #30) was filmed as Virts and Wilmore serviced the spacecraft’s robotic arm and made preparations for the International Docking Adapters that will arrive later in 2015. The second video (EVA #31) was taken as the astronauts routed 400 feet (120 meters) of cable and installed antennas for a new communications system that NASA will use in the future. 

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14-04-2015 om 21:50 geschreven door peter  

Could this be proof of water on Mars?

14-04-2015 om 21:34 geschreven door peter  

Rosetta and Philae find comet not magnetised

Measurements made by Rosetta and Philae during the probe's multiple landings on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show that the comet's nucleus is not magnetised.                                 

Rosetta and Philae investigate magnetic properties of Comet 67P/C-G. Credits: ESA / Data: Auster et al. (2015) / Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab

Studying the properties of a comet can provide clues to the role that magnetic fields played in the formation of Solar System bodies almost 4.6 billion years ago. The infant Solar System was once nothing more than a swirling disc of gas and dust but, within a few million years, the Sun burst into life in the centre of this turbulent disc, with the leftover material going into forming the asteroids, comets, moons and planets.

The dust contained an appreciable fraction of iron, some of it in the form of magnetite. Indeed, millimetre-sized grains of magnetic materials have been found in meteorites, indicating their presence in the early Solar System.

This leads scientists to believe that magnetic fields threading through the proto-planetary disc could have played an important role in moving material around as it started to clump together to form larger bodies.

But it remains unclear as to how crucial magnetic fields were later on in this accretion process, as the building blocks grew to centimetres, metres and then tens of metres across, before gravity started to dominate when they grew to hundreds of metres and kilometres in scale.

Some theories concerning the aggregation of magnetic and non-magnetic dust particles show that the resulting bigger objects could also remain magnetised, allowing them to also be influenced by the magnetic fields of the proto-planetary disc.

Because comets contain some of the most pristine materials in the Solar System, they offer a natural laboratory for investigating whether or not these larger chunks could have remained magnetised.

Reconstructing Philae's trajectory. Credits: ESA / Data: Auster et al. (2015) / Comet image: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

However, detecting the magnetic field of comets has proven difficult in previous missions, which have typically made rapid flybys, relatively far from comet nuclei.

It has taken the proximity of ESA's Rosetta orbiter to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and the measurements made much closer to and at the surface by its lander Philae, to provide the first detailed investigation of the magnetic properties of a comet nucleus.

Philae's magnetic field measuring instrument is the Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor (ROMAP), while Rosetta carries a magnetometer as part of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium suite of sensors (RPC-MAG).

Changes in the magnetic field surrounding Rosetta allowed RPC-MAG to detect the moment when Philae was deployed in the morning of 12 November 2014.

Then, by sensing periodic variations in the measured external magnetic field and motions in its boom arm, ROMAP was able to detect the touchdown events and determine the orientation of Philae over the following hours. Combined with information from the CONSERT experiment that provided an estimate of the final landing site location, timing information, images from Rosetta's OSIRIS camera, assumptions about the gravity of the comet, and measurements of its shape, it was possible to determine Philae's trajectory.

The mission teams soon discovered that Philae not only touched down once at Agilkia, but also came into contact with the comet's surface four times in fact – including a grazing collision with a surface feature that sent it tumbling towards the final touchdown point at Abydos.

This complex trajectory turned out to be scientifically beneficial to the ROMAP team.

The non-magnetic comet. Credits: ESA / Data: Auster et al. (2015) / Background comet image: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

"The unplanned flight across the surface actually meant we could collect precise magnetic field measurements with Philae at the four points we made contact with, and at a range of heights above the surface," says Hans-Ulrich Auster, co-principal investigator of ROMAP and lead author of the results published in the journal Science and presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, today.

The multiple descents and ascents meant that the team could compare measurements made on the inward and outward journeys to and from each contact point, and as it flew across the surface.

ROMAP measured a magnetic field during these sequences, but found that its strength did not depend on the height or location of Philae above the surface. This is not consistent with the nucleus itself being responsible for that field.

"If the surface was magnetised, we would have expected to see a clear increase in the magnetic field readings as we got closer and closer to the surface," explains Hans-Ulrich. "But this was not the case at any of the locations we visited, so we conclude that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a remarkably non-magnetic object."

Instead, the magnetic field that was measured was consistent with an external one, namely the influence of the solar wind interplanetary magnetic field near the comet nucleus. This conclusion is confirmed by the fact that variations in the field that were measured by Philae closely agree with those seen at the same time by Rosetta.

"During Philae's landing, Rosetta was about 17 km above the surface, and we could provide complementary magnetic field readings that rule out any local magnetic anomalies in the comet's surface materials," says Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, principal investigator of RPC-MAG on board the orbiter and a co-author of the Science paper.

If large chunks of material on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were magnetised, ROMAP would have recorded additional variations in its signal as Philae flew over them.

"If any material is magnetised, it must be on a scale of less than one metre, below the spatial resolution of our measurements. And if Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is representative of all cometary nuclei, then we suggest that magnetic forces are unlikely to have played a role in the accumulation of planetary building blocks greater than one metre in size," concludes Hans-Ulrich.

"It's great to see the complementary nature of Rosetta and Philae's measurements, working together to answer this simple, but important 'yes-no' question as to whether the comet is magnetised," says Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist.

Notes for Editors

"The non-magnetic nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko," by H.-U. Auster et al. is published in Science Express on 14 April.

The results were also presented on 14 April at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015 in Vienna, Austria, during a dedicated Rosetta mission press briefing.

The data were collected by the Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor (ROMAP) on board Philae and the Rosetta Plasma Consortium fluxgate magnetometer (RPC-MAG) on board Rosetta.

Overall, the data show that the comet has an upper magnetic field magnitude of less than 2 nT at the cometary surface at multiple locations, with a specific magnetic moment of < 3.1 × 10^-5 Am²/kg, less than known values for lunar material and meteorites measured on Earth.

About ROMAP

ROMAP is the Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor. The contributing institutions to ROMAP are: Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany; Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany; Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Energy Research, Hungary; and Space Research Institute Graz, Austria. The co-principal investigators are Hans-Ulrich Auster (Technische Universität, Braunschweig) and István Apáthy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary.

About RPC-MAG

RPC-MAG one of six instruments comprising the Rosetta Plasma Consortium. The fluxgate magnetometer (RPC-MAG) is led by Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany.

About Rosetta

Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its Member States and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander was provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES and ASI. Rosetta is the first mission in history to rendezvous with a comet. It is escorting the comet as they orbit the Sun together. Philae landed on the comet on 12 November 2014. Comets are time capsules containing primitive material left over from the epoch when the Sun and its planets formed. By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in situ observations, the Rosetta mission should become the key to unlocking the history and evolution of our Solar System.

For further information, please contact

Markus Bauer
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Hans-Ulrich Auster
ROMAP principal investigator
Technische Universität, Braunschweig
Email: uli.austertu-bs.de

Karl-Heinz Glassmeier
RPC-MAG principal investigator
Technische Universität, Braunschweig
Email: kh.glassmeiertu-bs.de

Matt Taylor
ESA Rosetta project scientist
Email: matthew.tayloresa.int

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UFOs in the Bible and the Vedas

Baptism of Christ by Aert de Gelder

It is extraordinary how many UFO accounts there are in ancient records and religions – from totally different places, periods of history, cultures and belief systems. Whatever your views on the UFO phenomenon – it is certainly not new. The terminology of some of these archaic accounts may be unfamiliar to us, but, when viewed objectively, the words used are in fact no less primitive than those used in modern times. What, we might wonder, will future generations make of a culture which described extraterrestrial spacecraft as “flying saucers”, or “cigar-shaped objects”?

Below are three extracts from Contacts with the Gods from Space, by Dr. George King with Richard Lawrence, which look at so-called “UFOs” in the Bible, and the Vedas, two highly significant ancient religious works. Please do bear in mind, however, that this is just the tip of the ufological iceberg in terms of how much material there is on this subject in pre-modern literature. There are even mysterious depictions of UFOs in art, in a diverse array of paintings such as the 18th-century ‘Baptism of Christ’ by Aert de Gelder.

UFOs in the Bible

The Annunciation with Emidius, by Carlo Crivelli

The Bible is not completely accurate as an historical document. Numerous scholarly researchers have shown that not only has it been through different translations, but several different scribes have worked on it, some with political motivations of varying kinds, thereby introducing considerable potential for inconsistency. This does not make it worthless – far from it. It is a very valuable document but it cannot be regarded as completely accurate. Everything which follows in this section should be read in the light of this.

The most often quoted account of a biblical UFO occurs in the Book of Ezekiel. This description, which is dated by scholars as occurring in approximately 600 BC, took place when Ezekiel was among the captives in Chaldea by the Chebar River. Ezekiel, Chapter 1, Verse 4, reads as follows:

• And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

This beautiful description of a UFO continues with what is commonly described as “a close encounter of the third kind”. A close encounter of the first kind is a UFO sighting. This type of close encounter has been reported by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. A close encounter of the second kind includes some kind of physical evidence of a UFO sighting, such as a photograph or some physical substance from the craft. This type of close encounter is much rarer than the first, but there have been photographs taken of extraterrestrial spacecraft. A close encounter of the third kind is a meeting with one or more occupants of UFOs who are visitors from other planets. After studying the abundance of evidence for UFOs there is no doubt in my mind that UFOs do exist and have been seen through the ages in a multitude of different countries and cultures (Note 1). What many people do not realise is that, according to opinion polls, believers in UFOs are in a majority, not a minority, as the media often like to imply.

The important thing about UFOs is not so much the craft itself but the people who man and control these craft. Ezekiel’s account is therefore very revealing. He witnessed four Interplanetary Beings stepping out of this UFO and received information and instructions from them. He referred to them as “living creatures”. Later in the same chapter there is a more detailed description of the spacecraft, which is described as “a wheel in the middle of a wheel” and having “eyes round about them four”. This last description is taken to refer to portholes which have often been seen in UFO sightings. A wheel within a wheel could be an inner superstructure revolving whilst an outer one remains stationary. This type of phenomenon has also been witnessed.

After the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, led by Moses, there are numerous descriptions of UFOs which seem to have often accompanied them. Of course, the scribes writing the Bible did not use the kind of terminology that we use. They would refer to clouds and stars with the properties of high speed movement and flight control, as well as fiery chariots and so on. The following extract from the Book of Exodus, Chapter 13, Verses 21-22 is a typical example:

• And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them along the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

This description of pillars of cloud and fire is very close to the cigar-shaped description of a UFO. In fact I much prefer the Biblical description of a pillar to the far less evocative one of a cigar! In the 20th century we have become more mundane in our descriptive terminology. Compare, for example, “wheel in the middle of a wheel”, with the rather facile term, “flying saucer”.

The Prophet Elijah was taken to heaven in a space vehicle; his follower Elisha was with him at the time and witnessed this, and II Kings, Chapter 2, Verse 11, reads as follows:

• And it came to pass, as they (Elijah and Elisha) still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Obviously the chariot and horses represent a vehicle to the Biblical scribes and the whirlwind suggests an apparent vortex of energy which is often described in UFO sightings.

The Prophet Zechariah gave a very precise description of a UFO, in Chapter 5,

Verses 1-2:

• Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a flying scroll. And he said unto me, “What seest thou?” I answered, I see a flying scroll, the length thereof is 20 cubits, and the breadth thereof 10 cubits.

A scroll, of course, would be a similar shape to the cigar-shaped type of object.

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However, before leaving the Judaic-Christian UFO legacy, I must refer to possibly the most significant and famous biblical sighting of them all, namely, the Star of Bethlehem.

An excerpt from the Book of Matthew, Chapter 2, Verses 9-11, reads as follows:

• And, lo, the Star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the Star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him.

It is staggering to think that for centuries it was believed that a star had led the three wise men to a stable in Bethlehem. If a star were to come near enough to this planet, assuming that gravity allowed it to do so in the first place, and then pinpointed a country, never mind a city, never mind a young child in a stable in an inn, there would be a dire cosmic catastrophe. All the laws of science prove that stars cannot possibly do that. No, this was a classic example of a UFO leading three advanced men to a great Interplanetary Master who had been born on this Planet to perform a specific mission.

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UFOs in the Vedas

Artist’s impression of a vimana in ancient India

When you look at other religious scripts you find a very similar pattern of UFO involvement in the spiritual revelations of our history. The Hindu texts known as the Vedas are a good example of this. As with the Holy Bible, there is no guarantee of the complete accuracy of these writings which, in some cases, were passed down for thousands of years orally before being written down at all. There is therefore a definite margin for error and the chronology may have been incorrectly altered along the way.

Texts like the Ramayana use the Sanskrit word, vimana, which means “flying celestial vehicle”. The following is an extract from the Ramayana which is typical of the descriptions of vimanas:

• When morning dawned, Rama, taking the vimana Puspaka had sent him by Vivpishand, stood ready to depart. Self-propelled was that car. It was large and finely painted.

In another extract, a vimana is described as follows:

• That aerial and excellent vimana, going everywhere at will, is ready for thee. That vimana, resembling a bright cloud in the sky, is in the city of Lanka.

It is interesting to note here the reference to “at will” which suggests a stupendous science involving thought control by the occupants […]. The Vedas, and indeed the Buddhist scripts, have a concept of life throughout the planetary realms. They fully accept the existence of life on other worlds and life on higher spheres as being part of the same belief in universal consciousness.

One Vedic script describes the liberation of a Maharajah (King) named Dhruva from material bondage into high spiritual consciousness. This is often referred to in metaphysical writings as the state of Ascension. This amazing experience, which takes on a cosmic dimension, is described in the Bhagavata Purana, Book 4, Chapter 12, as follows:

• As soon as the symptoms of his liberation were manifest, he saw a very beautiful vimana coming down from the sky, as if the brilliant full moon were coming down, illuminating all the ten directions…

He was then picked up by this vimana, or UFO, and the following is a description of his journey:

• While Dhruva Maharajah was passing through space, he gradually saw all the planets of the Solar System, and on the path he saw all the demi-gods in their vimanas showering flowers upon him like rain…
• Beyond that region, he achieved the transcendental situation of permanent life in the planet where Lord Vishnu lives.

Not only does this description detail a truly beautiful close encounter of the third kind which took place thousands of years ago, it also indicates that it is possible to attain such a high and elevated state of consciousness, that one is liberated from the need to reside on Earth and can go to other worlds for continued existence.

(Note 1: The use of the first person refers to Richard Lawrence, co-author of Contacts with the Gods from Space – the book from which the extracts on this page were taken.)

Recommended:

• Contacts with the Gods from Space – Dr. George King with Richard Lawrence
• UFOs & the Extraterrestrial Message – Richard Lawrence

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